Hello, returning Happys and new listeners. This is Steve Bennet-Martin. And this is Stephen Martin-Bennet, and welcome to a lifetime of happiness. The podcaster, we take you on our journey through some of the movies, shows, and other bits of pop culture that are helping to keep us happy while hopefully bring the smile to your face along the way. And this month is Murder Mystery March.
And as we're exploring some of our favorite murder mysteries this week we're gonna decide is Murder by Death as good or better than clue the movie? Stay tuned and we will find out together. All right? Yes. But before we get into that, my. What's been making you happy? Scream six. Scream six, scream six. Scream, scream, scream, scream. Yes, it was, it's officially a franchise now. It's officially a franchise. It is fantastic. Like it may end up being the most successful screen movie of all time.
Yeah. Which is crazy bonkers in and of itself by, yeah. Yeah. And. But it's really, really good. We will not spoil it anything. And I loved the work Gail did. Mm-hmm. I loved the Kirby stuff. I loved my Mindy. The sisters were even better. Mason Gooding, Cuba, Gooding Jr's. As Chad Mindy's brother Yeah. Was just as delightful in this one. Like, it's really good. It is really good.
What I, what I really love about these new ones and the creative team behind it is you can tell how much they love the original. Like it pays homage and tribute to what came before in ways that like you never see in other like horror movies that I can remember, like Friday the 13th doesn't call back. This one happened in three and four. Do you remember that?
Like Yeah. So many times they almost like try and forget the past and this is a series that lives on its past and remembers everything, and I really love that about it. And while treading new ground, which I think they did very well this time. Agreed. But what's been making you happy, my darling. I am on my 120 seventh three watch of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I am loving it. I started in season one this time, finished season two, and we're almost to graduation day. I know.
And we, the prom, we are right to my favorite episode of season three, the Prom. Which is funny enough, one of the two episodes I ever saw during its early run. It. The first being the premiere. Yeah. And then the prom episode and, but then right after that is graduation day, which you know, me and working together, it's just fantastic. Like all those plot, all pay off. It's just a really good finale.
Yeah. And the timing works out perfectly because you also got me a present of Buffy the Vampire Slayer tarot cards. I sure did. And I love them so much, and I understand tarot now that I. What all the characters on the cards mean. Yes. And right after we finish recording, I'm getting my own personalized reading. We'll see how I do. Yes. But yes, let's get into the thick of it. Why did we enjoy Murder by Death? Okay, so I had never watched this before. Neither had you.
But I had been doing research online about murder mysteries and. And this came up in all the lists and several places said that if you like clue, then you'll love this. Because they said it's better than clue. In the end it has a great cast. Yeah, it had some good laughs. It had some very interesting twists that I don't understand. That I, I will explain cuz I put some real thought into this today while you were at work, All right. Thank you, love. But what does IMDB tell us about this?
It says, five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery. I think that's fair. Yes. And it is a 1976 American comedy mystery film directed by Robert Moore and written by Neil Simon. And it stars Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec. Elsa Lancaster, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Dame Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Wynwood.
That's a lot of names of people who were famous and to some degree back then, and some of them, Estelle famous now. Yes. But funny enough, immediately after completing this movie, Peter Sellers was so convinced it was going to bomb. He convinced the producers to buy back his percentage share in the. I don't think that that was the smartest thing because it had a box office of 32.5 million for 1976 is That's billions.
Yeah. And it was also why working on this movie that Sir Alec Guinness received the script for Star Wars episode for a New Hope. He read it between scenes in his dressing room, which is awesome. He played Oblon Kenobi. Yep. And all detectives in this movie are parodies of the work of three authors, the Sheila Hamm. Who's Nick? Charles and Sam Spade were the basis for Dick Charleston and Sam Diamond, respectively. Dame Agatha Christi, who's Hoku Appeal and Ms. Marle inspired Milo Pet.
And Ms. Marbles. Yes. And Earl d Biggers, who's Charlie Chan was the basis for Inspector Sidney Wang and. and we recognize a lot of the familiar faces. Eileen Brennan, who plays Tess, we love as Mrs. Peacock in Clue. Mm-hmm. Truman Capote is a famous writer and celebrity. Sure. Peter Falk is better known as tv, detective Colombo, and he was also the grandfather in the Princess Bride who read the. Story to Fred Savage. Okay. Alec Guinness we said was OB one Kenobi.
Peter Sellers is Inspector Cleo in the Pink Panther movies. Mm-hmm. Elsa Lancaster was the bride of Frankenstein and Maggie Smith is. Maggie Smith the day, Maggie Smith. I mean that's, yeah. Yes. And with all these amazing performances, we do have to address that. Some of the jokes, gags and stereotypes did not age very well for this movie, did they? No. The movie was made in 1976, so certain things, We're said and done, that would not be done now.
But as we're looking at movies through a modern day lens and a queer lens, we need to address them. Like, like Peter Sellers, a white man playing Sydney Wang, an Asian man in yellow face. Yeah. There were also comments about slants and the use of what the word Oriental, and that part just made me so uncomfortable every time it happened, which was regularly. Yeah. Rugs are Oriental people are Asian. Yes. Alec Guinness plays a blind Butler. Names James, sir. Binum.
And there are jokes surrounding his inability to see, I could, I could, I still laugh at a good blind person. Yeah. Nancy Walker, famous as mad from the palm olive of commercials played Yeta, the deaf and Mute made, and there are a few mo jokes made about that, but not really at her expense. So after watching the movie as a. I would say that the things surrounding Benson mom and Yara could be overlooked.
But it was the Peter Seller's take on Sidney Wang, and the comments made around that concerning appearance and speech are definitely in poor taste and diminish the overall enjoyment of the movie during a modern day viewing. Yes. So getting into it, it starts with a mysterious millionaire name, Lionel tw. Sending invitations to Master Detective Dick Andora, Charleston Inspector Sidney Wang, Milo Perrier, Sam Diamond, and Jessica Marbles.
The invitation reads, you are cordially invited to dinner and a murder at 22 Lola Lane, Saturday evening at 7:00 PM Whoa. Would you attend a murder, a dinner, and a murder? Probably, yeah. I After my love of Clue, the movie and Murder Mysteries in. I think I would, I would like right, right back be like, PS will I be the one getting murdered? And if they were like, no. I'm like, okay, I can watch someone else get murdered and figure out.
But like, I, I would never want to be the one at risk of getting murdered. Yeah. Now on Saturday night, the Charleston's are lost in a fog. Dickie tries to call his host, but Twain's telephone line has been cut by an unseen culprit, he said. And Dickie says, Nora, I, I, I think the phone line was cut. Well, what did it sound? Snip Yeah, I think you said it. I think the phone line was snipped. Yeah. And she said what? What did it sound like? Snip? Yeah. Yeah. So just like clue.
There are a lot of really smart dialogue. Smart dialogue, and funny lines that are just delivered straightforward. Sydnee Wgan is adopted. Japanese son, Willie Wang. Which obviously it's a penis joke too. Yeah. Stop to read a map and encounter dick and his wife ahead. The bridge looks wonky. So Wang gets out and makes Willie drive across it to see if it's safe.
Yes. And during this time we also see someone loosen a door hinge, so it creaks and remove the minute, hand on a clock and draws footprints on the door. Stoop with gargy. Statues balanced over. Now does the lucid door hinge or the minute hand on the clock ever play any sort of part? It does not.
Okay. I was thinking back through that today and I was like, oh, so like the door hinge would be useful, like, cuz I was thinking about it through the lens of clue where they're like trying to figure out where the killer was. You know, that would be, oh, I heard the Door Creek type of thing. Yeah, but that didn't come into play and the clock in the dining room had its minute hand. It was the clock in the hall. That doesn't seem to have its minute hand, but they didn't spend any time in the hall.
So I think those were details that they put in. And did not have any use for us later. Yes. Meanwhile, in another car, Tess Skiffington Recites Twain's dossier to her employer in Paramore. Sam Diamond Twain is 10 fingers but No Pinkies, And the car runs out of gas and Tess is required to hike five miles to the nearest station. Sam Diamond is a complete misogynist. Yes. And I love how when Sam's like, how'd you learn all that good work, darling.
I wrote him and asked, yeah, which, it's one of those things you're like, you thought it was great detective work? Nope. She just wrote him a letter in with all of her questions. Yeah. In another car, Milo and his personal chauffeur, Marcel cassette, are trying to find the address and are also having trouble driving through the fog while bickering. Like lovers. Absolutely, they're lovers. Okay, that's what I thought.
When Sydnee and Willie arrive at Twain's store, they barely miss being struck by a Farland gargoyle. They're greeted by James Sir Benson. The blind butler who takes them to their room where a cozy fire is consuming the bed. Yeah. There's a cozy fire in your room. They open the door and it's on the bed. Yeah. The Charlestons arrive next sipping martinis to ease the shock of their close call with a fallen gargo, which means that they also traveled with the martini mix and the glasses. Mm-hmm.
Benson mom leads them to their room, which is also the room of the late Mrs. Where she murdered herself. Suicide, no murder. She hated herself a lot. and the room is covered in dust and cobwebs, but Dick Charleston quickly discovers that the dust is baking powder and the cobwebs are sponge sugar. Though the mouse he finds is a hundred percent real. Yes. And the kitchen some, and forms yetta, the kitchen made of her duties.
His effort is wasted as she is deaf and mute and cannot read, but he cannot see. Written for her explaining her condition. Would a following guard girl deter you from going inside? Yep. Like you, like once it fell, you would not go in, you'd be like, Nope. That it's only gonna get worse from here. Yeah. I'd say I was promised someone else would be murdered. I thought I had safety. Hmm. Would you still go inside?
Probably I worry about your self-preservation when it comes to these movies, especially since it came. It came. Zombie apocalypse, you'd be ready to go. But something about this just you're begging for danger. Well, you have to assume. No, I don't have any good reasoning. It would just be, I wanna be part of a murder mystery so bad. There you go. And when they ring the doorbell, we hear a screaming woman, like, honest to goodness. Ah yeah. And who is it? It is actually Fay Ray's.
From King Kong and her unique scream had made her known as the Scream Queen of the movies back in the day. Yes. And this house is very techy for the time. The side windows of the mansion have light and water effects to make it appear as if there's a thunderstorm raging outside from inside the house. But it's not actually, but it's raining, but it's not actually raining. But I mean, it seems appropriate for a night of a murder. Yes. And so a blind butler and a deaf and mute made who can't read?
How does that work? Not well, but Maggie Smith's line of a blind butler don't let him puck the call Dickie to, to which moments later he goes, well, I'll do it when I park your car. Yeah, And it's one of those where I was like, Yeah, I, I think I would've probably let that always pass. Like I think that I would've let the blind and the deaf and mute thing totally pass if there hadn't have been the white person playing.
Sydnee Wang. I, yeah, I mean, plus it's okay to have blind jokes in a movie that are visual because the blind people can't see them. Babe, I don't think that is true. Well, then how will they know Because there's descriptive audio. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. I see problems. Sorry. Sorry. Blind listeners. Goodness. Benson mum returns to the living room to find. Milo or Milo Perrier, who complains that Marcello's received a minor injury from the fallen gar oil. So Marcel did get hit by the Gar oil.
Yes. The butler says the phone has been out for weeks, but Milo Perrier says that from the wire it was, he can tell it was freshly clutched. cut and that he misses nothing. And he also says it's impossible for the butler to be blind. And after pulling a variety of faces directly in Benson mum's face with no reaction, he goes, he's blind. All right. Those were my best faces. Apparently not good enough. Yeah, Now Sam is less passive about his encounter and threatens Ben Simone at gunpoint.
The guests gather in the drawing room for cocktails and deduc that the world's greatest detectives have been brought together for a. Sam and Tess enter followed soon after by Jessica Marbles and her wheelchair bound nurse. Ms. Withers, where you have the pun of that. Everyone assumes that the nurse is the, is Ms. Marbles? Marbles? Yes. Yeah. And the group is summoned to the dining room.
Ben Simon serves soup from an empty tur sang the cook, prepared it, which the cook didn't do anything cuz she couldn't do it. She couldn't re Yeah. and he apologizes and goes to the kitchen to fire. Still unaware of the futility. Yep. As she watches him fire her and she's just sitting there. now. They were going to have dinner at 9:00 PM and it isn't even served. No, that's your worst nightmare. I was gonna say, a late dinner is no one's friend.
That's the first compromise we made whenever we moved in together. And little by little I moved it up a couple minutes here and there, and now we eat. At the time I wine. Because I was used to eating when I lived on my own at around 7 30, 8 o'clock every night. Too late. It's not good for digestion. Well, you just don't like eating that late anyway, Yeah. And so Twain has gathered the five best detectives to solve a murder that has yet to happen.
Traps have been set to wet the appetite for the game that follow. After narrowly escaping death from poisoned wine for Inspector Wang and following swords that fell at Wang in Charleston, the guests meet their host whose interest is accompanied by flashing colored lights. Very seventies twain announces that he will prove himself to be the world's greatest criminologist. He wants to match witz with them because none of them have an unsolved.
A murder is to be committed at midnight, and both the killer and the victim are currently at that table. Twain Wagers 1 million, as well as the film and publishing rights against their reputations that none of the five detectives will be able to solve the crime and twain will emerge victorious with a push of a button. He seals them inside the house and then makes a dramatic exit back out of the dining room.
Yes, and now I know what happens with Ro Ronnie once he, you know, he becomes a widower and has too much. 100%. Lionel Twain is Ronnie is Ronnie Diamond much older and a funny play on words with Twain because he lives at Chuchu Twain Lane, and that's supposed to be Chuchu Train. Oh, Oh. So I also love that Charleston figured out that something was up with the seating because husband and. are never seated to each other, next to each other at a dinner party.
They should be across from each other, so you're more likely to talk to the people next. he makes Wing Wang stand up so that they're going to switch and that's when the swords fall. And Charleston says that they were only be saved because he's extraordinarily well bred by who? and so funny other thing. Mm-hmm. Wang is able to detect the tasteless, odorless poison in his glass.
And it makes me wonder if it is ICAN powder, the same tasteless, odorless poison that we used in the dual scene in the Princess Bride. Okay. and Twain is 72. How does he look so young? 12 hours of sleep every night. I'll take that an all vegetable diet. Okay. Nevermind And lots and lots of makeup. Well, there you go. Yeah. And Wang says they should all stay together as the murder cannot happen if they are all witnesses.
Jessica Marble says they should holdt hands as the chain is stronger if the links are unbroken. Now, this is solid logic from both of them because if they are all together and everyone's hands are visible and locked, then none of them can commit the crime and none of them could be murdered or dragged away to be murdered. Like this is solid logic from them. Yeah, I approve. Except they immediately throw their logic out the window and yetta storms into the dining. Screaming Mutely.
Yeah. Although sh you know, she gives them a note that the butler's dead Sydnee, Jessica Milo, go to the kitchen where they discover the body of Benum, who appears to have been poisoned and notice a butcher knife missing from the knife rack. They also discover that the food tables, chairs everything. It's all been rented for the evening, locked out of the dining room. Milo goes back to retrieve the key from Bensimon, but the body has disappeared and only the butler's clothes remain.
They find that the dining room desert. And the other door into the hall is locked Twain. Watching from the moose out of the wall assures the detectives that no one has left the dining room and that there are no secret passages, and he instructs them to count the numbers one to 10, turn the knob and try again. They follow Twain's instructions and find all the guests in place. The sound of gunshots emanate from the kitchen. Prompting Dick and Sam to investigate and benon mom's body has re.
but without clothing. Now, here is the thing that was, I found you both found interesting. Yeah. If Yetta cannot read nor write and had to have the Acme Note Company write the original note for her ahead of time, how does she have a note that says The Butler appears to be dead suspicious? If you ask me yes. Does it make sense for you later? It does. And what, what, what else is ha I don't understand the dining room. I don't understand the why behind Benson's body.
Can you, can you I, I put some thought into this too. Of course. My first thought is that it was done with mirrors. Ed Twain had mentioned before about how he appeared at the other end of the table. But then that would've needed to be sound. And or the groups would've heard each other through the mirrors. The only explanation, not that it's truly plausible, is that the rooms are moving silently and without motion being detected.
And I guess that would kind of be a great way to have a big house for a lazy person, make the rooms come to you. And I also love that when Mrs. Charleston asks, what would someone want with a naked dead body? Dickie Charleston has to explain necrophilia to his wife. And she goes, that's tacky. Oh, that's really tacky with so much enjoyment in her voice. Yeah, that was very funny. Well, Dickie's the bathroom. Sam returns to the dining room, which is again deserted.
The door is locked from the inside, which can only mean. But I don't know what that is. when he opens the bathroom doors, Sam sees a cobweb covered bed occupied by the Charleston Terrier, which was on the second floor. Yep. Dick reappears. When Sam closes the door and reopens it, Sam enters the dining room and tells the other guests of his experience, which leads him to deduce that Twain has two of everything in the house, and that they're somehow like moving around.
Yep. Milo leaves the room to demonstrate by knocking three times Dick returns followed moments later by Milo who has been squeezed into Ben Simon's. So we're to believe that the rooms are done as elevators that can move up and down with there being a second dining room, but no second bedroom because it's just the Charleston's room that's above it. Yeah. Now, do we ever find out how Milo is squeezed into Ben Simon's suit? No. And He says that no one would ever believe him.
Also, how did he get out into the hallway out there? Because he didn't come from the side door. He came from the double hall door. And honestly, I feel like we need Wadsworth from Clue at this point to take us through the events of the evening step by step. Honestly, I think this whole movie's a house of cards and that would blow it all over Okay. As the clock's about to strike midnight, Dora notices that Yetta has disappeared. She never said a word. They quickly sit and hold hands.
12 strikes on the clock, nothing happens, and then there's a knock on the door. Twain stands in the doorway and falls forward revealing a butcher knife and multiple stab wounds in his back door concludes that Yetta is the culprit. But Sam discovers a case content meaning GTA's C. Because the maid was an a matan robot. Okay. Dora then asserts that one of the guests must be the murderer. And she was a robot or a ventriloquist dummy, I wasn't sure, but like that could walk into Not talk, not talk.
I don't know. I don't know. And, and so twain is the victim, but do we have a murderer? Because it was supposed to be one of the 11 of them. That was the possibility. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Let's keep going. All right. The guest assemble in the drawing room where they posit their theories because if they don't figure it out, one of them is going to the gas chamber to be hanged. I don't think they understand how the gas chamber works.
No. Wang believes the killer collaborated with twin. Twin tween. Yep. Dick believes the murderer was an elaborate suicide. Cindy Wang suspects Dick, explaining that the Charlestons are destitute and have been borrowing money from Twain at 17% interest. This is all a big shock to Mrs. Twain. Yes, Dick draws attention to Jessica explaining that twain, her former fiance, laughter at the altar, and it was for revenge.
Oh, Milo suggests Patro side and Testa admits that Twain was her uncle, but he was also Sydnee Wang's adoptive father. Oh, when Twain realized after 19 years that his son was Asian, Sydnee forced him to leave home again, a joke that doesn't land no. Wang counters by reminding Milo of Marie Louise Cartier, Milo's Pood. Which Twain, hunted and killed. Ooh. Test divulges that.
Sam also hated Twain because they had been having a sexual affair every night for six months, and Twain had photographs of Sam wearing women's clothing from the night they met in a gay bar. Although Sam argues that it was because he was undercover, is what Itk say. I didn't do anything to a guy that I wouldn't do to a girl. That means he's bisexual. Yeah. And out of all those motive. Which is the strongest it, I'd say it's either Wang or Jessica Marbles.
Being turned down on the street for who you are or being left at the altar can leave some deep wounds, really, because I think it was the poodle side. Well, So the one I do think did it is Milo Perrier because he was the only one by himself for a period of time. He came in through the same door that Twain falls through soon after, and he has different clothes on possibly because his other clothes now have blood stains on them. Yes, that would all make sense if this movie made sense.
if it weren't a parody and they weren't spoofing other murder mysteries, my logic would be sound. When they retire to their bedrooms, because they all decided to go to sleep in the middle of all this. Yeah. And I'm like you could all die. Why are you doing this? Yes. We see the person from earlier in the movie, wearing the black leather gloves, put the gloves back on. The wings are threatened by a deadly snake. At the same time, the Charlestons are frozen in fear as a scorpion crawl towards.
in their bedroom. Jessica and Ms. Withers smell poison gas. Sam and Tess receive notice of a hidden time bomb ticking down as the bomb is heard exploding. Milo and Marcel are trapped in their room and are about to be crushed by a descending ceiling. Reverse haunted mansion style. Yeah. Which of these traps would scare you the most? The snake, I think. So I thought about all this too. with the bomb.
You pull the mattress off the bed and pull it towards you against the wall because obviously they're not gonna use a bomb strong enough to destroy the house. They just want a bomb, strong enough to kill the people so the mattress could protect you. And especially if you were against the wall, you were far enough away. If you're in the room with the poison gas, you break one of the windows and let the gas escape out the window because there's only a finite amount of the gas. Mm-hmm.
You crush the scorpion with the thick blanket on the bed like it's coming up, the comforter towards them. You turn the comforter over and you trap it in there and smash it. Mm-hmm. With the ceiling coming down, my first thought was you could either lie on the floor and there would be too many things in the room to begin. That would prevent the ceiling from getting all the way down to the floor, like the bed frame, the all the chairs and the dresser and all of it couldn't be crushed completely.
So if you got laid down all on the floor, I don't think the ceiling could get down that far and it would retract after a time. But if it could get all the way down there, maybe you pull the logs out of the fire and you curl up into the fireplace because that is set into the. and the the ceiling would not crush you that way. Okay. as I told you, I put a lot of thought into this Sounds good. Well, how is the climax scope?
So in the drawing room of the very much alive and not at all blind, Benson mom crosses the detective's name off of a list. However, each one of the guests appear in the room having miraculously cheated. For various reasons and offer his or her solutions and hopes of winning the 1 million wager Sydnee Wang relies on the old adage that the butler did it and that the body in the kitchen was a dummy, like the one found of Yetta.
While Jessica knows Smo to actually be Irving Goldman Twain's attorney and that Twain died five years ago and his body was recently found in Goldman's filing cabinet. Dick suggests that Benson mom is a accountant named Marvin Metz.
because the bill found in the D dead butler's hand and the real Goldman died last month while skiing well, while Milo believes him to be Twain's daughter Rita, whose hatefulness stands from her Manly an unattractive appearance, and Sam announces that he and Tess are playing parts in their actors. And Benson mum is the real sand diamond who created this ruse to prove his superior. To his other crime solving colleagues. None of these made sense to me. How about you?
None of those were plausible or believable, but Benson mom humors each of them by taking on the persona of the culprit that they say he is, which was kind of funny. Yes, and I love that the Charleston's escape the Scorpion by letting it sting. Mrs. Charleston, who is 15 minutes to live. Yes. They need to get to a hospital. Right. Now after humoring each of them, the butler removes his mask and reveals himself to be the very much alive twain himself.
He berates the detectives for exploiting their readers with nonsensical surprise endings and other unscrupulous devices. The reputations will be ruined when the world learns that twain outsmarted them. So earlier in the movie, Twain had commented how he and other mystery readers hated that the books written by these detectives, because at the end, there'd be some clue or piece of evidence or a character that was not presented to the.
That would be used to wrap things up, shown up in the last two pages and he said it wasn't fair and it was sloppy writing and bad detective work. So all of these theories are examples of that. Goldman and Metzner being two characters that none of us had ever heard of before. So that's not fair to the audience.
Or Milo saying he smelled Chanel number five on Benson mum, which also wasn't shared with the audience or the twist that Sam, isn't Sam being something that the audience had no way of knowing from the. all, especially since Sam was acting as Sam in the car. Right. Again, the, they were, this is all parody things of how they would those detectives would solve things. Yes. Now, as the guests leave without the $1 million, Sam admits to test that he really is Sam Diamond.
While Dick explains to his wife that everything they've experienced was fake, including the fog, when Willie asked Wang if there had been a murder or not, Wang, Yes. They killed a good weekend. Yes. Dickie also assures her the poison was. The poison from the scorpion was fake too. We can only hope for her sake, but I'm pretty sure she's dead. Yep. I think she's dead too now.
Alone in his home, twin pulls off yet another mask to reveal the mute Yetta who lights up a cigarette and left D biotic, bi diabolically while rings of cigarettes. Smoke fill the. Huh. Okay. This is the part that I put a lot of thought into. Okay. So a lot of people online say that since the movie was a parody or a spoof, a famous murder mystery movies, that the ending was not meant to make any sense at all.
And it's just supposed to be the type of ending, like the solutions for the murder from the detectives either. And that's fine, but I have a theory that can tie it all together. Go for it. So what if Yetta was the killer the whole time? What if the real Benson mom was blind, so he would never know who he was seeing when he answered the door.
Also, Yetta and Twain are never seen in the same room at the same time, which means she could have been playing twain anytime we saw him on screen, as we later saw her take off the Twain mask. Uhhuh which makes me believe that she actually is Irene Rena Twain, Lionel's daughter, who we learned about earlier in the. and she devised this whole weekend to kill her father, but also have 10 witnesses to say that no one died. Mm-hmm. she has Benson mom as staff, but kills him.
When we saw him dead at the table, her having the note about the butler dead give us the clue that there was something more to her. Mm-hmm. later. That actually is her father's dead body that falls through the door with the knife wound. Just after midnight, the po the box of parts for her are to make people think she was a decoy the whole time. Thus, no one giving any more thought to yetta the maid slash cook because she had been a robot in the house.
Since it has rooms that can move so smoothly, it isn't much as of a stretch to think there would be a robot, so they just ignore that she was a person to begin with. Mm-hmm. Thus, at the end when it's revealed that Benson mom was. All the detectives think that no murder happened, and when they leave, she's revealed and she now laughs because she got away with the AR murders and no one will believe that anybody had actually died, and she can take over her father's house and money, I'll take it.
I think that honestly, you did a lot of work more so than most of the internet, so congratulations. But it all fits, I think, Yes. Thoughts on the ending as the ending to a parody. I think it absolutely did its job. I do want to watch this again sometime where I can watch it just for enjoyment and not critically. You could do it while I'm in the meeting. Yeah. Okay. Most people in line said that it was a better murder mystery movie than clue.
And while it was good and enjoyable, it is absolutely 100% positively, without a doubt, not better than clue the movie in every single way. Yes, and in the television edited this movie, which contains footage not released, theatrically or on home video. Keith McConnell and Richard Peele appear at the end as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson arriving as everyone else was leaving for their shot at solving the mystery. That's funny.
Yes. So not one of our more successful ones that we would tell everyone, oh, you need to rush out and get this. If you love murder mysteries and you like spoofs and parodies, absolutely watch it because it was enjoyable and I'm glad we did watch it. Is it something that we're going to put on our must list for people now? It's not. No, but you know what is on my must list, our listeners. Yeah. I love our listeners so much. I do too.
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