mrkelley Tangredi game: Trios! Trios! Trios!

[mrkelley23]

Kelley Tangredi Game: Trios! Trios! Trios!

Instructions: Solve the 75 clues, separated into three groups, below. Then group the clues into 25 trios, based on a unifying principle, or Tangredi, which you must discover for yourself. Group A is about the movies, and only titles are required. If you see quotation marks, it is a quote from the movie. Group B is about TV, and it is mostly series titles, although there is the odd TV movie or character thrown in. Group C is miscellaneous, but mostly song lyrics, where you are expected to come up with the song title.


Group A – The movies (all titles)

1. This black comedy, which shares its title with an economics tract by a former National Lampoonian and a rock song by a Bostonian group, features Hagrid in a supporting role, and was written and directed by the same man who brought us The Pope Must Die(t).
2. Second most humiliating thing of Bruce Jenner’s life: being billed below the members of The Village People in this pseudobiography of the band’s life. Oh, well. At least he finished above June Havoc in the credits.
3. [as she throws a Mickey Mouse doll off her bed]” You can stay over there until you learn the art of subtlety.”
4. How much pull do you have to have in Hollywood to get Joseph Heller to work on the screenplay of the semi-autobiography you wrote, then get Natalie Wood cast as you, hmmmmmm?
5. Plot: Fagin, Dracula, and Itchy Itchiford try to find some lost jewels. Comedy gold … in the right hands.
6. “My weapons might look simple to you, Mr. Morton, but they can still shoot holes big enough for our little problems.”
7. Herman’s Hermits try to hop on the gravy train created by the Beatles and Monkees in this “romp” film, titled after one of their hit songs.
8. “And I don't really think that personal rancor is going to help the situation. If I may say so.”
9. This live-action film starring a family sitcom kid and a game show host presaged major plot points from an animated PIXAR project by 12 years.
10. This mid-80s comedy featured a Brat Packer, a high school bully named Biff, Andrew Dice Clay as a bookie, and Gordon Jump as a bumbling know-nothing. Very creative.
11. Early photoshop alert! This film’s main character takes Vera Miles to see a Ronald Colman/Carole Lombard movie. Trouble is, the title that appears on the screen, along with the two stars’ names, doesn’t exist!
12. Before Scream, before Scary Movie, there was this spoof of the horror genre whose title was an overtly obvious spoof (or homage, if you prefer) to Jason and his date.
13. Perhaps the best movie with fashion as a plot point that was produced by a hairdresser, it was also the first major studio screenwriting job for John Carpenter (the Hollywood one.)
14. “Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.”
15. With a title taken from a Rolling Stones song, this film is better as an exercise in spotting the homages to Hitchcock than anything else, according to one reviewer. Since director Tim Hunter taught a course in Hitchcock at UCSB, this may not be surprising.
16. Tagline: He's never coached. They've never won. Together they'll learn everything about winning!
17. Pepper Potts (what is it with her and PP roles?), Lara Croft, and Dr. Watson in the title role. Even Sir Larry, although the film was released some 15 years after his death. What could go wrong?
18. “Prairie Special engineer: They greased the rails, the goddamn tramps.
Prairie Special conductor: I don't give a damn if they're Democrats. Get this moving! “
19. The title refers to the star’s characterization of Hanukkah which he has used repeatedly in his standup comedy.
20. “Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together and of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches.”
21. The first of three films that Carl Switzer appeared in an attempt to recapture some of his WWII-era glory. The title recalls an earlier-era baseball dynasty.
22. The other eponym of this film, the sixth of eight in a 21st century series based on books, was a character we thought was the bad guy, but turned out to be yet another heroic misunderstood Goth-type.
23. "Major Pott: [driven mad after being lost in the catacombs for days] Cannon to the right of them! Cannon to the left of them! Volley'd and thunder'd and Donder and Blitzen!"
24. Perhaps the only film (at least, that I can think of,) with a sequel that varies the title only by the intensifier “still.”
25. Doug McClure reprises his role as Bowen Tyler in this bad sequel to a bad film, both based on stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs.



Group B: Television (mostly series titles)

1. Let’s see, a 6 foot 6 inch actor gets a role as a basketball coach and doesn’t even have to change his first name? Pretty easy work for a guy who originated Thomas Jefferson on Broadway.
2. In one episode of this sitcom, one of the title characters was walked up the wedding aisle by her male roommate, while the main theme from Brideshead Revisited played.
3. 35 years after this spy series ended, one of the main characters began playing a role on another spy series (still on the air) which is strangely similar to the one played by a guy (who was famous for playing Topper) on his original series. Got that?
4. This was the original title for Sgt. Bilko’s TV show.
5. Unlike the inspiring sports movie with a similar title, this TV movie is a blackmail movie with no heroes. Plot synopsis: American couple in Mexico hit a cop with their car, then decide to run back to America rather than face Mexican justice. Rutger Hauer then blackmails them.
6. The original version of this show featured Regis Philbin as host and Brandy Norwood as one of the judging panel.
7. This 12 episode miniseries was the final entry in the saga of the Henry and Jastrow families in the 20th century.
8. This is my wife’s new favorite show, even though it mostly just involves watching a bunch of celebrities drink and play parlor games.
9. According to Buzzfeed and his own book, Screech was even more obnoxious off camera than he was on this show.
10. Another show featuring a 6’6” actor playing a high school basketball coach who doesn’t even have to change his first name, but with a fundamental difference.
11. What other show could be referenced in a Slim Pickens epithet while having one of the most iconic openings in the history of television: “…the human drama of athletic competition…”? Okay, so the parts represented by the ellipses may be a tad more iconic than the part I gave you.
12. Most people remember this show for the title character and one of the students, but they forget the landlady, played by Jane Morgan, and the shy biology teacher, played by Robert Rockwell.
13. Tsukino! Ami! Rei! Makoto! and Minako! Assemble!
14. Creator Chuck Lorre supposedly recently apologized for this show while accepting an award for his new series “Mom.”
15. The theme song for this sitcom was redone by Cheap Trick after season 1, and included a shout-out to Wisconsin at the end.
16. Premiering on ABC this fall, this American adaptation of an Australian series starring Ryan Philippe and Juliette Lewis, about a man wrongly (?) accused of murder.
17. This recently retired series may hold the all-time record for catchphrases, including Slapsgiving, Beercules, and Legen---------(wait for it!) ---------dary.
18. Kind of a culinary version of Dirty Jobs, hosted by Adam Richman.
19. This show recycles acting talent from Frasier, One Day at a Time, Just Shoot Me, and The Golden Girls.
20. (Non-title alert!) But it’s okay, because this character’s name was the title of the book on which the series was based. She was played by Alicia Christian Foster, who at the age of 12 already had multiple TV and film roles to her credit.
21. “Daggett: Hey, Norb, let's see who can jump the highest.
Norbert: [bumps the ceiling light and stops jumping] Uh, Dag, I think we should stop.
Daggett: You're just afraid I'll beat you.
Norbert: No, Dag, listen...
Daggett: [teasing] Norby's afraid to jump high.
Norbert: Daggett, listen.
Daggett: Norby's a chicken. BAWK BAWK BAWK. Come on, chicken boy. What are you afraid...
Daggett: [hits the light and gets violently shocked] AAAH! "
22. Unlike Family Affair, which was set in Terre Haute (which they always mispronounced), this sitcom was set in Indiana’s capital city.
23. A 1980s sitcom based on a movie, the only character who made the transition was the tough-as-nails, yet definitely untraditional military supervisor.
24. An early entrant in the now-pervasive trend of reality trash, this ripoff of another reality format rested on the trick that all the contestants thought someone was rich who was not.
25. Can’t believe a theatrical film has not been made of this one. TV movie which focuses on an early run for Congress by a man who would become president of the USA.


Group C: Miscellaneous. If the clue says Lyric, I’m looking for the song title.

1. TV series: Vegeta! Trunks! Goku! Piccolo! Assemble!
2. Lyric: “W.C. Handy, won't you look down over me
Yeah I got a first class ticket
But I'm as blue as a boy can be”
3. Movie title: Tagline: How can a 10 go for a 5?
4. Song title: for the record, there are 26 consecutive repetitions of the words “I know” in this song.
5. Lyric: “No one saying do this, no one saying be there. No one saying stop that. No one saying see here.”
6. Lyric: “Reputations changeable
Situations tolerable
But baby, you're adorable”
7. Literary title: Set in Medieval France, this story was the first published fiction by the master who wrote The New Arabian Nights and The Wrong Box, among other things.
8. Lyric: “Just imagine it! Chatting with a chimp in chimpanzee!”
9. Person’s name: This Jazzy Jeff of the 2010s has recently become more well-known, thanks to Jimmy Fallon.
10. Lyric: “It makes me want to wag my tail, when it comes I want to wail,”
11. Lyric: “You say you lost your faith
But that’s not where it’s at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it
12. Lyric: “One more walk through problems
Built up, and stand in our way ,ah
One step ahead, one step behind me
Now you gotta run to get even”
13. Lyric: “Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me
14. Movie title: Hedy Lamarr’s final film, she played opposite George Nader and Jane Powell in a depressing film about a love triangle.
15. Lyric: “Someday, I don't know how
I hope she'll hear my plea
Some way, I don't know how
She'll bring her love to me”
16. Lyric: “To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea,
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage,”
17. Lyric: “I can hear her heart beat for a thousand miles
And the heavens open every time she smiles
And when I come to her that's where I belong
Yet I'm running to her like a river's song”
18. Lyric: “It must have been cold there in my shadow. To never have sunshine on your face.”
19. Lyric: “And may you grow to be proud
Dignified and true
And do unto others
As you'd have done to you”
20. Lyric: “Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain
I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty for days”
21. Lyric: “Now you've listened to my story
Here's the point that I have made”
22. Movie title: 2 movies, 50+ years apart, same title. One is a classic horror film, the other features Paris Hilton. But hey, they both feature a creepy museum. So they have that in common.
23. Lyric: “Humidity is rising - Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the street's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
24. Lyric: “It slips into your thoughts
It infiltrates your soul
It takes you by surprise
Then seizes full control"
25. Lyric: “Didn't expect to be in this position, didn't expect to have to rise above
My reputation for cynicism, I've been a jaded lady when it comes to love but
Oh baby just to feel this feeling that everything that you do gives me
It's been too long since somebody whispered…”

[mellytu74]

First pass.

As with Frank's wonderful game, work will limit my daytime playing.

2 cant stop the music
4 sex and the single girl
13 eyes of laura mars? Jon peters is the hairdresser


1 the white shadow
12 our miss brooks
14 21/2 men ????
19 hot in clevelan

[jarnon]

19. Eight Crazy Nights

6. America’s Got Talent
7. War and Remembrance
8. Hollywood Game Night
11. ABC's Wide World of Sports
17. How I Met Your Mother
24. Joe Millionaire

3. She's Out of My League
8. Talk to the Animals
18. Wind Beneath My Wings
20. Story of My Life

[Bob78164]

I think C 4 is "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone." --Bob

[littlebeast13]

Group C: Miscellaneous. If the clue says Lyric, I’m looking for the song title.

2. Lyric: “W.C. Handy, won't you look down over me
Yeah I got a first class ticket
But I'm as blue as a boy can be” - Walking in Memphis

4. Song title: for the record, there are 26 consecutive repetitions of the words “I know” in this song. - Ain't No Sunshine

13. Lyric: “Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me - Wagon Wheel

19. Lyric: “And may you grow to be proud
Dignified and true
And do unto others
As you'd have done to you” - Forever Young

20. Lyric: “Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain
I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty for days” - The Story of My Life

23. Lyric: “Humidity is rising - Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the street's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten - It's Raining Men

[littlebeast13]

A-12. Before Scream, before Scary Movie, there was this spoof of the horror genre whose title was an overtly obvious spoof (or homage, if you prefer) to Jason and his date.

All I can think of is Uly's old avatar for Saturday the 14th....

B-9. According to Buzzfeed and his own book, Screech was even more obnoxious off camera than he was on this show.

Thanks to growing up with sisters at the right time.... Saved By The Bell

lb13

[franktangredi]

First pass.

Group A – The movies (all titles)

1. This black comedy, which shares its title with an economics tract by a former National Lampoonian and a rock song by a Bostonian group, features Hagrid in a supporting role, and was written and directed by the same man who brought us The Pope Must Die(t).
EAT THE RICH

2. Second most humiliating thing of Bruce Jenner’s life: being billed below the members of The Village People in this pseudobiography of the band’s life. Oh, well. At least he finished above June Havoc in the credits.
CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC

4. How much pull do you have to have in Hollywood to get Joseph Heller to work on the screenplay of the semi-autobiography you wrote, then get Natalie Wood cast as you, hmmmmmm?
SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL

5. Plot: Fagin, Dracula, and Itchy Itchiford try to find some lost jewels. Comedy gold … in the right hands.
THE TWELVE CHAIRS

7. Herman’s Hermits try to hop on the gravy train created by the Beatles and Monkees in this “romp” film, titled after one of their hit songs.
MRS. BROWN, YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER

8. “And I don't really think that personal rancor is going to help the situation. If I may say so.”
IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD

12. Before Scream, before Scary Movie, there was this spoof of the horror genre whose title was an overtly obvious spoof (or homage, if you prefer) to Jason and his date.
SATURDAY THE 14TH

13. Perhaps the best movie with fashion as a plot point that was produced by a hairdresser, it was also the first major studio screenwriting job for John Carpenter (the Hollywood one.)
EYES OF LAURA MARS

19. The title refers to the star’s characterization of Hanukkah which he has used repeatedly in his standup comedy.
EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS

Group B: Television (mostly series titles)

1. Let’s see, a 6 foot 6 inch actor gets a role as a basketball coach and doesn’t even have to change his first name? Pretty easy work for a guy who originated Thomas Jefferson on Broadway.
THE WHITE SDHADOW

3. 35 years after this spy series ended, one of the main characters began playing a role on another spy series (still on the air) which is strangely similar to the one played by a guy (who was famous for playing Topper) on his original series. Got that?
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

4. This was the original title for Sgt. Bilko’s TV show.
YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH or THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW

6. The original version of this show featured Regis Philbin as host and Brandy Norwood as one of the judging panel.
AMERICA'S GOT TALENT

8. This is my wife’s new favorite show, even though it mostly just involves watching a bunch of celebrities drink and play parlor games.
HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT

9. According to Buzzfeed and his own book, Screech was even more obnoxious off camera than he was on this show.
SAVED BY THE BELL

11. What other show could be referenced in a Slim Pickens epithet while having one of the most iconic openings in the history of television: “…the human drama of athletic competition…”? Okay, so the parts represented by the ellipses may be a tad more iconic than the part I gave you.
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS?

12. Most people remember this show for the title character and one of the students, but they forget the landlady, played by Jane Morgan, and the shy biology teacher, played by Robert Rockwell.
OUR MISS BROOKS

15. The theme song for this sitcom was redone by Cheap Trick after season 1, and included a shout-out to Wisconsin at the end.
THAT 70s SHOW

17. This recently retired series may hold the all-time record for catchphrases, including Slapsgiving, Beercules, and Legen---------(wait for it!) ---------dary.
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

23. A 1980s sitcom based on a movie, the only character who made the transition was the tough-as-nails, yet definitely untraditional military supervisor.
PRIVATE BENJAMIN

Group C: Miscellaneous. If the clue says Lyric, I’m looking for the song title.

2. Lyric: “W.C. Handy, won't you look down over me
Yeah I got a first class ticket
But I'm as blue as a boy can be”
WALKING IN MEMPHIS

4. Song title: for the record, there are 26 consecutive repetitions of the words “I know” in this song.
AIN'T NO SUNSHINE

8. Lyric: “Just imagine it! Chatting with a chimp in chimpanzee!”
TALK TO THE ANIMALS

11. Lyric: “You say you lost your faith
But that’s not where it’s at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it
POSITIVELY FOURTH STREET

15. Lyric: “Someday, I don't know how
I hope she'll hear my plea
Some way, I don't know how
She'll bring her love to me”
DREAM LOVER

18. Lyric: “It must have been cold there in my shadow. To never have sunshine on your face.”
WIND BENEATH MY WINGS

19. Lyric: “And may you grow to be proud
Dignified and true
And do unto others
As you'd have done to you”
FOREVER YOUNG

21. Lyric: “Now you've listened to my story
Here's the point that I have made”
FEVER

22. Movie title: 2 movies, 50+ years apart, same title. One is a classic horror film, the other features Paris Hilton. But hey, they both feature a creepy museum. So they have that in common.
HOUSE OF WAX

23. Lyric: “Humidity is rising - Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the street's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
IT'S RAINING MEN

[silverscreenselect]

[quote="mrkelley23"]Kelley Tangredi Game: Trios! Trios! Trios!

2. Second most humiliating thing of Bruce Jenner’s life: being billed below the members of The Village People in this pseudobiography of the band’s life. Oh, well. At least he finished above June Havoc in the credits.

Can't Stop the Music

5. Plot: Fagin, Dracula, and Itchy Itchiford try to find some lost jewels. Comedy gold … in the right hands.

The Twelve Chairs

25. Doug McClure reprises his role as Bowen Tyler in this bad sequel to a bad film, both based on stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The People That Time Forgot


Group B: Television (mostly series titles)

4. This was the original title for Sgt. Bilko’s TV show.

You'll Never Get Rich

8. This is my wife’s new favorite show, even though it mostly just involves watching a bunch of celebrities drink and play parlor games.

Hollywood Game Night

9. According to Buzzfeed and his own book, Screech was even more obnoxious off camera than he was on this show.

Saved by the Bell

11. What other show could be referenced in a Slim Pickens epithet while having one of the most iconic openings in the history of television: “…the human
drama of athletic competition…”? Okay, so the parts represented by the ellipses may be a tad more iconic than the part I gave you.

Wide World of Sports

19. This show recycles acting talent from Frasier, One Day at a Time, Just Shoot Me, and The Golden Girls.

Hot in Cleveland

25. Can’t believe a theatrical film has not been made of this one. TV movie which focuses on an early run for Congress by a man who would become president of the USA.

[Pastor Fireball]

Busy right now, but I can answer a couple of these.

Group A – The movies (all titles)

19. The title refers to the star’s characterization of Hanukkah which he has used repeatedly in his standup comedy.

8 CRAZY NIGHTS

24. Perhaps the only film (at least, that I can think of,) with a sequel that varies the title only by the intensifier “still.”

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER

Group B: Television (mostly series titles)

1. Let’s see, a 6 foot 6 inch actor gets a role as a basketball coach and doesn’t even have to change his first name? Pretty easy work for a guy who originated Thomas Jefferson on Broadway.

THE WHITE SHADOW

4. This was the original title for Sgt. Bilko’s TV show.

YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH?

6. The original version of this show featured Regis Philbin as host and Brandy Norwood as one of the judging panel.

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT

8. This is my wife’s new favorite show, even though it mostly just involves watching a bunch of celebrities drink and play parlor games.

COUGAR TOWN?

10. Another show featuring a 6’6” actor playing a high school basketball coach who doesn’t even have to change his first name, but with a fundamental difference.

HANGIN' WITH MR. COOPER?

15. The theme song for this sitcom was redone by Cheap Trick after season 1, and included a shout-out to Wisconsin at the end.

THAT '70S SHOW

17. This recently retired series may hold the all-time record for catchphrases, including Slapsgiving, Beercules, and Legen---------(wait for it!) ---------dary.

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

19. This show recycles acting talent from Frasier, One Day at a Time, Just Shoot Me, and The Golden Girls.

HOT IN CLEVELAND

22. Unlike Family Affair, which was set in Terre Haute (which they always mispronounced), this sitcom was set in Indiana’s capital city.

ONE DAY AT A TIME is the only sitcom I can think of that took place in Indianapolis.

I'll deal with the lyrics portion later.

[Pastor Fireball]

Now I can go for those miscellaneous questions. Everybody else got most of the ones that I know, so I won't be contributing much.

9. Person’s name: This Jazzy Jeff of the 2010s has recently become more well-known, thanks to Jimmy Fallon.

?UESTLOVE, Fallon's bandleader?

[mellytu74]

3. [as she throws a Mickey Mouse doll off her bed]” You can stay over there until you learn the art of subtlety.”

SAVING MR. BANKS

20. “Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together and of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches.”

HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT

21. The first of three films that Carl Switzer appeared in an attempt to recapture some of his WWII-era glory. The title recalls an earlier-era baseball dynasty.

THE GAS HOUSE KIDS

B-18. Kind of a culinary version of Dirty Jobs, hosted by Adam Richman.

MAN VS. FOOD

C-25. Lyric: “Didn't expect to be in this position, didn't expect to have to rise above
My reputation for cynicism, I've been a jaded lady when it comes to love but
Oh baby just to feel this feeling that everything that you do gives me
It's been too long since somebody whispered…”

SHUT UP AND KISS ME

[Bob78164]

I think B14 is TWO AND A HALF MEN. --Bob

[Bob78164]

A22 seems to be HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. --Bob

[Bob78164]

Could A16 be THE MIGHTY DUCKS? --Bob

[silverscreenselect]

25. Can’t believe a theatrical film has not been made of this one. TV movie which focuses on an early run for Congress by a man who would become president of the USA.

This is JOHNNY WE HARDLY KNEW YE, about JFK's House run in 1946, with Paul Rudd as JFK.

[kroxquo]

Group A – The movies (all titles)

2. Second most humiliating thing of Bruce Jenner’s life: being billed below the members of The Village People in this pseudobiography of the band’s life. Oh, well. At least he finished above June Havoc in the credits.

Can't Stop the Music

14. “Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.”

Dead Poets Society
16. Tagline: He's never coached. They've never won. Together they'll learn everything about winning!

The Mighty Ducks?

17. Pepper Potts (what is it with her and PP roles?), Lara Croft, and Dr. Watson in the title role. Even Sir Larry, although the film was released some 15 years after his death. What could go wrong?

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Group B: Television (mostly series titles)

1. Let’s see, a 6 foot 6 inch actor gets a role as a basketball coach and doesn’t even have to change his first name? Pretty easy work for a guy who originated Thomas Jefferson on Broadway.

The White Shadow

4. This was the original title for Sgt. Bilko’s TV show.

You'll Never Get Rich

6. The original version of this show featured Regis Philbin as host and Brandy Norwood as one of the judging panel.

America's Got Talent

8. This is my wife’s new favorite show, even though it mostly just involves watching a bunch of celebrities drink and play parlor games.

Celebrity Game Night?

9. According to Buzzfeed and his own book, Screech was even more obnoxious off camera than he was on this show.

Saved By The Bell

11. What other show could be referenced in a Slim Pickens epithet while having one of the most iconic openings in the history of television: “…the human drama of athletic competition…”? Okay, so the parts represented by the ellipses may be a tad more iconic than the part I gave you.

Wide World of Sports

17. This recently retired series may hold the all-time record for catchphrases, including Slapsgiving, Beercules, and Legen---------(wait for it!) ---------dary.

How I Met Your Mother?

19. This show recycles acting talent from Frasier, One Day at a Time, Just Shoot Me, and The Golden Girls.

That Cleveland show with Betty White

22. Unlike Family Affair, which was set in Terre Haute (which they always mispronounced), this sitcom was set in Indiana’s capital city.

One Day at a Time

23. A 1980s sitcom based on a movie, the only character who made the transition was the tough-as-nails, yet definitely untraditional military supervisor.

Private Benjamin?

Group C: Miscellaneous. If the clue says Lyric, I’m looking for the song title.

4. Song title: for the record, there are 26 consecutive repetitions of the words “I know” in this song.

Ain't No Sunshine

5. Lyric: “No one saying do this, no one saying be there. No one saying stop that. No one saying see here.”

I Just Can't Wait to be King

7. Literary title: Set in Medieval France, this story was the first published fiction by the master who wrote The New Arabian Nights and The Wrong Box, among other things.

The Name of the Rose?

8. Lyric: “Just imagine it! Chatting with a chimp in chimpanzee!”

If I Could Talk to the Animals

11. Lyric: “You say you lost your faith
But that’s not where it’s at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

It's Bob Dylan - Positively Whatever Street it is

18. Lyric: “It must have been cold there in my shadow. To never have sunshine on your face.”

Wind Beneath My Wings

19. Lyric: “And may you grow to be proud
Dignified and true
And do unto others
As you'd have done to you”

Forever Young

22. Movie title: 2 movies, 50+ years apart, same title. One is a classic horror film, the other features Paris Hilton. But hey, they both feature a creepy museum. So they have that in common.

House of Wax

[smilergrogan]

Kelley Tangredi Game: Trios! Trios! Trios!

Instructions: Solve the 75 clues, separated into three groups, below. Then group the clues into 25 trios, based on a unifying principle, or Tangredi, which you must discover for yourself. Group A is about the movies, and only titles are required. If you see quotation marks, it is a quote from the movie. Group B is about TV, and it is mostly series titles, although there is the odd TV movie or character thrown in. Group C is miscellaneous, but mostly song lyrics, where you are expected to come up with the song title.


Group A – The movies (all titles)

1. This black comedy, which shares its title with an economics tract by a former National Lampoonian and a rock song by a Bostonian group, features Hagrid in a supporting role, and was written and directed by the same man who brought us The Pope Must Die(t).
EAT THE RICH
2. Second most humiliating thing of Bruce Jenner’s life: being billed below the members of The Village People in this pseudobiography of the band’s life. Oh, well. At least he finished above June Havoc in the credits.
CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC
3. [as she throws a Mickey Mouse doll off her bed]” You can stay over there until you learn the art of subtlety.”
SAVING MR. BANKS
4. How much pull do you have to have in Hollywood to get Joseph Heller to work on the screenplay of the semi-autobiography you wrote, then get Natalie Wood cast as you, hmmmmmm?
SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL
5. Plot: Fagin, Dracula, and Itchy Itchiford try to find some lost jewels. Comedy gold … in the right hands.
THE TWELVE CHAIRS
6. “My weapons might look simple to you, Mr. Morton, but they can still shoot holes big enough for our little problems.”
7. Herman’s Hermits try to hop on the gravy train created by the Beatles and Monkees in this “romp” film, titled after one of their hit songs.
MRS. BROWN, YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER
8. “And I don't really think that personal rancor is going to help the situation. If I may say so.”
IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
9. This live-action film starring a family sitcom kid and a game show host presaged major plot points from an animated PIXAR project by 12 years.
10. This mid-80s comedy featured a Brat Packer, a high school bully named Biff, Andrew Dice Clay as a bookie, and Gordon Jump as a bumbling know-nothing. Very creative.
11. Early photoshop alert! This film’s main character takes Vera Miles to see a Ronald Colman/Carole Lombard movie. Trouble is, the title that appears on the screen, along with the two stars’ names, doesn’t exist!
12. Before Scream, before Scary Movie, there was this spoof of the horror genre whose title was an overtly obvious spoof (or homage, if you prefer) to Jason and his date.
SATURDAY THE 14TH
13. Perhaps the best movie with fashion as a plot point that was produced by a hairdresser, it was also the first major studio screenwriting job for John Carpenter (the Hollywood one.)
EYES OF LAURA MARS
14. “Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.”
DEAD POETS SOCIETY
15. With a title taken from a Rolling Stones song, this film is better as an exercise in spotting the homages to Hitchcock than anything else, according to one reviewer. Since director Tim Hunter taught a course in Hitchcock at UCSB, this may not be surprising.
16. Tagline: He's never coached. They've never won. Together they'll learn everything about winning!
THE MIGHTY DUCKS?
17. Pepper Potts (what is it with her and PP roles?), Lara Croft, and Dr. Watson in the title role. Even Sir Larry, although the film was released some 15 years after his death. What could go wrong?
SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
18. “Prairie Special engineer: They greased the rails, the goddamn tramps.
Prairie Special conductor: I don't give a damn if they're Democrats. Get this moving! “
19. The title refers to the star’s characterization of Hanukkah which he has used repeatedly in his standup comedy.
EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS
20. “Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together and of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches.”
HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT
21. The first of three films that Carl Switzer appeared in an attempt to recapture some of his WWII-era glory. The title recalls an earlier-era baseball dynasty.
THE GAS HOUSE KIDS
22. The other eponym of this film, the sixth of eight in a 21st century series based on books, was a character we thought was the bad guy, but turned out to be yet another heroic misunderstood Goth-type.
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
23. "Major Pott: [driven mad after being lost in the catacombs for days] Cannon to the right of them! Cannon to the left of them! Volley'd and thunder'd and Donder and Blitzen!"
24. Perhaps the only film (at least, that I can think of,) with a sequel that varies the title only by the intensifier “still.”
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
25. Doug McClure reprises his role as Bowen Tyler in this bad sequel to a bad film, both based on stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT


Group B: Television (mostly series titles)

1. Let’s see, a 6 foot 6 inch actor gets a role as a basketball coach and doesn’t even have to change his first name? Pretty easy work for a guy who originated Thomas Jefferson on Broadway.
THE WHITE SHADOW
2. In one episode of this sitcom, one of the title characters was walked up the wedding aisle by her male roommate, while the main theme from Brideshead Revisited played.
3. 35 years after this spy series ended, one of the main characters began playing a role on another spy series (still on the air) which is strangely similar to the one played by a guy (who was famous for playing Topper) on his original series. Got that?
THE MAN FOR U.N.C.L.E.
4. This was the original title for Sgt. Bilko’s TV show.
YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH or THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW
5. Unlike the inspiring sports movie with a similar title, this TV movie is a blackmail movie with no heroes. Plot synopsis: American couple in Mexico hit a cop with their car, then decide to run back to America rather than face Mexican justice. Rutger Hauer then blackmails them.
6. The original version of this show featured Regis Philbin as host and Brandy Norwood as one of the judging panel.
AMERICA'S GOT TALENT
7. This 12 episode miniseries was the final entry in the saga of the Henry and Jastrow families in the 20th century.
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
8. This is my wife’s new favorite show, even though it mostly just involves watching a bunch of celebrities drink and play parlor games.
HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT
9. According to Buzzfeed and his own book, Screech was even more obnoxious off camera than he was on this show.
SAVED BY THE BELL
10. Another show featuring a 6’6” actor playing a high school basketball coach who doesn’t even have to change his first name, but with a fundamental difference.
HANGIN' WITH MR. COOPER?
11. What other show could be referenced in a Slim Pickens epithet while having one of the most iconic openings in the history of television: “…the human drama of athletic competition…”? Okay, so the parts represented by the ellipses may be a tad more iconic than the part I gave you.
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
12. Most people remember this show for the title character and one of the students, but they forget the landlady, played by Jane Morgan, and the shy biology teacher, played by Robert Rockwell.
OUR MISS BROOKS
13. Tsukino! Ami! Rei! Makoto! and Minako! Assemble!
14. Creator Chuck Lorre supposedly recently apologized for this show while accepting an award for his new series “Mom.”
TWO AND A HALF MEN?
15. The theme song for this sitcom was redone by Cheap Trick after season 1, and included a shout-out to Wisconsin at the end.
THAT '70S SHOW
16. Premiering on ABC this fall, this American adaptation of an Australian series starring Ryan Philippe and Juliette Lewis, about a man wrongly (?) accused of murder.
17. This recently retired series may hold the all-time record for catchphrases, including Slapsgiving, Beercules, and Legen---------(wait for it!) ---------dary.
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
18. Kind of a culinary version of Dirty Jobs, hosted by Adam Richman.
MAN VS. FOOD
19. This show recycles acting talent from Frasier, One Day at a Time, Just Shoot Me, and The Golden Girls.
HOT IN CLEVELAND
20. (Non-title alert!) But it’s okay, because this character’s name was the title of the book on which the series was based. She was played by Alicia Christian Foster, who at the age of 12 already had multiple TV and film roles to her credit.
21. “Daggett: Hey, Norb, let's see who can jump the highest.
Norbert: [bumps the ceiling light and stops jumping] Uh, Dag, I think we should stop.
Daggett: You're just afraid I'll beat you.
Norbert: No, Dag, listen...
Daggett: [teasing] Norby's afraid to jump high.
Norbert: Daggett, listen.
Daggett: Norby's a chicken. BAWK BAWK BAWK. Come on, chicken boy. What are you afraid...
Daggett: [hits the light and gets violently shocked] AAAH! "
22. Unlike Family Affair, which was set in Terre Haute (which they always mispronounced), this sitcom was set in Indiana’s capital city.
ONE DAY AT A TIME (Since when did Family Affair take place in Terre Haute?)
23. A 1980s sitcom based on a movie, the only character who made the transition was the tough-as-nails, yet definitely untraditional military supervisor.
PRIVATE BENJAMIN
24. An early entrant in the now-pervasive trend of reality trash, this ripoff of another reality format rested on the trick that all the contestants thought someone was rich who was not.
JOE MILLIONAIRE
25. Can’t believe a theatrical film has not been made of this one. TV movie which focuses on an early run for Congress by a man who would become president of the USA.
JOHNNY WE HARDLY KNEW YE

Group C: Miscellaneous. If the clue says Lyric, I’m looking for the song title.

1. TV series: Vegeta! Trunks! Goku! Piccolo! Assemble!
2. Lyric: “W.C. Handy, won't you look down over me
Yeah I got a first class ticket
But I'm as blue as a boy can be”
WALKING IN MEMPHIS
3. Movie title: Tagline: How can a 10 go for a 5?
SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE
4. Song title: for the record, there are 26 consecutive repetitions of the words “I know” in this song.
AIN'T NO SUNSHINE
5. Lyric: “No one saying do this, no one saying be there. No one saying stop that. No one saying see here.”
I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO BE KING
6. Lyric: “Reputations changeable
Situations tolerable
But baby, you're adorable”
7. Literary title: Set in Medieval France, this story was the first published fiction by the master who wrote The New Arabian Nights and The Wrong Box, among other things.
THE NAME OF THE ROSE?
8. Lyric: “Just imagine it! Chatting with a chimp in chimpanzee!”
TALK TO THE ANIMALS
9. Person’s name: This Jazzy Jeff of the 2010s has recently become more well-known, thanks to Jimmy Fallon.
?UESTLOVE?
10. Lyric: “It makes me want to wag my tail, when it comes I want to wail,”
11. Lyric: “You say you lost your faith
But that’s not where it’s at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it
POSITIVELY FOURTH STREET
12. Lyric: “One more walk through problems
Built up, and stand in our way ,ah
One step ahead, one step behind me
Now you gotta run to get even”
13. Lyric: “Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me
WAGON WHEEL
14. Movie title: Hedy Lamarr’s final film, she played opposite George Nader and Jane Powell in a depressing film about a love triangle.
15. Lyric: “Someday, I don't know how
I hope she'll hear my plea
Some way, I don't know how
She'll bring her love to me”
DREAM LOVER
16. Lyric: “To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea,
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage,”
17. Lyric: “I can hear her heart beat for a thousand miles
And the heavens open every time she smiles
And when I come to her that's where I belong
Yet I'm running to her like a river's song”
AND IT STONED ME
18. Lyric: “It must have been cold there in my shadow. To never have sunshine on your face.”
WIND BENEATH MY WINGS
19. Lyric: “And may you grow to be proud
Dignified and true
And do unto others
As you'd have done to you”
FOREVER YOUNG
20. Lyric: “Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain
I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty for days”
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
21. Lyric: “Now you've listened to my story
Here's the point that I have made”
FEVER
22. Movie title: 2 movies, 50+ years apart, same title. One is a classic horror film, the other features Paris Hilton. But hey, they both feature a creepy museum. So they have that in common.
HOUSE OF WAX
23. Lyric: “Humidity is rising - Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the street's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
IT'S RAINING MEN
24. Lyric: “It slips into your thoughts
It infiltrates your soul
It takes you by surprise
Then seizes full control"
25. Lyric: “Didn't expect to be in this position, didn't expect to have to rise above
My reputation for cynicism, I've been a jaded lady when it comes to love but
Oh baby just to feel this feeling that everything that you do gives me
It's been too long since somebody whispered…”
SHUT UP AND KISS ME

[mrkelley23]

All of the definite answers are correct, except for one. Of the question marks, only two are incorrect (I didn't see any multiple question marks on the same answer.)

Kelley Tangredi Game: Trios! Trios! Trios!

Instructions: Solve the 75 clues, separated into three groups, below. Then group the clues into 25 trios, based on a unifying principle, or Tangredi, which you must discover for yourself. Group A is about the movies, and only titles are required. If you see quotation marks, it is a quote from the movie. Group B is about TV, and it is mostly series titles, although there is the odd TV movie or character thrown in. Group C is miscellaneous, but mostly song lyrics, where you are expected to come up with the song title.


Group A – The movies (all titles)

1. This black comedy, which shares its title with an economics tract by a former National Lampoonian and a rock song by a Bostonian group, features Hagrid in a supporting role, and was written and directed by the same man who brought us The Pope Must Die(t).
EAT THE RICH
2. Second most humiliating thing of Bruce Jenner’s life: being billed below the members of The Village People in this pseudobiography of the band’s life. Oh, well. At least he finished above June Havoc in the credits.
CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC
3. [as she throws a Mickey Mouse doll off her bed]” You can stay over there until you learn the art of subtlety.”
SAVING MR. BANKS
4. How much pull do you have to have in Hollywood to get Joseph Heller to work on the screenplay of the semi-autobiography you wrote, then get Natalie Wood cast as you, hmmmmmm?
SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL
5. Plot: Fagin, Dracula, and Itchy Itchiford try to find some lost jewels. Comedy gold … in the right hands.
THE TWELVE CHAIRS
6. “My weapons might look simple to you, Mr. Morton, but they can still shoot holes big enough for our little problems.”
7. Herman’s Hermits try to hop on the gravy train created by the Beatles and Monkees in this “romp” film, titled after one of their hit songs.
MRS. BROWN, YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER
8. “And I don't really think that personal rancor is going to help the situation. If I may say so.”
IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
9. This live-action film starring a family sitcom kid and a game show host presaged major plot points from an animated PIXAR project by 12 years.
10. This mid-80s comedy featured a Brat Packer, a high school bully named Biff, Andrew Dice Clay as a bookie, and Gordon Jump as a bumbling know-nothing. Very creative.
11. Early photoshop alert! This film’s main character takes Vera Miles to see a Ronald Colman/Carole Lombard movie. Trouble is, the title that appears on the screen, along with the two stars’ names, doesn’t exist!
12. Before Scream, before Scary Movie, there was this spoof of the horror genre whose title was an overtly obvious spoof (or homage, if you prefer) to Jason and his date.
SATURDAY THE 14TH
13. Perhaps the best movie with fashion as a plot point that was produced by a hairdresser, it was also the first major studio screenwriting job for John Carpenter (the Hollywood one.)
EYES OF LAURA MARS
14. “Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.”
DEAD POETS SOCIETY
15. With a title taken from a Rolling Stones song, this film is better as an exercise in spotting the homages to Hitchcock than anything else, according to one reviewer. Since director Tim Hunter taught a course in Hitchcock at UCSB, this may not be surprising.
16. Tagline: He's never coached. They've never won. Together they'll learn everything about winning!
THE MIGHTY DUCKS?
17. Pepper Potts (what is it with her and PP roles?), Lara Croft, and Dr. Watson in the title role. Even Sir Larry, although the film was released some 15 years after his death. What could go wrong?
SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
18. “Prairie Special engineer: They greased the rails, the goddamn tramps.
Prairie Special conductor: I don't give a damn if they're Democrats. Get this moving! “
19. The title refers to the star’s characterization of Hanukkah which he has used repeatedly in his standup comedy.
EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS
20. “Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together and of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches.”
HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT
21. The first of three films that Carl Switzer appeared in an attempt to recapture some of his WWII-era glory. The title recalls an earlier-era baseball dynasty.
THE GAS HOUSE KIDS
22. The other eponym of this film, the sixth of eight in a 21st century series based on books, was a character we thought was the bad guy, but turned out to be yet another heroic misunderstood Goth-type.
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
23. "Major Pott: [driven mad after being lost in the catacombs for days] Cannon to the right of them! Cannon to the left of them! Volley'd and thunder'd and Donder and Blitzen!"
24. Perhaps the only film (at least, that I can think of,) with a sequel that varies the title only by the intensifier “still.”
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
25. Doug McClure reprises his role as Bowen Tyler in this bad sequel to a bad film, both based on stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT


Group B: Television (mostly series titles)

1. Let’s see, a 6 foot 6 inch actor gets a role as a basketball coach and doesn’t even have to change his first name? Pretty easy work for a guy who originated Thomas Jefferson on Broadway.
THE WHITE SHADOW
2. In one episode of this sitcom, one of the title characters was walked up the wedding aisle by her male roommate, while the main theme from Brideshead Revisited played.
3. 35 years after this spy series ended, one of the main characters began playing a role on another spy series (still on the air) which is strangely similar to the one played by a guy (who was famous for playing Topper) on his original series. Got that?
THE MAN FOR U.N.C.L.E.
4. This was the original title for Sgt. Bilko’s TV show.
YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH or THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW
5. Unlike the inspiring sports movie with a similar title, this TV movie is a blackmail movie with no heroes. Plot synopsis: American couple in Mexico hit a cop with their car, then decide to run back to America rather than face Mexican justice. Rutger Hauer then blackmails them.
6. The original version of this show featured Regis Philbin as host and Brandy Norwood as one of the judging panel.
AMERICA'S GOT TALENT
7. This 12 episode miniseries was the final entry in the saga of the Henry and Jastrow families in the 20th century.
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
8. This is my wife’s new favorite show, even though it mostly just involves watching a bunch of celebrities drink and play parlor games.
HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT
9. According to Buzzfeed and his own book, Screech was even more obnoxious off camera than he was on this show.
SAVED BY THE BELL
10. Another show featuring a 6’6” actor playing a high school basketball coach who doesn’t even have to change his first name, but with a fundamental difference.
HANGIN' WITH MR. COOPER?
11. What other show could be referenced in a Slim Pickens epithet while having one of the most iconic openings in the history of television: “…the human drama of athletic competition…”? Okay, so the parts represented by the ellipses may be a tad more iconic than the part I gave you.
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
12. Most people remember this show for the title character and one of the students, but they forget the landlady, played by Jane Morgan, and the shy biology teacher, played by Robert Rockwell.
OUR MISS BROOKS
13. Tsukino! Ami! Rei! Makoto! and Minako! Assemble!
14. Creator Chuck Lorre supposedly recently apologized for this show while accepting an award for his new series “Mom.”
TWO AND A HALF MEN?
15. The theme song for this sitcom was redone by Cheap Trick after season 1, and included a shout-out to Wisconsin at the end.
THAT '70S SHOW
16. Premiering on ABC this fall, this American adaptation of an Australian series starring Ryan Philippe and Juliette Lewis, about a man wrongly (?) accused of murder.
17. This recently retired series may hold the all-time record for catchphrases, including Slapsgiving, Beercules, and Legen---------(wait for it!) ---------dary.
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
18. Kind of a culinary version of Dirty Jobs, hosted by Adam Richman.
MAN VS. FOOD
19. This show recycles acting talent from Frasier, One Day at a Time, Just Shoot Me, and The Golden Girls.
HOT IN CLEVELAND
20. (Non-title alert!) But it’s okay, because this character’s name was the title of the book on which the series was based. She was played by Alicia Christian Foster, who at the age of 12 already had multiple TV and film roles to her credit.
21. “Daggett: Hey, Norb, let's see who can jump the highest.
Norbert: [bumps the ceiling light and stops jumping] Uh, Dag, I think we should stop.
Daggett: You're just afraid I'll beat you.
Norbert: No, Dag, listen...
Daggett: [teasing] Norby's afraid to jump high.
Norbert: Daggett, listen.
Daggett: Norby's a chicken. BAWK BAWK BAWK. Come on, chicken boy. What are you afraid...
Daggett: [hits the light and gets violently shocked] AAAH! "
22. Unlike Family Affair, which was set in Terre Haute (which they always mispronounced), this sitcom was set in Indiana’s capital city.
ONE DAY AT A TIME (Since when did Family Affair take place in Terre Haute?)
23. A 1980s sitcom based on a movie, the only character who made the transition was the tough-as-nails, yet definitely untraditional military supervisor.
PRIVATE BENJAMIN
24. An early entrant in the now-pervasive trend of reality trash, this ripoff of another reality format rested on the trick that all the contestants thought someone was rich who was not.
JOE MILLIONAIRE
25. Can’t believe a theatrical film has not been made of this one. TV movie which focuses on an early run for Congress by a man who would become president of the USA.
JOHNNY WE HARDLY KNEW YE

Group C: Miscellaneous. If the clue says Lyric, I’m looking for the song title.

1. TV series: Vegeta! Trunks! Goku! Piccolo! Assemble!
2. Lyric: “W.C. Handy, won't you look down over me
Yeah I got a first class ticket
But I'm as blue as a boy can be”
WALKING IN MEMPHIS
3. Movie title: Tagline: How can a 10 go for a 5?
SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE
4. Song title: for the record, there are 26 consecutive repetitions of the words “I know” in this song.
AIN'T NO SUNSHINE
5. Lyric: “No one saying do this, no one saying be there. No one saying stop that. No one saying see here.”
I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO BE KING
6. Lyric: “Reputations changeable
Situations tolerable
But baby, you're adorable”
7. Literary title: Set in Medieval France, this story was the first published fiction by the master who wrote The New Arabian Nights and The Wrong Box, among other things.
THE NAME OF THE ROSE?
8. Lyric: “Just imagine it! Chatting with a chimp in chimpanzee!”
TALK TO THE ANIMALS
9. Person’s name: This Jazzy Jeff of the 2010s has recently become more well-known, thanks to Jimmy Fallon.
?UESTLOVE?
10. Lyric: “It makes me want to wag my tail, when it comes I want to wail,”
11. Lyric: “You say you lost your faith
But that’s not where it’s at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it
POSITIVELY FOURTH STREET
12. Lyric: “One more walk through problems
Built up, and stand in our way ,ah
One step ahead, one step behind me
Now you gotta run to get even”
13. Lyric: “Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me
WAGON WHEEL
14. Movie title: Hedy Lamarr’s final film, she played opposite George Nader and Jane Powell in a depressing film about a love triangle.
15. Lyric: “Someday, I don't know how
I hope she'll hear my plea
Some way, I don't know how
She'll bring her love to me”
DREAM LOVER
16. Lyric: “To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea,
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage,”
17. Lyric: “I can hear her heart beat for a thousand miles
And the heavens open every time she smiles
And when I come to her that's where I belong
Yet I'm running to her like a river's song”
AND IT STONED ME
18. Lyric: “It must have been cold there in my shadow. To never have sunshine on your face.”
WIND BENEATH MY WINGS
19. Lyric: “And may you grow to be proud
Dignified and true
And do unto others
As you'd have done to you”
FOREVER YOUNG
20. Lyric: “Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain
I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty for days”
THE STORY OF MY LIFE
21. Lyric: “Now you've listened to my story
Here's the point that I have made”
FEVER
22. Movie title: 2 movies, 50+ years apart, same title. One is a classic horror film, the other features Paris Hilton. But hey, they both feature a creepy museum. So they have that in common.
HOUSE OF WAX
23. Lyric: “Humidity is rising - Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the street's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
IT'S RAINING MEN
24. Lyric: “It slips into your thoughts
It infiltrates your soul
It takes you by surprise
Then seizes full control"
25. Lyric: “Didn't expect to be in this position, didn't expect to have to rise above
My reputation for cynicism, I've been a jaded lady when it comes to love but
Oh baby just to feel this feeling that everything that you do gives me
It's been too long since somebody whispered…”
SHUT UP AND KISS ME

[mrkelley23]

Oh, and mea culpa: Family Affair was not set in Terre Haute, but that's where the kids supposedly were living before they moved in with Uncle Bill, so they had many chances to call it TAIR-uh HUT.

[kroxquo]

I'm thinking I misspoke on B-23 Private Benjamin because I thought it meant the only actor to make the transition to the show rather than the only character.

[ToLiveIsToFly]

6. Lyric: “Reputations changeable
Situations tolerable
But baby, you're adorable”
THIS IS HANDLE WITH CARE BY THE TRAVELING WILBURYS

10. Lyric: “It makes me want to wag my tail, when it comes I want to wail,”
THIS IS THE SONG THAT GETS PLAYED ON BLUES CLUES WHEN THE MAIL COMES. I ALWAYS ASSUMED IT WAS CALLED "MAIL TIME" BUT I COULD BE WRONG.

[mrkelley23]

I'm thinking I misspoke on B-23 Private Benjamin because I thought it meant the only actor to make the transition to the show rather than the only character.

Actually, I'm the one who misspoke. Your misread assumption was the one I was going for, and Private Benjamin is the right answer for that one.

The incorrect answers (one "definite," two question marks) are all in the same group of clues.

[smilergrogan]

Had wrong Van Morrison title - a lot of those songs sound the same. That means The Name of the Rose and ?Questlove are wrong guesses.

Kelley Tangredi Game: Trios! Trios! Trios!

Instructions: Solve the 75 clues, separated into three groups, below. Then group the clues into 25 trios, based on a unifying principle, or Tangredi, which you must discover for yourself. Group A is about the movies, and only titles are required. If you see quotation marks, it is a quote from the movie. Group B is about TV, and it is mostly series titles, although there is the odd TV movie or character thrown in. Group C is miscellaneous, but mostly song lyrics, where you are expected to come up with the song title.


Group A – The movies (all titles)

1. EAT THE RICH
2. CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC
3. SAVING MR. BANKS
4. SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL
5. THE TWELVE CHAIRS
6. MRS. BROWN, YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER
8. IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
9. This live-action film starring a family sitcom kid and a game show host presaged major plot points from an animated PIXAR project by 12 years.
10. This mid-80s comedy featured a Brat Packer, a high school bully named Biff, Andrew Dice Clay as a bookie, and Gordon Jump as a bumbling know-nothing. Very creative.
11. Early photoshop alert! This film’s main character takes Vera Miles to see a Ronald Colman/Carole Lombard movie. Trouble is, the title that appears on the screen, along with the two stars’ names, doesn’t exist!
12. SATURDAY THE 14TH
13. EYES OF LAURA MARS
14. DEAD POETS SOCIETY
15. With a title taken from a Rolling Stones song, this film is better as an exercise in spotting the homages to Hitchcock than anything else, according to one reviewer. Since director Tim Hunter taught a course in Hitchcock at UCSB, this may not be surprising.
16. THE MIGHTY DUCKS
17. SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
18. “Prairie Special engineer: They greased the rails, the goddamn tramps.
Prairie Special conductor: I don't give a damn if they're Democrats. Get this moving! “
19. EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS
20. HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT
21. THE GAS HOUSE KIDS
22. HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
23. "Major Pott: [driven mad after being lost in the catacombs for days] Cannon to the right of them! Cannon to the left of them! Volley'd and thunder'd and Donder and Blitzen!"
24. I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
25. THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT


Group B: Television (mostly series titles)

1. THE WHITE SHADOW
2. In one episode of this sitcom, one of the title characters was walked up the wedding aisle by her male roommate, while the main theme from Brideshead Revisited played.
3. THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
4. YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH
5. Unlike the inspiring sports movie with a similar title, this TV movie is a blackmail movie with no heroes. Plot synopsis: American couple in Mexico hit a cop with their car, then decide to run back to America rather than face Mexican justice. Rutger Hauer then blackmails them.
6. AMERICA'S GOT TALENT
7. WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
8. HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT
9. SAVED BY THE BELL
10. HANGIN' WITH MR. COOPER
11. ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
12. OUR MISS BROOKS
13. Tsukino! Ami! Rei! Makoto! and Minako! Assemble!
14. TWO AND A HALF MEN
15. THAT '70S SHOW
16. Premiering on ABC this fall, this American adaptation of an Australian series starring Ryan Philippe and Juliette Lewis, about a man wrongly (?) accused of murder.
17. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
18. MAN VS. FOOD
19. HOT IN CLEVELAND
20. (Non-title alert!) But it’s okay, because this character’s name was the title of the book on which the series was based. She was played by Alicia Christian Foster, who at the age of 12 already had multiple TV and film roles to her credit.
21. “Daggett: Hey, Norb, let's see who can jump the highest.
Norbert: [bumps the ceiling light and stops jumping] Uh, Dag, I think we should stop.
Daggett: You're just afraid I'll beat you.
Norbert: No, Dag, listen...
Daggett: [teasing] Norby's afraid to jump high.
Norbert: Daggett, listen.
Daggett: Norby's a chicken. BAWK BAWK BAWK. Come on, chicken boy. What are you afraid...
Daggett: [hits the light and gets violently shocked] AAAH! "
22. ONE DAY AT A TIME
23. PRIVATE BENJAMIN
24. JOE MILLIONAIRE
25. JOHNNY WE HARDLY KNEW YE

Group C: Miscellaneous. If the clue says Lyric, I’m looking for the song title.

1. TV series: Vegeta! Trunks! Goku! Piccolo! Assemble!
2. WALKING IN MEMPHIS
3. SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE
4. AIN'T NO SUNSHINE
5. I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO BE KING
6. HANDLE WITH CARE
7. Literary title: Set in Medieval France, this story was the first published fiction by the master who wrote The New Arabian Nights and The Wrong Box, among other things.
8. TALK TO THE ANIMALS
9. Person’s name: This Jazzy Jeff of the 2010s has recently become more well-known, thanks to Jimmy Fallon.
10. Lyric: “It makes me want to wag my tail, when it comes I want to wail,”
MAIL TIME?
11.POSITIVELY FOURTH STREET
12. Lyric: “One more walk through problems
Built up, and stand in our way ,ah
One step ahead, one step behind me
Now you gotta run to get even”
13. WAGON WHEEL
14. Movie title: Hedy Lamarr’s final film, she played opposite George Nader and Jane Powell in a depressing film about a love triangle.
15. DREAM LOVER
16. Lyric: “To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea,
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage,”
17. CRAZY LOVE
18. WIND BENEATH MY WINGS
19. FOREVER YOUNG
20. THE STORY OF MY LIFE
21. FEVER
22. HOUSE OF WAX
23. IT'S RAINING MEN
24. Lyric: “It slips into your thoughts
It infiltrates your soul
It takes you by surprise
Then seizes full control"
25. SHUT UP AND KISS ME

[mrkelley23]

Everything on here is now correct, including the one question mark that's been added. Unfortunately, some of the more "giveaway" type clues (as far as the Tangredi is concerned) are still to be discovered. Need the Canadians and families with children to take a look.

Here's one hint, to grease the skids a little: A-25 has to be the sequel, not the original, but A-24 could have been either the sequel or the original.

[ToLiveIsToFly]

20. (Non-title alert!) But it’s okay, because this character’s name was the title of the book on which the series was based. She was played by Alicia Christian Foster, who at the age of 12 already had multiple TV and film roles to her credit.
THIS HAS GOT TO BE ABOUT PAPER MOON. WHAT'S HER NAME? MADDY SOMETHING?