Funny / Freaky Friday (2003)

• Most mothers would just say "I love you" or "have a good day" dropping their children off at school. Tess instead calls out cheerfully "make good choices!" - which was a brilliant ad-lib by Jamie Lee Curtis.
• Anna discovering that Tess has confiscated her door, giving a magnificent Skyward Scream. Grandpa and Ryan hear this from downstairs and wisely hurry out to "check on those Lakers".
  • When Tess-in-Anna's-body does it again the next day after noticing Anna's navel piercing.
    Ryan: [Hears Tess!Anna scream]... Oh boy.
    Grandpa: You get used to it.
• When Anna (in her mom's body) believes they're crazy, there's this exchange:
  Tess (in Anna's body): I, for one, am not crazy. I'm merely a grown woman trapped in my daughter's body.
  [Anna (in her mom's body) scoffs and makes a "Do you even hear yourself?" look]
  Tess (in Anna's body): [Beat]... Oh, God, I am crazy.
• Harry reading Anna's diary to his friends... while wearing her bra!
• When Ryan tries warming up to Anna at the restaurant by mentioning he ordered her favorite food, he's met with Anna's typical teenager indifference.
  Grandpa: Stop groveling, man! Let her come to you!
  Ryan: She'd come with a hatchet.
• Tess wakes up in Anna's body, feels her now-long hair and nails and notes they're not hers. Then she feels Anna's ass and goes "that's definitely not mine!".
• Anna-in-Tess first sees her mother in her own body, and thinks she's some kind of clone ("get away, you clone freak!") - and when she gets scolded for using "that tone", she instantly realises "you are my mother."
• You can't deny that with these two, this type of exchange was unavoidable.
  Anna (in her mom's body): I'm old!
  Tess (in Anna's body): I beg your pardon?!
  Anna (in her mom's body): OH, I'M LIKE THE CRYPTKEEPER!
• Piece of advice, never try "a jolt" into each other after you've swapped bodies, it won't help you swap back. Though it is very funny to watch.
  Tess (in Anna's body): Okay, that was stupid...
• Beware vindictive big sisters.
  Ryan: OK, where are we going next, Harry's school?
  Anna (in Tess's body): Oh, he can walk from here.
  Harry: It's 20 blocks!
  Anna (in Tess's body): Fresh air will do you good.
  Harry: But what about bullies?
  Anna (in Tess's body): Run fast.
• When "Tess" arrives at work and answers the phone.
  "Tess": Hello?... Yes, this is she... What?!... Root Canal!? That's not fair! They're not my teeth!... Yeah cancel! Like I'm gonna take that bullet, please!
  [Next call]
  "Tess": Hello?.. What?! Halibut?! EWWWWW! That's disgusting!
  • When she signs for a package, already dreading doing actual therapy (especially dealing with Evan, Tess' most dependent patient).
  "Tess": [Sees the mailman] Evaaan!
  Boris: Noooo. [Points to name tag] Boris. Sign here.
  [Phone rings again]
  Boris: Um, are you going to get that?
  "Tess": Oh no, I'm not answering that thing again! [Notices how blurry her near-sight vision is] Whoa, she's blind! Oh, this sucks.
• Seems the only one who never learns is Pei-Pei's momma. Considering the fact that near the end of the movie, she tried to swap Harry and Grandpa Alan.
  Pei-Pei: Mama! What are you doing?! Mama?! Grandpa! Harry! Nooooo!
  (Mom runs for it as Pei-Pei tackles Harry and Grandpa Alan, and manages to grab the cookies)
  Pei-Pei: Okay!
  • Also, an earlier scene when Tess and Anna go back to the restaurant, in an attempt to get changed back. Pei-Pei assumes the two are there for lunch until they mention that they "aren't themselves". Cue an Oh, Crap! look as she calls for her mother. When her mother comes out, she sees who is there and promptly turns around, trying to make a getaway. And the best Pei-Pei can offer to make up for it is ten percent off of catering for the wedding.
    Pei-Pei: (about Mama) She's crazy!
    Mama (in Chinese): Like a fox! Someday they'll thank me!
    Pei-Pei (in Chinese): I don't think so, Mrs.-Smarty-pants! Tess is getting married tomorrow!
    Mama (in Chinese): (appalled) Nobody ever tells me anything around here!
• "... and how do you feel about that?"
• Grandpa Alan believing they're having an earthquake after Harry shakes the table while asking him to pass some milk at breakfast.
  • He gets another one in when the pair finally get switched back near the end. The second tremor is even larger than the first.
    Alan: EARTHQUAKE!!
• As soon as Anna tells her bandmates that their gig is the same night as her mother's rehearsal dinner, Maddie asks if all of her weird relatives from out of town will be coming to visit. Cue Alan coming in and hugging Peg, calling her his "Anna Banana". Anna is quick to point out his mistake.
• Jake singing "...Baby One More Time" very loudly (and very badly). Then Tess tackles him. (Right when he says "Hit me, Baby", no less!)
• Harry by chance seeing his "Mom" in a thong as she promptly puts her pants back up; his grossed-out reaction is priceless.
• Tess is not pleased with what Anna has done to her mother's body.
  Tess (looking at Anna's new clothes on Tess' body): I look like Stevie Nicks!
  Anna: Who's he?
• Tess finding out the origin for her daughter's catchphrase through her schoolmates:
  Peg: Besides, she's totally ruining our lives!
  Tess: You're the culprit!
  • Peg gets a couple more, thinking that Anna is the "Maid of Horror" (rather than Maid of Honor) at the wedding and thanking Ryan for giving Anna permission to play by saying "Mr. Dude, you rock!"
• Anna, not really knowing what else to do, basically winging it on the talk show appearance, the one that was supposed to discuss Tess' new book. In the end it turns into a rave party with everyone thinking "Tess" is awesome.
• When Jake appears at the rehearsal dinner, Anna-in-Tess crawls out from under the bar and pulls his legs out from under him. There's also a disinterested waiter watching them with a roll of his eyes while they talk.
• Anna's attempt to prompt Tess to fake playing during the Wango Tango audition.
  Anna: Come on, Mom, you can't tell me you never went to a rock concert.
  Tess: Okay, I saw The Stones once.
  Anna: Okay, great, great. Just go out there and act like Keith!
  Tess: ...Keith, yeah, right.
  Anna: Richards, Mom!
  Tess: I knew that!
  Anna: Just go out there and act like Keith!
  Tess: Act like Keith. Act like Keith. (starts to head to the stage but stops) Not the...behaviour?
  Anna: NO JUST THE PLAYING! NOW GET OUT THERE, YOUR SOLO'S COMING!