# 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:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/141 "2004-04-14T18:55:23Z")

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**Sex, Lies and VideoTapeheads**  
John Cusack and Tim Robbins star as former security guards who try to break into the music video scene by conducting erotic video interviews.

**The Blair Witch Project X**  
Monkeys with the ability to use sign language and pilot airplanes terrorize a documentary crew in the Maryland woods.

**Ocean’s Eleven Heads in a Duffel Bag**  
It’s hard to rob three casinos at once when all your decapitated friends keep offering advice.

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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, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/142 "2004-04-14T18:57:09Z")

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**"It’s Cleo-Pat!"**  
Is she the Queen of the Nile? Or is he the King of the Nile? Marc Antony and Julius Caesar are too embarrassed to ask . . .

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**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 14, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/143 "2004-04-14T18:57:17Z")

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**Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel** : It’s too dark to jump barrels, so our hero opts for a glass of Chablis.

**Glen Campbell or Glenda:** A washed up alcoholic country singer opts for more than a career change in this docu-musical. Hosted by Bela Lugosi.

**Anthony and Cleopatra Jones** : Blaxploitation meets Shakespeare in this soon-to-be hipster classic. With Shelley Winters, Antonio Fargas, and Liz Taylor.

**Lost in Translation-Space:** Evil Dr. Smith kidnaps Bill Murray and takes him to Tokyo.

**Plan 9 to Five** : Lily, Dolly and Jane battle grave robbers from outer space. With Dabney Coleman and Vampira.

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/144 "2004-04-14T18:58:55Z")

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**Song of the South Pacific** : featuring such classic songs as “I’m Gonna Wash That Tar Baby Right Outta My Hair” and “Bali Hai Doo Dah.”

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**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/145 "2004-04-14T18:59:55Z")

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**Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Groundhog Day** A weather forcaster meets another creepy big tooth.

\*\* A Christmas Carrie\*\* Girl finds solace in knowing pigs blood is used in Christmas hams.

**Raging Bueller’s Day Off** In which deNiro gained 40 pounds to escape his teacher.

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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, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/146 "2004-04-14T19:04:15Z")

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**Charly’s Angels**  
Eventually, he’ll go back to being dumber than they are.

**The Mirror Has Two Faces of Death**  
Watch Barbra Streisand die.

**While You Were Sleeping With the Enemy**  
It’s easier to avoid your abusive husband when he’s in a coma.

**Drowning Mona Lisa Smile**  
An art professor that nobody liked is murdered, and everybody drives Yugos.

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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, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/147 "2004-04-14T19:06:23Z")

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**The Magnificent Seven Ambersons**

Starring Yul Brenner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead. A once prosperous Mid-Western family must hire seven gunmen to protect their crumbling empire.

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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, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/148 "2004-04-14T19:08:05Z")

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**Live and Let Die Another Day** - Bond meets Bond … double 007!

**American History of the World, Part X** - Mel Brook’s classic spoof of skinheads in America.

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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, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/149 "2004-04-14T19:08:44Z")

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**American Gladiator X** - Russell Crowe stars as a rahabilitated neo-gladiator trying to save his younger brother from making the mistake of fighting lions that he made.

**Biloxi Blues Brothers** - Matthew Broderick and Dan Aykroyd are on a mission from God to save a Mississippi boot camp. Kathleen Freeman co-stars as the mentally unstable drill sergeant.

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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, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/150 "2004-04-14T19:11:50Z")

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**To Wong Foo, Thanks for the Best of Everything! Julie Newmar**  
The romantic adventures of three drag performers who get jobs at a chic New York publishing company.

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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, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/151 "2004-04-14T19:13:40Z")

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**The Man With the Golden Pond** - Bond (Roger Moore) faces his deadliest and most unlikely foe - Retired professor Norman Thayer, Jr (Henry Fonda).

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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, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/152 "2004-04-14T19:16:16Z")

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_I have an announcement, people_

The infamous “If LotR had been written by somebody else” thread attracted only 23 posts in its first 24 hours.

Does anyone know if this is the fastest thread ever?

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**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 14, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/153 "2004-04-14T19:16:43Z")

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**Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte’s Web** : Poor deluded spider is tricked into believing she killed Wilbur.

\*\*Hello, Devil Dolly! \*\* Lionel Barrymore, escaped from prison, poses as old Dolly Levi to avoid capture.

**Shakiest Gun in the West Side Story** : Bumbling Don Knotts gets mistakenly involved in a NY gang war.  
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Son of Pale Rider\*\*: Bob Hope and Clint Eastwood team up in a comedy western.

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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, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/154 "2004-04-14T19:23:02Z")

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**The 13 Ghostbusters** - Venkman, Stantz, and Spengler are at it again, this time call to deal with a house full of ghosts that are a little rougher than those they’re used to…

**Ice Pirates of the Carribbean** - “But why… is the water gone?”

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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, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/155 "2004-04-14T19:27:15Z")

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**Francis the Talking Mule Comes to the Stable**

Francis the Talking Mule and Loretta Young star in this lurid tale of the forbidden love between a mule and a Catholic nun.

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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, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/156 "2004-04-14T19:29:25Z")

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**Lord of the Rings : Road to Mordor** - Frodo (Bing Crosby) and Sam (Bob Hope) have been entrusted with destroying the ring of the Dark Lord Sauron… if they can get they without killing each other first. With Dorothy Lamour as Galadriel.

“Well, Junior, it looks like we’re in a pickle again.”  
“You’d think with ears like that, you’d have heard the Orcs comin’…”  
“What, can’t you smell’em with that honker of yours?”

I know, I overuse the ‘Road’ theme… but it’s sooooo good!

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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, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/157 "2004-04-14T19:30:22Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> **Ice Pirates of the Carribbean** - “But why… is the water gone?”

“Uh oh … Island Herpes.”

**The Good, the Bad, and the Coyote Ugly**  
Clint Eastwood runs Hogs & Heifers.

**The Passion of the Caligula**  
I’m not going _near_ a description of that one. And I’m fairly certain I’m going to hell just for thinking about it.

**Scooby Doo 2: Monster Unleashed**  
The Mystery Machine gang chase after a decidedly unattractive-looking Charlize Theron.

**Jimmy Neutron, Real Genius**  
Animated kids’ tale about superintelligent pranksters at a prestigious technical college.

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**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/158 "2004-04-14T19:34:18Z")

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**Some Like It On the Waterfront**

Tony Curtis and Marlon Brando dress in drag and join an all-girl band to fight corrupt union bosses.

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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, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/159 "2004-04-14T19:41:18Z")

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You people _really_ need to stop giving me more ideas. 🙂

**Waterfrontworld**  
“I coulda been a contender … if there were any land to contend on.”

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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, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/160 "2004-04-14T19:43:05Z")

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\*\*It Happened One Night of the Hunter \*\* - Robert Mitchum stalks Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable across country. (saw both titles used before, but not together, to my recollection)

**Galaxy Quest for the Holy Grail** - Naaah.

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