Funny / Innerspace

• "I'm possessed!"
• The first time he visits the doctor, Jack is describing a recurring nightmare which keeps getting interrupted by the doctor tapping Jack's back. When he gets to the part about waking up screaming he kicks over a tray of tools and falls off the examination table.
  • The second time Tuck goes to the doctor, after screaming about being possessed, he is lying on the floor with his legs up against the wall.
• Jack trying to ignore Tuck by watching Scrabble on his TV, only to have Tuck set it on fire. Which caused Tuck to nearly set his controls on fire too.
  • Both frantically spray their fires with an extinguisher until they're out. In the breathless silence Tuck talks to Jack, which startles him so much that his fire extinguisher goes off again.
• Jack and Tuck get drunk in Jack's apartment ("I can't have a drink unless you have one"). Cue Martin Short dancing around before collapsing into a chair and wistfully thinking of all the parts of his body he'll never get to see.
  Jack: Gastric mucosa. Pulmonary alveoli. Intestinal villi. Faraway places with strange-sounding names.
  • Calling them 'faraway' when they are close as it is possible to be - inside him.
• Pete: But don't worry, buddy. We'll do all we can to get you out of this...civilian.
  Tuck: (To Pete, just Jack can hear him.) You better, you two-faced son of a bitch!
  Jack: (Beat) Tuck says, "Thank you."
  Pete: (knowing precisely what Tuck probably said) Yeah.
  • By Pete's tone he probably doesn't believe Jack by the look on his face. Pete knows Tuck all too well to know he was being insulted. Tuck's swearing was cut out in some TV airings, which makes it even funnier.
• Jack meets Lydia at a restaurant for help in getting Tuck back. When Lydia starts to sidetrack the conversation Tuck prompts Jack to get a move on, at which Jack slams his glass down on the table sending water and glass everywhere.
  • Jack then excuses himself to go to toilet and talks to Tuck while relieving himself. Another patron looks at Jack seemingly talking to his penis.
  Tuck: It's humiliating being small.
  Jack: (looking down) What's so bad about being small? You're not going to be small forever.
  Patron: Play with it, pal. But don't talk to it. (leaves)
• "Who's the Cowboy?!" "It's, um, classified."
• Jack is driving to get Lydia from the clutches of The Cowboy while Tuck is stimulating Jack's adrenaline to work him up for the confrontation. Jack gets so worked up he shouts that Lydia deserves better than Tuck, and when Tuck retorts with "You know what she sees in you, Jack? She sees me!" Jack starts to punch himself all over in an attempt to hit Tuck, only stopping when he painfully catches himself across the face.
  Tuck: Save it for the Cowboy!
  • When he arrives at the hotel, he nearly bursts through the wrong door and an exit before finding The Cowboy wearing just underwear, hat and boots, holding a bottle of champagne and cheerfully inviting Jack in. Jack just walks over and knocks him flat out, to the sound of Tuck's furious encouragement.
    • Then Lydia comes in from the hallway.
    Jack: Where were you?!
    Lydia: Next door, waiting for you.
    Tuck: Beauty punch anyway, Big Jack.
• When Tuck is about to alter Jack's face to look like The Cowboy and tells Jack that it will hurt, Jack can only say "Let's not do it, then" before his cheeks blow out and he starts screaming.
• Jack starts freaking out as the bad guys threaten to burn his hand off, resulting in his face morphing back to normal in various deformed states. Even the bad guys are freaked out and one of them faints.
  Mr. Scrimshaw: Oh God in heaven, deliver us from Satan!
  (makes the sign of the cross while hiding behind Canker and Lydia)
• After delivering a lengthy, dramatic speech to Jack about the geopolitical implications of miniaturisation as a weapon, and speculating about which nation will control the keys to this newfound power-breaker, Scrimshaw ends up concluding:
  Mr. Scrimshaw: Frankly, I don't give a shit. I'm only in this for the money.
  Mr. Scrimshaw: And that's why, Jack, we have got to get that little pod out from (prods Jack's chest) inside of you!
  (sits down, laughs maniacally and takes a puff of his cigar)
  Tuck: This guy is definitely not operating on all eight cylinders, Jack.
  • We then see Scrimshaw talking like a nice old uncle is telling his favorite nephew a family story.
    Mr. Scrimshaw: You know, Jack, sitting here, freezing as we are, I'm reminded of the year that I spent working in the great gold fields of Alaska. I was a young man then...
    (Commences long boring story that Jack completely ignores when Tuck begins speaking to him)
  • During this scene, if you don't listen closely you'll miss Tuck frantically screaming for Jack to wait until the truck stops to jump out. Jack doesn't.
  Mr. Schrimhaw: Come back here you fool!
  • Scrimshaw's frantic efforts to either get Jack back in the truck or pounding on the front wall and shouting trying to get Igoe's attention to stop the truck. But Igoe is wearing headphones listening to loud heavy metal and his driver side mirror was broken so he has no idea what's going on.
  Mr. Scrimshaw: Come in here you Safeway clerk! (goes to grab Jack's leg and Jack kicks him in the chest, knocking him flat on his back)
  Mr. Scrimshaw: (still trying pull a screaming Jack back in) Putter! Don't be a putz! Get in here!
  • Also funny is that, after this scene, Mr. Scrimshaw progresses from trying to make friends with Jack to being utterly ticked off and wanting to kill Jack with his bare hands after getting shrunk.
• Some of the lines the pod's computer says, including "Do not enter heart!"
• Mr. Igoe popping the clown's balloon as he leaves the shopping mall.
• Jack and Lydia accidentally shrink Scrimshaw, Canker and their lab techs to half their size.
  Mr. Scrimshaw: (higher-pitched voices) We're in here!
  Police officer 1: Who's in there?
  Dr. Canker: The green button!
  Goon: (confused) Dr. Canker?
  Mr. Scrimshaw: Press the green button you fool! Hurry!
  (The goon goes over to the control panel)
  Dr. Canker: He'll never find it!
  Mr. Scrimshaw: The man's a high school graduate. The green button you fool!
  (he finds and presses the button and the bay opens, the police officers and the goon are in shock at what they find, though the audience doesn't see)
  Dr. Canker: The police!
  Mr. Scrimshaw: Damn! Who called the police?
  Dr. Canker: Let's just get out of here.
  Police officer 2: (shocked) Holy shit!
  Mr. Scrimshaw: Margaret, look what you've done to us. / Police officer 1: (shocked) Midgets.
  Mr. Scrimshaw: Officer, give me a hand!
  (the goon faints from the shock; again)
  Mr. Scrimshaw: Give me a hand! I know the mayor!
• Jack and Lydia fighting off miniaturized versions of Scrimshaw and Dr. Canker while trying to maintain control of their car. It's every bit as hilariously surreal as it sounds.
  Mr. Scrimshaw: (to Jack) You insignificant little pipsqueak! I'm in charge here!
  • Afterward, they're using a payphone by having Scrimshaw standing on Dr Canker's shoulders.
    Dr. Canker: There's a phone. Thank god.
    Mr. Scrimshaw: So what? All my pocket change is shrunk.
    Dr. Canker: Well use your credit card, Victor. You do have one, don't you? All big men have credit cards!
    Mr. Scrimshaw: Yeah yeah... and how do we get up there? I've got it!
    Mr. Scrimshaw: (on the phone, precariously standing on Canker's shoulders) Cowboy, this is Victor Scrimshaw, what the hell went—
    Mr. Scrimshaw: I don't care what you've been through, it couldn't possibly compare with what I've been through!
    Dr. Canker: Or what I'm going through!
    Mr. Scrimshaw: Cowboy, listen to me! We need those chips, and we need them now more than ever!
• The entire "high prices" scene at Jack's supermarket.
  (Jack guzzles down an entire bottle of aspirin.)
  Dream Lady: Hey! I'm not buyin' those aspirin now!
  Chuck Jones: At eight hundred dollars a bottle, who'd want to?
  • When the cash register pulls up a total of more than $128,000.
  Dream Lady: (The lady holds out a large purse of coupons) Is that with or without the coupons?
• "I'm in a man! I'll be a son-of-a-bitch, I'm in a strange man surrounded by strange people in a strange room!"
• The ending. As Tuck and Lydia are driven off for their honeymoon, Jack notices the driver has very familiar snakeskin cowboy boots. He deduces it must be "The Cowboy", and Tuck is in danger. So what does he do? He tells his doctor he's cured, tells his Stalker with a Crush to take a hike, and quits his dead-end job (but not before thanking his boss) so he can race off to the rescue.
• The credit "Martin Short's Interiors Produced At Industrial Light & Magic."
• Scrimshaw's phone call with Canker from his sophisticated-looking pink-lit corner office overlooking the city.
  Mr. Scrimshaw: Margaret. The Cowboy is in town and we still don't have that other chip.
  (we see that someone is pouring a drink while Canker is dressed in something seductive and laying in bed while seductive music plays)
  Dr. Canker: I'm afraid I'm really awfully busy right now, Victor. (puts a grape in her mouth) I'll have to call you back...
  Mr. Scrimshaw: Just get me that chip! (slams down the phone leaving an echo)
  (the camera view then changes to see that his office takes up only the corner of the building and rest of it is completely bare and dark. Scrimshaw and his dog are the only ones there. ^note The film's commentary track explains that it's a throw-it-in that the production decided to do to reiterate that Scrimshaw really is nuts and that it was a funny moment they just couldn't pass up. )
  (We then see Mr. Igoe is with Canker, and is snapping on something that hums that makes Canker smirk.)