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She did it three or four times, and each time was funnier than the last. So, what was it? For its th episode, the mystery-comedy series Psych staged a Clue tribute in which various people are murder suspects inside a mansion.

BY Matthew Jackson. Also, DVD is shown. Geeks Who Drink: Grey Damon v. Josh Brener TV Episode audience members must identify the film as being the one with three variant endings. White from Clue The Final Curtain Short Characters have the same names.

Game Night The title was name-dropped. Flesh Blanket A board game of Clue is seen in the background. Writer's Block Short Homage. Murder Mystery As in the movie "Clue," the lights go off in a room full of people attending a party, and when the lights come back on, a dead body lies on the ground; the guests try to figure out who the killer is. Everything Wrong with Half in the Bag: Movie Catch-Up! Studio C: Episode Cartoon Corner: Scooby-Doo! But what about this?

Believe it or not, the actor who plays Mr. Boddy was chosen for his punny namesake. Boddy is played by Lee Ving, the lead singer of the punk rock band Fear. While Ving had some acting experience prior to Clue , he was cast on the basis of his stage name.

That is, Mr. Boddy is Lee Ving "Mr. Boddy is leaving" is a direct clue to the movie's plot, as Mr. Boddy's death ignites the entire murder mystery. For the role of attractive French maid Yvette, several high-profile actresses were considered. According to a interview with BuzzFeed , Jonathan Lynn admitted that Colleen Camp was so eager to land the role that she arrived at the audion in a French maid outfit.

Lynn also stated that while he was a fan of Camp's comedic acting chops, her unavoidable voluptuous physique is what won her the job. The mansion featured in Clue was shot on a set built specifically for the production.

The only scenes that were not filmed on the set were the ones inside the ballroom, which were filmed on location in a house in Pasadena, California. Once the production of Clue wrapped, the mansion set was bought by the production of the popular TV show Dynasty.

Peacock to arrest her, you can see smoke in the air from the Chief's revolver, as if it had been recently fired. At one point, Professor Plum says they only have fifteen minutes until the Police come. Exactly fifteen minutes later, the evangelist who is later revealed to be a Police Chief rings the doorbell.

The line "Communism was just a red herring" is said in all three endings twice by Wadsworth and once by Miss Scarlet. Not only is it is a pun particularly after World War II, the Russian Communists were frequently called "reds", for example, the anti-Communist slogan, "Better dead than red. There are various visual red herrings on-screen, such as a hammer and sickle on the shelf beside the torch Colonel Mustard finds, and a bust of Lenin in the attic.

Originally, there were endings in which each character killed off everyone once, and then the ending where they all did it. However, the final cut would have made the movie over two and a half hours long, and writer and director Jonathan Lynn thought it to be excessive, hence the three endings that are in the final cut.

In Ending "B", Mr. Green remarks "Mrs. Peacock was a man?! Boddy has informants that he used for information about the six guests. They are: The Cook - Mrs. White and possibly Miss Scarlet. However, none of the deceased informed on Mr. Green, which is why he is constantly saying "I didn't do it!

Green is actually an F. This allows us the assumption that it was in fact the F. Green to Mr. Boddy, setting up his cover so he could infiltrate the scheme as their inside man. Green Michael McKean is being blackmailed because he is a homosexual working for the government. Later on, J. Edgar Hoover calls the house.

In "Ending C", where everyone is guilty, Mr. Green is really an FBI agent sent in to infiltrate the blackmailer. In a couple of ironic twists, J. Edgar Hoover has long been suspected of being a homosexual, and in the s, he started a case called "Operation: Babydoll", in which he gathered intelligence on possible homosexuals working in the federal government. The conclusion of ending "C" is the only one which gives a version of the classic answer from the Clue board game about who killed Mr.

Boddy, when Mr. Green says "I did, in the Hall, with the Revolver". One of the photos burned is a photo of Colonel Mustard and a soldier, both in U. Army dress uniforms. The soldier is The Motorist, who was his driver during the war. At the beginning of the movie, Wadsworth tells the guests "Of course, since you've each been addressed by a pseudonym, you'll have realized that nobody here is being addressed by their real name. The murders are as follows: 1 The Cook, in the kitchen, with the dagger; 2 Mr.

Boddy, in the hall, with the candlestick his previous demise in the study from the revolver was a false death ; 3 The Motorist, in the lounge, with the wrench; 4 Yvette the Maid, in the billiard room, with the rope; 5 The Cop, in the library, with the lead pipe; 6 The Singing Telegram Girl, in the hall, with the revolver.

Scarlet claims that The Cop had been on her payroll as a bribe to allow her to continue her business. However, as Ms. Scarlet lives and works in Washington, D. That being said, as Wadsworth later claims that everyone who has come to the house has been invited, it is conceivable that The Cop, still in uniform, drove out to the property after his shift ended he even says over the phone, "No, I'm not on duty" but upon seeing The Motorist's broken-down car, decides to investigate, which is why it appears that he is there on official business.

The pairing-up scene contains very subtle humor in its outcome: Miss Scarlet and Colonel Mustard: Mustard was one of Scarlet's clients. Wadsworth and Mrs. White: White coyly threatens Wadsworth after he refuses to let her leave the mansion "If we're ever alone together" , and Wadsworth tells her no man in his right mind would end up alone with her.

Peacock and Professor Plum: Peacock is uptight and conservative, and Plum is lecherous and philandering. Yvette and Mr. Green: Yvette is outwardly sexy, and Green is allegedly homosexual.

In the third ending, the last three murders, specifically Mrs. White's killing of Yvette, is physically impossible, given the order of events: -The lights are turned off, according to Wadsworth, by Mrs. White in the nursery on the second floor, where she dramatically screams as the window blows open. White who, despite just being heard screaming upstairs, is already there, hiding in the shadows with the rope from the cupboard. Meanwhile, Wadsworth, who has the gun, has come downstairs to answer the door and kill the telegram girl.

In the moments that follow, in full view of Colonel Mustard in the dining room Miss Scarlet leaves the Library, and somehow without crossing paths, Wadsworth and Mrs. White return upstairs, Wadsworth back to the bedroom and Mrs. White back to the nursery, where Mrs. White screams at the Jack-in-the-Box, prompting Wadsworth to enter the shower before returning downstairs once more to turn back on the electricity. Of the three endings, "B", with Mrs. Peacock as the lone killer, is the least believable.

While it's possible, however unlikely, that she could have killed most of the victims, the scenario surrounding The Motorist is dubious at best. She couldn't have stolen away from Professor Plum without him realizing to get out of the cellar, across the hall to the cupboard, gotten the wrench, entered the lounge through the conservatory, killed The Motorist, then back through the passage and returned to the cellar where she emerges with Professor Plum moments later, all without ever crossing paths with Miss Scarlett and Colonel Mustard, who are patrolling the ground floor.

If the final ending is considered the true ending, given that Wadsworth pretends to be the butler for the majority of the movie, then in fact "the butler did it. When walking through the hall to the library, Colonel Mustard pauses to look up at the chandelier that later in this movie, almost kills him.

When Yvette sneaks down to the billiard room and is asked if anyone saw her, the voice whispering in the shadows is meant to be somewhat androgynous, allowing the audience to believe it could be any of the guests speaking. It's relatively clear, however, that the person actually voicing the lines is female. In each of the three endings, it was indeed a woman who killed Yvette: Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock, and Mrs. White, respectively. In Ending C, where everyone but Mr. Green murders a character, only Colonel Mustard with the wrench , Mrs.

Peacock with the knife , and Mrs. White with the rope use the actual weapons they were given as gifts. Professor Plum finishes off Mr. Green's lead pipe for her murder, and Wadsworth Mr. Green shoots Wadsworth Mr. Boddy with a revolver, but it's a gun he's brought with him, and not the weapon given to Professor Plum by Mr. Boddy the actual butler. When the evidence of Mr. Boddy's Lee Ving's letters of informants and photographs is being stacked to be burned in the fireplace, there is a photograph of Mr.

Green Michael McKean with his glasses on leaving a government building and holding a briefcase. In two of the endings Ending A and Ending B where multiple people are not the killers, as is the case in Ending C, a woman is the murderer in both, this movie connecting with that old Rudyard Kipling maxim, "the female of the species is more deadly than the male".

In "ending C", its Mrs. White who kills Yvette the maid. In the original board game, Mrs. White is always depicted as the maid.