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These Kinder Surprise eggs get more elaborate every year...
Easter is next week, and thus far we have no plans to make this week chock full of Spring Break and Easter movies. However, we would like to reveal a little “Easter Egg” that you will know about moving forward. It’s actually something that’s always existed on CineQuote. DID YOU KNOW that at the end of every game we have snuck in a congratulatory movie quote? ”Yes we did, Brett, yes we did!” All you have to do to hear them is to click above the correct title on the word of praise. In the example below, should you get it on the 4th quote, you’ll see “Correctamundo!” Go ahead and press that word and you’ll hear the person responsible for it. Because there are five quotes to win on, there’s a different Easter egg at each level. Now that we’re telling you this, don’t be surprised if they change. Most players haven’t the foggiest clue it’s there, but now dear reader, you’re in the know.
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Alrighty. Let’s talk numbers:
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage87.9%  Mr. Doubtfire (1993) | Lowest Win Percentage26.8%  Killing Zoe (1993) |
Hey, check out the 1993 Drive-In Double Feature you can only dream of! Winning the week was Robin Williams asking Harvey Firestein if he could make him a woman, and Harvey agreeing, in MRS. DOUBTFIRE. With heavy prosthetics, a padded bodice, and that distinct English/Scottish accent, it didn’t take too much straining to zero in on the daddy/nanny farce bound to give that youngest child trauma-therapy for decades.
Roger Avary’s most popular credit is probably being responsible for the “story” of Pulp Fiction, along with Quentin Tarantino (of course.) Quentin wrote that screenplay, and directed it, and well, went on to do a lot of other movies. Avary, however, stayed mostly out of the spotlight, except for helming KILLING ZOE, about a group of intolerably annoying men that try robbing a Parisian bank on Bastille Day. Now, allow us to hearken back to one of the oldest rules on CineQuote: Sometimes, not ALL the time, but sometimes, we’ll give you a HUGE keyword in that fifth quote. For Killing Zoe, this was the fifth quote:
What's your name?
-Zoé, or Zoë. Whichever you like.
Yeah. My name's Zed.
-That's funny, we both have Z-names.
Hindsight is 20/20 (or frankly 20/15) and for some out there, you were able to crack the right answer without having seen this movie because you remembered “the rule.” Perhaps next time a Sunday Stumper is giving you fits, you’ll do well in embracing what we learned here today…
 Molly McClure as a prospective housekeeper explains what she doesn’t do in | Ace of the Week37.8%“I don't do laundry. I don't do windows. I don't do carpets. I don't do bathtubs. I don't do toilets, and I don't do diapers.” |
Probably would have been easier to hear what she DOES do, amirite!! This is an absurdly high Ace Rate for any movie even for one with Robin Williams front ‘n center. Either you saw MRS. DOUBTFIRE so many times that all the dialogue is seared into your neocortex, or you just really like montages of nanny interviews. This actress here lived almost 90 years, and didn’t do here first movie till she was about 70. It’s never too late to dream of Hollywood stardom!
A lot of people (some quite bright in fact) guessed Innerspace, when they MEANT Interstellar. Only one of them has Martin Short making a bunch of funny faces. Not to say Christopher Nolan couldn’t use some more of that, but let’s commit the distinction between these two titles to memory, why don’t we.
Rocketman benefitted from us dropping the name “Elton” in quote 5. We don’t know about you but, to us, it’s a little bit funny…
Moana 2 needs a few more years in the stream-o-sphere before people know this dialogue like the back of Walt Disney’s hand. Polynesian accents should have been the hint, and luckily the live-action one isn’t premiering until the summer (bunch of players still guessed that despite the unreleased nature).
A massive Ace rate for The Avengers, but a slightly moderate showing in the Win rate department. This is what we call a “either they know right away, or it’s gonna be trouble” kind of movie. Currently there are 1,498 movies in the MCU (we think), and thus many options to steal some votes once players heard Robert Downey Jr.’s voice, but the sharpest sting has to be for those out there who guessed the 1998 Avengers. We slap those years in there for a reason, and fifteen years is a big enough gap between Avengers and The Avengers to hopefully give folks pause.
Dog Day Afternoon had a dismal showing. Not sure why. This is classic Pacino, often considered one of his seminal roles, and the one that should be synonymous with someone yelling “Attica!” Next time, remember the mathematical equation: bank robbery + NYC - Denzel Washington/Bill Murray = Dog Day Afternoon.
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
CineQuote Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) | 87.9% | 37.8% |
Interstellar (2014) | 82.4% | 4.5% |
Rocketman (2019) | 82.2% | 3.5% |
Moana 2 (2024) | 81.8% | 3.8% |
The Avengers (2012) | 78.2% | 22.4% |
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) | 66.3% | 1.4% |
Killing Zoe (1993) | 28.6% | 2.0% |
CQ Recommends
We recommend avoiding that little maneuver that will cost you 51 years.
 Scrapper (2023) | Living alone in her London flat, 12-year-old Georgie must confront reality when her estranged father shows up out of nowhere. I’m almost always onboard for a simple premise, with a strong performance from a child actor, ably-handled by a debuting filmmaker. Adding in Triangle of Sadness actor Harris Dickinson is sauce for the goose. -Sean |
We miss the lava monster, too.
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