# Play Nia Vardalos' "Victor/Victoria Likes It Hot" Game! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948 "2004-04-14T12:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Milburn\_Drysdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs\_Milburn\_Drysdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Milburn_Drysdale)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/261 "2004-04-15T18:06:03Z")
I have never held in laughter so much that i have a stomachache … **The Egg and I, Claudius:** Lovable, afflicted Roman emperor escapes his treacherous family by moving to America and buying a chicken farm. **Batman, Robin, and the 7 Hoods:** Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder team up with Frank, Dean, Sammy and the gang to pick up bat-broads and drink bat-booze in this crime-comedy caper. **Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House on Haunted Hill** : Cary Grant buys a development from William Castle and terror ensues. In “emergo-dear” vision. **There’s Something About Hail Mary:** Jean-Luc Godard teams up with the Farrelly Bros to show us Magdalene’s wilder side. **I Remember Big, Bad Mama:** Family members recall Ma Barker (Shelly Winters) and her loving brood of criminals. **All the President’s Repo Men:** Woodward and Bernstein retire from writing and join Harry Dean Stanton in post-punk LA. **Mystic River Pizza:** Molested boy seeks revenge on pizza shop owner (Danny Aiello) who molested him. With Julia Roberts as the waitress and Sean Penn as Spicoli. **Mother, Juggs, and Speed 2:** Harvey Keitel, Raquel Welch, and Keanu Reeves try to stop a madman who hijacks and ambulance. **Freebie and Mr Bean:** James Caan, Alan Arkin, and Rowan Atkinson get into all sorts of hijinks in this crime-comedy caper. **Beavis and EraserHead:** Animated character and oddball meet in a surreal look at cornish hens and radiators. With the voices of June Foray and Wally Cox. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Milburn\_Drysdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs\_Milburn\_Drysdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Milburn_Drysdale)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/262 "2004-04-15T18:07:16Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Hey—if _that_ were kosher, I’d have done **How Green Were My Acres** long ago! Let’s save that for when we run out of ideas - start a second thread of TV movies. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/263 "2004-04-15T18:25:05Z")
**Sunday, Bloody Black Sunday** –A Jewish doctor, a middle-aged housewife and a bisexual male artist plan to use the Goodyear blimp to bomb the Superbowl. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/264 "2004-04-15T18:29:09Z")
**Darby O’Gill and the Little Rascals** an old man with the gift of gab accidentally captures Stymie. Watch for a young Sean Connery. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Karen\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Walker)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/265 "2004-04-15T18:34:36Z")
**Minority Report to the Commissioner** Tom Cruise tries to prove his innocence after being framed for murdering an undercover police officer **Mo’ Better Biloxi Blues** Matthew Broderick stars in this coming of age comedy about rival musicians at boot camp. **Madame X-Men** Lana Turner enlists Wolverine and the gang to fight a blackmailer ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Karen\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Walker)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/266 "2004-04-15T18:39:01Z")
**Escape from L.A. Story** Snake Plissken is back fighting show biz yuppies for his life ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/267 "2004-04-15T18:39:07Z")
> [@Mrs Milburn Drysdale](#): > > I have never held in laughter so much that i have a stomachache … It’s _aerobics_, sweetie—we’re _exercising_. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/268 "2004-04-15T18:39:23Z")
**Silence of the Lambdas** - “Tell me about the Nerds, Clarice…” ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/269 "2004-04-15T18:40:27Z")
Maybe we have had a few repeats, but I’m pretty sure nobody has mentioned that classic cartoon **Daffy Does Dallas**. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Milburn\_Drysdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs\_Milburn\_Drysdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Milburn_Drysdale)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/270 "2004-04-15T18:45:11Z")
2nd try! it just got erased. **Bowery Boys from Brazil:** Terry Gilliam directs Slip, Sach and Robert DeNiro as they navigate complex piping systems in search of Laurence Olivier. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/271 "2004-04-15T18:46:12Z")
That nifty search this thread function comes in handy. **Paris Hilton is Burning** The tragic story of a young socialite that hears voices telling her to get the English Designer lables out of French department stores. (do you think the title gives away the end?) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/272 "2004-04-15T18:50:25Z")
**Muppet Treasure Planet** – Robert Louis Stevenson’s epic gets loaded with so many cute, inhuman characters and so many pop culture references that it implodes. **Mystery Science Theater of Blood 3000** – Vincent Price and Diana Rigg kill off Joel, Mike, the Mads, Pearl, Bobo, the Brain Guy, and the 'bots in scenes from famous Shakespeare plays. “But, Tom, you have no Flesh near your Heart!” ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/273 "2004-04-15T18:50:52Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > **Silence of the Lambdas** - “Tell me about the Nerds, Clarice…” That has just taken my number-one slot. _still wiping tears of laughter away_ **Terms of Entrapment** Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery steal expensive art, then get cancer. **Some like it Hot to Trot** Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon try to escape from the mob by dressing as talking horses. **Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Cold** Brian Bosworth goes to Hogwarts. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/274 "2004-04-15T18:59:44Z")
I am pleased and honored to have amused you so, Draelin. 😃 **Dirty Harry Potter** - “This is a 45 Magificum, the most powerful spell-wand in the world…” “I know what you’re thinking… did he cast five spells, or six?” ---
**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:** [April 15, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/275 "2004-04-15T19:01:53Z")
**Silence of the Labombas** –Tell me about the Latino dancers, Clarice. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/276 "2004-04-15T19:06:07Z")
**Lock, Wigstock and Two Smoking Barrels** : Starring Brad Pitt and The Lady Bunny and you can’t understand a damn word either of them says. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/277 "2004-04-15T19:07:29Z")
**La Bambi** A plane crash instead of a hunter, but it all ends with traumatized children. **Dirty Harry Dancing** Isn’t the mental image just disturbing? **Better Off Dead Alive** John Cusack is so distraught at losing his girlfriend that he commits suicide again, and again, and again … **How to Make an American Quills** Winona Ryder listens to a bunch of old ladies tell stories about S&M. **Ladyhawke and the Tramp** And you thought they were mis-matched _before_. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/278 "2004-04-15T19:10:27Z")
\*\*Topper Gun \*\* - Maverick and Goose are ghosts (and a couple!) trying to make their friends live a little. \*\*The Reds Shoes \*\* - Warren Beatty is torn between his two loves, communism and ballet! \*\*1984 Charing Cross Road \*\* - George Orwell’s story of totalitarian society run from a London Bookseller. \*\*Murder on the Midnight Express \*\* - Agatha Christy + drug smuggling. What’s not to like?? And look! I remembered to preview (didn’t want to step on Eve’s toes again) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/279 "2004-04-15T19:11:40Z")
**Porgy & Young Bess** - young princess Elizabeth survives her father’s marriages and the reign of her half siblings to become queen with the aid of a legless catfish salesman. Includes the song “Anne/Jane/Anne/Katharine/Catherine, You is My Woman Now” by that singin’ fool Charles Laughton. **Torch Song Trilogy of Bernadette** - a young French virgin (voiced by Ashley Olsen in her first solo role) sights the Virgin Mary (Harvey Feirstein- “Maybe you’ve heard of my son? The Messssssiah?”) in this new Disney animated classic. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/280 "2004-04-15T19:11:47Z")
**Dirty Dancer in the Dark** - “Nobody puts Baby on Death Row!” **The Money Pit and the Pendulum** - Poe’s classic tale of the horror of home ownership. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948.md?page=15)