Clifford Skridlow

Clifford Skridlow is the main protagonist in the 1983 comedy film Doctor Detroit.
He is portrayed by Dan Aykroyd, who also played Ray Stantz in the 1984 film Ghostbusters and the 1989 sequel, Ghostbusters II. He was the voice of Chip in the 1998 animated film Antz and Yogi Bear in the 2010 film, Yogi Bear.
Clifford Skridlow is man who is a college professor at Monroe College in Chicago, Illinois. He teaches comparative literature at Monroe College, his father, Arthur, is on the board of trustees at Monroe College and Cliff's mom is Margaret. Clifford's life is about to change when he goes out to dinner at an Indian Restaurant where he meets a pimp named Smooth Walker and his call girls Karen Blittstein, Monica McNeil, Jasmine Wu, and Thelma Cleland, who saw Cliff earlier that day jogging. Smooth invites Cliff to come to their table and have dinner with him, not knowing that Smooth has plans to use him as a patsy. Cliff is invited by Smooth to go out with them to have a great time. Cliff meets Diavolo Washington, Smooth's limo driver. They all go out on the night on the town to some night clubs, smoke weed.
Cliff goes with Smooth and the girls to Smooth's penthouse and watch a movie. Cliff smokes a hookah and Smooth talks to Cliff about taking over his operation. Cliff goes into the hot tub with the girls and he is having a blast. The next morning he has a class to teach. His dad talks to Cliff about the importance of the Rausehorn endowment check for the college. Later on that day Cliff is at a faculty meeting with the board of trustees and gets a call from Jasmine Wu, Karen Blittstein, telling him that Thelma is in jail and Smooth is gone. Monica gets on the phone and tells Cliff he sent Diavolo with the limo. Cliff tells his dad and the rest of the board of trustees that one of the students needs help. Cliff goes to the courthouse and realizing he needs a disguise with the judge being a southern tough man, seeing his name Judge Robert E. Lee Davis-Jackson. Cliff meets a lawyer outside the courtroom ad buys his clothes and goes into the courtroom as a southern man, convincing Judge Robert E. Lee Davis-Jackson to release Thelma.
At the penthouse, the girls tell Cliff that Smooth's gone and left Cliff in charge telling him about Cliff being Doctor Detroit, but Cliff is somewhat reluctant. It would be there he would meet a big Chicago crime lord known as "Mom", a mobster who Smooth Walker owes money to. She barges in with two of her boys and comes to collect. Cliff defends the girls, stops Mom from taking some of Smooth's things, and tells Mom and scares her with aikido moves. Cliff sets up a meeting with Mom with Doctor Detroit, Mom agrees and leaves with her two boys. Cliff tells the girls he will be their protector. Later on, Cliff and Diavolo go to get a disguise for Cliff to play Doctor Detroit. Cliff calls Mom to change the time of the meeting in a different voice as Doctor Detroit. Later on that night, Cliff has a dream about his mother being for sale by Smooth Walker and falls out a door of the penthouse. 
Cliff will have a busy night, meeting up with Mom and having to pick up Harmon Rausehorn to take him to Monroe College. Cliff drives his dad's car to the junkyard to meet up with Mom. Cliff is with Diavolo, Karen, Monica, and Jasmine. Mom, meets Doctor Detroit. Doctor Detroit give Mom the nickname of "love chunks". Mom tells Doctor Detroit about hustling on her turf and that he will have to pay. Doctor Detroit tells her he will not pay. He tells her that he will rip off her head and shit down her neck. Mom yells "Kill him!". Doctor Detroit gets shot and runs off and manages to outwit her men. Cliff's dad's car's tire gets shot. Doctor Detroit uses a tractor with a claw on in and grabs Mom and lifts her up, taking her over to the pile of junk cars and drops her. Diavolo and the girls get a tow truck and they all escape and go to Union Station to pick up Harmon Rausehorn but is nowhere to be seen.
The next morning, Arthur questions Cliff about Harmon Rausehorn and Margaret calms Arthur down. Harmon Rausehorn is brought to Monroe College in a police car. Harmon is alright and the endowment check is safe. A faculty party is going on at the Skridlow's home and the Cliff asks the girls for help with the catering, posing as Indian caterers. The party is a success and Diavolo tells Cliff that the Doctor has to make a public appearance, Cliff is reluctant cause he has not slept in days but does it anyways. After the meets with the people who congratulated him, talking about the "Players Ball". Cliff tells Karen, Jasmine, Thelma, and Monica that he has to be at the Excelsior Hotel to introduce Harmon Rausehorn for the endowment check for the college. Diavolo later on ets up the Player's Ball to be at the Excelsior Hotel.
That night at the Excelsior Hotel, the Monroe College faculty dinner is going on with the "Players Ball" down the hall. Clifford is at first reluctant to go to the ball, but is convinced by Diavolo. The celebration is going on with James Brown performing the song "Get Off of That Thing" with Doctor Detroit and some of the others dancing. Doctor Detroit tells that people in the crowd thank you and thanks James Brown tells his he has a chiropractic thing he has to do in the other part of the hotel. he leaves and takes off his Doctor Detroit outfit and sees Mom at the hotel and he runs off. Cliff goes to the faculty dinner with two of Mom's men and makes and early introduction of Harmon Rausehorn while Cliff makes his escape. Back in his disguise as Doctor Detroit, he tells Karen and Monica that is time to be leaving. Mom shows and wants Doctor Detroit, they go into the kitchen and ending up facing off with sword-length kebab skewers. Doctor Detroit and Mom fight and end up at the faculty dinner, Mom hits Doctor Detroit's wig and revealing who he really is. Doctor Detroit/Cliff defeats Mom and shows mercy on her. he tells her that she is through and she must leave for good. Cliff reveals about being Doctor Detroit and how we must rise up and defeat evil, telling them that there is a Doctor in all of us. The party goes great. Later on the gang would go their separate ways. Cliff would marry Karen Blittstein.
==Gallery==
tumblr_mwkmlnlov31qdeyheo1_500.png|Clifford Skridlow having dinner with Smooth Walker and his ladies.
doctor-detroit-1.png|Clifford Skridlow is offered a good time with the ladies by Smooth Walker.
Doctor-Detroit-2.jpg|Clifford in the hot tub with the ladies.
doctor-detroit1.jpg|Clifford Skridlow having the best of his entire life.
Doctor-Detroit-still-6.jpeg|Clifford teaching his class at Monroe College.
MV5BZmExYWFkMTYtZWMxOC00ZGU2LWJlY2QtM2U5ZjQ4MzFlZTVlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc@._V1_.jpg|Clifford Skridlow posing as a southern man tries to convince the judge to release Thelma Cleland. 
doctor-detroit-6.png|Doctor Detroit at the junkyard with his meeting with Mom.
Doctor-Detroit-1.jpg|Doctor Detroit with Karen Blittstein, Thelma Cleland, Monica McNeil, and Jasmine Wu.
Doctor-Detroit-5.jpg|Doctor Detroit with the ladies at the Players Ball.
vlcsnap-2011-02-12-00h59m11s18.png|Doctor Detroit dancing at the Players Ball.
doctordetroit1.jpg|Doctor Detroit thanks James Brown for everything.
det.jpg|Doctor Detroit/Clifford Skridlow defeats Mom in a sword fight and shows her mercy.
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