Is DROP DEAD GORGEOUS the funniest movie ever made?

Anything where Kirstie Alley is the villain is okay with me.

When Denise Richards started dancing with Jesus I fell out of my bed.

It's like they took a 16-year-old gay boy's brain and made it into a movie.

Good call, OP. Always wondered why this wasn't a gay cult classic. Made me reassess my dismissal of Denise Richards. I can't hear "I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" without imagining her dancing with the crucified Jesus.

Denise Richards was good at playing a phony for the same reason Gary Coleman and Emmanuel Lewis were good at playing black dwarfs.

I knew girls just like that growing up. She'd nailed it. It's harder to calories than you think. Hollywood always overdoes it.

Harder to capture.

My autocorrect is an overweight frau apparently.

I love those white trash girls in the bathroom commenting on the action: "This pageant is like a roach motel - girls check in but they don't check out."

And was it ever revealed who shot Brett in the head? It is implied that it was Becky, but at the end of the movie when the girls are awaiting the judges' decision Becky was so nervous ("What are they doing, letting the retard count the votes?!") that makes me think Becky wasn't really in on her mother's murderous plan.

"The tard's pants are completely off."

"Back! Back, you cuddly retard!"

Only an effeminate gay man with female resentment and envy issues would think this mediocrity is "the funniest ever."

Most people say Airplane, Young Frankenstein, Anchorman, Blazing Saddles, Superbad or something cool.

I would settle for Bridesmaids, OP. But you're not even that cool.

Waiting for Guffman or Best in Show are funnier.

Shakes the Clown is funnier.

So is Meet the Feebles.

[italic]Anchorman[/italic] and [italic]Superbad[/italic] were terrible, R11, and you undermine your argument not only by calling them superior to this (they aren't, and only a douchebro believes they are) or by suggesting they are in the same league with [italic]Airplane, Blazing Saddles[/italic] or [italic]Young Frankenstein[/italic] (not even close).

Do you think a nice cool mint would help if I shoved your head up your ass, R11?

R13: No to the former, yes to the latter.

The only Will Ferrell comedy that should even qualify for the test of time is [italic]Blades of Glory[/italic].

Love this movie. One of my all time favorites to pull out and rewatch on rainy days.

A great and funny movie.

It's like [italic]Smile[/italic] if it were one of Rose's St. Olaf stories.

And I mean that in a good way.

I love it when the girl who loves deaf people gets hit on the head by a stage light and becomes deaf herself. And when the girl who plays Kirstie's daughter gets incinerated I'm her float!!!! Hysterical!!!

So many great one liners in this movie.

"I shoved your tap shoes in my panties for safe-keeping."

"His furniture's as fake as my orgasms!"

"if they ask to see your tits, get the money first".

Brittany was great in this movie.

R22=Charlie Sheen

"They're not gonna let you perform naked; I asked."

"Mom still cries every time she sees a tilt-a-whirl or a fat lady in a tube top."

Once a carny always a carny!

I always forget Amy is in this movie.

The girl performing the "Soylent Green" monologue always cracks me up.

And Ellen Barkin's beer can getting fused to her hand after her trailer catches fire (and using said can-hand to go upside Kirsten Dunst's head).

[quote]I would settle for Bridesmaids, OP. But you're not even that cool.

And with that, r11 is thrown screaming from his high-horse!

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"Amber, the woman clung to your tap shoes while she was flying through the air like a goddamn lawn dart! "

"Hi, Annette! I got some!"

I can sum up our entire philosophy with this glass. I can look at it and say it's half-full, which in the beauty pageant biz means "Where the hell's my waiter?"

They remade my belly with skin from my butt!

This isn't an American Teen Princess Pageant! This is... This is... This is Nazi Germany!

I love the Japanese family who adopted the American girl who they treat better than their prettier, smarter Japanese daughter.

"Shut up stupid retard. Speak Engrish only".

Also, the pervy judge.

"oh, you're probably wondering about this camera" when no one mentioned it.

I bet Diane Sawyer never had to deal with crap like this.

Fuckin' beauty queens blowin' chunks ...

I love St. Paul Pork Products!

There's a much better movie satire about Miss Teen America beauty pageants. It's called "Smile" directed by Michael Ritchie.

It's very funny and has a lot to say about mixed-up American values.

Pageant judge Jean Kangas was played by Lona Williams, who wrote the script.

[italic]Smile[/italic] is wittier, but I love DDG when I need a belly laugh.

Oh yeah. Guys get out of Mount Rose all the time on hockey scholarships... or prison.

Let's not forget about Mary Johanson

"Smile" is an excellent satire, "Drop Dead Gorgeous" is a LOT broader, but still fun in its own way. And the casting of Kirstie Alley and Denise Richards as mother and daughter was inspired.

It's in my top five laugh out loud movies.

Everyone is perfectly cast.

I once started drinking wine before the Christmas Eve midnight service and this was on television, and I was laughing so loudly that my father and brother ran downstairs to see what was happening. A little booze and this movie go a LONG way. LOVE IT.

Yrt another gem: Mindy Sterling as Iris ...

"I'd like to take you back 17 years, when a peanut farmer was in the White House, a group-a boys callin' themselves 'Queen' topped the record charts, and Gladys Leeman was Gladys Wood and she was Mount Rose American Teen Princess!"

"she's skinny Amber, not deaf"

I liked Flirting With Disaster better, even though I can't stand Ben Stiller.

She had a fat ass then and she has a fat ass now.

I want the big box of little donuts.

You know that they only had me cos Peter needed that kidney.

Are we on 'Cops' again?

Excuse me, Miss Penthouse '98, put your knees together. I could drive a boat show in there.

You know the babysitter is dead!

Thanks to this thread I rewatched the movie and it still holds up and makes me lol. The "don't cry out loud" performance is so over the top hilarious.

Thank you OP for starting this thread.

I told ya I would move the car if a cripple came.

"We don't have a backroom in our video store."

[quote] I love St. Paul Pork Products!

In fact, I love them so much - I work here now!

The woman from the St. Paul pork products commercial is the same actress who played the kidnapped wife in Fargo.

[quote] I love the Japanese family who adopted the American girl who they treat better than their prettier, smarter Japanese daughter.

I love that family too. Does anyone around here speak Japanese cause I always wanted to know what that Japanese daughter says to her father in Japanese just before he starts yelling at her.

I was Mount Rose American Teen Princess 1945. We were at war with the Japs. Didn't even get to keep my damn tiara. Had to turn it in for scrap.

This movie was where I noticed Amy Adams for the first time. Her character and her boyfriend were great.

"Brett Favre: RAWR!"

Country Western!

Clint Black. Woof!

What he got that I not got?

that's why we Lutherans use grape Kool-Aid for the blood of Christ.

"I got some."

I shave never seen this movie, but I worked with a guy who loved it back when it came out. After he saw it, he started calling me Diane Sawyer because I reminded him of Kirsten Dunst's character? He tried to explain it but I just have never made time to see it.

I've done about thirty-five pageants. I guess my most memorable one'd have to be Miss Teen America 1995. It was in Vegas. And my roommate did Adam West—she said he was [italic]soooo[/italic] horny!

This movie is one of my top 5 laugh out loud comedies of all time. I remember it playing in theaters for, like, a week before it left and became a cult classic years later. I'm so glad that people are appreciating it now. It's hysterically funny and what an excellent cast, too. I think this was the first time I noticed Allison Janney. She damn near steals the entire movie.

TAKE DOWN THE GODDAMN FRIEDA SIGN, YA LAZY SONSABITCHES!

AMBER: "Oh, Mom's okay. They're just giving her a ride back. She almost blew outta the back of Loretta's pick-up on the way over.

LORETTA: "Thank God for bunge cords!"

Loretta: Can one of you boys give me a ride home?

Annette: Don't fall for it. She lives two trailers down.

Loretta: So? Be real easy.

Fucking LOVE this movie! One of my top 3 favorite comedies, and so many quotable lines!

"You listen to me, Amber Atkins. Your mom was clingin' to those tap shoes while she was flyin' through the air like a goddamn lawn dart!"

"Speak Engrish, you stupid retard!"

"It's prettier than a whore's ass today, ain't it fellas?"

I loved the dykey girl who got blown up on the tractor.

Tammy always waited to smoke until [italic]after[/italic] a good drive!

"They said she got blown up because she was smoking while riding the tractor, but I know for a fact that Tammy only smoked AFTER she rode the tractor."

Close those legs! You look like a buncha bowlegged cows! Other side, [italic]aaaaaaand[/italic] ... Tendu-close! Tendu-close! Tendu-close! PLIÉ!

You all do know which DL fave formally of Boulder, Colorado served as the divine inspiration for this cinematic masterpiece, right?

"We were at war with the Japs....."

Alison Janney as trashy Loretta was laugh-out-loud funny in every one of her scenes.

Has its moments, thanks to Barkin, Janney and, yes, the late great Brittany Murphy.

OP, this is among the many reasons I'm in love with 90's culture: The freedom. It just doesn't exist anymore. Comedians are so stifled, today. Irreverent comedy. Bad accents. Joking about eating disorders and "special needs". Making fun of every economic class of people.

Everything sucks now. The joy has been ripped out of comedy and people can't just laugh at themselves, like they used to. And it's the people who probably considered themselves "counterculture" 20 years ago who have lost sight of this necessary life skill.

R88 Everyone knows a Loretta.

Allison Janney has said that Loretta is one of her favorite roles.

I forgot about the candy striper scene.

There were several Lorettas in my hometown when I was growing up. They were all a riot.

I says to Annette, I says if you talk to me when I'm watching my stories, you might as well be talkin' to the wall.

I WILL IF YOU SHUT YER PIE HOLE!

I misunderstood the assignment. :(

They're only the richest family in town. It's front page news when one of 'em takes a shit.

Most smartest?

You guys want some beers?

You might even meet a few... CELEBRITIES!

IRIS! You taped your shows over it!

It wasn't Kenny's fault that I had beef jerky in my pocket, was it? No!

They remade my belly with skin from my butt.

Please help yourself to some coffee and bars!

Oh, Jesus, Mary and Joseph - she's pregnant! Amber, wait - Mommy wants to talk to you...AND THEN KILL YOU!

Sidewalks, Father Donavan. Sidewalks! Sidewalks!

YOU'RE not the one who knows what Jiffy-Pop feels lilke, Missy!

Mr. Larson: I need Stella now—the family's steamin' like a cow pie in July! Said she doesn't look nothin' like the picture they gave ya!

Amber: Sorry, I just thought she might not wanna meet her maker lookin' like a cheap whore.

Mr. Larson: Well, THIS CHEAP WHORE is that family's lovin' mother!

Jesus loves winners ... and I aim to win.

Bumping this thread because it is time! SARAH ROSE KNOWS!!!

Most smartest

Another great one:

Amber Atkins: Loretta, never have kids.

Loretta: Oh, honey, God bless ya for thinking I still could.

The part when the dancing teacher is saying if she were a betting woman and they were laying down odds in Vegas, it would come down to Amber and Becky, and then a girl falls over, and just the look on her face watching the girl struggling to get back up, haa haaaa!

Lester: "How quickly they forget where this all comes from." Becky: "Taiwan."

There are EIGHT THOUSAND sequins and fifteen hundred beads on this skirt alone. My mom and Mrs. Lopez made it. She's one of my father's many May-hee-can workers. He lifts them up from the poverty they know in May-hee-co.

I always wondered what “bars” were. The scene where a wrestler comes over to grab a bar and Gladys has a very long and longing glance at his crotch is very subtle yet funny.

Bars are a very Upper Midwest/Canada thing.

“Look, number one rule in a funeral home: never sneak up on the living. You never know who might have an enbalming needle or a skull saw in their hand. Mr. Larson's son learned the hard way. He's buried next to my grandpa.”

i paid money to see this shit in a movie theater and almost walked out.

not entertaining.

the title is the best bit of the movie.

Saw it the first time stoned, continually fell of the couch laughing so hard, my stomach muscles hurt for a couple of days after.