The Movie: Strange Brew (1983)
What Is It?: Bob
and Doug McKenzie— the dim, beer-swilling, Canuck alter-egos of Dave Thomas and
Rick Moranis—stumble off of SCTV and onto the big screen in a story based on—no
joke—Hamlet. If that source isn’t
high-brow enough for you, Bergman’s favorite actor, Max Von Sydow, plays the
villainous brewmeister of Elsinore Beer. Honestly, I have not seen Strange Brew in years, so I can’t vouch
for whether or not it holds up, but I can say that when I first saw it as a kid, it
made me laugh so hard that I puked cherry Pop-Tarts © all over the den carpet.
True story.
Why Today?: Today
is National Drink Beer Day. Take
off, hoser.
