History Funny / MyCousinVinny

* Everywhere Vinny tries to find lodgings, a loud noise wakes him up at five in the morning. The first motel he tries, he's woken up by a steam whistle from a local factory. The next motel is adjacent to a pig farm, and he's disturbed by the sounds of pigs being loaded onto trucks. The third motel is next to train tracks, and a freight train rolls by and shakes the whole room. The clerk assures him that it's rare for a freight train to come by at five in the morning, but the same thing happens again the next night. When Vinny complains to the clerk, the clerk clarifies that the train is supposed to go by at ten after four, not five. The district attorney then offers Vinny his hunting cabin in the woods, and he's driven crazy by a screech owl. He gives up and tries sleeping in his car - a convertible - and gets caught in a thunderstorm. Finally, he asks his fiancée not to pay his bail for contempt of court, figuring that sleeping in the prison can't be any worse than any of the other places he's tried. In the very next scene, Vinny is in a prison cell sleeping perfectly to the background sound of alarms and a prison riot. Ah, the sounds of home...

* The public attorney's {{speech impediment}}, which is so bad it makes WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd sound like the most eloquent character ever conceived, and his client gives him the boot.

** Followed up when circumstances force him to wear a c. 1920s era red tailcoat tuxedo, complete with bowtie, to court. Vinny (truthfully) explains with a long diatribe about the series of events leading to his current attire, concluding with:

%%* "Dead-on-balls accurate?" "It's an industry term."