"what the fuck?" moment: after Lily Tomlin shrinks, her Spanish maid (who had appeared in earlier scenes demurely dressed in school-marmish outfits, hair in a bun) suddenly begins wearing florescent tube tops and hot pants, dancing around the house to bad mariachi music. She completely changes personalities, and it's never explained! At the "funeral" for Lily Tomlin, (her family mistakenly believes she was ground up after falling in the garbage disposal, see--komedy!) the maid is back to her previous demure, school-marm threads and hair. Again, it's never explained! Lily Tomlin's family finds her again, but then she gets captured by mad scientists, or something (at the risk of sounding redundant--this movie makes no sense), and is locked in a cage with a guy in a really bad gorillaA Brief History

On October 14, 1912, a certain badass former U.S. president was shot while giving a speech…and he continued to speak!?

Digging Deeper

Without any doubt, T.R., or “Teddy” Roosevelt, was just about one of the most manly of American presidents. A war hero and big game hunter, T.R. had a forcefulness about him that few other presidents really matched. Maybe George Washington who campaigned in fierce conditions in the French and Indian and American Revolutionary wars, Andrew Jackson who fought in duels, or Abraham Lincoln who was an accomplished wrestler merit recognition as physically imposing and brave individuals, but many other presidents, as with many politicians just lack the aura of badassery that surrounded T.R.

Consider what I wrote about T.R.’s life before becoming president back in May 2013