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Two silk-shirted brothers, one synchronized head-bob, and "What Is Love" on infinite loop: SNL's Roxbury Guys stretched to feature length. Critics gave it an 11% and the real Roxbury nightclub had already closed — but the head-bob became immortal anyway.
"Stay classy, San Diego." Will Ferrell's mustachioed 1970s news anchor Ron Burgundy and his idiot news team gave the 2000s an endlessly quotable comedy — "I love lamp," "60% of the time, it works every time."
Will Ferrell's leather-clad, lone-wolf skating stallion and Jon Heder's golden-boy prodigy — banned from men's singles for life, reborn through a loophole as figure skating's first all-male pair. Sequined costumes, forbidden moves, and the most quotable ice ever skated.
Elf (2003) is the Christmas comedy directed by Jon Favreau starring Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised by elves at the North Pole who travels to New York City to find his real father. Buddy's childlike wonder and confusion about human culture—from his syrup-on-spaghetti diet to iconic lines like "Buddy the Elf, what's your favorite color?"—made it an instant, endlessly-rewatched holiday classic.
Three depressed guys in their thirties start a fraternity, and Will Ferrell's Frank the Tank goes streaking through the quad. Todd Phillips' 2003 comedy turned a midlife crisis into a toga party and helped define the decade of R-rated comedy that followed.
Two middle-aged men still living with their parents accidentally become stepbrothers when their single parents get married. The bunk-bed disaster, the friendship declaration, the Catalina Wine Mixer — a movie so quotable it became a cult classic through cable reruns and endless friend-group recitations.
Will Ferrell as a NASCAR driver raised on one piece of fatherly wisdom: "If you ain't first, you're last." The summer 2006 comedy opened at #1 with $47 million and gave the world "shake and bake" — a catchphrase real drivers still quote.