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Meet the Parents

Picking Nits

Puff cassette; toilet; roof cigarette; rushed engagement; secret proposal; usher; borrowed clothes; painted cat; volleyball injury and positions

In the discussion (12)
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  • Playing Puff the Magic Dragon on cassette during an ordinary drive is strange even for 2000.
  • Giving a guest a basement room whose toilet cannot be flushed is inhospitable and leaves an obvious practical problem.
  • Lighting a cigarette while retrieving a cat from an in-law’s roof seems an extreme and unnecessary expression of nicotine dependence.
  • A wedding only two weeks after the engagement is implausibly fast.
  • Greg intends to propose after ten months without meeting Pam’s highly involved parents.
  • Children would not reliably keep the planned proposal secret.
  • Making Greg an usher immediately after meeting and belittling him is odd.
  • Greg should buy basic clothes instead of borrowing family underwear; his spending elsewhere shows he can afford it.
  • The toilet should be repaired or labeled; interpreting it as Jack’s deliberate boyfriend test is speculative.
  • Painting the substitute cat’s tail is indefensible.
  • The volleyball victim does not raise her hands, and the quantity of blood seems excessive for the injury later shown.
  • The much taller Rebhorn should defend the net rather than Stiller.