He was the best thing about Caddyshack 2. His best lines include, "is it as hard to say as Oh My God There's a Man IN MY OFFICE WITH A FLAMETHROWER?" and when he turns ugly during a meeting and screams, "let me explain something about the Peter Blunt system. First, what I do is I find out where you live. And I come and beat down the door with a fu***** baseball bat" and how much he annoys the stuck-up golf players when they turn the country club into a theme park. I though he was over-the-top, but it was a character that needed to be. He does great work in Quick Chance and Bye Bye Love as well. His worst performances include: "Freaked", "Independence Day", "Hard Rain", "Not Another Teen Movie" and the abominable television movie "Next Door".

I actually liked him in Foxes. When he asks his girlfriend to "please come back, so I can beat you up!"

Lol! The irony!
I never saw freaked, but I was going to be clever on a dork-like scale and answer with a novel I love that's being made, and he's not in it but I always saw him as the perfect fit for one character. The irony is that it's not Freaked, but it is called Freaky Deaky.
As for his best role so far, I'd have to go with Ice Harvest. I was just impressed by how he could vacate comedy for a serious villain role, and pull it off so strongly.

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I always enjoyed him as cousin eddie in the vacation series, he keeps me laughing my ass off every time.

"Midnight Express"he made me uncomfortable and paranoid watching that performance; very good. As for comedy, his character in the two good "Vacation" movies (the first one and Christmas), was his best, bar none. Cousin Eddie is a classic comedic sideman, right up there with Carl Spackler, Barry, and Frank "The Tank" Ricard. His work in "Quick Change" was hilarious, with dramatic undertones that gave the character the depth needed to stand up alongside Bill Murray's. Yeah.

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Parents is one of those odd black comedies that you keep watching to see just how dark it can get. For me the whole movie was worth it for the moment when the son refuses to eat meat (human) at the family meal and Quaid growls "You're no son of mine" at him. Deadpan, dark, dangerous and damned funny.
And he's hilarious in both Freaked and Kingpin
The Enemy is tempting you with Cola.

I also just watched him in a low-budget, direct to video thriller called "Last Rites". He plays a serial killer named Jeremy Dillon. He is on Death Row and waiting to be electrocuted. He is put into the electric chair and a bolt of lightening strikes him and Quaid's character does not die. After healing from the lightening burns, Dillon (Quaid) has psychic abilities and forewarns the authorities of crimes that are due to happen. He claims to have no memory of his past crimes and acts totally nice compared to the beginning of the film. The movie itself is not much but Quaid gives a strong performance.

He was in a low-budget 1989 black comedy called "Parents". He played a Ward Cleaver like father. Slowly, his young son starts to realize that his parents are actually cannibals. It is not a great movie nor a bad movie. Just very strange and unpleasant but BOY Quaid's performance was sensational.
He was also great as the robotic bodyguard in "Pluto Nash" and he made a fine villain in "Hard Rain".
He frequently gets typecast as the loveable slob such as Cousin Eddie but as someone said he gave his Russell Cassb68e character in "ID4" more depth and humanity.
He was probably the best thing about the dumb 2005 black comedy "The Ice Harvest". He plays a gangster in there.

My all-time favorite Randy Quaid part is Cousin Eddie in the "Vacation" films." I likewise dug his roles in "The Last Picture Show," "The Last Detail," "Bound for Glory," "Midnight Express," "Parents," and "Freaked."
Q: What's the biggest room in the world? A: The room for improvement.

Midnight Express
Last Detail
Vacation Movies All 3

I thought his performance in Bye Bye Love was terrific especially that speech he made toward the end of the movie.
"This shirt is dry clean only. Which means.it's dirty"

Midnight Express was the first thing that came to mind for me; his body of work is so great that it might be easier by genre

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Just wanted to mention his superb performance in LBJ: The Early Years.

quick change, without a doubt! its a very hard job to be funnier than bill murray, but randy gets the laughs with worried and innocent lines, great job!
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He was great in Hard Rain. I was rooting for him the whole way. You have to love him as Cousin Eddie(he made Vegas Vaction watchable). He did a great job as The Monster in TNT's version of Frankenstein(amazing performance as a dark character).
Who says violence is not the answer?

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How about his role as the "crazy" storm chaser in Category 6 and Category 7?
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Seems like i'm the only who liked his role on Midnight Expressooh and Kingping too =P

Definitely agree with
Freaked
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"Styrofoam cup. Bad for the environment." That delivery was a riot.

He is best role is cousin Eddie

Moving as Frank Crawford and Cornall Crawford, Vacation and Christmas Vacation as Cousin Eddie, Kingpin as Ishmael Boorg and Of Mice and Men as Lennie Small.
"Shut the beep up Donny."

1. Kingpin
2. Christmas Vacation
   "Keep on keeping on"