Comedies are my favorite movies to catch in the theater. Nowadays the skyrocketing prices for a ticket and some popcorn keep me hesitant to heading to the movies, but laughing out loud is often worth it’s weight in Junior Mints! Coming July 5, the perfect summer comedy, THE WAY, WAY BACK starring Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, AnnaSophia Robb, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph, Rob Corddry, Amanda Peet, and Liam James will hit the theaters. I’ve missed Steve Carell since he left the Office, and with a cast like that, I’m heading to see it!
Check out this trailer entitled, “I Think You’re a 3!”
I already chuckled at this, how many times have you misinterpreted song lyrics!
Official Synopsis
THE WAY, WAY BACK is the funny and poignant coming of age story of 14-year-old Duncan’s (Liam James) summer vacation with his mother, Pam (Toni Collette), her overbearing boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell), and his daughter, Steph (Zoe Levin). Having a rough time fitting in, the introverted Duncan finds an unexpected friend in gregarious Owen (Sam Rockwell), manager of the Water Wizz water park. Through his funny, clandestine friendship with Owen, Duncan slowly opens up to and begins to finally find his place in the world – all during a summer he will never forget.
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We were driving across the country and we stopped at my aunt’s house and everyone of us came down with stomach flu after my aunt had slaved all day over a pasta sauce.
We took our 4 year old son to Disneyland and watched the outdoor performance there. Our son was so excited, he was dancing, singing and got more attention than singers on the stage
When my son was 4 he was very much into the characters from Monsters Inc. We went to Disney World and saw the characters Sully and Mike standing around for pictures and my son was terrified to see them in person. He refused to have his picture taken with them. His reaction was pretty funny.
Went on a comedy cruise once. We got to listen to comedians on stage for 3 days, so that was very fun and funny!
We went to Disney World for fun… instead we were in a bus accident… don’t know how funny you think that is.. but for us it was hilarious!
We took my son on a vacation for his 2nd birthday to a really nice beach near here. We went on a really cool boat exploration trip and got to see dolphins and manatees and all the nice landscaping and other wild life in the area.
DD was about 3 on our long fly trip to Japan years ago, an hour after boarding she told every single stewardess they were beautiful and were all like princesses, this was the best day in her life to meet them.
The first time I went to the beach I had just graduated high school. I was in awe looking around while we were driving down the beach road when a guy just mooned us!
when i was 6 we went to las vegas. we were staying at the Excalibur hotel and we were at the pool. when you wanted a drink you put the little umbrella on your chair up and the waiter would come over to you. My brother and I wanted sodas and the waiter came over and said dont worry we can tell your over 21, we dont need an ID. my brother and i being kids started laughing hysterically. we thought it was the funniest thing ever
My funny family vacation memory is when the front floor board of our car started smoking because something had overheated. Whenever my parents took us on a vacation we would either get lost for a long time or have car troubles.
When I was a kid we went to Disney world and my whole family went up on stage to play parts in show they were having. It was pretty funny.
Once when I took the kids camping the racoons invaded our camping area and we had to sleep in the car. They were raiding all the other peoples sites and then they surrounded us waiting for us to go to sleep. They got tired of waiting and came right in with us still sitting there!
We programmed the GPS for the wrong location. At first we were wondering why everything looked so different because we’ve been to the place before and then we realized that the GPS was taking us the wrong way.
going to canada with our two year old. bittersweet times
My family would always go to the lake during the summer months. One thing you could count on was the red ants being out in full force.
You had to wear shoes or else suffer the consequences. Well, my sister, although she had on flip flops, could not avoid the bite – one red ant bit her toe and she screamed like a banshee. I know, this is not all that funny, but it is when you are a child and you did not get along, or particularly like, ones sister 🙂
We do not have 20oz. bottles in the car during vacation. One trip we had them and they were shaken up. I opened one and soda exploded everywhere.
We took a kitten home from a trip we took to NY. The little thing made the funniest meowing noise the entire 12 hour trip home.
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We went to my grandpa’s brother’s farm in Fonda Iowa – this big turkey they had chased me around the yard and then my grandpa opened the car door and i flew into the back seat to escape the bird! Grandpa always had my back!
going to seaworld as a little girl and hysterically crying because the shamu scared me, the pictures are hilarious though I’m sure my parents just wanted me to shut up
Many years ago, we were heading to Florida from Michigan with the kids and stopped at a place in TN. It was a very weird place, something that seemed like out of a movie. The people gave us terrible looks and we felt uncomfortable. We stayed and my husband layed next to the window to keep an eye on our van. The next morning, I had gotten up and left to go get coffee and some donuts for the kids. He heard the van and tore out of the room chasing ME thinking someone took off with our vehicle and he was in his underwear and all. The kids got all scared thinking someone stole our van so at the time, not too funny to them.
The funniest thing that ever happened on a vacation was when I was 12 and my dad took us to Disneyland. One of the days, we decided to go to the San Diego Zoo. We kept looking for exit signs for the zoo, and it wasn’t until we reached the Mexican border that we realized we had gone WAY TOO FAR. So, we spent the day in Tijuana instead. Apparently the signs for the zoo said Balboa Park.
We were hiking at the caves and my sister had to use the bathroom. She tried to hold it in, but eventually just had to go. After squatting to do her business, she stood up to see she had peed all over her hat she had been holding in her hand.
I remember when we got soaked while at Sea World… gotta love the FL showers. Anyways, since we were so wet, but still walking around the park, my husband’s thighs were rubbing and starting to bother him. We all thought it was so funny because he looked like he was walking with a corn cob up his bottom because he was trying not to let his legs rub.
a few years ago we were passing thru a georgia town and asw a sign for a scottish museum (!!), so I said we should stop, but then we got sidetracked at a pit stop and forgot about it. but then the car acted and we had to pull off hwy and get some supplies. I lamented about missing the museum, clerk looked at me funny and pointed behind me- Yup- caty corner across the street from where we were. We had a good laugh over that!
When we stopped in Key West this spring it rained all morning. We got completely soaked from head to toe. It wasn’t funny at the time, but now we can laugh about it and have a lasting memory.
Seeing my uncle on stage at the Hoop De Do Musical Review at Disney World – he was wearing a pink tutu and wings!
I thought I was in the shallow end of the pool at the hotel an just walked right off the steps into the deep end with my hat,sunglasses,watch an cup of coke,,I thought it was 2 feet deep an it was 12! everyone there got a good laugh
While on vacation we went to a hypnosis show. I don’t know what came over me but I volunteered…it was the most embarrassing thing I have ever done! lol!
My adult son snuggles with my younger son on one trip.
Surprising out of town relatives with a visit! Faces priceless! Still chuckle thinking about it!
I can’t think of a specific funny memory…but one of my favorite trips was my first time going to DisneyWorld w/ my family!
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I remember having to bait my cousin’s hooks, because they were afraid to do it, when we went fishing.
I was visiting my family in jamaica, where they drive on the opposite side of the road. My aunt decided to let me drive home and I hit this huge pothole and the tire basically popped off. My older cousin who was in the car with us, thought that was hilarious.
Just going fishing or crabbing.
We’ve only ever been on one and we got lost on the way to North Carolina and the way my mom reacted had all of us in stiches!
years ago I was a kid and we lived in FL for the winter. we went to Silver Springs with my grandparents. My poor grandfather got soaking wet from the sprinklers because he couldn’t get up in time (he used a cane) from his bench-my mom almost had her purse stolen by a wandering wild monkey and my grandmother brought crackers stuffed in her purse for the deer on the nature walk-bad move, she was attacked literally, they didn’t hurt her but it was funny to see a little elderly lady trying to escape from a herd of deer wanting her crackers. none of it was funny at the time, but you could have made a comedy movie from it all.
WHEN MY SON WAS 8 HE TRIED TO WATER SKI. MY SISTER SAID WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T LET GO OF THE ROPE.
WELL HE WOUND UP “DRINKING HALF THE LAKE” BEFORE HE LET GO. HE IS 22 NOW AND WE STILL CHUCKLE ABOUT THAT ONE.
Wow, I guess it would be when we were camping in North Dakota and got stuck in a hail storm where the hail was the size of golf balls and we had to run to the van and all sleep in the back of the van and it was really more scary than funny but we laugh about it now. But it put huge dents in the van.
When We Went Camping And Forgot The Tent At Home! It Was Funny We All Piled Up In The Car 🙂
I guess back in the 1980s when we were going to DC and the windows just kept fogging up and my dad couldn’t see and he had to keep pulling over in traffic it took forever to get there
When I got to go to Yellow Stone.
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when my niece tried to get sand out of her mouth by rubbing her sandy hand on her tongue
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We were in Russia several hundred miles SE of Moscow (visiting a nearby village where my paternal family emigrated from). We’d learned a few words of Russian to get us by. I needed some stamps to send post cards and we went to the post office. Of course, the one thing we couldn’t think of when we got there was how to say “postage stamp” in Russian. There was no one there that spoke English. Everyone ended up laughing as we tried to get across what we needed including us, the clerk, and everyone in line. We did finally get our stamps!
going to a beautiful resort in Monterey and having a bonfire and making smores.
We we’re trying to get back to relatives house we were staying at and ended up in another state!
I really don’t have one to share. I’m sorry.
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A camel bit my head when I went to a petting zoo with my husband on vacation.
My parents would never stop to let us go to the bathroom so my sister & I created a “pee song” about having to hold it
When at Broadway at the Beach (Myrtle Beach) a few years ago, we picked up pamphlets and it said free tickets to Legends if we took a tour of a vacation rental. Oh my gosh, the guy wouldn’t let us leave and got angrier and angrier because all we kept telling him was that we took the tour and we want our free tickets. We were there for hours, we did get the tickets and then ended up giving them to a nice couple on the boardwalk.
When my daughter was younger we were having dinner at a nice restaurant at the beach. I ordered a Chicken Caesar Salad, but she thought I asked for a scissor salad and started freaking out! We’ve been calling them scissor salads ever since…Thanks for the chance to win!
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One time we were on vacation 3 states away and went into a drug store in the middle of nowhere where my mom thought she recognized a voice in the next aisle. She walked over there to find her sister, on vacation with her family. Neither knew of the others plans! So they decided right then and there to finish their vacations together. Timing and fate….
Going to Yosemite during a drought and walking across what used to be a lake and stepping on dead slimy fish….I was about 8 years old and I stood in one place and screamed and screamed…my uncle had to walk out there to pick me up
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i once packed my suitcase and then forgot to load it into the car. didn’t notice til halfway there so had to go get all new stuff
We havent vacationed with the kids yet since their all still so young .
We were visiting family around the 4th of July and there is a little beach with a lake. The one day of nice weather we went down to the beach and there was nasty goose poop EVERYWHERE. So much for the beach.
A few years back my son was only 1 year old and to entertain him 12 hours back home from vacation I had to sing bard yard songs with animal noises. Uggg long trip!!
We once went to Florida to visit my parents who live down there full time. Our luggage was lost in transit. My husband and boys drove while we flew. It took 3 days until our luggage arrived. We had to have our daughter wear our son’s undies….the pictures are so cute!
We don’t really go on vacations, but we once evacuated for a hurricane and we got list in a strange town. Not sure that it’s funny, but it’s all I have. Thanks!
We love camping and fishing!
we went to a movie on our vacation. The gal at the counter asked us if wanted anything to drink with our popcorn and before I could answer, our son chimed up, “no my mommy has a soda in her purse!
it was probably more embarrassing than funny!
We went to the beach and camping in Virginia one year. I stupidly wore my glasses in the ocean and a wave knocked them right off my face! It was bad because I have really bad eye sight and they were lost for good. I had to finish out the weekend with no glasses. I was 12 and so embarrassed!!
We were on the way home when I realized that I left my favorite toy at the hotel. My dad turned the car around and drove 100 miles back to make sure I got ym toy back.
When we stopped at a rest side stop and went for a dip in the creek. When my brother and I stood up after playing, we were covered from neck to ankle in leaches!!!
I can’t think of a funny memory.
I don’t have a funny vacation moment my family didn’t take vacations, wish we did sure they would have been very funny
When we were small we took a road trip to Canada. This was in the days of no laundromats or air conditioning and mom had washed out our undies and laid them out on the back window area of the car to dry. Suddenly our underwear flew out the window and decorated the Queen’s Highway.
I honestly don’t have any funny vacation stories.
We went to Siesta Key beach..myself my husband and two teenagers. My spouse and I got up early to walk the beach and someone had made a huge male part with seaweed..They had to be a hundred beach walkers stopped gawking at it.I immediately went back to the resort and blamed my teenagers….lol. They swore it wasn’t them
My funny memory is from a restaurant In Epcot at Disney world, chip and dale come around and play tricks on you!
Going to Disney and getting really exited over the rides and seeing Donald Duck lol
I remember my dad never wanting to ask for directions.
Because of that we once went 40 miles out of the way.
Well it wasn’t funny then but we joke about it now.
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When I was 5 or 6 I traveled with my parents from Texas to Oklahoma. They kept telling me when we passed “the Tea Cup” we’d be in Arkansas. I was so disappointed to find that it was a restaurant on the border and not a giant tea cup.
One time my family and I stopped at a roadside attraction on our way to the beach. The sign promised a petting zoo and a dancing chicken, but when we went in, all of the “pets” in the zoo were either sleeping or hiding in the shade, and the dancing chicken refused to dance!
I don’t know whose idea it was. My mom’s I guess. We went camping in July for a couple years for my and my sister’s birthday. We’re twins, so we share a cake. In the midst of unpacking I tripped over the leg of a picnic table at our campsite and caught my balance with my hand— of course on the cover to the cake so when the plastic lid popped back up so did the top half of the cake with the frosting 🙁 My family still won’t let me live that one down.
my daughter only sleeps in her crib, no where else. Well in March we went to disney world and she was forced to sleep in a pack n play because they didn’t even have cribs at the resort. she wouldn’t sleep, naturally, so eventually she just fell asleep sitting up and when i went to see her, she was plopped head down over her crossed legs. cute but sad
It wasn’t that funny, but memorable. We went camping, and i was pregnant, and I got really sick! Its funny now!
accidentally visiting the wrong beach
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I was tired, so I left my husband and kids at the beach and walked back to the hotel. I went to the wrong room (wrong floor) and couldn’t understand why I couldn’t get in. Luckily, there was no one “home.”
My brother peed in the middle of a zoo.
My two sons were walking ahead of us in the hotel and opened the wrong door to the room. Luckily it was locked, but the people poked their heads out.
I have many funny family vacation memories. One really funny memory is when we were kids and went to the beach and got covered in tons of sea weed so we looked like a family of swamp things.
We rode a water ride and the 12 year old was a baby and the 6 year old insisted on being in front and loved it