There’s Something About Mary

“Love is in the Hair.”

Character: Mary Jensen
Released: July 15, 1998

Directed by: Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly
Written by: Ed Decter and John J. Strauss
Genre: Comedy, Romance

Co-Starring: Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon, Chris Elliot, Lin Shaye, Lee Evans, Jeffrey Tambor, W. Earl Brown, Markie Post. (click here for additional cast)

Ted was a geek in high school, who was going to go to the prom with one of the most popular girls in school, Mary. The prom date never happened, because Ted had a very unusual accident. Thirteen years later he realizes he is still in love with Mary, so he hires a private investigator to track her down. That investigator discovers he too may be in love with Mary, so he gives Ted some false information to keep him away from her. But soon Ted finds himself back into Mary’s life, as we watch one funny scene after another.

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Movie Trivia

  • Both the movie and Cameron Diaz herself recieved a Golden Globe-nomination for the movie.
  • During the scene in which Ted and Mary are sitting on Ted’s car in front of Mary’s house, during their first date, you can see that in the background of a house right behind them, towards the top someone is making hand puppets in the light and you can see these hand puppets for several minutes during the scene.
  • Cameron Diaz and Lin Shaye were mooned by one of the Farrelly brothers during the filming of the scene in which the two actresses were looking downwards out of the window Puffy had jumped out of.
  • On “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”, Cameron Diaz admitted being the body inside the bag carried by the hitchhiker, played by Harland Williams.
  • The dialogue between Mary and Ted about how there aren’t enough meats on cones was originally written for an episode of “Seinfeld” that never aired. The Farrelly Brothers liked it and bought it for use in the movie.
  • Cameron Diaz’s father was on set during filming, so the Farrellys decided to throw him in the movie. In the scene where Ben Stiller is released from prison after being wrongfully accused of murder, Cameron’s dad is the inmate in the front with a beard and long hair jeering at Ben.

Movie Quotes

Mary: I want a guy who can play 36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren and me to a baseball game, and eat sausages, and beer, not lite beer, but beer. That’s my ad, print it up.
Brenda: “Fatty who likes golf and beer.” Gee, Mary, where are you gonna find a gem like that?

Pat Healy: Really, it’s only a side thing for my true passion.
Mary: And what’s that?
Pat Healy: I work with retards.
Mary: Isn’t that a little politically incorrect?
Pat Healy: Yeah, maybe, but hell, no one’s gonna tell me who I can and can’t work with.

Mary: You’ve been to Nepal?
Pat Healy: Not in months, I don’t know why I bought the damn place.

Ted: Do you think maybe you wanna maybe, I don’t know, go out to dinner, you know, catch up on old times?
Mary: Didn’t we just do that?
Ted: Oh, uh…
Mary: I’m fucking with you, Ted!

Mary: Hey, you want to go upstairs and watch SportsCenter?
Ted: No, I think I’m just going to quit while I’m ahead.
Mary: You’re not that far ahead, Ted.

Mary: Is that… is that hair gel?

Cast and Crew Quotes

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