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** Creator/DudleyMoore was already a well-known comedy figure on both sides of the Atlantic, but his EnsembleDarkhorse turn as Stanley Tibbets kickstarted his career as a Hollywood comedy star.

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** Creator/DudleyMoore was already a well-known comedy figure on both sides of the Atlantic, but his EnsembleDarkhorse turn as Stanley Tibbets kickstarted his career as a Hollywood comedy star.star.
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* {{Feelies}}: The game came boxed with some INCREDIBLY USEFUL checklists for eliminating or confirming suspects, times, murder weapons, etc.
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** Creator/DudleyMoore was already a well-known comedy figure on both sides of the Atlantic, but his EnsembleDarkhorse turn as Stanley Tibbets kickstarted his career as a Hollywood comedy star.

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* TalkingToHimself: With only two actors this was inevitable in the closing skits. It became particularly hilarious when the victim and murderer were the same gender - on one occasion [=MacErline=] became, as Brett put it, the first person to strangle herself on radio!

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** Creator/DudleyMoore was already a well-known comedy figure on both sides of the Atlantic, but his EnsembleDarkhorse turn as Stanley Tibbets kickstarted his career as a Hollywood comedy star.

!!Radio
* TalkingToHimself: With only two actors this was inevitable in the closing skits. It became particularly hilarious when the victim and murderer were the same gender - on one occasion [=MacErline=] became, as Brett put it, the first person to strangle herself on radio!
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* BreakawayPopHit: "Ready to Take a Chance Again" was the AwardBaitSong from this film, and it did indeed get an Oscar nomination, besides becoming a big hit for Music/BarryManilow.

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"Ready to Take a Chance Again" was the AwardBaitSong from this film, and it did indeed get an Oscar nomination, besides becoming a big hit for Music/BarryManilow.


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* {{Corpsing}}: As the rigging for the ''HMS Pinafore'' is lowered, Whitey Jackson is moving his foot.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: The Pope was played by Cyril Magnin, a revered San Francisco businessman and philanthropist, who was Jewish.

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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/ChevyChase on the big screen.

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** Creator/DudleyMoore was already a well-known comedy figure on both sides of the Atlantic, but his EnsembleDarkhorse turn as Stanley Tibbets kickstarted his career as a Hollywood comedy star.
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** The short-lived TV series attempted to play off of this, using a jaunty instrumental version as its theme (in two versions, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdyTVk7gwDo longer]] version for the pilot and a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lj0AbmaGqA shorter, recut version]] for the few regular episodes that actually aired).

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** The short-lived TV series attempted to play off of this, using a jaunty instrumental version as its theme (in two versions, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdyTVk7gwDo longer]] version longer version]] for the pilot and a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lj0AbmaGqA shorter, recut version]] for the few regular episodes that actually aired).
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** The short-lived TV series attempted to play off of this, using a jaunty instrumental version as its theme (seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lj0AbmaGqA here]]).

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** The short-lived TV series attempted to play off of this, using a jaunty instrumental version as its theme (seen (in two versions, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdyTVk7gwDo longer]] version for the pilot and a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lj0AbmaGqA here]]).shorter, recut version]] for the few regular episodes that actually aired).
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** The short-lived TV series attempted to play off of this, using a jaunty instrumental version as its theme (seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lj0AbmaGqA here]]).
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* BreakawayPopHit: "Ready to Take a Chance Again" was the AwardBaitSong from this film, and it did indeed get an Oscar nomination, besides becoming a big hit for Music/BarryManilow.
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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/ChevyChase on the big screen.
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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/ChevyChase on the big screen.
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* TalkingToHimself: With only two actors this was inevitable in the opening and closing skits. It became particularly hilarious when the victim and murderer were the same gender - on one occasion [=MacErline=] became, as Brett put it, the first person to strangle herself on radio!

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* TalkingToHimself: With only two actors this was inevitable in the opening and closing skits. It became particularly hilarious when the victim and murderer were the same gender - on one occasion [=MacErline=] became, as Brett put it, the first person to strangle herself on radio!
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!!Radio
* TalkingToHimself: With only two actors this was inevitable in the opening and closing skits. It became particularly hilarious when the victim and murderer were the same gender - on one occasion [=MacErline=] became, as Brett put it, the first person to strangle herself on radio!

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