Along Came Polly (2004): Decorative Pillows

If you're like me and don't own decorative bed pillows, or stash them out of sight when visiting family and friends, this scene with Ben Stiller is for you.

The movie Along Came Polly (2004) was released the same year as other Ben Stiller movies such as Anchorman, Dodgeball, Meet the Fockers, and Starsky & Hutch so it had quite the competition in the Stiller-sphere.

It would have flown under my radar when it was released during my freshman year in high school if it wasn’t for the slow-motion shot of the sweaty, hairy belly of a middle-aged man grinding up against Ben Stiller’s face in the trailer.

Having enjoyed watching Stiller in Meet the Parents — and frequently citing his “Oh, your fingers hurt, well now your back’s gonna hurt cause you just pulled landscaping duty” line in Happy Gilmore — I was up to watch a rom-com with him even though I wasn’t particularly interested in the genre at the time.

As someone who can’t stand decorative pillows, I love the scene with Ben Stiller taking dozens of throw pillows off the bed he shared with his ex-wife and being called out by his rebound played by Jennifer Aniston.

“Oh, so you don’t sleep on these?”

“No, they’re decorative.”

“For who?”

“What do you mean?”

“You’re the only one who sees them, but you don’t sleep on them, and you take them off the bed every night, and put them in the box, take them out the box… I don’t understand the point.”

Good scene, good movie. And if you like this, don’t forget about Dodgeball (2004) that also starts Ben Stiller. I recently rewatched it and it got me feeling all nostalgic, especially when the song “Still In Me“ by The Bleacher Heroes plays when the credits are rolling.

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