with six you get eggroll

the year: 1968

the genre: comedy


the cast: Doris Day (Abby McClure); Brian Keith (Jake Iverson); Pat Carroll (Maxine Scott); Barbara Hershey (STacy Iverson); George Carlin (Herbie Fleck)


the plot: Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teen-age daughter, get fixed up. When a serious courtship does begin, their respective children - most specifically Abby's oldest, late teen Flip McClure, and Jake's only offspring, late teen Stacey Iverson - are their biggest obstacles as Flip and Stacey don't want their role of male and female head of their respective household replaced.


don't miss: the fate of the wig. I'll just say that a sheepdog was involved and leave it at that.



listen for: "False hair, false eyelashes, false bosoms. In my day women were flesh and blood, now they're 70% nylon and 30% foam rubber."



did you know: this was Doris Day's final big screen appearance, following a 20 year career in the movies.



extra bonus points: if you know which two M*A*S*H alumns appeared as hippie bikers in this film.



also listen for: "If this wasn't my house I'd go home!"

madagascar

the year: 2005

the genre: comedy


the plot: Spoiled by their upbringing with no idea of what wild life is really like, four animals from New York Central Zoo escape, unwittingly assisted by four absconding penguins, and find themselves in Madagascar, among a bunch of merry lemurs.


don't miss: King Julien & Maurice.


listen for: "Remember, cute and cuddly, boys. Cute and cuddly."


did you know: the airplane that the Lemurs hold court in is a Lockheed Electra, the same kind Amelia Earhart was flying when she disappeared on July 2, 1937.


extra bonus points: if you know who sang the version of "Born Free" used in the film.


also listen for: "If you have any poo, fling it now."


did you also know: during the scene where Private is attempting to gain access to the oil tanker controls, "WHATApiece OFworkIsPenGuin" can been seen on the computer screen behind him. This is a reference to the Shakespeare quote, "What a piece of work is man!" from "Hamlet".


count: the lemurs.

quotes: vegas, baby!

Name the movie:

1. Welcome everyone. I am your dam guide, Arnie. Now I'm about to take you through a fully funtional power plant, so please, no one wander off the dam tour and please take all the dam pictures you want. Now are there any dam questions?

2. Um, all right, let's go over the list again. Ah, Swinging Priest?
Not enough people.
Crazy Larry?
Not enough people.
Soft Shoulder?
Not enough people.
Baker's Dozen?
No woman [pause] and not enough people.
Hell in a Handbasket?
We can't train a cat that quickly [pause] and...not enough people.

3. Ah - that's the Hoover Dam, one of the seven modern civil engineering wonders of the century. Do you know its over 700 feet from the River Colorado to the top of the dam. The dam helps make enough electricity to light up homes 300 miles away.

4. You'd need at least a dozen guys doing a combination of cons.
Like what, do you think?
Off the top of my head, I'd say you're looking at a Boeski, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever.

5. You got it backwards kid. You play cards the way you should lead your life. And you lead your life the way you should play cards.

6. I won! Look at this! I won $11 million! Can you believe it? Look at that! I won $11 million. Did you see that? I can't believe it!

7. I am not going out there as a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be Tina Turner. I can't afford therapy on my salary.

guess who?

His birth name was Julij Borisovic Briner and he was born in Vladivostok, Russia.

Before he achieved fame, he was the director of a children's puppet show on CBS called, "Life with Snarky Parker".

He was an accomplished photographer and took many photos on the sets of the various projects he worked on over the years.

He loved modern appliances.

He always prepared breakfast while wearing a silk kimono.

He was very good friends with Deborah Kerr.

He worked as a trapeze artist with the famed Cirque d'Hiver company.

Mary Martin suggested him for the role for which he would be known.

on location: arizona

Raising Arizona


My Darling Clementine


Gunfight at the O.K. Corral


Fort Apache


Captain Newman, MD

See you back here on June 10th!

quotes: WWII

Match the quote with the movie:

Pearl Harbor
Father Goose
On the Town
The Best Years of Our Lives
Operation Petticoat
I'll Be Seeing You
Casablanca
The Clock

1. You oughta feel proud that three sailors from the United States Navy got off the ship for one day, and what did they do? Were they thirsty for hard liquor? No. They were thirsty for culture. Were they running after girls? No. They came running to the museum to see your dinosaur. For months out at sea they were dreaming about your dinosaur.

2. I'm a religious man, Captain, and I believe we'll get through if the Good Lord puts His mind to it. Of course, He'll have to give us His undivided attention.

3. I think World War II just started.

4. Sometimes when a girl dates a soldier she isn't only thinking of herself. She knows he's alone and far away from home and no one to talk to and...

5. Well, they have experts making those pictures. I guess that's the way they see the war. A beach a mile long and thousands of soldiers, and tanks, and machine guns and everything. I guess that's the way it is.
But it wasn't that way for you, huh?
It's just a difference in size. To a guy that's in it, the war's about ten feet wide, and kind of empty. It's you and a couple of fellows in your company, maybe. It's all kind of mixed up. Sometimes it's all full of noise, and sometimes it's quiet. It all depends on what you're thinking about, I guess. It depends on how scared you are, how cold you are, and how wet you are. I guess if you asked a hundred guys what the war's like, they'd all give you a different answer.

6. Stebbings, confiscate all the small craft on this pier.

7. You see, Mr. Milton, in the Army I've had to be with men when they were stripped of everything in the way of property except what they carried around with them and inside them. I saw them being tested. Now some of them stood up to it and some didn't. But you got so you could tell which ones you could count on. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.

8. I stick my neck out for *nobody*!

guess who?

She was born Johnnie Lucille Collier in Nacogdoches, Texas.

She was discovered by Lucille Ball while doing a show in a San Francisco nightclub.

She began dance classes in order to strengthen her legs after suffering from rickets.

She claimed to be able to dance at 500 taps per minute. Her tap shoes were called Moe and Joe and are exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

At the end of her MGM contract she flew overseas to Morocco to entertain on the Timex TV Hour for Bob Hope. She sang and danced "Too Darn Hot" in 120-degree heat, entertaining 5000 soldiers.

She claimed her difficulty maintaining relationships with men was due to her being an Egyptian queen in a past life and executing any men who displeased her.

On her tax returns, listed her occupation as "Star Lady".

from prada to nada

the year: 2011

the genre: dramedy


the cast: Camilla Bell (Nora Dominguez); Alexa Vega (Mary Donminguez); Adriana Barraza (Aurelia Jimenez); Nicholas D'Agosto (Edward Ferris); Wilmer Valderrama (Bruno); Oliverio Gareli (Marco Antonio Ramirez)


the plot: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters, Mary and Nora, find themselves destitute, forced by a coniving soon-to-be-sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Mary is mortified: spoiled by her dad, ignorant of Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, and she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Nora, a law student, gets a job as a legal intern, and her supervisor, the brother of the soon-to-be-sister-in-law, promptly falls for her. Slowly, the sisters come to embrace their situation and their heritage.


don't miss: las tias.


listen for: "Not all that glitters is gold, Barbie."


also don't miss: Nora's first case.


extra bonus points: if you know the movie series Alexa Varga starred in when she was younger.


also listen for: "You can hate this for what you think it is, or you can love it, for what you know it can become."


count: how many candles the aunts light in the hospital room.

13 going on 30

the year: 2004

the genre: comedy


the cast: Jennifer Garner (Jenna Rink); Mark Ruffalo (Matt Flamhaff); Judy Greer (Lucy Wyman); Andy Serkis (Richard Kneeland)


the plot: After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some wishing dust, Jenna's prayer is answered. With a knockout body, a dream apartment, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, she couldn't have a better life. Unfortunetly, Jenna realizes that it's not exactly what she wanted. Then she finds her childhood best friend, Matt. But he's also grown up...


don't miss: the Thriller scene.




listen for: "Wait, listen to me. I'm 13!" "Jenna, if you're gonna start lying about your age, I'd go with 27."



extra bonus points: if you've ever eaten Razzles.



did you know: The Poise article that Jenna is reading at 13 ("Thirty, Flirty & Thriving"), features the apartment that she later lives in at 30.



also listen for: "It doesn't matter what Lucy said. I stopped trusting her after she stole my poprocks in the third grade."

miss congeniality

the year: 2000

the genre: comedy


the cast: Sandra Bullock (Gracie Hart); Michael Caine (Victor Melling); Benjamin Bratt (Eric Matthews); Candice Bergen (Kathy Morningside); William Shatner (Stan Fields)


the plot: When a serial killer indicates that his next target is the Miss United States beauty pageant, the FBI decides that they must enter an undercover agent as a participant in the contest. A search uncovers no suitable candidate other than a bumbling female agent. The pageant managers are aghast at Gracie joining the pageant, but arrange a top handler to come give her a quick makeover, with the expected outstanding results. Now if she can just catch the killer...



don't miss: Michael Caine as Victor. He knows his pageant stuff!



listen for: "Miss Rhode Island, please describe your idea of a perfect date." "That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket."



did you know: Cheryl "Rhode Island's" answer to the question "What is your idea of a perfect date?" was actually used as an answer in a real beauty pageant.



extra bonus points: if you know what's special about the dress Gracie wears post-makeover while "Mustang Sally" is playing in the background.