# Vaguely familiar **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 14, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565 "2024-02-14T19:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/41 "2024-02-15T16:35:48Z")
Are you talking about the original Danish movie, the British adaptation, or the recent American adaptation? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/42 "2024-02-15T16:43:35Z")
Then we’re definitely talking about someone different. Because this guy positively _exuded_ being too tall for his height. No ‘little too tall’ about it. And before anyone else brings up how he was _so well known for doing that one thing_, please remember all the times that he **didn’t**. Yeah. That’s what I’m talking about. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/43 "2024-02-16T04:20:57Z")
Oh, _that_ guy. He looked a bit like the guy in that movie, where the three kids are running around and the maître d’ and fat guy who works in the toll booth are trying to solve the riddle of the last piece of pie, but no one seems to notice the two debonair hyenas with the lazy eye and overbite while Mrs. Mallory calls for more cowbell. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/44 "2024-02-16T05:15:19Z")
Is that the same guy who was in that other movie that was shot completely outdoors, like in the desert or maybe a jungle? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/45 "2024-02-16T14:03:51Z")
There were actually several cast members that were in that other movie that was mostly shot outdoors. If it’s the movie I’m thinking of. The lady who wasn’t Natalie Wood for sure was in that other movie. Same with the guy that kinda reminded you of Caesar Romero (but wasn’t). ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/46 "2024-02-16T14:52:33Z")
There was one movie I was thinking of that was really long. I mean, _long_. Natalie Wood might have been in it, but then again, she might not have. I can’t remember. Is that the one you’'re talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/47 "2024-02-16T15:01:49Z")
I know the one you’re thinking of, but I’m thinking of that _other_ movie that Natalie Wood wasn’t in. There were several notable films from the time not starring Natalie Wood, and this happened to be one of them. The guy who was so well known for doing that one thing was also not in this movie. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/48 "2024-02-16T15:07:02Z")
Just to be clear: Are you talking about the guy who didn’t look like Orson Bean? Wasn’t he also not in that movie about the detective who investigated that case about the thing? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/49 "2024-02-16T15:13:18Z")
No no no. I see now that you’re talking about Whathisname. I can see why you thought of him, but I’m not talking about him. This guy wasn’t in THAT movie. This guy was in, among other things, that one sci fi movie that took place in the future, and he played a bad guy. Well, maybe not an evil bad guy, but someone whose motives were certainly suspect. You know, the same movie where Whatshername was the lead romantic interest? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/50 "2024-02-16T15:18:26Z")
Do you mean the movie with music by the composer who was married to the actress who starred in that movie about the teacher who helped the kids? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/51 "2024-02-16T17:19:32Z")
Wait, I think I have a clue. Wasn’t the guy who played the best friend a child actor in a couple of unsuccessful sitcoms? Then he tried to make it as an adult actor but was only in a couple of movies in his early 20s before his career fizzled out. Last I heard he had quit show business entirely and was a real estate agent, or stockbroker, or chemist or something. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/52 "2024-02-16T18:53:54Z")
Doesn’t it have that one actress who got in a little trouble with the law? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/53 "2024-02-16T19:30:18Z")
Didn’t she end up marrying her agent? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/54 "2024-02-16T20:31:40Z")
Pretty sure you’re thinking about the one with the hairstyle. The one who married her agent was from Norway or Japan or Egypt or someplace like that. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/55 "2024-02-17T17:22:28Z")
I heard they eloped to Helsinki. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/56 "2024-02-17T21:27:01Z")
Was she the one whose mother died of cancer? ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/57 "2024-02-18T13:09:47Z")
Hope it’s not too hijacky to put this in this here … There’s a song i remember hearing sometime in the last 50 years… I remember it was either by a band or a solo artist. TIA. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/58 "2024-02-18T17:57:28Z")
Dear Mods, I object to the previous hijack and I also wish to protest the following post for being silly. Yours truly, Sir Robin Ginger-Halliwell, dec. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/59 "2024-02-19T13:52:51Z")
So she ended up marrying the producer but he was a total dog and had affairs left and right. She turned to the bottle. They ended up getting a messy Hollywood divorce four years later. Remember that? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565/60 "2024-02-19T14:22:50Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Hope it’s not too hijacky to put this in this here … > There’s a song i remember hearing sometime in the last 50 years… > I remember it was either by a band or a solo artist. > TIA. wasn’t it that song that went something like “dah dah do duh dah?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaguely-familiar/997565.md?page=4)