John Candy Month — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

1986's Armed and Dangerous Was Written for Aykroyd and Belushi but Bombed with John Candy and Eugene Levy as Its Leads

John Candy and Eugene Levy ended up playing roles intended for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in a misfiring buddy cop movie screenwriter Harold Ramis tried to get his name taken off of for reasons that are very easy to understand.

Rando!, John Candy MonthNathan RabinDecember 12, 2023John Candy, John Candy Month, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan, Harold Ramis, action comedy, buddy cop, Film

The 1985 John Candy Vehicle Summer Rental Would Be a Lazy Mediocrity Even if a Lame Boat Race Subplot Didn't Dominate Its Third Act

John Candy made his starring debut in 1985’s Summer Rental, a big screen Summer sitcom that’s also, perversely, semi-secretly a boat racing underdog buddy comedy pairing Candy with Magic Pirate Dream Guru Rip Torn.

Rando!, John Candy MonthNathan RabinDecember 6, 2023John Candy, John Candy Month, Richard Crenna, Rip Torn, Carl Reiner, Vacation

1989's Who's Harry Crumb? Is Sadly Indicative of the Kind of Rancid Garbage John Candy Wasted His Extraordinary Talent On

John Candy Month kicks off with a fond look back at 1989’s Who’s Harry Crumb, a stupid movie for dumb babies.

God Help Me, I Love Nothing But Trouble Now

It took three viewings and twenty-nine years but I kind of fucking love the otherwise universally reviled 1991 horror-comedy Nothing But Trouble.

This Looks Terrible! Once Upon a Crime (1992)

Eugene Levy made his directorial debut in a Dino De Laurentis produced light mystery comedy with John Candy that got a Zero Rating on Rotten Tomatoes but is actually pretty funny.

In These Trying Times, the Happy Place's Commitment to Stupid, Irrelevant Bullshit Remains Fierce

Things are scary for everyone right now but don’t worry: we will be carrying on as usual with the stupid, irrelevant bullshit that makes this site special.