Picking Nits
Lucy's lie to the family; lax hospital; Jack pursuing his brother's fiancee; murky timeline; rushed printed invitations; hospital wedding
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- Baskin-Robbins is not an ice cream flavor, and no one should carry a passport around at all times. — Amanda Dobbins
- Elsie's heart attack gets attention and is then dropped, and the hospital's visiting rules are very loose.
- The family does not know their son is engaged, and Lucy lies to them at length, which a host thinks is attempted fraud.
- Nurse Wanda never intervenes, which a host believes violates medical-information rules, while unsure whether they existed in 1995.
- Saul as the lone Jewish neighbor hanging around is called weird (a host assumes they wanted Jack Warden); he never tells the family, which is understandable but not sound.
- Feeding the cat is technically trespassing, repeated bedside visits border on stalking, and the hospital verifies nothing beyond the testicle test.
- Jack immediately hits on his brother's fiancee, making him a bad sibling; neither lead makes sound decisions.
- The timeline between Christmas and New Year's is murky, and the little sister prompting a mistletoe kiss has the whole family encouraging it.
- Printed wedding invitations arrive in the week after New Year's; the timeline is called the number one problem.
- Why hold the wedding in the hospital, and why can Peter not put his arms through his jacket?
- The hosts are willing to overlook it all, a testament to the movie; don't do this at home.