Mailbag: Eugene Who?
    A 
  few weeks ago, Doug wrote about the fall of citizen journalism sites, whose 
  effectiveness he compared to that of Eugene Tackleberry (of 
Police Academy 
  fame). Bruce wonders how many readers missed the reference:
  "You're going to school NOW, mister!" I'll bet more than 50 
    percent of your readers didn't even know who Eugene Tackleberry was until 
    they looked it up. Question: Do you have a paper copy of the orginal Police 
    Academy training quiz they handed out at movie theatres? I believe I have 
    an original of it at home. 
   This brings up a good point: movie history. A lot of the "great 
    movies" in the past 30 to 40 years are very unknown to the 20- to 30-year-old 
    crowd. We gave our foreign co-worker here a list of the top 100 comedies of 
    all time and she had a non-stop laugh riot. But many of our under-30 staff 
    don't relate to famous quotes like the one above. Which makes it all the funnier 
    when they don't get the jokes! 
   It is also my gut opinion that this line of movies made a star out of 
    Steve Guttenberg who happens to be one of my most favorite actors.
    -Bruce
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Posted by Doug Barney on July 30, 2007