Funny / The Parent Trap (1998)

• In the background of the camp storyline is a subplot involving a boy (played by Lindsay Lohan's real-life brother Michael) who mistook the camp for a boys-only affair and spends the whole time lamenting the mistake (and desperately trying to get hold of his mom so she can come pick him up). By the end, he's reassuring the girls (who've taken to him) he will return next year.
• As Hallie and her other bunk mates are watching Annie and hers squirm from the numerous pranks set-up overnight, they after a pleasant greeting do a horrified Double Take upon realizing the Marvas are heading for the cabin for a surprise inspection.
  Marva Sr.: (through megaphone) Morning girls!
  Girls in unison: Morning Marvas! (beat) MARVAS!?
• The little girl at camp with the trumpet blowing her little lungs out, doing the morning wake-up alert (off-key).
• Just as Hallie is about to start cutting Annie's hair, she squeezes her eyes closed in fright, which leads to the following rather humorous exchange.
  Annie: Don't shut your eyes!
  Hallie: [laughing nervously]. Oh, right. Sorry, just a little nervous.
  Annie: You're nervous? An eleven-year-old is cutting my hair!
  • After the haircut, Annie now sees that she and Hallie now look completely identical and can only say "This is so scary" - to which Hallie puts on a Joisey accent and says "Honey, you never looked better."
  • Right after this, Hallie realizes that she missed one very important detail about herself.
    Hallie: [leans closer to the mirror] Oh my God… [winces]
    Annie: What?
    Hallie: [points to one of her earrings] I have pierced ears.
    Annie: [scoffs] No. No, no, and no! Not happening! Sorry, wrong number, I won't! I refuse.
    Hallie: Then, cutting your hair was a total waste. 'Cause, I mean, there's no way I can go to camp with pierced ears and come home without them. I mean, come on, get real.
    Annie: [looks back in the mirror, holding onto her earlobes and whimpering]
  • The scene, deleted in the original release, where said piercing takes place. Annie screams, which you might expect, but Hallie reacts by also screaming, and they're both screaming into the night.
• As a form of tongue-in-cheek protest to Meredith's presence, Annie decides to attack her with a cannonball dive into the Parkers' pool, splashing her shortly after they meet.
• Chessy's reaction to discovering that the girl she thought was Hallie is actually Annie, just as Nick is walking in. She starts with a reasonably convincing insistence that nothing is wrong, before quickly breaking down in tears and then flat-out bawling.
  Chessy: I'm going to make you something special to eat. What would you like? Anything? You know what, it doesn't matter, I'm just going to go whip up everything we've got, OK?
• "I always wanted a big sister!" said about the woman her father is going to marry.
• After Annie-as-Hallie's tirade (some of which is in French) about her father marrying Meredith, Nick turns to Chessy, who's watching through the kitchen window.
  Chessy: Don't look at me. I don't know a thing.
  [suspiciously closes shutters]
  • "She thought I was gonna adopt her?"
• Hallie literally bumping into her grandad after he sees her end a phone call with Annie:
  Hallie: (in her natural American accent) Oh excuse me, sir. [beat] Uh oh...
  Grandfather: 'Uh oh,' yes. Now, what say you and I take a stroll in the park, young lady?
  Hallie: Okay.
  Grandfather: Come on, now what's this all about?
  Hallie: Well, it's a long story...
  Grandfather: Well, it's a very big park and we've got plenty of time, you know.
• After the heartwarming scene where Hallie tells Elizabeth who she really is:
  Elizabeth: You're not to worry darling. I'll take care of everything. (Smash Cut) I'm sorry! I can't handle this!
  • Hallie cracking up during the above scene, and Annie doing the same thing when seeing her butler in a Speedo.
  • Immediately after this, Hallie comes in and announces that she just talked to her dad, and he's anxious to see them—anxious excited, that is, not anxious dreading it. Martin follows her out of the room, taking the opportunity to whisper to her.
    Martin: Liar, liar, pants on fire.
    Hallie: Ssh!
• Martin is a proper English butler most of the time. However, during the trip to America he's dressed in a leather jacket, black jeans and steel-toed motorcycle boots with mirror shades, giving the impression that he is a middle-aged former punk. And, of course, he has no issue with putting on a tiny Speedo to take a dip in the hotel pool.
• Drunk Elizabeth. The introduction is Martin opening the limo door for her and holding out his hand...which she puts her bare foot in.
  Martin: Um...other end, madam.
  Elizabeth: Whoops! That was a great flight, wasn't it? I mean it was so quick.
  Martin: I've never seen you quite so thirsty, ma'am.
  Elizabeth: Well would you believe, Martin, that I'd never tasted vodka before this trip?
  Martin: Could have fooled me, ma'am.
  Elizabeth: Come on then, let's rock and roll.
  Hallie: [Beat] I am in such major trouble here.
• And after she sees Nick in the elevator, and in her own words "waving like a mindless idiot", cut to her angrily storming down a corridor and yelling out "Hallie Parker!" - the opposite doors open and both twins step out thinking she means them.
  Elizabeth: Don't do this to me. I'm already seeing double.
• Also, this little tidbit during Elizabeth's drunken shenanigans...
  Chessie: Now, let's just do what the woman said and meet her "upthairth".
• When Meredith and meets with her "half" of the family, she's a little nonplussed to discover they brought Sammy, who decides to introduce himself to her as an Evil-Detecting Dog. Chessy takes it with a smile.
  Chessy: Good doggy. So, Meredith!
  • Shortly after that, the reactions when Sammy and Hallie see each other again: Hallie yells out in delight—though then covers her mouth immediately after that, Annie and Chessy both gasp with surprise, Sammy barks before he then runs away from them and toward Hallie while leaping perfectly through the gap in a luggage cart and then Martin back ups in the elevator in shock.
• Joanna Barnes' cameo as Meredith's mother. Lindsay's expression totally makes the scene.
  Vicki Blake: Hello pet! you may call me Aunt Vicki!
• Annie's reaction to seeing Elizabeth again while she's totally smashed. She's shocked, catches a whiff of the alcohol and waves her hand in front of her face and then also yells out and then Facepalms as Elizabeth—so incredibly and sloppily drunk—almost runs into a man carrying a vase of flowers—and Elizabeth also notices that who she thinks is Hallie is wearing a different coat but thinks absolutely nothing of it. Annie most definitely is flabbergasted at seeing her mom act like that as she voices to Chessy right after:
  Annie: She's drunk! She's never had more than one glass of wine in her entire life and she chooses today to show up totally zonked!
• After Elizabeth gets completely smashed on the plane ride over from London, she goes to the hotel bartender who gives her a Hideous Hangover Cure. Meredith happens to sit beside her, just as she takes her first sip and lets out a large belch. Meredith looks a little surprised, and Elizabeth quickly responds with "I beg your pardon, I think I just drank... tar."
• When Nick falls into the pool (which is pretty funny in and of itself), Martin takes a picture while everyone else freaks out.
• Elaine Hendrix's fantastic reaction to discovering that the girls are twins. Hallie appears on one side and Annie on the other. She jumps back and forth between them screaming, not sure what's going on.
  Nick: Honey, did I ever mention that Hallie was a twin?
  Meredith: No... I'm afraid you forgot that little detail.
  Hallie: Don't worry, Meredith. He never mentioned it to me either.
• After the twins lay out their proposal for the four of them to go on a camping trip.
  Elizabeth: OR you do as we say, and I take one of you back with me to London, whether you like it or not. [little nod]
  [Gilligan Cut to a plane flying overhead, then pan down to Meredith complaining about the camping trip]
• Meredith, floating on her air mattress in the middle of the lake, screaming bloody murder for her fiancé. Her scream echoes around the mountain. Nick pokes his head out of the tent to see what on earth is going on. His reaction: "Aw, man." Doesn't sound so funny when read, but Dennis Quaid's delivery is priceless.
  • When Meredith falls off into the water—after about a few seconds of struggling, Nick then shuts his eyes and gives an "Oomf".
  • Plus his response to her incoherent screams of fury. He just looks astonished. And his explanation to Elizabeth:
    Nick: [holding his engagement ring] She threw this at my head. At least it's smaller than a hair dryer.
• Pretty much any scene Chessy and Martin are in together.
• Elizabeth and Chessy watching in glee after Meredith is coerced into going on a camping trip with Nick and the twins.
  Chessy: Oh, I would pay big money to see that woman climb a mountain.
• The scene where Hallie tells the truth to Elizabeth ends on a hilarious note when it cuts to show that Grandfather and Martin witnessed the entire thing. Martin, who is outright sobbing, exclaims "I've never been so happy in my entire life!", before bawling even more as Grandfather, with a hilarious expression on his face, closes the doors to Elizabeth's room to give her and Hallie some alone time.
• When the twins start pranking Meredith on the camping trip, Nick tells them to cool it and hilarity ensues.
  Nick: I'm not marrying her because she's Annie Oakley.
  Annie: Who's Annie Oakley?
  Nick: [looking like he's about to roll his eyes] Just cool it.
• When you realize that the Twin Switch requiring crossing the Atlantic and thus meant swapping airline tickets and passports that means that the twins actually committed Identity Fraud on an international level and that they actually got away with it.
  • Unless they didn't switch passports and then Nick and Elizabeth just didn't catch onto that...
• In a meta example, someone on Twitter joked that children in The New '10s will never be able to fathom how much every 90s kid hated Meredith. The tweet went viral, eventually reaching the woman herself...
  Elaine Hendrix: I will ship every one of you brats off to Switzerland.

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