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.