In the original “Three Men and a Baby”, there’s a scene where a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson is visible in the background, in front of a window. Rumors spread that this was the ghost of a boy who had committed suicide in the apartment used for the shoot, never mind that the movie’s interior scenes were shot on a soundstage. Some people accused the studio of spreading the ghost rumor to coincide with the release of the sequel, “Three Men and a Little Lady”.
So now, I am watching “Three Men and a Little Lady” , which begins with a speeded-up montage of the Three Men bustling about as Steve Guttenberg paints a mural (just like the original!). Of course, this montage also shows the passage of time since the original, as the Three Men (plus Sylvia) move into a new house, and we see Baby Mary take her first steps, get potty-trained, and eventually grow to age five. The montage also implies that The Gute creates an elaborate new indoor mural of Little Lady Mary every few months, but I digress.
Anyway, in this old-timeyly-fast montage, there’s a gratuitous shot of Ted Danson standing in the back of a moving van holding…a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson. Clearly, a knowing nod to the ghost conspiracy theorists by director Emile Ardolino.
Also, Guttenberg performs a rap with Danson and Tom Selleck, which I have provided below:
