Shoeless Trivia: Episode 34 (Dan With a Plan)

So my friend Dan who usually runs trivia at Random Tap wrote me this morning to say that due to some confusion over the calendar he had written the wrong trivia for tonight and could I help him out with a round. This is my contribution (minus two questions).

Answers these questions about famous Dans who may or may nor have made plans.

1. Dan Akroyd’s original idea involved himself and John Belushi traveling through space and time “smashing” their supernatural foes with wands. What 1984 film grew out of this overly ambitious for its time plan?
2. Nobody plans to get kidnapped, but that’s just what happened to Dan Marino in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective But Marino was not the first victim. Give the name of the other individual taken by the kidnapper as part of an elaborate revenge plot against a football team.
3. Prior plans kept then Congressman Dan Quayle from joining a 1978 delegation to what country? The scheduling snafu probably saved Quayle’s life, as the rest of the delegation was murdered at Jonestown.
4. In the early 1990s, the advertising plan for what fast food chain included commercials with former MTV himbo Dan Cortese declaring “I love this place”?
5. It probably wasn’t part of his plan, but the question shouted by the man who attacked Dan Rather on the street in 1986 inspired the title of what popular REM song?
6. In 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper executed a carefully planned crime that resulted in his apparent escape with $200,000. What was unusual about his getaway?
7. Dan Ariely is a behavioral economist who studies the not always optimal ways people make plans and decisions. He describes his work in a book called Predictably what? The missing word can also be used to describe numbers like pi, e, and the square root of two.
8. Looks like it was bad planning to kill Dan in the 1997 finale of this TV series, since now they’ve got to figure out some way to justify his presence in the 2018 reboot. What’s the series?