6. "Tell Me About It" - They Came Together
Lions Gate Entertainment
The Scene: Joel (Paul Rudd) finds out that his sexy girlfriend Tiffany (Cobie Smulders) has been cheating on him, and so heads to a bar to drown his sorrows. His conversation with the bartender goes as follows: Bartender: You look like you've had a bad day. Joel: Yeah. Tell me about it. Bartender: Well, you came in here looking like crap, and you haven't said very much. Joel: You can say that again. Bartender: Well, you came in here looking like crap, and you haven't said very much. Joel: Hey, tell me about it. Bartender: Well, you came in here looking like crap, and you haven't said very much. Joel: Yeah, you can say that again. Bartender: Well, you came in here looking like crap, and you haven't said very much. Joel: Hey, tell me about it. Bartender: Well, you came in here looking like crap, and you haven't said very much. Joel: Yeah, you can say that again. Bartender: Well, you came in here looking like crap, and you haven't said very much. Joel: Hey, tell me about it. Bartender: Well, you came in here looking like crap, and you haven't said very much. Joel: Yeah, you can say that again. Bartender: Well, you came in here looking like crap, and you haven't said very much. Joel: Hey, tell me about it. Bartender: Well, you came in here looking like cr- And the scene is finally cut off by Joel's buddy Kyle (Bill Hader), who is about as fed up with it as we are.
Why It Sucks: In much the same way that Family Guy frequently takes a joke and runs it into the ground with sheer repetition, that's pretty much what writer-director David Wain does here. Is the scene a funny send-up of inane bar banter in lame romantic comedies? Absolutely, and the first three or four repetitions make the point perfectly, but as this scene drags on for roughly 45 seconds, it grows painful and irritating by the end. Bill Hader's character at least mocks the scene for being grating, but just because Wain's self-aware enough to know it's annoying, does that really make it any better?