weiss@gondor.UUCP (03/19/85)
[...asking that he, too, never return.]
1> Give both men's full character and real life names.
Felix Unger = Tony Randall
Oscar Madison = Jack Klugman
2> Give both men's occupations (very specific for Oscar).
Felix Unger = Photographer
Oscar Madison = Sports writer for the New York Herald.
(I may be wrong on the paper, but I think that's it.)
3> Oscar's secretary: Full character name and full real name.
Myrna Turner = Penny Marshall
4> Both men's wive's names.
Gloria Unger
Blanche Madison
5> How many children did each men have and their names.
Felix = 1, Edna
Oscar = 0
6> How many different apartment sets were used over the course of
the series?
2
Extra Credit: Full names of the actors who played the odd couple in the movie.
Felix = Jack Lemmon
Oscar = Walter Matthau
Congrats to those who got them right. Let's see some more, if there is any.
--
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
Michael S. Weiss BITNET: weiss@psuvaxg.bitnetsmk@axiom.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer) (03/23/85)
> From weiss@gondor.UUCP Mon Mar 18 23:18:28 1985 > > 3> Oscar's secretary: Full character name and full real name. > Myrna Turner = Penny Marshall Uh, I do believe that her middle name was Lerna. There was an episode where she has her whole family brought into the apt, and they all had 3 names. The 1st 2 always rhymed. -- --steve kramer {allegra,genrad,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!axiom!smk (UUCP) linus!axiom!smk@mitre-bedford (MIL)
de@moscom.UUCP (Dave Esan) (03/29/85)
> > 3> Oscar's secretary: Full character name and full real name. > > Myrna Turner = Penny Marshall > > Uh, I do believe that her middle name was Lerna. There was an episode > where she has her whole family brought into the apt, and they all > had 3 names. The 1st 2 always rhymed. If you remember, Myrna had an accent and pronounced Turner as Turna. So all three names rhymed, to her she was Myrna Lenra Turna. David Esan (!moscom!de) PS As a bonus: What was the name of Myrna's husband, and who played him on the show? (Sadly, I can remember only his first name) 2. Where did Myrna go to college, and what was her chief extracirricular activity?
don@axiom.UUCP (Donald F. Picard) (04/20/85)
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Since Odd Couple trivia seemed to catch on so well, I decided
to compile a list of quotes. You see, my brothers and sister and I
used to watch Odd Couple ALL the time and we got to know the
shows forward and backward. So, we invented this little game.
Someone would say a quote and the rest of the family would have
to guess:
a) who said the quote
b) who were they saying it to
c) what show was it from
d) any surrounding lines/info that they knew.
The rules to the game were:
a) the quote had to be unique (ie. only used in one show)
b) the quote had to be spoken in the same manner
as it was in the show.
c) if no one was able to come up with which show it was
from, you had to be willing to give a hint (which
typically meant another line from the same show).
The following 52 quotes (I was only going to post 50, but I liked
them all and could not decide which 2 to cut) meet the above criteria.
Unfortunately, due to the electronic medium, I cannot satisfy item b of
the rules. However, I have tried to indicate tone of voice, etc. through
the use of punctuation and CAPITAL letters. This will have to suffice.
In an effort to compensate for the above shortcoming, I will tell you
that some of the quotes below belong to the same show. So some will
act as hints for others.
The quotes are rated E (for easy), M (for medium), and H (for hard).
I arrived at the rating system in the following manner.
a) A quote was rated E if some word or words in the
quote clearly hinted at the major theme in the episode
OR the line was so specific that it could clearly only
be in one show.
b) A quote was rated M if some word or words hinted
at a subplot of the episode, OR if the line only left
a few shows as possibilities for answers.
c) A quote was rated H if the line only had to do with
a minor point in the story OR if the line could conceivably
be attributed to many shows.
I would expect most people who have seen Odd Couple with any regularity
to get the easy quotes and some (if not most) of the ones of medium
difficulty. The hard quotes are for hard-core fans and I would expect
most people to require further hints before being able to figure them
out. Also note that the ordering within a category is strictly alpha-
betical; no attempt was made to order the level of difficulty within
each category.
PLEASE, do not post your answers to the net. Mail your answers
to me. I would like to see how well people do and I will compose
a list of the right answers giving credit to the people who got
them correct (if space permits). If anyone would like some hints
(of the type mentioned in item c of the rules) mail a list
of the questions to me (use the numbers supplied) to which you would
like hints. If the request for hints is large, I will post a set
of them to the net in a few weeks time.
If the response is good, I am sure I and my family could compile
another list. Let's see how this one goes over.
Good Luck!
Don Picard
Axiom Technology
... linus!axiom!don
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E 1) 8TH FLOOR! 8TH FLOOR!
E 2) It's little Orphan Annie!
E 3) Let's hit Hitler where he lives.
E 4) Ratso Rizzo had a cuter apartment.
E 5) She said stop mumbling, though you are stumbling,
I like you just a little bit, just a little bit, quite a little bit.
E 6) Shuffling off to Buffalo.
E 7) The key is in the cupcake.
E 8) We're gonna fight, fight, fight, fight, fight! We're gonna win,
win, win, win, win!
E 9) You broke my Rigoletto!
E 10) You're my eyes, Gloria!
M 11) ... and I don't deserve your dink.
M 12) A jelly doughnut for a jelly fish!
M 13) All the world's a stage, and all the men and women, merely players.
M 14) And it goes like the devil, dit-dit dit-dit dit, ...
M 15) Aristophanes!
M 16) Canned squid.
M 17) Eat your heart out.
M 18) Funny HA HA funny, or funny here funny?
M 19) I alley'ed when I should have ooped.
M 20) I'm not that kind of pushover.
M 21) If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.
M 22) It's easier if you don't look back.
M 23) It's like an isosceles triangle, from me to him to you to me.
M 24) It's supposed to smell like that!
M 25) MS. Right.
M 26) Oh, look at the time! I've got to run.
M 27) Oscar is a lonely man.
M 28) Peach of a morning.
M 29) So we'll get a very firm and I'll jump in the middle!
M 30) This is the most tasteless thing I've ever seen.
M 31) What did he say about me, the man in white?
M 32) What you don't know can hurt you a whole lot.
M 33) You know, my uncle Edward, the one who died in the bus crash.
H 34) ... trimmed in gold, looks great, and the chicks love it.
H 35) Are you SURE he doesn't remind you of anyone?
H 36) At least he didn't tell me not to leave town.
H 37) Bernstein and Lufts.
H 38) Bet I could've helped.
H 39) Did the deceased have a name?
H 40) Five dollars for socks.
H 41) I look good for someone who just crawled through a window; who
yelled fire?
H 42) I only know dogs.
H 43) I recognized his brand of stocking.
H 44) If you go THUMP THUMP THUMP in my face again I'll give you a fat lip!
H 45) Mass hypnosis brought on by grief.
H 46) No, it's a Pluto ashtray!
H 47) Remember me with the fat sack?
H 48) She threw in the towel.
H 49) She was no raving beauty.
H 50) Throat, throat, I should've said throat!
H 51) With what, my hat?
H 52) You'll come crawling back, just like my mother did!
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Don Picard
Axiom Technology
... linus!axiom!don
PS: If anyone notices any spelling mistakes, or if they feel that
the wording or punctuation is incorrect, or if they feel that the
above quotes are not unique to one show, send me mail. I'd
be happy to post a correction.