The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) - Watchdog Report Scene (4/10) | Movieclips

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Watchdog Report: Melvin Thorpe (Dom DeLuise) reveals the existence of the the whorehouse on national TV.
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FILM DESCRIPTION:
Miss Mona (Dolly Parton) runs the Chicken Ranch, a brothel with a long history in a small Texas town. The locals have a good relationship with the institution, and Mona is respected in the community. The sheriff, Ed Earl Dodd (Burt Reynolds), also looks out for the Chicken Ranch due to his past with Miss Mona. However, when pious reporter Melvin Thorpe (Dom DeLuise) exposes the brothel, outside interests want it shut down, putting the governor (Charles Durning) in a tough spot.
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TM & © Universal (1982)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise
Director: Colin Higgins
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[@GeoffCK]

One of the greatest scenes in cinematic history.

[@BeelySalasBlair-uy5wn]

💛

[@ItsCoreyLynxxYall]

Damn he snitched on everybody on statewide TV. Even had his own backup dancers.

[@lukenel29]

takashi's personal hero.

[@tanimation7289]

@@lukenel29 Who is he?

[@oxyfee6486]

My Father wore this movie out,I still hear his laughter,Thank You for the great memories,I Miss You Dad.Oooooooooh I Love To Dance A Little Sidestep.

[@markmartinez8990]

Excellent! Love it how Dom Deluise shuffles his boots at the end of the song.

[@WWAHP]

That was the best part. LOL

[@BrutishYetDelightful]

Everyone in (or connected to) this fabulous film is an amazing talent of one sort or another. Notice how Hollywood doesn't even attempt this kind of thing anymore?

[@j.u.s.t.g.b.e.m.i]

My favourite part

[@VIV292]

Yep my favourite part I do it all the time when this comes on lol

[@syrianmcconnico6394]

I've been searching for years for this! I love the huck a buck at the end!!🤣🤣🤣

[@theboyx323]

My mothers cousins father was a volunteer firefighter for the Jacinto City FD and a group of them got caught on tape going into the chicken ranch when Marvin Zindler "raided" it.

[@TheGreatVictorNewman]

Legend

[@CoRLex-jh5vx]

So,,,,your mother's uncle? Your granduncle?

[@theboyx323]

@@CoRLex-jh5vx It is actually my grand uncle in law. I found out he was my mom's cousin's husband's father. If that makes since.

[@vk88864]

Wow that’s amazing

[@CoRLex-jh5vx]

@@theboyx323 sense* but yes

[@GlasgowGallus]

You could throw Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds, Dom Delouise and Charles Durning into a cupboard and make them recite the phone book, and you'd be on the floor vomiting with laughter in minutes... I don't think there's ever been two comedy actors like Reynolds and Delouise who get a laugh just by breaking the fourth wall... Heaven or hell, wherever, they're lucky to have them.... ❤👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Pfisiar22]

Mel Brooks has said that whenever he'd cast Dom Delouise, he'd always add a couple of days to the shooting schedule because of time lost due to Dom making everyone piss themselves laughing.

[@CoRLex-jh5vx]

Me: please.....please...just let me sleEp... My brain: sHiNe ShiNE sHiN-- TeXas HaS a WhOrEhOUsE iN iT

[@armpitification]

🤣🤣🤣

[@peterdunlop7691]

I saw this movie and was obsessed by it when I was a young lad, around 8-9 in the late 80s, and got told off by my teacher for coming up with a dance to this song with my girlfriends in the playground whilst belting this out. My mother was mortified, but I must have watched this move 2 dozen times as I had it on tape. I can just see me and 3 young girls jumping around doing lassoes singing “stop this copulation,” on repeat. Jesus Christ.

[@getabsolutelyfucked853]

😂😂😂😂

[@aetherograph]

Me for the past three days no joke.

[@thetrickster6828]

Lord have mercy on our souls

[@duncanward1718]

Of course the shock to the TV audience isn't that such a place exists in Texas, they're ALL thinking "What, there's only one".

[@webdesigner18]

Now if he said one doesn't exist, I'd have been shocked.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

I remember my lovely Grandmother laughing herself nearly to death at this... she lost her breath a few times.

[@melissasalasblair5273]

It's so good!! WH's everywhere lol

[@KooterMc]

My dad took me to see this when I was 3. My mom was PISSED. I ran around singing ," nothing dirty going on ". To this day she calls me Ms.Mona

[@thejennadeblin]

Saw this in childhood too and loved it. So did my grandma... I miss her so much. ❤️❤️

[@explicitcontent7730]

Marsha Marsha Marsha.

[@AidanTheLoverBoyOhDwyer]

How did you get in? R-Rated Movie.

[@KooterMc]

@@AidanTheLoverBoyOhDwyer we live in a VERY small southern town. It was not uncommon for people to even take their children into bars. I'm not excusing it I'm just saying that happened

[@vk88864]

This is one of my favourite movies. And this scene cracks me up every time 😂

[@amyowens7050]

Mine too!

[@vk88864]

@@amyowens7050 great movie isn’t it. I actually managed to buy it on dvd. I even got my husband into it. Sometimes I’ll randomly sing a song from the movie. Especially this one 😂.

[@lalabirdbrains]

This was hilarious when I was a child and it still cracks me up.

[@pianoplayrpiano99]

OMG this is still hilarious after all these years. Well done Dom DeLuise and Burt Roynolds!

[@goodgollymisspolly5163]

I remember when Marvin Zindler broke the real story. Lol. It Was Very Scandalous, too!

[@amazingabby25]

Was he similar to this character, was he this campy?

[@tanimation7289]

You mean this is a real story?

[@caj1119]

@@tanimation7289 It sure was. Look up the Chicken Ranch in Fayette County, Texas. The county prosecutor refused to do anything about it because he didn't consider it a real problem as it was out in the countryside and not bothering anyone. Furthermore, the sheriff preferred the place remain in operation because it served as his eyes and ears for more serious (i.e. violent) criminals who frequented the place. But the holier-than-thou governor and state attorney general couldn't tolerate it being open in the supposedly clean, law-abiding state of Texas. Because local law enforcement refused to shut the place down, he resorted to using a popular talk show host to expose the place and ultimately get it closed. Kind of sad and embarassing if you ask me... if nobody really had a problem with the place and the governor and state attorney general had just left well enough alone, the rest of the state wouldn't have known or cared. Prostitution is going to happen whether the law allows it or not. Then again, if the governor and state attorney general hadn't made all this stink about it, we wouldn't have had the stage musical or movie, which I considered one of the best ever made!

[@hollum1648]

@@amazingabby25 He didn’t actually have dancers or anything but he WAS very campy. He had catchphrases and and wore blue-tinted sunglasses at all times, very eccentric and 100% a local icon (just search ‘hi ho zindler’ or ‘slime in the ice machine’ and you’ll get the gist)

[@MWEwrestlingMFLfootball]

@@hollum1648EEEEEEYE Witness News.

[@margueritehudsell4454]

Historic. I was watching Marvin when he broke this story in Houston. We were intrigued. Very well known cat house, that nobody else knew about. Infamous. On the map, historic.

[@tanimation7289]

What year was this?

[@limelightraver5690]

⁠@@tanimation7289 1973, the same year that the movie and musical are set in.

[@margueritehudsell4454]

This scene is based on Marvin Zindler's La Grange story. I was about 15, living in Houston, getting ready for dinner. 6:00 News. And there it was. Very very exciting College Football story. Texas was very very excited. This is based on a True story. Very exciting. I love this song.

[@Kahran042]

On "And the sheriff does not close it down," Thorpe sounds sort of like Bender from Futurama.

[@chrismarks4277]

lol god this movie still make me laugh to this day! The whole cast was perfect for the movie !!!

[@philbase]

That haircut! Love Burts facial expressions

[@johnbellocchio66]

That's a weave lol. Dom was totally bald.

[@JamieLizRN]

'Stop the copulation!!' 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@donnabrunet6634]

Yasssssssss!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@qdllc]

I always thought they were saying “loveless copulation.” 🤣

[@thomasrinschler6783]

@@qdllc They say both.

[@TheSteve2305]

The back up singers crack me up 😂😂😂

[@chantelibra5160]

Had this ear worm going round my head for a few days now, love this song, brings back happy memories of performing it on stage 😁

[@jediknight38]

"Don't touch that dial!" HA! Can't say that anymore on T.V.

[@cass16433]

I have a TV that has knobs. Also a TV with a built in vhs. Need something to watch the original tape on!

[@jediknight38]

Cassandra B Just imagine if today’s T.V.’s actually did have channel dials on them now that we all have more than 200 channels to choose from. It would be a dial the size of a tractor wheel.

[@christytaylor5554]

Reynolds Wrap hasn't used tin in their foil for ages; only aluminum, doesn't stop everyone from calling it a tin foil hat, lol.

[@melissacarterpresley5786]

Nice, you don't even pretend to comment on the actual topic at hand.

[@tonypascale5317]

Dom Deluise was such a talent. An American treasure.

[@21longneck]

Still loving this in 2020!!

[@mirelle6010]

This brings back so many memories of me and my late dad singing along to this as we watched the film and I know it is sacrilegious to say it but I prefer Dolly Partons' version of I will always love you. She did write the song as well as sing it. A very clever and generous lady in real life as for the gorgeous Burt Reynolds YUM.

[@stevejohnman68]

What a team they made! both dom and burt so talented and much missed.

[@Hustlerclub203]

I remember going to school at 8 and singing this song and not knowing any better lol

[@retrosmodernlife8379]

So funny how he went from Melvin P. Thorpe to Jeremy in "The Secret of NIMH"- from a risque film to an animated film, one after the other.

[@neorich59]

Love this film, I have it on DVD. I love the version they sing later on, in the town square: Sin is running rampant, like before the Fall of Rome. Someone is permitting "you know what?" And, it must STOP! 😉😉

[@dylancarroll4623]

1:08 It would have been fun if he gave the audience a wave, when they all looked at him.

[@JL-lg8tk]

Most everyone who is a native of Texas knew about the Chicken Ranch. My dad told me about it when I was about 10. I found out a lot of my friends at my age then were finding out about it. We also knew we didn't have to go just to the Chicken Ranch to get what we wanted. That Marvin Zindler guy made a big something out of nothing and just stirred up a bunch Bible thumpers.

[@futuristicconcepts1257]

For Neicy. I can still hear you laughing! Explore Heaven babe. I miss you.

[@MWEwrestlingMFLfootball]

1:59 Burt was like,oh 💩I need to get the hell out of here.

[@cathybrown7559]

My mama and daddy lived in Houston for a couple of years. The reporter was Melvin Zinnelar.........And he would scream it at the end of his report.

[@jimhoover4060]

Marvin Zindler

[@jamesklatt]

@@jimhoover4060 you meant swindler

[@ashleymeggan]

Zindler!

[@carolchristian3590]

Dom DeLuise was fantastic in this movie too

[@wyrdness1]

how joyfully they sing about 'loveless copulation'

[@drewprice8468]

Bustin’

[@mkworkman]

I still hear this with a “Maaaaaaaarvin Zindler, Eyewitness News!” zinger. BTW: the late Marvin Zindler would be 100 years old this August 2021.

[@danlilly1790]

There was SLIME in the ice machine! Lol

[@karlvonboldt]

That hair!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@goodgollymisspolly5163]

I was alive and watching Marvin Z. when he broke the true story. Houston had a field day! Lol

[@thesprawl2361]

True story: this character had a half brother, played by Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men. Very different guys...except for their hair

[@djs2356]

'thin-lipped, hard-as-nails, peroxide blondes' ......!!!!!

[@peterdunlop7691]

djs2356 oh no!

[@hopejones1665]

I thought this movie was so funny when I was younger 🤦🏽‍♀️🤣🤣🤣

[@scott72able]

DON’T TOUCH THAT DIAL!

[@MWEwrestlingMFLfootball]

Watchdog never sleeps 😂😂😂

[@qualqui]

LOL.....Melvin Thorpe looks like a grown up version of Li'l boy blue of the nursery rhymne

[@garyball1587]

Texas will never be the same

[@garyball1587]

And if it is let me know about that

[@CoRLex-jh5vx]

Gotta love how the scene itself is pretty good quality then you have the shots of the tvs and its just,,,, a hot mess

[@franksmith1536]

My favorite seen dancing 🤣🤣🤣3:26

[@bribriboy]

One of my favorite movies. Dom Deluise stole the show. He was Fantastic.

[@thesprawl2361]

I haven't seen this film...but it strikes me as a deeply weird idea for a lighthearted comedy

[@armpitification]

Nah made a great musical. Was a play first.

[@theboyx323]

To an extent some of it happened.

[@janes.1559]

Ever read a Shakespeare comedy? Almost every one has courtesans. Same deal

[@jenniferdavis6115]

I've always liked this movie and loved the music.

[@AuntieL_ATL]

If anyone would add Trumps face to Doms shuffle I would pay $$$.

[@lynnedaltondalton7466]

😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@papa4545]

Burts hair is perfect!!

[@thetrickster6828]

1:22 the song starts

[@DRSTRANGELOVEIN]

“Here goes, and may God forgive me!!”

[@TinaLouise73]

Love this great musical movie! DP was amazing in it!

[@jensee2691]

This looks like some of the "news" media today. haha. They really captured it.

[@TheWordMercy82]

Welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight

[@drewprice8468]

“And now our own Melvin P. Thorpe Singers…”

[@MakeMeLo]

RIP Dom!

[@konaadams4409]

Dom deloise 😅😅😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JamieLizRN]

His dancing at the end!!!!😂😂😂😂

[@bowtoyoursensei554]

I don't know if Burt Reynolds and Dom Delise met on that production, but they remain close friends until the end of their lives. Back in the 90s, husband and I often would see the two of them "holding court," if you will, with other showbiz people, at a jazz club called Jack's Steakhouse in Glendale, California.

[@AshleysAngelsIEqualsWe1011]

It’s the dance though for me 😂

[@margueritehudsell4454]

I remember the day Marvin exposed this small Texas infraction. I Witnessed The News! Lol

[@erinmalone2669]

Dom's hair is hysterical 😅

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

1:26 Ed Earl: *What the hell is this TV program?*

[@Crash-lm4zb]

This role was made for Dom Deluise

[@gregorykeithmorris3970]

For such a likeable man, he did a good job at playing a jerk and spoofing televangelists. Rest in peace!

[@GlasgowGallus]

😂😂😂, 'Stop this copulation...' 😂😂😂

[@CoRLex-jh5vx]

The one black character in this scene...and he has the line "Can you dig it?!?!"

[@elizabethbaird2132]

One of his dancers is a black woman. And there are both Soldiers and I think airport workers who are black in this scene.

[@PHL1213]

loveless compilation!

[@melissasalasblair5273]

🤠💙 1:25 🤣1:59 lol 🚪 2:30 LOL 2:57 3:07 😂

[@Lola-lh5kl]

CAN YOU DIG IT😂

[@dylancarroll4623]

They accent is that hard to understand when he’s s singing, even the generated subtitles don’t know what he’s saying. Haha

[@daisypierce2604]

Saw a play for this last night

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Screw those awful Cannonball Run films! Dom was at his best here!

[@vanderburghmichael]

Now you’ve got Abbott 😁

[@TheNKillham]

Anyone one else concerned that they're in the same TV station from "Shock Treatment".....no? just me? ok

[@qdllc]

Back when Dom Delouse was thin enough to pull that off.

[@Depth_of_Cut]

Omg the heart pills guy at 2:36 looks like Ted Cruz

[@pettifoggingpharisee]

I don't care where you're from, that there is funnny! 🤣

[@sewthernbelle]

For real though, isn’t that Bill Murray’s brother?

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

@@sewthernbelleno, it's Raleigh Bond... he plays Rufus, the mayor of Gilbert, Ed Earl's town!

[@2chaskell]

great movie, though watching this kinda strikes a new cord these days since this kinda attitude is making a comeback for real

[@CS-ui4qj]

From the extreme anti-religion people too. Oh the irony! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

[@sagittarianfirerat7657]

The Character, The WatchDog admitted he wasn't a Texan & wasn't raised in Texas, needs to get his but out of our state. (I know he is a character in a movie. I just don't like people coming into my state telling us what to do.)

[@amazingabby25]

Lots of people moving to Texas now doing that

[@andreavanhoof6047]

Why did he not stick to reporting what was going on in his own back yard which had worse corruption and leave the chicken ranch alone?

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

0:54 Ed Earl: *What??*

[@pammajidy9487]

This film is great

[@blacksheba41]

And the funny part is, he's not even from Texas. Lol

[@MWEwrestlingMFLfootball]

He wear a sock in his underwear all rolled up like a Jimmy dean sausage.

[@Cancerblk2]

dang.. he would've been amazing at discussing hot TOPIC'S!!!

[@hennesseyme9112]

I guess there are some really scared people out there.

[@goodgollymisspolly5163]

Marvin Zindler, Eye Witnessed News

[@KaceyN]

good golf good tennis or whatever makes you happy....

[@sremmusnaes69]

is that Nick Cage at 2:50 mark?

[@papa4545]

Burt is awesome

[@isabelle_gacha2961]

WATCH DOG SHOULD BE FLUSHED DOWN THE TOLIT

[@themagicaladventuresofliam4615]

2.42 is that Grampa Joe from Charlie and the Chocolate factory?

[@mr.trainstar6smith891]

And may God forgive me

[@ingridmoran]

Lil Gideon has to be based on this guy.

[@briannadean8845]

Did he even have proof until the raid?

[@stacydrakeakabipolarmom6598]

2020 😂😂😂💝💝💝

[@Tawny8O8]

This is basically Fox News lol

[@armpitification]

😂😂😂. So true.

[@samfaiella3288]

Fox news isn't this entertaining

[@Hustlerclub203]

Lol

[@FaytLinegod]

​@@samfaiella3288 That's for sure...

[@diddymuck]

deluise don't look or sound a bit like marvin zindler!

[@christytaylor5554]

As if Dolly and Burt look like their characters...

[@caj1119]

You know, I don't know how all this went down in real life, but from my perspective, this had to be both bad and good for the real Chicken Ranch. Good in the sense that it gave the place a lot of free advertising. Bad in the sense that it mobilized the entire holier-than-thou crowd in Texas who had a problem with prostitution happening anywhere in the large state, even if it's hundreds of miles away from them. Well, probably more bad for the place than good, but still embarrassing for the state Attorney General having to rely on publicity of a tv host to get the place shut down when the district attorney in Fayette County totally blew him off and refused to open any case against the place - and if the governor and Attorney General just left well enough alone, most of the state would have never known or cared about the place.

[@xxxheaven_playsxxx4589]

I’m from Austin Texas oof been in Houston Texas I’ve been 23 states

[@thetrickster6828]

And the sheriff does not close it down that's very strange -every Karen ever