The Producers Trivia

1. The movie opens with one of Max Bialystock's plays opening on Broadway. The name of the play is "Funny Boy". What other play is this play based on?

From Quiz A Production of "The Producers"

Answer: Hamlet

Turns out nobody else thought much of the idea of turning one of Shakespeare's plays into a musical. Opening night was also closing night for this flop of a play. You can see the signs outside the theater that say "Funny Boy: A musical interpretation of Hamlet".

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Mel Brooks and Jonathon Sanger

Mel Brooks also wrote the lyrics for it and he also played the pigeon who was Hitler! At the end of the film Mel Brooks, surrounded by 'girls with pearls', said "it's over!". Jonathon Sanger was also the producer of "Elephant Man".

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Funny Boy

This is right at the start of the film. Everybody seems to hate the show. The crowd at one point sings, "What a disaster." Later on Roger and Carman both seemed to enjoy it. Roger says "Max darling, we loved "Funny Boy", didn't we Carman?"

From Quiz "The Producers" The Movie

Answer: Old Buzzard

The picture opens with the silhouettes of two old homo sapiens enjoined in a compromising position, doing God-doesn't-want-to-know-what. When the old lady gives him the check, he says goodbye to her, and as she leaves, his disposition changes to a grumpy snarl, and he mutters, "Old Buzzard".

From Quiz A Production of "The Producers"

Answer: Cardboard

He tells Leo that he used to have Italian leather shoes, $500 suits, and his tie pin once held a huge pearl. Now he is wearing a cardboard belt and sleeping on the couch in his office.

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick played Leo Bloom, a role which was originally played by Gene Wilder. Bloom started the movie as an accountant with a dream of becoming a Broadway producer. Broderick has appeared in "Godzilla" as Dr. Niko Tatopoulos, was the voice of Simba and played Inspector Gadget.

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Because he caught him feeling up the old lady

Leo: 'I'm terribly sorry I caught you feeling up the old lady'. Max: 'Feeling up the old lady. Thank you, Mr. Tack'. This is just before the 'blue blanket' scene. Hold me Touch me had been in, wanting to play her 'dirty little games'.

From Quiz Bialystock and Bloom

Answer: Brazil

In the movie, he sends Max a postcard from Brazil with the words Rio de Janeiro printed on the front. Leo went to Rio after they made the two million dollars on the flop, just as Max and Leo planned, to start a new life. However, he went to Rio with Ulla as Max sat in jail, feeling betrayed that Leo left with his freedom, the money and, on top of that, with Ulla.

From Quiz Mel Brooks' "The Producers"

Answer: Cardboard

Max shows him his cravat pin which, he says, "...used to hold a pearl as big as your eye. Look at me now, LOOK AT ME NOW! I'm wearing a cardboard belt!"

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Funny Boy

"Funny Boy" was featured at the start of the movie and was a huge flop! It was based on William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". When Leo checked the books he stumbled upon the idea of making $2 million by producing a flop!

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Switzerland

Franz then says, "All we ever heard was yodeling" It is a very funny scene as he is dressed in a German helmet and a Lederhosen. Also, the pigeons behind him make the scene even more amusing.

From Quiz Bialystock and Bloom

Answer: Sweden

Ulla came to the U.S. from Sweden and makes several references to her heritage throughout the movie. She also says a lot of Swedish phrases, making it hard for Max and Leo to understand her at points. When we are first introduced to Ulla, she even begins talking in Swedish, not using English until she realizes that Max and Leo don't know what she's saying

From Quiz "The Producers" The Movie

Answer: Cardboard

In the middle of Max Bialystock's eloquent soliloquy, when he is talking about his current lifestyle, he suddenly bursts out, "I'm wearing a cardboard belt!" and tears it up in pieces.

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Mr Marx

Mr Marx was played by Jon Lovitz. He has also appeared in "Rat Race" as Randaff Pear and in popular American animation, "the Simpsons" where he played various characters like Artie Ziff. Mr Marx was a CPA (a certified public accountant).

From Quiz Bialystock and Bloom

Answer: Ulla

Max and Leo hire her as their secretary/receptionist and, after she tells them her morning routine, they tell her to come in at 11:00. Its one of the biggest jokes of the movie, as Max and Leo hope to become part of her, well, routine. They bring this up several times throughout the movie.

From Quiz "The Producers" The Movie

Answer: Leo Bloom

Max Bialystock, after his Shakespearean tirade, went to lie down on the couch, leaving Leo Bloom to doctor his books. While Max was falling asleep, Leo Bloom formulated the scheme out loud, and Max jumped on the opportunity.

From Quiz Mel Brooks' "The Producers"

Answer: Throws coffee on it and wipes it with his cravat.

Mostel's timing and delivery makes this bit hilariously funny.

From Quiz A Production of "The Producers"

Answer: with a spine

Poor Leo just doesn't seem to have the internal fortitude it takes to be a producer. Max even goes so far as to jump into a cab with Leo and continues to beg him to be his partner in the scheme.

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Hold Me, Touch Me

Max entertained old ladies for money and claimed it went towards his Broadway plays. In that scene Leo Bloom appeared to sort out Bialystock's books when Hold Me Touch Me turned up and Bloom was rushed into the toilet.

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Too dark, too depressing

"Too dark, too depressing The theater's so obsessed With dramas so depressed It's hard to sell a ticket on Broadway Shows should be more pretty Shows should be more witty Shows should be more... What's the word?" Leo: "Gay?" This is the beginning of the "Keep it Gay" song. It is a very funny scene which even includes Max and Leo dancing around.

From Quiz Bialystock and Bloom

Answer: Camera right

This is a bit of showbiz humor. She says this to him right before the song "That Face" as Leo, being his nervous self, find himself alone with and too close to Ulla at the office. Camera right and camera left are terms used as stage directions to tell actors where to move and stand during a scene. It's very similar to stage right and stage left in the theater.

From Quiz "The Producers" The Movie

Answer: The worst play ever written

The correct answer is the worst play ever written. What else would a comic genius like Mel Brooks think to use?

From Quiz Mel Brooks' "The Producers"

Answer: The Lincoln Center Fountain.

This is the culmination of a sequence in which Max invites Leo to lunch "al fresco" (he buys him a hot dog from a stand), takes him on a carousel, a boat ride in the lake, and shows him the city from the top of the Empire State Building, all to "seduce" him into collaborating with him in his plan. The water in the fountain goes on just as Leo cries "I want everything I ever saw in the movies! I'll do it! By God, I'll do it!"

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: If You've Got it, Flaunt it

This scene was the first one that involved Ulla. After she impressed the producers she got a job as a secretary before the casting started. Ulla was Swedish. Ulla was played by Uma Thurman who was the actress who played the bride in "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2".

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Eat big Swedish Breakfast

"Well, Ulla wake up every morning at five AM. From five to seven, Ulla like to exercise. From seven to eight Ulla take long shower. From eight to nine Ulla likes to eat big Swedish breakfast. Many different herrings. From nine to eleven, Ulla like to practice her singing and her dancing. And at eleven, Ulla like to have sex. So, what time should I get here?" Max and Leo have just offered Ulla a job and quickly reply "Eleven" after this speech.

From Quiz Bialystock and Bloom

Answer: Bialyhoos of '42

It is what inspired his secret desire to become a Broadway producer. He saw it while Max was still considered to be the King of Broadway. Leo shows the stub to Max shortly after meeting him.

From Quiz "The Producers" The Movie

Answer: Franz Liebkind

Max Bialystock's a producer, not a playwright. Wagner wrote operas, and while the concept of using Arthur Miller would have been funny, common sense will prevail when you simply analyze Mel Brook's humour, there is no other choice that seems plausible.

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Have You Heard the German Band?

Franz sung this after the Hitler who sung it made him frustrated. Liebkind, who was the writer of 'Springtime for Hitler', was a neo-nazi. Franz Liebkind was played by Will Ferrell who played Buddy in "Elf" and Ricky Bobby in "Talladega Night: A ballad of Ricky Bobby".

From Quiz The Producers

Answer: Testosterone

"The urge to merge can rob us of our senses The need to breed can make a man a drone We must be on alert with our defenses For every skirt will test testosterone" This is the "That Face" scene where Ulla and Leo share their first kiss. Max still doesn't know anything about them being together.

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