# Movie Marathon (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 23, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988 "2023-06-23T10:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 387
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7722 "2025-05-12T22:03:58Z")
**Avian protagonists** 1. Chanticleer - Rockadoodle 2. Jake - Free Birds 3. Rocky Rhodes - Chicken Run 4. Tweety - various Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts 5. Cody - Surf’s Up 6. Nigel - Finding Nemo 7. Mumble - Happy Feet 8. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – from the eminently forgettable [movie of the same name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull_(film)) _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7723 "2025-05-12T23:20:04Z")
**Avian protagonists** 1. Chanticleer - Rockadoodle 2. Jake - Free Birds 3. Rocky Rhodes - Chicken Run 4. Tweety - various Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts 5. Cody - Surf’s Up 6. Nigel - Finding Nemo 7. Mumble - Happy Feet 8. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – from the eminently forgettable [movie of the same name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull_(film)) 9. Orville the Albatross - The Rescuers ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7724 "2025-05-12T23:36:09Z")
**Avian protagonists** 1. Chanticleer - Rockadoodle 2. Jake - Free Birds 3. Rocky Rhodes - Chicken Run 4. Tweety - various Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts 5. Cody - Surf’s Up 6. Nigel - Finding Nemo 7. Mumble - Happy Feet 8. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – from the eminently forgettable [movie of the same name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull_(film)) 9. Orville the Albatross - The Rescuers 10. Scuttle - The Little Mermaid New category: **Blatant product placement in movies** 1. Del Spooner (Will Smith)'s “Converse All-Stars, vintage 2005” - I, Robot ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7725 "2025-05-12T23:43:52Z")
**Blatant product placement in movies** 1. Del Spooner (Will Smith)'s “Converse All-Stars, vintage 2005” - I, Robot 2. Subway sandwiches - Happy Gilmore ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7726 "2025-05-12T23:56:59Z")
**Blatant product placement in movies** 1. Del Spooner (Will Smith)'s “Converse All-Stars, vintage 2005” - I, Robot 2. Subway sandwiches - Happy Gilmore 3. Superman sending one of the villains crashing through the Coca-Cola sign in Times Square - Superman II ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7727 "2025-05-13T00:06:56Z")
**Blatant product placement in movies** 1. Del Spooner (Will Smith)'s “Converse All-Stars, vintage 2005” - I, Robot 2. Subway sandwiches - Happy Gilmore 3. Superman sending one of the villains crashing through the Coca-Cola sign in Times Square - Superman II 4. Audi - Iron Man ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7728 "2025-05-13T00:40:45Z")
**Blatant product placement in movies** 1. Del Spooner (Will Smith)'s “Converse All-Stars, vintage 2005” - I, Robot 2. Subway sandwiches - Happy Gilmore 3. Superman sending one of the villains crashing through the Coca-Cola sign in Times Square - Superman II 4. Audi - Iron Man 5. Pizza Hut, Pepsi, and others - Wayne’s World “It’s like people only do things because they get paid. And that’s just really sad.” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7729 "2025-05-13T00:45:34Z")
**Blatant product placement in movies** 1. Del Spooner (Will Smith)'s “Converse All-Stars, vintage 2005” - I, Robot 2. Subway sandwiches - Happy Gilmore 3. Superman sending one of the villains crashing through the Coca-Cola sign in Times Square - Superman II 4. Audi - Iron Man 5. Pizza Hut, Pepsi, and others - Wayne’s World 6. Pacific Bell Yellow Pages - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7730 "2025-05-13T00:55:30Z")
**Blatant product placement in movies** 1. Del Spooner (Will Smith)'s “Converse All-Stars, vintage 2005” - I, Robot 2. Subway sandwiches - Happy Gilmore 3. Superman sending one of the villains crashing through the Coca-Cola sign in Times Square - Superman II 4. Audi - Iron Man 5. Pizza Hut, Pepsi, and others - Wayne’s World 6. Pacific Bell Yellow Pages - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 7. Pepsi - Madame Web ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7731 "2025-05-13T01:34:12Z")
**Blatant product placement in movies** 1. Del Spooner (Will Smith)'s “Converse All-Stars, vintage 2005” - I, Robot 2. Subway sandwiches - Happy Gilmore 3. Superman sending one of the villains crashing through the Coca-Cola sign in Times Square - Superman II 4. Audi - Iron Man 5. Pizza Hut, Pepsi, and others - Wayne’s World 6. Pacific Bell Yellow Pages - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 7. Pepsi - Madame Web 8. Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles - Rush Hour ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7732 "2025-05-13T02:19:28Z")
**Blatant product placement in movies** 1. Del Spooner (Will Smith)'s “Converse All-Stars, vintage 2005” - I, Robot 2. Subway sandwiches - Happy Gilmore 3. Superman sending one of the villains crashing through the Coca-Cola sign in Times Square - Superman II 4. Audi - Iron Man 5. Pizza Hut, Pepsi, and others - Wayne’s World 6. Pacific Bell Yellow Pages - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 7. Pepsi - Madame Web 8. Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles - Rush Hour 9. Pan Am airlines – 2001: A Space Odyssey _(Who’da thunk they’d have gone belly-up by 2001, eh?)_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7733 "2025-05-13T02:25:07Z")
**Blatant product placement in movies** 1. Del Spooner (Will Smith)'s “Converse All-Stars, vintage 2005” - I, Robot 2. Subway sandwiches - Happy Gilmore 3. Superman sending one of the villains crashing through the Coca-Cola sign in Times Square - Superman II 4. Audi - Iron Man 5. Pizza Hut, Pepsi, and others - Wayne’s World 6. Pacific Bell Yellow Pages - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 7. Pepsi - Madame Web 8. Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles - Rush Hour 9. Pan Am airlines – 2001: A Space Odyssey 10. Nokia - Star Trek (2009) The signature ringtone is heard as Jim’s adoptive father calls him while he’s joyriding his car. Pass. (It was my category.) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7734 "2025-05-13T17:24:43Z")
It’s a bit late, but… **Mothers in movies** 1. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7735 "2025-05-13T18:01:45Z")
**Mothers in movies** 1. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot 2. Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7736 "2025-05-13T18:05:57Z")
**Mothers in movies** 1. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot 2. Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead 3. Mommy Dearest _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7737 "2025-05-13T18:13:25Z")
**Mothers in movies** 1. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot 2. Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead 3. Mommy Dearest 4. Stepmom ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7738 "2025-05-13T18:16:09Z")
**Mothers in movies** 1. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot 2. Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead 3. Mommy Dearest 4. Stepmom 5. Freaky Friday ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7739 "2025-05-13T18:26:17Z")
**Mothers in movies** 1. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot 2. Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead 3. Mommy Dearest 4. Stepmom 5. Freaky Friday 6. Oedipus Rex At least three cinematic versions have been released, and of course Tom Lehrer proposed an appropriate [theme song.](https://youtu.be/mScdJURKGWM?si=Zp3hjg6lM2702TzZ) ---
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**Mothers in movies** 1. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot 2. Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead 3. Mommy Dearest 4. Stepmom 5. Freaky Friday 6. Oedipus Rex 7. Serial Mom ---
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**Mothers in movies** 1. Stop or My Mom Will Shoot 2. Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead 3. Mommy Dearest 4. Stepmom 5. Freaky Friday 6. Oedipus Rex 7. Serial Mom 8. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=386) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=388)