WHY does Reinhold think he's so funny?

Who cares...

I agree, that whole bit about "wow, he looks just like Beethoven" was pretty pointless. Though I guessed the connection for the family was more along the lines of "maybe that could be an ancestor of our wonderful dog" than "maybe it was him." But goodness, what a waste of time to bother analyzing anything in this flick. It was pure crap. I'm mad that I'll never get those 90 minutes back!!

'Cause...he is? >:} I love that guy!

And Beethoven creating a horrifying mess by shaking his wet self doesn't really get old. Certainly not by its second use, anyhow.

I agree with the other person who suggested that they probably intended to imply that the dog on the website might have been an ancestor of Beethoven. The moment was still kinda dumb and awkward, but it's better if you interpret it that way. It'd be a pretty big stretch to buy that they could have believed it actually WAS him. Or that Beethoven also served as a search-and-rescue dog. Unless he actually did. O.o Although, the family was so clueless about him to begin with anyway, I guess maybe they *could've* believed it...anyway, it isn't really worth over-analyzing. xD

He did try, but he's no Charles Grodin.