The Alien Encounters/Dear Diary...

The Alien Encounters/Dear Diary...
Dear diary, I'm feelin' UHF today...

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

High School U.S.A.


Two years before they starred as McFly and son in Back to the Future (1985), Crispin Glover and Michael J. Fox (billed here as Michael Fox) appeared together as respectively, a similar uber nerd and too-cool-for-school wiseacre in High School U.S.A. (1983).


Being a made for TV movie and thus not able to resort to the standard titillating scenes of T&A to liven up its fairly typical snobs versus slobs plot like its theatrical brethren would have, the creators of High School U.S.A. instead have their characters chastely trot out an adorable dancing robot...which they later proceed to cruelly euthanize then cannibalize for engine parts due to the ill fated automaton's heat shielding properties just in time for the film's exciting nail biter of a car race finale, so that's a pretty fair trade off.


Best quote is from Anthony Edwards, playing the main douche bag who is 180 degrees opposite in character from the lovable nerd with a heart of gold he played a year later in Revenge of the Nerds (1984): "Nobody breaks up with Beau Middleton; Beau Middleton calls the shots, Beau Middleton'll do the breakin' up."
Beau Middleton: what a douche bag!

The late Dana Plato from Return to Boggy Creek (1977) and the late Tom Villard from Popcorn (1991) also appear in small roles; I also noticed one of the minor douche bags in the movie was played by David Packer, who starred as the young alien collaborationist douche bag in (1983) the same year.

A cheesy flick to be sure, but I actually really liked High School U.S.A. a lot, which probably makes me the douche bag for liking it.  Oh well; who's got two thumbs up Fonzi style for High School U.S.A. and cried like a little baby when Willis Drummond deactivated his dancing robot?  Ayyyyyy--this douche bag, that's who!

Here's the theme song:

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