8 Lesser Known Bill Murray Classics

By Luke Irwin / July 5, 2014

WBYou€™ve probably seen it €“ there€™s a meme that continues to buzz around the internet that goes like this: someone will post a questionable story of small-scale social injustice but replace the villain of the story with Bill Murray. Here€™s one variation from Reddit user Lurker32:

When I was waiting to cross at the 46th and 7th crosswalk I noticed a hand slip around me from behind and grab two of my fries. In my confusion I turned around and HOLY S**T ITS BILL F*****G MURRAY! Before I could get a word out, he yelled over the crowd, €œNo one will ever believe you."

While the stories are rarely, if ever, true they originate through Murray€™s famously outlandish private life, with stories of firing his agent and replacing them with an answering machine, partying with random teenagers in foreign cities, or face-planting himself onto the floor during rained out baseball matches. But whether or not any of these happened - or to what extent they are exaggerated - is besides the point. Comedy is, after all a construction, one generated through surprise, the improper, and the unlikely. So, the joke - if you missed it - is that Bill Murray as a person even more anarchic than his on screen role. But while these stories are so befitting for the likes of Peter Venkman or Phil Connors, there has been a lot more to Murray€™s film career than the anarchic folk hero than the internet would have you believe.