It Just Doesn't Matter

In 1979, Bill Murray was cast in his first starring role in “Meatballs” as Tripper Harrison, a counselor-in-training at Camp North Star who’s only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. When Tripper gives a rousing speech to inspire his young campers to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, he repeats a line with hysterical reverie, “It just doesn’t matter if we win or lose, if we win, HAH! Even if we win!… It just doesn’t matter. “Even if we win,” Murray tells the kids, “even if we play so far over our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days, even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field, even if every m...View all