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He's making the world safe for insanity.
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
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Dan Aykroyd
Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit
Howard Hesseman
Smooth Walker
Donna Dixon
Monica McNeil
Lydia Lei
Jasmine Wu
T.K. Carter
Diavolo Washington
Lynn Whitfield
Thelma Cleland
Fran Drescher
Karen Blittstein
Nan Martin
Margaret Skridlow
George Furth
Arthur Skridlow
Peter Elbling
Guptor
Glenne Headly
Miss Debbylike
Annabel Armour
Airline Clerk
Robert Cornthwaite
Professor Blount
Parley Baer
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Ben Kronen
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Lance Kinsey
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Andrew Duggan
Harmon Rousehorn
James Brown
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Alan Ruck
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Sue Bowser
Dream Girl
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Junior Sweet
Daniel C. Striepeke
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Bernie Brillstein
Executive Producer
Robert K. Weiss
Producer
Lalo Schifrin
Original Music Composer
Bruce Jay Friedman
Story
Bruce Jay Friedman
Writer
Carl Gottlieb
Writer
Robert Boris
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