Aug 18-24 indie comix week: When I was a kid, I used to read Mad Magazine and Cracked, so when I got a little older, it didn’t take much convincing to pick up Eightball and Hate. I’m an OG in the “complaining about superheroes” game, and my scars were anointed on the Comics Journal message board!

No boss I have ever worked for has said something to me that I remember more than toss off Chris Elliot lines, things like “I do this little trick with measuring spoons,” “We’ve lost a lot of good men in mine 5, Dave,” and “I’m a male model, not a male prostitute.” No actor has summed up the weirdness that I love in comedy better than Robin Williams, and no movie shows what I love more than Cabin Boy. It’s my Star Wars.

Directed by Adam Resnick, who wrote the film with Elliot, this is less a movie than a collection of strange moments. Fancy lad Nathaniel Mayweather (Elliot) annoys everyone, which keeps him from getting on the right boat and boarding The Filthy Whore, a ship under the helm of Captain Greybar (Ritch Brinkley). When Nathaniel causes the death of Kenny (Andy Richter), the cabin boy, he must take over and be at sea for months, perhaps never getting to Hawaii. The crew, Skunk (Brian Doyle-Murray), Pappy (James Gammon) and Teddy (Brion James) will kill him way before that happens.

Or maybe they won’t. But it comes close, with him stuck in Hell’s Bucket, on his own on a raft for days at a time, burning himself by covering his body with cooking oil and drinking salt water. Only Choki (Russ Tamblyn), half-shark, half-man, saves him. The giant Mulligan (Mike Starr) almost gets him — for sleeping with his multi-armed wife Calli (Ann Magnuson), after which he yells, “These pipes are clean” — but Nathaniel is either lucky or learning. He even gets Trina (Melora Walters) to fall for him.

Chris Elliott earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst New Star, but lost to Anna Nicole Smith for Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult. Now and forever, fuck the Razzies.

This is a movie that you must like to be one of my friends. If you don’t get it, I’m not sure we can ever connect in a meaningful way.