As the  Register-Guard ‘s resident exploding whale-lover,  Bob Welch  has written about Oregon’s exploding whale several times. See what happened when he recently asked readers to submit their  top 4 made-in-Oregon movies .

Has anyone seen the new movie,   Reno 911!: Miami ? Apparently, the “Reno 911” crew blows up the carcass of a dead whale they find on Miami’s South Beach. There’s a reference to it in the following Chicago  Herald News interview with two of the actors. Dangle and Junior recounted the rest of their life-altering experiences from the Miami adventure — ranging from staying in seedy motels to coping with south Florida’s unrelenting humidity to hauling a dead whale’s carcass across South Beach. Q.   About that whale? Dangle:  Now, just so you know. That whale was totally, completely and ABSOLUTELY dead when we got there. Junior:  That’s right! There is no offense in blowing up something that was already dead. That dang thing was like 10 tons of rotting blubber. I thought blowing it up was a great idea! Dangle:  We expedited this beached whale from the place that it was at … to a different state. By a different state, I mean from a solid mass to a light mist of blubber that rained down over