# Special Movie Trivia: Identify the movie from this scene description. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533 "2002-03-11T07:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![greenphan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c37758/32.png) [@greenphan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greenphan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/341 "2002-12-05T05:43:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Rieux \* > \*\* > > DR 1: A game-show host and a child contestant both have on-air breakdowns. > > \*\* Magnolia? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/342 "2002-12-05T05:45:10Z")
DR 1 is “Magnolia.” DR 2 is “Robin and Marian” ---
**Author:** ![zigaretten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/91b2a8/32.png) [@zigaretten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zigaretten)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/343 "2002-12-05T07:41:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by panamajack \* > PJ 1 : An entire fish is blended and then drunk. “The Favor, the Watch and the Very Big Fish” or “The Watch, the Favor and the Very Big Fish.” Anyway, it’s the only movie I ever saw that made me wish I could play the violin. > [@](#): > > PJ 2 : One of the old man’s servants goes out to the lake for a walk. Being There ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/344 "2002-12-05T07:46:05Z")
Drat–you got them both. DR 3: A female demon fails to seduce a good man, so she summons a male demon to destroy the man’s sister. DR 4: A young girl is visitd by the ghost of her father’s first wife. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/345 "2002-12-05T07:59:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Rieux \* > \*\*Drat–you got them both. > > DR 3: A female demon fails to seduce a good man, so she summons a male demon to destroy the man’s sister. > \*\* Incubus. Shatner in Esperanto. ---
**Author:** ![zigaretten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/91b2a8/32.png) [@zigaretten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zigaretten)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/346 "2002-12-05T08:04:07Z")
HPL4 - Gunga Din (but how about Sergeants 3??) I’ll repeat mine along with my warning that they are obscure and 4 & 5 are foreign: z3…an electric iron shorts out causing a dress to be burned with disastrous results. (Alias would like this one.) z4…a gentleman drops his pants in order to take a dump in the snow. When his two companions stop and stare he suggests they should take a sample for scientific purposes. z5…a group of Frenchmen (and women) are enjoying a picnic when the distant sound of a machine gun causes them to panic. ---
**Author:** ![Ficer67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Ficer67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ficer67)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/347 "2002-12-05T08:51:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baldwin \* > \*\*The movie with the legless man in the wheelchair being pushed off a cliff was _Eye of the Needle_. > > How about this one: a mob uses a catapult to hurl flaming projectiles at an apartment building, until the building’s only inhabitant responds with a large-caliber sniper rifle. \*\* This is the Omega Man starring Charleton Heston. If I were in it, I would have used an M60 ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/348 "2002-12-05T09:05:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ficer67 \* > \*\*This is the Omega Man starring Charleton Heston. If I were in it, I would have used an M60 \*\* Well, it did seem to be a full auto sniper rifle. ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/349 "2002-12-05T17:41:13Z")
To restate an earlier post: BZY1: A man gets Nitro-glycerine on his hand and lets it drip off his hand, hitting the ground with sharp pops. Some new ones… BZY2: A man committing suicide states that his favorite color is orange. BZY3: As their car plunges to certain death, one man admits his love for another man. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/350 "2002-12-05T17:48:19Z")
BZY3 : the Blues Brothers ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/351 "2002-12-05T18:06:18Z")
> [@](#): > > BZY3 : the Blues Brothers Yep. Too easy. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/352 "2002-12-05T19:05:49Z")
**zigaretten** was correct with “Being There” & “The Favor, the Watch …” BZY2 sounds like an outtake from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” And I know I’ve seen the scene for BZY1, I just can’t place it. I’ll add one, from a movie I just saw : PJ 4 : A young girl pulls a bicycle out of a river. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/353 "2002-12-05T20:11:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bomzaway \* > \*\*To restate an earlier post: > > BZY1: A man gets Nitro-glycerine on his hand and lets it drip off his hand, hitting the ground with sharp pops.\*\* That sounds like **Sorcerer**. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/354 "2002-12-05T20:31:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flowerchild \* > \*\* > FC5:A small blond child dressed in rags is sold as a play thing. \*\* Planet of the Apes? (the new one) ---
**Author:** ![Ficer67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Ficer67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ficer67)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/355 "2002-12-05T21:16:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HPL \* > \*\*Well, it did seem to be a full auto sniper rifle. \*\* There is nothing like the mob-stopping power of a belt fed M60. A better weapon does not exist for dispersing a crowd of light sensitive, disease ridden freaks, as seen in the Omega Man. ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/356 "2002-12-05T21:50:46Z")
> [@](#): > > BZY2 sounds like an outtake from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” LOL! Close, but that would have to be blue…no, yellow. AAAAAAGGGHHH > [@](#): > > That sounds like Sorcerer. He shoots, he scores! ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/357 "2002-12-05T23:47:45Z")
Posted by Alias: > [@](#): > > Planet of the Apes? (the new one) Correct, But no one got FC2 yet ---
**Author:** ![l1I235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@l1I235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/l1I235)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/358 "2002-12-07T18:50:42Z")
Yep, M2 is Die Hard with a Vengence. No one got M1? Do I get a nickel? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/359 "2002-12-07T21:41:05Z")
> [@](#): > > FC3:4 young men Bar-B-Q and play baseball in the snowless cold of a winter day in Chicago . > > Hint: This movie was big with Teeny boppers around the age of 12. Over the Line, or whatever that dreadful thing with Lance Bass from Backstreet Boys in it. Very big with eight-year-olds, too. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/360 "2002-12-07T23:15:31Z")
Haha Shodan, It’s ON 6the Line, and Lance Bass (Hubba Hubba) is From \*NSYNC not those “BAckstreet Boys” Ugh, I’m disgusted that you could even think that Lance is from BSB. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533.md?page=19)