One of my favorite movies. The best scene by far is when the model they hire for the commercial gets her dress caught on the hood ornament. Thinking quickly to save the commercial, they pop the hood of the car and rip her dress off on live TV. It's funny how they chase her around with the camera while she is screaming and trying to get away and cover herself by leaning over the car hood. Then they zoom in on her and one of the guys grabs her boobs!
shareThe whole movie is hilarious but my favorite sequence must be the other commercial with Jeff/Marshall Lucky----"THAT'S TOO F---KING HIGH!"
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The second one is my favorite, by a long shot. But I loved the first one also.
"These people are obviously hysterical. Lets take a look under the hood, should we ?????"
"Take that you dirty old high prices !!!"
"Marshal Lucky here for New Deal Used Cars"
That sceen was prue genius !!!!!
I love this movie !!!!!
If you rent the DVD, they have included deleated scenes. One of the deleated scenes they show is after the model is stripped they have her trapped or pinned on the hood of the car, she is screaming hysterically and they stick one of those penis nose glasses they are wearing in her mouth. Her expression when they do that is priceless.
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Oh my god, I didn't know this. As many times as I have seen this movie.I have got to see this deleted footage !!!!
I have been meaning to buy the dvd (I have had a VHS) for ever.
Thanks for the update.
I cant wait !!!!!!!!!
Marshal Lucky here at New DeaL Used Cars
What's really great about the DVD is the commentary track. I never listen to these things, but listening to Kurt laugh his ass off through the whole movie is unbelievably fantastic. I swear it! Have a listen
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Danny: Find your neutral space. You got a rush. It'll pass. Be seated.
I agree. Still haven't listened to the entire thing yet, but what I have heard of the commentary is hilarious.
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Wait a minute... who am I here?
Aaahhhh! You got me Mr. Marshal!!!!!!!!
shareI was watchin' this flick high, and the scene where the big family is driving off in the station wagon, the tail gate falls and the football kids fall face first in mud!
sharethe scene where luke is driving the car into the powerplant when he's dead is so funny, I can't believe my mind!
shareToby wants to go for a ride..... Way too many scenes in this gem to pick out one favorite. One of the better is when Rudy tells Jim the Mechanic, who has been drafted to help sell cars after the 'That's Too F---ing High' commercial, "All you gotta do is get the customer in the car." Jim keeps trying to coax a customer into the car, finally gets flustered and pushes the guy in saying "Just get in the mother f---ing car." Every scene with actor Frank McRae as Jim the Mechanic is funny.
shareThe best scene is when Roy L. has just figured out that they buried Luke in the pit. Toby goes in the get Jim and he is asleep with the blow torch in his hand. You see Toby lift his leg and then the next thing you see is Toby running out of the door and Jim bust through it chasing him with type of tool.
So many classic comedy scenes in this movie. Great low-brow fun!!!!
I think the funniest is the "Marshall Lucky" commercial, although the first commercial with the interrupted football game is great, as well.
Ah hell, the whole damned movie is a laughfest!!!!
Where do you start? How about when Rudy says "We had nuns picketing this morning. I had to have Jim turn the fire hose on them. (Jim) Yeah and I knocked the *beep* on their ass too!"
Do yourself a favor and watch the movie and listen to the commentary by the director & Kurt Russell.:)
The best one was the whole "Marshall Lucky" sequence. I saw that at a small-town theater back in '80 and almost hurt myself from laughing so hard.
But, another one was when the football game got jammed, and those kids were all watching and the one blond-haired kid says, "Hey look, bare tits!"
"Ah sh*t!. There goes a perfectly good bumper sticker!" LOL he wasn't bothered about selling the car, just the bumper falling off of it as the guy drove out the lot with it. As Rudy's sticker fell into the puddle with the bumper.
Rudy's pal the superstitious one (Jeff) was talking about how he saw a few situations where everything added up to 10. And Jim being Jim said something like: "That's the dumbest f--king sh*t I have ever heard!".
Then right after Jim said that to Jeff, the barbecue caught fire. Jim used like 3 quarters of a fire extinguisher cannister on a tiny flame that went out within two blasts from it LOL overkill or what.
Rudy trying to sell a bike to a young boy, the boy said "I'll have to think about it" then walks away. So Rudy shouts at him "Dont take too long, I had a 5th grader looking at it the other day" then he literally throws it to the side like the piece of crap it is and walks away himself LOL.
Roy L. Fuchs: "Ass hole my dick".
Roy L. Fuchs: "You suck assed son of a bitch".
Roy L. Fuchs: "What are you? a f---king parrot".
Jim [upon bringing down, by using a crane, the cadillac they had up on the display stand out front] "I did put it up so I ought to know how to take it down" and with that it hit the ground with a BANG! not gently as was asked of him.
"$3200, that's TOO F---KING HIGH!!!
Upon Roy asking to see his brother and being told he was away, he asked where he'd gone to:
Rudy: "Miami".
Roy: "Miami?!".
Jeff: "Yeah, Miami Beach, Florida".
Roy: "I know where the f---k Miami Beach is, dummy!!".
There are many more moments, but this will do for now. This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen or will ever likely to see again. When the 80's died, so did this kind of quality comedy :(.
"When the world isn't the same as our minds believe, then we are in a nightmare."
'Rudy's pal the superstitious one (Jeff) was talking about how he saw a few situations where everything added up to 10. And Jim being Jim said something like: "That's the dumbest f--king sh*t I have ever heard!".'
I agree...that line had me going...the character of Jim the Mechanic was a riot, especially the scene when they recruited him to sell cars.
The rest of that scene was just as brilliant.
Jim: "That's the dumbest f!cking sh!t I've ever heard. I'm going to push you under a ladder on Friday the 13th!." is the full line Jim utters in response to Jeff's "everything adding up to 10" rant.
There is a deleted scene on the DVD and it should have been included in the damn movie. It's at the start where Rudy sneaks into the garage when Jim's asleep on the floor. Rudy tries to tip toe passed to grab the fishing rod. Jim wakes up and jumps up and uses the cable to the welding torch and wraps it around Rudy's neck and says "I'm going to stretch your neck like a f!cking elastic band!" LOL.
"You're a funny man, Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last."
Lol that's one of my favorites too. Just how proud and boastful Jim is for knocking over some nuns. I also like the scene where he forces the guy to look at the interior of one of the cars, "GET IN THE MOTHERF UCKING CAR!"
"We are a virus with shoes." --Bill Hicks (1993)
Rudy says "We had nuns picketing this morning. I had to have Jim turn the fire hose on them. (Jim) Yeah and I knocked the m*beep*frs on their asses too!"
Quite possibly one of the funniest lines with cursing included ever in a movie with the subject being so,so,so wrong at so many levels...
nuns peacefully protesting x rated commercial
rudy telling jim to fire hose them to stop the protest
jim being black and turning a fire hose on presumably white nuns
the nuns being knocked to the ground by high pressure fire hose blasts
Rudy commenting on it like its just a another cost of doing business
Jim having pleasure in an assault well done
econobiker, I really liked how you analyzed the backstory to that one comment by Jim. I've often imagined the same scenario. Brilliant!
It's also funny how Jim is frequently found asleep apparently in the middle of performing some task. He has a spraying paint bottle in his hand one time, another he's holding an acetylene torch (that is lit, of course), but the funniest example is in Rudy's trailer, Jim is asleep with a guitar in his lap, and huge work gloves on his hands. My mind tries to imagine how he was playing the guitar with those gloves before he fell asleep!
Many funny scenes, but I suppose Marshall Lucky's commercial takes the cake. When they blow up the Mercedes, Rudy's reaction is priceless!
I echo that little scene dialogue about the nuns in that it shows just how low and vile these guys are...
Rudy: C'mon Jeff! You've seen how bad business is. Thanks to Fuchs, our name is mud! Look... we had nuns, protesting out front when I got here this morning.
Jeff: Nuns?
Rudy: Yeah. I had to have Jim turn the firehose on them.
Big Jim: [holds up the still wet firehose] And I knocked them m*f*ers right on they asses, too.
That one with Jim & the nuns has my vote too !
shareIn a movie with a ton of funny scenes, this is my absolute favorite. Watching Jim the Mechanic get more and more anxious as he tries to sell that car before he finally loses it is priceless. The entire cast was excellent, with Kurt Russell being unexpectantly funny. A must see movie.
shareYep, Tobey the WonderDog stole the show for me!
YouTube - Used Cars: Test drive for Tobey 1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REa2DDzChGM
And check out this beagle, Bailey, who was on Letterman the other night...
YouTube - Letterman - Stupid Pet Tricks: Playing Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DalB-CvO7Qc
I wonder if Bailey's guardian sells used cars?
Toby peeing on Jim the Mechanic to wake him up had me falling off the couch. I hadn't seen this film in many years but it is hysterically funny and just plain hysterical. I doubt they could make a movie liek this any more...sexist and racial stereotypes wouldn't fly.
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And the way he comes bursting out of the door, literally taking the entire door frame with him... hilarious.
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My favorite scene too. My friend and I always say "What the *beep* is this, Rudy?" when we get upset about something.
shareAs Jim is pouring gasoline into the Edsel containing Lukes body, and Toby is howling..."Shut up Toby, I HEAR ya!" "Shooooooweeeee!" (the smell)
shareThis movie is one of the best and to all those great lists, I'd like to add that dog! Ha Ha where the potential buyer is duped into believing he ran over the mutt is freaking hilarious! I love this flick! Just watched it on Speedvision tonight!
shareprobably the best live commentary i have ever heard.i rented this movie because i had remembered seeing it many years earlier.i lived in phoenix at the time this was filmed,and wanted to "go back".i had watched it while listening to the commentary with kurt russell,bob gale and robert zemeckis and laughed even harder.i immediatly went and bought the DVD the watch over and over till i'm gone.
shareThere were some great moments...J*SUS PALOMINO!
When they dig up Luke...and Frank McRae is fighting the gag reflex. Remember Kurt's eulogy?
"No, Toby, I said a phillips screw driver!"
That whole fight scene at the car lot.
"If I can build a pacemaker and put it in this man's chest..."
Still, the ultimate moment may have been when Jeff is jumping the train and they show Toby with his paws up over his head.
yes that commentary is one of the best ones ever and its worth listening to it the whole way through!
share"That price, is just too... f u c k i n g high!"
shareLook out Marshal Lucky it's high prices!
shareI almost had a heart attack in the theater, laughing so hard at the scene where the guys interrupt a speech by Pres. Carter for a used car commercial, and they proceed to destroy Roy L. Fuchs lot. I was 25 at that time. If I had died of a coronary, I would have died laughing.
They don't make 'em like this any more. And, they could never make this today. Waaay too vulgar and politically incorrect. I love this movie.
BRING OUT SEASON THREE OF "ONCE AND AGAIN" ON DVD!
After the commercial airs and they are at the lot the next day discussing what to do, Rudy says to Jeff, "Christ Jeff, I had nuns outside today protesting. I had to have Jim turn the fire hose on." The camera turns to Jim as he holds up the hose and yells, "And I knocked the *beep* right on there ass too!!"
funniest part by far
And let's not forget "Come on; fifty dollars never killed anybody!"
shareHow about the part where Rudy takes on the ethnic heritage of each of his customers: "hey, man Rudy Washington Carver. You checkin' out the Cadillac?" Too, too funny.
shareHaving actually had a heart attack, I should find that scene in the worst of taste, but no. I watch Used Cars for the Nth time and I laugh so hard I'm afraid I'll have another. I just love this movie!!! (you can tell I really do cuz I put THREE exclamation points!)
sharePerhaps I missed it in the replies, but it occurred to me that no one mentioned what I think might have been the funniest moment in the film - when Toby woke Jim up by peeing on him.
shareWhen he's selling a car to the guy he just fished across the street with money, the guy says "I'm just browsing."
And Kurt Russell spouts out, in one long breath:
"Oh, hey: Terrific. Terrific, that's what we're here for, Stan. Here you can look, browse, peek, touch, feel, taste, smell--do anything you want, take all the time you want--nobody's gonna pressure anyone around here, Stan...You know something though, Stan? I really think you otta buy that car. I think you otta buy it today, right now, you wanna know why? Cause that Buick is you. The color is you, look at it: That Is Your Car. Stanley Kowalski IS Buick Centurion Convertible. Now I know what you're thinkin, Stan. You're thinkin, "Can I afford to buy a car like this?" Huh? Am I right? Seriously, Stan, you can't afford NOT to buy a car like this. Now I'm gonna make it easy for ya: You add this whole thing up, you take in account inflation rates, insurance savings, gas savings, ease and comfort, and you're gonna come out ten thousand dollars ahead just for making this deal--Well, Hell! The prestige alone at owning a Buick Centurion Convertible can't be measured in terms of dollars and cents, am I right?"
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All of your memories are great, a personal favorite is when Kurt Russell is telling someone "Yea, we had a bunch of nuns here this morning with picket signs, I had to have Jim over here turn the fire hose on them" Jim: "Yea..I knocked them mutha****ers right on they ass!" LOL reading all of these entries.
shareWhen the mechanic comes to give Kurt Russell's boss a heart attack. He walks right past the front door, and the dog Toby is watching televison like his favorite show is on. That was so subtle and hilarious.
shareWow I am a huge fan of this movie and Toby the dog is an intricate part of the film.
However I never caught this, that is awesome.
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for that !
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I'm a Cinemajunkie !
Two words: yellow primer
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Wasn't there a seen where Toby urinated on a car door to prove that it was yellow primer.
Or am I confusing this with the seen where Toby urinated on the Big black mechanic, then the Mechanic broke the frame of the door chasing Toby. However Toby showed the mechanic that Royal L Fuches had found the top of the buried car.
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Toby whizzed on Jim; in the beginning, Rudy washed the side of one of the cars Manuel had brought and took off the water-color paint.
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That's TOO F----ng HIGH!! Was the funniest, I think. I saw this for the first time in 1980. I was 16. That little dog getting run over about made me cry, until I realized it was an act. I wasn't paying attention to the set-up before it happened.
Al Lewis Was funny with that miniature gallows, or was that guillotine?
All of it was funny, in fact, except the destruction of that beautiful 57 Chevy.
Lenny and Squiggy...Priceless. ComSat.