Okay. So it was definitely hard this week. I was more liberal with the scoring since multiple answers could work for the given clue.
Props to Tom, who came up with the answer that works for the two movies I had in mind for #4 on Movie Mash: “Dancing Dirty Dances with Wolves”. There were many variations I allowed here and for the #2 and #3.
Other answers that worked instead of Billie Holiday were Billy Idol (idle) and Billy Sunday.
My absolute favorite answer of the week, which I like better than mine and kept me giggling for awhile belongs to Matthew Gilman. For “Bee’s Behind” in Rhyme time Matthew answered “Honeymaker Moneymaker”.
The “official” answers are right below as well as the standings for Pure & Power.
Top 5 scorers of Week2
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Matthew — 21
Andy — 19
Randy — 18
Damfdrza — 15
Brooks — 15
Top 5 in Overall Standings
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Matthew — 51
Brooks — 45
Andy — 44
Randy — 43
Brendon — 42
Power Standings
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Matt — 72
Bret — 67
Brooks — 58
Kelly — 58
Andrew — 57
Tags: Answers, Initial Diagnosis, Movie Title Mash, Rhyme Time, Star Crossed, Think-a-Link
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For some reason, I can’t get the answer sheet deal to open up. Is it supposed to start up a PDF download?
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Never mind, I figured it out.
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First and foremost…I wanna praise you (like I should) for taking this on. I love this little competition, and I love that it’s available, so please don’t take what I say next as me being ungrateful or whatever.
I’m going to have to ask you to explain a few things here. Specifically “Psycho Babe” and “Speed Crash.” I know you already had some ‘splainin’ to do about this category, but I had thought there was going to be some carry-over between the two films being mashed up here in order for the new title to make sense.
Like “Little Big Women” could be seen as mixing Little Women and Big to form a play on “Little Big Man.” Which is how I arrived at my version of that answer. And “Dirty Dancing with Wolves” or whatever version of that title seems to work similarly.
“Mystic Tombstone Pizza” at least has some overlap going on between Tombstone Pizza and Mystic Pizza. (There’s no direct hint at the movie “Tombstone” though, but hey.)
More than that…the implication from these three seems to be that the answer is going to be a cute mix of recognizable phrases or titles. If that’s the case…am I just not aware of “Psycho Babe” or “Speed Crash” being common phrases or titles in everyday parlance? Because there’s really no overlap guiding the solver to these answers without that…Help me, A Dough Berry!
(Also, being a Jew, should I really have been penalized for not knowing Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh? Wait…”gold”…um, don’t answer that.)
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I guess I don’t even know how to answer this. As I said, I was liberal with the judging. As long as the two real movie titles put together, fit the clue, it counted.
I don’t know where the expectation came that the new movie title should be some cute mix of recognizable phrases. They were just supposed to make sense in context of the clue. Either because specific movies were reference or the clue pointed at the definition of the word itself with no movie reference.
(Big) (Little Women). The clue for this one had specific references to each film. The new title is just humorous.
(Psycho) (Babe). Fits the clue perfectly. Psycho = Crazy, Babe was a movie about a pig. I took several answers here.
(Mystic Pizza) (Tombstone). Ya, I couldn’t think of a great clue for this without making it super easy. No direct hint at the movie, but you do find Tombstone pizza’s in the freezer aisle. Poltergeist is a reference to the mystic. I like some of the answers others came up with better (Ghost Meatballs)
(Dirty Dancing) (Dancing with Wolves) I admitted I messed up the usage of the word. Plenty of people found suitable answers though. Direct references to both movies.
(Speed) (Crash). There are specific references to both movies in the clue and the resulting movie is a jab at how unrealistic the bus staying upright and leaping over monstrous gaps was.
I don’t know what to say beyond that. I certainly did not expect people to get all of these. The fun was in seeing what people did come up with.
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Yeah, I have to side with Gilman here. I did get a couple of those, but didn’t write down “Speed Crash” – for which I’d considered both movies – because “speed crash” isn’t a thing and I expected them to be mashups that created sayings, or whatever. If I’d known that non-sayings would work, I definitely would have come up with answers for every blank.
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Rereading, I still can’t find anywhere in the puzzle instructions or my email with further instructions that I gave any indication the answers were to be common/familiar sayings or any such thing. The answer was just supposed to be a fake movie title that used the words from two real movies and fit the clue.
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You didn’t, but without such wordplay, I couldn’t figure out why any of them had been written. Meh, this one’s not a big deal…it’s just not in line with the type of word games I’m used to.
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Yeah, it’s not a big deal to me either. It’s just that type of puzzle could have an infinite number of answers. The Poltergeist one could have been Apparition Banquet Dinners With Disgusting Fried Chicken and technically would have counted. I’ve seen worse movie titles than that.
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Yeah… I wrote down Speed Crash, having no idea what it was. But I also didn’t write down Psycho Babe because, even though I knew Babe, I was sure there was a specific movie that “that’s one crazy…” was from that I couldn’t think of, something that would make sense with “Babe”.
Ah, sest lavy.
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Ya, as I mentioned in the instructions, the clue could just refer to a word from the movie, not actually anything about the movie.
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I know. I won’t say the instructions were misleading. I just got into a particular mindset and failed because of it. Well, that and I’m not good at that sort of thing.
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I had ”21 grams of speed” as my answer for a little while on the last one.
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I would like to point out that adobery spun something like nine bankrupts or lose a turns for me. It was funny at first, and then it sorta pissed me off, and then it was really funny again.
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I felt like I had really bad luck as I came back with 4 bankrupts/lose a turns on my first set of spins, but then I was golden the rest of the game. So now I realize that I had really good luck.
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Apparently I had good luck then. I hit 2 lose a turns at the same time, but otherwise I did pretty well there. Looking at the results, I’m guessing I was the luckiest one.
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It wasn’t so much the number of bankrupts I got, it was that the puzzles that I figured out quickly ended up being worth nothing because of the spins, while I reached up points on the puzzles I couldn’t for the life of me figure out.
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Reached = racked. My proof-reader has been salted.
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Salted = sacked.
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That’s why you’ve gotta be good at random chance. It’s an important skill.
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Yikes, I didn’t spend much time trying to figure out some of these puzzles and I’m kind of glad I didn’t. These were hard! Why have I never heard of a cartoon cat named Skerritt?
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Oh, it was Tom. Ha.
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I will complain about one if you’re being liberal with correct answers. Cold Fold (ing) isn’t a cool chair?
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I would have been legitimately annoyed if “Cold Fold(ing)” had been accepted. The part that rhymes doesn’t even sound like a type of chair.
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Yikes. Well, if spooky doesn’t like it, I guess I have no argument.
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Oh, for God’s sake. “Like” has nothing to do with it. “Fold” isn’t a type of chair. I’m surprised you’d even ask.
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No, you’re right. And berating me makes you more right, so now you’re super right.
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I have never heard anyone call a folding chair a “Fold”.
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Well, I’ve never heard anyone call a “behind” a “bringer”.
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Ya, you really have no fold(ing) chair legs to stand on with this one 🙂
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To be honest, I really don’t care about the points.
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Sounds pretty wolfy.
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I am the wolfiest wolf who ever wolfed!
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I went with “winger stinger” for that one. Honeymaker moneymaker is obviously the best, though.
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I went with winger stinger too! It didn’t seem good at the time. And was far inferior to honey/money making.
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The only one I’m truly annoyed with myself for missing is the one with Redd Foxx, Jamie Foxx and Michael J. Fox. I even considered those three men, and then thought, “Huh, I can’t really think of what they have in common.”
Ugh.
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I’m pretty sure Tom Skerritt is left-handed. Right? Anyone want to back me up on that? If so, then all 3 men are left-handed…
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All three are also famous people. All are male. All have probably had facial hair, worn pants, eaten cheerios. Sorry, wasn’t going to be as liberal on those.
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All three have not been in my kitchen.
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Heh…awesome.
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I freaking hate in and out and whatever derivation this qualifies as.
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My response was Assassins, because I discovered Tom Skerritt appeared in an episode of the old TV show “The FBI” which happened to be called “The Assassin.” Coupled with Garfield’s demise and Stallone’s movie with Antonio Banderas, that seemed to work. But given the true answer, I see how huge a stretch my offering really is.
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I got that one pretty much ten seconds in…and then never got around to doing anything else. I’ve told Ryan, but I’m dropping out of the power game. Sorry again, Adobs.
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Speaking of the power game… is anyone else finding the defensive powers a significant barrier to a desire to fire off an offensive power?
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Do I need to amp up the reward for a successful offensive strike to offset running into defense?
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