Most Rewatchable Scene

First MacKenzie-family scene

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The opening follows a coffee mug through the coffeehouse and captures a 1990s setting.
The large-cappuccino joke, soup-smelling girlfriend and opening Woman poem are enthusiastically praised.
The first visit to the parents includes the Scottish wall, Bay City Rollers and William’s head jokes, with LaPaglia visibly struggling not to laugh.
The Pentaverate conspiracy and Colonel Sanders attack are praised; the later Netflix adaptation is considered unnecessary.
The scene keeps adding jokes, including Tony kissing the mother and William crying on his huge pillow.
The planetoid and weather-system head jokes are praised even as written dialogue.
The butcher-shop flirting montage is nominated.
Hartman’s Alcatraz guide Vicky, his disturbing prison story and his glare at Charlie are praised as exceptionally funny.
Michael Richards’s smoking, explosive cameo is nominated.
Arkin’s supportive captain learning to act like a tough television boss is praised, especially the later confession scene.
The reconciliation poem and discovery of the supposed murderer are liked, though the first hour supplies the best scenes.
The first Stuart/MacKenzie-family scene receives agreement from all three; its greater length breaks the comparison with Hartman’s scene.
Grodin objecting to dashboard drumming receives a special mention.
Wright’s premature-birth dream line is recalled.
The late first-time viewer chooses beat poetry as a personal favorite.