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  • Some random guy tries mugging Richard and Larry at gunpoint for money. Larry complains he's not in the mood to deal with that as it's too hot, pushing the gun away like nothing happened, while Richard meekly looks at him and shuffles away. The mugger shrugs and walks away.
  • After Bernie was found dead in his house by Richard and Larry, a massive block party suddenly appears out of nowhere to complicate matters. You would expect at least one of the party-goers to point out the deceased host but nobody, absolutely nobody, realize this due to being self-absorbed assholes and continue to party well into the night.
  • The partygoers in general. Highlights include:
    • People interacting with Bernie for a good amount of time and never noticing how he's completely unresponsive to their one-sided conversations.
    Richard: (dumbfounded) Doesn't anyone realize he's dead?
    • The bodybuilder who gives Bernie a massage and is obviously staring at the camera and reading the cue cards.
    (Schwarzenegger accent) Hey dude, you need to pump some iron!
  • Larry and Richard realizing that Tina slept with Bernie. Tina asks Richard to pour her a glass of scotch… while Larry proceeds to down an entire bottle.
    Larry: How do you like that? Guy gets laid more dead than I do alive.
    Richard: No, she couldn't have. He couldn't have.
    Larry: I get yelled at when I just lay there.
    • It also turns out that Marty was following Tina and observed the whole tryst through his binoculars.
    (over the phone)
    Marty: Vito, I'm telling you, Lomax is alive! She was with him for at least a half-an-hour... in the bedroom.
    Vito: Bedroom?! What are they doing in the bedroom?!
    Marty: I'd—I'd rather not say, uh—
    Vito: What the hell happened to Paulie?!
    Marty: Yeah. Yeah, maybe Paulie is rustier than we thought, huh?
    • And thus marks the beginning of the end of Paulie's sanity.
  • Gwen's natural reaction to finding out Bernie's dead.
  • Followed immediately by a maddened Paulie bursting back into Bernie's house, shooting his corpse multiple times and only then realizing that the protagonists are standing right there.
    Richard: I didn't see anything! I was looking at my watch!
    Larry: (Closes his eyes and waves his arms about) I'm blind!
    (Paulie, clearly not buying it, raises his gun and pulls the trigger. Click)
    Larry: It's empty.
    Paulie: That's right.
    (opens his coat to reveal his backup piece)
    Paulie: But this ain't!
    (laughs maniacally)
    (while chasing them through the house)
    Richard: What are you doing?! We're friends of Bernie's!
    Paulie: I hate Bernie's friends!
    (while running up the stairs with Paulie shooting at them)
    Paulie: You're dead meat you little bastards!
    (after bumping his head against the bottom of a railing)
    Paulie: Ow! Now I'm really mad!!!
  • And during the chase the dead Bernie's foot manages to subject Paulie to a Groin Attack, prompting the latter to shoot him again.
  • Paulie ends up believing that Bernie is still alive/unkillable, leading him to be finally dragged away in a straitjacket, almost literally frothing at the mouth.
  • Pretty much any scene with the Bratty Half-Pint.
  • "That's illegal. What you're doing is illegal."
  • The "Moogoo Voodoo" dancing scene from the sequel. Especially when Bernie joins in.
    Charles: I wonder if this'll work on Elvis?
  • Charles and Henry trying to find the chicken.
  • Using Bernie as a horse to pull a cart. The ride goes quite well until Larry reaches a steep incline and things go downhill from there.
  • Quite a lot of Larry's It's All About Me moments.
    Larry: [to Richard] Why can't you be a lazy shit like I am?!

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