Is this movie somehow related to The Matt, Matt, Matt World of The Leftovers?

So Rat Race then.

Rat race is an ersatz version

Not sure maybe the great race but everyone should watch it's a mad mad world. One of the funniest movies

This is a movie I've seen a dozen times and it still makes me bust out laughing. Jonathan Winters steals every scene he's in. Ethel Merman is incredible. The one sequence with Jim Backus is just top notch. Not to forget that Spencer Tracy is just great from beginning to end.

Rat Race is extremely similar. Have no idea if it has held up but 17 year old me thought it was hilarious

“The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming” has a very similar sensibility. Great cast, but not as many of them. Same kind of long build up to the frantic end.

Absolute classic!!

i watched it a few years ago and its still pretty funny and wholesome.

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines and the Great Race both came out within a year or two of Mad Mad World and were all epic race comedies with all star casts. Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk in Great Race were incredible villains in a family film.

Cannonball Run was pretty funny and was a later entry in this sub genre. Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Dom Deliuse, Jackie Chan, Roger Moore, Rizzo from Grease, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr. Jack Elam as a crazy doctor was amazing.

It's a race!

Ima winning!

Which is openly a remake of that film.

Rat Race is essentially a remake of it, and I think also pretty damn funny

I love this movie. It’s so silly but a great ensemble cast. They don’t make movies like this anymore. I think Rat Race was the end or the beginning of the end of the “silly” mainstream comedy before the rise of raunchy comedies taking over in popularity again.

The episode title was a reference to the movie.

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Dr strangelove

I still quote this movie so many years later and no one ever knows what I’m talking about.

Egermency, everyone to get from street

That's all or is there anything plot wise connection?

Rat Race

The Gods Must be Crazy I&II are largely forgotten classics that have a similar buildup & style. I die laughing watching the first one especially.

"Yours, Mine and Ours" - 1968

Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball

‘Scavenger hunt’ is right up there and should be your next watch

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines and The Great Race?

Rat Race is essentially a modern retelling of it. Its absolutely hilarious

Waking Ned Divine, not as old but it’s hilarious

Rat Race with John Cleese is actually a more modern remake (early 2000s so dated now lol). Also hilarious with an amazing cast and nonstop jokes

Check out "What's Up Doc"

Steven Spielberg’s 1941

Please watch Kubrick’s, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb”

Please Criterion, release It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World on UHD-Blu-ray. That insanely wide aspect ratio needs it.

Cannonball Run I and II.

I've called this genre "Madcap Comedies". A few favorites I can remember:

• What's Up, Doc?
• Foul Play
• The In-laws
• The Frisco Kid
• Stir Crazy (and most Gene Wilder / Richard Prior films)

The Out-of-Towners (1970)

The Cannonball Run series, more or less… part 2 was more light hearted than the first one.

So do I!