There's Something All about Mary'' set Twenty-seventh in the American Film Institute's ''Century Years, 100 Laughs: United states of america's Funniest Movies'' (understand a 100 Years Series), a listing of the Century funniest film of the 20th century.

Plot

Although an awkward & shy high-schooler, Ted (Ben Stiller) lands the promenade date using his dream girl Mary (Cameron Diaz), good to stand it cut short by the mortifying zip accident. Thirteen years late he's however dotty—perchance possibly obsessed—by using a a single that had away, and so he hires sleazy private detective Patrick cooper (Matt Dillon) to track her down, only to develop Pat fall for the resistless Mary besides. Ted & Patrick cooper resort to prevarication, cheating & stalking in their competition for Mary, & discover that it're non a just men (or even women) world health organization might utilize immoral measures to become touching her.

A pic's on top-a-top & for instance distressing gross-out humor earned it an R rating, but mass produced it a blockbuster at the box office. A virtually all infamous scene—which was a subject of lot criticism—features Stiller's character masturbating & losing track of his ejaculate. Diaz's character notices it clinging to his ear, mistakes it for additional hair gel, & spreads it within her have hair. A "hair gel" scene spread by word of mouth, and late ads for the movie capitalized in its ill fame. Coincidentally, movie maker Kevin Smith shot a similar scene for Mallrats in which Jay and Silent Bob ejaculate over a dressing room wall & into the hair of Joey Lauren Adams. A scene was cut when existence deemed tasteless per studio. Smith apparently regrets this guide & has since noted that "cum in the hair is gold".