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There's Something About Mary

Most Rewatchable Scene

Healy courting Mary at the driving range

In the discussion (14)
Approx. transcript time · 00:36:38Read transcript
  • Ted’s prom pickup, zipper injury, and escalating rescue response are nominated
  • Richard Jenkins’s therapy scene is nominated
  • Healy lying to Ted about Mary is nominated
  • Healy courting Mary at the golf course is praised for comic escalation and believable chemistry
  • The hitchhiker and seven-minute-abs encounter is nominated
  • The flag-football scene is nominated
  • Dom’s pre-date advice is nominated
  • The hair-gel reveal is nominated
  • Puffy’s drugged attack on Ted is nominated
  • The final convergence of Mary’s stalkers is nominated
  • The location cast singing “Build Me Up Buttercup” over the credits is praised
  • All three speakers select the Healy-and-Mary golf scene
  • Ted and Pat’s “deuce and a half” exchange is another favorite
  • Scenes in Mary’s apartment and the dog fight are offered as alternatives
In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 00:47:29Read transcript
  • Excitement over a Tony Conigliaro signed baseball is nominated
  • Brett Favre as a wholesome celebrity is nominated
  • Magda smoking Kool cigarettes is nominated
  • Building the evening around televised sports highlights is nominated
  • The abundance of gay-panic jokes is identified as specific to the period
  • Cops playing during Dom’s sex scene is selected
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There's Something About Mary

What’s Aged the Best?

Its gleeful bad taste, regional specificity, durable performances, physical comedy, and escalating lies

In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 00:48:56Read transcript
  • Bad taste being played for direct comedy rather than self-conscious drama is praised
  • The rest-area joke remains effective
  • Jonathan Richman’s musical appearances are praised as an unlikely device that works
  • Rhode Island, Boston, and Miami specificity is praised
  • The comedy is said to remain laugh-out-loud funny
  • Magda’s extreme tan and Markie Post’s performance remain running references
  • Pre-date masturbation and Pat Healy’s capped teeth remain running jokes
  • A small lie escalating into a huge cover story is praised as a durable comedy engine
  • Casting the adult stars as teenagers is praised for preserving sweetness
  • Mary’s meat-on-sticks theory is appreciated
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