Fictional Male, last name starts with M, American, NOT the main character, contemporary setting, from a movie comedy made 1970-1990, not Mel Brooks, not sf/fantasy. Ah. Hmm. Well.
IQ: Is the name you’re thinking of the name used by a male character posing as a woman for the sake of a job?
Even without Mel Brooks, there are plenty of one-off comedies in that time frame - Stripes, Animal House, Meatballs, Caddyshack (was there a Caddyshack II?), Silver Streak, etc.
Are we sure it isn’t something animated? Seems to me A Bug’s Life, Mulan and The Iron Giant are early enough one-offs… There are no appropriate characters that leap to mind, but maybe someone else has some good ideas.
IQ: Did your wife drive you crazy by shouting “Humperdink! Humperdink!” over and over again?
Good point, Le Ministre.
DQ: Animated?
There was a Caddyshack II. Terrible movie
I suspect this is from Some Like It Hot or Bosom Buddies, but I dunno the name. Take a DQ.
Take a DQ.
M.
- Fictional
- Male
- American
- Created after 1950
- Did not originally appear in a work of literature
- Created by American(s)
- Appeared in only one work
- Not in the science fiction, fantasy or paranormal genre
- Originally from a film
- M is first letter of last name
- Set in a contemporary period, here defined as the last seventy years
- Not main character
- Considered a “good guy”
- In a comedy
- Created before 1990
- Created after 1970
- Not directed by Mel Brooks
- Not an animated film
Bonus clue: Not in Caddyshack II.
IQs:
- Were you dead to begin with, dead as a doornail?
- Are you the Mystery Cat?
- Did you prophesy that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem?
It was a shot in the dark - I thought you might be Miracle Max from ‘The Princess Bride’. I have a vague notion that his last name was something like ‘Morgenstern’, but as I think on it, Princess Bride was a book before it was a film…
I’ll go see if I can think of anything useful to do with a DQ.
Dorothy Michaels, from Tootsie.
Not poor old Marley
Not McCavity (sp?)
Not… Micah?
Correct on Jacob Marley, Macavity and Micah.
IQs:
- Did you write The Late George Apley?
- Were you an Italian figurative artist known for highly elongated forms?
- Did you voice America’s favorite ogre?
Dunno the first, not Modigliani, not Mike Meyers.
J. P. Marquand won a Pulitzer for Apley (and Red Skelton based his character George Appleby on George Apley). He also wrote the Mr. Moto stories.
Now if I can only figure out which comedy from 1970-1990.
Maybe…
IQ: Did you tell Clarence he had clearance?
Yes! I am First Officer
Roger Murdock
in Airplane!, and certainly not Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
Well done, Prof. P.!
Surely you can’t have won it again? Congratulatons, and I’ll refrain from calling you Shirley.
Two of my co-workers were discussing the movie in the same room with me, and going through the whole “What’s your vector, Victor?” bit so it wasn’t the result of my usual recourse to ratiocination.
Thanks all!
And this time around I am…
G
Man, I have not been able to keep up with the thread this week. Congrats to all the winners!
IQ1: Did you play God in two movies?
IQ2: Did you do everything your partner did, only backwards and in heels?
IQ3: Did you lose an ear and feel saintlike?