One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest began life as a 1962 novel by Ken Kesey, was adapted for the Broadway stage by Dale Wasserman in 1963, and became a feature length film in 1976. All three are set in an Oregon asylum, and the film won five Academy Awards.
==References==
* The film was spoofed in a Monsterpiece Theater segment, where the Number 1 flew over a cuckoo's nest.
* A movie marquee displays the title of the film in a Sesame Street video segment of a father and daughter riding a bus around town. 
* Big Bird comes across a copy of the book at the library in Episode 1117 of Sesame Street.
* The hospital PA in Sesame Street Episode 3096 calls for Nurse Ratched (the cruel asylum nurse in the movie). Years later, a mail carrier has mail for Nurse Ratched in Episode 3527.
* The Count checks out a copy at the library in Sesame Street Episode 3339.
* The Cuckoos attend a screening of the film in episode 3564 of Sesame Street.
* In the opening narration of the Farscape comic book issue "One Big Happy Family," recounting the previous issue's story, John Crichton says, "We went shopping on a commerce planet only to find that everyone had flown over the cuckoo's nest ... Instead of waiting for Nurse Ratched to show up, we got outta Dodge."
==Connections==
*Edwin Cooper played Frank Scanlon in the 1971 off-Broadway production
*Danny DeVito played Martini in the film
*Louise Fletcher played Nurse Ratched in the film
*Anjelica Huston made an uncredited appearance in the film as an extra
*Christopher Lloyd played Taber in the film
*Rex Robbins played Dr. Spivey in the original Broadway production
*Gene Wilder played Billy Bibbit in the original Broadway production
==External links==
* IMDb
* Internet Broadway Database
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