The new Amazon documentary John Candy: I Like Me takes its title from a famous scene that happens surprisingly early in the 1987 comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

In what is arguably Candy’s most beloved performance, he plays Del Griffith, a sweet-natured if initially irritating traveling salesman who winds up accompanying uptight Neal (Steve Martin) on a series of cross-country misadventures, attempting to get home for Thanksgiving.

After Neal unloads his frustrations, Del famously responds with utter insincerity: “Yeah, you’re right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you ... but I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings. Well, you think what you want about me; I’m not changing. I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. ’Cause I’m

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