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There's Something About Mary
There's Something About Mary
There's Something About Mary
There's Something About Mary
There's Something About Mary
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Pat Healy
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Picking Nits
Mary’s living and work arrangements, Dom’s plan, Brett Favre’s availability, and Tucker’s long game
In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 01:29:37Read transcript
- Why an orthopedic surgeon shares a modest balcony complex with Magda is questioned
- Mary’s apparently light patient and surgery schedule is questioned
- Ted failing to connect Dom with his high-school identity is questioned
- Dom helping Ted while planning to pursue Mary himself is questioned
- Ted reaching Brett Favre during game week is questioned
- Pat Healy’s long-term plan to sustain his lies is questioned
- Tucker’s long-term deception is called baffling
Casting What-Ifs
The Drew Bledsoe cameo possibility and alternate Ted and Healy actors
In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:12:30Read transcript
- Drew Bledsoe was reportedly wanted for the football-star role
- Owen Wilson and Jon Stewart were reportedly considered for Ted
- Bill Murray, Vince Vaughn, and Cuba Gooding Jr. were reportedly considered for Pat Healy
The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award
Matt Dillon’s heightened Pat Healy performance
In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:06:18Read transcript
- Matt Dillon is considered for deliberately dialing Pat Healy up
- The performance’s slapstick and screwball register is defended as fitting the film
The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
The movie’s dense exchanges and Pat Healy’s elaborate deception supply the quoted favorites
In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:02:49Read transcript
- A belated best-quote prompt introduces several dialogue exchanges
- Healy’s escalating false identity and injury story is praised
What’s Aged the Best?
Its gleeful bad taste, regional specificity, durable performances, physical comedy, and escalating lies
In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 00:48:56Read transcript
- Bad taste being played for direct comedy rather than self-conscious drama is praised
- The rest-area joke remains effective
- Jonathan Richman’s musical appearances are praised as an unlikely device that works
- Rhode Island, Boston, and Miami specificity is praised
- The comedy is said to remain laugh-out-loud funny
- Magda’s extreme tan and Markie Post’s performance remain running references
- Pre-date masturbation and Pat Healy’s capped teeth remain running jokes
- A small lie escalating into a huge cover story is praised as a durable comedy engine
- Casting the adult stars as teenagers is praised for preserving sweetness
- Mary’s meat-on-sticks theory is appreciated
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