Scene of the Week: Armed and Dangerous

John Candy is one of those celebrities that you never heard a bad word about, which is probably why it stung a little more when the world lost John Candy way too soon. Candy had so many memorable roles over the course of his career with Uncle Buck and The Great Outdoors being tops on my list.

There was one John Candy movie that I had been meaning to revisit for quite some time, the 1986 action comedy, Armed and Dangerous. And that revisit reminded me of a scene that was Scene of the Week worthy as we witness “special officer” Frank Dooley (John Candy) getting himself out of a traffic jam in destructive fashion with some help from Cowboy (Steve Railsback, Private Wars) in order to save his friends in need…