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...this game,” Allard said. “The umpire had made a complete mockery of the game by the time Moore was called for her illegal pitches. Jess Ferri did not give us a good start…but the next few runs were just a joke. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life...
...Jacob is supposed to be 20. The movie includes a joke about Tiger Woods sexting, which places it squarely in 2010; if Jacob was conceived in early 1986 he should be 23. But whatever - Hot Tub Time Machine is not a durable good. If I saw it again tomorrow I would probably dwell on its lapses in continuity, its problematic plot seemingly held together with Silly Putty and whether, cinematically speaking, one really needs so many close-ups of dog poop, vomit and suspiciously manly fluids...
...Some gags do fall flat. Chevy Chase is wasted as what Jacob dubs the "mystical time-traveling guy" who arrives to fix the hot tub; everything he says is mumbled nonsense and the only laugh lies in him being '80s icon Chevy Chase. But a gory running joke involving another prominent face from that decade - Back to the Future's Crispin Glover, playing a one-armed bellhop in the present and an intact but accident-prone bellhop in the past - might be the single funniest thing in the movie...
...live on TV - Nick grabs a woman and demands, "What color is Michael Jackson?" Her well, duh response - "Black!" - sends all four shrieking to the safety of their room. It's funny, but in the present, Jackson isn't of ambiguous color, he's actually gone - and so the joke hangs in the air for an uncertain second. It's a reminder of how good it is to be able to laugh at the passage of time, because otherwise, you're crying...
...even some Red Shirt supporters viewed the blood throwing plan as a desperate measure signaling the movement's goals had failed. "I'm loosing confidence,'' Lalida Phanyang, one Red Shirt supporter wrote on the group's Facebook wall. "It's a joke. This protest will turn into a humiliation,'' wrote Tawatchai Srihathai, another supporter. Red Shirt demonstrators have attempted to humiliate their political opponents in the past by throwing bottles and other objects at them, most notoriously bags of human feces. Two people were arrested in recent weeks for throwing bags of feces at Prime Minister Abhisit's home...