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Million Dollar Movie Week

Rodger Pille
Cincinnati, OH
Public relations manager at the Newport Aquarium

Rodger's wife, Christa, is in the audience.

Question Topics (Unrandomized):
* Talkin' Bout Willis
* Rock Out
* Movie Couples
* Western Songs
* Tolkien Time
* Real Characters
* NETFLIX CLIP
* In the Credits
* You've Got Mail
* Funny Quotes

Question Topics (Randomized):
* Rock Out
* In the Credits
* Western Songs
* Talkin' Bout Willis
* Real Characters
* Tolkien Time
* NETFLIX CLIP
* Funny Quotes
* Movie Couples
* You've Got Mail


Question #1 * You've Got Mail
In the movie "You've Got Mail," Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall for each other, not knowing that they both run rival what?

A: Toy stores B: Bakeries
C: Coffee shops D: Bookstores

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Bookstores
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $3,000

Question #2 * Movie Couples
In the comedy "Four Weddings and a Funeral," which of these pairs does not wed at one of the four weddings?

A: Bernard & Lydia B: Scarlett & David
C: Laura & Angus D: Hamish & Carrie

Rodger is going to have to jump this question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Scarlett & David
Question Value: $500
Bank: $3,000

Question #3 * Funny Quotes
In what movie does tough guy Robert De Niro ask, "I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?"

A: Casino B: Midnight Run
C: Cape Fear D: Meet the Parents

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Meet the Parents
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $4,000

-- Commercial Break --


Rodger and Christa have collected so many movie posters that, when they moved into their new house, they made each room a different theme. They have a Moulin Rouge living room and a Psycho bathroom.


Question #4 * NETFLIX CLIP
[The clip is a long quote by Reese Witherspoon, who is holding a chihuahua, "Hi! I'm Elle Woods and this is Bruiser Woods. We're both Gemini vegetarians. ... And last year, I was homecoming queen."]

In this clip from "Legally Blonde," Elle Woods introduces herself to fellow classmates from what school?

A: Harvard B: Princeton
C: Yale D: Stanford

Rodger thinks this is a great one to ask the audience.

ATA

A: 78% B: 8% C: 9% D: 5%

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Harvard
Question Value: $100
Bank: $4,100

Question #5 * Tolkien Time
In the 1960s, J.R.R. Tolkien rejected what band's request to star in a movie based on his "Lord of the Rings" saga?

A: The Beatles B: The Rolling Stones
C: The Beach Boys D: The Who

Rodger jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: The Beatles
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $4,100

Question #6 * Real Characters
Which of these movies is based on the life of NYPD officer Eddie Egan and his partner Sonny Grosso?

A: Prince of the City B: Serpico
C: Bullitt D: The French Connection

Rodger doesn't know. Meredith explains that if he walks away he will get half of his bank, $2,050. Rodger thinks he can eliminate two, but that's still a pretty big chance to take. He walks away with $2,050.

Answer

D: The French Connection

Meredith: Was that one of the ones you were thinking of?

Rodger: Honestly, no.


-- Commercial Break --

$2050 is the smallest non-flameout or audience game winner this season so far, no?(109 shows in)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 * Tolkien Time
In the 1960s, J.R.R. Tolkien rejected what band's request to star in a movie based on his "Lord of the Rings" saga?

A: The Beatles B: The Rolling Stones
C: The Beach Boys D: The Who

Rodger jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: The Beatles
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $4,100

<sigh> When I saw the categories, I was looking forward to a question about one of the LOTR movies. Instead, they ask about a movie that never got made. Is that supposed to be common knowledge among Tolkien fans? Or among Beatles fans?

Such a movie would have been a farce with any of those bands. Good for JRRT for rejecting the idea!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 * Tolkien Time
In the 1960s, J.R.R. Tolkien rejected what band's request to star in a movie based on his "Lord of the Rings" saga?

A: The Beatles B: The Rolling Stones
C: The Beach Boys D: The Who

Rodger jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: The Beatles
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $4,100

<sigh> When I saw the categories, I was looking forward to a question about one of the LOTR movies. Instead, they ask about a movie that never got made. Is that supposed to be common knowledge among Tolkien fans? Or among Beatles fans?

Such a movie would have been a farce with any of those bands. Good for JRRT for rejecting the idea!

Who would have guessed that

Spoiler

Ringo ruled them all!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: <sigh> When I saw the categories, I was looking forward to a question about one of the LOTR movies. Instead, they ask about a movie that never got made. Is that supposed to be common knowledge among Tolkien fans? Or among Beatles fans?

This story was making the rounds on the blogs last year, right about the time that this episode would have taped.

-M

themanwho wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: <sigh> When I saw the categories, I was looking forward to a question about one of the LOTR movies. Instead, they ask about a movie that never got made. Is that supposed to be common knowledge among Tolkien fans? Or among Beatles fans?

This story was making the rounds on the blogs last year, right about the time that this episode would have taped.

-M

On what blogs? Those that have wide enough exposure to make this a question #6 unrandomized (which translates to a $2,000 question, by the traditional reckoning)?

MarleysGh0st wrote:On what blogs? Those that have wide enough exposure to make this a question #6 unrandomized (which translates to a $2,000 question, by the traditional reckoning)?

Digg and Fark had it in November, and the site they quoted (blastr) was quoting a nearly-10-year-old item from People.com.

The Gawker family of sites had it by January, but that's obviously too late for this taping. (Do we know what the taping date was?)

-M

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Million Dollar Movie Week

Rodger Pille
Cincinnati, OH
Public relations manager at the Newport Aquarium

Which is in Kentucky, as is the airport that serves Cincinnati.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 * Movie Couples
In the comedy "Four Weddings and a Funeral," which of these pairs does not wed at one of the four weddings?

A: Bernard & Lydia B: Scarlett & David
C: Laura & Angus D: Hamish & Carrie

Rodger is going to have to jump this question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Scarlett & David
Question Value: $500
Bank: $3,000

I'll JTQ also.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 * Tolkien Time
In the 1960s, J.R.R. Tolkien rejected what band's request to star in a movie based on his "Lord of the Rings" saga?

A: The Beatles B: The Rolling Stones
C: The Beach Boys D: The Who

Rodger jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: The Beatles
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $4,100

I'm not sure this is something that would be known to non-Tolkien fanatics (of which I am one). [NOTE: after seeing other responses in this thread I see that this is something that might have been "current knowledge"].

Wow, a stack that I was doing fairly well with.