The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas: My Favorite Childhood Movie

On July 23, 2012, TBLWiT will turn 30 years old!!!

My sister and I watched this all the time when we were kids. It has everything you need:

• Dolly Parton, singing
• Burt Reynolds, singing and swearing and sheriffing
• Dom DeLuise, singing and dancing and stuffing his underwear
• Charles Durning, singing and dancing and politicking and Durninging

Why did our parents let us watch this? This is not appropriate subject matter for a 7-year-old. Who cares?! This movie taught me that Texas is a scary place populated by small-minded, soulless yokels* and that even though conservative hayseeds may run you out of town, Burt Reynolds will be there to sweep you off your feet and drive you to the big city where he will make an honest woman of you.

So...it's just like real life.

*I don't really mean that about Texans. Plenty of wonderful people are from the Lone Star State. For example...