PLOT TWIST!
THE 70'S CALLED
SIDEKICKS AND SCENE-STEALERS
FAILURE IS MANDATORY
THAT SONG THOUGH
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In this 1999 film, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe discovers he's been dead the entire time.

What is The Sixth Sense?

100

This leather-jacketed Milwaukee cool kid said 'Ayyyyy' and gave a thumbs up on Happy Days.

Who is The Fonz (Fonzie)?

100

Batman's loyal ward, famous for 'Holy [everything], Batman!'

Who is Robin?

100

This round-headed kid never kicked the football, never won a baseball game, and kept trying anyway every single year.

Who is Charlie Brown?

100

'Na na na na na na na na...' — this 1966 TV hero's theme is one of the most recognizable in history.

What is Batman?

200

This 1980 space saga contains cinema's most famous paternity reveal.

What is The Empire Strikes Back?

200

This 1978 musical film had John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John telling each other they were 'the one that I want.'

What is Grease?

200

This anxious gold protocol droid was fluent in over six million forms of communication and worried about all of them.

Who is C-3PO?

200

Despite unlimited ACME budget and meticulous planning, this cartoon character never once caught his prey.

Who is Wile E. Coyote?

200

This Fleetwood Mac song from 1977 had a massive second life when a man skateboarding with Ocean Spray cranberry juice went viral on TikTok.

What is 'Dreams'?

300

In this Hitchcock classic, the actress billed as the star is murdered in a motel shower before the film is even half over.

What is Psycho?

300

Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark film is widely credited as the first summer blockbuster.

What is Jaws?

300

This underestimated Hobbit carried Frodo to Mount Doom on his back when Frodo could no longer walk.

Who is Samwise Gamgee?

300

In this show, George Costanza tried doing the exact opposite of every instinct he had — and briefly, magnificently, it worked.

What is Seinfeld?

300

Queen and David Bowie collaborated on this 1981 hit that Vanilla Ice definitely did not sample.

What is 'Under Pressure'?

400

Daily Double!

This 1973 British folk horror film ends with a visiting police detective realizing — too late — that finding the missing girl was never the actual point of his invitation to the island.

What is The Wicker Man?

400

This 1971 Stanley Kubrick film was voluntarily withdrawn from UK distribution by the director himself after it was blamed for copycat violence.

What is A Clockwork Orange?

400

This fast-talking, ethically flexible lawyer first appeared as a supporting character on Breaking Bad before getting his own spinoff — his real name is James McGill.

Who is Saul Goodman?

400

This 1974 Robert Altman film follows a country music industry outsider slowly building toward a performance that ends in chaos — its title refers to the Tennessee city where everything quietly falls apart.

What is Nashville?

400

This song by The Buggles declared a new medium had killed an old one — and fittingly became the very first video played when MTV launched in 1981.

What is 'Video Killed the Radio Star'?

500

In this 2003 Korean revenge thriller, a man released after 15 years of unexplained imprisonment hunts his captor — only to discover the revenge was engineered to make HIM the instrument of his own punishment.

What is Oldboy?

500

This 1974 Roman Polanski neo-noir ends with the villain escaping, the hero failing completely, and the woman the detective was trying to save dying anyway — inspiring the cynical phrase the film is named after.

What is Chinatown?

500

In the original 1984 Ghostbusters, this character was the only one who actually worked for the EPA and tried to shut down the containment unit — and has been unfairly treated as a villain ever since.

Who is Walter Peck?

500

In this 1962 novel — later a film — Ignatius J. Reilly is a pompous, lazy, self-proclaimed genius living with his mother in New Orleans, repeatedly failing at every job and scheme while believing himself to be the only competent person alive.

What is A Confederacy of Dunces?

500

Scott Walker left this successful 1960s pop trio at the height of their fame to record deeply strange, critically acclaimed solo albums that influenced everyone from David Bowie to Radiohead — this was the trio's name.

What is The Walker Brothers?

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