After Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin, and the Farrelly brothers had cemented their directorial style with juvenile jokes, crass sight gags, and surreal slapstick, it didn’t seem like the pair would be well-suited to a love story. But, lo and behold, their third feature-length effort, romantic comedy There’s Something About Mary, quickly became one of the most popular comedies of the '90s.

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Like a lot of the Farrellys’ work, There’s Something About Mary doesn’t hold up as well today as it did when it hit theaters back in the late ‘90s. But there are still plenty of scenes that have aged surprisingly well.

Still Hilarious: “How’d You Get The Beans Above The Frank?”

Ben Stiller in There's Something About Mary

In the opening flashback sequence of There’s Something About Mary, Ted chronicles how he ended up scoring a date with the prettiest girl in school. When he goes over to her house to pick her up on prom night, disaster strikes.

He goes to the bathroom, and when he pulls up his fly, it goes right through his crotch to the top of the zipper. Mary’s dad finds it hysterical and before long, cops and paramedics are on the scene. It's a cringe-worthy moment that the actors played perfectly.

Aged Horribly: Normalized Stalking

Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon, and Lee Evans in There's Something About Mary

The premise of There’s Something About Mary revolves around stalking. Ted sends a P.I. to watch Mary and he ends up stalking her. Then, he uncovers a widespread network of stalkers with their eye on Mary.

The movie’s failure to point out everything that’s wrong with stalking went a long way toward normalizing a very terrifying, real thing that many people suffer from.

Still Hilarious: Ted Unwittingly Confesses To Murder

The interrogation scene in There's Something About Mary

When Ted picks up a hitchhiker and stops at the side of the road for a bathroom break, he accidentally stumbles into an orgy and gets arrested. The cops find the corpse of the hitchhiker’s murder victim in Ted’s car and think he’s the killer, so they interrogate a confession out of him.

The scene is hilariously written and acted, as Ted thinks he’s casually confessing to picking up a hitchhiker and the cops are disgusted by his blasé attitude to having taken a life.

Aged Horribly: Tucker’s Fake Paralysis

Lee Evans in There's Something About Mary

British comedian Lee Evans plays a supporting role in There’s Something About Mary as yet another mediocre dude infatuated with Mary. He’s really an able-bodied pizza delivery boy named Norm, but he masquerades as an architect named Tucker who needs crutches to walk due to "spinal damage."

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Almost every time Evans is on-screen, he uses his crutches for some uncomfortable slapstick. Not only is he an able-bodied actor playing disability for laughs; the character himself is pretending to be disabled.

Still Hilarious: “Build Me Up Buttercup”

The ending of There's Something About Mary

At the end of There’s Something About Mary, as the credits begin to roll, the Foundations’ “Build Me Up Buttercup” kicks in and the entire cast starts singing.

Long-gone supporting players from earlier scenes come back to join in the karaoke fun. It was a memorable way to end the movie and a reminder that the Farrellys, like the Zuckers, don’t take their work too seriously.

Aged Horribly: The R-Word

Matt Dillon and Cameron Diaz in There's Something About Mary

When Ted hires private investigator Pat Healy to check in on Mary, he falls in love with her and tries to use the information he has on her to woo her. However, he doesn’t have the sensibility to convince Mary he's a sweet and caring gentleman.

He joins her at a charity event for the neurodiverse and drops the R-word. The joke is supposed to be that he’s trying to come off as a sensitive guy without realizing he’s being completely insensitive, but it’s pretty offensive.

Still Hilarious: 7-Minute Abs

Ted and the hitchhiker in There's Something About Mary

When Ted picks up a hitchhiker, the hitchhiker tells him his business idea. He’s going to compete with the 8-Minute Abs exercise videos by producing 7-Minute Abs videos that promise faster results.

Ted suggests that someone might then come out with 6-Minute Abs and the hitchhiker gets angry at Ted and removes him from the project: “Step into my office.” “Why?” “‘Cause you’re f**kin’ fired!”

Aged Horribly: “I’d Be Happiest With You.”

Cameron Diaz as Mary in There's Something About Mary

Since There’s Something About Mary protagonist Ted Stroehmann isn’t as overtly creepy as Healy or Woogie or Norm, he’s presented as the good guy that Mary should be with. But he’s not really a good guy; he’s more of a Nice Guy™. He spends the whole movie viewing Mary as a prize to be won.

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In the end, Mary rushes out to join Ted, gestures to her gaggle of stalkers, and tells him, “I’d be happiest with you.” The movie forces Mary to choose one of her stalkers and then packages it as a sweet happily-ever-after ending.

Still Hilarious: “Is That Hair Gel?”

Cameron Diaz in There's Something About Mary with her hair sticking up

Perhaps the most iconic scene in There’s Something About Mary sees Ted pleasuring himself before his date with Mary and accidentally making a mess behind his own ear.

When he answers the door, Mary thinks the substance is hair gel and asks to borrow some. For the rest of the date, a tuft of her hair is sticking upright.

Aged Horribly: Anything Involving Warren’s Mental Disability

Warren in There's Something About Mary

Warren is Mary’s neurodivergent brother and Ted protecting him from a bully is what gets Mary interested in him in the first place. There’s nothing wrong with Warren as a character, or his place in the story.

But throughout the movie, there are a lot of jokes at Warren's expense and none of them land in an age when society has moved on from taking such cheap shots.

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