Super Troopers

"Farva: "License and registration... chicken fucker!""

Broken Lizard's Super Troopers is a 2001 comedy film about highway troopers in the state of Vermont. They're trying to avoid getting shut down and are engaged in a turf war with the local Spurbury Police. Over the course of the movie they discover a marijuana shipping operation, and tracking down the culprits may be the key to proving their worth to the district.

The squad of troopers play a lot of pranks on each other, and a lot of the comedy comes from their wacky on the job hijinks and laid back attitude.

"Foster: Oh, god, please don't shoot me. I'm naked. Cop: Drop your coat and grab your toes. Foster: What? Cop: I'm gonna show you where the wild goose goes."
 * Ambiguously Brown: A Running Gag about Ramathorn.
 * Asian Animation: The term (and an example of) "Afghanistanimation" is used the same way the term "Japanimation" is was used.
 * Badass Mustache: Having one is standard operating procedure, apparently. The others pick at Rabbit for being unable to grow one,
 * They actually pick on Foster to "grow a goddammned mustache" and Foster responds that he hasn't shaven in two weeks.
 * Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop: You don't want either group of these cops protecting and serving in your area
 * Berserk Button: Farva has many, not the least of which is messing around with his fast food order.
 * Black Comedy Rape:.

"Thorny: We're gonna watch you smoke the whole bag. Stoner: Please no."
 * Black Sheep: Farva is this to the highway troopers.
 * Bittersweet Ending: After all they'd done,
 * Butt Monkey: Toyed with. Farva tries to make Rabbit (the squad Rookie) the Butt Monkey, but Farva himself is the real one and doesn't realize it.
 * California Doubling: Although set in Vermont, certain scenes were shot on roads in Westchester County, NY.
 * Capulet Counterpart: Ursula. Becomes the Reverse Mole eventually.
 * Car Chase: Obligatory.
 * Casting Gag: Daniel von Bargen (Grady) played a prison guard in The Silence of the Lambs, while Brian Cox (O'Hagan) played Hannibal Lector himself in Manhunter.
 * Kevin Heffernan's parents kept asking for a cameo, so he finally gave them one...where he calls them "chicken fuckers."
 * Communications Officer: Farva is given this job at the highway department as punishment after the school bus incident.
 * Meanwhile, Ursula is tasked with the same job at the Spurbury Police Department because she's a woman.
 * Da Chief: O'Hagan.
 * A Date with Rosie Palms: Mac. And while on duty, no less.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Everybody gets their moments.
 * Defictionalization: The Bulletproof Jockstrap. Body armor designed to protect the groin area is now being fielded in Iraq and Afghanistan, nicknamed "Bulletproof Boxers" or "Blast Boxers". Along with painful puns about the military protecting their Privates.
 * Development Hell: The sequel has been here for several years.
 * Did Not Do the Research: Remember that scene where Mac polished his pistol to a woman on a billboard advertisement? Turns out the state of Vermont banned billboards in 1968. Whoops.
 * Didn't See That Coming: Uttered by Mac after
 * Disproportionate Retribution: Rod Farva lives and breathes this trope. He assaults a cashier at Dippits Burger because of a prank played on him (which he totally deserved), and there was an incident before the film involving a bus of grade school kids which is shown during the credits.
 * Also played for laughs as Ramathorn and Rabbit are about to punish a trio of stoners.


 * Do I Really Sound Like That?: Farva quotes O'Hagan's favorite expression using the same fake Irish accent. The very drunk O'Hagan turns to the other cops and asks them if he sounds this stupid. The other drunk cops make it clear with their expressions that he does.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: Foster. Pranking your crush by flashing her works in Real Life, right?
 * Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male): Ursula tazes Foster at one point (and threatens to rape him at another) and it's Played for Laughs. He was being a bit of a jerk, but it would have been less amusing the other way around.
 * Drunken Master:

"Ramathorn: [types random keys] Enhance... [types random keys] enhance... [types random keys] enhance... O'Hagan: Just print the damn thing!"
 * Enhance Button: Parodied by Ramathorn while photoshopping security camera footage.

"And stop calling me Dispatch!"
 * Europeans Are Kinky: the German couple.
 * Not much kinkier than Ramathorn and his hippie girlfriend, although the German guy does get off on watching his wife with other men.
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Farva, to his chagrin.

""GOOD ENOUGH TO FUCK YOUR MOTHER!""
 * Face Heel Turn: For a moment,
 * Fake American: Though he does an extremely convincing job with the accent, Brian Cox is actually Scottish.
 * Fake German: The male tourist is actually Dutch.
 * Fan Disservice: Farva's "delousing"
 * Kevin Heffernan insists in the commentary that his penis wasn't supposed to be visible, but they decided to Throw It In and horrify us all.
 * Fan Service: When Rabbit and Ramathorn first encounter the German couple, the camera gives a few close-ups of the woman's assets as Rabbit oggles her.
 * Fat Idiot: Farva.
 * Five-Man Band:
 * The Hero: Ramathorn
 * The Lancer: Foster
 * The Wacky Guy: Mac
 * The Big Guy: Farva
 * The Chick: Rabbit
 * The Smart Guy: Ursula
 * The Mentor: O'Hagen
 * Funny Foreigner: The Germans.
 * Gratuitous French: "Liter is French for 'gimme some fuckin' cola before I break vous fuckin' lips'!"
 * Groin Attack: Mac gets shot in the groin to test a bullet-resistant cup.

"Mac: "And that was the second time I got crabs."
 * Made all the more eyebrow-raising when O'Hagan says: "In my day, the rookie got naked."
 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * Chief Grady is the Devil!
 * Jim Gaffigan needs to hand over his license & registration right meow.
 * O'Hagen used to plot mutant genocide for a living.
 * Interservice Rivalry: Between the troopers and the local police.
 * Jerkass: Farva, along with most of the Spurbury police officers.
 * Jurisdiction Friction: Over the drug-related cases.
 * Let's Get Dangerous:
 * In the epilogue.
 * Also an Oh Crap from
 * Mind Screw: An unusual case of most of the characters being fans of this trope. Starting right at the beginning of the film, they mess with the heads of stoners by pulling them over a second time after having already pulled them over. They're still pulled over from the last time and desperately exclaim that they can't pull over any further.
 * Ms. Fanservice: The German guy's wife, who we get to see quite a lot of.
 * Never Heard That One Before: Ursula being called "Charlie's Angel" by Foster.
 * Noodle Incident:
 * Played with; Farva's run-in with the school bus is actually shown during the ending credits.
 * Also;

"Thorny: All right Arlo, why don't you hop up on Uncle Rabbit's lap? Rabbit': I don't think that's such a good idea, Thorny!"
 * Which may be an actual "noodle" incident.
 * Noun Verber: "Bearfucker! Do you need assistance?!"
 * Only Sane Man: Ursula. O'Hagan also qualifies for most of the film.
 * Raging Stiffie: After arresting the German tourists:

"Littering and... littering aaaaand... ...smokin' the reefer."
 * Show Some Leg: Taken to the extreme with the German couple; the husband is totally willing to let his wife screw the highway cops to get out of a ticket. Justified, of course, since the car is stolen, and the couple is later shown to be swingers.
 * Smug Snake: Chief Grady.
 * Sorry, Ociffer...: The troopers pull over some kids. The kids had to get rid of their drugs, so one of them eats all their weed before they throw out what was left. The troopers notice this, and play mind games to screw with the stoners before the arrest. (And after.)

"Farva: *opens his burger* "That look like spit to you?" Ramathorn: Yeah. Farva: Fuck it. *eats burger*"
 * The Squadette: Ursula.
 * Stay in the Kitchen: The other squad members don't let Ursula do anything. At least one treats her disrespectfully because she's a woman.
 * Stealth Pun - Who wants some St.Anky beer?
 * Suddenly Sober: Averted. The troopers are all wasted during the climax.
 * It's pointed out that Rabbit is actually sober.
 * Suspiciously Specific Denial: "Don't spit in that cop's burger..."

"Rabbit: "I don't wanna get transfered... Have to be a rookie again with some random dudes." Foster: "Don't worry about it bro. If it happens, we'll, uh, we'll all just... Stay here. Open up a... Roller disco.""
 * True Companions: The Troopers are just a big band of buddies at heart.


 * We Can Rule Together: Grady promises Farva a more exciting and dignified job as a local cop, causing him to make a brief Face Heel Turn.