The text of our Charlie Chan Family Chat for February 9, 2026
Feature: Charlie Chan in Paris
Chat Number: 1,347
Extra:
(None)
Note:
“TYSM” count: 10 (Total from all films thus far: 54)
Participants:
Austinchanfan
Charlie’s ANGEL
Godwinshelley
hounder
Phil
Rich in Maine
Rush
tenman
02-09 18:39
Rush:
02-09 19:07
Rush:
ACF!
Welcome!
02-09 19:07
Austinchanfan:
hi rush’
02-09 19:08
Rush:
I was actually beginning to wonder if this was really Monday! 
02-09 19:08
Austinchanfan:
where is the group
02-09 19:08
Rush:
How are you tonight?
02-09 19:08
Austinchanfan:
I’m good
02-09 19:09
Rush:
Very good!
6 minutes to go!
02-09 19:09
Austinchanfan:
I only see you and me
02-09 19:09
Rush:
More will show at the last minute.
02-09 19:09
Austinchanfan:
oh ok
02-09 19:09
Godwinshelley:
Hi guys
02-09 19:09
Rush:
GS!
Good evening!
02-09 19:09
Austinchanfan:
‘hi shelley
02-09 19:10
Rush:
Three us us now!
02-09 19:10
Rush:
Inside of five minutes to go!
How are you this evening, GS?
Angel!
02-09 19:10
Godwinshelley:
Trying to stay warm
02-09 19:10
Rush:
WELCOME!
02-09 19:10
Rich in Maine:
Good evening all!
02-09 19:10
Austinchanfan:
hi rich
02-09 19:10
Rush:
Yes, GS!
02-09 19:11
Austinchanfan:
hi angel
02-09 19:11
Rich in Maine:
Yes GS, its freezing!
02-09 19:11
Rush:
Rich!
WELCOME!
02-09 19:11
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Oo la LA! ARE WEEEE READYYYYY FORRR EYEFUL??!!
02-09 19:11
Rich in Maine:
hi Austin, charlie, GS, and Rush
02-09 19:11
Austinchanfan:
I heard NY was below zero with the wind chill’
02-09 19:11
Godwinshelley:
Hi
02-09 19:11
Rush:
How’s the weather in Maine, Rich?
Phil!
02-09 19:11
Phil:
ALLLLOOOOHHHAA to all my Chan friends!
02-09 19:11
Austinchanfan:
hi phil
02-09 19:12
Rush:
Good evening to YOU!
02-09 19:12
tenman:
Hola todos!
02-09 19:12
Rush:
TM!
WELCOME!
02-09 19:12
Austinchanfan:
I wont rub it in how warm its in austin’
02-09 19:12
Rich in Maine:
temp hitting zero at bedtime time, have to keep water dripping
02-09 19:12
Rush:
Les than 3 minutes…
02-09 19:12
Austinchanfan:
hi ten
02-09 19:12
Rush:
Let’s cue up!
02-09 19:12
Godwinshelley:
I’m cued
02-09 19:12
Rich in Maine:
I am ready for Paris!
02-09 19:12
Phil:
-7 here last night. And believe it or not it’s going up to 50+ degrees tomorrow!
02-09 19:13
Rush:
02-09 19:13
Austinchanfan:
gay paree
02-09 19:13
Rush:
two minutes…
02-09 19:13
Rich in Maine:
wow phil!
02-09 19:13
Rush:
Yes, ACF!
90 seconds…
02-09 19:14
Rush:
75 seconds…
60 seconds…
02-09 19:14
Phil:
Yeah we have like a foot of snow on the ground,.
02-09 19:14
Rush:
50 seconds…
WOW, Phil!
40 seconds…
30 seconds…
25…
20…
02-09 19:14
tenman:
We have 19″ here to melt of the next three days
02-09 19:15
Rush:
15…
10…
5…
GO!!!
Title….
Music….
Credits….
02-09 19:15
Phil:
GONE BABY!
02-09 19:15
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Back again!
02-09 19:15
Rush:
Yes, TM?
02-09 19:15
Austinchanfan:
wb
02-09 19:15
Rush:
Hounder….WELCOME!!!
02-09 19:15
Rich in Maine:
evening hounder
02-09 19:16
Austinchanfan:
hi hounder
02-09 19:16
Rush:
CC arrives…
02-09 19:16
Phil:
Looks like a Fokker
02-09 19:16
hounder:
hi/ sorry to be late. lost track of t ime.
02-09 19:16
Rush:
That’d okay, Hounder! You made it!
02-09 19:16
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Hounder, you got your kepi hat?
02-09 19:16
Austinchanfan:
it happens to me too
02-09 19:17
Rush:
Me as well!
CC calls Nardi…
02-09 19:17
hounder:
smh one minute i looked at the clock and it was 10 to 8. then it was 814.
02-09 19:17
Rush:
02-09 19:18
Godwinshelley:
NEVER stop them from saying WHO – they will be dead soon anyways
02-09 19:18
Charlie’s ANGEL:
But you MADE IT, h!!
02-09 19:18
Phil:
Happens to me all the time Hounder.
02-09 19:18
Rush:
EXACTLY, GS!!!
02-09 19:18
Rich in Maine:
LEAVE NOW 
02-09 19:18
Austinchanfan:
I’m usually the last here to do work schedule then dinner
02-09 19:19
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Do we get any pommes-frîtes for watching this?
02-09 19:19
Rush:
Chan never leaves amidst threats!
02-09 19:19
Charlie’s ANGEL:
They say that to ALL the detectives..
02-09 19:19
Rush:
The first one…
Yes, Angel!
02-09 19:19
Phil:
I predict this guy will find himself in Egypt next week.
02-09 19:20
Charlie’s ANGEL:
How many TYSM’s so far for the year?
02-09 19:20
Rush:
“Young bird must learn to fly…”
45 so far with tonight’s first one!
02-09 19:20
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Young BATS, TOO.
02-09 19:20
Austinchanfan:
one guest has already tied one on
02-09 19:20
Rush:
hat number includes the “lost” films through the scripts.
02-09 19:21
Rich in Maine:
our favorite drunk actor
02-09 19:21
Rush:
CC puts him in his place here.
02-09 19:21
Austinchanfan:
yes
02-09 19:21
Rush:
Max…meet Bunny…
02-09 19:21
Austinchanfan:
yes he did’
02-09 19:21
Rush:
02-09 19:22
Charlie’s ANGEL:
LUSHious!!
02-09 19:22
Rush:
02-09 19:22
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Brittle laughter, bridling.
02-09 19:22
Rush:
TWO
02-09 19:22
Rich in Maine:
that red riding hood cape on her!
02-09 19:23
Charlie’s ANGEL:
An early Handmaid?
02-09 19:23
Rush:
I still think that Keye Luke made that sketch as well as any other drawings seen tonight.
02-09 19:23
Charlie’s ANGEL:
BLUHHH!
02-09 19:23
Rush:
If I miss a “TYSM” please let me know!
02-09 19:24
Rush:
I heard CC say one as he left the car just then.
02-09 19:24
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Just a SECOND OLD MAN.
02-09 19:25
Charlie’s ANGEL:
But his daddy can rock and roll.
02-09 19:25
Rush:
Here we go…the Dans Apache….
(Sorry…)
02-09 19:25
Rich in Maine:
Welcome to Le Cage Aux Foux
02-09 19:25
Austinchanfan:
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02-09 19:25
Phil:
One of the most violent dances I’ve ever seen
02-09 19:26
Rush:
Just imagine the version with Popeye and Bluto…that could help…
02-09 19:26
Austinchanfan:
ah our friend from the opening scene appears
02-09 19:27
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Izz all zizz beeting and klubbink a pahhht of ze dahnze?
Austinfan! Keyboard stuck??
02-09 19:27
Phil:
I’m sure That was profound Austin – what did it mean?
02-09 19:27
Austinchanfan:
no I meant the beggar just came in
02-09 19:27
Rush:
SCREAM!
02-09 19:27
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Put on yo’ hi-heel keyboard!
02-09 19:28
Rush:
Too late…
02-09 19:28
Charlie’s ANGEL:
MORTE!!
02-09 19:29
Rush:
Yes.
02-09 19:29
Phil:
Fini’
02-09 19:29
Rush:
Sadly.
02-09 19:30
Rush:
CC took one of the photographs!
Pocketed evidence!
02-09 19:30
Rush:
Chan wears The Ring.
The Stable Murder is noted.
02-09 19:31
Phil:
I’ve often found that if I stick each index finger in both nostrils I don’t sneeze
02-09 19:31
Austinchanfan:
yes a photo of a gentlemen’
02-09 19:31
Rush:
By the way, this is the second of the “connected” Chan adventures.
02-09 19:32
Rush:
FOUR
02-09 19:32
Rush:
Look out below!!!
02-09 19:33
Rush:
CC was lucky the assailant was wearing sunglasses at NIGHT!
02-09 19:34
Rush:
LEE!!!
02-09 19:35
Rich in Maine:
what does Lee buy?
02-09 19:35
Rush:
“Oil for the lamps of China.”
(Per next week’s movie!):)
02-09 19:35
Rich in Maine:
aha! tysm
02-09 19:36
Rush:
An in-joke
FIVE
02-09 19:36
Austinchanfan:
charlie is more demonstrative to lee in that scene
02-09 19:37
Rush:
Albert…
Yes, ACF.
02-09 19:38
Rush:
This film was “lost” until the early 1970s, when a copy was found in Czechoslavakia.
02-09 19:38
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Is Woodrow Stühl in this one?
02-09 19:38
Rush:
That leaves some hope for the others eventually appearing somewhere.
02-09 19:38
Rich in Maine:
wow Rush
02-09 19:38
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Audrey Farber?
02-09 19:39
Phil:
HIM AGAIN?
02-09 19:39
Charlie’s ANGEL:
WHAT ABOUT BETTYJO BIALOWSKI?
02-09 19:39
Rich in Maine:
Manager!
02-09 19:39
Phil:
Murray Kinnel?
02-09 19:40
Rush:
Yes!
02-09 19:40
hounder:
black guard
02-09 19:40
Charlie’s ANGEL:
“This hasn’t happened to me since “M”!!”
02-09 19:40
Rush:
Our “old friend,” Mr. Kinnell.
02-09 19:41
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Sweet as an otter, and twice as sleek!
How do you do WHAT?
02-09 19:41
Rush:
SIX
Chan recalled the photo he took from Nardi’s apartment.
02-09 19:42
Charlie’s ANGEL:
We’re SHOCKED to find gambling going on in a casino!
02-09 19:42
Rush:
Moral: Always be careful what you sign!
Angel:
02-09 19:44
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Rush, i only take genuine ersatz ersatz, and i charge $20 a week to haunt the house. I’m a pro!
02-09 19:44
Rush:
You are…hired…
02-09 19:45
Phil:
See, told you he’d be in Egypt next week.
02-09 19:45
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Miss Billingsley will be billing you!
02-09 19:45
Rush:
Driving along the Champs Ellese…
Angel:
02-09 19:45
Charlie’s ANGEL:
They’re ALL champs.
02-09 19:46
Rush:
02-09 19:47
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Arrt.
Arrrrrgh is in the next arrondissement. The puffyshirt district. Oolaloo!!
02-09 19:48
Rush:
He will be “lying” soon…prone on the floor…
02-09 19:49
Rush:
Note the “beggar” wasn’t limping!
02-09 19:49
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Busted investors will discover he didn’t know beans about francs.
02-09 19:50
Rush:
Note: She shows us exactly what NOT to do in such a situation!
02-09 19:50
Rich in Maine:
don’t touch that gun
02-09 19:50
Charlie’s ANGEL:
What a dope!
02-09 19:50
Rush:
Yes.
02-09 19:51
Phil:
No confirmation of death = no can
02-09 19:52
Rush:
This restaurant is across the street from the famous Moulin Rouge!
02-09 19:52
Phil:
Though I expect one momentarily
02-09 19:52
Rush:
We will see it through the window.
02-09 19:53
Rush:
There it was.
02-09 19:53
Rich in Maine:
yes!
02-09 19:53
Rush:
And again.
02-09 19:53
Charlie’s ANGEL:
We BEG your PARDON!!
02-09 19:54
Phil:
Cue the can
02-09 19:55
Rush:
(a belated Tin Can…)
02-09 19:56
Rush:
Matt is not here tonight and my mind goes blank!
02-09 19:57
Charlie’s ANGEL:
We are all bereft.
02-09 19:57
Rush:
02-09 19:59
Rush:
Note here the passing of information…
Clue there.
02-09 20:00
Rush:
Again…CC outdoes the authorities.
02-09 20:01
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Okey dokey
02-09 20:01
Rush:
Yep.
02-09 20:02
Rich in Maine:
guess they didn’t have Dunkin munchkins then
02-09 20:02
Rush:
Not for another four years, Rich.
02-09 20:03
Charlie’s ANGEL:
But they had holes, ya yabetcha ya.
02-09 20:03
Rush:
“
02-09 20:04
Rush:
I suspect that Keye Luke made this drawing.
02-09 20:04
Godwinshelley:
tysm
02-09 20:04
Charlie’s ANGEL:
GAULOISES. Dude’s personal can woulda got kicked before 1940, smoking those!
02-09 20:05
Rush:
Yes, GS?
02-09 20:05
Charlie’s ANGEL:
YES, RUSH!
02-09 20:05
Rush:
That’s seven…
02-09 20:06
Rush:
And…I thank YOU…so much!
Keeping me on my toes.
02-09 20:06
Charlie’s ANGEL:
I could never get my face (or anybody else’s) and that kind of mustache simultaneously.
02-09 20:06
Charlie’s ANGEL:
UH-oh.
02-09 20:07
Rush:
EIGHT
(Thanking for the hat)
02-09 20:07
Charlie’s ANGEL:
OH-uh.
02-09 20:07
Rush:
Chan with the rare gun.
02-09 20:09
Rush:
“Must find murderer of Nardi…”
Cue the song by Little Richard…
02-09 20:11
Rush:
“Bridge Street”
02-09 20:11
Phil:
Keep your finger off the trigger!
02-09 20:11
Rush:
YES!
02-09 20:11
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Wait! This guy wants to tear up the Stones in the street!!
02-09 20:12
Rush:
Indeed!
02-09 20:12
Charlie’s ANGEL:
😄
02-09 20:12
Rush:
That happened a bit in 1968!
02-09 20:12
Charlie’s ANGEL:
A SAM Spade.
02-09 20:13
Phil:
Must be tough to see with those dark glasses.
02-09 20:13
Rich in Maine:
2 guns CC?
02-09 20:13
Rush:
A veritable arsenal in his coat!
02-09 20:13
Charlie’s ANGEL:
If only Chan had been in vogue then. Or in time, or in Newsweek.
02-09 20:14
Rush:
Or even Readers Digest…
02-09 20:14
Charlie’s ANGEL:
You can give a catacomb, but he’ll always take an empty cardboard box.
02-09 20:15
Rush:
Now we know who tossed the rock into Chan’s cab at the beginning.
02-09 20:15
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Bare with you!
02-09 20:15
Rush:
The necessities….
02-09 20:16
Rush:
Or was that…’Bear”
Nice atmosphere here!
02-09 20:16
Rich in Maine:
To the sewer!
02-09 20:16
hounder:
..
02-09 20:17
Rush:
If you are ever in Paris, take the tour of the sewers. I did years ago, and I think back to that when seeing these scenes….
02-09 20:17
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Jacques B. Nimble!
02-09 20:17
Rush:
02-09 20:17
Phil:
Did it smell bad Rush?
02-09 20:18
Rush:
Just a bit “musty”
And you can feel the humidity.
Sort of warm.
02-09 20:18
Charlie’s ANGEL:
The SEWER TOUR! Pencilling it in!
02-09 20:18
Austinchanfan:
i remember that in paris when we visted
02-09 20:18
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Bringing pencil AND penicillin!!
02-09 20:19
Rush:
AKA…a press.
The drawing.
02-09 20:20
Rush:
Sunglasses in the dark…cause for bad aim.
Went for the light.
02-09 20:21
Rich in Maine:
the flashlight trick
02-09 20:21
Rush:
NINE
Yes, Rich!
02-09 20:22
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Hello!
WAIT—-
02-09 20:22
Rush:
GASP!
02-09 20:22
Rich in Maine:
LaTouch!
02-09 20:22
Charlie’s ANGEL:
WHOAAAAA!
02-09 20:23
Rush:
Yes!
02-09 20:23
tenman:
I’M SHOCKED, I TELL YA. SHOCKED!
02-09 20:23
Rush:
02-09 20:24
Rush:
Flashback….
02-09 20:24
Rush:
Almost like a still shot there.
02-09 20:25
Charlie’s ANGEL:
That’s why CC gets the big francs.
02-09 20:25
Rush:
YES!
AN EVEN TEN
02-09 20:25
Rush:
THE END
Next week….
02-09 20:26
Charlie’s ANGEL:
Thank ALL so much!!!
02-09 20:26
tenman:
`Cops and donuts.
02-09 20:26
Rush:
“Charlie Chan in Egypt”
02-09 20:26
Rich in Maine:
around the world with CC
02-09 20:26
Rush:
And to all of you…”THANK YOU SO MUCH!”
02-09 20:26
Rich in Maine:
thanks all
02-09 20:26
Charlie’s ANGEL:
PYRAMIDS HO!!!
02-09 20:26
Rich in Maine:
have a great week
02-09 20:26
Rush:
Thank you as always for another FUN evening!
I hope that you had a good time together.
02-09 20:27
Rush:
Next week, “Egypt” provides the third of the “connected” films in the series.
02-09 20:28
Rush:
May you all have a happy week!
See you back here for more of the same, hopefully!
02-09 20:28
Rush:
You are ALL greatly appreciated.
02-09 20:28
Austinchanfan:
see you all next week and stay warm
02-09 20:29
Rush:
Yes, ANGEL…pyramids and…MUMMIES!
02-09 20:29
Godwinshelley:
Have a safe week everyone
02-09 20:29
Rush:
And not all of them ancient!
You as well, GS!
Thank you!
02-09 20:29
Godwinshelley:
Night all
02-09 20:29
Rush:
Be happy…and SAFE!
And…stay warm!
02-09 20:30
hounder:
yay. thanks see you next week
02-09 20:30
Rush:
Spring is just around the corner!
Yes, Hounder!
02-09 20:30
Rush:
Thank you again, Hounder, Angel, Phil, and ACF!
Good night!
02-09 20:30
Austinchanfan:
yes I think I will watch the Olympics or ed Sullivan reruns’
02-09 20:31
Rush:
Tough choice, ACF!
02-09 20:31
Austinchanfan:
yes it is’
02-09 20:31
Rush:
I do recommend the curling!
02-09 20:31
Austinchanfan:
love curling
02-09 20:31
Rush:
Great match today between Italy and the US!
02-09 20:31
Austinchanfan:
I heard
02-09 20:31
Rush:
I won’t give away the final.
02-09 20:32
Austinchanfan:
please dont
02-09 20:32
Rush:
Enjoy!
Take care…good night…
02-09 20:32
Austinchanfan:
night’
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