Response to Hill's Main Blog


I absolutely love The Hangover and both of the sequels.  I agree with Hill that they are definitely some of the funniest movies in recent history.  All of the videos in the links were great and have made me want to go back and watch them all again.  These are the scenes that everyone remembers, but even the less popular scenes from the films have so many underrated lines that it is impossible to know them all.  One of my favorite obscure lines from the first movie comes when Chow and his bodyguards ram Phil, Stu, and Alan while they are driving in the Mercedes.  The bodyguards have taken Alan’s purse, which he continues to call a satchel, because they thought that it was Chow’s purse with a lot of money in poker chips in it.  One of the larger guards throws it on the ground and Alan, in the most serious and offended voice possible, says “Hey! There are Skittles in there!”  My family and I quote this line all of the time.  Whenever one of us drops something, someone will always say “Hey! There are Skittles in there!”  We have to watch who is around when we say it though because it definitely draws some crazy looks when taken out of context.  In my opinion, the sheer amount of humor that is crammed into each and every scene from all three movies has definitely impacted the films’ success.  In this regard, The Hangover is very similar to The Office because it too is crammed full of non-stop laughs.  I also agree with Hill that multiple theories of humor are used throughout the movies and I think that this contributes to their popularity as well.  By incorporating multiple types of humor and packing each scene to the bursting point with comedic gold, the writers of The Hangover ensured that there would be some humor to fit almost everyone’s style or liking.

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  1. Shane HerronNovember 14, 2018 at 10:02 AM

    It's true what you say that it was very much part of the "overstuffed" comedy craze. Is it a coincidence that stuffed crust pizza came out at the same time? I think not. Seriously though, what do you think makes this brand of humor different from the past and how did it get started?

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  2. UnknownNovember 15, 2018 at 8:33 AM

    I love when I watch vines or movies with my family and we all adopt a quote to start using constantly. When I'm with my sisters one of them will un-ironically say "hey you guys", and my other sibling and I will repeat it how it's said in the Goonies.

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