Unintentional Comedy Award
The surgery haircut with the face off; the wife not picking Travolta up from the hospital; adopting the homicidal maniac's son unannounced; the dove-filled church funeral; the opening carousel and the sniper drinking from a straw
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- Nominees begin with the entire movie, opening credits to the end, Cage making crazy faces in prison, Dietrich and Cage laughing at each other Austin Powers style, and the box with absinthe, molly and Chiclets.
- At the end Travolta is in surgery for a couple of weeks after being thrown off a boat and badly injured, and his wife is working at her desk at home when he comes in rather than picking him up or waiting at the hospital; a friend from Jimmy's show, Dave Damoshek (as transcribed), used to do an office bit about it: oh, is it Tuesday, I thought it was Monday, it's your husband, he just got his face back.
- Cage wakes from the coma with his face off, and the hosts work out what counts as face: eyelids, nose and lips yes, ears no; nobody is watching him, he is immediately fine, there are somehow cigarettes and a telephone, and his face sits in a bowl of saline solution under a spotlight like a Hall of Fame plaque (as transcribed 'plus').
- The clip of his phone call is played, imagining getting that call; the henchmen bring in a doctor who asks what he wants him to do, as if there were any question with the face over there; then Cage, with no lips or face, smokes a cigarette, the most ridiculous part of the movie since he has no nose and would have to hold it in his teeth.
- Adds two nominees: the denouement at a dove-filled church outside Hermosa, there because Sean Archer's boss has a heart attack exacerbated by Archer breaking his sternum, followed by a funeral like the papal conclave with incense, singing monks, a Marine guard salute and a thousand doves; and CCH Pounder's two options, put an agent in Pollux's cell or switch your face with his, with no other brainstorm. — Chris Ryan
- Picks the opening of the movie: Travolta on the carousel rubbing his son's lips and hugging him very closely, then the first look at Cage as Castor through the sniper scope, the mustache that looks like carpeting, drinking through a straw like a Diet Pepsi before killing a man. — Jason Concepcion
- Castor Troy is a terrorist for hire, a kind of friendly independent terrorist with no clear employer who is owed ten million dollars; another bit has them looking at the 1997 internet, really cut scenes from a Sega Genesis game with something about Croatia going on.
- Another pick is the surgery: in the middle of a super complex procedure lasering the face off and putting it on another man, they first take the face off and then give him a haircut over an open wound, trimming it up.
- A host hands out medals: bronze to the haircut with the face off, silver to the wife not picking him up from the hospital, and gold to Archer adopting the homicidal maniac's son without clearing it with his wife, just coming home with the child; then Dominique Swain touches the kid's lips, which is how you get into the family.