Savage Steve: I need money for a claymation scene where a hamburger plays Van Halen with sexy french fries. Producers: I'm sorry? Savage Steve: Did I stutter?
@The Anthropologist _Forensic from teh Wiki-so take it with a grain of salt. "According to Savage Steve Holland, Cusack did not like the film and walked out of a screening, later confronting Holland, saying Better Off Dead "was the worst thing I have ever seen. I will never trust you as a director ever again, so don't speak to me." Holland claimed that Cusack felt he had been made to look foolish and that his comments "made me not care about movies anymore". In a 2013 Reddit "Ask Me Anything" chat, however, Cusack was asked if he hated filming Better Off Dead, and responded, "No, I just thought it could have been better, but I think that about almost all my films. I have nothing against the film.... Glad people love it still." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Off_Dead_(film)
@The Anthropologist _Forensic the plot thickens. Cusack was in another similar flick directed by Holland- "One Crazy Summer", that was produced the next year. His character, Hoops McCann, was fairly similar to that of Lane Meyer...hmmm...he hated it so badly, yet he worked with Savage Steve again the very next year in a like role...hmmm... Perhaps he was worried about being typecast. However, his body of work since speaks for itself. Hollywood. Hmm...
I picture Eddie in heaven walking around showing off his newest gear and leaving horrendous goose bumps that the human body simply cannot tolerate :( :)
How…there’s zero possible way. Maybe if the “Singing Raisins” were in it…nah. Edit…I know absolutely zero about this movie…it must have been an obscure movie.
@@dawnbeardsley8833 …I bought it on DVD because I couldn’t find a way to watch it. I can’t believe I missed this movie in the ‘80s…it is truly awesome from start to finish. 😄🥳🤩😎🤩🥳😄
Whammy bar clearly in the wrong place 😂 I’ve been a fan of this movie since I was a kid in the 80s. The film One Crazy Summer is great too. It has 3-4 of the actors from Better Off Dead in it.
This is so crazy…I’m glad I didn’t see this when Van Halen(especially Eddie Van Halen) were such Rock Gods…it would have ruined it for kid me. This looks so dumb…”like gag me with a spoon” dumb. Just saying.
I tell my kids who are now in their 20’s - I want my $2 . Now I every time I see them they bring $2. I now have enough to buy this movie so they will understand. Bonus - watch The Sure Thing and tell your kids “I’m talking to you Cordless” and watch their heads implode!
The 80s had the best movies and the best music, all music was great from disco to hair bands, rap to country, it was all great, I wish I could go back. We need Marty and Doc to take us there.
Anyone else notice that burgers guitar must have been molded from a picture of Eddie's actual shark guitar? They molded the tremolo arm in the same position and shape of the wiring route channel Eddie's actual shark guitar! Just a fun fact! Rest in peace Eddie!
The real Shark doesn’t have a vibrato. The animators thought the route was a whammy bar from the picture on the album cover but NO guitar has a whammy in that position. It’s just not possible.
How many people know that this Eddie Van Halen guitar was called Frankenstein well before this movie ever came out? It was because of how this guitar got constructed from various different parts of other guitars.
Back when they weren't afraid to take chances and being creative. Get crazy and goofy. That is how a lot of the movies and music was back in the 80s and I miss it.
I wish my burger just once would dance and play an EVH model guitar, it would be just like the Warner Bros frog, soon as you brought him to the stage he would eat it, haha
I was in high school when this movie came out...This scene was kinda weird even by 80's standards...still funny tho..This and Weird Science were the 80's at its best lol
Actually it's pretty dang close. I thought it was wrong too till I googled the pics of the destroyer and the Frankenstein does have an unusual tremolo placement.
@@davidrichter9164 Interesting... It seems like he placed it there as an experiment, but never really used it? He was always tinkering with the instrument in the old days...
It's absurd but awesome at the same time. The real Shark guitar didn't have a tremolo, but where it's located on the burger guitar is actually the routing cavity. lol
Savage Steve: I need money for a claymation scene where a hamburger plays Van Halen with sexy french fries.
Producers: I'm sorry?
Savage Steve: Did I stutter?
😂
Best movie of the era and if you disagree I want my $2.
Hot Tube time machine reference that line.
You win.
Pure SNOW
I WANT MY MTV !!! HAPPY NEW YEAR in 14-1/2 hours from CT. !!!
I didn't ask for a dime...
You gotta love Eddie Van Hamburger
Don't forget David Lee (special) Sauce!!!!
been like 35 years of this movie and me and my brother still say "two dollars" when talking about money
My sis I too !! LOL
I’m right there with ya! (Didn’t ask for a dime...two dollars!!) 😂😂😂
That's freaking awesome 🤣🤘
Remember going to see this in the theater when it came out. The theater lost their S#@! when this song played and rocked out. RIP Eddie.
That's so 80s! We did shit like that all the time. I can't imagine something like that happening today.
Same thing happened at the theater were I went to go see it. 🎸🤟
Thank you Eddie and all these 80s memories. I want my 2 dollars ... 😜
Gotta love where the whammy bar is placed
RIP EVH... I get sick everytime I think about you being gone. I feel dead inside. thanks for being such a great role model for me.
RIP Eddie. Thank you for all the great music.
This is exactly what I needed to make this acid trip successful
I am glad I found this comment I miss those days. long live 2021 Jack🔥
Love when Frankenburger hits the wammy bar 🎸 😁
Love this movie and this band! RIP Eddie!
Best scene of the movie. RIP Eddie Van Halen.
The Eddie Van Halen Frankenburger.
love how the burger comes to life and literally the first thing it does is play van halen
Wouldn't you if you could?
@@tchoupitoulos fair point
still the best john cusack movie imo
one crazy summer is pretty close...then again I like gross pointe blank also....
Although Cusack the douche disavows it...
Better than say anything imo
@The Anthropologist _Forensic from teh Wiki-so take it with a grain of salt.
"According to Savage Steve Holland, Cusack did not like the film and walked out of a screening, later confronting Holland, saying Better Off Dead "was the worst thing I have ever seen. I will never trust you as a director ever again, so don't speak to me." Holland claimed that Cusack felt he had been made to look foolish and that his comments "made me not care about movies anymore". In a 2013 Reddit "Ask Me Anything" chat, however, Cusack was asked if he hated filming Better Off Dead, and responded, "No, I just thought it could have been better, but I think that about almost all my films. I have nothing against the film.... Glad people love it still."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Off_Dead_(film)
@The Anthropologist _Forensic the plot thickens. Cusack was in another similar flick directed by Holland- "One Crazy Summer", that was produced the next year. His character, Hoops McCann, was fairly similar to that of Lane Meyer...hmmm...he hated it so badly, yet he worked with Savage Steve again the very next year in a like role...hmmm...
Perhaps he was worried about being typecast. However, his body of work since speaks for itself.
Hollywood. Hmm...
I picture Eddie in heaven walking around showing off his newest gear and leaving horrendous goose bumps that the human body simply cannot tolerate :( :)
As far as I know this is the ONLY movie where Diamond Dave is a voice of a hamburger... 🔹 🍔 🤔
You've obviously never seen Schindler's List.
“It’s a damn shame, throwin’ away a perfectly good white boy like that...”
Underrated guitar solo in this song. He makes that guitar screeeaaam.
💯🔥🔥💪
Thanks VH for adding the song that takes us back to this master piece of 80's Wormhole wonders
Well said!
Eddie,Say hello to Jimi for us.
Oh my God can you imagine those two playing together WOW !!!! I want tickets to that one.🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎼🎼🎸
And Randy. Can't forget about Randy.
Jimi commited suicide! Hes in Hell,buddy!
@@kennethwilliams7731 he didn’t commit suicide?
@@kennethwilliams7731 come on man... don’t be a jack ass
A must see movie for anyone and everyone. A John Cusak classic!
Rock in Paradise Eddie!!! You’ll be missed
*sniff* RIP, mister... thanks for the memories ♥
I always liked the Howard Cocell sounding Asian brothers in the station wagon who wanted to race his Camaro......loved that movie!
Yeeeesssss! 😂
God I miss the 80’s!!!☝️😃☝️
One of the more underrated movies in it’s time- loved this one so much 😂 Waaaayyyy better than Ferris Bueller
How…there’s zero possible way. Maybe if the “Singing Raisins” were in it…nah.
Edit…I know absolutely zero about this movie…it must have been an obscure movie.
@@F1JV Its just a hidden gem underneath all the bandwagon crap
@@dawnbeardsley8833 …I bought it on DVD because I couldn’t find a way to watch it. I can’t believe I missed this movie in the ‘80s…it is truly awesome from start to finish.
😄🥳🤩😎🤩🥳😄
any alien in the universe is definetly rockin to van halen today.the whole planet is paying their respects love you eddie.
Whammy bar clearly in the wrong place 😂 I’ve been a fan of this movie since I was a kid in the 80s. The film One Crazy Summer is great too. It has 3-4 of the actors from Better Off Dead in it.
It should have been the sequel.
So few people have actually seen “Better Off Dead”. Fewer people know there’s a music video in it.
Even fewer people know that Lane Meyer skied the K12 with one ski.
This is so crazy…I’m glad I didn’t see this when Van Halen(especially Eddie Van Halen) were such Rock Gods…it would have ruined it for kid me. This looks so dumb…”like gag me with a spoon” dumb. Just saying.
RIP Eddie. Once in a generation talent!!
2020 sucks! Eddie, thank you for the great music and good times.
Cancer sucks
@@YoungSHolmesfan I lost my mom to cancer in 77' and my sister-in-law just passed last week from cancer last week, yes it does.
This intro is amazing, it's Van Halen at their best!!!
One of the Best Movie soundtracks of all time.... Later Ed...
This movie was perfect for the 80's. Cruising McHenry in Modesto Ca in 1985.
Yeah, this proves that music is so god damn important. RIP Eddie Van Halen. Thank you
Mailman: “What's a little boy like you doing with big boy smut like this?”
😂😂😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣😆😆😝😝😝🤣😅😂
his little brother name was BADGER
R.I.P. Taylor Negron. For a guy who played small parts, he always brought some great lines.
@@jjrauch4466 Wasnt he the bad guy in The Last Boy Scout???
One of the GREATEST 1980’s movies. You can’t go wrong with. I mean it has John Cusack and Curtis Armstrong aka “Booger” Dudley Dawson in it.
Downright incredible how old Curtis is. Man's 67.
That whammy bar ain't doin much.😆🤘🎸🎶
.... lol well, it's on backward, ...
"look I'll pay you for it , what the fuck "!!!!!
This is were I heard Van Halen for the first time. R.I.P Eddie Van Halen guitar legend.
I didn't know it was them. And Jump had come out a year before.
I knew Jump, but this song made me say "who is that?? I gotta hear more"
The music playing over these scenes makes it funnier.
Hey Lane! I know it's weird me being a cartoon and all....but how would you feel if I took out Beth?
Classic in so many ways 🙏🙏🙏💜
Watching a burger crank out the axe now thats tasteful without being gaudy Rip master eddie van halen God bless
Absolutely love this movie. Saw it for the first time the other day. Can't believe I never watched it before.
Lol "look ill pay ya for it wtf" hahaha my favorite movie my only motivation for work
I tell my kids who are now in their 20’s - I want my $2 . Now I every time I see them they bring $2. I now have enough to buy this movie so they will understand. Bonus - watch The Sure Thing and tell your kids “I’m talking to you Cordless” and watch their heads implode!
me and my mom still say it. we used to watch this movie a lot when I was little, and she even got me one of those switchblade combs.
1 of my top 10 movies off all time.
Loved it when I was a kid
This movie was the best. RIP Eddie Van Halen.
One of the greatest movies ever
Hilarious
God i miss the 80's. 🥺
You and me both. Back when we could laugh at each other and ourselves!
The 80s had the best movies and the best music, all music was great from disco to hair bands, rap to country, it was all great, I wish I could go back. We need Marty and Doc to take us there.
"Four weeks, twenty papers, that's two dollars. Plus tip."
Anyone else notice that burgers guitar must have been molded from a picture of Eddie's actual shark guitar? They molded the tremolo arm in the same position and shape of the wiring route channel Eddie's actual shark guitar! Just a fun fact! Rest in peace Eddie!
The real Shark doesn’t have a vibrato. The animators thought the route was a whammy bar from the picture on the album cover but NO guitar has a whammy in that position. It’s just not possible.
@@KevyNova correct
"Edward... thank you." - Could this be Magic.
Rest In Paradise Eddie Van Halen.
OMG this brings back so many memories for me because I love the '80's movies & rock music!
This movie introduced me to V.H.
R.I.P eddie van Halen
Tremendous Moment of the 80’s…. ..So Epic it has a beer made in its honor… EVH you are truly missed ✝️
WITH THE CAMARO PARKED ON THE PITCHER'S MOUND AT DODGER STADIUM...NOW THAT'S ETERNALLY CLASSIC!!!!
One of the most off the wall movies I ever saw growing up in the 80's. Remember going to see this in 1985 with my neighbors.
RIP Eddie :(
That was Chuck Mitchell who threw Cusack out of the restaurant, he played Porky in the movie Porky's
Yes, that was him. Of course, how come he goes back to the restaurant later at night if he had gotten fired? Was he rehired and we didn't see it?
The greatest moment in cinematic history
AWESOME MOVIE AND SONG.
How many people know that this Eddie Van Halen guitar was called Frankenstein well before this movie ever came out? It was because of how this guitar got constructed from various different parts of other guitars.
Or Frankenstrat
thats the shark guitar. not the frankenstein
"Do you know the street value of the mountain? - 'Booger'
Still listen to this song thanks van Halen yeah
I've always loved this movie
This movie was a classic!! I WANT my 2 dollars!! Lol!! EVERY paper boy said that!!
Edward Van Halen's guitar the hamburger is playing 🔥💪⭐
One of the most underated movies of the 80s!
"I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy. I know high school girls."
😆😆😆🤣🤣😅😅😂😂😂
💜😂💜😂💜
Don’t forget One crazy Summer!
Back when they weren't afraid to take chances and being creative. Get crazy and goofy. That is how a lot of the movies and music was back in the 80s and I miss it.
Yep, Better Off Dead - classic. Howard the Duck - stupidity and creepy, but that's just my opinion.
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME! I WANT SOME TOO!!!!!! RIP EDDIE VAN HALEN!!!!!!!!!!!!
To Eddie Van Halen, the baddest guitar around.
One of my fav movies of all time, “$2!”
Go that way really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.
The insanity of this movie perfectly fits the insanity of the 80’s.
This movie can be summed up in 2 Words . “Death Drive”
It makes a humorous situation out of suicide. Can't beat it.
The 80s were the best ! Great movie and Van Halen, what a combo. Too bad Eddie died and Cusack became such a wuss !
The tremolo on the cheese burger's guitar...
RIP EDDIE 🙏🙏🙏
Rip Eddie Van Halen we will miss you,your great music!
I wish my burger just once would dance and play an EVH model guitar, it would be just like the Warner Bros frog, soon as you brought him to the stage he would eat it, haha
I was in high school when this movie came out...This scene was kinda weird even by 80's standards...still funny tho..This and Weird Science were the 80's at its best lol
RIP Eddie Van Halen.
RIP Eddie.
RIP ED!!!
John cusack serving his date the tv dinner with candlelight etc was so cheesy and sooo sweet :)
This should be the real music video
Everybody wants some 😅😮
I love how the lil' burger's guitar has the whammy bar in a totally absurd place...!
It’s accurate to the real Frankenstein ibanez destroyer
@@IcyDUD3 I've looked into this... and am not sure it's true
Actually it's pretty dang close.
I thought it was wrong too till I googled the pics of the destroyer and the Frankenstein does have an unusual tremolo placement.
@@davidrichter9164 Interesting... It seems like he placed it there as an experiment, but never really used it? He was always tinkering with the instrument in the old days...
It's absurd but awesome at the same time. The real Shark guitar didn't have a tremolo, but where it's located on the burger guitar is actually the routing cavity. lol
LOVE that album!
I hope Eddie's having a tasty guitar playing sandwich at the Pig Burger in the sky... RIP
Rocco is there too. He died in 1992.
RIP Eddie!
Favorite group, favorite bizzaro movie of the 80's, fucking classic! :)
THANK YOU ! bought the DVD yesterday., coming today will watch Sunday Night
I think I just froze the left half of my brain!
God got up one day and he said I gotta make the perfect American rock band and he made Van Halen.
Loved the movie! And rhis was my favorite scene.