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| Year: | 2006 |
| Rating: | 5.6(20277) |
| Listed in: | Comedy, Romance |
| Directed by: | Tom Dey |
| Actors: | Matthew McConaughey Justin Bartha Bradley Cooper Terry Bradshaw Sarah Jessica Parker Zooey Deschanel |
| "To leave the nest, some men just need a little push." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Tom Dey | |
| Actors | |
| Matthew McConaughey | as Tripp |
| Justin Bartha | as Ace |
| Bradley Cooper | as Demo |
| Terry Bradshaw | as Al |
| Tyrel Jackson Williams | as Jeffrey |
| Rob Corddry | as Gun Salesman #1 |
| Patton Oswalt | as Techie Guy |
| Stephen Tobolowsky | as Bud |
| Adam Alexi-Malle | as Mr. Axelrod |
| Peter Jacobson | as Boatyard Man |
| Stewart Skelton | as BBQ Guest #1 |
| E.L. James | as BBQ Guest #3 |
| Jerrod Paige | as Guy at Pizza Joint #1 |
| Tim Stoltenberg | as Guy at Pizza Joint #2 |
| Miladin Mutavdzic | as Basketball Player #1 |
| Brian Jesiolowski | as Basketball Player #2 |
| Larry Gamell Jr. | as Gun Salesman #2 |
| Charles Dey | as Loving Man |
| Michael Ahl | as Restaurant Patron |
| Lawrence Broughton | as Business Pedestrian |
| Greg Cool | as Boat Mechanic |
| Geoffrey Gould | as Older Bookstore Gent |
| Nick Klein | as Man in Wheelchair |
| Elton LeBlanc | as Baseball Fan |
| Don Lincoln | as Baseball Fan |
| Carter Mitchell | as Baseball Fan |
| Ross Nolan | as Baseball Fan |
| Raymond Parker | as Man Pushing Wheelchair |
| Jon Purvis | as Baseball Game Attendee |
| Johnny Rock | |
| Stephen Rue | as Soccer Player |
| Codie Scott | as Guy on Bike |
| Ray Thibodeaux | as Baseball Fan |
| Actresses | |
| Sarah Jessica Parker | as Paula |
| Zooey Deschanel | as Kit |
| Kathy Bates | as Sue |
| Katheryn Winnick | as Melissa |
| Kate McGregor-Stewart | as Bev |
| Gretchen Cleevely | as Gretchen the Veterinarian |
| Jessica Stone | as Boatyard Woman |
| Sarah Lilly | as BBQ Guest #2 |
| Aubrey Dollar | as Pizza Waitress |
| Anne Ewen | as Girl at Pizza Joint #1 |
| Tremelda D. Cobb | as Girl at Pizza Joint #2 |
| Summer Lee | as Taco Waitress |
| Ilana Levine | as Yoga Teacher |
| Phoebe Dey | as Loving Woman |
| Melissa Caudle | |
| Kristi Chalaire | as Zephyrs Fan |
| Kristin Michelle Duncil | as Baseball Fan |
| Debby Gaudet | as Baseball Fan |
| Michele Harrington | as Baseball Fan |
| Cynthia LeBlanc | as Baseball Fan |
| Pepper Morgan | as Baseball Fan |
| Mageina Tovah | as Barista |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 16 May 2005 - ? |
| Budget: | USD 50,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 88,715,192 USD (22 June 2006) UK - 2,657,334 GBP (16 April 2006) Netherlands - 164,114 EUR (9 April 2006) |
| Plot: | Tripp is a thirty-five years old bachelor man that still lives with his parents, Al and Sue. Al and Sue hire the manipulative interventionist Paula to play Tripp's girlfriend and seduce him, convincing Tripp to move out of their home. Paula and Tripp fall in love for each other, but Tripp's best friends Ace and Demo accidentally find the truth about Paula and Demo discloses to Tripp, spoiling the plan and their relationship. When Tripp and Paula miss each other, their friends plot a scheme trying to arrange an encounter to fix the situation. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"Cruel to be Kind" Written and Performed by Nick Lowe "Rebel, Rebel" Written and Performed by David Bowie "This Guy's in Love with You" Written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David Performed by Fastball "Not Bad at All" Written by Steve McDonald and Anna Waronker Performed by Steve McDonald "Shouldn't Have Walked Away" Written by Stephen Lang , Jamie Dunlap & Scott Nickoley Performed by Molly Pasutti Courtesy of Marc Ferrari / Master Source "Dance Me to the End of Love" Written by Leonard Cohen Performed by Madeleine Peyroux "Time Da Get Dirty" Written by Carlos Cortez, John Ross, Eric Goldman, and Zedrick Kelley Performed by Da Fiffs "All the Time in the World" Written by Shane MacGowan Performed by The Nips "Pan da Jero" Written and Performed by Phil Mison (as Cantoma) "Hey, Man!" Written and Performed by The Vacancies "Fresh Feeling" Written by Mark Everett & Kool G. Murder Performed by The Eels "Yoda and The Force" Written and Conducted by John Williams (as John T. Williams) "Go Faster" Performed by John O'Hara "Forget My Heart" Performed by Simon Steadman "Nuthin' But a G' Thang" Written by 'Snoop Dogg Performed by Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg "Devil Woman" Performed by Alan Darby "Roady (The Nextmen Walnut Remix)" Performed by Fat Freddy's Drop "Original Drum" Written by 'Sister' Carol East & M. Goldwasser Performed by 'Sister' Carol East "This Love" Performed by Jr. Jazz "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Written by Freddie Mercury Performed by The 88 "Hit the Road, Jack" Written by Percy Mayfield Performed by Ray Charles "More Than a Friend" Written by Ralph Sall Performed by All Too Much |
Goofs
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Continuity: When Trip and Jeffrey are drinking under the boat, Trip takes the plastic rings off of his beer and throws it on the ground. In the close-up of Trip drinking his beer, the plastic rings are still attached to his beer. Continuity: After Tripp and Paula get off the boat, when they were caught by the actual owner, a close up shot shows Tripp's arm around Paula, and then a long shot, his arm is not around her. Continuity: Kit's right arm as she and Paula have a drink; also, her left index finger is pointed in one shot then isn't in the next. Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double when Tripp is riding the bike - the stunt performer has a tattoo above his right ankle. Continuity: During the entire sailing scene, the boat cuts through the water in some shots but is stationary in other shots. Continuity: The level of Al's cereal and the position/amount of Tripp's scrambled eggs and pancakes during breakfast. Continuity: The shots of Tripp with Mr. Axelrod and of Mr. Axelrod first walking toward the boat were clearly shot later in the day from the other shots in the scene. Continuity: When Paula is talking to Tripp's parents, and they are drinking iced tea, the amount in the glasses change, and Sue's lemon changes positions. Continuity: When Tripp is eating with his friends, Tripp changes between having his fork in his hand, to nothing in his hand, to having a drink in his hand, back to nothing, without showing him switching items. Continuity: Toward the end of the movie Trip is talking to his mother. She is ironing and places a pair of jeans on the ironing board and prepares to iron them. Also on the ironing board is a pile of folded clothes. The next time you see her she has the folded clothes in her hands but there are no jeans on the ironing board. Continuity: Near the end, when Paula and Trip are talking while everyone is eavesdropping, the action figures on the shelf behind Paula change positions between shots. Revealing mistakes: When Tripp and Paula come back from a date, they go to Paula's house and see Kit on the balcony. Kit is supposed to be nude, but you can see that her chest is covered through the branches. Crew: When Tripp is showing the boat to the couple, a reflection of a person sitting (wearing jeans and work boots) in a director's chair is showing on one of the boats. GEOG: The movie supposedly takes place in Baltimore, MD, yet when they go to Ace's house, there are palm trees in the yard. Continuity: Jeffrey is missing at least one of his front teeth until the end when he has all of them. Continuity: When Kit and Ace are attempting to revive the bird, Ace pulls the bird's beak apart. The following shots alternate between an open and closed mouth bird. Continuity: Towards the end of the movie when Tripp and Paula are having the conversation with Tripp tied to the chair, Paula's make-up keeps changing. She has different eye make-up and different lipstick color. Revealing mistakes: In the closing scene, the sails on the boat are up while the boat remains motionless. SYNC: When Tripp is grabbed of his surfboard by the dolphin, he is pulled off to his right, therefore meaning the dolphin grabbed his right foot. However, in the next scene, he is shown being pulled by his left ankle. Continuity: When Kit is talking to Paula in the kitchen after breaking up with Tripp, Kit pulls up the right side of her sweater onto her shoulder. However, when the show her again, it's off her shoulder. Then, when Paula walks out of the kitchen, the sweater is back on her shoulder. Continuity: When Trip is in the water with the dolphin at the end, the position of his sunglasses changes repeatedly between shots. At some points they've disappeared altogether. Continuity: In the dinner scene with Paula and Tripp's parents, Trip drains all of his wine. A few shots later, his glass is 1/4 full of wine and he never picked up the bottle to add more. Continuity: When Tripp is tied up in the chair the camera cuts to a shot of his feet turning him to his right and putting the stairs in the background directly behind him. Then the camera cuts to a head shot of Tripp and the stairs are on his left, then cut back to feet and stairs are directly behind him as he taps his right foot. Continuity: When Tripp is bitten by the chuckwalla, he is seen being bitten on his right index finger on the anterior aspect, but once he wakes up after the fall it is his right middle finger that is covered in blood, and there are other times where his index finger is clearly seen with no injury. Continuity: When Paula and Tripp are walking into his parents' house there are two cars parked across the street but when they enter the house a few seconds later the cars are gone. Revealing mistakes: Some shots of the surveillance video have "TCG" plus numbers at the bottom of the screen. TCG stands for "time code generator", and is only created in post production, as in an editing program. It would never appear as live video. From the format, it appears to be generated by the Final Cut Pro NLE software. Continuity: When Trip sees Mr. Axelrod coming, he packs up and warns Paula about who he is. As he gets up and climbs over to the dock, you can see Trip isn't wearing any sandals or shoes on his feet. After they get done talking to Mr. Axelrod Trip goes to chase Paula, and he suddenly has shoes on. He is not seen putting on shoes in between those two times. Continuity: When Paula is leaving Tripp's house, she knocks over the vase with her left shoulder, but then is seen continuing to knock it over and try to catch it with her right hand, going backwards. Even if she was walking forward and tried to turn to catch it, her right arm would have gone in back, not front. Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Terry Bradshaw and Kathy Bates are cuddling, the body stocking that Kathy is wearing is obvious (between her arm and her neck/face) Revealing mistakes: When Ace fires up the laptop computer to spy on Trip and Paula, the computer screen changes screens before Ace actually presses the key on the keyboard to do so. Continuity: In the kitchen scene, there is a white Le Creuset tea pot heating water on the stove top. It is missing the whistler cap from the spout, yet when it is off camera, you hear it whistle to signify the water is boiling. Whistling is impossible without that cap. CHAR: Paula tells Kit that she has "a fiduciary responsibility" to fulfill her contract. A Fiduciary is someone who acts as the legal caretaker of another's rights, assets and/or well-being. This certainly isn't the case here. CHAR: The vet gives the dog the injection from outside the bandage with the needle inverted instead of through his IV. Continuity: Tripp's glasses move while he relaxes with Paula at the chair store. Continuity: On the evening that Trip prepares dinner his parents and Paula are seated at the table. Trip stands to announce a toast with a glass of wine in his left hand. He switches it to his right hand as he starts the toast, but during the announcement the glass disappears and reappears at the end of the toast. Continuity: At the end of the paint ball scene - Paula's jacket goes from being on, to around her waist as she is walking towards the guys. Continuity: When Tripp was cooking dinner, he put an artichoke in a boiling pot. After he was done with cooking, there was not a single artichoke on the dinner table. Continuity: The time on Terry Bradshaw 's watch keeps changing during the scene at the table. Continuity: In the scene where Kit and Paula are in the kitchen talking about Paula's fun day out boating with Tripp, the bottle of Moet champagne on the kitchen counter moves so that the label is facing the camera. GEOG: The movie supposedly takes place in Baltimore, MD yet they go to a New Orleans Zyphers-Omaha Royals baseball game. The Royals never visit the East Coast. Continuity: The first time Trip and Paula are on the boat, Trip jibes, and the mainsail and boom re-set but he never releases and trims the jib. Continuity: During the vet office visit, the vet tech hands Paula the same tissue 2 times between scenes. CHAR: During a sailing scene, a discussion involving nautical terms refers to turning a sail boat as "jibing" and "coming about" which is in part incorrect. Rather this discussion should describe the two ways to come about: a "jibe" which is a downwind turn and a "tack" which is an upwind turn. CHAR: The BB gun used in the film is a Red Ryder as produced by Daisy. There is a reference to "pumping" 2 times, however, this is a simple weapon and can only be "pumped" one time. CHAR: On Tripp's car there is no front plate. In Maryland where the film is set, there are license plates on the front of every car. Revealing mistakes: The same car is used by both Demo and Kit, when it is supposed that they each own their own car. Fact errors: When Tripp is showing Paula how to shoot the paintball marker, he is clearly rolling the trigger and the marker is not shooting so apparently it isn't on. But when Paula gets the marker in the next shot she shoots Ace in the foot. The marker is electric and you have to cut it on to shoot it. You couldn't see either one of them cutting the marker on so Paula shooting the marker would have actually been impossible without cutting it on. Fact errors: The coffee shop patrons watch the real-time showdown between Tripp and Paula on the jumbo screen via Ace's laptop as a series of shots, which is impossible. CHAR: Avian CPR is performed with the bird in front of the human's face, tilted slightly away, with one hand supporting its head and the other its body. Ace performs the CPR with the bird on the table as if it were human. Fact errors: Towards the end of the movie we find out that Justin Bartha's character, Ace, bought his house from his parents to avoid having to pay the inheritance tax when they pass away. The Federal inheritance tax in 2006 was on inheritances starting at $2 million. There are state inheritance taxes as well, but Maryland, where this movie is supposed to take place, exempts direct descendants of those receiving the inheritance from the tax. |
Quotes
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Kit: I smell something. Do you smell something? Paula: Oh, Tripp and I had crab today. Kit: No, that's not it. I smell... fun. Paula: What? Kit: You are a dirty little fun-haver. Kit: You couldn't be more wrong if you called it a Canadian Goose. Ace: I'll give you a Canadian Goose. [she slaps him, then a moment later, grabs him and kisses him passionately] Kit: Shut up, you whore! Paula: [sipping champagne] Oh I'm sorry, was I sipping too loudly for you? Kit: No, you were not sipping too loudly. It's that goddamn bird outside my goddamn window! Paula: Oh. Kit: What the hell kind of devil bird chirps at night? Paula: Come on, Tripp. Please, you don't understand. Tripp: You're right. Now, hold on. I don't know what your daily rate is, [handing $300 to Paula] but that's everything I've got in my wallet. There's three hundred dollars. Paula: Oh, come on, Tripp! Tripp: It should be good for tonight, especially since we didn't have sex. Paula: Please, Tripp, let me just explain to you. Tripp: Get the fuck outta my car. Kit: Yeah, everyone from work went to T.G.I. Friday's, but I don't really like that place. Or anyone I work with. Paula: Oh good, so then we can stay in and watch one of those drinking movies you like. Kit: [sarcastically] Yeah! Paula: Hey, hey. Kit: Hey, Paula. Good news. It's Champagne Thursday. Paula: It's Friday. Kit: Uh, yeah, Thursday came twice this week. Paula: For the third straight week. Kit: There's talk of making it permanent. Paula: Oh, kind of like Daylight Saving's Time? Kit: Right, but for booze. Al, Sue: [Sitting naked together in a recliner, singing] Hit the road, "Tripp", and don't ya come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road, "Tripp", and don't ya come back no more. Jim The Gun Salesman: [persuading her not to buy a large gun and bullet to shoot a mockingbird] Well for one, there's the book, "To Kill A Mockingbird"... Kit: Oh... A copy that, too, right here! Demo: Deception's a poison. It's like margarine. Tripp: [has just agreed to go out to lunch with her the next day] Hey, wait - tomorrow's Saturday. Paula: [perplexed]... Sometimes I eat on Saturday. Paula: [of "her" supposedly dying dog] What's his real name, anyway? Veterinarian: I don't know. I just clean their teeth and chop their balls off. [the dog whimpers] Tripp: 'Cuase it's going to take a stick of dynamite to get me out of my parents' house. Tripp: [at the top of a mountain, when Ace appears] Well, hey there, Ace. Glad you could make it, man. We thought you went home. Ace: [dropping to the ground, exhausted] I fell into a deep, dark crevasse. I was so scared. Ace: So, is Kit short for Katherine? Kit: Yes. Is Ace short for... Ace-a-rooney? Ace: And at least I'm not sponging off my parents so I can afford to get laid on every continent. Demo: Whoa, whoa... I'm a ramblin' man, I'm a tumble weed, I'm a seeker of truth! Boatyard Couple: Guys who drink Kalua and cream are not power guys! Paula: The tall one just got fired from Kinko's. Tripp: Do you have real feelings? Paula: Of course I have real feelings! Tripp: For what? Paula: For you! And believe me I did not want that because I had a good life before you. Well, not good... but... it was okay. Well... it was empty actually, but at least I was blissfully unaware of how miserable I was. Where as now... because of you... I am acutely aware of how completely and totally unhappy I am. Thank you for that. [Paula pretends to be the girlfriend of one of her clients, as they sit in a coffee shop] Paula: Hey, I mean, come on. Look at you. You're smart, you're attractive, you love the original "Star Wars" trilogy because it's all about storytelling, and myth, before C.G.I. ruined everything. I mean, come on. What girl wouldn't want to be with you? Techie Guy: A shocking number, actually. Paula: Well, you know what? It's their loss. You show me a guy who loves Empire and I'll show you a guy who's not afraid of his imagination. Like when Luke gets to the cave and he asks Yoda what's in there and Yoda says... Techie Guy: [imitating Yoda's voice with Star Wars music playing in the background]... Only what you take with you. Paula: But he goes in anyway, because he's not afraid of his own mind! Techie Guy: He's walking the path of the Jedi, that's why. Paula: That's you! You're Luke! Tripp: I do sleep well at night. Ace: On a twin bed, with Superman sheets that you've had since you were six. Tripp: As opposed to you, who sleeps in a King-sized bed in your mother's basement. Ace: It's orthopedic, and I need it. [first lines] Melissa: I just feel really close to you. Tripp: You are really close to me. Melissa: So, where do you see us going? Tripp: Well, tonight, I see us going back to my place. Al: [walking in on Tripp and Melissa having sex] Tripp, as long as you're up son... Oh... Tripp: Oh, come on, Pop! Whoa, man. Don't you knock? Al: What? Your momma's... Snoring like a rhino. And then this music got started... Hey, you must be Melody. Melissa: Melissa. Al: Oh! It's Melissa! It's Melissa. Okay. Alright. Y'all have a good time. Tripp: Night, Pop. Melissa: You live with your parents? Tripp: Is that a problem? Melissa: Are you kidding me? Ace: The point is, my friend, you are afraid of love. Tripp: Bullshit. No, no, no, no, no, man. I'm not afraid of love. I love love. Look, I've had a lot of girlfriends, right? And sometimes I'm the rebound guy. Other times, when I get lucky, I'm the "explore new areas of your sexuality" guy. But every single time, we have fun. Thank you. I have fun, they have fun. It's good for me, it's good for them. And I would argue that it's damn good for civilization as a whole. Demo: And yet, in America, we're shunned for our lifestyle. Tripp: When we should be celebrating our lifestyle. We are men who still live at home. Demo: Yes. Tripp: We're not here to apologize about who we are, and how we do it, and who we live with. Demo: No! Tripp: I'm looking around this table, hombres, and I see three winners. And to every one of those out there who sees something different, I say bring it on! Al: The boy's thirty-five years old! Sue: It's just not fair. Al: Thirty-five years! Sue: We were good parents and now we're supposed to be done! Male BBQ Guest #1: Hey, I don't blame my kid for staying. Our place is much nicer than anything he can afford. Male BBQ Guest #2: Well, our son's a flight attendant. He travels so much, it doesn't make any sense to have his own apartment. Sue: Yeah... Female BBQ Guest: Plus, he has a lot of pilot friends who let him stay over. Al: Tripp meets a new girl every week. Bud: Well, let's just say, maybe he hasn't met the right girl. Al: We ain't buying that chair. Sue: I am getting this polka-dot chair. I've got my own money. Al: Unless you start dancing again, you're broke. Paula: I'm Paula. Tripp: I'm Tripp. Paula: You know, usually I don't sleep with someone on the first date. Tripp: I don't think this counts as a first date. Paula: It would be a date if you asked me to have a drink tonight. Tripp: You wanna have a drink tonight? Paula: Can't. [pause] How about lunch tomorrow? Paula: Based on the initial personality assessment, I think that I can have your son moved out of this house and living in his own by June fifteenth. Al: Hallelujah! Paula: Look, many young men who should be able to move out, simply can't. It's called "failure to launch". And that's where I come in. Young men develop self-esteem best during a romantic relationship, so I simulate one. We have a memorable meeting. We get to know each other over a few casual meals, he helps me through an emotional crisis, then I meet his friends, if he has any... Then I let him teach me something... But the bottom line is, he bonds with me. He lets go of you. He moves out. Al: But how do you make sure that he'll fall in love with you? Paula: You look nice, you find out what they like, and then you pretend to like it, too. Sue: That is pretty much how it works. Al: What about sex? Paula: Al, I never have sex with a client. Besides, I need to keep Tripp motivated, and let's face it, after men have sex... Sue: Is there anything that we need to do? Paula: Well, for starters, you could make life a little more difficult for him. You know, more chores, more responsibilities, that kind of thing. Sue: I just think you should know that Tripp has had some rough breaks. Paula: I promise you, when this is over, Tripp is going to be an independant, self-sufficient adult. Tripp: Shut up, dude! Don't help him! Sue: [to Tripp] And your bathroom needs cleaning, so I left the stuff in the hall. And when you're done with the rubber gloves, just remember to turn them inside out. Bye. Demo: Something's wrong with your mom. Mr. Axelrod: You're going to let her walk away? Tripp: I'm giving her space, Mr. Axelrod. Now, I'm going after her. Tripp: We've been out one time. She's a nice girl, I'm a nice guy, we had fun. And I must tell you, son, nothing is doomed. Tripp: [trying to feed a chipmunk a chocolate bar] You want a treat from the big city boy? Demo: He's not a child, Tripp. Look how peaceful he is. Tripp: Come here, little boy. You want a little bit of chocolate, baby-boo-boo? Demo: You're giving him a Power Bar? Tripp: Everybody loves chocolate. Baby-boo-boo? Demo: Tripp, he's saying no. Tripp: Look into my eyes. Demo: He's saying no, Tripp. Tripp: Baby-boo-boo? [chipmunk bites Tripp's hand] Aaow! Tripp: I take it you like Japanese food? Paula: Oh, I love it. I'm also gonna order a huge desert, drink too much, and maybe talk about my old boyfriends. Tripp: Yeah? Paula: Does that intimidate you? Tripp: Not at all. Paula: I had a nice time. Tripp: I did, too. Paula: Good. Tripp: I had fun. Paula: Good. Kit: [screaming at the bird outside] Shut up! Shut up you crazy bastard bird bitch! Paula: Hey, Kit. Kit: What? Hi. Can you guys see me? Paula: Yeah. Tripp: Yeah. Kit: Oh, great. Tripp: What? Paula: Dinner and a show. [kisses him] Goodnight. Tripp: Goodnight. Paula: [about the dog] He saved my life you know. Veterinarian: He did? Paula: And now I can't do anything for him, and I... Paula: I'm so glad you're here. [about her dog] Can I have a minute alone with him. [Tripp leaves. To the Vet] Emotional crisis day is so critical. I cry, he cries. It totally bonds us. So how long do you think he's going to sleep for? Paula: So do it. Buy a crummy old boat. Who cares, as long as you're out there. Tripp: Well, I'm working on it. Thing is, you gotta be ready. I mean, it's a big commitment. And if you're not ready, you just end up, well, a lonely guy with a big boat payment. Paula: Who says you have to be lonely? Paula: [to Kit] Oh, Tripp is just cruising through the steps. In fact, I think tomorrow I'm gonna let him teach me something. Paula: [at the end of a paintball game, she shoots an opponent who's been trash-talking to her throughout the game] Who's laughing now? Tripp: It's over. She's gotta go. Ace: You're dumping Paula? Demo: What happened? Tripp: Same thing that always happens. Everything is going along nice and smooth, we're having a good time, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, she gets serious. I hate to say it, boys, but it is time to take the girl home. Paula: So, you live with your parents? Tripp: Is that a problem? Paula: No. Not for me. Sue: I don't know what to tell you, honey, but that strict program of yours? Paula: Mmm-mmm... Sue: You're gonna have to start deviating. He's breaking up with you. Paula: What? Sue: The only reason he ever brings girls home to meet us is 'cause he's getting ready to dump them. Paula: Really? Well, that's not happening. Paula: Do you know that I have a contract? I-I-I have... I have fiduciary responsibilities to uphold. Kit: From a fiduciary standpoint, would you say that you had an orgasm? Paula: [shocked] Oh! Demo: What are you gonna do now? Tripp: I don't know. I'm in unchartered waters here, boys. Kit: [finding out that Paula has set her up with Ace] No. Paula: It's just coffee. You don't have to marry him. Kit: First of all, that's the geeky computer guy. It's bad enough I have to go out with a loser who still lives with his mom, but you led me to believe that it was the handsome minimum-wage slacker. Paula: No, I don't, I don't think that I did that. Jeffrey: My teacher, Miss Kramer has a girlfriend. Paula: Oh, that's nice. Jeffrey: She's a lesbian. Paula: Oh, my God. I am the worst person in the world. Kit: Oh, hey, you're home. Great. Paula: I have to break up with Tripp. I'm... I'm terminating my contract, and... I can't do it. Kit: Look, I don't see why it's so complicated. You like Tripp. Tell Tripp you like him. Tripp: And the thing is, Mom, Dad, I've lived upstairs since I was three, and it's been great. Tripp: You're all getting what you wanted. Paula, you don't have to pretend to like me anymore. And, Mom, Dad, you wanted me out of the house. I'm out. Demo: [to Tripp] You were bitten by a chuckwalla. That shouldn't have happened. It's a reptile of peace. I have a theory. This isn't the first time that nature's lashed out at you like this. I believe it's because your life is fundamentally at odds with the natural world. Tripp: Huh? Demo: Therefore, nature rejects you. Tripp: Dude, did you just drop me from a forty foot cliff? I mean, you want to talk about a friend, man. You went behind my back, and blackmailed your way into getting your girlfriend. Demo: He's right. Ace: I'm sorry I dropped you from a cliff. Tripp: It's okay. Demo: Granted, he used you, but not out of malice. Look at him. How many chances is he gonna get? He saw a chance for love, Tripp, and he took it. Which is exactly what we wanted for you. Tripp: Am I getting advice from my two loser buddies who still live at home? Ace: Actually, I own my home. Demo: What? Tripp: No, you don't. Ace: I bought it a couple of years ago from my Mom. That way, she has a place to live and I don't get nailed on the inheritance tax. Demo: Smart. Tripp: Wow. Ace: And Demo, here, has chosen the life of a wanderer. I mean, sure, he technically still lives at home. Demo: Yeah. Ace: But his permanent address is in his heart. He's a bum. Demo: I think what we're trying to say is that the two of us are happy, and we're perfectly functional. Ace: And you, Tripp, are not. Tripp: Hey, Pop? Al: Hey! Tripp. What are you doing here? Tripp: Just came by to get some stuff. What are you doing? Al: Feeding my fish. Tripp: Yeah. I see that. You're naked. In my room. Al: Well, this is my Naked Room. I mean, it's my house. A man ought to be able to do whatever he wants to do in his own house. Wore a suit for forty years. Tripp: So now we got forty years of... Al: No suit. Tripp: No suit. Alright. I'm gonna let you get back to feeding your fish. Cafe Patron: I don't usually like Reality T.V. shows, but this is so emotional. Tripp: So what do we do now? Paula: Actually, it's... it's quite simple. You just have to decide. Do you want to spend the rest of your life having fun? Or do you want to spend it with me? Tripp: Hmm... Paula: Shut up! Not everything you say is perfect. Tripp: We can have a little bit of fun, can't we? Huh? [last lines] Al: What'd I say? |
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