The Ultimate Statement on '80s Yuppie Culture
I think it's fitting that "Weekend at Bernie's" came out right at the end of the '80s, cuz it is a brilliant social statement for that decade. The moral is that if you are literally dead, nobody will notice or care so long as you have a nice house and expensive things, because that's all that matters.
"We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."