Marx Alert!

As they often do on New Year's Eve, Turner Classic Movies is favoring us with Marx Brothers movies tonight — five of 'em. They are, in this order: The Cocoanuts, A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers and Duck Soup. This is not the precise sequence in which these films were made but they apparently wanted to spread the Zeppo around.

If you have enough taste to read this website, you've probably seen all of them. If you know someone — a youngster, perhaps or maybe a really stupid person — who has yet to discover the delights of the Brothers Marx, you might want to TiVo or DVR one or two of them and introduce them. I'd pick A Night at the Opera or maybe Horse Feathers as good break-in material. If one of those hooks them, then you can move 'em to the hard stuff.