Going upstairs to a tiny apartment while expecting bowel trouble is a major nitpick; its bathroom would provide no privacy.
Leaving Lisa with the conspicuously attractive scuba instructor is nitpicked; leopard-print speedos provoke a comic detour.
The disastrous bowel-trouble date should end the relationship, and the couple's basic attraction is considered implausible despite Polly's insistence it is genuine.
The absence of a Knicks scene is a major nitpick given both actors' fandom; a hypothetical 2003–04 team scene and Anthony Mason jersey for Sandy are imagined.
Polly's$200 loofah seems inconsistent with a waitress's finances, but poor spending choices and the illusion of wealth from cash tips are offered as defenses.

Hoffman’s basketball; origin of shart; bathroom scenes and reviews; Crocodile Tears

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The nature of Crocodile Tears remains uncertain: a family comedy, childhood tragedy or Bad News Bears-style film is debated, and the bagpipe scene's content is unknown.
Hoffman's actual basketball ability is an unanswerable question, with coordination here and a Love Liza scene suggesting competence rather than proving it.
Whether Hamburg coined shart is unresolved; the panel's view is that the act and probably the term predated the film, but the film popularized it.
Hamburg's theory that bathroom scenes harm reviews is debated against the acclaimed There's Something About Mary; actual feces is proposed as the critical dividing line.

None found by the host

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Michelle Williams as Polly; alternatives considered

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For Polly, recasting considers Paltrow too polished, Ryder plausible, and a younger Meg Ryan or Geena Davis a natural fit. Holmes is floated but rejected while her missing romantic-comedy career is lamented.
Heather Graham is considered almost too striking; Michelle Williams is the final preferred replacement and a chance to give her happier material. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is plausible but possibly too old, Courteney Cox rejected, and Kudrow plausible but also too old.

Cris Collinsworth; Tony Romo

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Cris Collinsworth is imagined narrating the toilet and basketball scenes, and Tony Romo the flushed cloth and honeymoon boat discovery.

Ferret bites; jump location; Baldwin coaching; sweat gag

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The ferret reportedly bit Stiller during production; the thought of using it as toilet paper successfully alarms a viewer.
Leland Van Lew's name is an aged-best addition, and his jump building is identified as the AT&T Tower at 611 West 6th Street, Los Angeles, qualifying the assumption that all filming was in New York.
Hamburg reportedly rewrote the boardroom speech the night before; Hoffman struggled until Baldwin talked with him at lunch, after which the finished performance emerged.
The basketball sweat gag reportedly used glycerin, a trampoline and twelve takes of the man's chest hitting Stiller's face.

The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

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The original Elaine May Heartbreak Kid is the double-feature choice for its shared honeymoon-breakup setup and discomfort; the remake is criticized as misunderstanding it.

Enjoyable B-level background comedy

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Asked for his review, Craig calls it an enjoyable B-level/background comedy whose repeated cable exposure allowed it to endure, unlike films now buried among streaming catalogs. — Craig Horlbeck