Dumb And: Dumber Mullet

Lloyd Christmas looked at the 90s and said, "No. I choose 1985. I choose ignorance. I choose bliss."

Lloyd Christmas paid $8 for a haircut, and he paid the barber in Monopoly money.

The mullet represents . It is the haircut of a man who thinks he looks amazing . Look at the scene where he looks in the rearview mirror after getting the "new" look (post-trashcan explosion). He smiles. He genuinely believes he has peaked. dumb and dumber mullet

That is not a plan. That is a mullet in motion.

That is the magic of the character. Lloyd is immune to shame. And nothing on planet Earth screams "immune to shame" louder than a home-bleached, half-grown-out, rattail-adjacent mullet. 1. The Snowball Fight. Lloyd gets hit in the face with a snowball. Does he wipe it off? No. He lets it freeze to his hair. For the next several scenes, he has a shard of ice glued to his bangs. Most actors would fight for continuity. Jim Carrey, and by extension Lloyd, realized that a mullet is a tool . It’s a shelf. It holds ice. It holds dreams. It holds the sheer audacity to exist. Lloyd Christmas looked at the 90s and said, "No

If you get a mullet ironically, you have already lost. The irony kills the magic. Lloyd’s mullet is sincere . He thinks he is the coolest man in Rhode Island. He thinks Mary Swanson is looking at his hair thinking, "Finally, a real man."

Think about the arc of the film. Lloyd is a limo driver who falls for a woman (Mary Swanson) who leaves a briefcase full of ransom money in his car. A normal person calls the police. Lloyd drives halfway across the country to return it, hoping to get a date. I choose bliss

But have we sat down—really sat down—and considered the mullet?