That’s hilarious

Mind=blown.

Totally didn't pick up on that before. Amazing

Never noticed that! I need to play again!

Oh wow I’ve never realized that in this movie that’s great

Clue is not really a whodunnit, because there is no way you would figure out the killer. Rather, it is in the 'old dark house' genre, which is a kind of dark comedy that was around in the black-and-white era. Examples include The Old Dark House (of course), The Cat & The Canary (remade multiple times), The Last Warning, and The House On Haunted Hill.

@@ThreadBomb Arsenic and Old Lace

@@ThreadBomb I always liked this with Private Eyes with Don Knotts and Tim Conway.

Fun fact: Madeline Kahn’s speech on how much she hated Evette was ad-libbed.

I adore her contradictions.

Clearly the secret passage ways are to be used to dodge unwanted shower dwellers.

@@ItDoesntMatterReally The sequel to C.H.U.D., U.S.D.

Anyone can hide in a shower. But ideally only the home owner would know about the passage ways. Great place to hide!

I love her for everything about her.

"Flies are where men are most vulnerable!" Once I finally got that joke as a teen 😅 it's been one of my favorite lines since.

And the little scream after the lights came back on

Fun fact. 'Flames on the side of my face' was due to her forgetting her line yet committing to the bit. The director loved it and kept it in the final cut.

I knew George would love the wordplay given his love of puns!

Yes! I clicked on the video and skipped DIRECTLY to this scene!

Improv?

@@Sage2000 Yes. Those werent her lines. The movie was very tightly written with zero room for coming up with lines on your own, Improvisation. Well they get to Madelines monolog and she forgets her lines, so she improvizes the "Flames" bit. Director liked it so much he kept it in the film instead of reshooting the scene.

Thank you @@memnarch129

It’s also quite fun to say “No” in the Wadsworth tone, and see if anyone catches on.

Got in trouble at an old job once when my manager was going on and on in a meeting and said "to make a long story short" and I reflexively blurted out "too late." Then I had to explain to her it was a bit from the Clue movie, which she did not believe was an actual movie.

@@brakyeller you should have showed her a clip from KZfaq 😂

ditto!

Simone might be the first reactor I've seen get the Kipling/I'll eat anything joke.

Yes - I loved that they got both those references!

@@LordVolkov Please explain that to me.. I didn't know that was a joke.

​@@carm3dEating anything... knowing her job. I think that's the joke?

​@@carm3dkilling was the root being quoted not food.

Also in Star Trek IV. I have met her twice!!

Mr. Body was played by Punk Rocker Lee Ving

Good lord. We are so old. We know Jane Wiedlin of GoGos fame and Lee Ving who taught us about Fear. We should probably all hook up and watch Streets of Fire.

@@michaelchenault3693 you should check out the podcast Junkfood Cinema. been going strong for 10 years so a great back catalogue and still going strong.

​@@CLOWNBOY68I literally clicked on this thread to say she was a stranded starship captain in The Voyage Home.

Putting Tim Curry up to the task of leaping between reserved and bombastic was a guarantee of resulting greatness.

This is my favorite Tim Curry performance, just ahead of his roll in the Sylvester Stallone comedy "Oscar".

When he said "Robin Williams energy" my mouth automatically said "cocaine?" (That's not a diss on Robin, all the comedy greats were wired for the entire 80s and most of the 90s...)

This is an unpopular opinion, but that is not my favorite moment in the film. It's funny, and Madeline is great. But as you said: so much of the dialogue and pace of the film is snappy, snappy, snappy. And that stilted, stuttering ad-lib is slow and ponderous, and brings down the flow of that whole frenetic last chapter. From the moment Wadsworth starts explaining and running around the house, the energy (and music score) is turned up to eleven! ...Then Mrs. White has her pause.. to explain her burning hatred.. of Yvette.. and the flames.. and stuff... andthenthemusicpicksupandwe'rebacktothefreneticenergyagain. As a moment of Ms. Kahn being hilarious, it is hilarious. The timing in the midst of the action always pulls me away. So I end up very lukewarm about the moment. I don't hate it; it's funny! But I don't love it, either. -my 2¢ But this is for sure among my favorite films of all time. The cast is perfection, the script is tight as a drum, every little detail and nod to the game and to pop culture of the period. The slapstick humor, the wordplay humor, the physical humor, the reactions, the jokes: just so amazing.

Some of the other actors thought she was having a stroke in that scene because none of them knew she was going to be ad libbing in it.

So, I guess your husband is like Kleenex?

Let that be a lesson not to get too snotty with Mrs. White.

As a gay, I’ve been quoting her since I was a little kid too 😂

Another issue was that no one knew which ending it would be, so a lot of people would go multiple times & end up seeing the exact same one lol

They actually labeled the theaters/tickets with which of the 3 you were seeing (unless you were unlucky enough to live somewhere that decided to not bother) so you could rewatch the movie to see all 3 over time

The way the third ends with Mr Green actually doing the game thing "it was me, in the hall, with the revolver" gives it a symbolic sorta "we were leading up to that the entire time" vibe that always made me wonder why they split it for theaters. It felt like it was meant to be put together like that.

It's a nice touch if you think about the game - there isn't a set story, so it could be literally anyone with anything in any room. Especially since in the final ending, one person announces themselves as the murderer which was always something I found a bit wonky! If I murdered someone, I figure I would have known...

​@neilbiggs1353 It is supposed to be that they get called out, not that they confess. Besides: I have played a murder mystery at a party where we were all characters and played out the story during the party. It was quite fun, and my realisation that I was the murderer was a great moment for me.

"I... Am... Your singing telegram!"" BANG

don't forget; "To make a long story short--" "Too late!"

"I had to stop her screaming!" 🤓

My favorite: "How many husbands did you have?" "Mine or other women´s?"

"I choose to expose myself!" "Please, there are women present!"

And was also very famous for his role on Laverne & Shirley

Also from Laverne and Shirley and the Brady Bunch movie in 1995

Dude is copper bottomed genius, as the British say. Love his alter ego Jerry Palter from A Mighty Wind / The Folksmen. It isn't everyone that is in not just one, but two bands that are simultaneously real and fictional.

I always remember him from The X-Files because he was such a ridiculous character.

…and who could forget him as Gibby, Martin Tupper’s incorrigible boss on HBO’s Dream On

Oh shoot is that her?! Every time I see this movie I think she looks familiar but just write it off as me having seen this movie so many times. I remember her now that you mention it. MASH was my jam in junior high for some reason, I watched it obsessively 😂 But it’s been a while since then.

She also played a Eskimo in Northern Exposure.

@@inhumanmusic1411 Respectfully: Sorry, but I think you're thinking of actress Elaine Miles, who played "Marilyn Whirlwind" on Northern Exposure: the doctor's monotone receptionist. I can see a passing resemblance, so I can understand how you would mis-remember it that way, but Kellye was never on Northern Exposure. Kellye was Japanese, born in Hawaii. Elaine is Native American. Also incidentally, the character she played was Tlingit. "Eskimo" is a term that natives of the northern areas do not prefer. Just FYI.

@@TSIRKLAND They played up Kellye's actual ancestry in one episode where Hawkeye (Alan Alda) asks Kellye for an aortic graft in terms of Italian pasta size, and when she says she's part Japanese, part Hawaiian, and asks for an ethnic translation she can understand, he says, "A small egg roll!"

I still don't get it.

That's the one I remember the most from this film haha

Wonderfully random and kind-of shocking.

@@ThreadBomb it wasn't random, it was a call back to him saying he was being blackmailed for being gay. I guess that was just part of his cover.

HATED that line!! Damaged the whole film for me. I thought, is it possible, is it actually possible, I'm seeing a flim where the hero gets to be gay?!? YEEEE.... oh. He's het. Of course. Can't ever let gays succeed or be heroic in anything. Felt the rug pulled out from under me, just a bait and switch.

@@Aeroldoth3 yeah I hate that line too for the same reason and usually skip it because I still love the movie so much. It’s a general headcanon that he is still gay but has to say that when he’s in front of this boss for obvious reasons. (But I wish they did it better)

Ah thank you. I KNEW I’d heard that phrase somewhere but couldn’t remember.

I can’t believe George didn’t know lol

Of course, it’s a word. If it wasn’t, what would all the butlers be doing? Nothing. And a butler who does nothing is not a good butler at all.

@@0okamino A butler who does nothing would be a butt butler, I suppose.

No way! Far out.

He is also Chuck from Better Call Saul.

What happened to Simone's "Oh my God!" counter?

Also her Mel Brooks movies.

I triple recommend!

i can't recommend this one enough.

What's Up Doc is one of the best films of the 70's. Definitely worth a watch.

And Paper Moon, another Ryan O'Neil flick.

Not just any punk band either. They were the epitome of punk back in the late 70s early 80s. I encourage anyone interested to watch Fear's Saturday Night Live performance here on KZfaq. It got them banned from the show, btw.

I forgot he was in this. Met him before a concert in '84. Great band.

Also in the movie Get Crazy, as Piggy, from the band NADA. Another great film with an all-star cast.

He was also Defoe's right hand man in "Streets of Fire".

@@inhumanmusic1411 I think he used his right hand in Flashdance, too 😛 ...or was it his left?

100 Clues! Mrs Scarlett, Professor Plum, Col Mustard are all in it with Garrett Morris ftw!

Does it ever make sense?

​​@@dereknolin5986 legitimate answer... the scarlet ending actually does make sense. The others, entertaining as they are, don't really appear plausible.

@@dannykent6190 Interesting! I'll keep that in mind next time I rewatch it. I think I've only seen it about two and a half times or so.

@@dannykent6190 I have to disagree, I think the most plausible is all of them killing someone. One person keeping their composure that entire time is unlikely, but even more Than that, they’re all desperate and a little crazy. I watched a KZfaq video about how them all killing someone is the most realistic too, I forgot who made ti

I second the motion. Pure hilarity. I had the pleasure of playing the Michael Caine character in a stage production years ago. The live version is even more chaotic.

@@footofjuniper8212I played Gary! And then I directed it years later.

@@brianharris3714 I was in it too, 5 or so years ago. I played Tim and was one of the two guys who built the huge rotating set.

I was in a theater club production of it in college, and the giant two story set wasn't quite finished by opening night, so things kept breaking and it became a surreal example of life imitating art, and we the actors had to just keep improving and rolling with it when the stair bannister broke and candelsticks fell off walls, etc.

@@brianharris3714I got to play Gary my freshman year of high school. My favorite show I’ve ever done. I had the honor of playing Wadsworth my junior year funny enough.

Of course! It provided evidence which theaters would exhibit A, exhibit B, or exhibit C.

dunno why im so mad at myself to know what it was immediately

He was also in Laverne & Shirley, was Perry White in Smallville and is married to Annette O'Toole.

I dunno how well the Brady Bunch movie would hold up for younger people these days. It's meta as hell, but I doubt a lot know anything about The Brady Bunch outside of the name

​@@EidlonesIt was a 90's revival of a 60s(70s?) show already... I enjoy the hell out of those movies and only barely know about the old show. The appeal for younger reactors would be in the cast (McKean, Gary Cole, Christine Taylor) and the satirical humor.

@LordVolkov The old shows were shown on various channels at the time though. Like, I used to watch stuff like I Dream Of Jeannie all the time as a kid in the 90's. At the very least it was still available to be seen and stumbled upon, whereas now, unless you actively seek it out, you aren't going to see a frame.

@@dupersuper1938yes, he was Lenny of the BFF duo Lenny & Squiggy

There's a light....

There's a light.... 😅

There are a couple of mistakes though. When Boddy turns the lights out the room they are in contains a fireplace that is shown to have a fire going in it so even without the power there should have been enough light that someone would have seen who hit Boddy. Then in the scene where the motorist is killed he is shown standing in front of a mirror while he is on the phone. You can clearly see the fireplace that acts as the secret passage entrance in the reflection of the mirror so no one should have been able to sneak up from behind him. Finally when have you ever seen two women carry purses with nothing in them? Both Scarlett and Peacock show their purses to not only not have the gun in them in the versions where the other one does all the killing but they show their purse to not have anything at all in them.

Wow, he really thought he could escape? I guess he didn’t expect to be so _doggedly_ pursued for his crimes.

@@0okamino That pun was awful, but I might be barking up the wrong tree pointing it out to you.

@@chriswhinery925Oh, I should have known I would be hounded over it.

@@0okaminoAnd rightly so. That joke really screwed the pooch.

Good one! 😂😂😂 ​@@0okamino

I don't think I have ever seen someone react to Murder By Death. Even if they did, they wouldn't get half the references or even know who the characters were lampooning.

​@@mgass1354 Yeah, that's the problem. They'd have to react to Maltese Falcon, Thin Man movies, Miss Marple, Charlie Chan and Hercule Poirot movies first!

​@@rcrawford42when I recommend it I always tell them to watch at least *one* of the movies for each detective before watching Murder By Death so they understand the characters being parodied.

You saved me having to type that. I love that film!

@@rcrawford42I have to respectfully disagree! When I first saw it as a teen in the 80s I had no idea they were lampooning anything. It really didn't occur to me until later but I still loved the movie just on the strength of the performances and the incredible writing. Being familiar with the original sources just adds to the fun, but that movie can still stand on its own!

I've definitely watched clue more, but that's because aliens mostly only comes on at night... mostly.

@@dannykent6190 😂

Last year our fall play was clue. I watched the movie and other high school productions about a thousand times that summer in anticipation. I got Wadsworth. It was so worth it. I was obsessed and it paid off

It's gotta be one of the most rewatchable movies ever.

And his voice!!! Ohmygawd! I want him to voice my Alexa! Sing Toxic Love again,Tim.

Oh my god Yes! "Selsdon! Selsdon! Where's Selsdon!?" Such a great film, and with some of the most underrated and underappreciated performances by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, John Ritter, and Christopher Reeds.

I was lucky enough to see the play on Broadway. I don't think I've ever laughed harder. So many laughs from things that you can't see (except in your imagination).

And it's an example of just how good Christopher Reeve was beyond Superman.

It's a shame that the BBC are so harsh on copyright - I feel like George and Simone would love the "Goes Wrong Show" people which is the same kind of rapid farce as Noises Off. Might be a good patreon exclusive?

"No, I'm not in Spain, I'm in agony, that's where I am!"

Just recommend it to everyone. If it's not someone's jam, you don't need them around anyway.

I'd probably be a lot more upset that they didn't recognize him if I weren't so heavily sedated.

When I saw this film in theaters in 1985, we only got one ending. It wasn't until a few years later that I saw all three on VHS.

Also seen as Joan of Arc in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Press Caps Lock again, will you?

@@migmit Get a life.

@@Rocket_Man232 Thank you.

It’s still called Cluedo here