I actually think he points it away, it's more to the right than it looks from the seat. Like, making sure the muzzle ISN'T towards him, although I can see from a comedy standpoint, visually it looks far enough to the right to not be flagging him.
@@joliecidenah. It's only the second greatest moment. His best moment is the 6 minutes of screen time he had in Manhunter as the original Hannibal Lecter for me.
I literally came here to say this reminds me of my dad when me and my friends were teens acting up. Even down to Macs reaction when he would blow a gasket.
Lyrics: A-number one top gun cadets In the name of justice John Q Public can trust us Hail to thee dear old Paroon Hail to thee! Hail to thee! Hail to thee! Hail to thee!
The beginning is so wholesome it makes me smile. The rookie singing, the other officers egging him on and even the Captain enjoying it and probably remembering other rookies going through that. One of those nice little calm touches in the movie.
Brian Cox rant, nobody listening, game of hearts, old fashion, is so fucking funny. Its like teaching a load of idiots, he cares, they don't...that scene has made me laugh since the day I first saw it. Great film, great crew 👍 chicken fuckers
I only just now realized that they're sitting on crappy elementary school desk-chair abominations. This movie has so many layers of funny in it. Bar in the soap, Cox biting the soap is the first layer. The next layer is stuff like Cox having the gun on his desk, pointing it at farva, the fact that all of them attending this meeting means that not only is no one on patrol, no one's even on the radio. The next layer, are the sight gags, like the aforementioned school chairs, the cop car parked in front of a crosswalk with the window down, the goofy moose head, the curtains, the fact that if this meeting is taking place in the building we see at the start of the scene, based on the car's shadow, there's no way the sunlight could shine through the curtains like that, the fishing pole leaning against the file cabinet at 0:49, the dumbbells on the desk in the same shot, also the poster of a gun on the wall, that's also pointing at farva. And then the next layer, is the realization that Farva didn't forget the coffee. The handwriting on the Styrofoam cups is very neat and legible, it wasn't done in a hurry. And the coffee doesn't burn anyone. If Farva had just poured it, extracting the bar of soap would have been painful. The implication is that Farva has been planning this prank for a while. He practiced writing on the Styrofoam cups, that's why the handwriting looks so good. He wrote on these cups ahead of time, and he poured the coffee before entering the room without it. If Farva actually forgot the coffee, it would be scalding hot. You can go even further, and examine the theme of food tampering. It's a form of abuse that Farva is both a victim and a perpetrator of. Perhaps what we're laughing at, is a subtle depiction of how trauma can perpetuate itself, by turning victims into accomplices. Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now are great films, but Super Troopers does it better. Because Super Troopers doesn't beat you over the head with its themes or take itself too seriously. It's a tragedy buried under so many different layers of comedy, that it's become fossilized. You have to dig through all the funny to find the pain at the center of it. But thanks to all those layers of humour, the pain has been crushed. It truly is just a fossil now. Super Troopers goes so much harder than anyone gives it credit for.
@@MikeBrownLegend Oh and what I forgot to mention, is that when Farva was planning the bar of soap in coffee prank, he definitely dropped a bar of soap into a full cup of coffee, that he was holding, and scalded himself. He had to learn through trial and error, to put the soap in the cup first, and then pour the coffee. That's not even a deleted scene, it's an implied scene, and it might be the funniest scene in the movie. Despite it not actually being a scene in the movie. EDIT: my first reply maybe got redacted for being too specific. So I am trying to summon the gummyption to indicate the strain placed upon me by own short comings. But this is the last straw! I am berry upset
I know it’s not in this scene, but littering and, littering and, littering and smoking the reefer. Was one of the goddamn funniest lines I’d ever heard
I still love Brian Cox looking at the video of Farva in the burger joint, "that's you're never again, yeah neither was the damn school bus, back in my day we'd take like you out back and beat you with a hose now you got you're damn unions" brilliant writing.
Reminds me of Gene Hackman showing up in Young Frankenstein, a serious dramatic actor coming in and just nailing a comedy role out of left field. Dude's awesome in this, you could tell he was having a blast.
we watched this shit so many times as kids in the 00s. my freshman, sopohmore year of high school. jesus, the memories. 03,04ish. whats weird about it tho is that, for some reason, even at the time, i felt it was an "older film". its weird to realize its actually only from 2001. but you know how time feels when you're a kid ..
Every Thursday night, I walk into the lodge to play hearts and they have my old fashion waiting there and I like that. Oh hell give me the goddamn soap.
