I'll Name the Food, You Name the Movie

[Toliver]

Bless you, petite tête de chou, for solving a toughie!

Please don't assign numbers to your new movie foods...if a movie is solved before it gets put into a recap, it's not given a number since it's out of play.

Also, we're getting some repeat movies. Try not to use "Pretty Woman", "The Godfather", "Cool Hand Luke", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", "Fargo", "Moonstruck", "Repo Man", "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Fried Green Tomatoes" and "Dirty Dancing" as they've all been used twice.

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

-petite tête de chou for finally clearing #97 (Ahi Tuna, a glass of water...) off the board by naming it as the film "Just Friends".

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WAITING FOR CONFIRMATION:

-FoodMan has guessed that #123 ("you know what a putenesca is? it means naughty girl's pasta"...) is the film "Mostly Martha".

-godito has guessed that #123 is the film "Made"

-WHT has gueesed that #123 is the film "Blow"

We know that #97 is not "Little Miss Sunshine" nor is it "Elf"

#123 is not "Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events" nor is it "The Goodbye Girl"

#153 is not "Legal Eagles"

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STILL UNSOLVED AND TAUNTING US A LITTLE LESS UNMERCIFULLY:

123. "you know what a putenesca is? it means naughty girl's pasta."

CLUE: said while the character's cooking, to a little girl, who hasnt eaten yet, and is kinda lonely. it might be "bad girl pasta" that he says.

148. In a marketplace, buying pears, Brioche, grapes, fresh cheeses, wine, crusty loaves of bread, and a fresh pork hock

154. REVISED CLUE: A floor picnic of roast chicken, rudely interrupted by monetary concerns and time constraints.

CLUE: Every meal in the movie was disrupted by SOMETHING, but no other by money.

158. "I love their eggrolls" " Eat your eggs" and four perfect T-bone steaks

166. A couple enter a restaurant, and the lady goes off to the ladies' room to neaten her hairdo. She returns and is majorly P.O.ed that her gauche escort has not only ordered for himself, but is too busy gobbling oysters to rise and hold her chair.

168. BBQ. Mainly ribs featured more than once in this movie. The main character seemed to savor them very much from a certain BBQ shack.

169. Scene: Whole broiled fish served for lunch.

Host: "I hope you don't mind. I believe they should be served with the head."

Guest: "Fine, as long as you don't serve chicken that way."

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[insomniac]

Scene: Whole broiled fish served for lunch.

Host: "I hope you don't mind.  I believe they should be served with the head."

Guest: "Fine, as long as you don't serve chicken that way."

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one of my favourites, Chinatown

[cinghiale]

Bingo on Chinatown, kitty cat!

That's the second Nicholson line in this thread, I believe.

How about these other gems from Jack?

* Movie 1 features The Strawberry Alarm Clock doing "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow"

* Movie 2 involves cheeseburgers where the cheese doesn't melt right; purported greatest Italian sausage sandwich (+ "What's an Indiana Dog?"); and complaints about eggs

* Movie 3 has one of my fav Nicholson demented responses -- "Mmm, nice" -- after being served eggs "just the way you like them -- sunnyside up!"

* Movie 4 opens with a recounting of a story of non-intervention upon Grandpa choking to death on a fish bone ("breaded sole -- the crumbs only helped to conceal the bones"), with Gramps collapsing off his dining chair "looking like the remains of some chaotic dinner party."

* Movie 5 features a lot of barbequeing (as I recall)

[racheld]

"mmmm---nice" is the second most quoted line in The Shining, after the ever-popular "HEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!!!"

And Ole Johnny has gotten around in this thread quite a bit already---Terms of Endearment, with its decapitated chopped-liver chicken (though he didn't do the crime), and eating Carbonara with the unclad Meryl Streep in Heartburn, as well as another unmannerly occasion. Toast and chicken goes without saying, as well.

Edited April 12, 2007 by racheld (log)

[Domestic Goddess]

123. "you know what a putenesca is? it means naughty girl's pasta."

CLUE: said while the character's cooking, to a little girl, who hasnt eaten yet, and is kinda lonely. it might be "bad girl pasta" that he says.

"Leon"?

[Domestic Goddess]

168. BBQ. Mainly ribs featured more than once in this movie. The main character seemed to savor them very much from a certain BBQ shack.

"Maid for Each Other?

[cinghiale]

"mmmm---nice" is the second most quoted line in The Shining, after the ever-popular "HEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!!!"

And Ole Johnny has gotten around in this thread quite a bit already---Terms of Endearment, with its decapitated chopped-liver chicken (though he didn't do the crime), and eating Carbonara with the unclad Meryl Streep in Heartburn, as well as another unmannerly occasion.  Toast and chicken goes without saying, as well.

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Well done! If this thread were about "Name the booze..." I'd submit this one:

Jack: Hi, Lloyd. Been away, but now I'm back.

Lloyd: Good evening, Mr. Torrance. It's good to see you.

Jack: It's good to be back, Lloyd.

Lloyd: What'll it be, sir?

Jack: Hair of the dog that bit me.

Lloyd: Bourbon on the rocks.

Jack: That'll do her.

Lloyd: No charge to you, Mr. Torrance.

Jack: No charge?

Lloyd: Your money is no good here. Orders from the house.

Jack: 'Orders from the house?'

Lloyd: Drink up, Mr. Torrance.

Jack: I'm the kind of man who likes to know who's buyin' their drinks, Lloyd.

Lloyd: It's not a matter that concerns you, Mr. Torrance. At least not at this point.

Jack: Anything you say, Lloyd. Anything you say.

[petite tête de chou]

And I would add, from Easy Rider...

George Hanson: [Drinking his Jim Beam] Here's the first of the day, fellas! To old D.H. Lawrence.

[He starts flapping one arm like a chicken]

George Hanson: Neh! Neh! Neh! Fuh! Fuh! Fuh! Indians.

[racheld]

I was beginning to think this thread had died a natural death. Now it's having a flicker of resurrection.

Charging!!! Clear!!! Thwack!!!

Maybe she's not done fer after all---Jack and booze could probably resuscitate Ishtar.

[caroled]

"mmmm---nice" is the second most quoted line in The Shining, after the ever-popular "HEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!!!"

And Ole Johnny has gotten around in this thread quite a bit already---Terms of Endearment, with its decapitated chopped-liver chicken (though he didn't do the crime), and eating Carbonara with the unclad Meryl Streep in Heartburn, as well as another unmannerly occasion.  Toast and chicken goes without saying, as well.

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Funny that Ole Jack has been popping up so much, as that is my guess to # 166

Terms of Endearment

[FoodMan]

168. BBQ. Mainly ribs featured more than once in this movie. The main character seemed to savor them very much from a certain BBQ shack.

"Maid for Each Other?

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nope.

another clue: scandal involving the said bbq shack owner's daughter and our rib-loving main character.

That should give it away if you've seen this movie.

[SarahW]

# 148 - "Valmont." Poor Meg Tilley.

Edited, on account of confused Madame de Tourvel's. I don't think Pfeiffer picked up any groceries.

Edited April 13, 2007 by SarahW (log)

[JanMcBaker]

Maybe this is pushing the topic a bit, but I just thought of a movie where something hot is swallowed, but it's not cooked. Oh, and it's ice but it's not cold.

[racheld]

How 'bout The Hot Rock?---Not edible, but eaten, so to speak.

And YES to 166!!! The look on poor Shirley MacLaine's face under that impossible-to-repair hair is priceless, and only one of the dismayed expressions she emotes in that movie.

Edited April 13, 2007 by racheld (log)

[JanMcBaker]

How 'bout The Hot Rock?---Not edible, but eaten, so to speak.

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Bingo!

[Toliver]

The game has gotten its second wind...here's a recap:

Please don't assign numbers to your new movie foods...if a movie is solved before it gets put into a recap, it's not given a number since it's out of play.

Also, we're getting some repeat movies. Try not to use "Pretty Woman", "The Godfather", "Cool Hand Luke", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", "Fargo", "Moonstruck", "Repo Man", "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Fried Green Tomatoes" and "Dirty Dancing" as they've all been used twice.

A new clue has been added to #168.

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

-insomniac for solving #169 (Scene: Whole broiled fish served for lunch.

Host: "I hope you don't mind. I believe they should be served with the head."

Guest: "Fine, as long as you don't serve chicken that way.") as the film "Chinatown".

-racheld for solving the clue " 'Mmm, nice' -- after being served eggs 'just the way you like them -- sunnyside up!' " as the Jack Nicholson film "The Shining".

She also solved the clue "a movie where something hot is swallowed, but it's not cooked. Oh, and it's ice but it's not cold" as the film "The Hot Rock".

-caroled has correctly guessed that #166 (A couple enter a restaurant, and the lady goes off to the ladies' room to neaten her hairdo. She returns and is majorly P.O.ed that her gauche escort has not only ordered for himself, but is too busy gobbling oysters to rise and hold her chair) is the film "Terms of Endearment".

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WAITING FOR CONFIRMATION:

-FoodMan has guessed that #123 ("you know what a putenesca is? it means naughty girl's pasta"...) is the film "Mostly Martha"

-godito has guessed that #123 is the film "Made"

-WHT has gueesed that #123 is the film "Blow"

-Domestic Goddess has guessed that #123 is "Leon"

-SarahW has guessed that #148 (In a marketplace, buying pears, Brioche, grapes, fresh cheeses, wine, crusty loaves of bread, and a fresh pork hock) is the film "Valmont".

#123 is not "Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events" nor is it "The Goodbye Girl"

#168 is not "Maid for Each Other"

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STILL UNSOLVED AND TAUNTING US A LITTLE LESS UNMERCIFULLY:

123. "you know what a putenesca is? it means naughty girl's pasta."

CLUE: said while the character's cooking, to a little girl, who hasnt eaten yet, and is kinda lonely. it might be "bad girl pasta" that he says.

148. In a marketplace, buying pears, Brioche, grapes, fresh cheeses, wine, crusty loaves of bread, and a fresh pork hock

154. REVISED CLUE: A floor picnic of roast chicken, rudely interrupted by monetary concerns and time constraints.

CLUE: Every meal in the movie was disrupted by SOMETHING, but no other by money.

158. "I love their eggrolls" " Eat your eggs" and four perfect T-bone steaks

168. BBQ. Mainly ribs featured more than once in this movie. The main character seemed to savor them very much from a certain BBQ shack.

CLUE: scandal involving the said bbq shack owner's daughter and our rib-loving main character.

170. Jack Nicholson film: The Strawberry Alarm Clock doing "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow"

171. Jack Nicholson film: cheeseburgers where the cheese doesn't melt right; purported greatest Italian sausage sandwich (+ "What's an Indiana Dog?"); and complaints about eggs

172. Jack Nicholson film opens with a recounting of a story of non-intervention upon Grandpa choking to death on a fish bone ("breaded sole -- the crumbs only helped to conceal the bones"), with Gramps collapsing off his dining chair "looking like the remains of some chaotic dinner party."

173. Jack Nicholson film: features a lot of barbequeing (as I recall)

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[Domestic Goddess]

170. Jack Nicholson film: The Strawberry Alarm Clock doing "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow"

Psych-Out

[cinghiale]

170. Jack Nicholson film: The Strawberry Alarm Clock doing "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow"

Psych-Out

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Well done! Jack as hippie. Priceless.

[racheld]

154: Additional info:

The hero speaks to an older woman, and her comeback was quite memorable.

171: The Last Detail

172: King of Marvin Gardens

173. I dare not speak its title---it was THAT bad. Suffice to say, I would imagine that Glenn, Jack, Pierce, et al, up to and including the fabulous Slim Whitman, considered throwing Tim Burton himself onto the grill.

Please don't nitpick, Toliver---I really WON'T say the title--you don't want me to throw up on my keyboard, do you?

Edited April 14, 2007 by racheld (log)

[SarahW]

Two quarts of milk a day, and a little lady.

[racheld]

If it were six and a half quarts, I'd say it was "A Big Hand For. . ." (and so I lent him the money at 6 1/2% interest), but two quarts doesn't ring a bell.

[Wayne]

#168

Primary Colors

[Toliver]

Here's a recap:

Please don't assign numbers to your new movie foods...if a movie is solved before it gets put into a recap, it's not given a number since it's out of play.

Also, we're getting some repeat movies. Try not to use "Pretty Woman", "The Godfather", "Cool Hand Luke", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", "Fargo", "Moonstruck", "Repo Man", "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Fried Green Tomatoes" and "Dirty Dancing" as they've all been used twice.

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

-Domestic Goddess has guessed that #170 (Jack Nicholson film: The Strawberry Alarm Clock doing "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow") is the film "Psych Out".

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WAITING FOR CONFIRMATION:

-FoodMan has guessed that #123 ("you know what a putenesca is? it means naughty girl's pasta"...) is the film "Mostly Martha"

-godito has guessed that #123 is the film "Made"

-WHT has gueesed that #123 is the film "Blow"

-Domestic Goddess has guessed that #123 is "Leon"

-SarahW has guessed that #148 (In a marketplace, buying pears, Brioche, grapes, fresh cheeses, wine, crusty loaves of bread, and a fresh pork hock) is the film "Valmont".

-racheld has guessed that #171 is the film "The Last Detail" and also guessed that #172 is the film "The King of Marvin Gardens".

She has posted a guess about #173 but has refused to name the film.

-Wayne has guessed that #168 is the film "Primary Colors".

#123 is not "Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events" nor is it "The Goodbye Girl"

#168 is not "Maid for Each Other"

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STILL UNSOLVED AND TAUNTING US A LITTLE LESS UNMERCIFULLY:

123. "you know what a putenesca is? it means naughty girl's pasta."

CLUE: said while the character's cooking, to a little girl, who hasnt eaten yet, and is kinda lonely. it might be "bad girl pasta" that he says.

148. In a marketplace, buying pears, Brioche, grapes, fresh cheeses, wine, crusty loaves of bread, and a fresh pork hock

154. REVISED CLUE: A floor picnic of roast chicken, rudely interrupted by monetary concerns and time constraints.

CLUE: Every meal in the movie was disrupted by SOMETHING, but no other by money.

CLUE: The hero speaks to an older woman, and her comeback was quite memorable.

158. "I love their eggrolls" " Eat your eggs" and four perfect T-bone steaks

168. BBQ. Mainly ribs featured more than once in this movie. The main character seemed to savor them very much from a certain BBQ shack.

CLUE: scandal involving the said bbq shack owner's daughter and our rib-loving main character.

171. Jack Nicholson film: cheeseburgers where the cheese doesn't melt right; purported greatest Italian sausage sandwich (+ "What's an Indiana Dog?"); and complaints about eggs

172. Jack Nicholson film opens with a recounting of a story of non-intervention upon Grandpa choking to death on a fish bone ("breaded sole -- the crumbs only helped to conceal the bones"), with Gramps collapsing off his dining chair "looking like the remains of some chaotic dinner party."

173. Jack Nicholson film: features a lot of barbequeing (as I recall)

174. Two quarts of milk a day, and a little lady.

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Also, consider posting more clues if your movie remains unsolved.

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[Toliver]

173.  I dare not speak its title---it was THAT bad.  Suffice to say, I would imagine that Glenn, Jack, Pierce, et al, up to and including the fabulous Slim Whitman, considered throwing Tim Burton himself onto the grill.

Please don't nitpick, Toliver---I really WON'T say the title--you don't want me to throw up on my keyboard, do you?

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Since I don't know the name of the film you are referring to, I will leave it up to cinghiale, who posted the clue originally, to decide whether you've successfully solved it or not.

[FoodMan]

#168

Primary Colors

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Correct!

I cannot forget how John Travolta savored those ribs...and apparently the chef's daughter (allegedly )