# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/21 "2004-04-14T14:31:19Z")
**To Rooster Cogburn, With Love, The King and I** John Wayne, Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, Yul Brenner, and Debra Kerr star in this delightful romp that answers that immortal question, “Can a fat, crusty, drag queen find true love in the Siamese Imperial Court ruled over by a bald woman with one eye?” Truly, it is a puzzlement. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/22 "2004-04-14T14:34:58Z")
Well, so much for getting any work done today… **Priscilla, Queen of the Sands of Iwo Jima** Terrence Stamp and John Wayne dress in drag and travel across an isolated coral atoll to defeat the Japanese and raise a rainbow flag atop Mount Mr. Suribachi like the Dog He Is. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/23 "2004-04-14T14:35:18Z")
I just can’t help it … compulsive posting … **Staying Dead Alive** Zombies and Disco, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/24 "2004-04-14T14:35:31Z")
**Evil Dead Reefer Madness** - Because who wouldn’t want to see Bruce Campbell fighting with zombified pyschotic stoners. **Dr. Phibes in Winter** - Grisly deaths and bickering royalty combine as King Anton Phibes returns to his old castle to reap vengeance on his Machiavellian family. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/25 "2004-04-14T14:35:55Z")
**Apollo-22** Tom Hanks plays an astronaut sent into space hoping to get injured so he doesn’t have to go into space. Bill Paxton guest stars as a fellow astronaut Major Major, promoted onto the vessel because that’s what Majors should be doing. **A Hard Day’s Night of the Living Dead** The Fab Four run around London, eating fans’ brains. **Dude, Where’s my Christine?** Two stoners out on a quirky comic quest to find their missing homicidal car. **Problem Children of the Corn** John Ritter tries to be a good adoptive father to a Nebraska town full of murderous children. **Harold and Maude and Sid and Nancy and Alex and Emma** A pair of multiple-personality-disorder sufferers try to write a romantic-comic-novel-about-wanting-to-die-while-playing-Punk-music. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/26 "2004-04-14T14:37:18Z")
What **plnnr** said, no work gettin’ done today … **Kramer vs. Freddy vs. Jason** Dustin Hoffman and Robert Englund engage in a bitter custody battle over their son, currently off at summer camp getting stoned and having premarital sex. Hilarity ensues. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/27 "2004-04-14T14:39:32Z")
The Greatest Neverending Story Ever Told… sorry, I got nothing But I do have The Big Stand- Old friends gather at the funeral of another who died of a mysterious flu- personal & sexual difficulties are explored as they discover they are survivors of an Apocalyptic catastrophe & must face down the AntiChrist (played by Kevin Costner, who also plays the deceased friend now animated by the Walking Dude). ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/28 "2004-04-14T14:42:10Z")
**Oklathello!** Classic American musical, in which farmgirl Laurie-Desdemona has trouble choosing between her Moorish warrior-cowboy husband and the boorish hired-hand, with tragic results. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/29 "2004-04-14T14:42:22Z")
**Daredevil’s Advocate’s Own** Al Pacino and Brad Pitt try to convince B-Fleck to join the IRA while Harrison Ford drinks and looks moody. **Stand and Deliverance** A math club camping trip goes bad. Reeeeeeeal bad. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/30 "2004-04-14T14:46:38Z")
btw, when I was visiting in L.A. a few weeks ago, there was a play- It’s A Stevie Wonderful Life… regretfully, I didn’t get out to see it Cast A Deadly Godspell- Fred Ward as detective Lovecraft out to foil David Warner’s plan to invoke a Hippy Clown Second Coming using the ancient tome the Christonomicon. The Boy With Blue Velvet Hair… Dean Stockwell in a dual role at different ages, one of which may be having sex with Dennis Hopper- EWWWW! ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/31 "2004-04-14T14:48:10Z")
**Final Destination Tokyo** A submarine sent on a recon mission to Japan meets with disaster, and the survivors are stalked by Death himself. Please, for the love of all that’s holy, somebody _stop_ me. 🙂 ---
**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 14, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/32 "2004-04-14T14:53:42Z")
Yup, not gettin’ much done today. **Polterhoma** A family in a brand new state-sized subdivision has plans for a social disrupted when spirits suck Lauire into another dimension. On Preview I see h.sapiens has beaten me to the punch with Rogers and Hammerstein, so we’ll try something else… **Who Framed Indiana Jones** Adventurer at peril in exotic land of Toons while he attempts to find rare antiquities and clues about his brother’s death. **Jesus Christ Superman** A charimatic leader with extraordinary powers runs afoul of authority figures and is ultimately betrayed by his best friend, Jimmy Olson. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/33 "2004-04-14T14:55:48Z")
**One Flew Over the Planet of the Apes** - A free-wheeling astronaut pretending to be insane is sent to the Forbidden Zone. **Mr. Terminator Goes to Washington** - An android from the future is sent to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/34 "2004-04-14T15:01:06Z")
Charlie’s Angels on my Shoulder - Three beautiful women are sent back from death by the devil to solve crimes. Little Big Lebowski - The life story of a 101 year old man who spend his life bowling in the old west. The Man Who Came to My Dinner with Andre - Two well-meaning parents are uncomfortable with the fact their daughter is dating Wallace Shawn. ---
**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 14, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/35 "2004-04-14T15:02:09Z")
**The Day the Earth Stood Still … I Want to Get Off** – Gort and Klaatu try to stage Anthony Newley’s musical, with mixed results. Gort is too stiff. ---
**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 14, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/36 "2004-04-14T15:03:09Z")
\*\*Big Top Gun Pee-Wee \*\* - The Air Force is hard pressed to deal with their new ace pilot, who may be a little mentally unbalanced… “Unbalanced… that’s the secret word! AAAHHHH!” I will leave alone the potential of **Pee-Wee’s Big Adventures in Babysitting** … And move on to \*\*Wild, Wild West Side Story \*\* … where the gang rivalry between the Jet and the Sharks culiminates in a giant mechanical spider destroying those they hold most dear. Gotta go, catching a showing of **Remains of the Day of the Dead** … Anthony Hopkins plays a zombie very naturally, I hear. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/37 "2004-04-14T15:06:13Z")
**Three Men and a Baby Jane** Three carefree bachelors find their lives disrupted when they have to share their apartment with a deranged, murderous former child star. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/38 "2004-04-14T15:09:20Z")
**I Am Curious (Yellow Submarine)** In his most enigmatic work to-date, Ingmar Bergman explores the Beatles’ sexuality in this animated romp set to psychedelic Swedish folkmusic. In Swedish, with Liverpudlian sub-titles. **Steel Magnolia** The lives of Tom Cruise, Phillip Seymor Hoffman, Dolly Parton, and Daryl Hannah entwine themselves while frogs rain down outside a beauty parlor in a small, Southern town. **Once Upon A Time in the West Side Story"** Sergio Leone and Leonard Bernstein combined forces to create this sweeping, lyric masterpiece about a Hispanic girl who must hold onto her block in Brooklyn before Henry Fonda can kill her boyfriend who is in a rival gang. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/39 "2004-04-14T15:10:49Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > **Three Men and a Baby Jane** > Three carefree bachelors find their lives disrupted when they have to share their apartment with a deranged, murderous former child star. This actually sounds like a description of some alternate reality version of _The Ladykillers_. This thread is hysterical, although at the risk of blowing my own horn, my favorites are _Mr. Terminator Goes to Washington_ and _Citizen Jaws_. Oh, and _Stand and Deliverance_ and _Shoahboat_. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/40 "2004-04-14T15:12:29Z")
**Time After Time Bandits** H. G. Wells and his good friend Jack the Ripper join several tiny men who claim to be assistants to the Supreme Being on a romp through history, where they meet Napoleon, Agamemnon, Robin Hood, and Mary Steenburgen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948.md?page=3)