15 Most Memorable Dumb And Dumber Moments

At the beginning of Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd Christmas is working as a limousine driver. When he picks up a customer, Mary, to take her to the airport, he is immediately smitten and tries to make conversation. This includes trying to calm Mary’s nerves by turning completely around in the driver’s seat to face her and remind her that, “statistically they say you’re more likely to get killed on the way to the airport.”

Throughout his spiel Lloyd is completely oblivious to his surroundings, running red lights and inadvertently causing car accidents. The scene ends with an explosion from one such crash that can be seen through the back window as Mary urges him to watch the road.

When Lloyd is leaving his new-found love, Mary, at the airport, he refuses to take a tip from her, opting for a long awkward hug instead. Claiming that he hates good-byes, he refuses to let Mary speak, squishing his fingers against her lips and exclaiming, “Shh! Just go.”

As Lloyd begins driving away from the airport, he calls out to Mary (not intending for her to hear) “Good-bye my love,” just before rear ending a car. To top it off, Mary watches in confusion as Lloyd tries to free himself from the Limo’s deployed air bag.

Harry also begins the movie with a short-lived job. His dog-grooming career ends quickly, but fortunately his car remains throughout much of the movie.

Harry explains that he has spent his entire life savings turning his van into a dog. Later in the movie, policemen identify the vehicle as an ’84 Sheep Dog, and when Harry pumps gas he must prop up the dog’s hind leg. The Sheep Dog car is an essential part of the movie.

After both Harry and Lloyd have lost their jobs, Lloyd goes to the grocery store to pick up the “bare essentials.” He exits wearing a ridiculous hat, playing with a paddle toy and carrying a box of beer and pinwheels. As he picks up a copy of Rhode Island Slut from a vending machine, he drops his wallet inside it. He asks an old lady to watch his stuff while he goes to get change in order to retrieve his wallet. But due to his inadvertent insult of her (“Hey, I guess they’re right. Senior citizens, although slow, and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose.”), this goes terribly awry. Lloyd returns home to Harry and falls on the floor in despair, exclaiming, “I was robbed by a sweet old lady on a motorized cart!”

During Harry and Lloyd’s road trip from Providence to Aspen, the two stop at a diner for lunch. Harry accidentally spills the salt, which Lloyd claims is bad luck. He tells Harry to throw some salt over his shoulder to reverse the damage. When Harry carelessly throws the entire saltshaker, it hits a tough trucker named Sea Bass in the head. This causes a scene in which Sea Bass spits a loogie into Harry’s burger. To retaliate, Lloyd comes up with a plan, and the two mislead the waitress into putting their lunch on Sea Bass’ tab.

As Harry and Lloyd speed away from the diner, Lloyd desperately has to use the restroom, but Harry won’t pull over. Resourcefully, Lloyd uses empty beer bottles they have in the van to relieve himself. Unfortunately, when they get pulled over for speeding moments later, the cop believes the opened beer bottles to be full of, well, beer. Harry and Lloyd try to convince him otherwise, but the cop insists on finding out for himself, which results in a number of involuntary facial contractions and bizarre noises. But the whole debacle allows Harry and Lloyd to get by without a ticket.

As Lloyd is driving late at night, with Harry soundly sleeping in the passenger seat, he delves into a lengthy daydream about Mary. It begins with Mary opening the door to her home as doves flying out from behind her. Immediately there is a long embrace between the reunited “couple.”

The fantasy continues with Lloyd impressing Mary’s wealthy, socially elite friends with his lewd humor, and escalates to a restaurant scene in which their waiter hits on Mary. Lloyd fights the entire restaurant staff with a series of bizarre Kung Fu-type moves, which climaxes when Lloyd rips the chef’s heart out of his chest with his bare hands, places it in a doggy bag and hands it back to him.

Before Lloyd snaps out of the dream he shares an intense kiss with Mary and she begins to take off her dress, waking Lloyd up when her breasts turn into a pair of headlights from an oncoming truck.

Farther along on the road trip Lloyd and Harry decide to pick up a hitchhiker, Joe, who unbeknownst to them wants the briefcase they are delivering to Mary. Lloyd ironically claims that they don’t usually pick up hitchhikers, but that he has a good feeling about Joe. Yet it’s actually Joe who is in trouble as Harry and Lloyd quickly drive him crazy. The two friends begin playing a game of tag around Joe, who is seated in the middle. After this quickly annoys Joe, Lloyd asks if he wants to hear the most annoying sound in the world, and begins shrieking into his ear. Joe asks if they can just turn on the radio, but instead Harry and Lloyd perform a duet-version of “Mockingbird” for him.

Lloyd and Harry get into a potentially friendship-ending fight when Lloyd accidentally drives five hours in the wrong direction. The two part ways, but Lloyd soon returns on a rickety scooter. When Harry asks where it came from, Lloyd explains that he traded the van for it with a kid in town, bragging that he can get “seventy miles to the gallon on this hog.” Harry responds with the famous line, “Just when I think you couldn’t be any dumber, you go and do something like this… and totally redeem yourself!” Fortunately, the two happily reunite and continue on their way to Aspen.

When Harry and Lloyd get to Aspen, they immediately want to deliver the briefcase to Mary, but they do not know her address. To make matters worse, Lloyd also can’t remember her last name, although he knows it begins with an ‘S.’ He brainstorms a number of names before landing on “Swanson” (her actual last name). An unconvinced Harry suggests Lloyd check the briefcase, which has a Samsonite tag on it, causing Lloyd to exclaim, “Samsonite! I was way off.”

Because Lloyd and Harry are short on cash, the two are forced to sleep outside on their first night in Aspen. As they are huddled around a trashcan fire, Harry complains that his hands are freezing. Lloyd then offers Harry his extra pair of gloves, infuriating Harry since Lloyd has been hoarding them the whole time. The two get into a brawl, ending with the briefcase being flung and broken open, which ends up spilling out loads of cash. The two quickly make up and decide to borrow some of the money, replacing it with IOUs for “small things” such as a Lamborghini and a stay in the presidential suite at a nearby hotel.

Lloyd and Harry decide to attend a fancy benefit dinner in order to run into Mary, but first, they need to look the part. Taking advantage of the cash they recently found in the briefcase, Harry and Lloyd get extensive makeovers inside their hotel. Highlights of the scene include their new hairdos (which they immediately undo), Lloyd’s pedicure (which requires the assistance of power tools), and Harry switching places and costumes with his masseuse. The scene ends when Lloyd finally decides on a the iconic orange tuxedo, complete with top hat and cane, while Harry gets his in a matching light blue.

While at a benefit for the preservation of snow owls, Lloyd pops open a bottle of champagne. Somehow, the cork from the champagne manages to fly across the crowded room and hit one of the two endangered owls square in the head, killing it. Of course this is bad news for the owls and the benefit. But the bad guys who have been following Harry and Lloyd take it as a message. Earlier in the movie they beheaded Harry’s beloved parakeet, so they believe Lloyd killed the owl in retaliation.

As Lloyd leaves the bar of the high-end hotel, he sees a framed newspaper article with the headline “Man Walks on the Moon.” Lloyd is immediately thrilled with this news, shouting, “No way. That’s great. We landed on the moon!”

The final scene of the film involves Lloyd and Harry walking on the side of the road with their meager belongings, wondering when they’ll ever catch a break. As they are walking a bus pulls over, and out comes a fleet of bikini-clad girls. They explain to Harry and Lloyd that they are on a national bikini tour and are looking for two guys to oil them up before their competitions. Harry and Lloyd briefly look at each other with awe and excitement. But, misunderstanding the girls' intent, they foolishly tell them that there is a town just a few miles back where they are sure to find a couple of guys. The bus pulls away, and Harry and Lloyd keep walking, musing that they too will find their break some day.