Here are undoubtedly two of the most famous plumbing scenes in the movies that have nothing to do with the usual toilets, sinks or tubs.

In the first scene, Jack Nicholson’s character McMurphy bets the other inmates of a mental institution that he can lift a marble hydrotherapy console up off its moorings. Of course, he can’t, but the point is at least he tried. The second scene is the end of the movie and shows the Chief indeed lifting the fixture, hurling it through a grated window and escaping.

This 1975 movie won all five major Academy Awards, which hadn’t happened since “It Happened One Night” did it in 1934. (“Silence Of The Lambs” repeated the sweep in 1991.) Kirk Douglas actually played the role of McMurphy on stage and bought the movie rights and passed the production rights on to his son, Michael.