It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World/Characters
Main Characters
Captain Culpepper
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Portrayed by: Spencer Tracy |
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- Big Screwed-Up Family: His wife and daughter.
- Cool Old Guy
- Henpecked Husband: He is often being belittled by his wife on the phone.
- Nice Hat
Melville Crump
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Portrayed by: Sid Caesar |
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- Butt Monkey
- Covered in Gunge: He winds up getting covered with paint while in the hardware store.
- Straight Man: Melville acted this way when trying to divvy up the money between himself and the others, before negotiations broke down.
Monica Crump
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Portrayed by: Edie Adams |
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- The Chick
- Clothing Damage: Her dress gets ripped while her and Melville were stuck in the hardware store.
- Ms. Fanservice
- Show Some Leg: Not in the romantic sense, but part of her dress gets ripped, showing some of her leg.
J. Russell Finch
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Portrayed by: Milton Berle |
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- The Chew Toy: He is often being belittled by his mother-in-law.
- Honest Corporate Executive: He is the head of an edible seaweed company.
- The Lancer
- Nice Hat
Emmaline Marcus-Finch
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Portrayed by: Dorothy Provine |
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- Deadpan Snarker
- Hair of Gold
- Only Sane Woman: Keep in mind that she was the only one who wanted absolutely nothing to do with the whole search.
- Tsundere
Mrs. Marcus
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Portrayed by: Ethel Merman |
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- Evil Matriarch
- Handbag of Hurt: Mrs. Marcus has a habit of hitting other people with her purse when really mad.
- Jerkass
- Karma Houdini: A lot of viewers think her behavior warrants more than a final scene Pratfall.
- Nice Hat
- Perpetual Frowner: Not once in the entire movie does she smile.
Lennie Pike
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Portrayed by: Jonathan Winters |
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- Berserk Button: Never, ever make Pike mad, or else he will kill you.
- The Big Guy
- Butt Monkey
- Dumb Muscle
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Pike becomes really angry when he gets tricked by Meyer.
- Nice Hat
- Unstoppable Rage
Dingy Bell
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Portrayed by: Mickey Rooney |
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- Cool Shades: He wears these at the beginning of the film
- Deadpan Snarker
- Dope Slap: Dingy did this a few times to Benjy.
- Fat and Skinny: The skinny to Benjy's fat.
- Those Two Guys: With Benjy
Benjy Benjamin
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Portrayed by: Buddy Hackett |
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- Alliterative Name: And the only one in the entire movie with one too.
- Captain Obvious
- Cowardly Sidekick
- Fat and Skinny: The fat to Dingy's skinny.
- Fat Idiot
- Nice Hat
- Those Two Guys: With Dingy
Otto Meyer
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Portrayed by: Phil Silvers |
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- Con Man
- Jerkass
- Nice Hat
- Rage Against the Heavens: He does this before he drives his car into the river.
- The Rival: To Pike
Col. Algernon Hawthorne
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Portrayed by: Terry-Thomas |
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- Brake Angrily: Hawthorne does this when Russell says something bad about England.
- Funny Foreigner
- Nice Hat
- The Rival: To Russell, at first.
- Servile Snarker
Sylvester Marcus
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Portrayed by: Dick Shawn |
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- Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny
- Comically Missing the Point: Sylvester was more worried about the safety of his mother than actually joining in the search for the money.
- Determinator: He was really determined to find out what happened to his mother.
- Dumb Muscle
- Momma's Boy