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1* In the movie, near the end on Francie's graduation day, when Herschel tries to ask her out. What makes it funny is Francie's apparent ignorance of what's going on -- the key word being ''apparent'', she's trying to "play hard to get" -- plus Sissy and Katie's reactions.
2* Sissy's husband "John", who puts up with her ridiculous claims of being pregnant (she's faking it because she wants to adopt a baby) and her refusing to call him by his real name (it's a RunningGag that she calls all her lovers John, whether that's their name or not) when she finally has her first natural child. He has a meltdown and rants about his name is really Steve (with PunctuatedPounding), then has an abrupt change of mood and goes out to buy everyone ice cream to celebrate.
3* Francie's attempt to get Katie to scold her, which entailed her buying a [[BlackBraAndPanties black lace underwear set.]] Katie reacts... [[OpenMindedParent actually, she doesn't react much to them at all.]]
4* When Francie shows pictures of her family to her co-workers, they all think they're cute. When Francie shows a picture of herself standing on the roof, one girl says "The roof's cute."

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