ABSTRACT

In the 1990s comedy Dumb and Dumber, Jim Carrey plays a dim-witted character named Lloyd Christmas. Lloyd is chasing after an attractive woman, Mary, and at one point asks her directly: “What are my chances?” When she replies that his chances are not good—namely, one out of a million—Lloyd pauses, seemingly disappointed. Gradually, a huge smile comes over his face, and he exclaims, “So you are telling me there is a chance? YEAH!”