# One movie. One album. One TV show. One novel. One other. Go!
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 19, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037 "2011-06-19T15:23:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/41 "2011-06-20T18:31:57Z")
Movie: _On the Waterfront_. This one’s easy.
Album: This was really, really hard. I had ready answers to the other three, but surprisingly I’d never thought about this question. My tastes are very varied - could have been a recording of Faure’s Piano Quartets, could have been the OCA of _Sweeney Todd_, or perhaps _Ella and Louis Again_. But after some consideration, I’ll go with _Stop Making Sense_ by Talking Heads. That’s one of the few albums that I liked back in my younger days that I still listen to.
TV Show: _Sports Night_.
Novel: _The Great Gatsby_. By a shade over _Midnight’s Children_.
Play: _Heartbreak House_ by George Bernard Shaw.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/42 "2011-06-20T19:11:04Z")
Oh, so difficult. I’m going to have to go with my classic choices.
**Movie** — _O Brother Where Art Thou?_
**Album** — _Green_, REM
**TV Show** — _M_A_S_H\*
**Novel** — _Lonesome Dove_
**Other; Flower** — Sunflowers. No other thing makes me happier, unless it’s cowboy boots.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/43 "2011-06-20T19:13:11Z")
Movie: _Into The Night(1985)_
Album: _Alice Cooper Goes To Hell_
Television: _General Hospital_
Novel: Heinlein’s _Time Enough For Love_
Non-Fiction: Allan Sherman’s _The Rape Of The A_P\*E\*\*
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### Author:  [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/44 "2011-06-20T19:19:22Z")
Movie: Indiana Jones The Last Crusade
Album: Hounds of love by Kate Bush
TV Show: Fawlty Towers
Novel: Dune by Frank Herbert
Other: classical composition Das Lied von der Erde by Gustav Mahler
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/45 "2011-06-20T19:46:05Z")
Movie: A Clockwork Orange
TV show: My Name is Earl
Album: The Alan Parsons Project, The Definitive Collection
Novel: Gone With the Wind
Other: Zatarain’s Creole Seasoning 😃
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/46 "2011-06-20T19:49:29Z")
Movie: The Green Mile
TV show: Simpsons
Album: Jesus Christ Superstar (original concept LP)
Novel: The World According to Garp
Stage musical: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/47 "2011-06-20T19:55:02Z")
Annie, I almost said Garp! It was my absolute most favoritest novel for years and years. I can practically quote it from memory.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/48 "2011-06-20T20:15:50Z")
Wow, this is incredibly tough for me. I’m torn between listing “all-time favorites” or “current faves.” List might be a mix of both…
Movie: _Rushmore_
TV Show: _The Wire_
Album: Wilco, _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_
Novel:\* A Wrinkle in Time \*(1st novel I ever read, at age 6, and still my favorite 30 yrs later)
Candy Bar: _Cadbury Dairy Milk “Fruit & Nut” bar_
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/49 "2011-06-20T20:21:19Z")
Movie: _Citizen Kane_
TV Show: _Unsolved Mysteries_
Album: Teenage Fanclub, _Songs From Northern Britain_
Novel: James Ellroy, _LA Confidential_
Other: Jaleo in Bethesda
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### Author:  [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/50 "2011-06-20T21:10:17Z")
Movie: _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_
Album: Ohh…so many. This answer will change by the day. Right now, I’ll say Alice Cooper’s _Brutal Planet_, though something by the Alan Parsons Project and/or Assemblage 23 are very, very close
TV Show: _CSI_ (used to be \*House \*but that’s slipped in the past couple of years–my criteria for favorite is the one I most look forward to seeing new episodes of)
Novel: _Atlas Shrugged_
Video game: _World of Warcraft_
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### Author:  [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/51 "2011-06-20T21:58:57Z")
Movie: Airplane
Novel: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Album: Special Forces by .38 Special
Sport: Columbus Cottonmouths hockey
Other: Cornish Rex cats
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/52 "2011-06-20T22:01:06Z")
**Movie:** “Pride and Prejudice” mini-series
**Album:** “La Traviata” with Ileana Cotrubas and Placido Domingo, conducted by Carlos Kleiber.
**TV Show:** “Magnum, PI.” This has been my answer for so long despite the fact that I haven’t seen an episode in at least 10 years.
**Novel:** _Gaudy Night_ by Dorothy Sayers. High-fives to SpoilerVirgin.
**Other:** Baseball, specifically the Cleveland Indians.
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/53 "2011-06-20T22:08:28Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
>
> Here is how this works. You name your single favorite movie, TV show, album, and novel.
Movie: **Blazing Saddles**
Album: **_Fear of a Black Planet_ - Public Enemy**
TV Show: **Bugs Bunny/Looney Toons**
Novel: **Shogun**
Other: Macaroni & cheese (like my mom makes)
I struggled with the novel because I tend to read a lot of sci-fi short stories or series, and I haven’t read into to the thread to see if series could count, given the wording in the OP. So I went with a novel that I seem to reliably pick up every five years or so to re-read.
The others were fairly easy, once I thought about them, although I nearly said “The Dark Knight” for movie. But I’ve got Blazing Saddles far too memorized to overlook it as favorite.
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/54 "2011-06-20T22:20:41Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#):
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> Novel: Again I will use the criterion of re-readability. For something I could pick up and read over and over again, I will go with **Good Omens** by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Though ask me on another day and my answer might well be different.
I intentionally avoided reading other responses first so mine wouldn’t be influenced. But if I had, I would have chosen this, as well!
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### Author:  [@PoorMarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorMarie)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/55 "2011-06-21T01:02:16Z")
Movie: Splendor in the Grass with Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty
Album: Elvis Costello Armed Forces
TV Show: Disappeared
Novel: Joseph Conrad’s “The Heart of Darkness”
Poem: Either Lynn Emanuel’s Inspiration or On Waking After Dreaming of Raoul, from the book “The Dig,” totally worth the two dollars and change a used copy sells for on amazon…
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/56 "2011-06-21T01:05:05Z")
Movie: Coraline 3-D.
Album: The Wall.
TV Show: Gargoyles.
Novel: Ada by Vladimir Nabokov.
Other: Board Game: Puerto Rico.
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### Author:  [@Caiata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caiata)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/57 "2011-06-21T01:27:03Z")
Movie: _Pi_
Album: Powderfinger’s _Internationalist_, runner-up Silverchair’s _Young Modern_
TV Show: This is SO HARD. But people have already voted for _NewsRadio_ and _3rd Rock_, so I’ll say _Firefly_.
Novel: _August 1914_ by Solzhenitsyn - it’s just so beautifully written
Other: Drink: Chai latte
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/58 "2011-06-21T01:34:49Z")
Movie: _City Lights_
Album: _Charley Patton: King of the Delta Blues_
TV Show: \*Simpsons
\*Novel: _One Hundred Years Of Solitude_
Board Game: _Scrabble_
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### Author:  [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/59 "2011-06-21T02:37:09Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
>
> Movie: Coraline 3-D.
> Album: The Wall.
> TV Show: Gargoyles.
> Novel: Ada by Vladimir Nabokov.
> Other: Board Game: Puerto Rico.
Nice list – I think my favourite so far (besides my own of course)
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/60 "2011-06-21T14:42:06Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#):
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> Annie, I almost said Garp! It was my absolute most favoritest novel for years and years. I can practically quote it from memory.
My take on Garp is that it is a novel about sexual abnormalities. Garp is sexual normal, surrounded by a bunch of sexual (Tee! Hee!) whackjobs.
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