History Film / TheresSomethingAboutMary

* LoveDodecahedron: A Type 3 [[TriangRelations Triang Relation]] extended into a Love Dodecahedron with Mary at the center. Everybody is in love with/stalks Mary, including the main character and even football star Brett Favre. Naturally, Mary chooses the main character even over Brett. (She's a Niners fan.)

* FanDisservice: The binocular shot of [[GagBoobs Magna topless.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: The "hair gel scene"

* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: Dom has one of these before explaining to Ted why ADateWithRosiePalms is essential before any big date, leading to the infamous "hair gel" scene.

-->'''Ted:''' ...Aren't they the "San Francisco" treat?
-->'''Pat:''' ...They ''were.'' They're changing their image.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Pat Healy is a sleazy liar who takes advantage of the mentally disabled to get closer to Mary, but he thinks he's doing her a favor by stealing her from Ted, who he views as a dangerous stalker.

Thirteen years later, Ted is still in love — [[StalkingIsLove maybe even obsessed]] — with her. On the advice of his best friend Dom (Creator/ChrisElliott), he hires sleazy private detective Pat Healy (Dillon) to track her down. Healy finds that she is an orthopedic surgeon living in Miami but falls in love with the irresistible Mary as well. As the film progresses, Ted and Pat compete for her affections as the roster of other suitors rapidly snowballs.

* HeadTurningBeauty: Mary has this effect on all guys in universe. As the title says, there's something about Mary that drives men crazy: Ted hires Healy to find her, Healy quits his job and moves to Miami for her, Norm creates a fake identity to get close to her and Woogie gets seriously stalkerish around her. Even the old guy who sleeps with Magda was only doing it to get close to Mary.
* HeelRealization: Ted ultimately realises that his obsession with Mary has ultimately made him little better than any of the other men who have been stalking her (although in his defence, he actually hasn't sank to the same depths that most of them have) and decides to let her go [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy so she can be happy with someone else]].

* LoveDodecahedron: A Type 3 [[TriangRelations Triang Relation]] extended into a Love Dodecahedron with Mary at the center. Everybody is in love with/stalks Mary, including the main character and even football star Brett Favre. Naturally, Mary choses the main character even over Brett. (She's a Niners fan.)

* SexualKarma: Ted decides to quit it with being obsessed with Mary. Mary decides he's the one for him as a result.
* ShownTheirWork: Though Warren is played for laughs he's a very accurate portrayal of an individual with moderate to severe autism. He's often in his own little world, self-stimulates, has his routines and possessions which he holds dear, and is tactile defensive (does not like to be touched in certain areas). He is also functional and capable of establishing relationships and trust. Most indicated by the very subtle moment at the end where he allows Ted to touch his ears without going off. It is a Farrelly Brothers movie and they do a lot of work with individuals with disabilities and as a result always show such individuals accurately and in a positive manner. This was also clearly demonstrated during the scene where Mary brings lunch to the other individuals from Warren's group.

* YouMonster: Parodied. When the cops mistake Ted for a SerialKiller and he apparently "[[MistakenConfession confesses]]" having a bodycount in the dozens, one of the horrified detectives loses it. With utter fury he responds "You ''son of a bitch''... you're gonna fry" before [[LetMeAtHim slamming Ted's head into the table repeatedly]].

** The [[HostileHitchhiker murderous hitchhiker]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2di69FmhE goes off on an enraged tirade]] (and [[DisproportionateRetribution gets ready to kill Ted]], which the latter luckily dodged by answering the call of nature) after Ted hears the hitchhiker's idea for a "7-Minute Abs" exercise program and asks what if a competitor comes along and starts selling a "5-Minute Abs" program?

** Dom knows about the zipper incident, even though [[INeverSaidItWasPoison Ted never told him]]. Dom plays it off as having heard the story secondhand ("I was only four towns over").
*** However even in the 1980’s, way before Social Media and even the Internet, the story of a moron getting his dick stuck in his zipper at his prom date’s house likely would’ve gotten around.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: In the opening flashback scenes, Ted is taking a leak in the downstairs bathroom in Mary's family's large house. He looks out the window, at two birds in a tree outside... and sees Mary in her underwear as her mom helps her get dressed. It's funny, but how is this possible? Is the house somehow a giant U shape?

* ShownTheirWork: Though Warren is played for laughs he's a very accurate portrayal of an individual with mild intellectual disability with autistic-like tendencies. He's often in his own little world, self-stimulates, has his routines and possessions which he holds dear, and is tactile defensive (does not like to be touched in certain areas). He is also functional and capable of establishing relationships and trust. Most indicated by the very subtle moment at the end where he allows Ted to touch his ears without going off. It is a Farrelly Brothers movie and they do a lot of work with individuals with disabilities and as a result always show such individuals accurately and in a positive manner. This was also clearly demonstrated during the scene where Mary brings lunch to the other individuals from Warren's group.

* BluffTheImpostor: Pat, impersonating an architect, meets Mary's friend Tucker, [[IAmOneOfThoseAlso also an architect]], who immediately starts grilling him about his work. Eventually it's revealed that Tucker is also an impostor, and that he had pegged Pat as another fake and was trying to catch him in a lie.

* RewatchBonus: The movie drops a lot of subtle hints about everyone's real agenda that doesn't get picked up until the second time around. Regarding the identity of "Brett", you can catch a few early clues, with one friend calling him "Pack Man" [[note]]Farve played most of his career with the Green Bay ''Packers''[[/note]] (although most will audibly interpret it as "Pac-Man" the first time before they know The Reveal) and Mary also talking about how he lived "up north." With Dom, him mentioning Ted's zipper incident — even though he wasn't there and Ted never told him about it — is a big tip-off about his hidden agenda that's usually regarded as a random HandWave the first time. He also ducks out of Mary's sight at the hotel, with good reason as we find out later.

* BerserkButton: ''Never'' mess with Warren's ears.

* BluffTheImpostor: Pat, impersonating an architect, meets Mary's friend Tucker, [[IAmOneOfThoseAlso also an architect, who immediately starts grilling him about his work. Eventually it's revealed that Tucker is also an impostor, and that he had pegged Pat as another fake and was trying to catch him in a lie.

* NeverLiveItDown: It's implied by Dom's "I was only four towns away" comment that Ted's zipper accident was so humiliating that *everyone* knew about it.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Ted is confused on how Dom knows about the zipper incident, since he never told him. Dom does a HandWave to this by saying he [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial only lived four towns away.]] This seems like a minor throwaway moment, but comes back later [[spoiler: when Dom is revealed to be "Woogie", Mary's high school boyfriend prior to meeting Ted, which also shows how he knew about said incident.]]

* SpousalAbuse: [[spoiler:Turns out that Woogie married and even has a kid and his wife has no problem gratifying him sexually in a constant basis. He doesn't gives a shit about them, still being obsessed with Mary after so many years.]]

* IronicEcho: Throughout the movie, everyone takes advantage of Ted's gullibility to jerk him around, only to laugh it off by saying "I'm fucking with you!" when he believes it. At the end, Mary sincerely tells Ted that she'd be happiest with him... and his response, after a few moments, is a [[TheWoobie miserable, dejected and resigned]] [[WontTakeYesForAnAnswer "You're fuckin' with me, right?"]]
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: "Brett Fav-ruh."

* MeaningfulName: [[MarySue Is Mary's middle name Sue?]]

*** However the 1980’s were way before Social Media and even the Internet. The story of a moron getting his dick stuck in his zipper at his prom date’s house likely would’ve gotten around.

* HypocriticalHumor: "You're the worst stalker of us all, man!", said to Ted (who is pretty much the OnlySaneMan).