I thought the funniest part was when Schmidt wrote his first letter to Ndugu and got really worked up about being replaced at his job. It was the hardest I've laughed during a movie in a while.
When Cameron was in Egypt's land; Let my Cameron go. - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
My favorite line is also from a letter from Warren to Ndugu. It always cracks me up when he tells Ndugu to make sure he pledges a fraternity when he goes to college. Warren has no clue of Ndugu's life at the moment.
"I don't need the defense anymore.....I embrace."---Dame Marjorie Chardin
I know...like Warren has no idea that not only is he six, but he does not have those opportunities. I also like how he said he could read about something in "the enclosed pamphlet".
share"cocky bastard" in the letter was probably the funniest!
It was also funny how Warren lay there helplessly as Roberta went on and on about her sexlife.
"alot of people think it's a pyramid scheme...*hmf* but it's not!"
The funniest part was when after saying you have to appreciate things when you have it and he found out about the letters and he threw all his wife's stuffs away! After being sad and all he suddenly change to angry. The way he was mad was so funny!!
shareagree with the one about Roberta. funniest part i think. and quite disgusting especially in the spa lol.
sharethe waterbed scene and the toilet scene where he is free to urinate in the whole bathroom were funny, too.
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Bwahaha. "Urinating vengefully". Possibly the most unlikely pairing of words ever.
I now aspire to urinate vengefully at least once a day!
The waterbed scene had me laughing out loud. Been there, done that with a waterbed.
shareI like the hummels sliding all over the roof of the Adventurer when he has a self realization.
How about the Tires Plus in place of his house. As much as we moved in my days, it has happened a lot when going back to old home locations.
But the best is the subtle undertone of all the parking tickets he received. From the parking lot of Buffalo Bill Cody's home to the Peking Restaurant. Surely he probably got one while buying hummels. Then if you watch the deleted scenes he nearly got a ticket for parking on the highway. A trooper told him to move along.
Warren's face when Roberta joins him in the pool is priceless.
shareThe funniest part is Warren's expression at the wedding reception when the best man is talking about how Randall called him after being with Jeannie and said that he had met a chick he might actually like to see again.
shareWhen Warren wakes up from the top of the RV, he peers over the edge. The camera is pointing up at him and a bird flies from his bedhead. Totally unintentinal which makes it even more funny.
shareThere are quite a few parts... and most of them have already been said, but I love when he rolls up in front of his childhood house and looks at the camera and the look on his face speaks more than words could.
"I used to live here." "Here in the store?"
Then he says, "There was actually a tire swing right there".
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What about the waterbed ? I was nearly in as much pain as he was! Hah!
shareWhen he stole a kiss off that redhead.
shareNo one's mentioned the 2 parts I thought were the funniest:
When Warren is in Randall's room and sees his "awards" that he proudly has displayed....all for excellence in "participation".
When Warren grabs the mike at the wedding and gets ready to say some words. We don't know what he's gonna do, but he ends up complimenting the groom and his entire family. He'll NEVER forget the first time he met Randall, and that wonderful Randall went right outside and helped him shovel the driveway. How heartwarming! And Roberta...and Larry...and though they haven't had a chance to talk much as he'd like, he can see that Duncan is a deep-thinking young man.
Liked this part, also. When he returned to his house, he's thinking to himself what a shame his daughter had to marry such a nicompoop!
Also liked the awards scene. There were also certificates for 'two week' participation in courses he'd taken. He is seen also reading some of the books from Randall's bookshelf, etc.
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I just finished watching it, and the one award they zoomed in on was a 2 week electronics course. For perfect attendance.
shareI thought the funniest part was when Schmidt wrote his first letter to Ndugu and got really worked up about being replaced at his job. It was the hardest I've laughed during a movie in a while.
It is unusual scene for Americans, where they admit how little do they understand the rest of the world. A rare moment of honesty.
shareThe letter to Ndugu (funny how his mood changes)
Robertas conversation with her exhusband about the broken TV while Warren sits and can hear it
When Warren tries to climb onto the waterbed
Robertas speech about her son and Jeannies sexlife while feeding Warren
Just to mention a few. There are so many funny moments in this movie, really a film everyone should see
Wow, no one mentioned my favorite part. When Roberta gives Warren the strong pain pills to help him and they show him in the church for the wedding rehearsal looking all stoned out of his mind. His face is priceless.
sharehaha yeah, the pills part was awesome. vicodin, wasnt it??
sharePercodan!
They're left over from my hysterectomy. They've expired but I think it's ok.
How about the cattle truck pulling up alongside Schmidt's motorhome with each of the cows giving him a knowing glance? We're all cattle my friend, destined to die anonymously and soon.
A lot of the "humor" is like that - simultaneously a sad statement about impersonal boring middle-American existence. Like when Warren goes out to mail the letter and his wife reminds him not to dilly-dally (don't you dare enjoy yourself or do anything spontaneous). So after the sterile shopping mall post office visit, the height of Warren's rebellion is to go order a Dairy Queen Blizzard (but when pressed for which size, he still whimps out and chooses "medium").
He soon makes up for it though, by peeing standing up and splashing it all over the place.
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Unfortunately, there was no scene where Americans are discussing how boorish, snobby, egoistic and self-deluded many non-Americans are towards Americans, and how they seem to have this compulsion to keep embarrassing themselves by showing their seriously incapacitating inferiority complexes.
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thanks for saying that, it was very well worded and needed to be said. ( no sarcasm )
"americans are like, so stupid compared to everybody else in the world ever, its like so stupid, all the great people come from….not america."- przgzr