this gawker article sums up Chevy's career pretty well:
http://gawker.com/5899097/hes-not-chevy-hes-an-asshole-a-histo ry-of-chevy-chases-horrific-behavior

Wow. I never really thought he was that funny but I wasn't really around for the Chevy Chase "golden era" I guess. Vacation was funny and so is Caddyshack, but I figured that was due to good writers and not the people (except Dangerfield) I mostly remember him having a few parts in otherwise funny movies where he almost ruined the whole thing by his very existence on screen for me.

But lest we forget Dangerfield also had therianthropic abilities as exhibited in Rover Dangerfield

And Bill Murray as a cat. Huh.

Ted Knight, old school hollyweirdo, introduced the comic stars of Caddyshack to the relatively unknown fetish of furries.
At nights after filming, the drug fueled orgies led to a psychadelic ambiguity over where the man ended and the animal costume took over.
Chevy Chase would spend his life driving away anyone who attempted to get close to him, taking pills and booze to repress his beastial desires.
Meanwhile, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray would meet up annually in Quito for debauched pansexual encounters until the Raelians created the hybrid offspring of Rodney, Bill, and a gopher shortly before Rodeny's death.
blah blah blah that's where jonah hill comes from or whatever other ending works for this story

If it makes you feel any better, Chase has spent the later years of his life trying to make amends, and was sincerely hurt by Comedy Central's roast of him.

I parked next to the Chevy Chase Bank in DC once and all I could think was "now there's a bank that calls up to borrow money from you."

Were there more than one Benji movies? I only saw the first one, and that one scared me. I don't remember exactly what happened in the film (something about a dog and an abandoned house full of criminals?) but I do remember that one part where the kids got kidnapped; I had nightmares about that for weeks. I'm glad Benji saved the kids, but that was still a bit dark for a four year-old.

What's Karate Dog? That sounds like something I'd actually enjoy!

Benji had movies. He was the Joe Pesci to Lassie's Robert DeNiro.

Hi Homer, there was a Benji series, after the first one was a surprise hit as an independent film. There was For The Love Of Benji, Benji The Hunted, Oh Heavenly Dog, and Off The Leash, all feature films.

Benj was a TV mutt too, starting in Petticoat Junction in the late 1960s, then in a short, Mooch Goes To Hollywood, and in the 1980s Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince.

He also had prime time specials like Benji Takes a Dive at Marineland, and a Christmas special. Here's Boomer was probably on TV because of the popularity of Benji, but Benj never had a prime time series, which I always thought was one of the cool things that Boomer did that was a little more impressive.

Chevy Chase plays a talking, karate chopping Briard in Karate Dog. It seems like it was meant to be a theatrical release, but the first place I heard about it being shown was on TV. I watched it with my friend Ric and he called it 'The horrible Briard film' after that.. :) I'll go for anything with talking Dogs though.

Boomer

Are there any talking pitbull movies?

I can't bark that I know any with prominent Pitbulls at the moment, but it does take me a while to catch up with newer films. It's interesting that I've seen more shaggy or fluffy talking Dogs all along, maybe a trend from the Shaggy Dog movies.

Later it was talking Border Collies in Babe, and then a sequel to that, and Dog's Best Friend with Borders, a cable movie I'm trying to locate even now.

It's easy to make almost any animal talk now, as in Dr. Doolittle movies, so hopefully you'll get your Pit Bull, and if I do see one I'll try to remember to let you know.

Boomer

http://youtu.be/cQJoO-ntvgY

sorry, thats a talking pitbull cameo. not sure if you were asking about a movie with a talking pit bull lead