Porky's - The Cinema Snob

The Cinema Snob reviews Bob Clark's comedy Porky's, one of the biggest box office hits of 1982!
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[@CMDRExorcist]

The principal's office scene is a cinematic masterpiece. The way they played it so straight and didn't break into laughter is beyond epic.

[@pandaloon6083]

Without hyperbole, It's one of the funniest scenes ever filmed.

[@kennethd4958]

Crazy that now 90's nostalgia is as long ago as 50's nostalgia in the 80's.

[@Juzu607]

Just thought about that earlier today it really is crazy to think about

[@SicketMog]

@@Juzu607 IS it though? Because that's kind of how time works...

[@Juzu607]

@@SicketMog haha fair enough

[@just4joebob]

Okay "Meat you're 35 they're going to fire you from the plant," was a golden joke!

[@UrbanSamurai1975]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@CoMCPranks]

Yeah, it is about goddamn time we watch Porky's indeed!

[@alopexau]

The coach losing it during the Lassie scene wrecks me every time, and I disagree with the guys laughing in the office being 'too over the top', that struggle to hold in their laughter is extremely realistic. Everything about that scene is an absolute gut buster.

[@nessadvantage9447]

Same, his character stole that scene for me. He kept trying to warn the other coach: "just get her up in the equipment room you'll find out" 😂😂 That guy was an early troll and was waiting for that to happen. When he's trying to hold in has laughter in front of the main coach and he can't do it and goes under the wallmat to laugh i completely crack up😂

[@kennethfharkin]

I remember seeing this on showtime I believe around 1986 with my dad. I was 16 and he couldn't stop laughing at the coach losing it both during the line up scene in the principal's office and the Lassie scene. I still bust up every time I watch it. The guy looked like he was outright hyperventilating.

[@brianhebert6152]

Bob Clark had probably one of the most eclectic filmographies ever. The same man who did the horror classic Black Christmas also did one of the most beloved Christmas movies ever made in A Christmas Story, as well as raunchy 80s comedies like this film, action films like Loose Cannons, and, more infamously, the "bad movie night" staple Baby Geniuses. He didn't dip his toes into a different genre every time, he did a flat-out cannonball into it!

[@MissSallyB1]

and gendersploitation like She-Man and thrillers like Murder By Decree and musical cheese like Rhinestone :p

[@myrnalaboy2840]

R.I.P. Bob Clark & his younger son Ariel Hanrath-Clark.

[@ginnrollins211]

Sadly, Tony Ganios, who played Meat, passed away back in February. R.I.P.

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

RIP

[@chuckielover06]

Holy shit, loved him in the wanderers. Had no idea!

[@ToylandChairman666]

Holy crap, I didn't even hear about that. :(

[@charlottecorday8494]

Awww, I didn't know that. RIP

[@reikun86]

RIP 😢

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

I watched this in high school and loved it. I was sixteen so it was right up my alley. The Lassie reveal scene killed me.

[@robgetz3564]

This AND American Pie were my sexual awakening when I saw the VHS tapes at my grandparents. Still have the old CBS/Fox tapes of this and Porkys II.

[@JamesJohnson-tr1gu]

Mines was an early 80’s teen sex comedy called Hot Moves

[@DTD110865]

The neo-Confederate columnist Charley Resse wrote an article complaining about movies like "American Pie II," and complained that they didn't make movies like this 20 years earlier. But he totally ignored movies like this.

[@Logan912]

That sounds like a cool double feature which spans decades.

[@knightnday10]

I remember this back in high school. The seniors were mad that they couldn't find a way to see into the girl's showers like they did in the movies, mostly because the building was made of concrete. Still, this movie got a lot of play back in the day. Thanks Snob!

[@heidifedor]

The scene where they’re in the principle’s office,and the coaches are laughing at Ballbricker is my favorite.

[@kennethfharkin]

"Can we call it a tallywacker?" damn that scene cracks me up.

[@Luke7304]

Boyd Gaines, who played Coach Roy, is a national theater treasure who has won Tonys and achieved something like icon status on the stage.

[@wolvepotter5858]

It’s so surreal to know that the guy who made Porky’s also went on to make A Christmas Story. Like, We wouldn’t have Ralphie’s BB gun if it wasn’t for shower peepholes

[@smb-c3po]

I still ship Brad with Doug, the official That Guy With The Glasses website refers to them as depraved bisexual boyfriends.

[@ryannolechow9933]

He also directed the Jack Lemmon movie “Tribute” as well.

[@angrytheclown801]

Don't forget Black Christmas. It's the Clarkiverse where Ralphie tries to survive a college trying to end him while teens peep on girls.

[@smb-c3po]

@@angrytheclown801 Is that a blacksploitation movie?

[@smb-c3po]

@@ryannolechow9933 I think my dad watched Porky's once in the '90s in the living room when I was a kid.

[@mindyhaun8895]

I still can't believe I was allowed to watch this movie as a kid. Because my parents could be pretty strict on that sort of thing. I guess they figured the raunchy stuff go over my head. Lol.

[@WaltDisneeeWhitman]

It's based on Bob Clark's childhood experience and his experience going to see Lemon Popsicle, furiously taking notes in the theater.

[@ApesAmongUs]

Yea, no shit. I was waiting for that shoe to drop. Perfect set-up for that joke and Snob just didn't mention it.

[@ferox965]

Wasn't the Last American Virgin a remake of Lemon Popsicle?

[@ApesAmongUs]

@@ferox965 Yes, but the later movies in the series also inspired Porkies. The shower spying scene is an improvement on a similar scene in the third film (Hot Bubblegum, I think - the titles are meaningless, so good luck remembering what happened in each movie)

[@anitarichmond8930]

This was my husband of 17+ years favorite movie 🍿

[@russelldavis1539]

Feels weird to be able to say I've never seen the movie but know it well enough just from the cultural impact.

[@smb-c3po]

I may have partially seen this movie once in the '90s when my dad was watching it in the living room.

[@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94]

Same!

[@smb-c3po]

@@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94 Brad is a total daddy.

[@mjwbulich]

It was on cable all the time in the '80s so I've seen bits and pieces, but I've never watched it start to finish. Always thought it was kinda corny.

[@smb-c3po]

@@mjwbulich What about in the '90s?

[@grapeshot]

Yep 1980s Nostalgia for the 1950s.

[@JanetStarChild]

Surprising, considering that the 1950s sucked balls.

[@grapeshot]

@JanetStarChild yeah tell that to right-wingers who see the 1950s ad some golden age because the white boys' power went basically went un challenged

[@BishopWalters12]

@@JanetStarChild People in the 50s could answer what is a woman.

[@TroubleToby3040]

@@JanetStarChild I think I MIGHT understand what you're getting at, but the 1950's was, quite famously, a decade of post-war prosperity and contentment in the U.S.A. At least for white people, it was. It was definitely a great time for middle class white men, so that's a pretty narrow view you're expressing like it's absolute truth.

[@theangryholmesian4556]

​Yeah someone they wanted to keep barefoot and in the kitchen. A woman is anyone who covers their drink when you walk into a room. A woman is someone either born as or living as who identifies as a woman. Easy peasey. There is no way to write a definition that excludes trans women that doesn't exclude cis women as well. So. Anyways I'm so glad y'all can't lobotomize queer folk anymore and or lynch people for using the water fountain. Ta and eff off. ​@@BishopWalters12

[@SGman3000]

"Characters who were kindly asked to leave". LOL if that doesn't sum up most of the boys in Porky's then idk what does.

[@louisduarte8763]

"Most Unorthodox!"

[@ECKohns]

From the director of Black Christmas (1974)

[@colinr0380]

And Baby Geniuses!

[@BlackAdam1231]

Bob Clark also made two of the scariest horror comedies of the 70s “Death Dream “ and “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things”

[@jbjacobs9514]

My 1st grade teacher was friends with Alan and Anya Ormsby of Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things fame. hehe One of my fave zombie movies (also because it was shot in Dade County in FL, where I would eventually live for a long time). It had an interesting style for such a low budget horror!

[@cherylfagan3219]

I loved this movie as a kid. This was a fun watch!

[@luckydog89]

Porky's is classic. I love that film.

[@user-ch9ho1mv8j]

I’ve been watching you for tears. Ive never commented Just wanted to thank you for all the years of cool vids,

[@Spudgonzo]

I first discovered Porky’s from the 80’s Dan intro. Glad the Snob finally made an episode for it!

[@smb-c3po]

Wait for the gay porn parody and Brad will review it.

[@shallendor]

Bob Clark made 3 great movies for 3 different genre's that still are popular today! Horror with Black Christmas, Teen Sex Comedies with Porkys and Christmas Family classic with A Christmas Story! All are well loved today!

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodUnclePete]

Props for Red at the Tube Bar reference. That'a a deep cut, LOL!

[@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94]

I have a friend who’s watched this and mentioned the TV version multiple times with me. This review helped me know a bit of the movie!

[@Brian-qn7fn]

Porky's 1 and 2 are both great films.

[@charlottecorday8494]

2 is definitely a quality sequel

[@jackwells8107]

Brad, I was 16 when I saw Porky's (at the theater). My side was so sore, I could barely walk after the movie, and my throat was sore from all the laughing. Yeah, this wasn't the first raunchy comedy, but it was hilarious in ways I'd never seen.

[@bensneb360]

Always a good time seeing Brad talk about his favorite movies

[@IgnatiusThorogood]

A small correction: the girl who asks why they call him Meat is Jill Whitlow, Cynthia from Night of the Creeps. Kaki Hunter is Wendy.

[@Jar0fMay0]

You forgot “Actual Lee”

[@PatrickMoore-yw6lu]

I know they homage the shower scene from Porky's in Gingerdead Man 3.

[@whunt5533]

This was my grandmas favorite movie, no bs. She used to just about die laughing everytime we watched it.

[@raulzavala9061]

I just saw one of Tom Cruise's early movies called "Losin' It" thinking it would be like Porky's, oh boy was I wrong.

[@entertainmentpowerfuchs5744]

It's strange that the director of Porky's and Black Christmas made later the family classic A Christmas Story.

[@martinboyle9163]

Yeah, it was juvenile, but I was 13 when I saw it. I still think it's a great movie.

[@Atticus118]

I own all three Porky's movies in a box set I love these types of comedies

[@Godzilla52]

directing Porky's to doing a Christmas Story two years later is a wild movie to movie deviation from a director.

[@ricardoaguirre6126]

My dad saw this with his parents in the theater.😂

[@louisduarte8763]

I know how that feels. I went out to see "The Wolf of Wall Street" with my parents.

[@TheKromusDevice]

My parents took me to see American Psycho in the theater lol, I was a literal 5 year old 🤣 Edit: Actually I got more to this story that's funny. So my only memory of it was during the "Don't just stare at it - eat it!" scene I remember my Mom throwing her hand over my eyes lol other than that I don't remember anything about the memory. Now fast forward to me in high school where I'm into older movies and I watch American Psycho on one of the movie channels - that same scene completely unlocked that piece of memory for me cuz I immediately recognized it. It was one of the most hilarious memory unlocks I ever experienced given how f-n wild that movie is and there I was as a 5 year old watching it with my parents.

[@TheOriginalCaptainTrips]

fuk yea! i love all these movies. seen 'em more time than i can count

[@themarkiscookin]

Speaking of popcorn I hope you do an episode on it

[@soulknight5330]

Bradican reviewing some absolute classics

[@Metafron]

I saw porkys for the first time back in 2003-2004 and I laughed so fucking hard. I couldn't believe I had never heard about it till then

[@davidpoole5595]

Parents took me to see this when I was 11.....tey did not stop laughing from start to finish and neither did I

[@OneJamalWonder]

I need to rewatch this. It's been a long time. Me & my best friend used to reference this a lot in high school

[@jaydoubleu3419]

I love this and part 2 & 3

[@SpeedyEric1]

Sometime after you did 1982 in Film, I finally got to watch Porky’s on either the Roku Channel or Tubi TV. 11:35- I was also thinking of that Simpsons reference. 16:31- You said the same thing in 1982 in Film.

[@bradwolf07]

I remember relatively recently when an actor passed away and when I looked up who it was.. it was Meat. RIP Meat

[@Mondomeyer]

10:29 Hey, I know him from Hollywood Zap!

[@habovay3]

Love ya, Snob, but that's not Kaki Hunter at (4:17) questioning Meat. Hunter played Wendy, the female lead (seen earlier at 4:03).

[@randomreviews4278]

Please do the sequels

[@humanwolf1984]

I ordered Brad's book last week & i am getting it in the mail tomorrow & i can't wait to read it this weekend. ❤️

[@bryanjacobsen5005]

The only movie I ever went to where a guy fell out of his seat and laid in the aisle laughing uncontrollably!

[@DigiRangerScott]

Poor Things? No, Poor Keys!

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video review of the porky franchise’s cinemasnob,fantastic job.

[@joshuah9109]

I was 12 when this came out. I was too busy watching: E.T. (twice) POLTERGEIST (twice) THE DARK CRYSTAL (twice) TOOTSIE (twice) along with, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, BLADE RUNNER, TRON and HALLOWEEN 3 (which I loved when everyone else hated it!) EVERYONE but me saw this movie so I FINALLY saw it on VHS. I think I was expecting something (idk, impossibly funny) but while I giggled a few time, I just didn't get it? My best friend saw this movie countless times, he LOOOOVED it😆😆!!! But I did LOVE, A CHRISTMAS STORY one year later☺️☺️.

[@pandaloon6083]

Still to this day It's not uncommon for me to utter, "Mr. Carter, I think I have a way out of this," whenever my peers can't come to an agreement about something. .

[@creekandseminole]

Man I remember my dad renting this and letting me watch it as kid. Us 90's kids were different especially with divorced dad's who want to rent funny movies on the weekends

[@ryancoulter4797]

There was a 90s comedy called Made In Canada (known in the US as The Industry) about a tv and film production company that makes low budget schlock films and bad tv shows hoping they’ll sell well in the US or elsewhere. They occasionally reference they made Canada’s most profitable movie of all time, poking fun at the real Canadian production company who made Porky’s which was Canada’s top grossing film until the Resident Evil movies came along.

[@blackamerican40]

Please do Porky's 2 next! The naked Klansmen scene still excites me.😅😊

[@PaladinDusty]

12:19 I feel like that joke gets filthier the more you think about it. Looking forward to your review of The Next Day. Love that movie.

[@scypsylock9402]

The "tali-wacker" scene was actually done about a dozen times because they all would be laughing while she would keep a straight face each scene, taking the role seriously and would legitimately get mad at them all for breaking character. They decided in the end to keep the best take on the scene after she stormed out as you saw there and actually threatened to leave the set which she did! She came back after the director called and begged her to come back. This scene is still legendary in our acting industry and they were trying their best not to laugh but could not help it, and that laughter by the guys was actually genuine and they ad libbed that line about putting out an APB on it which was perfect lmao!

[@andrewblanchard2398]

" AIN'T NOTHIN' WRONG WITH THIS CAR BOSS "

[@kaydog2450]

Great movie series saw this movie in the early to mid 2000’s on tv got a good laugh out this movie

[@brandonbarker961]

Awaiting the Porky’s 2 review!! Boogie woogie woogie!!

[@markabboud4855]

King Frat....The Gift That Keeps On Giving

[@ObscuraDeCapra]

I didn't realize until fairly recently that Kim Cattrall was every stone hottie from the 1980's.

[@03bgood]

This feels like an R-rated Happy Days.

[@0lAllan]

Dude! If there was ever a movie that the Snob must review it's this one. That shower scene grew me up a bit too early. Pun intended. I can't recall how old I was. I was WAY young for this flick but I found my dad's porn stash when I was about 4 (which was before seeing Porky's but not by much). You know, between the shower scene and the one with Lassie in washroom this film probably grew a lot of us up too early. I'll include Snob in that he's only a year my junior (so odds are).

[@Seanatonin]

Snob’s a man of culture with this film

[@EricMartinSmithOfficial]

Rest in peace" Meat "

[@jeremyp7013]

God I miss the 80's

[@jasonm.8174]

Just how unexpected and runaway of a success was Porkys? My slightly older high school age uncle saw it with his friends (Nebraska 1982. They didn’t card. Anyhoo they saw a trailer for Porkys 2 BEFORE Porkys played.

[@EloyCanto]

aahhh good memories

[@dannystaton5386]

Awesome 🎉

[@SparkyMarkyMark23]

It's Awesome👏🏻😎🤩!

[@philobrien8920]

Is Mike Hunt here!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hammerhead222]

Seen this at 12 years old with a group of friends. The ticket booth guy let us in because I told the truth when he asked our age.

[@ToylandChairman666]

I love the PORKY'S trilogy. Even saw that reboot PIMPIN PEE WEE that... has its moments. Can't compete with the classic, though.

[@konowd]

I’ve talked to the late Bob Clark, he was a cool guy and he’s very missed. He told me when Porky’s went to the ratings board, they showed him a list with profanity that would embarrass a sailor. They told him it was all the obscenities spewed in Ragjng Bull. “We’ll let you use half.”

[@jturnbow71]

Reference to Red at the Tube Bar. Nice😅

[@caffeineadvocate]

Porky and Mongo. .. band name

[@AntyGG-ij3je]

1982!!

[@tremorsfan]

Today I learned Coyote vs Acme is a thing.

[@ryannolechow9933]

this was Kim Cattrall’s first flim way before she did “Sex and The City”.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

She'd previously appeared in TICKET TO HEAVEN (a superior movie, of course).

[@randalgraves6979]

🤔 what about the Mannequin ?

[@ryannolechow9933]

@@randalgraves6979 yes she was in that too!

[@dngillikin]

Mannequin came out in 1987. Porky's and Ticket to Heaven came out in 1981

[@JW-do2wc]

A lot of big movies in 1984.

[@cristyablad]

There is never anything wrong with them, but every time a new snob video comes out I try to watch it asap because I always just assume it is going to be taken down at some point for something. Thank goodness for the website and such, but still it feels like KZbin has a grudge or something.

[@omalley2147]

I could really go for a midnight snack of a half pound cheeseburger topped with cigarettes

[@DianaPr1nce]

This movie was based (very loosely) on events that happened around my high school in Florida.

[@BugsyFoga]

I honestly thought this film was about porky pig when I was younger

[@TheMetalGeorge]

Hey Snob! Have you ever seen that movie Monaghan did with Joe D'amato and Anna Bergman? Hoping I'm not the only one! 😂

[@Solo_Sessums]

I watched this with my mom(when i was 23) and i was honestly underwhelmed. The stuff i had heard about it was that it was one of the filthiest, raunchiest, horniest films ever released to mainstream. The sort of film that lives on in legend. The last film your parents would ever let you watch. But like, there really wasn't anything that seriously naughty going on. And even outside of the naughty stuff the story was boring, the characters weren't very memorable, the jokes neither, and by the end i was like "what the hell was all the fuss about?" I saw crazier shit At the end of sausage party. And Animal House was just overall better at everything porky's was trying to be. But the friday the 13th comparison did put it into interesting perspective.

[@ferox965]

I was a kid when Porky's came out. It WAS one of the raunchiest comedies ever.

[@robertleeluben]

This movie is so GD funny, it really doesn't get the credit it deserves.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

Kim Cattrall is really breathtaking in this movie

[@pandaeyes42]

Let's call it a tallywhacker. Looking forward to your review of Once Upon A Time In America.

[@Nammsayin]

I love your show and long time subber, but please, at least, 1080p

[@chichiboypumpi]

Also the Lemon Popsicle series from Israel

[@bel3133]

Absolutely cannot stand the raunchy boy movie genre, but I've been wondering when Cinema Snob would do Porky's. As much as I do not like the movie, I was looking forward to what Cinema Snob would have to say about it, and lo and behold I learned some new interesting facts, and now have to give the movie credit for having some cinematic value.