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Funniest Moment of the Movie!


Check out when the blonde woman jumps out the window towards the end of the movie. You want a hysterical laugh, still it and go frame-by-frame as she flies by the camera and falls to the ground.

That has to be the ugliest doll ever made for any Hollywood movie! :-D

We were crying with laughter!!!

-P

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I loved it when these guys were reviewing cases of marijuana induced crimes committed by children.

Man 1: "And this case a particularly tragic one."

Man 2: "Ah yes. Only a young boy. Under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an axe."

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Well, I've think everyone has missed the hilarious moment of the highest principles of American justice.The D. A. says the people will "waive trial" and just send the defendant to a place for the criminally insane for the rest of his life. And the defense attorney says he goes along with that.

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The best one was definitely about the boy killing his entire family with an ax :D I was just eating a sandwich and almost suffocated because of that story...

But not far behind was the scene where the two cops were investigating the hit-and-run crime. It ends with the woman asking: "Tell me umm, did they... was the person killed?" Cop: "Fortunately he wasn't, but that's still no excuse for hit-and-run driving".

So it would have been ok if he had died? ;D

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Despite the fact that I'm pro-legalization and I smoke pot for 22+ years, I love this kind of "educational" films! "Tell Your Children" simply rules! I just love the serious style of the narrator (virtually all vintage educational films had these cloned narrators). I just love the 100000000% exaggeration and the fact that even the most ridiculous and insane lies were served as truths. Love them in every aspect. Why? Because watching this sh!t stoned... oh man... every minute of it was epic, LAUGH TILL DEATH! In fact... MEGA-EPIC!

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when the cop is asking the sister about the hit and run and she asks the cop "did the man die" and the cop says "no, but that's no excuse". Like, if he did die that might have been more acceptable, makes me lol hard.

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I'm going with the one that got the most laughs with me and my friends. "Gosh! Hot Chocolate!"

Last Movie I saw: The Avengers (10/10)

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ALL of the the principal's testimony about the demeanor and attitude of William Hopper. "A time disassociation of ideas." Then he saw Bill miss tennis balls by three feet, which can be attributed to marijuana. He is so uptight and sanctimonious that everything he says is subject to derision.

I love camp!!!

"I slept with you and you're in love with my husband. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?"

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The screaming confession of the blonde at the end followed by the judge automatically reversing the guilty verdict of Bill Harper.

The reaction of the matron to the blonde throwing herself out of the window.

I slept with you and you're in love with my husband. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?

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I gotta go with the axe line. I watched this with my then-girlfriend's family about 30 years ago, and I laughed so hard that her family laughed at how hard I was laughing.

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