This movie takes me back. To a moment when SNL grads, Adam Sandler and Chris Farley both had a movie coming out, and Farley had a cameo in "Billy Madison," and then his own movie, this one, did just as well as "Billy Madison" at the box office. Farley owned the comedy world for the briefest moment.

For that brief moment, he proved that not only could he do slapstick, fall flat on his face, smash the stuffing out of a car door, fight with a deer inside a car, bicker hilariously with David Spade, but he could also turn sentimental on a dime, and get you to care about his feckless schmo of a character. Take the moment he dances with Brian Dennehy, it's so dumb and funny, then Dennehy dies, and Farley makes like a helpless big-eyed man-boy deer-caught-in-headlights and you care about him, as if it's a serious film, after all.

For me, that's what David Spade never had, relatability, a great sarcastic sidekick who could never successfully headline a movie himself, cos he struggled to get you to care. Except when he was with Farley, cos Farley's vulnerabilit seemed to rub off on him. Like you say, a superb double act cut short by Farley's passing.

Life's so short, man, and Farley's was super short. Adam Sandler would go on to become a comedy icon, and Farley would be forgotten.

Not by me. For me, Farley is all of us, stumbling, smiling, shining briefly like stars, before we all pass on like Farley to that great beyond.

RIP Chris Farley, see you when I see you, you loveable lug. :)