the hanger??


when madea and helen are in the closet getting ready to mess the place up^ why did madea freak out over the metal hanger??

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My uneducated guess is this.

The couple are rich and should by extension have a modicum of class. The couple ware designer clothes and they are housed in a built in Wardrobe. If so then surely if you can afford to buy wood hangers as they are better for the clothes.

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The hanger was a play off of "Mommy Dearest" when Joan Crawford goes off on the little girl for using a wire hanger.

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I think some women just dont like wired hangers my wife gets mad at me for using them and she thought the joke was very funny but I didn't get it at all.

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and 20 yrs later it's STILL the most misused joke in film history

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this was one of my favorite jokes in this movie. It is from mommy dearest. When me and my roomate were watching it, we were somewhat amused by the attitude of Medea... and when the wire hanger joke kicked in.. we both LOVED the movie. I laughed so hard during that scene. I just wish that medea beat the other woman with the wirehanger... it would have been awesome.

god i love this movie.

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Wire hangers put humps in your clothes.

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yea....i saw that movie on TV, the mom freaks out on the little girl, throws babypowder everywhere...hit her maybe? i dunno cant remember that part, well i dont know, it was so over-dramatic, its been a joke for years, think up some new ones!

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Joan beat Christina with the wire hanger. Then Joan dragged her to the bathroom and beat her with a can a cleaning powder.

"This is sickening... You sound like chapters from a self-help booklet! Prepare yourselves!""

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That's what I thought too, Mommy dearest.............but perhaps too old movie for this generation. It could be the Mommy Dearest scene and the fact that designer clothes get proper hangers. When you buy D&G you get a D&G hanger........trust me!

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Tyler Perry often uses old movies and catch lines to help aide in making his movies and plays more funny which is good.>>>>>The wire hanger scene came from a book that was based on Joan Crawford--Joan Crawford would lose her temper & mind when she found a "Wire Hanger" in the closet, her daughter Christina Crawford--who had some of those hangers used on her: from her book "Mommie Dearest".

Read the book it is a good novel!!!!!!!!!!!

To this day that movie still makes me laugh all the way down to my gut....

Thanks Tyler Perry<<<

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Wire hangers are retarded. Why would someone pay 2,000 dollars for a suit or a dress then put it on a wire hanger? I actually had some sympathy for Joan Crawford on the wire hanger issue, but she definitly crossed the line, she should have simply taken all the clothes her daughter didn't want to take care of properly.

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yeah def from mommy dearest haha.. that was great

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The mommy dearest reference was great! I loved it!

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watching the movie now with Tyler Perry commentating on it, he says that he ad-libbed that part, possibly from the movie "Mommy Dearest". but yeah...


A WIRE HANGEERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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That`s one of the gay worlds most referenced camp classics. Queens have been using that line since MOMMIE DEAREST came out in the 80`s.








How`s that gaydar workin now?

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NO WIRE HANGERS!!!

"This is sickening... You sound like chapters from a self-help booklet! Prepare yourselves!""

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It had nothing to do with abortions. Joan Crawford thought wire hangers were second-class and instructed her maid to remove the clothes from the dry cleaner's hangers and put them on padded hangers. When she found a wire hanger in the kid's closet, she went nuts and started beating her with it. Madea's reaction is a parody of that performance, just like her "Harpo" line in "Madea's Family Reunion" was a parody of Sophia's speech in "The Color Purple."

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I remember the movie. She threw cleanser all over the bathroom then ordered Christina to clean it before the morning came. Christina asks, "H-how?" "I don't care, just clean it." Christina looked around at the mess and whispers with tears in her eyes, "Jesus Christ." And my Dad laughed over that one.

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No wire hangers! Ever!

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Mommy Dearest reference.

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Lololol

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