# "There's Something About Mary" nitpick

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-something-about-mary-nitpick/692878>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 11, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-something-about-mary-nitpick/692878 "2014-07-11T18:28:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-something-about-mary-nitpick/692878/21 "2014-07-14T17:58:36Z")

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I must have missed this, while transfixed by Cameron Diaz’s bralessness throughout the movie.

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**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-something-about-mary-nitpick/692878/22 "2014-07-15T18:07:37Z")

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> [@Apocalypso](#):
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> What I’ve always wondered is how Mary and her mom could see him from another room. The house would have to have been U-shaped. I moved furniture in my younger days and was all over the east coast and have never seen a layout like that.

A friend recently had a house built in Texas and made the movie reference because the house is U-shaped around a courtyard. I will be careful when I visit if I have to use the bathroom.

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**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-something-about-mary-nitpick/692878/23 "2014-07-19T07:13:29Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> That wasn’t Mary and her mom he saw from the bathroom window - it was the neighbors.

That one always sticks out to me. So the house is horseshoe shaped I guess?

And as far as cutting the zipper out with scissors to release it. I didn’t know about that. And I bet a lot of people don’t. So it’s only natural that the characters don’t know either.

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-something-about-mary-nitpick/692878/24 "2014-07-19T08:09:40Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> No, it was Mary and her mom. He was actually looking at a pair of birds on a tree branch but the window with Mary and her mom was beyond it. They assumed he was staring at them (Mary was in her underwear) and he was sufficiently flustered and embarrassed that he pulled his zipper up too hastily and… well… franks and beans.

Was it? I assumed he was looking into the neighbors window, where they were also getting ready for the prom, because… well, who the hell builds a house like that?

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-something-about-mary-nitpick/692878/25 "2014-07-19T08:22:51Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> Was it? I assumed he was looking into the neighbors window, where they were also getting ready for the prom, because… well, who the hell builds a house like that?

My detective work on Youtube tells me that it is indeed Mary and her mom. So, a horseshoe house it is.

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