There’s Something About Pat Healy

Season 2. Episode 4. There’s Something About Pat Healy. And here’s the question we want to answer for history: When Mary Jensen chose that dorky, neurotic, stalker, Ted Stroemann, over the handsome, confident, entrepreneur, Pat Healy, are we sure that she made the right choice?

In the summer of 1998, Peter and Bobby Farrelly released a summer comedy that took the world by storm. “There’s Something About Mary” was not only the most successful gag comedy in over a decade, it celebrated the arrival of Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz as mega-stars. The world smiled, giggle, guffawed and winced as semen and a scrotum were used as props for hysterical effect. In the end, Stiller’s Ted finds and wins the heart of Diaz’s Mary. But along the way, we can’t keep our eyes off of Pat Healy, played by Matt Dillon. Because the final resolution feels so forced and because Dillon is so astoundingly funny and oddly charismatic, it’s almost impossible not to want to revisit the character and the actor.

Join co-hosts Matty Wishnow and Kevin Blake as they reflect on the gargantuan success of the film and focus on Dillon’s most enduring, if unlikely, character. With the help of panelists Judd Wishnow and Christian Anthony, we ask:

• What’s the deal with Matt Dillion, elite bachelor and collector of Cuban vinyl records?

• Where does semen rank in the arsenal of hairstyle substitutes if in an emergency situation?

• Was Woogie’s advice to Ted to “clean the pipes” before his big date good advice?

• Did Mary choose right in selecting Ted, or would Pat Healy have been a better match?

Along the way, we learn a (very) little bit about Matt Dillon, we learn a lot about 1998 and we uncover the unlikely and unnerving truth about Mary’s choice. Pat never had a chance because Mary always wanted a guy with a broken penis to eat hot dogs and watch ESPN with.