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Eugene Carmichael III
Played by Jim Carrey
Eugene Carmichael III is the skeptical commodities broker in In Living Color's Twilight Zone parody "Vortex of Fear". Jim Carrey plays him as a nightclub volunteer who is hypnotized into clucking like a chicken just before the hypnotist…
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Eugene Carmichael III is the skeptical commodities broker in In Living Color's Twilight Zone parody "Vortex of Fear". Jim Carrey plays him as a nightclub volunteer who is hypnotized into clucking like a chicken just before the hypnotist dies, leaving him stuck in the trance a year later as he tries to order a burger.
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