- What is the name of this movie?!
- Steve Martin in... Pantless in Seattle.
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- (FBE) Today, we're gonna see how well you know
some popular '70s comedy movies. - '70s comedy movies, okay.
I'm a fan of older flicks.
- I feel like I watched a lot of them as a little kid,
'cause that's when my parents just kind of showed me
whatever they liked. So I might have some
just in the deepest recesses of my mind.
- Literally nothing is coming to mind.
So I'll probably do pretty horrible at this.
- I see this going either really, really well or really, really badly,
and I don't feel like there's gonna be that much
of an in-between in there.
- Let's give it a shot! Give 'em the good ol' Princeton try.
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- (FBE) Here's your first movie from 1978. Do you know it?
- Mm. No.
- I have no idea. I've never seen this poster before.
- No, I have no idea.
It's kind of like a frat boy type of thing going on.
- "Comedy in a class of its own." Blank "is an educational film."
This is Animal House.
- I'm trying to think what was the first big college movie.
Like, what inspired American Pie and everything else?
Animal House?
- I definitely have never seen this, but I have a guess.
Is it Animal House?
- I feel like this might be Animal House.
- Oh! Yup. Yeah, I got it. Animal House.
- (FBE) This is the poster for... - Animal House.
Oh, that's weird. I've heard of this.
- Okay, I've heard of this, but I've never seen it.
- I thought it came out in the '80s. I didn't know.
Oh god. All right. And I've seen this.
- This film is super hilarious.
And if people haven't watched it already,
you totally should, especially if you're a university student.
- (FBE) So John Belushi had been on SNL for three years.
This was his big screen debut. He would film Animal House
Monday through Wednesday, and then would fly back to NYC
to film SNL Thursday through Saturday night.
- Oh my god. That's a full schedule.
- I'm like, "I'm so tired" when I have something three days in a row.
I'm just like, "It's a lot, you guys."
- As long as you're passionate about the projects,
that's all that matters, 'cause if it's something
you're gonna dread, you're gonna be so exhausted.
But if you're having fun, it's worth it.
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- (FBE) So here is another. Do you recognize this one?
- Mel Brooks. It doesn't even look
like a comedy that much from the poster.
- I have no idea what this is. This is a rated R film.
Huh. Mel Brooks.
- Mel Brooks is a cowboy.
- I see some Native Americans, cowboys...
Is there a movie like Cowboys in Space or something?
I don't know. That's my guess. Cowboys in Space!
- I feel like it's Blazing Saddles, but I might be wrong.
- Blazing Saddles. - (FBE) This is the poster for...
- (gasps) Blazing Saddles. Okay, I've heard of that.
- I've heard of it before, just never seen it.
- I have heard the title before, and that is it.
- I think I've heard them mention that in That '70s Show,
and I was like, oh, that's an interesting title for a movie.
And that's all I've thought of it.
- I know that there is one famous scene in there.
It's the first time a fart was ever done on camera.
And that was during the beans around the campfire scene.
Never seen the movie, though.
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- (FBE) Do you know this one?
- Steve Martin. I don't think I've ever even seen this poster before.
- Steve Martin? I didn't even recognize him!
He looks so different.
- Steve Martin in... Pantless in Seattle.
- This looks familiar. I've seen this scene before.
- Uhh, The Jerk?
- (FBE) So this is a poster for...
- Oh, The Jerk. I've never seen this movie.
I've never heard of this.
- Ohh, okay. The Jerk. I've heard of it, but never seen it.
- I've heard the title for sure, but this one maybe
because it's a very general title.
- I've never even heard of that. He does kind of look
like a jerk, though. He's not wearing pants.
Jerks don't wear pants. Polite people were underwear.
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- (FBE) Here's another. Are you familiar with this one?
- The coach is waiting for his next year.
The pitcher's waiting for her first bra.
The team is waiting for a miracle. Consider the possibilities.
- I have no idea. I can't even think
of a single sports movie from the '70s.
- The Sa-- It's not The Sandlot. And that's not really a comedy.
- It looks like a Sandlot-type movie, but it's definitely not The Sandlot.
- Is this Bad News Bears?
- Um, Bad News Bears. - Bad News Bears.
- (FBE) This is a poster for... - Oh, the Bad News Bears.
Yeah, I've never seen this movie either.
- Another movie I have heard of the title but nothing about.
- I've seen it, I think, when I was younger.
But it's not my favorite movie or anything.
- This is actually one of my favorite movies.
This movie and Ferris Bueller's Day Off
are my two sick day movies, you know? Whenever I was home from school,
Bad News Bears, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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- (FBE) Do you know this one? - Another Mel Brooks film
that I don't know. - Another Mel Brooks film.
Now, it seems to be some sort of Frankenstein.
- The first thing that came to mind was Frankenstein,
but he's wearing a top hat, so that's cool.
- What the [bleep] is happening with the dude on right?
Is it like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type thing?
Is it Young Frankenstein? - Is that Young Frankenstein?
- Oh, this is Young Frankenstein.
- I do know the title of this one. This is Young Frankenstein.
- (FBE) This is the poster for... - Young Frankenstein. What?
Is there like a young, adult, elderly Frankenstein?
- I don't think I've actually ever watched it
or really heard of it that much,
but I think I've seen the name somewhere.
- (FBE) So against studio exec wishes, Mel Brooks shot this film
in black and white. He felt it would better replicate
the classic Frankenstein films. - That's awesome.
Always go for what you want.
- So it's a comedy film in all black and white,
but filmed in the '70s. That might be interesting to watch.
- I think that was a good idea for him to do that.
You know, to capture that classic theme
with the book and whatnot.
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- (FBE) Do you know this one?
- Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw?
- "All it takes is a little confidence."
I don't think I know what this film is at all.
- Ooh, I don't know. I don't know this one.
- "All it takes is a little confidence."
Uh, Confidence Man. Maybe? No? I just put two words together.
- It looks very '50s. I like this type of art,
but I don't know if I can put a name.
- This is almost definitely a Universal movie,
because I was a tour guide there, and it's probably the one
that won an Oscar that we're supposed to know.
- What is the name of this movie?!
- So this is the poster for... - The Sting? No. Uh-uh.
- The Sting. I have not seen that.
- Damn it! Yes! I've heard of that movie.
I had to talk about that movie! (chuckles) But I've never seen it.
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- (FBE) Here's your next. Do you know this one?
- "And now at last..." "Sets the cinema back 900 years"?
- Wow, that's a lot going on in this picture.
"Makes Ben-Hur look like an epic."
Wasn't Ben-Hur an epic?
- I've seen this poster before in plays, so as long
as it's based off of the play, is it Spamalot?
- Oh my gosh. "Nominated for 26 Oscars,
three Brians, a"-- (chuckles) I fell for that.
I totally fell for that.
- "Nominated for 26 Oscars, 3 Brians..."
What the [bleep] is a Brian? Something with the words
holy grail in it. Is it Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
This is the-- this is the poster for that?
- Oh, is this-- I can already tell
'cause of the hand. Is this Monty Python?
- Oh, this is Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I know this movie, because I love this movie.
- (FBE) So this is... - Oh, Monty Python
and the Holy Grail. Okay. I've heard of Monty Python,
but I've never seen this, heard of this, watched this.
- Oh my god! That's exactly what I-- I was like, Monty--
I was thinking of Monty Python.
- I've seen that poster so many times for Spamalot,
but (chuckles) yeah, I didn't actually know
that it came from this. - I guess I don't really know
that much about '70s movies, 'cause I didn't think
that any of these were from the '70s.
But I feel like comedy was kind of big in the '70s.
These are some really funny movies.
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