That one's for free.
Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.- The scene where Truman decides he and Meryl are going to go on vacation now is hilarious, and chock full of Carrey's distinct brand of scenery-chewing. It starts when Truman drags Meryl into the car to show her he's realized how his neighborhood is "produced", specifically the lady on a red bicycle, man carrying flowers, and Volkswagen Beetle with a dented fender that go by in that exact same order at the exact same time on a loop:Truman: There's that dented Beetle! Yes! Aahhhhhhh! Ha ha ha! Don't you want to know how I did that? I'll tell you. They're on a loop. They go around the block. They come back. They go around again. They just go round and round! Roooooound and round!
- Then when Truman is messing with Meryl
by driving around the cul-de-sac over, and over, and over again. "SOMEBODY HELP ME! I'M BEING SPONTANEOUS!" And then when cars pull right in front of Truman's car in a coordinated (and really contrived) attempt to prevent him from leaving town, we get this awesome exchange:Truman: ...blocked at every turn. Beautifully synchronized, don't you agree?
Meryl: You're blaming me for the traffic?
Truman: Should I? - And then when Truman is trying to drive off the island, the crew throws a forest fire at him to try and deter him. He drives right through it, scaring the living daylights out of Meryl (both for her own well-being and Truman going so off-script), while Truman is completely unfazed by it. Truman by this point is just gleefully defying her.Truman: It's okay, it's just a little smoke. You okay?
Meryl: Yes!
Truman: Wanna do it again?
Meryl: NO!
- Then when Truman is messing with Meryl
- The not-so-subtle ways the set tries to avert Truman from leaving, such as the poster in the travel agency of a plane being struck by lightning: "IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU!". It makes the already doubtful Truman even more suspicious too - something is wrong because all of the posters in the travel agency are making traveling look bad. Not so realistic, eh Christof?
- Another of these posters reads "TRAVELERS BEWARE: Have you bought enough travel insurance to protect against: TERRORISTS, DISEASE, WILD ANIMALS, STREET GANGS?"
- For some reason, when Truman is outside gardening in the opening scenes, we - and possibly the Truman Show audience - gets a nice shot of his butt sticking way up in the air.
- When young Truman does the "When I Grow Up, I Want To Be...", he opts for Explorer, only for the teacher to pull down a map and state "I'm sorry, you're too late; there's nothing left to explore!"
- Truman drawing on his mirror with soap one morning instead of his normal routine. note
- In a bit of hilarious if sardonic social commentary, the two parking garage guards, who (along with the rest of the world) have been watching all of Truman's efforts to escape (and his eventual success), leave us with this:Guard One: You want another slice?
Guard Two: Nah, I'm good.
[Beat]
Guard One: Let's see what else is on.
Guard Two: Yeah, what else is on?
Guard One: Where's the TV guide?
[cut to black, roll credits] - The guards also complain about the Sexy Discretion Shot when Meryl and Truman have sex:"You never see anything anyway...They always uh...turn the camera, and...play music and...you know, the wind blows and then the curtain moves, you don't see anything."
- When Truman goes to the hospital where Meryl works, the doctors are caught off-guard and have to improvise surgery:Surgeon: ...Scalpel. I am now making my primary incision, just above the right knee.
[the actor!patient jumps in shock as soon as the scalpel touches her knee, forcing another actor!doctor to hold her down]
[as Truman is escorted out, the actors drag the actor!patient's leg forward as if it was amputated]
Meryl: Very good, beautiful job.
Surgeon: Well... [pretends to survey the amputation] I'll just let someone else tidy up here. - When he's rushing to the scene of Meryl's surgery, they try to stop him first by running a gang of people in wheelchairs down the hall, then a guy with a shelf on wheels tries to block his way, playing the "I don't know which way we're going" game. Truman just grabs a hold of the shelf and wheels it out of his way.
- The bathtub viewer, but especially when he gets really into Truman's escape attempt:[clings to shower curtain] YOU CAN DO IT! HOOOOOOLD ONNNNNN!
- The various actors' efforts to thread Product Placement into their daily routine with Truman, whether by pushing him up against a poster advertising a product or shilling a product in dialogue, are hilariously blatant and unsubtle. Until Truman catches on, when while obviously trying to talk with Meryl about various issues he's having, she attempts to whore out another product.
- One of the attempts to crash the show itself was a viewer hid himself in one of Truman's Christmas presents when he was a toddler.Fan: [being tackled by Truman's dad] I DID IT! I'M ON THE TRUMAN SHOW!
- Truman's aghast "Meryl!" to his wife brandishing the Chef's Pal at him. And taking a moment to fold out its three blade options. Despite how tense this moment is as it progresses, it still manages to have some humor sprinkled into it as a whole. First off is the Mood Whiplash, which is equal parts dramatic as it is humorous (seriously, try not to smile over Meryl's completely serious tone shifting to her sudden sales pitch mode). Then when she brandishes the knives, he starts taunting her. "Whatcha gonna do, slice me? Dice me? So many CHOICES!"
- Truman looks through his wedding album and, upon looking under a magnifying glass, notices that Meryl crossed her fingers during their wedding. The next morning, Truman gets quietly fed up with Meryl's latest attempt to smooth Seahaven's inconsistencies over again and pacify him, so this is how he says goodbye as she rushes off for "surgery." Amazing the house wasn't reduced to ashes from this burn:Truman: I'll cross my fingers for ya.
- Just the way the whole photo reveal is done, from the classical music, Truman's Double Take and facial expressions as he looks closer at their wedding photo to finally discover Meryl's crossed fingers, is such a subtle yet hilarious moment.
- During a night with Meryl and his mother, Truman is looking at childhood photos and sees one of his family at "Mount Rushmore" (clearly a fake) with his mother casually handwaving that Truman doesn't remember the road trip because he slept the whole way.Truman: Looks awfully small—
Angela: (quickly puts the album away) Things always do when you look back on them, darling. - Watch Marlon during the scene when Truman confides he's going to go away for a while; even when he's not facing a camera, Marlon still makes sure the beer label does.
