# Where's Rick Moranis? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797 "2005-10-18T19:50:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/1 "2005-10-18T19:50:41Z")
For some reason, it just occurred to me the other day that I hadn’t seen this guy in forever. A quick check of the [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001548/) shows that he’s had a couple of voice gigs in the last few years, but no real big screen roles since the early nineties. Where’s the Hollywood love for the comic genius behind Dark Helmet and Louis Tully? With Dave Thomas’ guest shot on Arrested Development, could we see a resurgence of old school SCTV alumni that will bring Rick back to the spotlight? ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/2 "2005-10-18T20:02:26Z")
Look at his last 3 movies prior to the voice roles: \*\* # Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997) (V) … Wayne Szalinski # Big Bully (1996) … David Leary # Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (1995) (uncredited) … Wayne Szalinski \*\* Man, without Spaceballs 2, or some other genuinely good role, it looks like his career may be over… ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/3 "2005-10-18T20:14:01Z")
Weird that this thread opened today…Netflix just delivered the first volume of _SCTV Season One_, and last night my son and I were watching an old video of _Strange Brew_. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/4 "2005-10-18T20:15:59Z")
Ha! Does anyone else think it’s funny that one of his last movies was called “Honey I Shrunk the Audience”? [sub]Hello?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/5 "2005-10-18T20:24:44Z")
He seems to have pretty much given up on acting after his wife died of cancer in the early nineties. Shame, I always liked him. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/6 "2005-10-18T20:29:26Z")
Just to clarify, I actually am a pretty big fan of his… he was great in _Ghostbusters_ and _Parenthood_, especially. I just think it’s ironic that that’s the title of one of his last movies (although I think it’s more of an audience-participation thing). ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/7 "2005-10-18T20:32:56Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > For some reason, it just occurred to me the other day that I hadn’t seen this guy in forever. He is into [Country Music](http://www.rickmoranis.com/) now. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/8 "2005-10-18T20:34:32Z")
> [@DooWahDiddy](#): > > Just to clarify, I actually am a pretty big fan of his… he was great in _Ghostbusters_ and _Parenthood_, especially. I just think it’s ironic that that’s the title of one of his last movies (although I think it’s more of an audience-participation thing). _Honey, I shrunk the audience_ was not a theatrical release. It’s a 3-D movie shown at Disneyland/Disney World. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/9 "2005-10-18T21:11:58Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > He is into [Country Music](http://www.rickmoranis.com/) now. Wait a minute, is this really him? ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/10 "2005-10-18T21:18:25Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > Wait a minute, is this really him? > [@RickMoranis.com](#): > > With all that country and bluegrass filling our home, I wound up writing a song or two. And then another. I’d call up friends and sing the songs over the phone. Paul Perlove, my dear friend and sometime comedy writing partner encouraged me to do something with the songs. Although I’d done a lot of music for SCTV and sang the songs in the film “Little Shop of Horrors”, it had been a while since I’d recorded any music. Yep, it seems to be him. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/11 "2005-10-18T22:04:45Z")
Yes, I am up in Montreal on business, and Rick, a Canadian living in NY, was featured in the paper this morning with an article about his country album, The Agoraphic Cowboy. He talked about how he didn’t like acting - it was just a vehicle for him to express his writing. So he checked out and just did this because it was fun to do. Some of the lyrics they quoted were really funny. He does a send up of that old Hank Snow/Johnny Cash song “I’ve been Everywhere” called “I’ve been Nowhere” which was good. ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/12 "2005-10-18T22:15:17Z")
thanks for the update.Nice to hear(!) about someone who had the nerve get a life ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/13 "2005-10-18T22:16:54Z")
> [@priapus](#): > > thanks for the update.Nice to hear(!) about someone who had the nerve get a life I meant the nerve to get a life,of course ---
**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:** [October 18, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/14 "2005-10-18T22:30:36Z")
He did one of the best intros ever when he hosted SNL. I hope he realizes that he has (still) lots of fans. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/15 "2005-10-19T01:02:42Z")
A sampling of the lyrics from this Web site, from the song called “Nine More Gallons” Two more times a lady Three more hundred blows Four more easy pieces Five more days on the road. Seven more days a week now, Eight more lives a cat, Nine more gallons, And I’ll have me a hat. Funny. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/16 "2005-10-19T01:54:53Z")
> [@D-bear](#): > > Yep, it seems to be him. Bah. That could be any number of SCTV stars who also performed songs in _Little Shop of Horrors_. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-rick-moranis/326797/17 "2005-10-19T14:29:29Z")
Talk about synchronicity – my morning radio show, The Monsters in the Morning, did a phone interview with Rick Moranis this morning! They were all huge fans of his work in Strange Brew, Spaceballs, Ghostbusters, and Little Shop of Horrors, and he was extremely gracious and friendly as he fielded their questions about his movie career (and recent lack thereof). He said he walked away from acting because he couldn’t stand to be away from his kids for long periods at a time, and he has one in college now and another getting ready to go, so that might prompt him to act again. He also talked a bit about his brand-new country album _The Agoraphobic Cowboy_, and they played a sample from “Nine More Gallons.” The lyrics were funny, but more than that, it sounded like he is a serious musician and loves what he’s doing (as opposed to it being a vanity project or just a joke).