# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 558
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11142 "2012-06-08T13:11:12Z")
The next superhero who should have his or her own movie 1. Dr. Strange 2. Wonder Woman 3. Captain Nice 4. Sandman 5. The Comedian 6. The Elementals 7. Aquaman 8. Spaceman Spiff 9. Nexus 10. Herbie the Fat Fury 11. Hawkeye But only if Jeremy Renner gets to play him again. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11143 "2012-06-08T13:58:25Z")
But only if [del]Jeremy Renner[/del]Alan Alda gets to play him again. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11144 "2012-06-08T16:04:43Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > But only if [del]Jeremy Renner[/del]Alan Alda gets to play him again. Surgeon by day; drunken Groucho Marx imitator by night. It’s Hawkeye! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11145 "2012-06-08T19:11:01Z")
The next superhero who should have his or her own movie 1. Dr. Strange 2. Wonder Woman 3. Captain Nice 4. Sandman 5. The Comedian 6. The Elementals 7. Aquaman 8. Spaceman Spiff 9. Nexus 10. Herbie the Fat Fury 11. Hawkeye 12. Elektra (a good movie this time!) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11146 "2012-06-08T19:16:51Z")
The next superhero who should have his or her own movie 1. Dr. Strange 2. Wonder Woman 3. Captain Nice 4. Sandman 5. The Comedian 6. The Elementals 7. Aquaman 8. Spaceman Spiff 9. Nexus 10. Herbie the Fat Fury 11. Hawkeye 12. Elektra 13. Nightspeed My Champions RPG hero in college - a young British diplomat by day, a crimefighter by night; very fast, pretty strong. Next category: Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City Murdock, the hero, after being threatened and on the run throughout the movie, gets near-godlike powers, smites the bad guys, and has a quiet talk with his dream girl in the sunshine on Shell Beach. Perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11147 "2012-06-08T19:36:32Z")
Next category: Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11148 "2012-06-08T19:40:11Z")
Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca 3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory What happened to the boy who got everything he ever wanted? He lived happily ever after! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11149 "2012-06-08T20:04:33Z")
Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca 3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 4. Titanic Sorry. But I thought the ending shots of Rose dying and going back to the Titanic, where she had the singular, most important experience of her entire life, was spot-on the best way to end the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11150 "2012-06-08T20:14:08Z")
Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca 3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 4. Titanic 5. The Blues Brothers Dancing to the Jailhouse Rock ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11151 "2012-06-08T20:31:13Z")
Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca 3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 4. Titanic 5. The Blues Brothers 6. Being There If you’ve seen it, you understand. I can’t explain it, so I’ll just say how I thought it was the perfect choice, and then I’ll just quietly walk away. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11152 "2012-06-08T22:37:26Z")
Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca 3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 4. Titanic 5. The Blues Brothers 6. Being There 7. Shawshank Redemption Andy escapes, the Warden blows his brains out, Hadley is now a jailbird, and Red joins Andy on a Mexican beach. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11153 "2012-06-08T22:40:02Z")
Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca 3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 4. Titanic 5. The Blues Brothers 6. Being There 7. Shawshank Redemption 8. The Color Purple It’s the last movie on Earth you’d expect to have happy endings all the way around, and the scene where the wind catches the African robes gets me every time ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11154 "2012-06-08T23:03:15Z")
Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca 3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 4. Titanic 5. The Blues Brothers 6. Being There 7. Shawshank Redemption 8. The Color Purple 9. Blazing Saddles Where you headed, cowboy? Nowhere special. Nowhere special? I always wanted to go there. Come on. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11155 "2012-06-09T00:13:39Z")
Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca 3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 4. Titanic 5. The Blues Brothers 6. Being There 7. Shawshank Redemption 8. The Color Purple 9. Blazing Saddles 10. The Wizard of Oz It was just a dream after all. Or was it? Anyway Dorothy is safe and sound back in Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11156 "2012-06-09T01:01:24Z")
But what about Toto? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11157 "2012-06-09T07:54:39Z")
Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca 3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 4. Titanic 5. The Blues Brothers 6. Being There 7. Shawshank Redemption 8. The Color Purple 9. Blazing Saddles 10. The Wizard of Oz 11. A Fish Called Wanda With or without the ‘afterwards’ they give on screen , e.g. Archie and Wanda having 17 children and opening a leper colony ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11158 "2012-06-09T13:31:48Z")
Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca 3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 4. Titanic 5. The Blues Brothers 6. Being There 7. Shawshank Redemption 8. The Color Purple 9. Blazing Saddles 10. The Wizard of Oz 11. A Fish Called Wanda 12. Animal House [Enter the Deathmobile](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX71mALOPKs) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11159 "2012-06-11T07:55:00Z")
Movies with incredibly satisfying endings (spoilered after the list) 1. Dark City 2. Casablanca 3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 4. Titanic 5. The Blues Brothers 6. Being There 7. Shawshank Redemption 8. The Color Purple 9. Blazing Saddles 10. The Wizard of Oz 11. A Fish Called Wanda 12. Animal House 13. Ghost It seems a fairer and less ideologically bound afterlife than most. Next up: Famous non-royal father/daughters 1. Henry Fonda & Jane Fonda Clarification: instances in which father and daughter were each famous in their own right; Bill & Chelsea Clinton wouldn’t count, for instance, because Chelsea is really only famous for being Bill’s daughter. ---
**Author:** ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11160 "2012-06-11T08:07:56Z")
Famous non-royal father/daughters 1. Henry Fonda & Jane Fonda 2. Keith and Lily Allen [Alright, famous in the UK anyway] > **[Keith Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Allen)** > > Keith Allen may refer to: > **[Lily Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_allen)** > > Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her music career began in 2005 when she made some of her vocal recordings public on Myspace and the publicity resulted in airplay on BBC Radio 1 and a contract with Regal Recordings. Her first mainstream single, "Smile", reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in July 2006. Her debut record, Alright, Still, was well received, In 2... ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/11161 "2012-06-11T12:44:29Z")
Famous non-royal father/daughters 1. Henry Fonda & Jane Fonda 2. Keith and Lily Allen 3. Steven Tyler and Liv Tyler [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=557) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=559)