Funny / Scream 2

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• The opening scene has Maureen and Phil go on what is possibly the least romantic first date ever: watching the first Stab movie at the theater—for free.
  • At one point, Maureen asserts that horror movies are notorious for "excluding the African-American element" and tells her boyfriend that she wants to watch a Sandra Bullock movie instead, before Phil counters that Sandra Bullock isn't exactly "Miss Ethnicity".
  • One of the first signs of the Stylistic Suck approach to Stab is that not only does Casey Becker have a pointless fanservice shower scene before the plot even starts, but her shower inexplicably faces a transplarent plate glass window to the backyard, just so Ghostface can be seen prowling the yard in the background.
  • When Phil goes to the restroom, he waits impatiently for two guys in Ghostface costumes to finish doing their business. It's a fairly tense scene, since there's no telling if they're actually Ghostface, but it turns into a humorous scene when the two guys turn their heads and give Blank Stares to Phil as if to apologize for taking so long.
  • And despite claiming she doesn't like scary movies, Maureen appears to have gotten very into Stab by the time 'Phil' comes back from the bathroom.
• The first scene with Sidney, when a caller pretending to be Ghostface asks what his name is. Unfortunately for the caller, Cory Gillis, Sidney has caller ID and identifies him, getting an Oh, Crap! from him as she proceeds to be a smartass towards him before he hangs up.
  Sidney: (after he hangs up) Hope you enjoyed the movie.
• During film class, after Randy insists Sequelitis is always in effect, other students name various sequels to try and prove him wrong. A Take That! at Aliens ensues, and one student tries to quote the film with "Get away from her, you bitch!" (which it is, by the way), but...
  Randy: I believe the line is "STAY away from her, you bitch!" (looks to the professor) This is film class, right?
  The professor half-shrugs as if to say "he's got you there"
  • The professor also gives a "fair point" nod when, eventually, someone suggests The Godfather Part II as being better than the original.
• Cici engaging in Snark-to-Snark Combat with Ghostface.
  Cici: Who are you calling for?
  Ghostface: What if I said you?
  Cici: What if I said 'goodbye'?
  Ghostface: Why would you want to do that?
  Cici: Why do you always answer a question with a question?
  Ghostface: I'm inquisitive.
  • And behind the scenes, Sarah Michelle Gellar was the only actor who didn't avoid Roger Jackson during filming, and she would call him the 'Scary Voice Man' and Troll him over the phone.
  • She was also reportedly in such good shape from filming Season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer around the same time that she kept outrunning the killer during the chase scene. Wes Craven put her in those boots specifically to make her run slower.
• Dewey copping a feel on Gale during a lovey moment between the two on a table. Right when the killer is watching them. It has to be seen to be believed.
• Joel the camera man, replacing Gale's previous camera man Kenny. He knows what happened to Kenny, and due to this is very nervous and terrified he'll share the same fate. Opinion may vary, but his funniest moment is upon seeing Randy's dead body in the van, in which he passes out after Gale and Dewey run. He bolts from the film right after.
  Joel: I wanna report the news. I don't wanna be the news!
• Cotton gets taken to the police station and says, "I don't know about homicide, but you've definitely got me for raising my voice in a public library."
• Joel and Gale pondering the fate of Kenny from the previous movie.
  Joel: The guy was gutted.
  Gale: Okay, he wasn't gutted. I made that up. His throat was slashed.
  Joel: I don't care. Gutted, slashed, the guy ain't in the union no more!
• All the scenes involving the film's version of Scream called Stab, exaggerating all the original scenes with real life actors and a heaping dose of Stylistic Suck.
  • Heather Graham doing a shower scene that clearly wasn't in the original. Maureen even mocks the film for it.
  • Luke Wilson's dead-on impersonation of Skeet Ulrich, only with the '90s Hair taken to extremes.
  • Tori Spelling as Sidney is a nice punchline to a Brick Joke from the first movie, where Sidney tempted fate by remarking that, knowing her luck, the film adaptation of her life would probably have Spelling playing her.
• Before his death, Randy getting pissed when the killer mocks the fact he'll "never be the lead in a movie". Randy's rage makes it funny before the Mood Whiplash.
  Randy: ...FUUUUCK YOOOOUUUU!!
  • And before discovering Randy's body in the van, Joel takes the time to complain that someone smashed his windows.
• Dewey confronting Gale about the way she wrote about him in her book. It's clear she's both sorry and finds his reaction hilarious.
  Gale: You read my book.
  Dewey: Oh yes, I do read, Miss Weathers.
• Gale gets punched by Sidney a second time, while Hallie cheers "did you get that on film?", prompting Joel to mimick her annoyingly.
• During his song to Sid in the cafeteria, Derek begins jumping across tables, almost kicking sorority sister Murphy right in the face.
• Randy and Dewey discussing the rules for a slasher sequel, especially when they get to suspects. Randy is initially leaning towards Sidney's boyfriend Derek, before deciding the killer is "not a Nick-At-Nite rerun type of guy, he wants to break new ground." Randy then lands on:
  Randy: Mickey, the freaky Tarantino film student! (Beat) But if he's a suspect, so am I, so let's move on.
  Dewey: Let's not move on. Maybe you are a suspect.
  Randy: Well, if I'm a suspect, you're a suspect.
  Dewey: Right. Okay, let's move on.
• When Gale, Randy and Dewey are trying to find Ghostface:
  Gale: So what do you want to do, bonehead? Just sit around and wait to see who drops next?
  Dewey: I don't know! (Gale's phone rings) Phonehead!
  And when all three have separated:
  Ghostface: What's your favourite scary movie?
  Randy: Showgirls; absolutely frightening.
  • There are also some good moments in the same scene:
    • Gale grabbing a student’s phone and when the person the student was calling asks who she is, Gale does not hesitate to mention that she’s “Gale Weathers, author of The Woodsboro Murders” in an almost sales-pitch tone to the caller’s confusion. Dewey then has to pull her away, reminding her they’re looking for Ghostface.
    • The duo ambushing a student, with Gale grabbing his phone and Dewey jumping on top of the guy from atop a nearby wall.
• Hallie hops in the police car with Sidney, cheerfully telling the cops "I'm her therapist".
• Cotton has been trying to capitalize on his fame after getting out of prison, and keeps trying to get Sidney to do a TV interview with him. At the end of the film, Cotton has a gun trained on Ghostface and is ready to save Sidney...but only if she agrees to the interview.
  Sidney (calmly): ...Consider it done.
  BLAM!
• The entire car sequence, with Sidney and Hallie in the backseat. The idea of the killer driving like they're in a 70s cop movie is out of place in any other slasher film, except Scream 2.
• Mrs Loomis quips that her motive (revenge) "isn't as 90s as Mickey's".
• It's a little hard to take Mickey threatening Sidney with a gun seriously, since he keeps holding it Gangsta Style.
• Sid and Gale are both pointing guns at the seemingly dead Mrs. Loomis, fully expecting her to be Not Quite Dead...and then Mickey leaps up screaming, scaring the hell out of both of them before they gun him down.

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