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It's difficult to endorse Airheads (1994) with a straght face. I am well aware of the incredible stupidity level of this movie.That's why you gotta love it! When you're in the mood to shut off your brain and laugh like an idiot, rent Airheads. Chazz (Bren), Pip (Adam Sandler, who, in my opinion, is the funniest guy in the movie), and Rex (Steve Buscemi) take KPPX hostage in order to gain airplay for their band's (the Lone Rangers) single. Airheads only reinforces Brendan's dense-Neanderthal image, but damn if he doesn't look good! I used to be able to say that you should watch the movie to see Brendan without his shirt. While he looks pretty darn good to me, I must admit that for pure horn-doggie pleasure, you have to watch George. If you want to sneak a peek at Normal Brendan (if normal Brendan were to take to wearing a rock star wig), watch this movie.

One of Brendan's sweetest (as well as strangest) characters. Steve Nebraska in The Scout (1994) is the world's greatest baseball pitcher/batter. Al, the titular scout, discovers him in Mexico, brings him home to New York, and finds that he needs extensive therapy because of some unnamed childhood trauma related to his father. Brendan allows himself to become a big tall frightened child in the Scout, and you feel terrible for Steve, even when he's flipping out, as he is prone to do. It's a memorable performance (unfortunately, not enough people have seen this movie for it to positively influence Brendan's image as an actor), and Bren doesn't look too bad himself, with the nice tan and shoulder-length hair he sports.

In the Passion of Darkly Noon (1995), Brendan plays Darkly, an escapee from some kind of religious cult. He's bunking at Ashley Judd's house because his home is under attack from enemies of his sect, and in the fight, his parents were killed. Darkly reaches the brink of recovering from his trauma (after several days of living in her backyard barn), but Ashley Judd's husband comes home after an extended absence, and the poor orphan, who has begun to fall for the girl, winds up with a broken heart. He quickly devolves into a vengeful maniac. PoDN contains far too much art-house-movie symbolism for my feeble mind to process, but nevertheless it captured my attention. The ninety minutes I invested felt like half an hour. The movie further redeems itself by featuring a lengthy butt shot, as well as a scene in which Darkly whacks off. These good points allow me to enjoy PoDN, but I still can't help but think that someday we'll watch it receive a lambasting from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Brendan starred in Four Dogs and a Bone at the Geffen Theater in Los Angeles a few years ago. I never got to see it, so I can't volunteer my expert opinion, but here's a picture from the performance.

You may have missed Brendan's cameo appearance as a disillusioned Vietnam veteran in Now and Then (1995). He looked scruffy, but he was the best thing in the whole movie.