In honor of Harvey’s birthday, it can now be revealed that the movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery shockingly* stole not only Harvey’s official title, but lifted word for word some of his biography (as fact-checked by Tropes):
He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. [Harvey’s] childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring he’d make meat helmets. When he was insolent he was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve he received his first scribe.
Fortunately for us, the plagiarism stopped there.
*You won’t believe what else the movie stole from him! Click here to find out. Number 8 will leave you speechless!
But, as Rodney Dangerfield says in Back To School, “Oh, you’re forgetting lots of things!”
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to fill in some of the remaining blanks in his biography for his MySpace page.
I’ll start:
Harvey was the first consultant to say “Hey, I have it — let’s have our country/western singer dress all in black and wear a huge hat way down low, almost covering his eyes. The originality is what will get ’em!”
