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The film opens to a narration by this distinctive-voiced old coot:
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Patrick Stewart
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Donald Sutherland
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Dick van Dyke
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Ian McKellan
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Little John Bennett receives Ted for:
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Hanukkah
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Christmas
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His birthday
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His first Communion
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After Teddy comes to life, he skyrockets to fame, highlighted by a visit to this man's television talk show:
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Arsenio Hall
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Johnny Carson
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David Letterman
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Pat Sajak
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John isn't exactly a stellar employee in his work at a/n:
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Insurance agency
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Car rental service
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TV station
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Garage
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John's boss claims to know this mid-level movie star:
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Michael Ironside
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Chevy Chase
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Tom Skerritt
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This cheesy 1980s cinematic classic has a great deal of influence over John and Ted and the events in the film:
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Weird Science
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Flash Gordon
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The Goonies
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Real Genius
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In both their youth and their adult(?)-hood, John and Ted help each other cope with this very scary thing:
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Clowns
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The dark
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Thunder
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Whatever it is in the closet
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A flashback reveals that John and Lori met.......
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In a rollerskating rink
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On a dance floor
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On the bank of a link
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At a hockey game
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...and John's embellished memory of their meeting is an homage to this comedy:
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Airplane
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The Naked Gun
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Caddyshack
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Ghostbusters
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John tells Ted he has to move out, following an evening during which the apartment floor is.....soiled by:
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A hooker
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Ted
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A delivery boy
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A drug dealer
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When Ted goes for a job interview at a grocery store, he gets the job by:
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Appealing to the manager's memories of boyhood
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Telling scandalous jokes
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Doing a little song and dance
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Speaking crassly
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"Do you know what I'd like to do to her? Something I call a Dirty:"
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Winnie
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Yogi
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Smokey
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Fozzie
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One day at work, John gets a call from Ted enticing him to come over with promises of watching DVDs from this sitcom:
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Seinfeld
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The Cosby Show
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Cheers
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Friends
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Brandy, Heather, Channing, Brianna, Amber, Serena, Melody, Dakota, Sierra, Bambi, Crystal, Samantha, Autumn, Ruby, Taylor, Tara, Tammy, Lauren, Charlene, Chantelle, Courtney, Misty....
Ted's girlfriend has which of these white trash names, with "Lynn" at the end:
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Tammy
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Channing
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Mindy
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Taylor
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Ted gets promoted because/in spite of having sex:
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In the freezer
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On top of produce
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In the dairy case
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With the baked goods
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Ted convinces John to come to a party at which Sam Jones appears. Where is John when the call comes?
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At work
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At a party at Lori's boss's house
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About to propose to Lori
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In a theater lobby waiting for Lori
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The party culminates with a visit from Ted's irate Asian neighbor, who comes into the apartment wielding:
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A duck
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A boom box
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A meat cleaver
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A machine gun
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"You can do any 90s song with just vowels," Ted demonstrates at the party by singing a song from this band:
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Hootie and the Blowfish
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Spin Doctors
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Pearl Jam
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Alice in Chains
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Things come to a head between John and Ted when, after the Lori/John break-up, John tells tell he wishes he had received this as a gift those many Christmases ago:
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A Teddy Ruxpin
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A Cabbage Patch kid
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Transformers
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A He-Man
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"Hey, play chopsticks, you jazzy slut," Ted tells this singer, who lets John sing at a concert which Lori attends:
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Tori Amos
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Norah Jones
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Belinda Carlisle
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Sarah McLaughlin
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The song that John sings at the concert - hitting every single damned note, by the way - is the theme song from this James Bond movie:
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A View to a Kill
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The Spy Who Loved Me
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Live and Let Die
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Octopussy
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When Donny and Robert kidnap Ted, the first thing that Ted sees at their house is:
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A room full of teddy bears
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A wall full of pictures of Ted
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Severed limbs from stuffed animals tacked to the walls
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A room full of stolen classic children's toys
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When Ted swears in front of Robert, the boy gives Ted "an ouch" by:
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Tearing off one of his ears
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Pulling off one of his eyes
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Pulling off one of his legs
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Tearing off one of his arms
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The climax of the film takes place at this Boston landmark:
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Old North Church
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Paul Revere's House
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Fenway Park
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Boston Gardens
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25.
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Ted survives, despite being:
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Torn in half
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Impaled on a spike
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Electrocuted
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Caught in a fan
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