According to this super-important survey, this is Florida's favorite Will Ferrell movie Credit: cabletv.com

Florida judges you, Texas. But not only for this… Credit: cabletv.com
The brilliant man-child actor we all love (c'mon, admit it) Will Ferrell turns 51 Monday. Let's celebrate, Old School-style, because — coincidentally, enough — that's Florida's favorite Will Ferrell movie.

According to this super-important survey, this is Florida’s favorite Will Ferrell movie Credit: cabletv.com
How do we know this? Well, the brain trust at cabletv.com has a veritable team of analysts who looked at Ferrell favorites' lists on IMDB and Rolling Stone, then compared those lists to Google Trends data. Looks like our web searches and listicles all point to Old School. I mean, hey, we're Anchorman folks ourselves over here at CL, but we musn't forget outliers like Ozona, Temple Terrace and G-ville. They're probs skewing the data for the whole state.

So, yeah. Fuck studies to determine the effects of diet soda on cancer cells, forget about looking for a way to cure AIDS and let's not fund any more research on restoring the historic water flow of the Everglades — we've got the important research right here, y'all.
 

Cathy's portfolio includes pieces for Visit Florida, USA Today and regional and local press. In 2016, UPF published Backroads of Paradise, her travel narrative about retracing the WPA-era Florida driving...