Kurt Vonnegut in Back to School

[nina58374]

Anybody notice? He was in the most ever awesome movie

THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN :D

[joeylodes]

Great!!!

[hotelmario510]

And that's why Kurt Vonnegut was among the greatest men who ever lived.

[pissedllama]

'Whoever did write it doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut"

[MisWillo]

the mark off a truly epic man is the ability to make fun of themselves !!!

[llamasarus1]

is that sqeak from baseketball



[conboybp]

"What's that, Kurt? Fuck me?"

[ZinkDude]

I like that quick flash of a big screen TV in his apartment.

[faithdelusion]

That guy looks like Dian Bachar.  (From Orgazmo and BASEketball)

[elstroshitnonstop]

"whoever wrote it doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut" that sums up perfectly the ridiculous lengths to which schools make students analyse great work, they ruin every fucking great book. when worried about your academic future and results, always remember: those who can't do- teach. vonnegut was a doer

[xLordOfTheFliesx]

@elstroshitnonstop

"Those who can't do-teach." Bullshit, great writers and thinkers throughout history have been teachers and professors. Vonnegut was talented and lucky enough to get things published. Otherwise, he may have ended up as an amazing teacher.

[elstroshitnonstop]

@xLordOfTheFliesx yes obviously, i personally have had some incredibly wise and inspirational teachers. i wrote "those who cant do- teach", not "those who teach- can't do". What i was pointing out is that you find a rich tendency in teachers, especially of secondary schools, who cultivate overly zealous analysis of sections of text which favour their, or the orthodox interpretation of the book.

[xLordOfTheFliesx]

@elstroshitnonstop

That works. Yep.

[bek12]

@elstroshitnonstop Studying and analyzing great work to fully understand it does not ruin said work!

[elstroshitnonstop]

@bek12 you ought to read my other comment, it was about zealous teachers promoting orthodox and ready made insights and opinions on sections of text which the schools then drill into the students, constantly recycling and dragging out the same themes in certain sections of text, taking away attention from numerous other sections of text etc

[bek12]

@elstroshitnonstop I read it. Not sure what the perfect solution is. Some instructors will do that. Some will be fantastic. That is the nature of education. It will never be perfect.

[mengle2004]

Big Meat LOL

[princefeliz]

Brill...

[jetliigor]

i like how his professor insinuates that Kurt Vonnegut doesn't know anything about  Kurt Vonnegut. LOL

[DylanChestertonJr]

RIP Kurt Vonnegut, I so much loved his books.

[leiefilm]

..NExtime i call robert ludlum rofl

[death2pc]

@leiefilm

Me too! One of the best scenes in this movie. The Ludlum part went over most people's heads. Dangerfield was unparalleled.

Brilliant writers, script et al. in this film.

[PorkFrog]

below I read a comment that said 'He was my favorite living author'

fuckin luv that sentence!

past tense plus present tense equals EVERY AUTHOR THAT EVER LIVED

surreal sentence

my favorite living author was Shakespeare

my favorite dead author? Efrem Zombielist Jr, tho he tended toward the morbid

[ViperRob42]

so it goes.

[TheThroney]

thats the guy from christine! at the beginning.. i like that dude

[Wallylex]

@TheThroney

I've never liked him... he looks and moves like a mouse.

[flyinsquirrel48]

Hi Redic!

[lmsypj]

man what a dorm room

[SOWHATIMADEIT]

funny

[level242]

The summer of 86 was a good year for movies...Ferris Bueller,Sid and Nancy,Back to School,The Golden Chlld,Ruthless People,Wise Guys,Crocodile Dundee,Band of the Hand, At Close Range,The Color of Money,The Fly,Jo Jo Dancer,Stand By Me,Pretty in Pink She's Got to Have It Friday the 13th part 4 etc,

[minneapolis7967]

So it goes.

[tatorsal]

I have a friend who met him in New York City and bummed a pall mall from him, how cool is that...

[ZoloftherockandrollG]

Until recently, I had never heard of him until a guy gave me Slaughterhouse Five to read, which was amazing. The "fuck me?" comment was ridiculously funny.

[dcav93]

lol Vonnegut totally would fail a paper about himself. hilarious.

[zimmydoomday75]

As funny as this was, it's really depressing how many people only know Kurt Vonnegut from this movie.

[L1701]

@zimmydoomday75 I don't think it's so bad. If somebody watches the film and sees this guy, they might get curious about his books, and who knows. Vonnegut may ave gotten some new fans of his work from the film appearance. And considering he is no longer with us, this film may help keep his legacy alive.

[falstaffswims]

"And another thing, Vonnegut, I'm gonna stop payment on the check. What's that? Fuck me? Fuck you!"

[youcomeupwithone]

i wrote a paper on Vonnegut (passed with a...i forgot, but i passed!)...though i have never read anything by him..yet...Vonnegut was bad-fucking-ass. So it goes, though...so it goes.

[heyharlot]

@youcomeupwithone Read his books, then.

[TheSnowballEarth]

c. 1:21 - Robert Ludlum??? I always thought that Thomas Pynchon or Philip Roth would've been funnier alternatives. But that's just me.

[InvaderSlusk1994]

whoever wrote this doesnt know the first thing about kurt vonnegut. thats is ridiculously funny considering he wrote it.

[bucinaus]

Can't believe Vonnegut would have said "F-ck you" to Thornton Mellon.

[Macaframa1]

lol the person that wrote this paper doesn't know anything about kurt vonnegut.... HE WROTE THE STINKING PAPER lol

[Mccampbellthomas]

@ChristeenaB vonnegut

[thenovoice]

Should I watch this movie?

[Roudy1331]

@thenovoice Absolutley yes! Very funny 80's flick!

[Bystandah]

@thenovoice YES! YOU SHOULD!

[NickHannula]

"Next time I'll call Robert Ludlum"

Hahahahahaha

[TheSnowballEarth]

@NickHannula I always thought that Thomas Pynchon or Philip Roth would've been funnier alternatives. Or Tom Stoppard. But that's just me.

[breeeegs]

If anyone knew anything about Kurt Vonnegut it was FREAKING Kurt Vonnegut

[Dmasterman]

The funniest part is when the teacher said "Whoever wrote this doesn't know a THING about Kurt Vonnegut."

LOL

[AgaMbadi]

"Fuck me? Hey Kurt, you read lips? FUCK YOU!"

This movie is such a classic!

[IsoscelesKramer]

That last scene certainly dispels the myth of the "one-f**k rule" for PG-13 movies.

[Redgrant80]

@IsoscelesKramer and the movie's got titties. you cant forget the titties.

[IsoscelesKramer]

@Redgrant80 Hey, I didn't see nothin'! You're perfect!

[ravenseldon]

"Hey Kurt, you read lips?"

loool

[Katschaga]

its my husband...i love you

[Derby14]

This is one of my favorite parts of this movie. Thank you for including not only the appearance of Mr. Vonnegut but the follow up phone call. Excellent post!!

[RThornhill69]

Long live Kilgore Trout.

[tetrisclock]

and so on...

[TheSnowballEarth]

@RThornhill69 Kilgore Trout. You mean Philip Jose Farmer- "Venus on the Half-Shell"? I get confoozed. ;-P

[orchidtender]

"Next time I'll call Robert Ludlum!"

I love that scene.

[rh117]

The voice, the man, the legend. R.I.P.

[halfdude]

Omg it's Arnie! XD

[ErichoTTA]

He was my favorite living author. Wow.

[Mccampbellthomas]

i went to a lecture of his when i was really little called, "How to get a job like mine" he ended up just telling polish jokes the whole time lol

[nk3007]

@Mccampbellthomas

hahaha.... best. comment. ever.

[Bethfromwigan]

I love Keith Gordon !.

[Elric33239]

When the door opened, I was the only one in the theatre who laughed BEFORE Kurt introduced himself! Talk about a crowd of illiterates!!!

[debaser247]

yeah, because when you read something, the image of the author is implanted perfectly in your mind, and you'll never forget what they look like.

[Elric33239]

That and the fact that I've seen his picture on the back cover of paperbacks often enough that his face was as familar to me as that of my favorite teacher (who also enjoyed reading his books) or the neighborhood postal carrier that I graduated from high school with.

[WiseGuy02]

For the best Gordon became a director. He was useless as an actor.

[halfdude]

gasp! Blasphemy!

[vrodz627]

LMAO!!!!!! you read lips fuck you !!!!! CLASSIC!

[williambrown007]

Keith Gordon (Arnie) thirteen years after Christine.

[sadie0087777]

Same thing happen to me..I was in high school and I had to make a bridge. I had an engineer make me one out of sticks for me (he like doing models).. And the teacher gave me a D. the worst part was that the engineer wanted to talk to my teacher and argue about the grade. That would have exposed me..lol

[couturecoop]

rd rip

[snowuninc]

Whose robert ludlow, is that suppouse to be V yellin at the end

[tom4101]

Robert Ludlum. He wrote stacks of best-sellers, including the trilogy about Jason Bourne as played by Matt Damon. Just try reading that bloke's name without thinking of Team America.

[hungrybeetle]

Not sure who Robert Ludlow is, but the yelling was Derek (Robert Downey Jr.)

[INTRemedy]

My hero...

[vaginadeluxe]

kurt vonnegut

[Organasm]

who?

[SeanPrestonFed]

Paul Popinjay ratted out Boise!

[singana1]

HA I know a few professors who would actually do the same thing.

[beckl06]

Can you read lips? FUCK YOU haha

[neurapraxia]

Kurt Vonnegut is amazing. I'm actually writing a research report on him now for my Honor's English class. :)

[myfairjew]

same

[yangyin09u]

Just stay away from the sugar donuts!  lol

[CheekyOtter1991]

so it goes

[PhrostCope]

O yes, the god of most pseudo intellectual teenagers and adults alike.

[gqmighty]

and by you saying "O yes" and "pseudo intellectual" clearly..you are the real deal....

[TheBlueDuckMOE]

I agree w/ PhrostCope.

[yangyin09u]

How wrong you are my friend. Don't you know that most of us pseudo intellectuals don't believe in god. It's started with rationality and reason when we became pseudo intellectual teens.

[dylanfan1969]

I recently read SlaughterHouse 5 and found it to be an extremely enjoyable read. It kicked ass.

[Teflon65]

Kurt Vonnegut was readable, and thought provoking. They used to show him in the stands on televised ball games.

[zakkmiester]

Kurt is up in heaven now.

[GeddyYeti2112]

So it goes...

[DavidAames2000]

Lol....there's no such thing as heaven you banana head

[migget159]

What movie is this?

[blahblahbile]

back to school, rere

[SMARTFREELINKSdotCOM]

Funny!

[aariernest]

this actor is dead???

[arocketsurgeon]

not a big reader huh

[McLonelyRaisin]

lol...i think he meant rodney dangerfield..he died like 4 years ago.

[cochranexyz]

This was the best joke in the movie.

[starbuxcrazy]

Kurt vonnegut is my effin hero.

[WiseGuy02]

I always thought you couldn't get a worst choice for the son. He looked nothing like Rodney, and he couldn't act.

[rumputuski]

Gordon is a good director, at any rate. I liked his version of Mother Night.

[thelordofhellaz]

C'mon now, nobody looks like Rodney Dangerfield. I do think you're right about the acting part. If Kurt Vonnegut in one line out acts you in a movie, it's time to become a director.

[GeddyYeti2112]

So it goes.

[majik2hanz]

reminds me of a test I did in h.s. with an english writing teacher. I took an obscure periodical short story wrote it out exactly as it was published just to see how she'd grade it. Sure enough she had to find 'many' errors syntax, punctuation etc... Just goes to show how arbitrary most Eng & Literature teachers are in general.

[devolve42]

They're both in heaven now.

[losttribe3001]

One of the funniest runs in a very funny movie.

[meanwiddlekid]

I was the casting director who got Vonnegut for this film. I had to beat him senseless but it was worth it.

[lilbennyd11]

no you werent

[DudeFromSpringfield]

HAHA, pwned

[clarionflyer]

If you were... let's hear it! (You never know on YouTube}.

P.S. This movie is the best

[MrSangMang]

I was gonna make this exact video.. this is perfect :)

Good job. I uploaded the bar scene, business class scene & the commercial. :)

[buffalobraves9]

"And another thing Vonnegut, I'm stopping payment on the check!" Priceless!

[trav4217]

hey kurt you read lips fuck you

[youngkim3000]

Truly, Kurt Vonnegut was a master writer who saw further than almost everyone. At the University of Chicago, where he was a student, everyone equates him as a man-deity. Excellent clip!

[ryryryann]

He has Kurt Vonnegut write a paper on Kurt Vonnegut and he get's a 'B'. Too Funny.

[Elric33239]

Actually he got an "F!"

[Jobided15]

the "oooooh" after the Ludlum one-liner was fucking priceless! thanks for the post!

[MarchingSax2010]

He should call Anthony Burgess. LOL

Vonnegut is becoming one of my new favourite authors, along with Stephen King and Ayn Rand. Cat's Cradle was amazing May he rest in peace.

So it Goes

[candyhearts143]

same, hes incredible

[Elric33239]

I've always been fond of "Sirens of Titan" myself. I even lucked out once and bought a copy of a script for an unreleased film adaptation of it, co-written by Tom Davis (Al Franken's former colleague) and Jerry "Grateful Dead" Garcia! And "So it Goes" was from "Slaughterhouse Five," my SECOND favorite Vonnegut novel and the first one of his that I read after my high school history teacher told me about it!

[apacolipps]

Next time, I'll call Robert Ludlum! I love it!

[Twig6]

Kurt and Rodney = Love

[KarlNemetski]

Wow!

[grendeljack]

hey put up rodney reading the dylan thomas poem!

[apags15]

FUCK ME FUCK U. BEST LINE LOL

[Twig6]

Rodney and Kurt. Favourite comedian and favourite author together.

[sudburylawyer]

the best is the line "Whoever wrote it doesn\t know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut" That is exactly what would happen at a real unicersity!

[NGS712]

He sounds so much different when he got older, but at least he still had that tar black humor.

[hlcom19]

FUCK

i still camt beleive he died

i wanted to meet him so badly

shit...i would've settled for a hand shake

[youthuprising101]

Me too... I was illiterate before Breakfast of Champions.

[DaColt88]

Hey! Kurt you read English Fuck you, I am stop payment on that check bitch

[babuwizlon]

Far out, good to see it..

[bradmedicus]

What? Fuck me? Do you read lips? FUCK you too! LOL LMFAO

[ChocolateExplosion]

what's that Vonnegut? fuck me?

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahahahahahaha

genius

[mdhookey]

I miss both of them a lot :(

[marleyfamilyadmirer]

Hey Hot Rod. I love how you had an affiar with your english teacher in this movie.(She later braged about it on Hollywood Squares.)Anyways where ever your at I look forward to one day hearing your jokes again.

[jx14aby]

"And another thing Vonnegut. . . . "

Great line.

[Deelman7]

Could you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE upload the part where Rodney Dangerfield says "Remember, your a melon!"

[domivel]

a couple years ago that movie was playing, i had never ssen the movie, and i was going to flip the channel but my brother stopped me. he said to keep watching it, that i would thank him for making me watch it. thanks again, bill--i loved kurt vonnegut, he was a freakingly awesome genius, and i loved his part in this movie!

[Mysterwright]

Been there, done that! B)-~~~

[oblique65]

hahaha thats classic!

[tyroneallday]

so funny. i don't even remember that scene. crazy. long live the triple lindy. what would tyrone do dot com

[sportsmedia25]

Fuck me, hey Kurt do you read lips?...fuck you! Next time I'll call Robert Ludlum" Greatest line in the movie!

[Niswander]

I heard his son Mark read his final speech at Butler University. Classic stuff right up to the end! He said that we all can agree that sugar is sweet, but to say that we all agree that the Mona Lisa is a perfect work of art isn't even true. Apparently her nose is pointed slightly to the right. He also mentioned that Bush and Hitler are much different....Hitler was elected.

There is now a Kurt Vonnegut Day in Indianapolis.

[expbzerk]

RIP Kurt Vonnegut...

[JimNy2008]

And another thing Vonnegut, I'm gonna stop payment on the check .... priceless

[mostofthetime]

Great:)