Why this: "Up 99% in popularity this week" re: "Stuart Smalley Saves His Family"

[Bertha Venation]

Saw this on imdb.com but they want you to upgrade to imdb pro to get the answer to "why?"

Does anyone know why?

PS I loved that movie.

It was made when one of the attorneys I work for was 15 years old. :(

edited because I'm a stinkin' perfectionist who is less than perfect

[geardaddy]

1. Is it because Al's a senator now?

:shrug:

and a fuckin' great senator at that? :D

[Bertha Venation]

2. I thought about that, but he became a senator a long time ago.

It says "this week."

Must just be a ruse to get you to upgrade. But you'd have to be a pretty serious Franken fan (heh heh, frankenfan) to upgrade to imdb pro for that.

:)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

3. A theory...

MacGruber, the first SNL-based movie in about 10 years or something came out last Friday. Most of the reviews/internet comments that I read noted that the best SNL-based movies were Blues Brothers (if that really counts), Wayne's World and Stuart Saves... And, seeing as it's kind of an unseen, cult-y film, I'm guessing that lots of people checked out its imdb page this week after reading that it was one of the best SNL films.

[geardaddy]

4. That's certainly a better theory than mine.