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*spartacus is now known as Betty_Guns
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<wacko_Jacko>ok spartacus just came n here i know it. which one of you is that loser?
<hunney> I am spartacus
<ji_pper>no im spartacus
<Betty_Guns>I am spartacus
<mistr andersn>I’m spartacus
<wacko_Jacko>ur all freaks thats what u r
, his Nakama, and even several members of the Redshirt Army have been defeated and captured by The Empire. The Big Bad or the Dragon shows up, demanding to know who led this rebellion, presumably to drag them away for some horrific punishment. If he is given up, the rest are free to continue living.
But then brotherhood and camaraderie prevails.
Before The Messiah can give himself up to save his comrades, The Lancer suddenly stands up, claiming to be him. Then The Big Guy. Then The Obi Wan, The Smart Guy, even the Cute Bruiser.
One by one, the entire Redshirt Army stands up. They would all rather suffer his fate than turn him over to the enemy.
Variations on (and parodies of) this theme have led to it becoming a trope of its own: someone else claims to be The Hero to protect the real one. There's also sometimes the inspiring subtext that "we are all The Hero; kill one and the rest still stand."
Compare with Lost In A Crowd.
Do not confuse with This Is SPARTA.
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Advertising
- A Coca-Cola (TM) ad has a teacher asks his class who emptied a Coke dispenser. One student slowly stands up and says: "I did it." After that, another student also stands up and says: He did it. Guess what the others do next.
- A Pepsi commercial took the "I'm Spartacus" scence from Spartacus, but replaced the beginning with a bit where a Roman soldier finds a Pepsi with Spartacus's name on it and asks who it belongs to.
Anime & Manga
- A variation occurs in the Yu-Gi-Oh manga. Honda/Tristan wants to tell a girl in his class that he loves her, but he's too shy to do it himself. So he gets a blank jigsaw puzzle and gets Yugi to write the message for him. Then, Jonouchi/Joey leaves the message in the girl's desk. Unfortunately, it's against the school rules, and when the teacher (who's incredibly strict, not to mention in a bad mood and looking for a student to punish) finds out, she wants to know whose puzzle it is. Yugi, Jonouchi/Joey, and Honda/Tristan all stand up and admit it, and of course, in this case, all of their statements are true.
Yugi: "I wrote the message!"
Jonouchi/Joey: "No teach, I'm the one who put the puzzle in her desk."
Honda/Tristan: "Thanks guys, but no. The message was from me." * Honda had Yugi write the message because he was too nervous to think of what to write, and Joey was the one who slipped it into Ribbon's desk.
- A variant shows up in the finale of Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, when Kyouka is threatening Ouka to kill her since she's the true child of Enka, the rest of the family stands up and declares that they are, establishing their family bonds. Even Chika tries to get in on it, even though it was known from the start that she really isn't.
- In Code Geass the Brittanians announce that they intend to exile Zero, who wants to create a new area for the Japanese to live in. So he says he'll go along with it, after they agree that Zero is anyone who shares his ideals...and then smoke is released over the area where the announcement's being made, and when it clears, everyone—including a DOG—is wearing a Zero costume! And then a ship (made out of an iceberg) shows up, and, reluctantly, the Brittanians allow them all to leave.
- In Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor, when Yumiko is put on trial for tampering with Maya's pilot data, most of the main cast confess to the crime... with the final confessor being the human computer that controls the entire island - and has data to prove that all the confessions are true.
- Happens in Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple: The Yomi assassin "Spark" tries to destroy the Shinpaku HQ and demands to fight Kenichi. Since he's not there, several other members claim to be Kenichi, presumably to buy him time. Spark is not fooled.
Comedy
- In the opening of the 2000 Academy Awards, Billy Crystal inserts himself into the original Spartacus scene, with the rather pragmatic "I am totally not Spartacus!"
- Parodied twice in the first MTV episode of The College Humor Show. First a rival company, having won Patrick in a bet, come to take him a way. When asked which is Patrick, Dan steps up, claiming to be him. He then nudges Sam to do the same, who refuses. Later, Rick asks who urinated in the ball pit (it was Amir), claiming that if no one comes forward, everyone is fired. Dan claims it was him and once again no one else steps up, resulting in Dan getting fired.
Comic Books
- Played straight in an issue of Spider-Man that took place just before Civil War, wherein Spider-Man agrees to reveal his identity in front of the Daily Bugle so long as Jonah gives him the opportunity to address New York in his paper. He wrote a long article about what he does and why he does it and shows up the next day to unmask. Gathered in front of the Bugle are hundreds of people, ostensibly there to see Spider-Man unmask, and then—someone yells "I'm Spider-Man!" Dozens of people in costumes of varying quality (including Aunt May!) take off claim to be Spider-Man, so that when Peter does do it, Jonah just yells at him to stop making jokes and take some pictures.
- Bio aka Orlando of the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen was one of the slaves present at the trope namer. S/he recalls with bemusement how the Romans let him/her go just for standing up and saying his/her name, "everybody else apparently being named Spartacus".
Film
- The trope name comes from the famous (and genuinely moving) scene in Spartacus. The scene involves several Roman soldiers asking the slaves to identify Spartacus so they can crucify him, promising amnesty so long as they identify the rebel leader. Spartacus is about to speak, when suddenly slaves left and right begin claiming to be Spartacus. Eventually, they all say they're Spartacus, so the Romans just crucify all of them.
- To be precise they crucify all of them except Spartacus and Antoninus, who they force to fight to the death (then they crucify Spartacus after he wins). Moving as it was, the effect of the "I'm Spartacus" scene was somewhat tempered by Fridge Logic when This Troper realized afterwards that if they'd just let the first guy take the fall they would all have lived.
- That would have been the same as letting Spartacus turn himself in. The solidarity was kinda the whole point.
- Also to give a bit more context to the whole thing, the screenplay was written by the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, a member of the Hollywood 10.
- This was also parodied in this Explosm flash movie
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- The Mask Of Zorro, played straight.
- It's really more of a variant in that all the prisoners yelling, "I am Zorro!" are doing because they're selfish, not out of any camaraderie with the real Fox.
- Actually it's a completely straight version because it's obvious that they intend to kill whoever admits to being Zorro and the prisoners still stand up to protect De La Vega who uses the confusion to escape.
- Life of Brian, inverted as the 'Spartacus' that they're looking for is the person whom they're going to set free. ("I'm Brian, and so's my wife!")
- British author Terry Pratchett recounts being at a convention after having read a newspaper article that claimed his entire readership was pimply, fourteen-year-old boys named Kevin. When he told his audience this, several members re-enacted the Life of Brian scene all the way to "I'm Kevin, and so's my wife!"
- Superman II: The Vice President attempts to fool General Zod by standing (er, ''kneeling'') in for the actual President. Naturally, Zod sees right through it: "No one who leads so many could possibly kneel so quickly..."
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar with the people of the small town all claiming to be drag queens.
- In And Out: "I'm (x) and I'm gay!"
- The Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers does this, in a very confusing way. Someone at the party stole the painting, and everybody has a different idea who did it. People who know they didn't start taking credit to save their loved ones, or, in Groucho's case, just to be confusing, while the real culprits remain inconspicuously silent. Harpo ends up taking the rap, and then uses sleeping gas on everyone, including, for some reason, himself.
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers twists the trope. When the townsfolk arrive to rescue the kidnapped girls and hear a baby crying, the six unwed girls claim in unison to be the baby's mother, leading to a sixfold Shotgun Wedding (exactly what the girls and their kidnappers/suitors wanted).
- Subverted in A World Gone Mad, where the heroes offer up The Mole, claiming (falsely) that he's their real leader. The bad guys buy it, because only the Big Bad even knows there is a Mole. The grunts just think the Mole's protests that he's on their side are just cowardly last words. Further subverted later on; the grunts let the heroes go, but they realize the Mole was carrying all their food (and they're stuck in the middle of the desert).
- In The Dark Knight, when Bruce Wayne is about to turn himself over as Batman to appease the Joker, Harvey Dent announces that he is the Batman, and that he wishes to be taken into custody.
- There's a Shout Out to this in That Thing You Do!:
Lenny: Skitch. How did we get here?
Guy: I led you here, sir, for I am Spartacus.
- Played straight in Stalag 17, when one of the POWs throws an ocarina and it splashes mud on the Commandant of the camp.
- In the British Made For TV Movie Self-Catering John Gordon-Sinclair recounts a dream he had in which he was Spartacus, and decided to keep quiet. And suddenly everyone was pointing at him and saying "He's Spartacus!"
- From Bad Girls: "I killed Fenner!" "No, I killed Fenner!" "Actually, I killed Fenner!"
- In the cult Turkish series Kara Murat, the enemy soldiers ask which one of the prisoners is Kara Murat at least once per movie. Every time, everyone claims to be him.
- Played for laughs in Life When the Warden's daughter gives birth to a black baby he lines up all of his inmates and demands to know who the father is. They eventually all step forward and claim paternity and nobody gets in trouble.
- From Meet Dave: After the Captain regains control of Dave from the mutinous Number Two, he asks the crew for their input regarding the decision of whether or not they should save Earth.
Number Three: I say we save Earth. I no longer feel like Number Three. My life began on this planet. I am Dave Ming Cheng!
Chief Engineer: I have 443 new friends on My Space, and a J-date next week with Sheila Moscowicz. I am Dave Ming Cheng!
(One by one, other crew members from all over the ship declare proudly, "I am Dave Ming Cheng!"...except for Number Four, the security officer.)
Number Four: I am Johnny Dazzles, and I am fabulous! *beat* What? Not everybody has to be Dave Ming Cheng.
- Inverted in Zodiac, where reporters afraid of being targeted by Zodiac, who has threatened reporter Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.), begin to wear buttons that say "I'm Not Paul Avery." The only one showed prominently is on Paul Avery.
Folk Lore
- The Chinese folktale The Five Brothers features identical quintuplets who each have some kind of superpower. After one of them accidentally kills a boy (in a situation that's completely the dead boy's fault) another of the brothers is immune to the execution method he is sentenced to and stands in for him. The executioners try again the next day with a different method that another of the brothers is immune to, and so on. After they all take their turn and the trick is revealed, the judge declares that this prolonged failure of executions must indicate that the first brother is innocent, freeing them.
- There was a Caribrdn folk tale about a little girl (think her name was Anna or something like that) who found out her stepmother was going to sell her to a man. When Anna told her friends what was going on, they all agreed to dress like her and claim to be named Anna.
Literature
- Shannon Hale's Princess Academy has a form of this. The girls who were candidates to marry the prince are captured by bandits, who demand to know which is the future princess so they can hold her for ransom. (The prince actually left without making a decision, but the bandits don't believe this.) One girl speaks up and claims the prince secretly proposed to her. When another girl who hadn't even met the prince makes the same claim, the rest catch on and claim he proposed to all of them. This confuses the bandits enough that they don't dare kill anyone until they know which girl is the princess.
- Played straight in a Star Trek The Next Generation novel (that may have been based on an episode of the show; I forget). Spock is on Romulus, secretly teaching Vulcan philosophy to a group of young Romulans. When they're caught and the authorities demand they identify Spock, they all claim to be Spock.
- Not very logical given that Spock's appearance and age are definitely known to Romulan Intelligence. Oh well, it's the thought that counts.
- In an episode of Legend Of The Seeker, the patrol in Brennidon rounds up all the women who could be the mother of the Seeker, thinking it's she who keeps hiding him in the town. The mother confesses to it after pointing out how the Seeker had saved a young woman from unjust execution earlier, and then promises not to give him in. Every other woman there soon confesses to being the Seeker's mother. of course, none of them are actually his mother
- The short story "The Three Lime Trees", by Hermann Hesse, uses this trope and is Older Than Television. When a young man is wrongfully accused of murder, his older brother claims to be the murderer to save him and he's released. Soon, their eldest brother comes to town to do exactly the same... and the younger brother (who didn't know his siblings were taking up the blame for the "crime") returns to the courtroom and says that he was the killer, so his siblings must be released. The judge decides to leave it to God's judgement and makes the siblings plant three lime threes by their crowns, thinking that the one that withers sooner will signal who is the true culprit... so when none of the trees wither and dry, but start growing healthy and normal, the three brothers are released.
- In William King's Warhammer 40000 novel Space Wolf, when a brawl breaks out among the aspirants, their teacher demands to know who is responsible. The ones who started the fight admit it, and the rest pile in, to admit to joining. When asked if they all deserve punishment, they agree.
- In Legion, all the Alpha Legion are Alpharius, at least to outsiders. Magnificent Bastardry is their hat, and having the entire legion appear virtually alike is important to much of their scheming.
- Heartbeat did an episode involving some Chinese travellers poaching Lord Ashfordley's trout stream, and also teaching Peggy and David how to go about it. When the bobbies demanded to know who was responsible, everybody confessed.
- This trope is perhaps the reason why all of the La Resistance members are code-named "Jacques" in A Tale Of Two Cities (an early version of Anonymous, perhaps, as "Jacques" was the most common male name at the time); in private meetings, they refer to each other as "Jacques [Number Whatever]" to tell each other apart.
Live Action TV
- Final episode of Power Rangers In Space "Countdown to Destruction" played straight, which had the entire city of Angel Grove, starting with Bulk and Skull, telling the villains that they were Power Rangers.
- Lampshade Hanging in Stargate SG-1 episode "Insiders" where all the Ba'als claim to be the real Ba'al, and Mitchell refers to them as "Spartacus" (somewhere in the midst of the Hurricane Of Puns prompted by the name "Ba'al" and the word "ball").
- Done in Madan Senki Ryukendo. The people of Akebono pretend to be Ryukendo while Kenji, the actual Ryukendo, is figuring out how to break down the dome covering the city. Dr. Worm and the Mooks are confused by the Spartacus act, as evidenced by the number of question marks that appear above their heads.
- In an episode of Monk where Willie Nelson is the prime suspect of a murder, Captain Stottlemeyer arrives to arrest him. His three bandmates all step forth and say, in sequence, "I'm Willie Nelson." Given who Willie Nelson is, it doesn't work so well.
- Referenced via Im Mr Future Pop Culture Reference in the Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeii, when The Doctor needs a Roman-sounding alias. "I am... Spartacus." Donna adds "And so am I."
- Played straight in an episode of Radio Free Roscoe when Principal Waller insists that Question Mark identify himself. Robbie stands up, but before he speaks another character jumps up and says 'I am Question Mark'. Cue the entire assembly standing up and identifying itself as Question Mark.
- The first season of Xena Warrior Princess did this, in the episode "The Black Wolf". An entire village stands up claiming to be the vigilante ninja(?!) who protects them from the local warlord, and the warlord takes them all hostage against the reveal of the real thing.
- In the third episode of the Legend of the Seeker, the mother of the Seeker speaks up during an inquiry and rouses her village to defy the D'Hara. Afterward, she reveals her identity to them, thus condemning herself to punishment, which inspires the rest of the women of the village also speak up and claim to be the Seeker's mother as well. Though, it turns out she's not either.
- Used in an episode of Neds Declassified School Survival Guide about embarrassment. Suzie "blasted the pants cannon" and Ned claims that he was the one responsible but that he is not embarrassed. He then says "I am Fartacus!", causing the rest of the class to stand up one by one and make this claim.
- Done on Grey'sAnatomy when the interns are questioned over the situation that forced Denny Duquette's heart transplant. Izzie, Cristina, Meredith and George all confess to cutting his wire, one at a time. Alex says. "I'm totally innocent." The others turn on him but he points out that he wasn't even in the building at the time.
- A variation appeared in the MASH episode "Operation Noselift". A plastic surgeon visits the 4077th to perform a nose job on a soldier. When Major Burns gets wind of this unauthorized 'elective surgery', he tries to find out who's had a nose job. Unfortunately for Frank, everyone in the camp chooses to wear bandages on their noses, even the camp mascot, thus foiling Frank yet again.
- Happy Days had a variant where a local law enforcement official (reflecting Executive Meddling concerns) goes after Fonzie because of his black leather jacket, which makes him look like a thug. By the end of the episode, everyone is wearing one in solidarity.
- Alex in Modern Family proposes this as a way for she and her siblings to get out of being collectively punished for burning the couch *
which none of them actually did , but it's actually a trick to get Luke, the dumbest of the three, to take the blame.
- Combined with Lost In A Crowd, this happens in The4400 when NTAC agents try to arrest teenaged Cult leader Graham *
whose power is to unconsciously make everyone with whom he comes into contact worship him in "The Wrath of Graham". As his followers, who are all wearing identical hoodies, each step forward claiming to be him, the agents are so overwhelmed sorting through them that Graham manages to sneak up and use his power on them.
- Spoofed in the Lexx parody of A Midsummer Nights Dream. To get Stanley out of marrying Oberon, Puck transforms himself, Xev, and Kai into identical Stanley clones. At Oberon's demands, all of them claim to be the real Puck and to be the real Stan. (Their wording and delivery makes it clear who's whom, but Oberon reasons that Stan is disguised as the least desirable prospect and winds up sealing a 1500-year vow with Titania the bearded dwarf wench.)
Opera
- Aida has one of the other Nubian slaves claim to be Aida to prevent the real Aida's capture.
Theater
- This trope is known in Spanish as "Fuente Ovejuna", after a famous play of that name and the real history behind it by Baroque Spanish play-writer Lope de Vega where, after the mob murder of a villainous aristocrat who oppressed them, all the inhabitants of the titular town /men, women, kids, old people, etc. stand up to King Ferdinand of Aragón and Queen Isabella of Castilla in that way ("Who killed the Commander?" "Fuente Ovejuna did it, Milord!"). This makes the trope Older Than Steam.
Video Games
- In Way of the Samurai 3, this occurs near the end of one of the endings, after you take Osei Suzuku's place to save Takatane Village. Before being executed at Lord Shuzen's hand, though, Osei shows up, claiming her (correct) place as an heir to the Sakurai clan. Then Munechika Umemiya shows up, claiming to be another heir (he's the former chief vassal). Then, one by one, each of the other villagers and Ouka clan members there claims to be an heir to the Sakurai clan. At the end of the whole thing, Shinnosuke Umemiya laughs and claims he is one more heir. the expression on Kirie Masatsugu's face when hearing this is priceless.
Western Animation
- In the South Park episode "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", Stan's attempts to confess "I broke the dam" cause the other townspeople to falsely confess the same; misinterpreting this as symbolic (as in they are all responsible) instead of literal (he took a joyride in a boat and crashed into it). They continue this into the credits as he is getting increasingly specific (and profane) about what he meant and still be ignored until he closes the episode with "Aw, fuck it!"
- Also played with in "Lice Capades"; after Kenny is subjected to a "sock bath" after being found to have had lice, Kyle admits that he was the one with lice, then Stan and Cartman do the same — then Mrs. Garrison shows up and tells them they all had lice, and everyone gives Kenny a sock bath anyway for lying about not having lice.
- Done oddly in the Futurama episode "A Tale of Two Santas", where a one-eyed mutant, a delivery boy, a ditz, and a handful of others all claim to be Robot Santa in order to save Bender from death — Zoidberg goes even further (and completely misses the point) by claiming to be Jesus. This prompts the executioner's line, "None of you are Santa! You're not even robots! How dare you lie in front of Jesus?!"
- The title of this episode refers to Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities," which played it straight with Sydney Carton standing in to be executed in place of his lookalike, Charles Darnay.
- Parodied in Undergrads: Gimpy sets up a string of pranks against his tyrannical RA, under the guise of G-Prime. When his RA threatens punishment on the entire dorm unless the real G-Prime confesses, the trope is played out. The subversion comes when it turns out they weren't doing it to protect Gimpy, but to take the credit and the glory that goes with it. One student even claims to be Sparticus.
- In The Simpsons: Lisa hears the tale of a old west fort (In Springfield?) where the soldiers, surrounded by hostile natives, are told they'll be left alone if they hand over the base's commander. This being The Simpsons of course, they give him up to a horrible death, and the base is renamed "Fort Sensible".
- Played with in Canadian show Radio Active, when Ms. Atoll demands to know the identity of the mysterious "DJ X". The plan backfires when DJ X himself fails to claim that he is DJ X, thus singling him out as DJ X.
- Spoofed in Johnny Bravo when the titular character was hurled back to Ancient Rome he questioned a guy and that guys says "I'm Spartacus" prompting people who are behind him to shout the same thing, just for publicity.
- In Kappa Mikey, there is a character named Spartacus where if a group of people start doing this ("I'm Mikey!"), he pops out of nowhere to exclaim " I Am Spartacus!!"
- In Recess, when Spinelli accidentally calls the teacher mama, her friends all do the same thing in order to alleviate the humiliation, eventually leading to the whole class calling her mama. Also, in one episode Mikey rips his pants and his friends do too in order to save him from being the only one embarrassed.
- In yet another episode, when Spinelli's first name is revealed to be Ashley, the other Ashleys force her to join them. To save Spinelli, the others all claim their names are Ashley too, and demand membership.
- In Avatar The Last Airbender, Aang hosts a secret dance party for a bunch of fire nation students, they are discovered and the teacher orders the guards to capture "the one with the headband". This feat soon becomes impossible as everyone attending soon ends up wearing a headband.
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Real Life
- Occured in Vietnam in the case of a legendary US Marine sniper named Carlos Hathcock, who had a trademark in the form of a white feather he wore in his bush cap. The vietcong hated him so much they eventually started sending entire squads just to hunt him down. Knowing the devastating effect losing Hathcock would have on morale, marines in the area took to wearing white feathers of their own to deceive the enemy soldiers.
- Many people on Facebook listed Hussein as their middle names in solidarity with Barack Obama after Fox News and others raised a stink over him having a "Muslim" middle name.
- On the other side of the political spectrum, there were all those John McCain supporters and Joe the Plumber.
- There's a story about this at this troper's alma mater: A few students got in trouble for keeping the noise way too loud one night. When police came, everyone in the hall got up and admitted to it — and subsequently received only a warning from an annoyed campus policeman.
- In the (possibly apocryphal, but usually treated as fact) story of Jakie Robinson, the first black player in the Major League, his Dodgers teammates responded to threats on Robinson's life during a game by all wearing his jersey — number 42, which has since been retired out of respect.
- There's an apocryphal, but widely believed I Am Spartacus from World War II. In Nazi Germany and its occupied areas, Jews were forced to wear gold stars for identification. The story has it that when the Nazis attempted to impose this measure on occupied Denmark, King Christian X began to wear a gold star in solidarity with his nation's Jews, and so many Danes began following his example that it became impossible to tell the Jews apart. While this isn't true in fact, it's true in spirit—there was a widespread movement among ordinary Danes to defend the Jews, and for the first few years of occupation, the Danish government refused to impose or enforce any discriminatory measure against the Jews. When the Nazis decided to get toughter, the Danes were so successful at hiding and evacuating them that of around 8,000 Danish Jews, the Nazis only managed to capture about 450, of whom 400 were eventually rescued.
- It's also said that when some Nazis asked a mayor and a priest in a town in Greece to turn over a list of all the Jews in town, they turned in a list bearing only their own names.
- When Prince Harry announced his intention to serve in Iraq, there was understandable concern about him making his unit a prime target. In response to this, the many soldiers started wearing T shirts that said 'I'm Harry".
- The Trope Namer is very often parodied at motorbike rallies, generally after dark. Depending on the general mood at the time (and exactly how late it is), the initial "I'm Spartacus!" can be met with various obscenities, or enthusiastically taken up, generally morphing into "I'm Spartacus, and so is my wife!", and even "I'm Spartacus' wife!"
- There is a Medieval subversion and inversion. When the French king invaded Italy he met an Italian Prince, and both had Swiss mercenaries. As it was not considered appropriate for Swiss to slay Swiss, the "Italian" army gave way and the prince was smuggled away dressed as a soldier. The French general found what they were up to and paraded them offering gold to whomever would reveal "who was Spartacus". At first none of them revealed who it was, but finally one tattle-tale stepped forward and revealed the prince. This man, whose greed apparently was greater then his wits, later returned home to Switzerland where he was executed by the goverment for bringing disgrace on his comrades.
- Eric, son of Kirk, Douglas tried his hand at stand up. It did not go partiularly well, and he was being heckled rather nastily. Finally he snapped and shouted at the heckler "You can't heckle me! I am Kirk Douglas' son!". The heckler got to his feet, and shouted back "No! I am Kirk Douglas' son!" Pretty soon the whole audience is on its feet joining in.
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