The Best Movies To Watch On April Fools' Day

The first movie from sketch troop Broken Lizard, the low-budget comedy Super Troopers features the group as bored, good-natured state troopers in a fictional Vermont small town. Here the "super troopers" of the title don't usually have much to do, so they wile away their days with syrup chugging contests, messing with stoned teenagers, and car radio pranks — at least until a dead body and a marijuana shipment show up where they're not supposed to.

Super Troopers didn't do huge numbers in theaters, but the movie's rambling energy slowly but surely built the film an audience on home video. Roger Ebert was notoriously picky about his comedies but acknowledged the "laid-back charm that is more relaxed and self-confident than the manic laffaminit style of the 'Police Academy' pictures." 

Broken Lizard would make several other movies, including Beerfest and Club Dread, but Super Troopers remains their most beloved collaboration, with the group reprising their roles many years later, for 2018's Super Troopers 2. If you'd like to see "meow" inserted into casual conversation yourself, Super Troopers is available for Hulu and Prime subscribers.