Kind acts of Randomness

You kids have stepped up to Akinator’s challenge and punched him in the genie face with your fists of pure randomness. Here are 11 characters that fooled the so called web genius:

Sam from Lost Boys

I was quite surprised to find Akinator had dropped the ball on a Corey Haim character. That’s pretty inexcusable.

Random Lost Boys fact: “Kiefer Sutherland was only meant to wear the black gloves he wears as David when riding the motorbike. However, while messing around on the bike behind-the-scenes, he fell off, breaking his arm so he had to wear the gloves through the whole movie to cover his cast.”

Mathew Cuthbert from Anne of Green gables

Random Anne of green Gables fact: Megan Follows beat out 3,000 girls for the role of Anne Shirley. That's a hell of a casting call.

Tom, Bridget Jones’ gay friend

Random Bridget Jones fact: ”To prepare for the role, Renée Zellweger gained 25 pounds, and then actually worked at a British publishing company for a month in preparation for the role. She adopted an alias as well as her posh accent and was apparently not recognized.” But that’s limeys for you. They’d recognise the runner up of Series 3 of Big Brother from across the street, but could work with an A list Hollywood actress for an entire month and not even realise.

Betty, the idiot secretary from Hey Dad

Random Hey Dad fact: Foreigners who are scratching their head and wondering ”What the fuck is that show?”; Hey Dad was an Australian sitcom that soiled our airwaves from 1987 to 1994. It ran for 12 fucking seasons for a grand total of 291 episodes without raising a single laugh. If you’re counting (and fuck it why not, let’s count) that’s ten more seasons than Flight of the Conchords, and over 14 times more episodes than the run of The Mighty Boosh. There is no justice with TV.

Even more random: ”In the series finale, the entire family is confined to the house with a fugitive bank robber holding the characters hostage. The robber places a bomb in the family's VCR, as leverage with the police. The bomb presumably detonates, at which point the cast break the fourth wall to thank the studio audience.” What. The. Fuck.

Bonus fact: Mr Kelly looks like a middle aged Jimmy, my old flatmate.

Keith from Voltron

Random Voltron fact: ”There were a total of three "Voltrons": Voltron I of the Near Universe was the "Vehicle Force", and the "Lion Force" of the Far Universe was Voltron III. Voltron II, from the Middle Universe, featured three humanoid robots that combined into one multi-armed fighter; this version was never shown in the US.” Study this quote well, who knows when it might pop up in a pub quiz.

Brett Mathews, aka Turbo Teen

Random Turbo Teen fact: ”the show broadcast during the growing popularity of the Knight Rider television series and mirrors much of it, even down to very similar sounding theme music. The car that Brett turns into looks like an amalgam of a Chevrolet Camaro and its sister car the Pontiac Trans Am that Knight Rider's KITT is modeled after.”

Ned Ryerson from Groundhog Day

Random Groundhog Day facts: Why the fuck did Bill Murray keep experiencing the same day over and over? Because a disaffected ex-lover called Stephanie cast a spell on him to teach him a lesson. That scene was removed from the final draft of the script.

There are exactly 38 days depicted in this film either partially or in full. The original idea was to have Murray’s character live February 2nd repeatedly for 10,000 years (fucking hell). The final storyline is closer to a decade, though somebody has sat down and actually calculated it to be 8.7 years.

Teddy Daniels from the book, and soon to be released film Shutter Island

Random Shutter Island fact: When Paramount Pictures first developed this as a project for the director/star team of David Fincher and Brad Pitt, Mark Wahlberg was wanted for the opposite leading role of Chuck Aule. However, Fincher and Pitt moved on to other commitments, and Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Dicaprio took up the reigns. Scorses and Dicaprio initially wanted Robert Downey Jr to play Aule, and had they secured him would have doubled the chances of me watching the film. They finally went with mark Ruffalo.

Mick Molloy, Australian Comedian

Random Mick Molloy fact: ”In the 2006 Australian feature film Macbeth, Molloy played Brown; it was the second time he has appeared in a production of Macbeth.” Just look at his picture, he's got Shakespeare written all over him.

Roger Rogerson, dodgy NSW cop

Random Roger Rogerson Fact: Rogerson was a big name cop in the 70s, by 1978 his reputation was sufficient to gain convictions based on unsigned records of interviews (ie verbals), and he was brought onto cases that weren’t even within his level of expertise (such as the Sydney Hilton bombing).

He was also a dodgy bastard.

He was acquitted of the wrongful shooting of a Heroin Dealer in 1981, and found not guilty of shooting a fellow officer (twice) in 1984. Rogerson was also convicted for involvement with drug dealing, but had this overturned by appeal. Rogerson was dismissed by the NSW police force in 1986. He spent nine months in jail in 1990 for perverting the course of justice (regarding a mysterious deposit of $110,000 under a false name), lost the appeal, and served a further three years. Just for good measure, he served another year in prison in 2005 for lying to a 1999 police commission.

Roger Rogerson is my second favourite Akinator fooling name. First still stands as Mitchell Goosen.

Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer

Random Siti Nurhaliza Fact: She is currently the most successful Malaysian singer, having garnered more than 200 local awards

Thanks to Lala (1,2,3), Billsy (4), Dowling (5,6), Richo (7,8,9,10) and Ozi (11) for your submissions. You kids have stumped the web genie with your awesome skills. Here is my latest attempt at fooling Akinator:

The Dead Squirrel that was put on Bruce Willis, while he slept in his car at the start of the Last Boyscout.

(Akinator incorrectly guessed Hello Kitty, the gopher from Caddyshack and the goat from Jurassic Park).

It’s been educational. Let’s do this again some time. While we’re on the topic of random characters though, here is round 13 of Ozi and my Photoshop Tennis project. Click to enlarge:

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(All quotes taken from imdb, except for Hey Dad and Turbo Teen which was wikipedia).