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* When Jack enters the bathroom of Room 237, he's initially terrified when he sees a hand behind the shower curtain getting ready to pull it back. When he sees that the hand belongs to a beautiful naked woman, however, his wide-eyed, unnerved scowl changes to a [[AllMenArePerverts pricelessly perverted grin]]. Everything that happens from then on in the scene is just NightmareFuel, however.

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* When Jack enters the bathroom of Room 237, he's initially terrified when he sees a hand behind the shower curtain getting ready to pull it back. When he sees that the hand belongs to a beautiful naked woman, however, his wide-eyed, unnerved scowl instantly changes to a [[AllMenArePerverts pricelessly perverted grin]]. Everything that happens from then on in the scene is just NightmareFuel, however.
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* When Jack enters the bathroom of Room 237, he's initially terrified when he sees a hand behind the shower curtain getting ready to pull it back. When he sees that the hand belongs to a beautiful naked woman, however, his wide-eyed, unnerved scowl changes to a [[AllMenArePerverts pricelessly perverted grin]]. Everything that happens from then on in the scene is just NightmareFuel, however.
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** The ghost(? echo? preserved memory?) of a young woman at the bar notices all of this and rolls her eyes before returning to her drink. Not all of the ghosts in the Overlook are in on the recurring horrors, it appears.
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* Meta-example: the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0 fake trailer]] that somebody made, using ManipulativeEditing to reframe the movie as an '80s-'90s style romantic comedy. (Complete with spot-on usage of [[Music/PeterGabriel "Solsbury Hill."]])

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* Meta-example: the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0 fake trailer]] that somebody made, using ManipulativeEditing to reframe the movie as an '80s-'90s style romantic comedy. (Complete with spot-on usage of [[Music/PeterGabriel "Solsbury Hill."]])"]])
* In the novel, when ''five-year-old'' Danny is getting a checkup from Dr. Edmonds in Sidewinder, he tells the doctor "I used to go to nursery school when I was a little kid."

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* Just like most of the unintentionally funny moments in the film, this merits as one of them. [[spoiler: During the scene when Jack is trying to break the bathroom door to get to Wendy and says "Little Pigs, Little Pigs, let me come in." Wendy, realizing she can't get out the window, grabs the knife and cowers in the corner with an expression saying "Oh, fuck this shit!", as if she were too tired to deal with the situation.]]

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* Just like most of the unintentionally funny moments in the film, this merits as one of them. [[spoiler: During the scene when Jack is trying to break the bathroom door to get to Wendy and says "Little Pigs, Little Pigs, let me come in." Wendy, realizing she can't get out the window, grabs the knife and cowers in the corner with an expression saying "Oh, fuck this shit!", as if she were too tired to deal with the situation.]]



* During the Exit chapter, [[spoiler:just after the boiler blows]], Hallorann, Wendy, and Danny are launched in the air, [[spoiler:by the explosion]]. Right before they hit the ground, Hallorann's passing thoughts, essentially, amounts to, "This is what Superman must feel like." Even Hallorann is unsure why he thought that.

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* During the Exit chapter, [[spoiler:just just after the boiler blows]], blows, Hallorann, Wendy, and Danny are launched in the air, [[spoiler:by by the explosion]].explosion. Right before they hit the ground, Hallorann's passing thoughts, essentially, amounts to, "This is what Superman must feel like." Even Hallorann is unsure why he thought that.
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* Their conversation in the men's room, which crosses over into horror as Grady's true and politically incorrect nature comes out.

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* Their conversation in the men's room, which crosses over into horror as Grady's true and politically incorrect nature comes out.out, though his choice of DeadlyEuphemism when describing what he did to his family (and what he's suggesting Jack do to ''his'') is still darkly humorous.
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* "Wendy, I'm home."

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* "Wendy, I'm home."** During their conversation in his car, Halloran absolutely loses it when Danny tells him this. First confused about the question of the woman wanting pants until Danny tell him verbatim what she was thinking. In the same conversation, Halloran tells him he sometimes uses his own shining to win horse races but still loses pretty often and that even with precognition, he has yet to hit the trifecta.
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* During the Exit chapter, [[spoiler:just after the boiler blows]], Hallorann, Wendy, and Danny are launched in the air, [[spoiler:by the explosion]]. Right before they hit the ground, Hallorann's passing thoughts, essentially, amounts to, "This is what Superman must feel like." Even Hallorann is unsure why he thought that.

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* During the Exit chapter, [[spoiler:just after the boiler blows]], Hallorann, Wendy, and Danny are launched in the air, [[spoiler:by the explosion]]. Right before they hit the ground, Hallorann's passing thoughts, essentially, amounts to, "This is what Superman must feel like." Even Hallorann is unsure why he thought that.that.
* Meta-example: the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0 fake trailer]] that somebody made, using ManipulativeEditing to reframe the movie as an '80s-'90s style romantic comedy. (Complete with spot-on usage of [[Music/PeterGabriel "Solsbury Hill."]])
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* Jack calls Ullman in the novel:
-->'''Ullman:''' What's the trouble?
-->'''Jack:''' No trouble. The boiler's okay and I haven't even gotten around to murdering my wife yet.
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--> "He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo-driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limo-driver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution."

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--> "He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo-driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limo-driver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.""
* During the Exit chapter, [[spoiler:just after the boiler blows]], Hallorann, Wendy, and Danny are launched in the air, [[spoiler:by the explosion]]. Right before they hit the ground, Hallorann's passing thoughts, essentially, amounts to, "This is what Superman must feel like." Even Hallorann is unsure why he thought that.

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* If you don’t find the movie very scary. Or you only started watching the film from when Wendy finds “no work and no play” on the typewriter, then Jack Nicholson can admittedly be quite hilarious. First there’s his overly sarcastic response to Wendy saying Danny needs to go to doctor. And of course the “I’m not gonna hurt you, I’m just gonna bash your brains”.. And let’s not forget the bathroom scene..

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* If you don’t find the movie very scary. Or you only started watching the film from when Wendy finds “no work and no play” on the typewriter, then Jack Nicholson can admittedly be quite hilarious. First there’s his overly sarcastic response to Wendy saying Danny needs to go to doctor. And of course the “I’m not gonna hurt you, I’m just gonna bash your brains”.. brains”. And let’s not forget the bathroom scene..scene...
* This hysterical usage of NarrativeProfanityFilter from the novel:
--> "He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo-driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limo-driver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution."

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