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Better Off Dead... (1985) More at IMDbPro »

• The voice of Yuji Okumoto doing Howard Cosell was dubbed by impressionist Rich Little.
  
  
• Lane's little brother, Badger, has no lines in the entire film.
  
  
• People protested the film's original tagline, "Sometimes...you're Better Off Dead," so it was changed to "Relax...you're never Better Off Dead."
  
  
• During the Christmas presents scene at Lane's house we see a large toy robot. It is Twiki from the TV show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979).
  
  
• When Beth (Amanda Wyss) shows up at the high school dance, the person standing behind her is wearing Freddy Krueger's sweater. Wyss played Krueger's first victim in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
  
  
• In the grocery store scene, Nintendo's arcade game Punch Out can be seen up front.
  
  
• When Lane gets home from the dance, he opens his brother's door to find lovely ladies in his room, the camera angle is a classic scene from The Graduate (1967) - the lady's legs are spread so we can see the boy in the doorway admiring her.
  
  
• Savage Steve Holland stated in an interview that John Cusack hated that movie.
  
  

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