History Funny / Misery

* There's a moment in the book, where Paul, alone in the room, is fuming over Annie abducting him, withholding pain medication from him, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and criticizing his writing skills.]]

* Annie imitating her pet pig Misery.

* The scene in the movie after Annie breaks Paul's ankles. She waves at him from outside and he responds by flipping her the bird. She laughs and says that he's "Such a kidder!"

* The scene in the movie after Annie breaks Paul's ankles. She waves at him and blows a kiss and he responds by flipping her the bird. She laughs and says that he's "Such a kidder!"

* Annie's...creative swear words.

* In a rather brilliant move on the editor's part, after Annie gives the "[[CliffhangerCopout HE DIDN'T GET OUT OF THE COCK-A-DOODIE CAR!]]" rant, with the camera zooming in on her face, we cut to Paul, trying ''desperately'' to not look like [[BringMyBrownPants he crapped himself]].

* The scene in the movie after [[spoiler:Annie breaks Paul's ankles.]] She waves at him and blows a kiss and he responds by flipping her the bird. She laughs and says that he's "Such a kidder!"

* There is just something so darkly hilarious about this -- In the novel, [[spoiler:after Annie cuts off his foot, Paul sees a scar on the instep and he remembers how he got it. As a child he had stopped on a piece of broken bottle. He had cried and his father told him it was just a little cut and to stop acting like someone cut his goddamn foot off.]]

* A very darkly funny example, but toward the end of the book, after Annie has [[spoiler:cut off one of Paul's feet and his left thumb]], Paul's thoughts idly run across Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", thinking of Annie and wondering if she's having fun. Then here hears Annie coming toward his room and thinks "something wicked this way comes", and to his horror, she's brought him a cake, with a "special candle" that turns out to be his [[spoiler:thumb]]. He promises he'll be good so he won't have to eat the "special candle", as she threatens, and thinks "girls just want to have some fun, but something wicked this way comes, please don't make me eat my [[spoiler:thumb]]".

* A very darkly funny example, but toward the end of the book, after Annie has [[spoiler:cut off one of Paul's feet and his left thumb]], Paul's thoughts idly run across Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", thinking of Annie and wondering if she's having fun. Then here hears Annie coming toward his room and thinks "something wicked this way comes", and to his horror, she's brought him a cake, with a "special candle" that turns out to be his [[spoiler:thumb]]. He promises he'll be good so he won't have to eat the "special candle", as she threatens, and thinks "girls just want to have some fun, but something wicked this way comes, please don't make me eat my [[spoiler:thumb]]".

* When trying to get out of the room, Paul uses a hairpin to unlock the door, despite never ever picking a lock before and just writing about it and loudly lampshading this. But it's his surprise when he actually picks the lock that makes the scene funny.

* There is just something so darkly hilarious about this -- In the novel, [[spoiler:after Annie cuts off his foot, Paul sees a scar on the instep and he remembers how he got it. He had stopped on a piece of broken bottle. He had cried and his father told him it was just a little cut and to stop acting like someone cut his goddamn foot off.]]

* There is just something so darkly hilarious about this -- In the novel, [[spoiler:after Annie cuts off his foot, Paul sees a scar on the instep and he remembers how he got it. He had stopped on a piece of broken bottle. He had cried and his father told him it was just a little cut and to stop acting like someone cut his goddamn foot off.]]

* There is just something so darkly hilarious about this -- In the novel, [[spoiler:after Annie cuts off his foot, Paul sees a scar on the instep and he remembers how he got it. He had stopped on a piece of broken bottle. He had cried and his father told him to stop acting like someone cut his goddamn foot off.]]

* A 1988 paperback version had [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sJq42pXCZlI/TJlv5MaAxPI/AAAAAAAACgw/SMtMnoV81ok/s1600/Misery3A.jpg this faux-cover]] of ''Misery's Return'' inside. The smirking, hunky hero looks familiar...

* Some early paperback versions had [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sJq42pXCZlI/TJlv5MaAxPI/AAAAAAAACgw/SMtMnoV81ok/s1600/Misery3A.jpg this faux-cover]] of ''Misery's Return'' inside. The smirking, hunky hero looks familiar...

* Some early paperback versions contained [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sJq42pXCZlI/TJlv5MaAxPI/AAAAAAAACgw/SMtMnoV81ok/s1600/Misery3A.jpg this faux-cover of ''Misery's Return'']]. The smirking hunky hero looks familiar...

* Some early paperback versions contained [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/b/b0/Misery's_return.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130412033745 this mock-up pic of the cover of ''Misery's Return'']]. The smirking hunky hero looks familiar...

* In the book, Paul pondering what he'll do if he should manage to break the top glass on one of Annie's home's doors: ''"Do a kamikaze dive out on onto the front porch? What a great idea. Maybe he could break his back, and that would take his mind off his legs for awhile."''

* Shortly after this, he ponders what he'll do if he should manage to break the top glass on one of Annie's home's doors: ''"Do a kamikaze dive out on onto the front porch? What a great idea. Maybe he could break his back, and that would take his mind off his legs for awhile."''

* One of Paul's inner monologue self-scolding from the book: ''"Think you can do that, chickenshit?"''

* Shortly after this, he ponders what he'll do if he should manage to break the top glass on one of Annie's home's doors; "Do a kamikaze dive out on onto the front porch? What a great idea. Maybe he could break his back, and that would take his mind off his legs for awhile."

* Shortly after this, he ponders what he'll do if he should manage to break the top glass on one of Annie's home's doors; ''"Do a kamikaze dive out on onto the front porch? What a great idea."''

* The scene in the movie after [[spoiler:Annie breaks Paul's ankles.]] She waves at him and blows a kiss and he responds by flipping her the bird. She laughs and says that he's "Such a kidder!"

* The scene in the movie after Annie breaks Paul's ankles. She waves at him and blows a kiss and he responds by flipping her the bird. She laughs and says that he's "Such a kidder!"

-->Three nights ago, when he was sure she was upstairs, he had sneaked one of the sample boxes out and had read everything on the label, although he supposed he had read everything he needed when he saw what Novril's principal ingredient was. Maybe you spelled relief R-0-L-A-I-D-S, but you spelled Novril C-O-D-E-I-N-E.

** Of course, for those that realize that Annie is a touch... "[[PsychopathicManchild unhinged]]", this easily counts as HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

-->Three nights ago, when he was sure she was upstairs, he had sneaked one of the sample boxes out and had read everything on the label, although he supposed he had read everything he needed when he saw what Novril's principal ingredient was. Maybe you spelled relief R-0-L-A-I-D-S, but you spelled Novril C-O-D-E-I-N-E.

* Whenever Paul goes into an ImagineSpot parallel to his current situation. The horse-race announcements during his time alone in a locked room helped soften the horrifying situation.

-->'''Annie''': COCKADOODIE!