Filmmakers’ Jokes
The term lent itself to several "in" jokes: in Mel Brooks' film High Anxiety, which parodies many Hitchcock films, a minor plot point is advanced by a mysterious phone call from a "Mr. MacGuffin".
In the movie Léon (also known as The Professional), when Léon and Mathilda check into the hotel, Mathilda tells Léon she's filling the form out with "the name of a girl in my class who makes me sick." Following with, "If things get hot, she'll take the heat". Later in the movie we hear the Hotel manager banging on the hotel room door exclaiming, "Mr. MacGuffin?!"
In the "Chicago Holiday" episode of Due South, the MacGuffin is a matchbook that makes its way around the episode, going from character to character. The hotel maid in this episode is named Mrs. McGuffin, and earlier in the episode, a mall security guard's name is Niffug C.M. (McGuffin, spelled backwards). Also, the basement janitor in the hotel in part 1 is named Mac Guff.
In the 2012 Pixar movie Brave, two main characters are Lord MacGuffin and his son, Young MacGuffin.
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