If Sen. Mitch McConnell is dead, it's been fun watching Republicans twists themselves in knots pretending he's still alive.
Everyone's had a 20 minute phone call with the man.
Comparisons immediately spring to mind to the 1989 comedy Weekend At Bernie's.
It's Movie Time!
It's been awhile since I've seen Weekend At Bernie's.
Hell, it may have been in 1989.
I've seen bits and pieces on cable over the years since.
I remember the basic plot. (With a little help from Wikipedia.)
Larry & Richard, two low level drones at an insurance company uncover some shenanigans, money being paid on fraudulent claims and bring it to the attention of the CEO, Bernie Lomax. They think Bernie is going to reward them for their hard work as they head for the big time in the world of high finance.
Bernie expresses his gratitude by inviting them to his beach place at the Hamptons.
OK, maybe "gratitude" ain't the right word. The shenanigans Larry and Richard found is Bernie's embezzling and luring them to the beach house is part of a plot to have them killed.
But Vito, the mob boss that Bernie works for, thinks the real liability is Bernie. Couple that with his wife (the one playing footsie with Bernie's crotch under the table; it's a scene I remember vividly) is having an affair with Bernie and well... Bernie's gotta die.
Paulie, one of Vito's thugs, carries out the hit with a lethal heroin injection. Bernie dies with a goofy grin on his face.
When Larry and Richard arrive at the beach house, Bernie is dead.
And for reasons of plot, Larry and Richard can't let anyone know that right now.
Between sun glasses, a floppy hat, that stupid grin rigor mortis has frozen to his face and some complicated corpse puppetry by Larry and Richard helps to convey the illusion that Bernie is still the life of the party.
The oblivious vacuousness of Bernie's acquaintences helps the ruse work. It's the 1980's and all these people are high on getting rich and doing lines of coke so who's gonna notice that Bernie might be acting a little weird?
Through all this, Bernie's corpse hosts a party where one of the guests has sex with him. (Ew!) And he spends time at the beach, waving to people and just having a good ol' time.
Paulie is puzzled about how Bernie can still be alive after that big jolt of heroin. He keeps coming back to the beach house to kill him as his frustration grows on why Bernie can't seem to stay dead.
It's all a sordid mess and ultimately poor Bernie is officially observed to be most sincerely dead while Larry and Richard escape with their lives.
Gee, the Hamptons look a lot like North Carolina.
- The Hamptons scenes were filmed at Bald Head Island.
- Bernie's house was filmed at Fort Fisher
- The ferry scenes were filmed at Wrightsville Beach.
Weekend At Bernie's becoming a metaphor for the current situation with Mitch McConnell is part of the WIkipeida entry for this movie.
As best I understand it, that's really Terry Kiser being lugged around as the desceased Bernie Lomax for most of the film. That's some really good acting.
As I recall, I enjoyed the movie well enough but found the premise kind of wears out it's welcome by the halfway point. The proverbial beating of the dead horse. It's as tasteless and crude as the subject matter would suggest. The young woman having sex with Bernie and not realizing he's dead? It's kind of funny guess but also a bit too much.
As I write this, we do not know if Mitch McConnell is dead or alive.
Maybe we'll know by the time this posts.
Or maybe he is dead but he'll still show up at the Senate like a zombie. Like how Bernie came back in Weekend At Bernie's II.
Funny, I thought ol' Mitch already was a zombie.
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