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Say it ain't so Hasbro, say it aint so. From an NPR story on a makeover of the game "Clue":
The characters have changed, too. Miss Scarlet has a first name: Cassandra. Colonel Mustard left the military; he's a former football star. Victor Plum, formerly the professor who was always known as the smartest man in the room, became recast as a self-made video game designer -- a dot-com billionaire.Take that you stuffy academic professors, with your padded elbows and your pipes and your uncombed Einstein hair: you're no longer the smartest person in the room (unless you've made a video game, that is.) But I still think you were the murder, in the spa, with the baseball bat.
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A football star? I mean, yeah, Clue jumped the shark a while ago, but geez. And yes, getting ride of Prof. Plum is bizarre. I'm supposing the baseball bat is the new lead pipe?
Posted by: Chris Granade | August 9, 2008 1:33 PM
Clue may not have just jumped the shark, but also nuked the fridge. :)
Posted by: Dave Bacon | August 9, 2008 1:48 PM
IIRC, the (original?) English version has a "Reverend Green". Course that can't fly in the good old USA...
Posted by: travc | August 10, 2008 6:32 PM
In other News, Time Magazine replaced Albert Einstein as "Man of the Century" with Sergey Brin & Larry Page; tiny little lead pipes were found to have caused lead poisoning; while Colonel Mustard retired from the Green Bay Packers and then tried to get rehired, ending up with the New York Jets.
Posted by: Jonathan Vos Post | August 11, 2008 11:54 AM