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Things we learned from Weekend at Bernies


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1: Armed robberies can be avoided with smart a$$ comments when it is hot
2: Richard is depressed
3: Overdosing a non drug user is a good cover for murder
4: Richard's ant is very sick
5: Richard doesn't in fact have an ant
6: Putting one object in melting roof tar will inspire you to put various other objects in similar places
7: Bernie is Larry's idol
8: Speedboat ignitions are had to fathom
9: Corpse's do not smell despite raging heat
10: Posh resorts and beaches come with annoying little children who like to bury people
11: Paulie is rusty...but it'll come back to him

When you talk to God it’s called prayer...when God talks to you it’s called schizophrenia...

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12. Some people's eyes never close after they die
13. Despite not moving, saying anything, or doing anything at all besides lying there, Bernie gave Vito's girlfriend the best sex of her life
14. Everyone on the island is stupid enough to be convinced that Bernie is still alive except for Gwen
15. Paulie has terrible aim with a handgun unless he's aiming at an unmoving target (Bernie) and can't take a punch (either that or Larry has a boxing background)

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16. Paulie hates Bernie's friends!

By the way nd1433 i cant believe how many films we got in common which we both like cos i notice ur username on all the other boards i go on too!

"When your down here with me you'll float too!!"

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17. I get yelled at when I just lay there

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18. Bernie's father was "Mr. Lomax"
19. Larry and Richard are NOT having a sex-change operation
20. It takes the whole day for the Ed, the policeman to arrive for help
21. Bernie doesn't like being called, "Bern". But Larry doesn't care and keeps calling him that anwyay.
22. Vito doesn't GET problems, he GIVES problems, and he doesn't like raspberry vinaigrette
23. Bernie wears a tupee
24. Bernie's house guests are two shmucks arriving on the 6 o'clock ferry

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25. Bernie is dead.

Angles show up in the strangest of places - Skillet

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26. but as long as it's the 80's, no one will notice

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I love the 80s 

Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Cried

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What can I say, I'm a child of the 80's and action/martial arts flicks!! A couple more...

27: It's Bern-e, not Bern
28: Tawny must hear the response 'I'm horny' alot
29: It's illegal to crash into other people's boats, well duh
30: Bernie and Vido are gonna have some fun
31: Bernie's car is bigger than Larry's apartment...
32: It also costs more than Larry's rent...
33: Everyone parties at Bernie's at the weekend
34: Richard and Larry were on the 6 o'clock ferry and are also two schmucks...
35: Bernie is Larry's idol

When you talk to God it’s called prayer...when God talks to you it’s called schizophrenia...

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Yep same here lol

"When your down here with me you'll float too!!"

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What can I say, I'm a child of the 80's and action/martial arts flicks!! A couple more...




Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Cried

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36. Bernie's body makes a damn good float

37. Incidentally, Larry is a disgusting human being

38. The Hampton Bay Police Department consists of a single man named Ed

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39. nd1433 & s_miles_4 should be together because of their similar tastes


"You brought yo' bitch to the Waffle Hut?" The Ladykillers

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Maybe they'll steal some money from you for their sex change operation 

Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Cried

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40. Bernie's got nice form. (I am brand new to the system bear with me!)

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that cathy mary stewart dont dig dudes that live with thier folks.

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It's aunt you dumbass.



~ Observe, and act with clarity. ~

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Well $hit, what can I say...must have been enjoying the film too much, rather than reading the sub-titles to bitch at a later date regarding someone else mis-understanding of what the person said...

When you talk to God it’s called prayer...when God talks to you it’s called schizophrenia...

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If you play Monopoly with a dead guy, you win.

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42. Larry trained Richard however Richard had been with the company longer
43. that blonde life guard had never seen Bernie so relaxed before
44. Bernie is such a good business man he can out negotiate someone on his Maserati even while dead.
45. Plumbers will typically drink all your booze, not fix the toilet and camp out around your house until you pay the debt.
46. plumbers really take it personally when they are kicked in the butt
47. you never want to look directly into a light house light.

When you got to shoot,shoot. Don't talk.-Tuco

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Apparently, dead guys don't get rigor mortis (which kicks in hours after death and can sometimes last up to 48 hours or more), and they don't smell in the hot summer sun

(It's been a while since I saw this movie, of it was indicated, I apologize for my lateness

Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fvck how crazy they are!!

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49. In Larry's perspective, he is always 45 min late. but when being only 30 min late today, he is early.

50. Larry doesn't mind wearing a dead man's Rolex

51. Bernie is dead. Larry knows that, Richard knows that; nobody else knows that. HUH??

52. Richard is bad liar about his parent's death and his dad being his butler

53. There are no more real beaches out there unless you go to Jones Beach and float around in the hospital waste.

54. A stapler is a good idea to keep a toupee on.

55. Richard doesn't want to borrow Larry's apartment cause of the cockroaches.

56. Larry's dad worked hard and all they did was gave him more work.

57. Bernie's pool is heated

58. Bernie's house view is inspiring.

59. Vito the fool wants to get off the boat but Larry and Richard wanna get on.

60. Larry suggests to Richard to pretend that Bernie didn't die....just for a bit.

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"3: Overdosing a non drug user is a good cover for murder" A non drug user? Dude, Bernie obviously does a line of coke when he goes to the bathroom in his office - in the scene where the guys try to tell him about the theft.

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61) Larry is getting laid!
62) Bernie dissolves anything he doesn't want to hear with a firm "WHATEVER"

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Exactly

Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Cried

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You can wear a wedding ring and be single and looking.

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