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THE ODD COUPLE
March 24, 2018  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
Neil Simon wrote the screenplay for this 1968 comedy, adapting his own Broadway hit, and giving Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau some of the greatest roles of their respective film careers. Lemmon gets many of the funniest bits and lines, but Matthau gets the one that made me laugh louder than almost any punch line ever committed to film — when his Oscar Madison complains of misinterpreting the way his fussy roommate, Felix Unger, used to initial his hastily written notes.

 
 
 
 
 
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