Editing Counting-out game (section)

=== Marx Brothers ===
A scene in the [[Marx Brothers]] movie ''[[Duck Soup (1933 film)|Duck Soup]]'' plays on the fact that counting-out games are not really random.  Faced with selecting someone to go on a dangerous mission, the character Chicolini ([[Chico Marx]]) chants:

:''Rrringspot, vonza, twoza, zig-zag-zav, popti, vinaga, [tin-lie, tav,] harem, scarem, merchan, tarem, teir, tore...''

only to stop as he realizes he is about to select himself.  He then says, "I did it wrong.  Wait, wait, I start here", and repeats the chant&mdash;with the same result. After that, he says, "That's no good too.  I got it!" and reduces the chant to

:''Rrringspot, buck!''

And with this version he finally manages to "randomly" select someone else.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/d/duck-soup-script-transcript-marx.html|title=Transcript of ''Duck Soup''|publisher=Script-O-Rama.com}} The bracketed "words" are not in the published script but are said in the movie; they're required for scansion and rhyme.</ref>