I knew it started with an "S"!

Drifting off to ponder the critically acclaimed film, Dumb and Dumber of 1994, a question arose regarding Mr. Lloyd Christmas. Lloyd and Harry arrive in Aspen after an eventful road trip via Mutt-Cuts van and small moped with great excitement. They see men and women walking about in overly-tight ski attire and start getting stoked. First order of business, deliver the briefcase Mary left at the airport in Providence. While Lloyd begins the guessing game to remember Mary’s last name, a guess comes across and, at the time, seemed normal, but looking back now, is quite absurd. “Swim, Swammi, Slippy, Slappy, Swenson, Swanson…”

WAIT A SECOND!

Slappy? Really? What I am wondering, friends, is what kind of events took place during Lloyd’s life that would lead him to believe anyone would have a last name of “Slappy?” When you look at the actress in the film (Lauren Holly), does she look like a Slappy? Is it the red hair that makes him think she may have the same last name as an underappreciated clown? I simply cannot, and do not want to imagine how to Lloyd, this could be one of the possibilities. Even “Slippy”, which is almost as goofy, could be a real last name. I think something that could have rocketed this scene to comedic orbit would have been a quick pan over to Harry immediately after Lloyd says Slappy to show him doing a slight head tilt and nod. Nothing could make him seem dumber, than by agreeing with Lloyd’s lunacy on the guessing of Mary’s last name.