# If they ever make a Charlie McCarthy movie

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 21, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-they-ever-make-a-charlie-mccarthy-movie/214458 "2003-11-21T06:27:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-they-ever-make-a-charlie-mccarthy-movie/214458/1 "2003-11-21T06:27:19Z")

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I think I’ve found [the perfect star.](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/art3/mjmug1.jpg)

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-they-ever-make-a-charlie-mccarthy-movie/214458/2 "2003-11-21T13:14:29Z")

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5’11", weighs 120. Yikes.

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-they-ever-make-a-charlie-mccarthy-movie/214458/3 "2003-11-21T16:18:22Z")

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Who would get to play Edgar Bergen, and would he want to spend the whole movie fisting Jacko?

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**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-they-ever-make-a-charlie-mccarthy-movie/214458/4 "2003-11-22T05:44:25Z")

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That face is disturbing in the same way that the faces of some dolls and ventriloquist dummies are creepy – because it is like a face, and yet not. In that photo of Jackson, you can see the eyes of a person peering out, but it’s as if they are behind a face, behind a facade that is not real.

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**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-they-ever-make-a-charlie-mccarthy-movie/214458/5 "2003-11-22T18:57:01Z")

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Am I the only person who thought that Michael J.'s mugshot looked like Edna May Oliver’s evil twin?