William Atherton was the king of 80’s movie asshole. From the recklessly spitefull by-the-book Walter peck, to the pompous professor Jerry Hathaway, and finally the arrogantly nosy Richard Thornburg. He fucking nailed it all.

I can’t think of many wonderful movie assholes in comedy as great as those Atherton 3 characters. Maybe Shooter McGavin and all the Tannen variants(?)