History YMMV / MeMyselfAndIrene

* ValuesDissonance: Several characters casually refer to Charlie as "schizo", even Irene. Aside from the fact [[CriticalResearchFailure that DID is not schizophrenia]], referring to someone suffering from a mental illness as "schizo" or something similarly degrading is very offensive nowadays.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** One of Charlie's sons exclaims "Man, how the hell can they call Pluto a planet, man? What kind of planet has an eliptical orbit? This shit don't make sense!" Almost all planetary orbits are at least ''a little'' eliptical. A true oddball orbit would be a perfect circle.
** The film's ''entire treatment'' of Dissociative Identity Disorder consists of this. For staters, it is referred to as "Advanced Delusionary Schizophrenia With Involuntary Narcissistic Rage", which is made-up nonsense. Second, schizophrenia has nothing to do with Split Personalities. Third, it has to be provoked by childhood trauma, yet Charlie develops it due to experiences when he was already an adult.

* ValuesDissonance: Several characters casually refer to Charlie as "schizo", even Irene. Aside from the fact [[CriticalResearch that DID is not schizophrenia]], referring to someone suffering from a mental illness as "schizo" or something similarly degrading is very offensive nowadays.

** Charlie trying to pee post-coitus, which leads to the entire bathroom gettin sprayed.

--> '''Guy:''' [[JustBetweenYouAndMe Just between you and me]], d'you ever notice that your kids have a year-round tan?
--> '''Charlie:''' Yeah, well, my great-grandmother's half Italian.
--> '''Guy:''' Half Italian. That's probably why the water beads up and rolls off the hair, huh?

** Milky/Casper/Whitey. A short-sighted albino who gets mocked for his condition on-sight. He says that Irene, Charlie and Hank (as in, one of the guys who bullied him) are his only friends and his own family ditched him. Then his "friends" leech off him at least twice and abandon him at a motel. His own family apparently hate him just for his appearance, as they moved to Phoenix, which is far too sunny for albinos. Charlie letting the poor guy live with him at the end seems like the very least he could do for him.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The film makes jokes about Irene's slender frame, with Charlie's sons proclaiming that their father wouldn't run off with "a skinny-leg girl", and Hank jesting that she used to develop an eating disorder and gained about 20 lbs. With the knowledge of Creator/ReneeZellweger's own WeightWoe as a result of the 20-something pound weight gain to play Literature/BridgetJones, and the [[YouAreFat press's own negative attention]] towards her [[HollywoodPudgy post-1970 Hollywood atypical curves]], and her rapid weight loss after the completion of the films, the dialogue can come off as awkward and insensitive.

** Milky/Casper/Whitey. A short-sighted albino who gets mocked for his condition on-sight. He says that Irene, Charlie and Hank (as in, one of the guys who bullied him) are his only friends and his own family ditched him. Then his "friends" leech off him at least twice and abandon him at a motel. His own family apparently hate him just for his appearance, as they moved to Phoenix, which s far too sunny for albinos. Charlie letting the poor guy live with him at the end seems like the very least he could do for him.

** HilariousInHindsight: The [[Creator/TraylorHoward ex-wife]] of a Creator/JimCarrey character would eventually go on to be the protagonist's wife in ''Film/SonOfTheMask''.

** Hank forgets to get Charlie's wallet from the dashboard of the car before he and Irene pushes it off into the water, which is a bit of a happy accident. Had Hank remembered to take the wallet, there's a good chance that the police would have been tracking them through Charlie/Hank and Irene's purchases with Charlie's debt or credit cards and figure out where they could possibly be heading next. That means that had Hank remembered to grab it, the bad guys would have gotten to them much sooner and ended up dead.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of Charlie's sons complains about Pluto being considered a planet. Pluto was demoted in 2006, six years after the movie was released.

* TheWoobie: Charlie. The second you see his kids being born, you will feel sorry for him. It only increases as the film goes on, and you learn that the entire town is laughing at him behind his back and he knows it, but is too nice to do anything about it. Becomes a bit of an IronWoobie, because regardless of who their real father is, Charlie loves his kids. He can take abuse directed at him, but when it comes to his kids, even his doormat status prompts him to defend them without even thinking.

--> '''Guy:''' Half Italian. That's probably why the water beads up and rolls off the hair, huh?

* CrazyAwesome: Hank figuratively takes no prisoners and is completely unbalanced.

*** This may have been intentional, considering the son who says it is one of three who are brilliant, but [[RunningGag is the one who constantly needs things put into context for him]], for example the helicopter scene where his brother get onto him for not knowing German, with him saying, "I how to speak it, not read it!"

*** This may have been intentional, considering the son who says it is brilliant, but [[RunningGag constantly needs things put into context for him]], for example the helicopter scene where his brother get onto him for not knowing German, with him saying, "I how to speak it, not read it!"

** The film's ''entire treatment'' of Dissociative Identity Disorder consists of this. For staters, it is referred to as "Advanced Delusionary Schizophrenia With Involuntary Narcissistic Rage", whuch is made-up nonsense. Second, schizophrenia has nothing to do with Split Personalities. Third, it has to be provoked by childhood trauma, yet Charlie develops it due to experiences when he was already an adult.

* FridgeHorror: When Hank first surfaces, one of the first things he notices is that he's carrying a gun. If Hank's response to disrespect is to nearly drown a little girl and smash a car into a barbershop, it's a good thing nobody ever took it further than that.

* CriticalResearchFailure: One of Charlie's sons exclaims "Man, how the hell can they call Pluto a planet, man? What kind of planet has an eliptical orbit? This shit don't make sense!" Almost all planetary orbits are at least ''a little'' eliptical. A true oddball orbit would be a perfect circle.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Charlie's sons would be endearing characters even without two their the only ones to take him seriously.