# Help identify a movie or TV show. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie-or-tv-show/198566 "2003-08-30T03:25:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Homer\_J.Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a698b9/32.png) [@Homer\_J.Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer_J.Simpson)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie-or-tv-show/198566/1 "2003-08-30T03:25:02Z")
I saw this when I was a kid (sometime in the '80’s). Some teenagers are in a boat and one of the teenagers (Teen A) is holder another teenager (Teen B) under the water by putting one hand on Teen B’s head and the other hand over Teen B’s mouth. An old guy is watching this whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie-or-tv-show/198566/2 "2003-08-30T05:52:25Z")
Erm, well… it could be anything from **April Fool’s Day** to **Porky’s**. Any more details you can recall than that? ---
**Author:** ![Homer\_J.Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a698b9/32.png) [@Homer\_J.Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer_J.Simpson)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie-or-tv-show/198566/3 "2003-08-30T06:09:08Z")
The guy getting held under water had big hair as I recall. It was also brown. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie-or-tv-show/198566/4 "2003-08-30T08:03:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homer J. Simpson \* > \*\*…one of the teenagers (Teen A) is holder another teenager (Teen B) under the water by putting one hand on Teen B’s head and the other hand over Teen B’s mouth. \*\* No idea on the movie yet but why would he cover the guys mouth? Wouldn’t the water have the same effect? Never mind, it probably doesn’t matter. I guess we’ll assume they were on a fairly small boat, not a yacht or cruise ship. Were they on the ocean? Lake? River? Did you see this in the theater? Was it on network television or on a cable movie channel? Did Teen B drown? Was it a horror movie, or maybe a thriller? ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie-or-tv-show/198566/5 "2003-08-30T08:03:46Z")
:smacks forehead: Okay, lemme try a diffrent tack: Was it a PG type teen comedy, or possibly a more T&A “adult” teen comedy? (If it was the latter, but you saw it “edited for television” this may be hard to nail down. That was pretty much the USA network’s staple fare in the late 80s.) Was it a slasher flick? Anything _really_ distinctive that you can recall about any of the actors involved? An eyepatch? A bright neon pink jacket? Was the boat on a lake, with the old man watching from the shore, or out in the middle of the ocean and the old man was in the boat with the teens? Can you recall anything beyond that one scene from the movie? (In all sympathy, I get that m’self from time to time. Just one scene, or line of dialogue, connected to nothing, pops into my head, and it drives me nuts until I can figure out what movie I saw it in.) Were the teens white/black/red/yellow/male/female/tan/pale/13 or so/19 or so/looked more like 25 or so? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie-or-tv-show/198566/6 "2003-08-30T12:58:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homer J. Simpson \* > \*\*The guy getting held under water had big hair as I recall. It was also brown. \*\* What was brown? The boat? The water? The big hair? The guy (either one)? ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie-or-tv-show/198566/7 "2003-08-30T20:11:51Z")
What exactly do you mean, “big hair”. Like _Eraserhead_ big? Long and flowing? Dreadlocks? This could be a good clue. Describe the camera shots you remember. Were there underwater shots showing the teen that was drowning, or a closeup of his face? Overhead shot, or maybe from the old guy’s point of view? How old is “old” anyways? Here’s some guesses from movies I saw back then, but nothing I remember with that scene: _Splash Friday the 13th Creepshow The Big Blue Jaws_ ---
**Author:** ![Homer\_J.Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a698b9/32.png) [@Homer\_J.Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer_J.Simpson)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie-or-tv-show/198566/8 "2003-08-30T21:00:35Z")
The guy’s hair was brown. By big I mean puffy, not long. Teen A had his hand over Teen B’s mouth so he wouldn’t scream. It was a little row boat. The old guy was also in a little row boat. I think the old guy might have been fishing. I saw it on TV. I don’t think it was a slasher movie, it definitly was not a teen sex comedy.