Back To School
Release: June 13, 1986

Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) achieved great success without ever going to college. When his son Jason (Keith Gordon) thinks about dropping out, Thornton helps him out in an unusual manner...By going to college himself. Along the way, Thornton falls in love with one of the members of the school faculty, Dr. Diane Turner (Sally Kellerman), and joins the swim team. When his hijinks start getting him in trouble, Thornton shapes up and starts taking things seriously.

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Thornton: "I think I'm attracted to teachers. Yeah, I took out an English teacher. That didn't work out at all. I sent her a love letter... She corrected it!"
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Thornton: "With the shape I'm in you could donate my body to science fiction."
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Thornton: "Listen, Sherlock. While you were tucked away up here working on your ethics, I was out there busting my hump in the REAL world. And the reason guys like you got a place to teach is 'cause guys like me donate buildings."
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Derek: "Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war."
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Thornton: "Please, try to understand. I don't have the background for this. I mean, the high school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity, he threw the teacher out the window!"
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Thornton: "I don't know. I can't figure women out. Today, they're... independent. They only think about themselves. Why, during sex, Vanessa - she used to scream out her own name!"
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Thornton: "Oh, we were doomed from the start. I'm an Earth sign. She's a Water sign. Together, we made mud."
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Thornton: "Girls, this is Lou. Lou, these are girls."
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Thornton: "The football team at my high school, they were tough. After they sacked the quarterback, they went after his family."
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Thornton: "Bring us a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until somebody passes out. And then bring one every ten minutes."
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