Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind (1980)

Name: Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind
Director: Rick Harper
Genre: Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Released: 1980-11-26
Duration: 12 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Stan Greiwe, Hennen Chambers, Debby Danzara, Laurence Wright

12 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi

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In this slapstick comedy takeoff on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a mild-mannered sewage worker meets up with some cuddly extra-terrestrials traveling to earth in a giant pie. As he ... See full summary »

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Stan Greiwe
Hennen Chambers

(as Hennan Chambers)
Debby Danzara
Laurence Wright

(as Larry Wright)
Bob Anderson
Luverne Mitchell
Steve Erkle
Mike O'Connell
Marshall Harvey
Bill Childers
Adrienne Childers
Dennis Holnagel
John A. Petteys III
Jason Hahn
Howard Rogers

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9 June 2005 | snarfle

Silly Encounters of the Pie Kind

Saw this short back in the early 80's, and loved it! (still have it on an aging VHS after taping it from TV way back then...)

My brother and I still quote from it to this day!

A brilliant parody of "Close Encounters" and wonderfully silly. Great "bad" acting throughout, and you won't be able to hear the that five tone alien greeting without a grin after this...

A couple favorite quotes:

(after seeing the number 3.14159 being repeated on the computer screen) "It just keeps saying the same thing....huh...it just keeps saying the same thing!" "Wait! I was a mathematician before I became a bad actor, that number is pi!"

"hmmmm..this means something..."