Television and Movie Analogies Quiz

Answer: Stubing

Captain Merrill Stubing was played by Gavin MacLeod on the the romantic comedy television show "The Love Boat" from 1977-1986. Every episode he and his wacky crew became involved with the romantic misadventures of the passengers.
Captain Harrison went down with his ship the S.S. Poseidon in the 1972 movie "The Poseidon Adventure".

Answer: Elliot

Mork, played by a young Robin Williams, has visited Earth on a fact-finding mission. He is befriended by young single Mindy and makes his home in her attic.
E.T. is marooned on Earth and is befriended by young boy Elliot and his friends in Spielberg's 1982 "E.T.".

Answer: Colonel von Scherbach

While Colonel Klink was the bumbling Kommandant of Stalag 13 in the television series "Hogan's Heroes", Colonel von Scherbach ran a more brutal stalag in Billy Wilder's movie "Stalag 17".

Answer: Rosebud

Newspaper mogul Charles Kane's final word "Rosebud" recalls his lost childhood "Citizen Kane". The Simpsons' resident bad guy, Monty Burns yearns for his lost teddy bear Bobo in the tv show's take off of the same movie.

Answer: O'Hara

Alice Nelson was housemaid to the Bradys in the television sitcom "The Brady Bunch". Mammy was housemaid to the O'Haras in the 1939 classic "Gone with the Wind". Hattie McDaniel won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for the role becoming the first African-American to win an Oscar.

Answer: Lester Burnham

Tim "The Toolman" Taylor from television's "Home Improvement" turns to his wise but eccentric neighbour Wilson for advice. The award winning movie "American Beauty" features Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham and his less wholesome neighbour Col. Frank Fitts USMC.

Answer: New York

Neither Harry Callaghan from the 'Dirty Harry' movies or Andy Sipowicz of "NYPD Blues" are warm sensitive new age guys. Harry Callaghan was played by Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood in the 1971 original "Dirty Harry" and its numerous sequels. Andy Sipowicz was played by Dennis Franz who also appeared as a police officer in both movies and television. Apart from Sipowicz he has played Detective Sal Beneditto in "Hill Street Blues", Captain Carmine Lorenzo in "Die Hard 2" and Detective Marino in the cross dressing thriller "Dressed to Kill".

Answer: The General Lee

While Jake is in jail, Elwood trades in the original Bluesmobile for a microphone. The new Bluesmobile is a 1974 Dodge Monaco and the boys take it through one of the greatest chase scenes in movie history during the movie "The Blues Brothers". Luke and Bo Duke elude the corrupt Boss Hogg by taking their beloved car the "General Lee" along the backroads of Hazzard County in television's "The Dukes of Hazzard".

Answer: Hooch

Tom Hanks appeared in "Turner and Hooch" where the cop buddy theme takes a twist when Detective Turner must work with a Dogue de Bordeaux called Hooch. Dino appears in televison's "The Flintstones" where is unable to contain his joy when Fred comes home from work.

Answer: Newsday

Bernstein and Woodward were played by Hollywood heavyweights Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in the movie "All the President's Men", based on the events which uncovered the Watergate scandal. Ray Romano plays a successful sports writer in the television sit-com "Everybody Loves Raymond".