# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 417
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8322 "2025-09-06T04:07:10Z")
I saw it 30 years ago and all I remember is that Herman Munster was the judge, the smoking gun was grits, and Marisa Tomei was hot. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8323 "2025-09-06T04:20:51Z")
And somehow she was supposed to be in love with Joe Pesci. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8324 "2025-09-06T04:27:48Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > somehow she was supposed to be in love with Joe Pesci Who was presumably a just-passed-the-bar lawyer in his 30s(?), played by an actor who was almost 50. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8325 "2025-09-06T04:29:48Z")
I saw the My Cousin Vinny in the early 1990s and do not remember a thing about it. All I remember is renting it from a video store when my in laws came for a visit. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8326 "2025-09-06T11:14:05Z")
I saw it, but don’t remember anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8327 "2025-09-06T11:29:03Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Spiderman](#): > > > > How have so many of you not seen My Cousin Vinny??? > > Maybe some of them are yoots. What…is a _yoot_? /Fred Gwynn mmm ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8328 "2025-09-06T12:03:59Z")
There were no other bad guys in _My Cousin Vinny._ The closest was the I’ll kick your ass guy but that was so minor a part it doesn’t really matter. That’s one of the reason it works. No one is evil. Just ordinary people who came to the wrong but understandable conclusion that the defendants were guilty. If Vinny was fighting against evil it would have been a lot less funny. The movie is a remote drop. I’ve seen it many times at least part of the way through. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8329 "2025-09-06T13:04:44Z")
I’d say all 3 discredited witnesses were recklessly endangering the defendants by testifying to something they couldn’t have seen, only grits guy can be given much benefit of the doubt. The sheriff at best is wilfully oblivious to context and the auto expert should have been able to spot the discrepancy himself. They’re not evil but they’re not great. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8330 "2025-09-06T19:11:28Z")
I’ve probably seen _My Cousin Vinny_ at least four times (maybe more), and I laugh every time. It’s a feel good movie with humor, what’s not to like? Also, IIRC Legal Eagle says most of the courtroom stuff was fairly accurate. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8331 "2025-09-06T19:17:13Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Also, IIRC Legal Eagle says most of the courtroom stuff was fairly accurate. I’ve had several conversations with lawyers recently about _My Cousin Vinny_ and that’s their take on it, too: it’s much closer to how trials actually work than most “courtroom dramas.” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8332 "2025-09-06T20:09:13Z")
I was a little disappointed to not see Marvin Lee Aday’s name in the celebrity name poll. (you may know him as Mr. Loaf) mmm ---
**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:** [September 6, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8333 "2025-09-06T20:41:28Z")
I have a few more quasi-unknown names, but it may be best to save them for the next poll. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8334 "2025-09-07T01:06:02Z")
I’ve got dozens more myself, but figured 20 was enough for one poll. If you want to post your own follow-up list, feel free! ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8335 "2025-09-07T02:07:34Z")
@psychonaut, you may want to spoilerize who they are in yours, as I am for mine: Frances Gumm - Judy Garland Allan Stewart Konigsberg - Woody Allen Natalia Nikolaevena Zakharenko - Natalie Wood Stevland Hardaway Judkins - Stevie Wonder Neta-Lee Herschlag - Natalie Portman Lucille Fay LeSueur - Joan Crawford (gotcha if you were thinking Lucille Ball) Brian Warner - Marilyn Manson Michael Douglas - Michael Keaton Albert Einstein - Albert Brooks David Robert Jones - David Bowie (vs. the Monkee) Margarita Carmen Cansino - Rita Hayworth Marion Robert Morrison - John Wayne Betty Joan Perske - Lauren Bacall (vs. Betty Grable or Joan Crawford) James Newell Osterberg Jr. - Iggy Pop Mark Sinclair - Vin Diesel Dana Elaine Owens - Queen Latifah Harry Webb - Cliff Richard Maurice Joseph Micklewhite - Michael Caine Benjamin Kubelsky - Jack Benny Susan Janet Ballion - Siouxsie Sioux ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8336 "2025-09-07T02:14:34Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I have a few more quasi-unknown names, but it may be best to save them for the next poll. What are we supposed to do with your poll? It’s set up so we can only choose one. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8337 "2025-09-07T02:29:26Z")
You might want to edit your poll. You can only vote for one. (I only knew one, so that was okay.) ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8338 "2025-09-07T02:54:03Z")
AARRGGHH. I was focused so hard on making sure the names matched AND that I didn’t duplicate what **psychonaut** used that in my usual fashion that setting completely slipped my mind. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8339 "2025-09-07T09:10:34Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > AND that I didn’t duplicate what **psychonaut** used You duplicated Maurice Joseph Micklewhite ! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8340 "2025-09-07T12:50:41Z")
He’s worth duplicating! ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8341 "2025-09-07T13:56:27Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > > AND that I didn’t duplicate what **psychonaut** used > > You duplicated Maurice Joseph Micklewhite ! **SCREAM.** Proof that I shouldn’t be doing such things near bedtime, esp. after spending several hours on a personal project which absolutely demands such rigorous attention to detail… Am disappointed that a certain female gothic post-punker got zero recognition tho. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=416) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=418)