# How is it that "Earth Girls are Easy" doesn't show up on more Greatest Films of All Time lists? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212 "2015-02-09T13:55:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/41 "2015-02-10T21:11:30Z")
I do want to say that even tho I have a fan of this, “Greatest Film” is a stretch. It should show up on “The 100 most Fun films of all time” however. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/42 "2015-02-10T21:55:49Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > It’s VEEEERY LA, so I can see that if you don’t have love for the city, it might not resonate as much. (I love seeing the Valley Dupar’s in the background of the gas station scene.) Corner of Ventura and Laurel Canyon. I spent many a day at that very corner. Dupar’s is still there. After they tore down the carwash there was a big hole in the ground for years and years, then they put up a mini-mall. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/43 "2015-02-10T22:02:03Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I remember several low-rent but entertaining 1980’s flicks from the time, alongside _EGAE_: > > _Killer Klowns From Outer Space > The Blue Iguana > Return of the Killer Tomatoes > Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death_ > > Gems, all. [Flash!!! AH-AH!!! He’s a miracle!]([https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4\_Z84-rRE](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4_Z84-rRE)) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/44 "2015-02-11T01:51:41Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Okay…THREE Geena Davis-Jeff Goldblum movies. _The Fly._ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/45 "2015-02-11T01:53:29Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I remember several low-rent but entertaining 1980’s flicks from the time, alongside _EGAE_: > > Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death\* This one was the best. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/46 "2015-02-11T03:28:04Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Tell us something high-brow about this movie. If you have to ask there’s not much point in saying, but: [ul] [li]The entire ‘Orson Welles Halloween invasion being true’ plot point.[/li][li]Having Yakov Smirnov as the Secretary of State (and him playing it completely straight).[/li][li]Having the President inexplicably in traction the whole time.[/li][li]“Why’s there a watermelon there?”[/li][li]“Yes on one, no on two”[/li][li]“Wait, which was no? Number one or go ahead and blow up the Earth?!”[/li][li]“I’m sure that, _ **IN THE MISERABLE ANNALS OF THE EARTH…** _”[/li][li]“Big Boo-tay! Tay!!”[/li][li]“The man’s been thru solid matter for god’s sake!”[/li][li]“We’re not in the eight dimension. We are over New Jersey”[/li][/ul]And the fact that none of these are dwelled on for cheap laughs, they’re just laid out there matter of factly. Blink and you’d miss them. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/47 "2015-02-11T04:27:49Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Y’know, this cries out for a high-end remake. With Charlie Hunnam as one of the troupe. You can’t remake _Buckaroo Banzai_; John LIithgow is irreplaceable. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/48 "2015-02-11T09:47:46Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > If you have to ask there’s not much point in saying, but: > [ul] > [li]The entire ‘Orson Welles Halloween invasion being true’ plot point.[/li][li]Having Yakov Smirnov as the Secretary of State (and him playing it completely straight).[/li][li]Having the President inexplicably in traction the whole time.[/li][li]“Why’s there a watermelon there?”[/li][li]“Yes on one, no on two”[/li][li]“Wait, which was no? Number one or go ahead and blow up the Earth?!”[/li][li]“I’m sure that, _ **IN THE MISERABLE ANNALS OF THE EARTH…** _”[/li][li]“Big Boo-tay! Tay!!”[/li][li]“The man’s been thru solid matter for god’s sake!”[/li][li]“We’re not in the eight dimension. We are over New Jersey”[/li][/ul]And the fact that none of these are dwelled on for cheap laughs, they’re just laid out there matter of factly. Blink and you’d miss them. > **[Highbrow](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highbrow)** > > Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, "highbrow" is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The term, first recorded in 1875, draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, which teaches that people with large foreheads are more intelligent. The term is deeply connected to hierarchical racial theories from the 19th century. The German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blume "H... Go there and see what highbrow actually means. None of your examples fit the definition. Now, if I had asked for examples of self-conscious, labored attempts to be hip, ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/49 "2015-02-11T18:12:48Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > [Highbrow - Wikipedia](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highbrow) > > Go there and see what highbrow actually means. None of your examples fit the definition. Now, if I had asked for examples of self-conscious, labored attempts to be hip, Whatever. Even after reading Wiki’s definition I still stand by my post. As I said none of those examples are ‘labored’ or ‘attempts to be hip’, they are examples of subtle, genuinely smart & witty humor that are an order of magnitude above stuff like _Earth Girls_. I put \*Buckaroo \*in a class of films like _Return of the Living Dead, Airplane!, Neighbors, The Producers, Dr. Srangelove_ etc. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/50 "2015-02-11T18:18:02Z")
Perhaps the hijack about _Buckaroo Banzai_ deserves it’s own thread? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/51 "2015-02-11T18:20:47Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > subtle, genuinely smart & witty These are also words that I think you should look up. None of your examples were any of those things, either. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212/52 "2015-02-13T01:25:06Z")
I love this movie. “Give us bread!” “We need junk!” “I could make Valerie feel good. I could make Valerie feel very good.” 'Are you coming on to me?" “This is easy.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-earth-girls-are-easy-doesnt-show-up-on-more-greatest-films-of-all-time-lists/712212.md?page=2)