Funny stuff I'd forgotten

Galley Slaves has an argument going on about the relative funny-ness of John Candy's movie career. Victorino Matus references Candy's performance as Freddy in Splash (older brother to Tom Hanks' character Allen), specifically his first scene where he proudly points out that he's now officially published! It's a letter in Penthouse, but published none the less!

Which prompted me to take a trip in my way-back machine to March 1984...

I saw Splash as part of a film-class my freshman year of college. I vaguely recalled Hanks from Bosom Buddies, but familiar or not it was obvious that he was a star-in-the-making! I spent months quoting this movie to and with friends. Sadly, over the course of the last 21 years I don't recall all that I thought so funny at the time. But one has stood out across the years as the funniest for me:

Hanks "rents" a boat for a trip to Nantucket, which amounts to a small dingy with an outboard motor and a very fat, un-ship-shape-looking pilot. The motor dies and the pilot of this boat jumps into the water:

Allen: "Where you going Mr. Fat Jack?"
Pilot: "I'll swim back to shore and get the little boat."
Allen: "The little boat!?"

As for Candy, I think he's even better later in the show when quoting Swedish stag-films while impersonating a famous Swedish oceanographer. But that's just me...