Rick Moranis Canadian Badass

Nerd of Mouth

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Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We're doing a good ol' fashioned deep dive on the man from the Great White North who made Hollywood his second city and blew up the box office! We go through Rick's early life, his meteoric rise and his powerful decision to walk away from it all, proving he was the goodhearted nerd we always cheered for. If it ever comes out that he's actually a terrible person we will have to immediately take this episode down because we shower him with praise as both a performer and a man. But I don't think he will, because he's Rick Moranis, the littlest giant of the silver screen. Want even more Nerd of Mouth? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/nerdofmouth

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0:00.0	Your the mouth.
0:19.8	Little guy, little guy, little guy with glasses. Little guy, little guy with glasses, little guy, little guy with glasses, somehow he appealed to the masses from Toronto to.
0:31.7	Yeah, yeah, nailed it.
0:34.0	Oh man, you know, I just, this episode was my idea, so blame me if you don't like it.
0:41.7	I don't know.
0:42.5	I was just thinking, like, I like when we celebrate someone, like we did with Miss Rachel.
0:47.1	And I was like, who is a nerd icon that we grew up with, that we still love, that hasn't been canceled.
0:56.5	A very short list.
0:59.2	And a very short man was at the top of it.
1:04.2	Rick Moranis.
1:05.6	Yeah.
1:06.3	Someone brought this up, I think, when you put a post in Facebook.
1:11.8	But responsible, this guy's so nerdy, responsible, or a part of four Wizard and the
1:17.3	Bruiser episodes, the Ghostbusters episode, the Little Shop of Horror episode, Spaceballs,
1:22.6	and honey, I shrunk the kids.
1:25.3	Kind of incredible.
1:26.6	Like, I don't know.
1:34.9	I'd have to do the math, but he definitely comes up probably as much as any other big hitter.
1:39.3	Well, it's, I'm definitely thinking about our one of our earliest nerd amount episodes,
1:50.1	the history of the nerd and this persona, this pocket protector, glasses, nebishyy kind of homunculus that Rick Moranis in the 1980s fully embodied.
1:59.0	And yet it was never a, there was always, I feel like the through line, except maybe in spaceballs, there was always a warmth. He was even Lewis Tully in Ghostbusters, that party scene, he's fucking feeling
2:04.5	himself.
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