The Movies Your Mom Has Seen The Most

OK, so it's pretty clear. Your Mom likes B movies. B comedies, more specifically. In answer to LuLu's call to reveal our most-watched movies, I've assembled my list of the movies I've intentionally watched too many times to count. The following movies fall into an even-more-specific category; these are the ones I will stop what I'm doing (for the most part) and watch, even if I happen onto them midway through while channel surfing. This is not a top 6, or even a top 10. But hey, 12-ish is about as narrowed down as I can get. In no rigid order:

The Princess Bride
Possibly my all-time favorite movie, though I suppose it would depend on when you ask me. On the days I'm only mostly dead, I'd probably say this one.







Young Frankenstein
Put. The candle. Back.









Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Source of my family's favorite holiday mealtime prayer: (Armaments, chapter two, verses nine through twenty-one) And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayest blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy."






Animal House
My own inner slacker and academic nose-thumber, combined with a visit to my older brother's frat house at an impressionable age in the early 60's, make me rather fond of this one.





The Blues Brothers
Your Mom is from Illinois. Even as a law-abiding citizen, it's awfully amusing to watch a gazillion IL law enforcement vehicles getting smashed/crashed/piled-up/destroyed, so relentlessly. Not to mention: Cab Calloway.




Ghostbusters 1 & 2
It's true. I am drippings with goo.









Groundhog Day
To world peace. And charming little Woodstock.









The Life of Brian
Blessed are the cheesemakers.









The Sting
Just a class act.









So I Married an Axe Murderer
Funny lines, great shots of my favorite city. So sue me.









Christopher Guest's Mockumentaries
So dead on, so funny, so compelling, so brilliant.







Fred & Ginger in almost anything
This boxed set represents Top Hat, Swing Time, Follow the Fleet, Shall We Dance, and The Barkleys of Broadway. Along with Fred and Ginger, I will happily watch anything with frequent costars Edward Everett Horton and Helen Broderick.




There are also the perennial favorites: Willy Wonka, Wizard of Oz, Sound of Music, Yellow Submarine... and holiday standards: Christmas Vacation, It's a Wonderful Life, Holiday Inn... a nearly impossible task, really. But there you go.