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Do you remember the names of these zany body-swap movies?
You might want to borrow the brain of a movie trivia expert.
What was it with body-swapping comedies in the Eighties? It seemed as if Hollywood cranked out a body-swap movie every summer. Parents swapping bodies with their children. Old people swapping bodies with young people. It's comedy gold.
Of course, the plot device was just restricted to the 1980s. Nor did it only appear in movies.
Let's see if you can remember the titles of these body-swap stories!
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In 1976, Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris swapped bodies in…?
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In 1984, Lily Tomlin entered the body of Steve Martin for the comedy…?
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George Burns got into the act for the 1988 comedy…?
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Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron drank a potion called "Brain-Transference Serum" in the 1987 movie…?
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The two Coreys (Haim and Feldman, naturally) starred in a body-swap teen comedy called…?
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It didn't stop after the '80s! In 1992, Alex Baldwin saw his fiancé (Meg Ryan) swap bodies with an old man in the romance…?
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Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold swapped bodies after touching a strange skull artifact in…?
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There have been body-swap plots on TV, too! The castaways all switched bodies in an episode of Gilligan's Island called…?
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In the final episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk swapped bodies with a woman. What was the title of this series finale?
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Finally, in 1979, NBC briefly aired a sitcom about husband and wife swapping bodies. What was it called?
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8/10
9 out of 10
7 out of 10.
AleX Baldwin? Isn’t he more commonly referred to as AleC?
Good guesses...................................8/10
8/10
The best ones are Freaky Friday, Vice Versa & All of me.
9 out of 10. I remembered the last series, but not its name. There was a magic idol, I believe, and I remember some gag about patting one's lips with a napkin rather than wiping them. Weird what one recalls.
?? Wouldn't "My Mother the Car" kind of fit in this category??? Well, half way.
Well, a car DOES have a body, ergo MMTC is a body-switch show!
?? Wouldn't "My Mother the Car" kind of fit in this category??? Well, half way.
7 out of 10.
9/10. Figures I'd blow the "Star Trek" question.
Well, Kirk switched bodies more than once, and "Spock's Brain" does qualify as a body switch!
You got 3 out of 10 --------------- Alas, you may not go back and swap answers. There were so many of these, it's hard to keep them straight!
9/10, and had to guess on some of them. missed the last one, never heard of it.
I was 7/10
9/10 Not bad for a lot of guesses.
8/10.
I looked up on IMDb for the last question, because I never heard of the short-lived '79 T.V. series "Turnabout", with Sharon Gless and John Schuck. It was probably not a very good show, because it only had seven episodes, and that's precisely why I've never heard of it. And there's probably lots of other T.V. shows that were made in 1979 that I've also not heard, and they were probably just as bad, so I won't give them any more thought either.
I remember it well. It was an updated version of the film of the same name, which in turn was based on a novel by Thorne Smith (who also wrote "Topper" and its sequel). I can still remember at least one good gag where Gless (with Schuck's mind in her body) has to try and do his wife's job as a cosmetics-company executive, which she explains as "coming up every year with six new words for 'red'").
As far as I know, the 1940 Hal Roach movie Turnabout was the granddaddy of body-switch movies.
9/10.
I didn't realize there had been so many.
I didn't realize there had been so many.
6/10.