# Play Nia Vardalos' "Victor/Victoria Likes It Hot" Game!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948>\
**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\
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**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, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/41 "2004-04-14T15:12:45Z")

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Also _Wild Wild West Side Story_.

The fact that none of these films will ever exist is proof there is no justice in the Universe.

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**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, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/42 "2004-04-14T15:13:31Z")

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**Superman IV: The Quest for Fire**  
Something about nuclear weapons and cavemen–c’mon, nobody actually _sat_ through it, did they?

**Reversal of Outrageous Fortune**  
Klaus Von Bulow makes a tragic mistake when he two-times Bette Midler and Shelley Long.

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**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, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/43 "2004-04-14T15:17:44Z")

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**Jawsbreaker** - A cliquish group of high-school girls butt heads with the ocean’s fiercest predator.

\*\*The Thinner Man \*\* - Nick and Nora Charles are on the case, trying to solve the mystery surrounding a man who can’t seem to stop losing weight…

Hmm… looks like \*\*Clueless in Seattle’s \*\* coming on, gotta go…

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**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, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/44 "2004-04-14T15:18:48Z")

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**Plan 9 From Mulholland Drive**

Ed Wood and David Lynch team up to produce a film so convoluted and poorly made that no one on the entire planet can understand it. Silent, with music by Phillip Glass, and Swahili subtitles.

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**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, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/45 "2004-04-14T15:23:23Z")

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Yup, no work getting done, this is too entertaining.

**Star Wars of the Roses** - The Empire and the Rebels undergo a nasty separation, trying to force one another out of a galaxy far, far away.

**Grosse Point Blankman** - John Cusack is a hitman hired to kill Damon Wayans. (Such a beatiful dream!)

**The Good Will Deer Hunter** - Robert Deniro is a genius needing psychological help from Robin Williams to recover from the effects of Vietnam before becoming a brilliant mathematician.

**National Lampoon’s Animal Farm** - A bunch of drunken losers prank their way into taking over the college. “Some Fraternities are more equal than others”

**Star Trek 2 1/2: The Smell of KHAN!** - Leslie Nielsen plays captain of the Enterprise, comically bungling through an attempt to save the environment from Ricardo Montalban’s stolen Genesis Device.

I’ll stop for the moment…

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**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, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/46 "2004-04-14T15:24:28Z")

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**The Roman Spring of Mrs. Doubtfire**  
Divorced man dons drag to trail his wife to Italy, but gets involved with a sleazy young gigolo.

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**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, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/47 "2004-04-14T15:24:55Z")

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Mama make it stop!

**Risky Business Without Even Trying** tune-filled story of an ambitious high school student risks his college fund and makes friends with a hooker to rise to the top of a big corporation.

**The Music Man Who Came to Dinner** con man Harold Hill slips on the ice in front of the Perout family home. While recuperating, he schemes to meddle in the family’s lives by starting a boys’ band.

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**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, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/48 "2004-04-14T15:30:03Z")

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**UHFCB4** – Chris Rock’s rap group tries to save Weird Al’s TV station

**E.T.D.A.R.Y.L.A.I.** – An extraterrestrial meets two robot boys, and they all try to phone home.

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**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/49 "2004-04-14T15:32:46Z")

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**The Rocky and Bullwinkle Horror Show**  
After their car breaks down on a deserted road, an unsuspecting moose and squirrel stop by a nearby castle inhabited by a transvestite dog, his slave boy, and two sinister Pottsylvanian servants.

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**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/50 "2004-04-14T15:33:49Z")

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**American Beauty and the Beast** - Disney animated version of the classic tale of the mid-life crisis of a cursed prince with a sexual attraction to the underage friend of his teenage daughter.

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**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, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/51 "2004-04-14T15:34:06Z")

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**Lost Weekend at Bernie’s**

Ray Miland attempts to overcome DTs while hauling around the corpse of Andrew McCarthy.

**Dial M for Mary Poppins**

Alfred Hitchcock directs Dana Andrews, Ray Miland, Julie Andrews, and Dick Van Dyke in the this story of intrique and animated penguins. Watch for Hitchcock’s cameo as one of the suffragettes.

**Thank God It’s Friday the 13th, Part V**

A group of high school kids are trapped in a disco and killed, one by one, by Donna Summer and the Commodores.

**Boogie Nights of the Living Dead**

Two words: Zombie Porn

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**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, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/52 "2004-04-14T15:37:38Z")

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**The Sunshine Boys of Brazil**  
Zaniness ensues when two aged Hitler clones get together for a TV reuinion. “_Again_ with the heiling?!”

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**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, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/53 "2004-04-14T15:40:40Z")

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**The Man Who Would be King Kong** – Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in a big budget remake of **The Amazing Colossal Man**

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/54 "2004-04-14T15:41:36Z")

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Who could forget the classic **The Godfather of the Bride** , about a Mafia don planning his daughter’s wedding?

And then **The Sound of the Music Man** , where a fast talking salesman helps a musical family escape from the Nazis by convincing the Germans to form a marching band.

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**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/55 "2004-04-14T15:43:30Z")

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**American Splendor in the Grass**  
Natalie Wood stars as a small town girl in the 1920s in love with a cantankerous, neurotic cartoonist in 1980s Cleveland.

**On the Beach Blanket Bingo**  
In an atmosphere of sun, sand, and suffering, Frankie and Annette huddle in fear as a cloud of deadly radiation arrives in their sunny beach paradise.

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/56 "2004-04-14T15:44:20Z")

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**What Ever Happend to Baby Huey?**  
Yes the giant duckling grew up and lives with the wheelchair bound Droopy Dog.

DD You wouldn’t do that if I wasn’t stuck in this chair.  
BH 'Bwaht chew war stuck in thwat chwair!

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**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, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/57 "2004-04-14T15:45:01Z")

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**The Lion King in Winter** – an animated fable in which Mufasa (James Earl Jones) invites Simba, Nala, Scar, Timon, and Pumbaa to his castle in France to discuss the upcoming succession.  
**The Silence of Lady Caroline Lamb** – Can Clarice Starling stop the crazed killer before he kills off the entire British Royal Court in the early 19th century?

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**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, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/58 "2004-04-14T15:45:39Z")

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**Hello Guys and Dolly**

Matchmaker Dolly Levi is hired to find a wife for gambler Sky Masterson. In the course of introducing him to missionary Sarah Brown, she falls for Sky herself.

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**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, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/59 "2004-04-14T15:46:25Z")

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\*\*Indiana Jones and the Last Starfighter \*\* - Indy discovers an archaelogical treasure - a ruin left behind by aliens. He navigates the cunning deathtraps they left behind, only to find it was a test… they need someone of his dexterity and cunning as a pilot…

\*\*That Thing From Another World You Do \*\* - Scifi classic; the plane of a newly-formed rock-n-roll group is forced down at an Air Force Base by inclement weather… little did they know they weren’t the only thing landing that night.

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**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, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/60 "2004-04-14T15:47:40Z")

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**Brief Encounter of the Third Kind**

A touching, bitter-sweet science fiction extravaganza starring Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, Richard Dreyfus, and Terri Garr. A man is haunted by visions of Paddington Station after his wife leaves him and two married strangers having an illicit affair disappear onboard a spaceship.

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