# So Long, "Cuckoo's Nest" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839 "2008-07-17T16:10:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [July 17, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839/1 "2008-07-17T16:10:44Z")
[Oregon State Hospital](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5379962), the mental institution where “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was filmed, is being demolished. I don’t know why, but that makes me sad. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839/2 "2008-07-17T16:47:39Z")
High time they tore it down… I worked there for a couple of years in the early 90s and the place was falling apart then. (creepy as hell, too!) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839/3 "2008-07-17T16:50:07Z")
I hear you from a cultural perspective, but it’s in great disrepair and is physically dangerous to patients and staff. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839/4 "2008-07-17T17:54:34Z")
Geez. You rip one hydrotherapy unit loose from the floor and throw it through the window, and next thing you know, they condemn the place. ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839/5 "2008-07-17T18:38:11Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] Geez. You rip one hydrotherapy unit loose from the floor and throw it through the window, and next thing you know, they condemn the place. [/QUOTE] That was _you_? ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839/6 "2008-07-17T19:35:25Z")
I was about to type “What? That was filmed in a hotel, wasn’t it?”, but then I realised that was The Shining. I are dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839/7 "2008-07-17T20:32:31Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] I was about to type “What? That was filmed in a hotel, wasn’t it?”, but then I realised that was The Shining. I are dumb. [/QUOTE] No, you just have problems with reality. Nurse Ratched! Paging Nurse Ratched! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839/8 "2008-07-17T20:34:45Z")
I saw the OSH just a few weeks ago, on a trip out west, and it looked pretty ratty. I can easily believe it’s due to be razed. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839/9 "2008-07-17T20:38:36Z")
So off-topic you couldn’t nuke from orbit: I saw Bradley Whitford in a stage production of _Cuckoo’s Nest_, playing Billy Babbitt, my freshman year in college (he was a sophomore); even then I knew he was going to go far if he wanted to. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839/10 "2008-07-17T20:42:21Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] I was about to type “What? That was filmed in a hotel, wasn’t it?”, but then I realised that was The Shining. I are dumb. [/QUOTE] Jack Nicholson movies are interchangable. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-cuckoos-nest/456839/11 "2008-07-17T20:48:16Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Jack Nicholson movies are interchangable. [/QUOTE] By and large, yes. I’d love to see how Jack Torrance would have treated Carter Chambers. Of course, McMurphy post-CCN would make interesting changes to other films (not in a zombie way, but in drooling passivity).