Scene 3: Mom, Hope & Prof. Petrie

While Gerald goes off to deal for the elusive Necronomicon, Mom "entertains" his research associate Professor Bob Petrie (obvious reference to Dick VanDyke's eponymous character),

Doesn't Eric Edwards look like Patrick Duffy, "Bobby" from Dallas

Daughter Hope enters and decides to chide her mother for being falsely virtuous, at which point she lies in Mom's lap while the nutted professor drills her stacks.

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I do remember Eric Edwards coming up to me during shooting and telling me that he had a real problem. He had asked one of them to go out with him after the shoot and only after she had said Yes did he realize that he had asked out the wrong twin.

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