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That's the movie. The references to singing should have been some sort of clue. Lasparri ended up trying to sing onstage, and an audience member threw an apple at him while the crowd booed. Groucho played Otis B, Driftwood, and Sig Ruman (Sigfried Rumann changed his credits once WW 2 started and Germans were no more liked than Italians) played Gottlieb, who represented the NY Opera Company. Chico's story of how the 3 aviators came to America (they were impersonating the aviators) is rather well-known. The 2 best-known scenes are the contract ("The Party of the First Part in this contract shall be known as The Party of the First Part..") and the stateroom scene (crowding all the people into a tiny bedroom, we didn't get to that scene.)

Animaniacs did not teach history, nor was it intended to. (C) was intended to, and did. They did air in similar time-slots at roughly the same years, with roughly the same production teams and voice actors. In fact, Mrs Wolf saw them aired together and thought they were the same cartoon,

That's a shame, because there should be 2 best-known movies they made, and Raf named one- the one the Marx Brothers fans tend to prefer, The other is the one with the broadest market appeal- the movie that appeals the most to non-Marx Brothers fans because of its quality as a movie and a comedy, not just as a Marx Brothers vehicle. "Queen" named an album after it, decades later. It was the film that saved their careers- because "Duck Soup" was too zany for audiences at the time, and Zeppo left after that one but before this one.

*reads article* Hm. I've a few thoughts about it. In short, I'm reminded that nobody's as free of ideology as they would like to think, and that no one subset of any social science can show us a full picture (although it might show us great insights from one perspective.) -The writer is a fan of Richard Dawkins, and quotes him on the concept of memes, and other things. RD's a known hater of religious thought, so I would proceed carefully, watching for the presumption that all religious thought is de facto harmful. (BTW, when did a biologist become an authority on Psych theory? I missed something.) -The writer did NOT say that all religious thought is de facto harmful. "In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being. " "As such, there are often good and bad variants of any given religion. For instance, there are moderate versions of Christianity and Islamthat promote qualities like a sense of community and a moral code that fosters ethical behavior. " Granted, he spent the rest of the article discussing the religions he considers harmful (all fundamentalist ones), but he is claiming there's beneficial religions as well as harmful ones. I appreciate that. -The article uses a biological analogy-actually, SEVERAL biological analogies- to support the writer's position. I didn't see any Psychological basis for it beyond the extended analogy, and i certainly didn't see any sociological thought at all. If we're discussing religions as group phenomena- which he brushed on as to how people convert (my term, not his)- them Sociology has more to offer us than Psychology. For that matter, he spent several paragraphs on how fundamentalism is a "parasite". How about a reference to a Psychologist who put this forth in accordance with an existing Psychological theory? I'd like to know where it fits in to Erickson or Adler or any existing Psychological paradigm. I remember wierwille used an extensive analogy about dogs on a hunt to "explain" his position on "no private interpretation"- which was later shown rather clearly to be an error. His answer was one he liked, but was not correct. He spent lots of work developing his ANALOGY when he should have actually studied the material. As such, I get suspicious whenever someone uses extended analogies-and NOTHING else- to explain something. I would have liked to have seen what a competent Sociologist would have made of all this. For that matter, I'd like to see a Psychology article on this subject. The most biased part of the article was this paragraph: "We also know that in the United States, Christian fundamentalism is linked to science denial. Since science is nothing more than a method of determining truth using empirical measurement and hypothesis testing, denial of science equates to the denial of objective truth and tangible evidence. In other words, the denial of reality. Not only does fundamentalism promote delusional thinking, it also discourages followers from exposing themselves to any different ideas, which acts to protect the delusions that are essential to the ideology." I'm aware there are SOME fundies who are into "science denial", and there are SOME fundies who like Science and study it. But the writer went with "fundy= denial of science." He then followed up with "science denial=denial of reality", which means "Fundy= denier of reality." He didn't use those exact words in that exact order, but that's where he went. He followed THAT up with "fundy thinking is delusional thinking" and :"fundies never expose themselves to any different ideas." I'm aware there's some people who consider themselves fundies that this could apply to- but there's plenty that this would NOT apply to. He finished up with some rather pointed terms to equate with fundamentalism: "harms", "parasitic virus", He finishes up with this: "When a fundamentalist ideology inhabits a host brain, the organism’s mind is no longer fully in control. The ideology is controlling its behavior and reasoning processes to propagate itself and sustain its survival. This analogy should inform how we approach efforts that attempt to reverse brainwashing and restore cognitive function in areas like analytic reasoning and problem-solving." So, to be a fundy is to be: -no longer fully in control of your own mind -no longer in control of your behavior -no longer in control of your reasoning processes -brainwashed, which needs to be reverses -in possession of cognitive function that needs restoring We have this on the authority of "THIS ANALOGY. " Forgive me, but my analytic reasoning is leading me to different conclusions than the writer. I also think my cognitive function is working just fine. Mind you, I think that the descriptions in this article could describe "waybrain" quite well, which WAS why it was linked here (I hope.) Frankly, I'd be more inclined to gloss over all its flaws if there WAS something defective in my reasoning skills.

Ok, another cartoon round. Name any to take the round. There have been some attempts to make cartoons to teach kids. A few have taught history. A) This cartoon followed 3 teenagers through the American Revolution, as they stumbled across all the key events. Voice actors included Walter Cronkite as Benjamin Franklin. B) This cartoon, inspired by a kids' game show which was inspired by a video game series, followed 2 teenagers across time and space as they pursued a criminal and her gang. (I will accept the name of the cartoon, the show, or the video game, as a correct answer.) C) This madcap romp by Warner Brothers did indeed teach some history- in between all sorts of gags of every kind. Father Time was one of the characters, as was the World's Oldest Woman. D) This Terrytoons series, all but forgotten, took place in history. The title character- and his smart, little dog Winston - dealt with bumbling through history on their own. The title character was known for wearing a blue, wide hat and was rather short. His nemesis was a big bully named Benedict (no, not Arnold.)

Is this "Kingsman" or something?

"No, this is a Marx Brothers movie." That is correct. "Don't know which one, though." That also appears to be correct." ;) "I would guess Animal Crackers or Duck Soup." Sadly, you would be mistaken. Go over the quotes, guys, there's some dialogue that should narrow it down even if all you know is the names.

It is NOT a Mel Brooks film.

"Listen, Gottlieb, nix on the love making. Besides, I saw Mrs. Claypool first. Of course, her mother really saw her first but there's no point in bringing the Civil War into this." "Never in my life have I received such treatment. They threw an apple at me." "Well. Watermelons are out of season." "I've been sitting right here since 7 o'clock." "Yes, with your back to me. When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay." "Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlour. Play, Don." "Do you have everything, Otis?" "I haven't had any complaints yet!" ""You live here all alone?" "Yes. Just me and my memories. I'm practically a hermit." "Oh. A hermit. I notice the table's set for four." "That's nothing - my alarm clock is set for eight. That doesn't prove a thing." ""That woman? Do you know why I sat with her? Because she reminded me of you." "Really?" "Of course, that's why I'm sitting here with you. Because you remind me of you. Your eyes, your throat, your lips! Everything about you reminds me of you. Except you. How do you account for that? If she figures that one out, she's good." "So now I tell you how we fly to America. The first time we started we got-a half way there when we run out a gasoline, and we gotta go back. Then I take-a twice as much gasoline. This time we're just about to land, maybe three feet, when what do you think: we run out of gasoline again. And-a back-a we go again to get-a more gas. This time I take-a plenty gas. Well, we get-a half way over, when what do you think happens: we forgot-a the airplane. So, we gotta sit down and we talk it over. Then I get-a the great idea. We no take-a gasoline, we no take-a the airplane. We take steamship, and that, friends, is how we fly across the ocean. " "Do you know America is waiting to hear him sing?" "Well, he can sing loud, but he can't sing that loud." "Well, I think I can get America to meet him halfway." "Now pay particular attention to this first clause because it's most important. It says the, uh... "The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part." How do you like that? That's pretty neat, eh? No, that's no good. What's the matter with it? I dunno. Let's hear it again. It says the, uh... "The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part." That sounds a little better this time. Well, it grows on you. Would you like to hear it once more? Er... just the first part. What do you mean? The... the party of the first part? No, the first part of the party of the first part. All right. It says the, uh, "The first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract..." Look, why should we quarrel about a thing like this? We'll take it right out, eh? Now, it says, uh, "The party of the second part shall be known in this contract as the party of the second part." Well, I don't know about that... Now what's the matter? I no like-a the second party, either. Well, you shoulda come to the first party. We didn't get home 'til around four in the morning. I was blind for three days!"

In case I wasn't the only one who missed it, Human said that was the answer.

This movie was in the theaters, but not recently by anyone's definition of "recently."

"Listen, Gottlieb, nix on the love making. Besides, I saw Mrs. Claypool first. Of course, her mother really saw her first but there's no point in bringing the Civil War into this." "Never in my life have I received such treatment. They threw an apple at me." "Well. Watermelons are out of season." "I've been sitting right here since 7 o'clock." "Yes, with your back to me. When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay." "Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlour. Play, Don." "Do you have everything, Otis?" "I haven't had any complaints yet!" ""You live here all alone?" "Yes. Just me and my memories. I'm practically a hermit." "Oh. A hermit. I notice the table's set for four." "That's nothing - my alarm clock is set for eight. That doesn't prove a thing." ""That woman? Do you know why I sat with her? Because she reminded me of you." "Really?" "Of course, that's why I'm sitting here with you. Because you remind me of you. Your eyes, your throat, your lips! Everything about you reminds me of you. Except you. How do you account for that? If she figures that one out, she's good." "So now I tell you how we fly to America. The first time we started we got-a half way there when we run out a gasoline, and we gotta go back. Then I take-a twice as much gasoline. This time we're just about to land, maybe three feet, when what do you think: we run out of gasoline again. And-a back-a we go again to get-a more gas. This time I take-a plenty gas. Well, we get-a half way over, when what do you think happens: we forgot-a the airplane. So, we gotta sit down and we talk it over. Then I get-a the great idea. We no take-a gasoline, we no take-a the airplane. We take steamship, and that, friends, is how we fly across the ocean. " "Do you know America is waiting to hear him sing?" "Well, he can sing loud, but he can't sing that loud." "Well, I think I can get America to meet him halfway."

Obviously something of which I've never seen a single episode. Is it "Leverage"?

The Penguin had a device that removed all the water from a person. He dehydrated his piratey henchmen, and CAREFULLY collected the powder. The scene ended while he said "Careful, careful- every one of them has a mother" while they collected all the powder. The scene arriving at the dock for the Batboat is sometimes skipped. La Lanne was on a roof with some women. "Jack LaLanne has a cameo as a man on a rooftop with bikini-clad women." (Nice work if you can get it, I suppose.) Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth was once Alfred Beagle (and fat with no moustache.) After Alan Napier took the role, he went on a diet and grew a moustache. Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot was one of the villains ripped off of Dick Tracy. http://dicktracy.wikia.com/wiki/Broadway_Bates They had some fun in the comic strip with this, saying his brother Oswald worked out of a different town and that's where Bates was working for some time. Bates returned, only to run afoul of a dark knight ("Cinnamon Knight") and a colorful assistant ("Willa Scarlett"). Commissioner James WORTHINGTON Gordon looks nothing like the actor, however.

I didn't realize I had 2 sets of clues. Whoops.

I'll stay out of this after pointing out that both of you are approaching this from conflicting ideas of "Doctrinal." I don't think you'll agree because there's no common ground to agree FROM. So, I don't think this will get anywhere.

Let's look at the clues George just solved. It's not stated in the movie, but it's thought the bulk of the story took place in New Jersey. Gotham City's believed to be in Jersey, and has appeared in maps as in Jersey. The Spanish-language version of this movie included characters named Bruno Diaz and Ricardo Tapia Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson were rendered with those names, for some reasons. Alfred was Alfred. Someone parodied Nikita Krushchev's famous "bang the shoe at the UN" moment in this movie. The fake UN scene. A Chrysler Imperial and a Lincoln Futura prototype both appear in this movie. Bruce Wayne's car and the Batmobile. A former Miss America appeared in the cast. Lee Meriwether as Catwoman. References to Robert Louis Stevenson's novels were snuck into the movie, but not into the dialogue. The name of the bar, the location of the kidnapping, was one book title. His next book was called "Kidnapped." This movie was NOT distributed by Warner Brothers (making it peculiar). It's the ONLY Batman movie Warner didn't distribute. Once you've seen the scene where "Bringing in the Sheaves" is played, it's hard not to have the song stuck in your head whenever thinking about that scene. That expy of the Salvation Army, while Batman ran around with the bomb. Characters in this movie include: President Lyndon B. Johnson, Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisoff, and bit characters named Bluebeard, Morgan and Quetch. Van Williams did the voice of LBJ. Catwoman was disguised as "Ms Kitka." Penguin's mooks had a pirate motif. Reginald Denny played his last role in this film, as Commodore Schmidlapp. He was kidnapped and Penguin impersonated him, IIRC. Not many films include a motorcycle WITH a sidecar- but this is one of them. Introducing the Batcycle- a motorcycle with a sidecar (for Robin.) Later, in the TV show, Batman attached Alfred's bike to it, and was able to ferry "the Alf-cycle" to him when getting to the Bat-cycle. BTW, in Argentina, the word for sidecar is "sidecar"- pronounced "sid-eh-cahr." Same spelling, but nobody pronounced it to them, so they pronounced it as if it was written in Spanish.

That's it.

Right- someone needed to reset the server. So nobody COULD post until they did. Once they did, we resumed posting. A few days into THAT, you posted how nobody was posting (although they'd posted the day before you'd started the thread as well as the same day.) So, the pause was because we were UNABLE to post, and we resumed once we were able.

It's not stated in the movie, but it's thought the bulk of the story took place in New Jersey. The Spanish-language version of this movie included characters named Bruno Diaz and Ricardo Tapia Someone parodied Nikita Krushchev's famous "bang the shoe at the UN" moment in this movie. A Chrysler Imperial and a Lincoln Futura prototype both appear in this movie A former Miss America appeared in the cast. References to Robert Louis Stevenson's novels were snuck into the movie, but not into the dialogue. This movie was NOT distributed by Warner Brothers (making it peculiar). Once you've seen the scene where "Bringing in the Sheaves" is played, it's hard not to have the song stuck in your head whenever thinking about that scene. Characters in this movie include: President Lyndon B. Johnson, Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisoff, and bit characters named Bluebeard, Morgan and Quetch. Reginald Denny played his last role in this film, as Commodore Schmidlapp. Not many films include a motorcycle WITH a sidecar- but this is one of them.

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When we had people insulting each other, and people who came here to castigate us for refusing to fall prostrate before wierwille's asinine personage and practices, it was a LOT busier. I remember the opening episodes of the original "Melrose Place" were slice-of-life, but people found it more exciting once they started up the soap opera business and throwing people into the pool. (I liked the first few episodes, and lost interest after that.)

If you'd scrolled down to the Games forum, you'd have found posts the day before you started the thread, as well as posts from the same day.

Picture "Bringing in the Sheaves." Now stop picturing it being SUNG and picture it being PLAYED. Now picture the scene around it. One line should spring to mind. What movie are you seeing?

Some prints of this movie omit the final line from a scene- one of my favorite lines from the movie- "Every one of them has a mother." There's some prints that leave out part of the scene where 2 of the characters reach a boat. What was Jack La Lanne doing in this movie? Some of the characters have odd histories. One had a last name of "Beagle" before it was rewritten into the now-familiar last name (and middle names "Thaddeus Crane"). Another was visually based on the comic strip character "Broadway Bates." (With a middle name of "Chesterfield.") Another has the middle name "Worthington." (None of the middle names appeared in the movie.) It's not stated in the movie, but it's thought the bulk of the story took place in New Jersey. The Spanish-language version of this movie included characters named Bruno Diaz and Ricardo Tapia Someone parodied Nikita Krushchev's famous "bang the shoe at the UN" moment in this movie. A Chrysler Imperial and a Lincoln Futura prototype both appear in this movie A former Miss America appeared in the cast. References to Robert Louis Stevenson's novels were snuck into the movie, but not into the dialogue. This movie was NOT distributed by Warner Brothers (making it peculiar). Once you've seen the scene where "Bringing in the Sheaves" is played, it's hard not to have the song stuck in your head whenever thinking about that scene.