# Trying to find a movie.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-movie/573734>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 7, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-movie/573734 "2011-03-07T02:33:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![neojim913](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19b73/32.png) [@neojim913](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neojim913)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-movie/573734/1 "2011-03-07T02:33:57Z")

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My brother and I are trying to figure out an old movie when we were kids. All we know right now is that there were two guys that would put their thumbs up and say: “zzzzzzz” when they did something good. Also, the movie was in the 80’s and possible on HBO and there was a light house in the movie. Please help if you can to tell us the name of the movie. THANKS!

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-movie/573734/2 "2011-03-07T03:02:46Z")

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Moved to Cafe Society, our forum for the Arts.

**samclem** Moderator

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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-movie/573734/3 "2011-03-07T15:46:49Z")

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Possibly Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure?

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**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-movie/573734/4 "2011-03-07T18:07:30Z")

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I bet it’s [Hysterical](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085704/plotsummary)

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> A burned out writer retreats to a northwest town called Hellview to write the great American novel. Unfortunately for him, the lighthouse he is renting is inhabited by the spirit of a woman who killed herself there one hundred years before and now wants him to replace her lost love, Captain Howdy. When Captain Howdy is resurrected, two daring adventure seekers are brought in to solve the case and find out the secret of the lighthouse.

This was on HBO all the frickin’ time in the mid-80s.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-movie/573734/5 "2011-03-07T18:29:58Z")

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> [@Meltdown](#):
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> I bet it’s [Hysterical](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085704/plotsummary)

I’m I the only one seeing IMDB in a text only format?