I was a contractor computer security analyst at the FBI ten years ago, and this is precisely what goes on in the basement there. All pretty up top but disorganized below. And the smartest people were kept down there too doing the real work.

_No one_ is better at reciting technical data than Dan Aykroyd; no one even comes close. The precision in his voice is one of the wonders of the world.

This movie is criminally underappreciated.

1:25 that was a play off the original hackers from 1970s called phone phreakers. They would use a plastic whistle that came in the cereal Cap'n Crunch, a Bo'sun whistle. One guy figured out the whistle produced the perfect pitch to be able to make free phone calls, back in the day when long distance phone calls were expensive.

"Then clean up the desk!" THAT. Is why one STAYS a contractor.

Everyday conversation needs lines like "You just watch your moooooouuuuuuuth, mister".

2:01-2:02 That Canadian accent comes out 🇨🇦. “Too-mour-row”.

A long time ago I worked in a manual type WG civil service job and applied for a training program to be a computer programmer. I went to work at 3 PM, I worked evening shift and my boss told me, by the way you have an interview at 4Pm for that job you applied for. I was wearing old jeans and shirt I worked on aircraft. I just made it across base and the receptionist looked at me with disdain but the manager called me in and asked why I am not prepared, I explained and he said we will take that in consideration. I got the job,bi scored the highest of all 20 candidates.

Those dudes are everywhere. Mid level bosses. The lowest form of life. Sees to it that you are getting nowhere.... : "Ah.. you are doing such fine work at the spot you're at..."

This is like everyday at work for me in the IT Department.

"You just watch your mooouuuth, mister!"

that dude is like a poor man’s tom cruise

That's just a great character introduction for a movie about spies. Austin obviously is loaded with brains and talent, and actually does have the goods for being a spy. The scene perfectly sets up everything he does in the film when he sniffs out enemy and friendly spies, spots hardware and tech, and shows proficiency foreign languages and tech... all while solving crises by thinking on his feet. My only real disappointment is that John Belushi didn't live to do this film with him; Chevy replaced him as Fitzhume after Belushi's death. Belushi would have been AMAZING in this film!

As a former Network Engineer I cringe at the thought of the poor guys that had to rip it out & install "new" crap, but then I realized it's the government so they're probably still using the same shit...

The Chinese were only using a simple polyphonetically grouped 20-square-digit key transposed in boustrophedonic form with multiple nulls.

The Disney channel for free?!? Now THAT is something for which you can get into REAL trouble!

My mother got a commission with the Army because she scored highest on an English test. No degree and no previous military experience. She went through OBC and became a Technical Publications Editor at The Command and General Staff College. Knowing your scat pays off.

Honestly, this is some of Elmer Bernstein's best scoring work.

I'd bet any amount of money that I could reasonably acquire that there really are individuals in the intelligence apparatus that really can reliably crack a code with a decoder wheel from a cereal box.

id love to see aykroyd do an encabulator commercial

Aykroyd was perfect for this part.

You just watch your mooouth, mister.

He'd be snatched up by CIA or NSA in a heartbeat...I'd just take a lateral promotion.

I just realized in Pearl Harbor Dan Akroyd plays a naval intelligence officer who cracks the Japanese naval code. Coincidence?

1:07 When the props department wants to see how many addon cards they can squeeze into an Apple II

A great comedy film - and for me, Paul McCartney's wonderful theme song is the icing on the cake.

The best scene in the movie! We get to see Dan Aykroyd’s character being hyper-competent and it has the least possible amount of Chevy Chase!

"I was going to hook up the Disney Channel... for FREE... well forget it!" oh god, he just broke your family...

That’s a very young naval captain.

40 years later that Disney Channel burn still stings. lol

"you just watch your mooooooouuuuuuuth mister!"

I WAS GONNA HOOK UP THE DISNEY CHANNEL FOR YOU AND YOUR KIDS FOR FREE BUT FORGET IT!!!!!!!!

I think hackers would have liked the decoder joke a lot more if he got it from a box of Captain Crunch.

For any of you youngsters that happen to be watching..The Disney channel was HUGE in the 80's...And yes it ..came in a box...Can you believe it?..

I have this shit memorized! Lmao idk why.

We had free Disney channel once. It was nice! :)

Not "booster vedonic" form....it's "boustrophedonic" form. Just looked up this word when I found 2 quote sources with different spellings. Boustrophedonic means going back and forth (as in plowing a field), so in writing it would be writing the 1st line left to right and then starting the 2nd line and going right to left. Glad I looked it up....learned a new word. Now, try to stump your friends or kids with how to spell it and what it means! Oh yeah, one of the best movies with some of the best lines!!! "You just watch your moouuuth mister...."

Back in the day, if you wanted The Disney Channel, you’d have to call them and work something out.

I love this movie.

Reminds me of the stapler guy from The Office that they put in the basement out of view

Anyone know the music Dan was listening to? Was it Dan's brother? Was it ever released? This movie is amazing.

You really think this scene is funny?? Check the exam cheating scene with chevy chase, the fart, the ...ohhhhh....the pressure!!

William Foster worked down there until 1992.

Doctor, doctor doctor doctor lol

No Disney Channel for you!

That guy's a creep.

haha, great movie!

Well... cleanup the desk...lol

Love this movie. Very funny scene.

Underrated

Today you'd be doing someone a favor by disconnecting the Disney channel

i have that same russian book

Indeed.

the Navy officer "actor" was also in the Star Trek Voyage HOME film...the scene where they noticed an intruder ...

The Chinese were only using a simple, polyphonically grouped, 20 square digit key transposed in booster verdonic form with multiple nulls. l broke it with this. A Drogen´s decoder wheel? They put these things into cereal boxes for kids. Yeah. l found it in a box of, uh......Lucky Charms.

is this 'spies like us' movie

Many forget they had advisors during the cold war and movies including predator. They nearly did clear this scene due to the insinuation the pentagon has a facility under it. Predator it was the cloaking that nearly made them a crap movie

Come on, that department has never laid off a single civilian.

Is that the Axis Chemicals film location from Batman?

SPY'S LIKE US ?

Props to the set designer. No green screen in the 80s.

Well, at least he got out of the basement, got to see Afghanistan and Russia and got Vanessa Angel as a girlfriend!

Listen captain, i was going to do your family a favor and hook up the disney channel...for free...but forget it!

Doctor….

I loved this movie.

The human hibernation project - Idiocracy

i would be ok working down there

I fucken love this movie

The IT Crowd

14 yrs later

Cinderella.

The Disney Channel?!? Burn!

I found it in a box of lucky charms

Love Dan Akyroid..Brilliant actor 👍🇬🇧

with brains like that, why would he care about being laid off

I tried for years to memorize and figure out that statement. NEver got the word "vedonic" but I had the rest figured out

I can get a doctor to recommend a good enema for you Brandon

So the Pentagon is just a gigantic basement?

What a nasty Captain.

epic writing and performance

The Disney channel in 1985?

I was going to do your family a favor and hook up The Disney Cannel, for FREE. Well, forget it! bwahahaha

How’d he do on the test?

Dan's a funny fuck!

Their magically delicious

Jesus I miss the cold war.

I guess the movie Office Space was based off this scene.

Wait what? What about Disney Plus? 😂

I don't remember this scene in the movie..

You just watch your mooouth mister.

Funny scenes: Sexual Chocolate, e.murphy in coming to america

Dude is too young to be a Navy O-6, but still awesome clip!

That officer sounds British. Spy...?

Is that the guy who played Moriority on Sherlock Holmes ?

Imo, this movie was too goofy. It's like the writers (Dan Aykroyd being one of them) tried to make Ghostbusters Cold War. But Ghostbusters (the original) never got too silly. And it developed the characters logically. This movie didn't do that. Like it was trying too hard to make people laugh. And it threw character development, almost right out the window. To the point of hurting the film. An okay film. But it could have been so much more with just a little more effort put into the script and/or directing, imo. ☮

What song is that on radio

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You just watch your mouth mister

Ironically he did him a favor by not hooking up the Disney channel. Saved him death by woketard viewing.

What film is this?