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| “ | Yes, I can. | „ |
| ~ Professor Sherman Klump's catchphrase. |
Professor Sherman Klump is the main protagonist of the 1996 remake The Nutty Professor and its sequel Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.
He is a morbidly obese but good-hearted college professor who transforms into the skinny but obnoxious Buddy Love. He and his family are portrayed by Eddie Murphy who also played Donkey (Shrek) and Mushu and Norbit Albert Rice and Dr. John Dolittle and Axel Foley and Jim Evers and The Klumps (except his nephew Ernie Jr played by Jamal Mixon). As himself, Sherman is the only Klump never to swear.
He was portrayed by the same actor which portrayed all the character's family members of the Klump's, except Ernie Klump Jr. by the legendary Eddie Murphy.
Biography[]
The Nutty Professor (1996)[]
1We first see Sherman preparing to go to work at Wellman college where he is an professor teaching chemistry to college students but once he arrives there? he discovers that most of his hamsters because his stomach raised the switch before he left it the night before? had escape and is all over the campus.
It angers his boss Dean Richmond and he confronts Sherman about the incident but he sees an hamster on the ceiling about to fall in his coffee and tries to tell him about it but he tells Sherman that he has arrange a meeting with a wealthy benefactor who could save the school's science department and he better not do anything to mess it up or ELSE, in 1 of his chemistry classes? his stomach was so close to the chalkboard that it erases notes he wanted the students study for a pop quiz and after he was finished? he sees chalk all over it while the students burst out laughing.
After class, he meets a grad student turned professor named Carla Purty, and it's love at first sight, he has dinner with family but dinner is interrupted by his father Cletus passing gas at the table more than once. 1 night he asks Carla out for a date and she accepts but while on their date, they're both made fun of by a comedian named Reggie Warrington, and they leave the night club in anger and disgust over jokes made about them. Sherman becomes depressed and after his nightmare, he goes to lab and drinks the weight loss serum that he made for overweight people and becomes athletic man.
He gives himself the name Buddy Love to hide who he really is to everyone in the college including Carla, and he asks her out again in his lab but he starts to transform back to being obese but manages to get Carla out of the lab before the transformation was completed, Carla tells him that she feels guilty for him being made fun of by Reggie and tells him she's developing feelings for Buddy and tells her that she wants him to go out with his alter ego.
Buddy's an hour late for their date at the same night club where they were made fun of at and eats more than 1 plate of the same meal but he was able to avenge Carla and himself by insulting Reggie by making jokes about him and punching him in the face causing him to fall into the piano but the joy turned into horror once the transformation from physically fit to obese AGAIN but Buddy manages to leave the restaurant driving the viper he arrived in.
One of his students, Jason, discovers Sherman's secret while in having a course collusion in the car, but a fireman had to get Sherman out of the car because he was to big for it. Dean Richman confronts Sherman about him as Buddy putting the payment for the Viper on his faculty account and tells him he arranged a meeting for him to meet with Harlan Heartly, a billionaire who plans to give $10 million dollars to fund the college's science department.
And he would give the school the money if he were to prove his formula works and Dean threatens to fire Sherman if he didn't show up, Meanwhile Sherman invites Carla to have dinner with him and his family but just as the meeting between them go well? Cletus's farts ruins dinner AGAIN and the whole family is embarrassed by it. On the night of the meeting at The Ritz? Dean sees Carla with Buddy and she insists he demonstrate Sherman's research to Harlan.
He agrees but he meets 3 beautiful women while in the meeting and after the meeting? Dean asks Buddy if he can replace Sherman and he accepts but things get ugly between him and Carla once Carla hears that Buddy plans to have the 3 girls he met in the restaurant over at Sherman's place for the night by over hearing the women's conversation. She slaps Buddy while he tells her that what the women were saying was true, she dumps him and leaves the restaurant.
Sherman starts to see that being Buddy isn't all that great as he hears Carla knocking on the door and entering his house but finds the 3 women from The Ritz sleeping by his side and his house being all messy because Buddy threw a party after he left The Ritz, he tries to get Carla to leave but she insists on telling him about Dean replacing him with Buddy but during the conversation?
Carla's sympathy turns to anger when she sees the 3 ladies Buddy brought home from restaurant in his bedroom, thinking not only Buddy spent the night with them but Sherman did too so she left and after she left he sees an eviction notice from his landlord and neighbor Mr.Wilson on his door and after Jason visits him? they go to the school only to have Dean Richmond fire him and give Buddy HIS invitation to The Alumni Ball.
On the night of the event, Sherman attempts to pour out the formula that transforms him into Buddy, only to discover that Buddy put the formula in 1 of his weight loss shakes? after the transformation. He tells Jason that he plans to drink a heavy dose of the formula in order to not to transform into Sherman AGAIN, but Jason warns him that if he were to do that, he'd die!
He punches Jason in the face after the confrontation knocking him unconscious, At The Alumni Ball? Dean confronts him for being 2 hours late for his presentation and unlike Sherman? he stands up to Richmond, things go horribly wrong for Buddy once he reveals in front of Carla and Mr. and Mrs. Klump along with party guests his plans to kill Sherman, he punches him again but Sherman manages to stop him.
They fight both verbally and physically causing Mrs. Klump to faint not once but twice! Sherman finally beats Buddy at his game and he's back to his old stuff, he explains that he thought everybody wanted him to be Buddy but after what he's been though while being Buddy, he realizes that he has to learn to be happy with just being an obese man. He and Carla dance at the end of the film.
The Klumps[]
Professor Sherman Klump has created a new de-aging formula. He is also in love with DNA researcher, Denise Gaines, developer of a method to isolate genetic material. Despite his good fortune, Sherman's major problem is his id alter ego, Buddy Love. He is still ingrained inside him and has begun to periodically take control of his body whilst having nightmares of him. Later on, Buddy's antics upset his father and ruined Sherman's attempted proposal to Denise in a mortifying display of perversion.
Determined to be rid of Buddy forever, Sherman used Denise's methodology to isolate and remove the DNA where Buddy has manifested despite Jason's warning him of potential consequences such as loosing his intelligence. As Sherman apologized to Denise where the two become engaged, they did encountered Buddy Love (due to his genetic material grows into a sentient being when a hair from Jason's Basset Hound, Buster that'd accidentally lands in it) in a movie theater before pickpockets Sherman and learns of the $150 million offer as he subsequently plans on making a rival bid of $149 million with Leanne Guilford, President of Acquisitions, for the youth formula while stealing a sample of Sherman's youth formula via sabotaging it's demonstration with fertilizer.
Fired and with his brain still deteriorating, Sherman plans on regaining his intelligence by getting Buddy Love back into his DNA. He quickly works on a newer, much more potent formula while his mental faculties allow him. Richmond confronts him about Buddy's actions, believing that they are working together. Sherman leaves with Richmond and a tennis ball covered in the youth formula and heads to a presentation at Phleer Pharmaceuticals that Buddy is giving about the youth formula. Sherman takes advantage of the canine DNA crossed with Buddy's and throws the tennis ball to distract him. But when Buddy catches the ball in his mouth, the youth formula began to take effect by transforming him back into a glowing mass of sentient genetic material but refuses to go back inside Sherman.
The chase ended where Buddy evaporated on the edge of a fountain and Sherman's brain finally deteriorated. Cletus and Denise, whom the two are aware of the situation, arrived too late to save him, and Denise breaks into tears, which hit the genetic material and fall into the fountain. Seeing the water is glowing, Denise realized the genetic material has reconstituted thanks to her tears and Sherman drank the fountain water, restoring his intelligence.
The scene ended with Sherman and Denise later got married.
Quotes[]
| “ | Mm-mmm-mmm. Now, that's fine. She's fine. | „ |
| ~ Sherman after meeting Carla Purty. |
| “ | Recent studies have shown that certain people are genetically predisposed to gaining weight. Someday in the near future, we might even find a cure. | „ |
| ~ Sherman on the genetics of human weight. |
| “ | [Jason: Sir, this is incredible. It's a complete metabolic transformation. How did it happen? Was it an accident?] No, I did it to myself, Jason. | „ |
| ~ Sherman telling Jason his secret about being Buddy Love. |
| “ | Jason, you have no idea what it feels like to be Buddy Love. It's indescribable. It's just wonderful! The way people talk to him and treat him, and the way she looks at him. | „ |
| ~ Sherman to Jason about being Buddy Love. |
| “ | It ain't over 'till the fat professor sings! | „ |
| ~ Sherman fighting Buddy. |
| “ | If you give me a moment, I believe I can try to explain. My research is, um... well, when I started out, I wanted to help people. But I became desperate and selfish. What I did was wrong. Buddy's who I thought the whole world wanted me to be. He's who I thought I wanted to be. And sometimes when you want something so, so bad, you do just about anything to get it. But I learned one thing from Buddy: I learned that life is not about being happy about how much you weigh, but just bein' happy with yourself. I'm terribly sorry about all of this, I hope I haven't ruined everybody's evening. Please excuse me. I'm sorry. | „ |
| ~ Sherman's misguided confession and apology after exposing himself as Buddy Love. |
| “ | The fact of the matter is I'm a big man. Now, I will lose weight, but I'm always gonna be big no matter what I do. So, anybody I wind up with is just goin' to have to accept me for who I am. And more important, I'm just going to have to accept myself for who I am. | „ |
| ~ Sherman to Carla about why he lied about being Buddy Love. |
| “ | [Jason: Those traces of Buddy have been in your system this whole time. You've been able to keep them under control.] Well, not anymore, Jason. He's back now. He's coming back 'cause he knows I'm happy and he wanna try and ruin everything. | „ |
| ~ Jason and Sherman about Buddy in Sherman's DNA code. |
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Trivia[]
- John Goodman, Tim Allen, Ernie Sabella, Dave Foley, (White Version) the late Samuel E. Wright, and the late John Heard were considered to play Sherman before Eddie Murphy was chosen.
