“Hilarious” Running Gag Alert: This same kid (his name is Russell and he’s played by Eric Laneuville, who you might remember from the TV series St Elsewhere I don’t, because I didn’t watch that show) shows up later in the film at the police station under arrest for gang activity, and again towards the end stealing hubcaps.Īnyway, the Count finds his way to the Plaza Hotel and assigns Renfield the task of locating Cindy Sondheim by the time the sun sets the next day. He Force Throws the fuck out of them and they run away, but not before one of them steals a TV: His grandfather was a Watusi!”) and attempt to mug him. They call him a honky and a turkey and make a reference to ‘Roots’ (“Didn’t you see ‘Roots’? I wouldn’t mess with him. He’s going through a bad neighborhood and is accosted by four young urban (read: Successful and Attractive African-American) fellows. So Drac goes out into the night to find the Plaza Hotel. Because this movie never met an easy joke it didn’t like. Anyway, Dracula wakes up in the middle of the funeral and freaks out the mourners. But who told you to drink the water?”) In this movie, all black people except George Jefferson the funeral preacher shoehorn a “Roots” reference into the conversation. (Alvin’s wife at the airport: “Alvin, I told you to go find your roots. Alvin’s tragic death in Africa is the occasion for the first Random ‘Roots’ Reference of this fine motion picture. The Count’s coffin ends up at the funeral of one Brother Alvin, who was a swinger. There is, of course, a mix-up at the airport. On the plane ride, Renfield ( Arte Johnson, even more Renfieldy than the original Renfield) enjoys what appears to be a showing of Ben and creeps out his seat mate while the Count hangs out in his coffin in the luggage hold studying up on the current lingo. Apparently she looks just like the lost love he’s pursued over the centuries. James, inexplicably blond and maybe slightly miscast but lovely nonetheless), a model whose picture he’s fallen in love with. ![]() ![]() He decides to go to New York City in hopes of finding Cindy Sondheim ( Susan St. Topical humor, folks: I hope you like that sort of thing, because this flick is chock full of the stuff. Love at First Bite is a basic fish-out-of-water/romantic comedy, with the Count ( George Hamilton, who is AWESOME as the most deeply tanned Dracula since Prince Mamuwalde) getting evicted from his Romanian digs to make room for Nadia Comaneci and the rest of the Romanian gymnastics team. Mainly I loved the the old black and white movies (Tod Browning’s Dracula is still a favorite, despite how slow and stagy it becomes after the awesomely atmospheric opening third) but I was also partial to Blacula, which I had discovered on the local all night Monster Chiller Horror Theater (and which sparked a lifelong love of Blaxploitation movies that will likely get discussed in some future post.) Yes, I was one of those young girls obsessed with vampires. ![]() Love at First Bite (1979 trailer here) was a particular favorite of mine back in the day. When the movie came out I was firmly in the grip of a juvenile obsession with vampire movies. I coped by voraciously consuming comedy–when I wasn’t reading and re-reading the Hitchhiker’s trilogy or watching stand-up specials on HBO while babysitting, I was sneaking into movies my parents had deemed too risque for my tender sensibilities (Parental Calculus: Violence = OK Boobs and/or Dick Jokes = Heavens to Murgatroyd, get the kids out of here!) I’ve grown out of my tween angst, but I will never outgrow my love of dick jokes. ’79 through ’82 were pretty much my junior high years, and our family moved a few times before settling in Texas for a while, making the universally unpleasant experience of pre-adolescence even more sucky for me. You can utilize the Googles to find a lot more, if you’re interested. A metric shitload of awesome comedies came out between 19: Life of Brian, The Jerk, Caddyshack, Airplane, Melvin and Howard, My Favorite Year, The Muppet Movie, History of the World Part I, Victor/Victoria, Night Shift, Stripes-that’s just what I could think of off the top of my head.
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