Adam McKay Asks For Your Help in Making Another Stakeout An Internet Sensation

Posted by on April 21st, 2008   Filed under: Comedy, Fandom, Internet
Source: I Watch Stuff

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The internet is a place where inside jokes run wild and common sense does not apply… how else do you explain the popularity Snakes on a Plane, Chuck Norris and Rick Astley? Adam McKay, director of Anchorman and Talladega Nights, knows this fact only too well. He started his own viral video website, Funny or Die, with Will Ferrell in order to reach out to this huge audience of frat boys, jokers and hipsters, and now after giving the internet all kinds of free entertainment, he’s asking for something small in exchange: help him to elevate the 1993 film Another Stakeout to the level of cult classic.

In a post on the Funny or Die Blog, he had this to say:

“Come join us and help us turn this movie into a giant cult hit for absolutely no good reason. Register and vote 10/10 for the movie. Get into heated trivia arguments about the movie. Quote lines, question other Stakeout heads’ commitment to the movie. Let’s forward this e-mail and flood the site to the point where there are Another Stakeout festivals and conventions and midnight showings with people in costume saying lines along with the movie ala Rocky Horror Pic Show.”

I suppose the triple bill of Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez and Rosie O’Donnell is somewhat amusing in and of itself, but you’d think he might have chosen something with a slightly higher cornball factor to help his cause. Will this Another Stakeout craze catch on? Only time will tell. But hey, if “Never Gonna Give You Up” can be voted the New York Mets official theme song, then anything is most definitely possible.



  • I hate Rosie O’Donnell way to much to contribute. I’d rather elevate something like James Garner’s “Tank” (with C Thomas Howell) than this.

  • *too much.

  • Ben

    This really amused me because I always liked Another Stakeout. I remember the scene with Rosie and Dreffuss pretending to be husband and wife being a crowd-pleaser. Its an interesting choice by McKay, indeed. As Sean said its not a 10 on the cornball factor. I begged my parents to take me to this as I was a huge John Badham fan at the time of its release. As a 12 or 13 year-old, his filmography was just superb.

  • Maybe I’m a stick in the mud, but I don’t find rickrolling funny, thought the chuck norris thing got old fast, and think that this whole another stakeout ploy is too thought out to become an internet sensation. It is artificial to make something a cult classic this way.

  • The point is to actually make Another Stakeout a legitimate cult classic. It’s joke about Internet “rediscoverings” of old crappy movies that become funny outside of their time, like Troll 2. The whole premise is up front about its artificiality and I guess that’s what you have to get over to enjoy it. I’m sure Andy McKay just thinks that movie is real funny and it would be real funny if people were holding Rocky Horror Picture Show-style midnight screenings of it in New York. It makes it even funnier that Rosie O’Donnell is gross and intolerable these days.

    I agree this whole thing would be funnier if this movie were somehow rediscovered on its own, but I think it’s still a good joke as it is. I remember actually liking this movie when I was a kid, but then again, I liked a lot of shit (as in crap) when I was a kid.

  • Dammit. I meant “the point isn’t.”

  • that is geniusly random.