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A fun guy that examines fungi.
What is a mycologist?
A magical practitioner often depicted with a familiar and stirring a cauldron.
What is a witch?
With a diet primarily consisting of one type of toxic leaf, this marsupial has few natural predators and is mostly threatened by pathogens.
What is a koala?
A hopelessly clumsy close friend, this character is based on a tall billy goat with a rhyming name.
Who is Silly?
A modern whodunit mystery that follows the cases of the famed private detective, Benoit Blanc.
What is Knives Out?
A simple 1 + 1 or 2 x 2, for example.
What is mathematics?
A specialist that lurks around cemeteries and tombs where they manipulate the dead.
What is a necromancer?
The largest order of marsupials in the western hemisphere though you may here two different pronunciations in North America.
What is the oppossum?
Mocky Moose's lovable orange tabby who got his name from the planet of similar color.
Who is Mars?
A husband becomes the lead suspect in the disappearance of his wife as growing police pressure and media frenzy tears apart the public image of their picturesque marriage.
What is Gone Girl?
Typically glass coated with a metal amalgam to recast the object it faces.
One who foresees the future through personal divination and whispers the hidden truth, usually for profit.
What is a soothsayer (clairvoyant)?
From the family Macropodinae (or "big foot" for those cryptid lovers), these marsupials are known for their strong hind legs and long tails used for balance.
What is the kangaroo?
Longtime girlfriend to Mocky Moose, this character's iconic yellow heels and large bow further exemplifies that both her name and personality is definitely not mini.
Who is Maxie (Maxine) Moose?
Deputy U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Chuck (Mark Ruffalo) come to investigate the fictional criminal psychiatric facility in Boston Harbor after one of its patients goes missing in this plot-twisting thriller.
What is Shutter Island?
Used in a sentence: "That man is a bitter _______, rarely leaving his house or talking to anyone."
What is misanthrope?
A magician who deals in grand optical escapades. and delights meant to bewilder the audience's perception.
What is an illusionist?
Sharing the capabilities of a flying squirrel, the common name for this marsupial refers to its sweet-toothed diet of sap and nectars.
What is a sugar glider?
Hook Hand Hank, the villainous arch-nemesis to Mocky Moose, is depicted as this anthropomorphized grassland animal known for burrowing with its sharp claws (of course Hank is missing a few).
What is a badger?
DAILY DOUBLE
A film centering on the manhunt for the serial killer that terrorized the San Francisco Area Bay Area while taunting police with letters and ciphers, sharing its pseudonym with the movie's title.
An assemblage of tesserae formed to make a pattern or image.
A specialized magic user that brings forth elemental energy, summons spirits, or generally elicits emotions.
What is an evoker (conjurer)?
Not the first marsupial one thinks of but still lives in Australia, the carnivorous mammal was thought to be hunted to extinction and is now confined to the island that it is named after.
What is the Tasmanian devil?
These anthropomorphic squirrels get their names from their energetic jumping about n' the old valley they grew up in. They are both private investigators and mischievous antagonists to Ronald Rook.
Who are Skip n' Vale?
One of Hitchcock's best works shot almost entirely in one room focusing on a recuperating photojournalist watching his neighbors through the back windows of his apartment.
What is Rear Window?