# Why no movies featuring xxxxx as a character? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863 "2007-07-23T17:51:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/61 "2007-07-23T22:04:09Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] A gynocologist ? [/QUOTE] Been done. David Whatshisname did one about twins who were pretty whacked out. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/62 "2007-07-23T22:08:30Z")
[QUOTE=Rocketeer] In **My Cousin Vinnie** , an auto mechanic saves the day… 🙂 [/QUOTE] \*And \*is hot! ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/63 "2007-07-23T22:21:15Z")
Any movie characters who are veterinarians? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/64 "2007-07-23T22:24:15Z")
[QUOTE=BluePitbull] Any movie characters who are veterinarians? [/QUOTE] I hate that I know this, but the girlfriend character in the Garfield movie was a vet. Also, Dr. Doolittle. And I think Corky Romano. And May in the film May is a vet technician or assistant or something to that effect. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/65 "2007-07-23T22:26:44Z")
[QUOTE=BluePitbull] Any movie characters who are veterinarians? [/QUOTE] Jennifer Love Hewitt’s character in the live-action _Garfield_, and I think M. Night Shamalan’s character in _Signs_. Not the protaganist, though. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/66 "2007-07-23T22:28:23Z")
Accountant: Milo Bloom, The Producers. Guidance Councilor. I can’t think of one besides the one from Clerks. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/67 "2007-07-23T22:31:08Z")
That was Leo Bloom in Producers, wasn’t it? A lot of minor guidance counselor roles in movies, can’t think of any one where the main character was, though. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/68 "2007-07-23T22:38:22Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Proctologist. [/QUOTE] Depending on how far down the chain one is willing to go, Tom Hanks’ character’s brother’s wife in “Bachelor Party” (played by Wendy Jo Sperber) is a proctologist. > [@Zoggie](#): > > What about a masseur/masseuse? More porn (hard and softcore) than one would want to name, with Dale DaBone playing a masseur in “Sex Spa” as an example. “Happy Endings” featured Bobby Cannavale as a masseur in a primary role but that was an ensemble cast. ---
**Author:** ![EvilGhandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@EvilGhandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilGhandi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/69 "2007-07-23T22:39:41Z")
Meatballs? Of course they were CIT’s, counselers in training. Do camp councelers count? ---
**Author:** ![EvilGhandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@EvilGhandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilGhandi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/70 "2007-07-23T22:42:18Z")
Too slow, of course my reply is to **Zoggie**'s counseler question ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/71 "2007-07-23T22:46:01Z")
[QUOTE=BluePitbull] Any movie characters who are veterinarians? [/QUOTE] On of the main characters in [The Truth About Cats & Dogs](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117979/) – Abby – is a veterinarian with a radio show. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/72 "2007-07-23T22:56:37Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath] …Guidance Councilor. I can’t think of one besides the one from Clerks. [/QUOTE] Matt Dillon’s character in _Wild Things_. ---
**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/73 "2007-07-23T23:00:51Z")
[QUOTE=BluePitbull] Any movie characters who are veterinarians? [/QUOTE] And Tom Hanks’ love interest in _Turner & Hooch_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/74 "2007-07-23T23:16:52Z")
[QUOTE=Baine] Whoever leaves that “inspected by xx” piece of paper in my clothes. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie about that guy. [/QUOTE] There was an episode of _Monk_ that dealt exactly with one of those clothing inspectors. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/75 "2007-07-24T01:03:01Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] Sewage treatment plant operator. (snip)There’s the tension between the older guys who saw it as blue collar and the newer level of automation, lab work, and computer useage. And the tension between the fact that it’s now popular as ‘green’, while still being unrelievably ‘brown’. There’s City budgeting. Maintenance vs expansion. Grants and the potential for graft. Hey, there are possibilities, here. [/QUOTE] Hey, they could find something. A jewel thief on the run throws a diamond necklace down a storm sewer. In older systems there’s a lot of interconnections between the two, although there aren’t supposed to be. It ends up in the treatment plant. They’re arguing about whether to keep it or not, worried about trying to convert a half million dollars in diamonds into cash without attracting attention, the original bad guy is frantically combing the sewers looking for the loot. Throw in a couple of alligators and one of those liver fluke things from _The X-Files_. It’s gold, pure gold I tell ya. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/76 "2007-07-24T02:01:50Z")
Men’s clothing salesman. If you do see one, he’s probably a minor character and some kind of shlub. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/77 "2007-07-24T02:02:23Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] I don’t think I’ve seen a movie with an animator as a character. Hell, game testers just got a movie, where’s mine? [/QUOTE] Brendan Frasier in _Monkeybone_. [QUOTE=Bayard] What about printing press operators? I worked at a magazine printer for a while. They all smoked at the presses, which gave me the willies. Think of what Bruckheimer could do with smokers and lots of flammable materials. [/QUOTE] Kevin Spacy’s character in _The Shipping News_ started as a printing press operator, but he quit early on in the film. [QUOTE=The Controvert] Thought of another one: Myth buster. [/QUOTE] Would [The Darwin Awards](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0428446/) count? [QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Optometrist. Very common profession, yet somehow not very well represented in movies, at least among lead roles. [/QUOTE] One of the main characters in _Adrift in Manhattan_ is an optometrist, although her job isn’t central to the plot. [QUOTE=Aholibah] How about a historian? [/QUOTE] I haven’t seen the movie, but in Michael Chrichton’s book, _Timeline_, the main characters are historians. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/78 "2007-07-24T02:06:05Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Accountant [/QUOTE] I’m not sure I should admit knowing this but, in _Look Who’s Talking_, Kirstie Alley’s character is an accountant. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/79 "2007-07-24T02:09:51Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Men’s clothing salesman. If you do see one, he’s probably a minor character and some kind of shlub. [/QUOTE] Albert Brooks in My First Mister (and it’s a nice little film, too). ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863/80 "2007-07-24T02:11:46Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Been done. David Whatshisname did one about twins who were pretty whacked out. [/QUOTE] Thanks for narrowing that right down. 😃 Cronenberg or Lynch? I’m guessing Cronenberg but IMDB isn’t being very helpful since I don’t know what to plug in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-movies-featuring-xxxxx-as-a-character/412863.md?page=5)