{"id":4098,"date":"2005-12-28T12:35:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-28T17:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2011-04-26T08:10:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T12:10:31","slug":"40-year-old-virgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4098","title":{"rendered":"<i>40-Year-Old Virgin<\/i>:  Bullet Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things that make me laugh out loud:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; the black father at Planned Parenthood, saying, &#8220;My daughter is, for lack of a better word &#8230; DUMB &#8230;&#8221;  His FACE, the way his eyes are kind of flat and pissed off &#8211;  Half of the humor is in when he chooses to look at his daughter, and when he chooses to look back at the counselor (played by Nancy Walls &#8211; Steve Carell&#8217;s wife in real life).  It wouldn&#8217;t work if he didn&#8217;t glance briefly at his daughter during the pause before &#8220;dumb&#8221;.  I love  that in the gag reel there&#8217;s one shot of him bursting into laughter during one of the takes.  Yup.  He knew how funny it was too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The two angry Indian guys who work at the store.  They are always walking into the frame, where a scene is already going on, making some bitter comment, and then walking out of the frame.  I cannot get enough of them.  They are ALWAYS angry.  &#8220;What are we &#8211; Al Qaeda?  We can&#8217;t come to your party?&#8221;  And when the one angry Indian guy starts to list sexual practices off like a grocery list &#8211; saying that &#8220;life is not about sex or cock or balls or titties &#8230; life is not about butthole pleasures &#8230; life is not about &#8230;&#8221; And Andy&#8217;s face as he listens to all of this &#8230; It&#8217;s feckin&#8217; hysterical.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0528331\/\">Jane Lynch <\/a>&#8211; that FABULOUS chick from <i>Best in Show<\/i> and <i>Mighty Wind<\/i> who plays the manager of the store.  NOBODY plays &#8220;ikky&#8221; better than that woman.  Her performance as the lesbian dog trainer in <i>Best in Show<\/i> is so ikky and so comedically delicious that it&#8217;s perfect.  You know that kind of self-important person who has ZERO sense of humor about themselves?  She pretty much can play that kind of person like nobody&#8217;s business.  And that&#8217;s what her character is in this film.  She is so. GROSS.  I love when she starts to sing in Spanish &#8211; having no idea just how gross and self-indulgent she is.  That actress is brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Andy saying to his friends, after they figure out he&#8217;s a virgin: &#8220;I don&#8217;t need your help!  I have a very fulfilling life!!&#8221; Then a quick cut to a montage of his life:  strutting around in his apartment playing the French horn badly, painting a very intricate small action figure, doing karaeoke by himself in his living room, and sitting in bed reading a comic book laughing hysterically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The moment when Catherine Keener (love her) finds the plastic model of the vagina in Andy&#8217;s apartment (you know &#8211; the kind they use in health class and stuff) &#8211; She picks it up and shoots DAGGERS at him with her eyes.  &#8220;What is <i>this<\/i>?&#8221;  He is mortified but he answers bravely, &#8220;That is a vagina.&#8221;  She says, fuming: &#8220;And <i>why <\/i>do you have this??&#8221;  He splutters out: &#8220;For learning!&#8221;  (There are a couple of moments on the gag reel from this scene.  He would say &#8220;To learn!&#8221; or &#8220;For learning!&#8221; and Keener would hold it together for half a second, and then just burst into laughter)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0539082\/\">This guy<\/a>.  He steals every scene he&#8217;s in.  He makes me laugh out loud.  But none of it is gags &#8211; or gimmicks &#8211; it&#8217;s all just totally real.  He&#8217;s fanTASTIC.  This guy has a HUGE career ahead of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things that make me laugh out loud: &#8212; the black father at Planned Parenthood, saying, &#8220;My daughter is, for lack of a better word &#8230; DUMB &#8230;&#8221; His FACE, the way his eyes are kind of flat and pissed off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4098\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36791,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions\/36791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}