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John Candy's Uncle Buck makes the case for daydreaming

Comedy Bites Vintage's school-office scene draws fresh attention to the protective side of Candy's famously unruly babysitter.

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Uncle Buck Defends His Niece (Full Scene) | Uncle Buck

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0:26Buck's meeting with Assistant Principal Anita Hoargarth begins with an awkward introduction.
1:04Hoargarth criticizes Maizy for dreaming, chatting and not taking school seriously.
2:15Buck defends his niece and argues that children should be allowed to dream.
3:09The school meeting's final comic payoff comes as Buck prepares to leave.
3:47The compilation shifts to Chanice listening to answering-machine messages, including a romantic message from Buck.
5:30Chanice calls looking for Buck, and Tia answers.

"She's only six," Buck Russell reminds the assistant principal assessing his niece as though childhood were already a failed job interview.

That exchange is at the heart of "Uncle Buck Defends His Niece (Full Scene) | Uncle Buck," a film excerpt posted by the clips channel Comedy Bites Vintage. Five days after publication, it has added roughly 82,000 views in a day, far above its usual daily pace.

In the 1989 comedy, John Candy plays a bachelor drafted into looking after his brother's children during a family emergency. Here, the man who can barely get through his own introduction turns out to have a clear idea of what children need from adults.

Assistant Principal Anita Hoargarth treats Maizy's dreaming and chatting as evidence against her. Buck's answer is that children should be dreamers. His manners become considerably less defensible, but his refusal to accept her verdict is the scene's central turn.

The comments pick up on that contrast. Viewers discuss the sweetness beneath Candy's comic bluster, and one reads Buck's immediate defense of the children as evidence of a parental instinct he hasn't recognized himself.

The upload extends beyond the school meeting into answering-machine messages and household complications. It also sits among a run of Candy excerpts on the channel, including his enormous steak dinner and chaotic bat-catching attempt in The Great Outdoors.

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What viewers say

Buck was definitely ready to be a father and he didn't even know it! The way he immediately defended his niece and every other kid!
@happymittens92See it on YouTube
john candy was seriously robbed of an oscar nomination for this film. honestly, not only was it a funny performance but it had this nice balance of sweetness and the every-man quality. this scene is a perfect example of why john candy is so great.
@thevoid99See it on YouTube
I can't even imagine someone NOT liking John Candy.
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