Judge Reinhold

One time in my youth, my friends and I went to see 'Beverly Hills Cop 3' at the Odeon cinema in Stoke. It goes without saying that it's a pretty shit film, and at our post-film visit to McDonald's, one of my friends, let's call him Lou Diamond Phillips, was unusually angry about the film. And he seemed to be taking his blame out on Judge Reinhold in particular. "Fuck the Judge," Lou kept saying. "Fuck the Judge!"

Quite why Lou Diamond Phillips had it in for Judge Reinhold I don't know; in the 'Beverly Hills Cop' films, he's little more than a sappy side-kick for Eddie Murphy. Really, Eddie Murphy or the film's director should be the one getting the anger.

"Fuck the Judge!"

Anyway, a few weeks later, we were round at another friend's house watching TV, flicking through the channels, when a certain Judge Reinhold popped up. "Fuck the Judge," Lou Diamond Phillips said again.

On that day we made a pact that we have to say, out loud, even if there's other (non-pact member) people around, "Fuck the Judge". And this is if we're together as a group or on our own.

I still believe in the pact, although there was a several long gaps without sightings of Mr Reinhold, owing to a deterioration of the quality and size of films that he frequents presently, though he did guest in a few episodes of 'Arrested Development', much to my sweary delight.