Nick Offerman wears an unidentified watch

Rawson Marshall Thurber's comedy puts Jason Sudeikis at the wheel of a fake family, a small-time pot dealer who recruits a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a runaway (Emma Roberts), and a teenage neighbor (Will Poulter) to pose as his wife and kids so he can drive a load of marijuana up from Mexico looking like a Middle American on vacation. The Fitzgeralds are the wholesome couple they keep running into on the road. Nick Offerman plays Don, the friendly dad who wants to show off his RV and compare campsite hookups, and Kathryn Hahn plays his wife Edie. The joke is that the Fitzgeralds turn out to be swingers, the genuinely normal-seeming people hiding the stranger appetite while the obvious criminals try to pass as normal.

We meet Don exactly the way the movie wants us to, grinning in the driver's seat of his RV with Edie beside him in a green visor, one hand resting on the wheel. On that wrist is a large black analog-digital sport watch on a black ribbed rubber strap, a chunky 45mm-class piece with a black dial, oversized white numerals, white hands, twin dark cutouts in the upper dial, and white hash marks around the bezel. It is the kind of busy, faintly tactical-looking quartz watch sold in a blister pack near the register, the watch a self-satisfied suburban dad buys because it looks like more than it cost.

No brand is legible on the dial, and the popular attribution of this piece to a specific forty-dollar U.S. Polo Assn. model does not hold up: the only listing that makes the claim concedes the on-screen watch merely resembles it, with no visible polo-player logo and a reversed digital display, so the safer read is a generic look-alike. That is fitting for Don. The costume department gave him something that is sincere rather than flashy, a watch that feels premium to a guy who has never looked closely at an expensive one, which is precisely the comic register the Fitzgeralds play in right up until things go sideways.