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I honestly think OP is right, it's just called that because Eddie was the most famous person in the movie at the time as his career was on fire, and he's most c

I honestly think OP is right, it's just called that because Eddie was the most famous person in the movie at the time as his career was on fire, and he's most closely associated with it. The movie doesn't really show whose idea it was. But now you got me thinking about another question -- who actually delivered the crop report to the USDA? Beeks was locked in the cage, so someone had to actually deliver the real report. Who did that?

sumtechguy 3y ago
I believe He had a copy. He was paid by the dukes to get a copy before anyone else saw it?
- jedberg 3y ago
  No he was carrying the briefcase with the handcuffs because it was the real report and he was on his way to DC to deliver it.
steveklabnik 3y ago
I could believe that; I was born three years after the film came out, so I am less familiar with that sort of context. I haven't seen it in a while, but Wikipedia's plot summary says: > The group deliver the forged report to the Dukes in Beeks' place. I think they like meet him in a parking lot and it's dark so they can't tell it's not him? Maybe this is a good excuse to watch the movie again sometime soon.
- jedberg 3y ago
  Right, they pretend to be Beeks to deliver their fake copy of the report to the Dukes. But that still leaves the question of who delivered the real copy to the USDA, which they read live on the air, and which they were expecting to be delivered by Beeks.
  - steveklabnik 3y ago
    Ah, fair. A good question!
  - justin66 3y ago
    This is going to haunt me. I recently discovered a major plot hole in Fletch (I know) and now this is going to bother me too.
- justin66 3y ago
  > Maybe this is a good excuse to watch the movie again sometime soon. I feel the same way. I'm happy I managed to provoke such a conversation. If because of this, just one person interrupted their work so they could stream Trading Places, well... perhaps we've made the world a better place. Ahem. edit: and I for some reason feel delighted that my post turned into one of those controversial ones that gets upvoted and downvoted multiple times for no apparent reason. Dan Aykroyd's greatness should provoke controversy. Is he merely great, or the greatest?

sumtechguy 3y ago

I believe He had a copy. He was paid by the dukes to get a copy before anyone else saw it?

jedberg 3y ago
No he was carrying the briefcase with the handcuffs because it was the real report and he was on his way to DC to deliver it.

steveklabnik 3y ago

I could believe that; I was born three years after the film came out, so I am less familiar with that sort of context. I haven't seen it in a while, but Wikipedia's plot summary says: > The group deliver the forged report to the Dukes in Beeks' place. I think they like meet him in a parking lot and it's dark so they can't tell it's not him? Maybe this is a good excuse to watch the movie again sometime soon.

jedberg 3y ago
Right, they pretend to be Beeks to deliver their fake copy of the report to the Dukes. But that still leaves the question of who delivered the real copy to the USDA, which they read live on the air, and which they were expecting to be delivered by Beeks.
- steveklabnik 3y ago
  Ah, fair. A good question!
- justin66 3y ago
  This is going to haunt me. I recently discovered a major plot hole in Fletch (I know) and now this is going to bother me too.
justin66 3y ago
> Maybe this is a good excuse to watch the movie again sometime soon. I feel the same way. I'm happy I managed to provoke such a conversation. If because of this, just one person interrupted their work so they could stream Trading Places, well... perhaps we've made the world a better place. Ahem. edit: and I for some reason feel delighted that my post turned into one of those controversial ones that gets upvoted and downvoted multiple times for no apparent reason. Dan Aykroyd's greatness should provoke controversy. Is he merely great, or the greatest?