# Open Spoilers. Don't read!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 22, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736 "2006-06-22T16:40:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/81 "2006-06-22T20:12:49Z")

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> [@Ponder Stibbons](#):
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> Oh, my, yes. That was freakin’ hilarious. I had totally forgotten about that movie.

Interestingly, that same statement could be made about two DeNiro movies.

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**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/82 "2006-06-22T20:18:04Z")

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> [@DxZero](#):
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> Interestingly, that same statement could be made about two DeNiro movies.

Er uh…the fact that he’s still in the CIA, not that you had totally forgotten about that movie.

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**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/83 "2006-06-22T20:18:10Z")

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On the verge of big-time stardom, the band breaks up/self-destructs.

This also applies to two different movies that I can think of.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/84 "2006-06-22T20:21:41Z")

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> [@Zsofia](#):
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> Cruella does not end up making puppy-fur coats.

Montgomery Burns doesn not end up making a puppy-fur tuxedo (or matching clogs).

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**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/85 "2006-06-22T20:21:45Z")

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Dorothy was dreaming.

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**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/86 "2006-06-22T20:23:04Z")

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The truth really wasn’t out there.

Or maybe it was.

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**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/87 "2006-06-22T20:33:25Z")

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He’s really fighting _himself_!

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**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/88 "2006-06-22T20:42:52Z")

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I know what I am, what I am is a man, and so is Lola.

She’s my girl, Bill.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/89 "2006-06-22T20:43:34Z")

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She grows up and marries someone else and he finds out he really loved her all along.

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**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/90 "2006-06-22T20:45:54Z")

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It was the dead guy.

He wrote a book about it.

The formula was a placebo, and Meatloaf got blown up.

He chose life.

Everyone dresses in drag, even the stodgy old conservative, for a big happy ending.

They get the company back.

Despite a gratuitous motorcycle chase, Steve McQueen does not escape.

She gets her own apartment with Sam.

He never gets caught, though the principal tries very hard to catch him.

He buys her a heart cookie and doesn’t kill anyone.

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**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/91 "2006-06-22T20:58:00Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> She grows up and marries someone else and he finds out he really loved her all along.

Thus ends the SHORTEST movie summary ever written by **mika**!

😉

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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/92 "2006-06-22T21:02:59Z")

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The patient looks normal - it’s _everyone else_ that’s deformed!!

She’s a mannequin!!

Robert Redford is the Angel of Death!!!

They’re DOLLS!!

It’s a Zoo!!!

It’s…MAN!!!

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/93 "2006-06-22T21:22:50Z")

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Batman wins,because he’s prepared.

It’s Snakes! On a Plane!

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**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/94 "2006-06-22T21:26:16Z")

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The final sin is “wrath.”

The bail bondsman shoots Sam Jackson.

The conman’s daughter is really part of a bigger con.

It’s a fucking well.

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**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/95 "2006-06-22T21:32:10Z")

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His wife’s head is in the box.

Original: You think he’s dead but he isn’t.

Part 2: You think he’s dead but he isn’t.

Part 3: You think he’s dead but he isn’t.

Part 4: You think he’s dead but he isn’t.

Part 5: You think he’s dead but he isn’t.

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**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/96 "2006-06-22T21:39:54Z")

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He \*is \* Johnny Favorite.

He whacks Annie in the head with a pig doorstop and escapes.

Col. Jessup ordered the Code Red.

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**Author:** ![lars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@lars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lars)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/97 "2006-06-22T22:11:15Z")

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She dies. Her sister - her daughter - her sister - her daughter - her sister AND her daughter is taken away by her father.

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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/98 "2006-06-22T22:11:32Z")

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Godzilla squishes Bambi.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/99 "2006-06-22T22:12:55Z")

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He’d piss on a spark plug if he thought that would help.

They went away (bravely) before getting taunted a second time.

He got demoted for saving Earth from the whales. Later, he dies making fun of a frenchman with an Eton accent.

The angels only kill Nazis and that other archeologist.

She planned it all along, it even says so in her high school yearbook.

Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.

Arthur finally dies.

The Doctor regenerates and is all differenty now.

Jesus comes back, and apparantly he’s mad about you. Or at you. Depends on faith or something.

She threw the letter away.

A hundred goddamn ugly ribbons strangled the old the old oak tree.

(some of these are minor)

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-spoilers-dont-read/361736/100 "2006-06-22T22:16:43Z")

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The bandits kill Dobbs, but the treasure all blows away in the wind because they don’t realize it’s gold _dust._

When all seems lost, the \*Louisa \* collides with the sunken torpedoes and is blown to smithereens.

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