Its hard to think of John Candy with out cracking a smile. He was big, he was lovable but most of all he was funny as Hell. Has there ever been a comedy actor who has worked with so many other greats over his career?  Bill Murray, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Tom Hanks, Richard Pryor, Eugene Levy, Mel Brooks, and Steve Martin. Well that’s at least how I hope people react when they think of him. Ever since being nicknamed after one of his classic comedy roles, I’ve always taken the comparison as a complement. That, and I’ve never turned down a huge stack of pancakes or a giant steak since…Today John Candy would have been 62 so to celebrate, here are 62 reasons to remember just how great he was.

1. PTA – How would they know where we’re going?

 

2. Stripes – Lean, mean, fighting machine!

3. Cool Runnings – Cold weather endurance is vital to building a successful sled team.

4. Blues Brothers – Three Orange Whips!

5. Cool Runnings – Hold it.

6. Canadian Bacon – Born in the USA!

7. Uncle Buck – You should see the toast!

8. Who’s Harry Crumb – I don’t think so, try it with a “D.”

9. The Great Outdoors – It buzzed me!

10. PTA – The Mess Around.

11. Stripes – Dare me, go on, bluff me, come on!

12. Spaceballs – I’m a MOG!

13. Splash – A Lesbian No More! (6 min mark)

14. Splash – Humility 101

15. Uncle Buck – I’ll get it nice and juicy for ya!

16. Armed and Dangerous – Its only legal in two states…and this isn’t one of them!

17. Vacation – The moose out front should have told you.

18. Home Alone – Polka, Polka, Polka!

19. Career Development – You don’t want one and I don’t need one!

20. Uncle Buck – What’s your record for consecutive questions asked?

21. Splash – Its not you had a lot to drink, its just you’re too skinny.

22. Uncle Buck – Vacuuming.

23. Uncle Buck – …Awwww!

24. Who’s Harry Crumb? – Crumb, Harry Crumb!

25. Armed and Dangerous – I caught a shark!

26. PTA – Between two pillows…

27. JFK – Is this off the record Daddy-o?

28. Summer Rental – These are my lobsters!

29. Who’s Harry Crumb? – Touchdown!

30. PTA – My dogs are barking today!

31. PTA – You’re a real trooper!

32. PTA – I knew I knew you!

33. The Great Outdoors – Big bear chase me!

34. PTA – I like me.

35. PTA – Two dollars and a Casio!

36. Armed and Dangerous – He’s a nitwit but he’s no muscle bound jerk!

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37. Stripes – How’s it going Eisenhower?

38. Cool Runnings – Your bones break in a bobsled. No, no, no. Hey shatter.

39. The Great Outdoors – The Old ’96er.

40. Uncle Buck – What’s his last name, Spray?

41. Who’s Harry Crumb? – The only thing I don’t know…Is what this lever does.

42. Uncle Buck – A lot of people hate this hat.

43. PTA – Larry Bird doesn’t do as much ball-handling in one night as you do in an hour.

44. Uncle Buck – You’re not a gnat are you Bug?

45. Uncle Buck – Moley Russel’s wart.

46. Uncle Buck – I’m your Uncle Buck!

47. Summer Rental – We’re the three bears, who the Hell are you?!

48. Brewster’s Millions – 10 Million, 10 Million, 10 Million Dollars!

49. Summer Rental – I’m Joe Public, welcome to my beach.

50. Delirious – Not deer, beer!

51. Only the Lonely – I just got lucky in there, with a girl.

52. The Rescuers Down Under – Don’t try and tell me the runway’s too short!

53. Stripes – I used to lose a lot!

54. Little Shop of Horrors – I’m sorry, I love your show, but I’ve got to kill you both with this machine gun!

55. The Blues Brothers – Car 55. We’re in a truck!

56. Vacation – It’s a BB gun!

57. Armed and Dangerous – I got my Christmas goose early!

58. Summer Rental – Yeah, I’m breathing out anyway…

59. Volunteers – Tom Tuttle from Tacoma Washington.

60. Uncle Buck – Get in your mouse, and get outta here!

61. Brewster’s Millions – Nude massage.

62. Brewster’s Millions – Guilty but with a real good excuse!