Humpday Horribleness: ‘Chairman of the Board’

Title: ‘Chairman of the Board’

Release Date: March 13th, 1998

Ranking on Bottom 100 (as of 6/17/2009): 100 (based on 2,762 votes)

Why It’s Here: Well Scott “Carrot Top” Thompson was at the height of his comedy career and they thought it would transfer pretty well to a feature full length movie… it didn’t. He plays Edison(seriously?) in the film, a surfer/inventor who gets to become “chairman” of a company when the previous owner kicks the bucket. The film features perpetual jackass Larry Miller as the jackass nephew who tries to ruin Edison so he loses all his shares and he will then get the company.

The film was directed/written by Alex Zamm who also owns these movies to his credit: ‘Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts’, and ‘Inspector Gadget 2’. Needless to say he is somehow still making horrible movies sort of along the lines of Uwe Boll.

The film had a budget of $10,000,000 but only made $306,710 which makes it one of the biggest box office bombs ever. Also, Michael J. Nelson from MST3k named this the 5th worst comedy of all time!

The title is bad enough, they tried to do a pun off the fact that he is a surfer that becomes the head of a company but check out the trailer for yet more explanation as to why the movie is on the list:

Lowest of the Low Moments: Its difficult to find one part of the movie to single out as the worst but I would definitely have to go with Carrot Top making out with Courtney Thorne-Smith, thats a freaking travesty! I had a monster crush on Courtney Throne-Smith because of Ally McBeal and ‘Summer School’ and it saddened my heart to see her making out with Mr Top himself.

Will it Ever Get Off the List: Actually, despite how bad it is, its currently sitting pretty at #100, which means as soon as another “Movie” movie comes out this will probably fall off and Carrot Top can then finally make his climb back to the top. Well maybe that last part isn’t completely true, but we all love Carrot Top!