Some of you will be familiar with this question from watching Mock the Week - one of my favourite rounds. Incidentally, worth searching for the Frankie Boyle podcast (available through iTunes) of him rehearsing for the show - just one episode so far, hopefully more to come! Had my own version of this at the weekend, when I arrived with a few friends 3 minutes and 12 seconds late for a play, to be told by a slightly officious front of house that there was no chance of being let in, because it would disrupt the show too much. This is probably fair enough, but I have to admit I did bridle slightly when told we couldn't stand at the back, because health and safety didn't allow standing in the auditorium. Again, probably perfectly sensible for the avoidance of all possible chance of injury, but I do sometimes wonder what it would be like to live in a world where people were allowed to demonstrate some common sense.

Anyway... the point of the title is that we missed the initial "half" of the play (1hr 15 mins), but felt we should at least catch the second half (35 mins). This left us in the slightly unusual position of not having a clue about the plot, setting, characters, or indeed anything about the play at all, just as the ending hotted up. This is surprisingly fun! It led me thinking to other situations where you might get completely the wrong end of the stick if you only catch the end...

"I am your father, Luke" - ah, a nice family movie, wonder why the guy's breathing is so bad?

 Kevin Spacey starts to walk properly after previously limping  - ooh, no doubt a nice medical drama about Kaiser Sauzee's recovery from debilitating leg injury

Rosebud burning on the fireplace -  I'd have liked to have seen the start of the disaster movie where all the snow melted, leaving no need for sledges

More contributions greatfully received - if anyone is having trouble identifying the movies from above, there's no need to watch them because I've just given away the ending :-)