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Favorite Scenes?

posted 19 years ago by lauren7312
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I loved this movie since I first saw it when I was a kid. There are so many hilarious scenes. I loved when Vic pretends to have drown in the swamp. Belushi's acting here was so great. (when he walks away he looks like a zombie) then he goes to the basement to take a shower and there is Vic hiding. He breaks the key off in the door after kicking him out and then is on the phone with a locksmith and Vic picks up the extension- "Is somebody on this line? (locksmith) JUST YOU AND ME A**HOLE! EARL HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING! (Vic) Never mind forget it! (Earl) AND DON'T EVER CALL HERE AGAIN!"

That was classic. Another favorite was the "bogus spaghetti dinner" scene when Earl grill Vic about where the food came from.

I think you either love this movie or you hate it. You have to have a certain sense of humor and intelligence to understand the absurdity of the comedy.

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[–] kcexpress69 19 years ago

"Earl tried to pork me!!"

[–] phillyboots 19 years ago

"Earl tried to pork me!!"

and said right at the dinner table in a casual conversation. I laughed again just reading that!

[–] ingsoc75 19 years ago

There is a shot of the 2 houses at night. Did you ever notice that the attic windows look like 2 pairs of eyes looking at each other?

[–] TheRetroCritic 18 years ago

I cannot believe no one mentionned the funniest bit of the whole film in my opinion. It's when Vic offers coffee (in a dirty cup) at his place then he says:

VIC: What is goin on with Enid? IS SHE GETTING PROBED?

Then they kick each other in the balls at the same time. Lol, that bit has me on the floor everytime...much like them in the film actually...

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[–] Katz5 18 years ago

The whole dirty cup sequence was hysterical. When Earl kept secretly switching the cup and Vic changed it back, and finally Vic explodes about it.
"Put the coffee powder back in the cup."
And the resulting "calm conversation" about Earl's daughter that leads to the fight. I was rolling.
I also loved the exchange about the swamp. Why is that swamp so close to their house? "We'll get your jacket later. Right now, take me to THE SWAMP." And then Belushi's terrified look.......I don't know why Belushi hated this film so much. I thought it was his best performance--certainly not the wild and crazy Belushi we're so used to.

I saw this movie about 10 times on video when it came out in the early 80s. I kept showing it to friends and few of them found it as funny as I did. They thought I was weird for finding it so funny. I must admit this black comedy helped shaped my taste in later films--I also loved The Cable Guy, which I find similar to Neighbors for some reason.

Well I gotta go now Duane.....I'm due back on the planet Earth

[–] TheRetroCritic 18 years ago

Ah yes, the Cable Guy, one of my favourites. You must also like the 'Burbs, no? It's a dark comedy in the same kind of spirit as the others. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
I didn't know Belushi hated this film. Did he actually say that? I'm sure Dan Aykroyd felt quite differently as this is probably his best performance and he looked really into it.

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[–] lauren7312 18 years ago

I just watched it again last night and I forgot my most favorite scene...

When Earl tells Ramona to put his precious collectors bottle back on the shelf. She puts it back and then shoots a pool ball at him. He backs into the shelf to avoid the ball and smashes the whole rack. "I've been collecting them since I was nine years old," he says. LOL.

Then Vic comes downstairs and Earl says..."Hi Vic! Come on in and join the party! I gotta go upstairs and get a broom to sweep up all this junk!" Then he runs up the stairs and locks them in the basement.

[–] pupkin81-1 18 years ago

Yeah, that's all well and fine, Lauren, but how do we know that you're not an escaped vivisectionist?

[–] lauren7312 18 years ago

LOL! Good one.

[–] traws 18 years ago

Wow....A secret society who actully love this movie? I didn't know anyone else out there liked this film! The lines all of you have posted are classics.

[–] Katz5 18 years ago

LOL..."you sunk my truck, you insulted my sauce, and you violated Ramona."

I'm sure there's a fan club for just about every movie out there. Neighbors and Eating Raoul were two of my favorite comedies of the early '80s that "no one else liked." I'm ready to snap both up on DVD, presuming they're available. It's been a while since I've visited them.

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[–] divifold-1 18 years ago

my favorite is the when vic is making spaghetti and he drops it on the floor, then puts in back in the pot

[–] goodfellamatt78 18 years ago

i love how Dan is so different from his Elwood Blues character.

"so what do you say neighbA"

[–] lauren7312 18 years ago

"Twenty-seven dollars. Is that all you had at the end of last month?"

"Pork you?! What?!" "Well, I wasn't born with your hand in my bush."

"We we putting you on there at dinner. Sort of a little joke." "You call accusing someone of porking you a joke?" "Come on Earl, can't you take a joke!"

"They're my panties. Their edible. Take a sniff." "Mmmm, their tasty."

"I said I read about it I didn't say we were having it! Boy, leave it to you Earl to take something for granted. Frozen waffles is all we got."

"What are you up to now? I bet your looking for Ramona." "What?" "Come on Earl, you're rooting around for Ramona." "I'm not rooting around!"

"To begin with, Valley Field Mall is closed. And when it was open it was on route fifteen not route three. And they're can't be a small spaghetti and wine dealership across from the Cinema Cineplex next to the Singer Sewing Center. Because their is no Cinema Cineplex and there is no Singer Sewing Center!"

"Three o'clock? IS THAT RIGHT? CAN THAT BE RIGHT?!"

"You just take me to....the SWAMP."

"They're a couple of genuine fruitcakes! Their lunatics! Both of them their hazardous Edith!"

"They were cool." "They were beyond cool. They were extraordinary."

[–] lauren7312 18 years ago

"I can think of a problem that's a lot more important.. and you as a parent are ignoring it completely. What is Elaine doing about sex? IS SHE GETTING PROBED!?"

"That was a very foolish move Earl! AND IT COULD GET YA SNUFFED!"

"A joke? What the hell kinda joke is that? That's about as funny as a gut full of pinworms!"

"Now, put the coffee powder, back in the cup." (later) "You just put back that cup you keep switching Earl! Or it'll be pump city!"

(funeral parlor television commercial Earl is watching) "Our glass enclosures allow you to view the object of your grief...forever."

"Live here? On the edge of the outer limits of the dead end zone?"

[–] pupkin81-1 18 years ago

"You're just full'a jokes, aintcha? Well, I think you're a dirty *beep* sack how'bout that?!"

"The cinderblock evidentally hit me on the flat side of the block itself...as if it were HURLED at me"

"Afraid I'm gonna steal your car? That's why I moved in next door to ya, right? So, I can rip off your car and move somewhere else"

"Pimpwagon"

"Born to party?"
"It's the way I live, babe"

"Leave that warthead alone. Come on, we got sesspools ta suck"

"Earl? Earl who?"
"Hey, no jokes, will ya"

"You knoowwww we never talk in the car"

"I don't know what to say...it doesn't seem enough"

[–] Katz5 18 years ago

"You don't have to push it."

"God, does it always shrivel up like that?"

"Earl, you always go limp in a crisis."

"Hey Earl, wanna bite of your daughter's panties?" (SLUG)
"I guess we better go now."

"That's a two dollar bill."

"She never liked to come home to an empty house....HA HA HA HA HA"

[–] pupkin81-1 18 years ago

Who would want your bulbs?

[–] lauren7312 18 years ago

"This is a little bit different isn't it Edith? A neighbors unit we can stare at?

"I wasn't staring at his unit."

"I know when a woman's checking out a man's unit."

"Oh yeah how many stiff nips did you check out at the office today? I know you Earl your eyes never sit still for a minute."

[–] getdown2knight65 18 years ago

"She WAS in your bathtub"

"No She wasn't, she was in the bed!"

"That's when you saw her honkers Earl"

"Well, she dropped the towel!"

"Did she drop it? Or did you psychically WILL it to fall?"

LOL!!

[–] pupkin81-1 18 years ago

and that is where you saw her mammai

her mammel?

[–] Katz5 18 years ago

I was just looking for some honesty in our relationship, buddy! You'd want the same, pal!

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[–] DmitriKnipper (199) 2 years ago

And Belushi is sinking into the swamp during this interrogation and he actually =plop= goes under! I howled.

[–] pine508 18 years ago

Yeah, isn't the locksmith played by Tim Kazurinsky, who did some nice work on Saturday Night Live? And didn't Vic, on the other phone, also shout, "BLOW IT OUT YOUR A**HOLE, WIMP!" to the locksmith? I mean you just don't get stuff like that in movies ever again after Neighbors.

And Vic cooking spaghetti to "Hello, I Love You" and sort of dancing and dropping it and putting it back while Earl looks through the bushes...ah...

The director, John Avildsen, directed Karate Kid and Rocky, so he was out of his element doing a comedy, and that's why everyone loves this film--it's timing and sense is all "off" somehow, the film is just marinating in that. I'll have to see it again sometime.

[–] lauren7312 18 years ago

Yeah, Vic does say, "I SAID BLOW IT OUT YOUR A** WIMP!" Then the locksmith says, "Is somebody on this line!?" To which Vic says, "JUST YOU AND ME A**HOLE!"

At first he talks gibberish into the phone...LOL.

That was great.

[–] pupkin81-1 18 years ago

Earl, have you been drinking?

[–] RKnSGs90 18 years ago

This movie is an unsung classic.......

but my all-time favorite scene has to be when Earl is in his master bathroom and wants to shave to go outside and meet Ramona, but the electric razor is too loud and Enid might hear it, so he dry-shaves with a normal razor. His delayed reaction to putting the aftershave on his face is priceless......

Vic: this is a two dollar bill.....
Earl: really...? I thought it was a twenty.....
Vic: yeah, people try to pawn'em off that way.......

[–] Katz5 18 years ago

LOL, that was a great sequence too.....Stayin' Alive playing and the way it was filmed, Earl grabbing various items from his medicine cabinet. And then putting the aftershave on after his dry shave. Some great visual comedy there.

Why is this movie not on DVD? With all of the junk on DVD, especially in the "comedy aisle," why can't they release this? Is there some legal battle going on? I thought for sure they would release this on DVD when "Continental Divide," Belushi's next-to-last film, was released.

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[–] pupkin81-1 18 years ago

"Hey, take it easy....SUPER STUD...ya make me look bad"

[–] prahtjen 18 years ago

the dinner is great- "From"
Ceasars Gallic Wars, accross from the Singer Sewing Center, next to the Cinema Cineplex

[–] pupkin81-1 18 years ago

Ok, prahtjen, you probably called the place and found out they aren't open for business yet, right? ...So, maybe I got there, saw the place was closed, and went somewhere else to pick up the food.

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[–] lauren7312 18 years ago

He tried to pork me. Pork you?! What!? Well, I wasn't born with your hand in my bush.

Edith? You there honey? Right here Captain Vic. You can't keep them prisoners Earl. I can call the locksmith they can let them out the side door.

Who'd want your bulbs!

Well, they just moved in and it would be nice. There's plenty of time to be nice!

[–] Langer5757 17 years ago

Hey Earl, wanna try some of your daughters panties? They come in four fantastic flavors, banana, mint, peach, and ofcourse cherry! (BAM, Earl punches Vic in the face))Goodnight ladies...

You like pancakes with little blueberries in em?! Not the way i make em! HEH HEH HEH HEH!!!

Why? Afraid we`re gonna wake the new neighbors? THESE ARE THE GOD DAMNED NEIGHBORS!!!!

[–] Dash_Riprock 16 years ago

Am I right? Are you da bastard that mouth-ed off ta my Dad last night?

Well, he wrecked my car and punched me in the stomach!

Oh yeah? How would you like your nuts nailed ta yer forehead?

I like when Perry spits toward Earl when he's leaving too.

[–] freakseed 15 years ago

LOL!! I just watched this again last night after about... oh 20+ years or so. And that scene when Perry spits before he gets back into the pick-up had me cracking up! Not that "spitting" in itself is funny, but that has to be one of the largest mouthfuls of phlegm and spit ever put to film. It's so disgusting it makes me laugh just thinking about it. I would love to see outtakes of that scene if there are any.