Has anyone ever actually read The Stupids?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Stupids
Hinky_Punk — 21 years ago(January 21, 2005 04:12 PM)
I don't know how many people know of this, cuz it doesn't seem like many do, but The Stupids is actually adapted from a funny series of childrens books.
Nothing in the movie is from the books, save for the Stupids themselves.
But the books were just random stupid misadventures.
I liked this movie even though the characters were badly cast.
In the book Mr. Stupid had a huge nose and a big moustache, and the whole family was fat and redheaded.
But hey, whaddaya gonna do?
I had hoped that perhaps with the making of the Stupids movie that maybe a Cut Ups movie(another childrens' series about two trouble makers who always find some new way to screw with their principal) would be made, or maybe even a Viola Swamp movie.
For those of you who don't know about Viola Swamp, it was yet another series about a teacher who finds out that her class is acting up while she is out sick, so she diguises herself as an evil substitute to teach them a lesson.
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big_enigma90 — 19 years ago(June 24, 2006 01:13 AM)
I only remember the books. They were pretty much the highlight of hanging out at my grandmas. I think I laughed to the point of tears at "The Stupids Die" (where the lights go out and they think that they are dead) but now that I'm older and it's one o'clock in the morning I realize that it's actually a very old concept, stemming from this one Jewish folktale about a town of idiots (they got dropped there by a clumsy angel when God was distributing people). One man is told that if he climbs the roof, he will fall off and die. He climbs the roof and falls offand subsequently insists on being buried (because he is obviously dead). So begins an argument about the qualities of death. They finally decide that the man is alive because he is hungry, and the dead don't get hungry.
But then againmaybe the Stupids were always dead. Cogito ergo sum right? Maybe we're all dead, and the world we know is just sense datum manipulated by some sadistic otherdimensional mad scientist. How do we know when we are thinking.
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MortalGuardian — 19 years ago(June 28, 2006 08:16 AM)
How much of this movie (aside from the characters) was adapted from the books. The book where they were 'dead' remember when Stanley and his daughter were in the planetarium. When the stars came on, both thought they were dead and in Heaven.
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