For the Clue movie when it was shown in theaters, only one of the three endings was shown, and it would be different from theater to theater. It would make it pretty funny to talk about the film to someone who saw it at a different theater
Yeah I watched it much later with my parents and saw all the endings but my dad did explain that to me and it makes me really wish online media was a thing there so you could just see a bunch of really confused critics. Also it's a really great movie.
Personally I'd be for an edition of Clue where Choopo just shows up in the crime scene with no explanation and steals everything. Just like what happens at real crime scenes!
And THEN it turns out the "victim" was actually a living drawing the whole time, and NOT a chalk trace of the victim, as it turns out Choopo was rudely standing on him during the whole lecture.
Fun fact about the Clue movie: there's actually a 4th ending, which has never been released outside of appearing in the extremely rare movie storybook and novelization. In this ending, the Tim Curry butler reveals that not only did he commit all the murders, but that he also poisoned everyone and has no intention of giving them the antidote. After forcing everyone into the attic (iirc they are stated to escape through the window), he starts to drive away in (again iirc) the policeman's car, only to hear a dog angrily growling in the backseat.
A number of people in these comments have already mentioned Clue: On Stage, but there's also a musical version of Clue that has the audience randomly draw three cards to pick the ending and (after limiting the rooms and weapons to only 6 each) allows for over 200 endings! Several scenes had riddles at the end of them that would change depending on the cards drawn that would give hints to the audience.
There's also the British gameshow. Which inspired similar gameshows in France, Germany, and Australia. And maybe Sweden? Not sure about that one. But you can find the opening credits for those shows here on UA-cam if you look.
I remember having the Clue Jr. game where somebody ate the cake, I was shocked to get older and learn it was a game about murder I also remember watching the movie with my dad and feeling that the multiple endings was an intriguing but unsatisfying concept Mr. Green's "I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife" was an insane final line though, like it's so funny
i played the normal game before the junior version and i didnt like the normal game, but knew the junior one was much wackier and also miss scarlet and colonel mustard defo a couple
I watched a Clue Jr. version at my school, the ending was just instantly cycling through all 3 alternate endings before it ends with Mr. Green saying he’ll go…take a nap. Implying that he is indeed gay.
"I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife" was there because Mr. Green is supposedly being blackmailed because he's gay, but in that ending he was an FBI agent and not actually being blackmailed (I think it's been a while) so it's a joke about him not actually being gay.
the fun of the clue movie is sorta taken away upon watching it outside of theaters. in theaters, a different ending played at every viewing. everyone got a different, more satisfying ending!
Oh my goodness, I grew up with those Clue Books! They were absolutely nuts! Every character had a ridiculous Flanderized personality trait--Colonel Mustard was obsessed with duels, Professor Plum was forgetful, Mrs. Peacock was obsessed with manners, Green was greedy, and Mrs. White hated everyone. They were basically Encyclopedia Brown-type books for kids, where there was a puzzle hidden in the narrative of each chapter that there were clues to solve. It ranged from "Who killed Mr. Boddy," "Who was the last person to steal this valuable," "who broke into the safe and stole these diamonds," to wacky stuff like "Which of these clones of Mrs. Peacock is the real one," and "Which person crashed the plane into Mr. Boddy's mansion?" Of course, no one ever actually died or got away with it. The answers would always include these ridiculous explanations for how they were thwarted. I have fond memories of those books!
You've jogged my memory of those books a bit. If I remember right, every book ended with Mr. Boddy getting murdered, only for him to write in the introduction of the next book about the rumors of his apparent demise. It made it feel like a serialized story, and I would keep trying to find the next book.
I remember there was a Clue book where Mr Boddy found a cursed treasure they all wanted to steal except Plum who was terrified of the curse. However as Mr Green was breaking into the mansion to steal the artifiact, he finds Plum anyway trying to steal it... because Plum forgot he was scared. Green reminded Plum and the proffessor just gives the treasure up and leaves.
The reason why Green has that insane final line is because his ‘secret’ that was going to be held against him for blackmail was that he was gay, which, for the 80s was a lot more taboo than it is now (obviously). He states he’s going to sleep with his wife because being gay was a ruse, part of his undercover Mr. Green character. Again, product of its time, and it only really comes up in that scene and the ending scene. Good movie nonetheless.
@@gaygarfield because he wanted people to watch the movie and figure it out. It is so much cooler that way. And whenever someone sees this video, they might forget about that bit when they watch the movie so it will still be a twist to them in the moment. If he just says it, it ruins the chance of them experiencing it and honestly it doesnt hit as hard in text.
Actually, the movie is based in 1954, so it’s even more taboo. It’s also why the fashion does look horrible (since a lot of 80’s fashion is, though it depends). And as a non-straight man, I honestly don’t think the representation is super bad. Like nobody calls him a slur nor are super against him. May not be like how it is now, but I think the part was pretty well done. Bring It On says every homophobic slur there is and it’s said by the good characters, and that was coming out in 2000, which was a time people knew that was bad. Other than the word queer, I definitely don’t want anyone (non-straight or straight) saying that crap, because those words don’t transcend the meaning. And it makes a fun movie problematic, which is messed up, since it has a good message about black culture and such in the storyline. Though all the Bring It On Movies have problematic issues that aren’t needed, so I’m glad an 80’s movie could be more progressive than a 21 century movie.
My personal peeve with Clue is that you really only need one board since they all play the same (to my knowledge). They have so many cool versions, but once you own one, you own them all.
Yeah, they use a whole moving-around-the-board mechanic through rolling dice, but it never seems to matter until the one time someone can't go anywhere, when everyone just looks at each other thinking 'uhhhhhhh that's a thing?' There should be other layouts that make movement more important, like a long hallway or train carriage that, if you roll well, allows you to skip a bunch of rooms, while if you roll poorly can only really get into the next room.
@@Ghiaman1334 in some themed editions like Harry Potter Clue (which I own), if you roll a house you must spin the appropriate wheel which opens/closes doors and secret passages, and can even trigger dark mark cards to be drawn.
Super Cluedo Challenge from the 80s plays differently. There is no wondering into rooms, asking a question and then seeing if anyone can show you a card. Instead you have to pick up clue tokens and then do what it says. For example it might tell you 'theres a clue on the posion' and then everyone has to race to the posion and the first person there picks up a clue card. Or it might say 'look under the top left flap on the green envelope'. Because in this version, all the cards have a code divided between their 4 corners and by looking under a flap you can pick up part of that code and begin working out what cards are in the envelopes. The win condition is still the same though, be the first to guess correctly. I honestly haven't gone back and played normal cluedo since I found this version in the back of my parents game cupboard about 15 years ago.
master detective adds rooms weapons and people on top the base game you roll 2 dice, and adds magnifying glass spaces that let you draw and replace a random card from another player
5:56 ftr, while they play back-to-back on streaming services, during the original theatrical release different theatres had different versions of the ending, the eventual DVD release also included a playback mode that chose one of the endings at random to emulate the theatre experience
My favourite version is The Simpsons Clue, where you're trying to find out who killed Mr. Burns. I think it's one of the only licensed version that involves murder.
This is just scratching the surface of Clue weirdness. A few people have mentioned the 90s puzzles in the comments, but there’s also the VCR games. The beach blanket edition. The multiple chocolate editions. The strange game about spies that has nothing to do with anything. The game where you’re trying to catch a thief in a museum. The Hub miniseries where a bunch of kids uncover a group of secret societies founded by the Clue characters. Clue Elimination. And the recent escape room games, to name just a few.
"Mrs. White" (originally "Nurse White") was temporarily replaced by "Dr. Orchid" in 2016 in a misguised attempt by Hasbro at "representation", which went over like a lead balloon and is undone. It was not repeated in any subsequent edition and is specifically repudiated in the 2023 edition which reduxes Mrs. White as "Chef White".
Can you do a video on the absurdities of the Cars franchise? Like how do they function as a society? How do they breathe? I’m sure you can think of many more life changing questions
The Cars world is also dependent on human history. Points I have seen raised: - Sarge is a WWII vet and it is also referenced in Planes, so there was a Car Hitler - There is a Car Pope so there was a Car Jesus- but the cars are models from their year so what was he, a chariot? - There is the TSA and no twin towers, so 9/11 happened, did a sentient plane do it?
My local community theatre put on a stage production of Clue, and last night was the opening night. Fun coincidence seeing the play/ basically-the-movie, and then see you post this!!
I had one of those Clue mystery books when I was a kid who loved 5-minute-mystery type things. I remember it confused the everloving shit out of me because each story is apparently its own continuity, which means Mr. Boddy got murdered like five times by different people but they'd all be alive friends in time for the next one.
As someone who is preforming in a CLUE play, I love seeing the creativity in the theming, even on those ones that make you question who thought it was a good Idea
They also made Clue jigsaw puzzles. There would be a story to them and everything, and only by putting the puzzle together could you solve the mystery. The twist was that because of that, they couldn’t show what the finished puzzle on the box, which means you had to put the puzzle together blind.
Mr. Greens final line in the clue movie is also probably one of my favorite lines in the movie. Such a funny line after thinking for the whole movie that he must be gay
I don't know who will see this, but. I own both FNaF board games by Hasbro. I'll say that the CLUE version is better than the Monopoly version, as they actually implement pretty well the game theme into the board game perfectly, unlike Monopoly, which has grammar issues, some cards don't make sense, and the house/hotel aren't changed to something fitting to the property, which are the animatronics. Also, for Clue, they added a fantastic mechanic (probably other version has it, not sure): There's a ? in one of the dice, and in the board, when landing on it or rolling it, you get to draw a card from a pile, it can be helpful such as moving to one room you want, peek someone's card, etc. BUT, there's a catch, which is 8 Purple Guy cards in the pile. If all 8 are found, the game ends automatically, and all player loses, even if they had the guess correctly.
The three endings play back to back in the version of the clue movie you can watch today. When it came out, theaters would show a random one, so if you discussed it with someone you might have seen totally different endings
Mr. Green at the end of the movie says "I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife" because at the beginning of the movie it is established that the thing he is being blackmailed for is being gay (its 1954) so in the 3rd ending (also the "true ending" bc it's stated "this is how it actually happened") he says that to show that he wasn't actually being blackmailed and that this was a setup the whole time. I only know this off the top of my head bc Clue is one of my fav movies! (there's also this great bit at the end of ending 3 where someone is like "so you're a cop?" and he's like "no im a plant!" and Mrs. Scarlet says "I thought men like you were usually called a fruit" which i just think is very funny)
One itteration you didn't cover were the Cluedo jigsaws. You have a little booklet that tells a story, with Doctor Black (the original victim) being killed and you have to complete the jigsaw and look for clues. Then you can read the final page in the booklet using a red magnifying glass.
I think the most surprising thing about the Clue movie is that there has never been a version of the Clue game based on it. I do remember that a Canadian gasoline company did have a promotion where they gave out movie-based cards with a gas purchase but that was as close as it got. As for weird versions of the game, USopoly (in the US, Winning Moves in Europe) will take custom orders for Clue games (and Monopoly and Candyland, etc) from businesses for promotional items or giveaways, for example Snap-On Tools Clue (I really thought you were going to start talking about these when you brought in Big Boy). There was also a "The Assisination Game" style version of Clue that came with four tiny Nerf pistols.
In the 90s. There were some versions of a Cluedo Game Show (UK and Australian) - The UK series is on UA-cam (I highly recommend just watching Series 3) - In each episode, a visitor is invited to the mansion and they are later found murdered. It's up to a panel of detectives to work out which of the 6 suspects is the murderer, which of the 6 rooms the murder took place, and which of 6 weapons (different weapons in each episode) was used for the murder. - Unlike the board game, Mr Boddy and/or Dr Black are not in the TV Show. The mansion is owned by Mrs. Peacock
Clue/Cluedo fan and collector here. I thought I could give some interesting Clue facts here. - The 1985 film is not the only screen adaptation of the board game. In 1990 ITV premiered a gameshow adaptation of the game called Cluedo. The show ran from 1990 to 1993 with four series (season) total and would have several international versions (Australia, Germany, French, Portugal, and Sweden). - In 2011, a five-part tv miniseries called Clue aired on The Hub Network, reimagining the classic characters as teen sleuths uncovering a secret society. - CSI: NY had an episode based on Clue called "Clue: SI", where a serial killer commits murders based on game (Ex. A ballerina (White) is killed with the Rope in a music Conservatory, a redhead woman (Scarlett) is killed the Revolver at Hell's Kitchen, a golfer (Green) is killed with a Candlestick at a golf course (Ballroom)). Oddly enough, the original premise of the Clue movie was about a mystery author receiving Clue cards in the mail, only for a murder committed with a similar matter (Ex. A retired U.S. colonel named James Mustard is killed at the New York Public Library with a Wrench). - Speaking of books, there have been several series of Clue books (alongside many stand-alones): 1. The Clue book series that ran from 1992 to 1998. 2. The Clue Jr books 3. Clue Mysteries and More Clue Mysteries by Vicki Cameron, two tie-in books based on the 2002 edition of the game. The books are much like the original Clue series but a bit more "mature" and full of Britishisms. 4. The Clue Mysteries series by Diana Peterfreund, another teen reimagining where the classic characters are students in an elite private school. That's not to mention the 20+ choose-your-own-adventure Cluedo books released exclusively in France (the game is quite popular over there from what I can tell). There have also been several comic/graphic novel adaptations, with two French exclusive graphic novels released in the early 2010s by Jungle! and two published by IDW Comics. - The game has had a few stage productions, begin with a 1985 play written by British cartoonist and playwright Robert Duncan (which he later reworked into a new play called CUT! after Hasbro revoked the production rights), a 1997 off-Broadway musical, and a stage adaptation of the film that first opened in 2017.
I was crew in my school’s production of CLUE, at closing night, the guy who played the real Mr. Body and the guy who played Mr. Green did a bit where Mr. Body fell to the floor and begged Mr. Green to tell him that he loved him before he died, he had at least two fake out deaths where he was “revived” by his love for Mr. Green, everyone onstage broke, he got a standing ovation at the end of it all.
The Screenplay for Clue was turned into a Script for live stage productions of the story. The movie itself is really great, but I do have to say I had an absolute blast with my theater when we did it.
There’s also Nightmare before Christmas Clue, which is arguably my favorite version! You have to figure out who kidnapped Santa, what item they used to do it, and what location they stashed him in!
Those Clue books were actually kind of fun to read, when I was a kid! I bought a few of them at my school's Book Fair! Good times! The movie is also great! 🐱
There’s also a Clue escape room. It was pretty fun! We had to figure out the murderer’s plan before before it could be completed, so this is another edition where there theoretically isn’t any murder.
The Clue movie is the best movie I have ever seen in my lifetime, and no other movie can replace the #1 slot except maybe the Monopoly movie if Hasbro were to make one, or if they were to remake the original with Daniel Craig.
Man, this channel is severely underrated. I have seen a couple videos now and they are surprisingly good. It reminds me of Sam O'Nella, but in a good way. EDIT: here 7 months later, nice to see bro at 137k subs.
There's actually 2 different versions of Harry Potter Clue. There's the film version that is the standard insert franchise here Clue brand game, and a different one with an additional pawn that any player can move to block players in or out of rooms, places that are inaccessible without additional game play and secret passages that have to be unlocked as well.
i was supposed to be in a stage production of clue (based on the movie) that got canceled. still one of my favorite shows, even if it never made it to opening night
You forgot to mention Clue 2, the one were you're in a museum and somebody plays as the thief trying to steal all of the paintings and get out without getting caught. no joke that actually exists but I don't think they make it anymore.
That final line was so lost on me until I rewatched the movie and realized: He said he's being blackmailed for being a homosexual, which means that with that line, it's the most obvious lie in the movie.
Clue SNES is pretty weird because it's not just a simulation of the board game (it would be annoying for players to convey information secretly) Instead the game gives public hints to all players and you have to narrow it down from that
We had some Clue VHS Mystery games when I was younger. Basically acted out "whodunnit" cases. I think there was also some pc game variations that played out like adventure games but pretty much the same premise as the vhs games.
North Pole Clue is one of my favorites. I just wish they would put more into it. It is like a flimsy box and generic game pieces but the story attached and the elf names and the implications of a North Pole murder mystery. I feel like they should rerelease it with more effort or make it a digital game.
I think my only problem with the multiple possible endings shtick is how they were mostly generic until the third. It would have been even more fun if each was as weird as the last. Also, in the dvd release, the three endings were put together as if the first two were like, it could have happened like this... and so on. I still love the movie, I just think it had the potential to be even better.
2:44 and my Interpretation of it is basically about the animatronics finding out who killed the night guard first because they all wanted to kill the night guard before the other and at the end the animatronics all get angry at the animatronic for killing the night guard first and they then dismantle the culprit
I have Clue FX, which is really interesting. It takes place outside the Tudor Mansion with 4 new characters ( Lady Lavender, Prince Azure, Miss Peach, and Lord Gray, who I think have become main staple characters since) while the usual main suspects are just suspects. Basically the same game, but just a bit different, and to me feels like a DLC of clue, similar to say The Last Of Us: Left Behind to the first The Last Of Us game. And it’s pretty fun. I’d say I love Clue (2005 version) the most, because it’s classic clue but with really nice figures, then FX, then DVD. That’s all I have now, so I can’t say how it’d be after I get another one though.
I wish there had been an Alvin and the Chipmunks version of Clue. The 80s Chipmunks had soooo many episodes where the characters played detective AND there are exactly 6 Chipmunks and Chipettes who each have their own distinct signature color. Just to name a few of the mystery themed episodes there’s… Dreamlighting Elementary, My Dear Simon The Brunch Club Mystery Of Seville Manor Maltese Chipmunk Chip Tracy Chipmunk Vice The Secret Life Of Dave Seville The Cruise The Chipmunk Who Bugged Me
When I was 12 I told my parents that I wanted Cluedo for my birthday. They got me Cluedo jr who ate the chocolate cake. I got so mad cause the premise was so stupid. Unrelated but I got Harry Potter Cluedo for myself for my own birthday last year and I love it.
I grew up with “Mystery At Hogwarts”, which was basically Harry Potter Clue, but I guess they didn’t pay for the “Clue” name. Instead of a murder, you were trying to figure out who cast what spell where. One thing I specifically remember was that Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco Malfoy all had character portraits on their cards, but for some baffling reason, Crabbe and Goyle were just black silhouettes.
The movie you mentioned, I'm actually in production of a play for it at my local theater. All the endings are treated as what could've happened while the one you just named is the "true ending." Except . . . Plum didn't murder Mr. Boddy. He murdered a singing telegram girl because he's a pedo and that was the girl he was sleeping with, who was also the daughter of his boss. I understand why you said what Green says at the end is such a plot twist, though we take it a step further. For the guy who plays Green, we make his pants fall down after saying the line after he says it with much more confidence than the guy who plays Green in the movie does. 🤣🤣
if you want a real challenge, a game similar to clue(do) is Baker Street. Brits may know it and it is stupidly ridiculously difficult as every location you visit gives you a riddle/clue to either the murderer, location, or weapon (or sometimes, "there is no hint here!") and because it was made in the 60s, everything is outdated but yeah great fun lmao
There was also a VHS version of the game, where you actually had to watch scenes on a video tape and try to recall random details (ie. who put down a glass on the table) in order to solve the crime. There might have been a second edition of the VHS game, too... I don't remember for certain. I only own the first one. The wildest thing is: once you played through the six or however many cases were included with the game (they were written in a guidebook with predetermined answers)... that was it. There really wasn't any replayability to it unless you wanted to box it back up for a couple of decades and then replay it again later on when enough time had passed that no one remembered what the solutions were. The acting in the little video clips was atrocious, but still kind of fun in a cheesy B-movie sort of way. Also: this VHS game was based on the Master Detective version which was released in the 80s as an anniversary edition. That version of the game included additional locations, suspects, and weapons. The Master Detective edition can now be found some places like Barnes & Noble, but this is a reproduction version of the original Master Detective set which I'm assuming has a smaller game board and probably doesn't have the carved wooden suspect pieces and all metal weapon tokens.... I say I assume because I own the original Master Decetive edition and the box is MUCH bigger than the new one (and it's MUCH more expensive if you can find a full set that isn't missing any pieces or cards). Information source: Me. I'm a fucking HUGE Clue fan. It's been my favorite board game since I was a kid.
I absolutely love the clue movie, I've watched it so may times I know it word for word, and have different versions of the board game like nightmares before christmas, fnaf, the new Hasbro version with Orchid, and the original, I've also seen the clue play (or what was said, clue the musical). They even talked me into making my own version with my characters that I voice in for animes
Want to know what would be cool? A Clue cartoon show based off of those old Hanna-Barbera teen-mystery-solver cartoons like Scooby-Doo, Josie & The Pussycats, Speed-Buggy, Captain Caveman & The Teen Angels, Jabberjaw, The Funky Phantom, etc, where the Clue gang (Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, Ms. White, & Mr. Boddy) are college students who solve mysteries. & for the actual mysteries, they could just adapt the ones from the books into the Scooby-Doo formula.
Clue also got adapted into a musical! I would assume it’s based on the movie. I don’t know too much about the show other than it’s the same characters but definitely a cool adaptation
I love how there's a clue game trying to figure out who caused the bite of 87, or something like that. Since it's unknown, technically every game is cannon
I only ever played the board game version of Clue a couple times but my favorite version of Clue is the Wii version that came in Family Game Night 3 and while it can take some time to get through, I still love playing it alongside the Game Of Life
You should also really watch Murder by Death. The Clue movie borrowed heavily from it, and although it is older and references a lot of the tropes of the times, it is a fantastic murder mystery that I wish more people knew about.
For the Clue movie when it was shown in theaters, only one of the three endings was shown, and it would be different from theater to theater. It would make it pretty funny to talk about the film to someone who saw it at a different theater
Yeah I watched it much later with my parents and saw all the endings but my dad did explain that to me and it makes me really wish online media was a thing there so you could just see a bunch of really confused critics. Also it's a really great movie.
@@cannon_kat i had it recommended to me from yt and sat thru the whole thing. rly good
He might have known that had he not pirated the film. Disappointing.
@@icenine09 dude, wtf are you talking about?
@@PixelOverload You might know if you had paid attention to the video. 🤣
Personally I'd be for an edition of Clue where Choopo just shows up in the crime scene with no explanation and steals everything. Just like what happens at real crime scenes!
do target sell that one?
UA-cam edition markiplier be colonel mustard
And THEN it turns out the "victim" was actually a living drawing the whole time, and NOT a chalk trace of the victim, as it turns out Choopo was rudely standing on him during the whole lecture.
Fun fact about the Clue movie: there's actually a 4th ending, which has never been released outside of appearing in the extremely rare movie storybook and novelization. In this ending, the Tim Curry butler reveals that not only did he commit all the murders, but that he also poisoned everyone and has no intention of giving them the antidote. After forcing everyone into the attic (iirc they are stated to escape through the window), he starts to drive away in (again iirc) the policeman's car, only to hear a dog angrily growling in the backseat.
A number of people in these comments have already mentioned Clue: On Stage, but there's also a musical version of Clue that has the audience randomly draw three cards to pick the ending and (after limiting the rooms and weapons to only 6 each) allows for over 200 endings! Several scenes had riddles at the end of them that would change depending on the cards drawn that would give hints to the audience.
There's also the British gameshow. Which inspired similar gameshows in France, Germany, and Australia. And maybe Sweden? Not sure about that one. But you can find the opening credits for those shows here on UA-cam if you look.
Does anyone know where I can find HQ recordings of clue the musical??
I remember having the Clue Jr. game where somebody ate the cake, I was shocked to get older and learn it was a game about murder
I also remember watching the movie with my dad and feeling that the multiple endings was an intriguing but unsatisfying concept
Mr. Green's "I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife" was an insane final line though, like it's so funny
i played the normal game before the junior version and i didnt like the normal game, but knew the junior one was much wackier and also miss scarlet and colonel mustard defo a couple
@@sericat What makes you say that
I watched a Clue Jr. version at my school, the ending was just instantly cycling through all 3 alternate endings before it ends with Mr. Green saying he’ll go…take a nap. Implying that he is indeed gay.
"I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife" was there because Mr. Green is supposedly being blackmailed because he's gay, but in that ending he was an FBI agent and not actually being blackmailed (I think it's been a while) so it's a joke about him not actually being gay.
the fun of the clue movie is sorta taken away upon watching it outside of theaters. in theaters, a different ending played at every viewing. everyone got a different, more satisfying ending!
Oh my goodness, I grew up with those Clue Books! They were absolutely nuts! Every character had a ridiculous Flanderized personality trait--Colonel Mustard was obsessed with duels, Professor Plum was forgetful, Mrs. Peacock was obsessed with manners, Green was greedy, and Mrs. White hated everyone.
They were basically Encyclopedia Brown-type books for kids, where there was a puzzle hidden in the narrative of each chapter that there were clues to solve. It ranged from "Who killed Mr. Boddy," "Who was the last person to steal this valuable," "who broke into the safe and stole these diamonds," to wacky stuff like "Which of these clones of Mrs. Peacock is the real one," and "Which person crashed the plane into Mr. Boddy's mansion?"
Of course, no one ever actually died or got away with it. The answers would always include these ridiculous explanations for how they were thwarted. I have fond memories of those books!
You've jogged my memory of those books a bit. If I remember right, every book ended with Mr. Boddy getting murdered, only for him to write in the introduction of the next book about the rumors of his apparent demise. It made it feel like a serialized story, and I would keep trying to find the next book.
@@maxmayfield3356 I have no idea, amazon maybe. I got all my childhood copies from Goodwill.
I remember there was a Clue book where Mr Boddy found a cursed treasure they all wanted to steal except Plum who was terrified of the curse. However as Mr Green was breaking into the mansion to steal the artifiact, he finds Plum anyway trying to steal it... because Plum forgot he was scared. Green reminded Plum and the proffessor just gives the treasure up and leaves.
The reason why Green has that insane final line is because his ‘secret’ that was going to be held against him for blackmail was that he was gay, which, for the 80s was a lot more taboo than it is now (obviously). He states he’s going to sleep with his wife because being gay was a ruse, part of his undercover Mr. Green character. Again, product of its time, and it only really comes up in that scene and the ending scene. Good movie nonetheless.
right! i have no idea why they didn’t mention that when bringing up that line, it’s important context for that fire line
@@gaygarfield because he wanted people to watch the movie and figure it out. It is so much cooler that way. And whenever someone sees this video, they might forget about that bit when they watch the movie so it will still be a twist to them in the moment. If he just says it, it ruins the chance of them experiencing it and honestly it doesnt hit as hard in text.
@@danielstandford4930 bruh he already spoiled the movie what difference does it make
@@Tokoyami_Snow makes quite a difference to him
Actually, the movie is based in 1954, so it’s even more taboo. It’s also why the fashion does look horrible (since a lot of 80’s fashion is, though it depends). And as a non-straight man, I honestly don’t think the representation is super bad. Like nobody calls him a slur nor are super against him. May not be like how it is now, but I think the part was pretty well done. Bring It On says every homophobic slur there is and it’s said by the good characters, and that was coming out in 2000, which was a time people knew that was bad. Other than the word queer, I definitely don’t want anyone (non-straight or straight) saying that crap, because those words don’t transcend the meaning. And it makes a fun movie problematic, which is messed up, since it has a good message about black culture and such in the storyline. Though all the Bring It On Movies have problematic issues that aren’t needed, so I’m glad an 80’s movie could be more progressive than a 21 century movie.
My personal peeve with Clue is that you really only need one board since they all play the same (to my knowledge). They have so many cool versions, but once you own one, you own them all.
Yeah, they use a whole moving-around-the-board mechanic through rolling dice, but it never seems to matter until the one time someone can't go anywhere, when everyone just looks at each other thinking 'uhhhhhhh that's a thing?' There should be other layouts that make movement more important, like a long hallway or train carriage that, if you roll well, allows you to skip a bunch of rooms, while if you roll poorly can only really get into the next room.
@@Ghiaman1334 in some themed editions like Harry Potter Clue (which I own), if you roll a house you must spin the appropriate wheel which opens/closes doors and secret passages, and can even trigger dark mark cards to be drawn.
Super Cluedo Challenge from the 80s plays differently. There is no wondering into rooms, asking a question and then seeing if anyone can show you a card. Instead you have to pick up clue tokens and then do what it says. For example it might tell you 'theres a clue on the posion' and then everyone has to race to the posion and the first person there picks up a clue card. Or it might say 'look under the top left flap on the green envelope'. Because in this version, all the cards have a code divided between their 4 corners and by looking under a flap you can pick up part of that code and begin working out what cards are in the envelopes. The win condition is still the same though, be the first to guess correctly. I honestly haven't gone back and played normal cluedo since I found this version in the back of my parents game cupboard about 15 years ago.
That is definitely not the case for the ones based on pop culture. The rooms are not the same in those versions.
master detective adds rooms weapons and people on top the base game you roll 2 dice, and adds magnifying glass spaces that let you draw and replace a random card from another player
5:56 ftr, while they play back-to-back on streaming services, during the original theatrical release different theatres had different versions of the ending, the eventual DVD release also included a playback mode that chose one of the endings at random to emulate the theatre experience
My favourite version is The Simpsons Clue, where you're trying to find out who killed Mr. Burns. I think it's one of the only licensed version that involves murder.
Yes! That version is the one my family had and played all the time growing up
Fun fact: the Clue movie was also made into a play (my school did it) and it included the Miss Scarlet and Mrs Peacock endings, it was really cool
This is just scratching the surface of Clue weirdness. A few people have mentioned the 90s puzzles in the comments, but there’s also the VCR games. The beach blanket edition. The multiple chocolate editions. The strange game about spies that has nothing to do with anything. The game where you’re trying to catch a thief in a museum. The Hub miniseries where a bunch of kids uncover a group of secret societies founded by the Clue characters. Clue Elimination. And the recent escape room games, to name just a few.
You forgot to mention how Mrs. White is canonically dead in the newer iterations of Clue, and now her soul is trapped in an Amazon Alexa.
lol what. a few comments have mentioned mrs white but this is the weirdest
"Mrs. White" (originally "Nurse White") was temporarily replaced by "Dr. Orchid" in 2016 in a misguised attempt by Hasbro at "representation", which went over like a lead balloon and is undone. It was not repeated in any subsequent edition and is specifically repudiated in the 2023 edition which reduxes Mrs. White as "Chef White".
@@Scipio488 unfortunately for you, lead bloons do actually float for some indeterminate reason
@@ConsarnitTokkori I have no idea what this means, why it would unfortunate for me in particular, or even what a bloon is.
@@Scipio488 good, please keep not having plunged yourself in the downward spiral that is bloons
Can you do a video on the absurdities of the Cars franchise? Like how do they function as a society? How do they breathe? I’m sure you can think of many more life changing questions
fun fact: Lightning McQueen was originally a videogame character, because the Cars game came out 2 or 3 days before the Cars movie
How do they reproduce? The Robots movie at least makes a joke about "making the baby," but cars has nothing.
The Cars world is also dependent on human history. Points I have seen raised:
- Sarge is a WWII vet and it is also referenced in Planes, so there was a Car Hitler
- There is a Car Pope so there was a Car Jesus- but the cars are models from their year so what was he, a chariot?
- There is the TSA and no twin towers, so 9/11 happened, did a sentient plane do it?
My local community theatre put on a stage production of Clue, and last night was the opening night. Fun coincidence seeing the play/ basically-the-movie, and then see you post this!!
I had one of those Clue mystery books when I was a kid who loved 5-minute-mystery type things. I remember it confused the everloving shit out of me because each story is apparently its own continuity, which means Mr. Boddy got murdered like five times by different people but they'd all be alive friends in time for the next one.
Actually, at the start of each subsequent book, Mr. Boddy would explain how he didn't actually die but was merely incapacitated in some manner.
As someone who is preforming in a CLUE play, I love seeing the creativity in the theming, even on those ones that make you question who thought it was a good Idea
My sister recently did that play and it was really fun to see! Hope you enjoy your play :D
They also made Clue jigsaw puzzles. There would be a story to them and everything, and only by putting the puzzle together could you solve the mystery. The twist was that because of that, they couldn’t show what the finished puzzle on the box, which means you had to put the puzzle together blind.
Mr. Greens final line in the clue movie is also probably one of my favorite lines in the movie. Such a funny line after thinking for the whole movie that he must be gay
Anything attached to the FNAF franchise almost certainly has some kind of key lore piece in one line of an instruction manual.
I love how random every topic is. Because of your content, I get to watch videos about topics I didn’t even know I wanted to learn about 😂
I thought he couldn’t one up himself from the “hi everyone I’m in a coffin” opening, yet here we are with Choopo sneaking into a crime scene
I personally think Choopo’s final line in this video is better and more twistiest than “I’m going home to sleep with my wife”
We need a video discussing the lore of the world this dude lives in bc frankly I’m scared
I don't know who will see this, but. I own both FNaF board games by Hasbro. I'll say that the CLUE version is better than the Monopoly version, as they actually implement pretty well the game theme into the board game perfectly, unlike Monopoly, which has grammar issues, some cards don't make sense, and the house/hotel aren't changed to something fitting to the property, which are the animatronics. Also, for Clue, they added a fantastic mechanic (probably other version has it, not sure): There's a ? in one of the dice, and in the board, when landing on it or rolling it, you get to draw a card from a pile, it can be helpful such as moving to one room you want, peek someone's card, etc. BUT, there's a catch, which is 8 Purple Guy cards in the pile. If all 8 are found, the game ends automatically, and all player loses, even if they had the guess correctly.
I also remember there was a doctor who episode that was a mix of Cludo and Agatha Christie, it was amazing 🤩
The three endings play back to back in the version of the clue movie you can watch today. When it came out, theaters would show a random one, so if you discussed it with someone you might have seen totally different endings
There was also a scrapped fourth ending
Mr. Green at the end of the movie says "I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife" because at the beginning of the movie it is established that the thing he is being blackmailed for is being gay (its 1954) so in the 3rd ending (also the "true ending" bc it's stated "this is how it actually happened") he says that to show that he wasn't actually being blackmailed and that this was a setup the whole time. I only know this off the top of my head bc Clue is one of my fav movies!
(there's also this great bit at the end of ending 3 where someone is like "so you're a cop?" and he's like "no im a plant!" and Mrs. Scarlet says "I thought men like you were usually called a fruit" which i just think is very funny)
I had the clue books! They were actually super fun and clever, and gave great personalities to the entire cast!
No mention of Murder at Boddy Mansion? The PC game that came in a cereal box?
One itteration you didn't cover were the Cluedo jigsaws.
You have a little booklet that tells a story, with Doctor Black (the original victim) being killed and you have to complete the jigsaw and look for clues.
Then you can read the final page in the booklet using a red magnifying glass.
I think the most surprising thing about the Clue movie is that there has never been a version of the Clue game based on it. I do remember that a Canadian gasoline company did have a promotion where they gave out movie-based cards with a gas purchase but that was as close as it got. As for weird versions of the game, USopoly (in the US, Winning Moves in Europe) will take custom orders for Clue games (and Monopoly and Candyland, etc) from businesses for promotional items or giveaways, for example Snap-On Tools Clue (I really thought you were going to start talking about these when you brought in Big Boy). There was also a "The Assisination Game" style version of Clue that came with four tiny Nerf pistols.
Clue FX is not just Clue with a cut out, it has a bunch of unique mechanics
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In the 90s. There were some versions of a Cluedo Game Show (UK and Australian) - The UK series is on UA-cam (I highly recommend just watching Series 3) - In each episode, a visitor is invited to the mansion and they are later found murdered. It's up to a panel of detectives to work out which of the 6 suspects is the murderer, which of the 6 rooms the murder took place, and which of 6 weapons (different weapons in each episode) was used for the murder. - Unlike the board game, Mr Boddy and/or Dr Black are not in the TV Show. The mansion is owned by Mrs. Peacock
Ah, glad someone else saw this. The UK one had a weirdly good cast too - Molly Sugden was great as Mrs White.
As I recall, in that show, Mr. Green was Reverend Green.
Clue/Cluedo fan and collector here. I thought I could give some interesting Clue facts here.
- The 1985 film is not the only screen adaptation of the board game. In 1990 ITV premiered a gameshow adaptation of the game called Cluedo. The show ran from 1990 to 1993 with four series (season) total and would have several international versions (Australia, Germany, French, Portugal, and Sweden).
- In 2011, a five-part tv miniseries called Clue aired on The Hub Network, reimagining the classic characters as teen sleuths uncovering a secret society.
- CSI: NY had an episode based on Clue called "Clue: SI", where a serial killer commits murders based on game (Ex. A ballerina (White) is killed with the Rope in a music Conservatory, a redhead woman (Scarlett) is killed the Revolver at Hell's Kitchen, a golfer (Green) is killed with a Candlestick at a golf course (Ballroom)).
Oddly enough, the original premise of the Clue movie was about a mystery author receiving Clue cards in the mail, only for a murder committed with a similar matter (Ex. A retired U.S. colonel named James Mustard is killed at the New York Public Library with a Wrench).
- Speaking of books, there have been several series of Clue books (alongside many stand-alones):
1. The Clue book series that ran from 1992 to 1998.
2. The Clue Jr books
3. Clue Mysteries and More Clue Mysteries by Vicki Cameron, two tie-in books based on the 2002 edition of the game. The books are much like the original Clue series but a bit more "mature" and full of Britishisms.
4. The Clue Mysteries series by Diana Peterfreund, another teen reimagining where the classic characters are students in an elite private school.
That's not to mention the 20+ choose-your-own-adventure Cluedo books released exclusively in France (the game is quite popular over there from what I can tell).
There have also been several comic/graphic novel adaptations, with two French exclusive graphic novels released in the early 2010s by Jungle! and two published by IDW Comics.
- The game has had a few stage productions, begin with a 1985 play written by British cartoonist and playwright Robert Duncan (which he later reworked into a new play called CUT! after Hasbro revoked the production rights), a 1997 off-Broadway musical, and a stage adaptation of the film that first opened in 2017.
I was crew in my school’s production of CLUE, at closing night, the guy who played the real Mr. Body and the guy who played Mr. Green did a bit where Mr. Body fell to the floor and begged Mr. Green to tell him that he loved him before he died, he had at least two fake out deaths where he was “revived” by his love for Mr. Green, everyone onstage broke, he got a standing ovation at the end of it all.
wtf that happened at my school production of clue too???? huh???
I watched my schools production of clue and wadsworth is so dramatic I love him sm 😭🧡
I fully believe that ending a movie with I’m going to go home and sleep with my wife would make every movie a masterpiece
Surprised you didn't mention Clue Master Detective. Extra players, weapons and rooms for a deeper mystery.
The Screenplay for Clue was turned into a Script for live stage productions of the story. The movie itself is really great, but I do have to say I had an absolute blast with my theater when we did it.
5:05 finally someone realizes
There’s also Nightmare before Christmas Clue, which is arguably my favorite version! You have to figure out who kidnapped Santa, what item they used to do it, and what location they stashed him in!
Those Clue books were actually kind of fun to read, when I was a kid! I bought a few of them at my school's Book Fair! Good times! The movie is also great! 🐱
Im always excited for your videos . Because it's always like I'm doing something and I'm stopped on the street by a guy explaining something wild
There’s also a Clue escape room. It was pretty fun! We had to figure out the murderer’s plan before before it could be completed, so this is another edition where there theoretically isn’t any murder.
I was just in a production of Clue (the play based on the movie) at my local community theatre. I was the “Unsuspecting Cop”. A major role, I know.
The Clue movie is the best movie I have ever seen in my lifetime, and no other movie can replace the #1 slot except maybe the Monopoly movie if Hasbro were to make one, or if they were to remake the original with Daniel Craig.
i remember watching a high school play of the clue movie that used the 3rd ending, it even included that odd line
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Man, this channel is severely underrated. I have seen a couple videos now and they are surprisingly good. It reminds me of Sam O'Nella, but in a good way.
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Bro clue jr with the last slice of cake in what room with what beverage was literally my entire childhood
Now I wanna know how the Boston Tea Party and Space Chimps are part of the Zelda timeline
There's actually 2 different versions of Harry Potter Clue. There's the film version that is the standard insert franchise here Clue brand game, and a different one with an additional pawn that any player can move to block players in or out of rooms, places that are inaccessible without additional game play and secret passages that have to be unlocked as well.
That one is more of an off-brand Clue, I think it was before the licensing deal was made for an actual Harry Potter Clue.
i was supposed to be in a stage production of clue (based on the movie) that got canceled. still one of my favorite shows, even if it never made it to opening night
You forgot to mention Clue 2, the one were you're in a museum and somebody plays as the thief trying to steal all of the paintings and get out without getting caught. no joke that actually exists but I don't think they make it anymore.
That final line was so lost on me until I rewatched the movie and realized: He said he's being blackmailed for being a homosexual, which means that with that line, it's the most obvious lie in the movie.
Clue SNES is pretty weird because it's not just a simulation of the board game (it would be annoying for players to convey information secretly) Instead the game gives public hints to all players and you have to narrow it down from that
We had some Clue VHS Mystery games when I was younger. Basically acted out "whodunnit" cases. I think there was also some pc game variations that played out like adventure games but pretty much the same premise as the vhs games.
North Pole Clue is one of my favorites. I just wish they would put more into it. It is like a flimsy box and generic game pieces but the story attached and the elf names and the implications of a North Pole murder mystery. I feel like they should rerelease it with more effort or make it a digital game.
The reason Mr Green’s character says he’s going to sleep with his wife is because the reason he’s supposedly being blackmailed is because he’s gay
I think my only problem with the multiple possible endings shtick is how they were mostly generic until the third. It would have been even more fun if each was as weird as the last. Also, in the dvd release, the three endings were put together as if the first two were like, it could have happened like this... and so on. I still love the movie, I just think it had the potential to be even better.
Can’t believe you didn’t talk about the musical and play versions of clue
2:44 and my Interpretation of it is basically about the animatronics finding out who killed the night guard first because they all wanted to kill the night guard before the other and at the end the animatronics all get angry at the animatronic for killing the night guard first and they then dismantle the culprit
I have a Simpsons version of Clue at my house. Haven't played it in years, but it exists.
I have it too. Nostalgia vibes
I have Clue FX, which is really interesting. It takes place outside the Tudor Mansion with 4 new characters ( Lady Lavender, Prince Azure, Miss Peach, and Lord Gray, who I think have become main staple characters since) while the usual main suspects are just suspects. Basically the same game, but just a bit different, and to me feels like a DLC of clue, similar to say The Last Of Us: Left Behind to the first The Last Of Us game. And it’s pretty fun. I’d say I love Clue (2005 version) the most, because it’s classic clue but with really nice figures, then FX, then DVD. That’s all I have now, so I can’t say how it’d be after I get another one though.
guys i think this is a clue to something
no shit sherlock
Cluedo had a anniversary board game of the movie
Don't make me summon the chaos penguins, Choopo! Poptropica lore video or prepare for the feathered mayhem.
Definitely owned the Jr version at 1:18 haha
MY FAMILY SAT DOWN TO PLAY CLUE TODAY and I was looking up stuff about it. Anyway awesome video dude 👍
I wish there had been an Alvin and the Chipmunks version of Clue. The 80s Chipmunks had soooo many episodes where the characters played detective AND there are exactly 6 Chipmunks and Chipettes who each have their own distinct signature color.
Just to name a few of the mystery themed episodes there’s…
Dreamlighting
Elementary, My Dear Simon
The Brunch Club
Mystery Of Seville Manor
Maltese Chipmunk
Chip Tracy
Chipmunk Vice
The Secret Life Of Dave Seville
The Cruise
The Chipmunk Who Bugged Me
"Also known as 'Cludo' if you are a European 'person'"
Or you know, from basically anywhere that isn't North America...
Nickelodeon and Parker Brothers (a brand of Hasbro) were currently planning on releasing Clue: The Loud House Edition
2:02 damn my boy Grinch BRICKED tf up
When I was 12 I told my parents that I wanted Cluedo for my birthday. They got me Cluedo jr who ate the chocolate cake.
I got so mad cause the premise was so stupid.
Unrelated but I got Harry Potter Cluedo for myself for my own birthday last year and I love it.
In the movie theaters they played different endings to confuse people
I love the reason for Green’s final line in the movie, since he claimed that the blackmail on him was that he was gay
I grew up with “Mystery At Hogwarts”, which was basically Harry Potter Clue, but I guess they didn’t pay for the “Clue” name. Instead of a murder, you were trying to figure out who cast what spell where. One thing I specifically remember was that Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco Malfoy all had character portraits on their cards, but for some baffling reason, Crabbe and Goyle were just black silhouettes.
I have a version of clue in German. My grandma gave it to me and my sister and we always have fun going to the library as we can say “Bibliothek”
Something fun about the movie, is that it was adapted into a play. The play has 6 endings instead of only 3
I had no clue that this was a thing at all, thanks
The movie you mentioned, I'm actually in production of a play for it at my local theater. All the endings are treated as what could've happened while the one you just named is the "true ending." Except . . . Plum didn't murder Mr. Boddy. He murdered a singing telegram girl because he's a pedo and that was the girl he was sleeping with, who was also the daughter of his boss. I understand why you said what Green says at the end is such a plot twist, though we take it a step further. For the guy who plays Green, we make his pants fall down after saying the line after he says it with much more confidence than the guy who plays Green in the movie does. 🤣🤣
I have seen The Clue Movie and I can confirm it is one of the funniest movies I’ve watched
if you want a real challenge, a game similar to clue(do) is Baker Street. Brits may know it and it is stupidly ridiculously difficult as every location you visit gives you a riddle/clue to either the murderer, location, or weapon (or sometimes, "there is no hint here!") and because it was made in the 60s, everything is outdated
but yeah great fun lmao
There was also a VHS version of the game, where you actually had to watch scenes on a video tape and try to recall random details (ie. who put down a glass on the table) in order to solve the crime. There might have been a second edition of the VHS game, too... I don't remember for certain. I only own the first one. The wildest thing is: once you played through the six or however many cases were included with the game (they were written in a guidebook with predetermined answers)... that was it. There really wasn't any replayability to it unless you wanted to box it back up for a couple of decades and then replay it again later on when enough time had passed that no one remembered what the solutions were. The acting in the little video clips was atrocious, but still kind of fun in a cheesy B-movie sort of way.
Also: this VHS game was based on the Master Detective version which was released in the 80s as an anniversary edition. That version of the game included additional locations, suspects, and weapons. The Master Detective edition can now be found some places like Barnes & Noble, but this is a reproduction version of the original Master Detective set which I'm assuming has a smaller game board and probably doesn't have the carved wooden suspect pieces and all metal weapon tokens.... I say I assume because I own the original Master Decetive edition and the box is MUCH bigger than the new one (and it's MUCH more expensive if you can find a full set that isn't missing any pieces or cards).
Information source: Me. I'm a fucking HUGE Clue fan. It's been my favorite board game since I was a kid.
I absolutely love the clue movie, I've watched it so may times I know it word for word, and have different versions of the board game like nightmares before christmas, fnaf, the new Hasbro version with Orchid, and the original, I've also seen the clue play (or what was said, clue the musical). They even talked me into making my own version with my characters that I voice in for animes
My uncle and aunt owned the two VCR games. We use to play them all the time. It was actually a lot of fun.
The Clue books were awesome! My siblings and I used to take turns reading them. The jokes were great too.
Want to know what would be cool? A Clue cartoon show based off of those old Hanna-Barbera teen-mystery-solver cartoons like Scooby-Doo, Josie & The Pussycats, Speed-Buggy, Captain Caveman & The Teen Angels, Jabberjaw, The Funky Phantom, etc, where the Clue gang (Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, Ms. White, & Mr. Boddy) are college students who solve mysteries. & for the actual mysteries, they could just adapt the ones from the books into the Scooby-Doo formula.
"Clue" movie = classic comedy gold
Mrs. White: "Husbands should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable."
The lore behind the coolaide man is that he actually wants to become a firefighter.
as a kid that played Cornel Mustard I'm so proud to be recognised
Choopo never misses
Clue also got adapted into a musical! I would assume it’s based on the movie. I don’t know too much about the show other than it’s the same characters but definitely a cool adaptation
The clue vs cluedo argument falls flat when you find out that Mr Green is a fake reverend in cluedo
I love how there's a clue game trying to figure out who caused the bite of 87, or something like that. Since it's unknown, technically every game is cannon
I only ever played the board game version of Clue a couple times but my favorite version of Clue is the Wii version that came in Family Game Night 3 and while it can take some time to get through, I still love playing it alongside the Game Of Life
A full Koolaid man lore video actually sounds pretty great tho
That Clue movie actually looks really interesting, I wanna watch it now
Its really good, I highly recommend it
You should also really watch Murder by Death. The Clue movie borrowed heavily from it, and although it is older and references a lot of the tropes of the times, it is a fantastic murder mystery that I wish more people knew about.
We should never forget Clue featuring SCOTT WOZNIAK from the hit series SCOTT THE WOZ