Better Off Dead: Difference between revisions

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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: In-universe example: Barney Rubble of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' interrupts a broadcast to ask Lane if he can date Beth.

* [[Bungled Suicide]]: Several -- it's one of the film's [[Running Gag|Running Gags]].

{{quote| '''Lane:''' ''Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.''}}

{{quote|'''Lane:''' ''Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.''}}

* [[Burger Fool]]: Lane has to wear a hideous pig-themed hat, even though he works back in the kitchen.

* [[Cameo]]: Twiki from ''[[Buck Rogers in The 25th Century]]'' appears in the background of the Christmas scene.

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* [[Cool Car]]: Initially averted with Lane's canvas-draped, cobwebbed (and nonfunctional) Camaro. But once [[Wrench Wench|Monique]] gets her hands on it, it goes from aversion to expression.

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Charles. Explicitly justified:

{{quote| '''Charles:''' I've been going to this high school for ''seven and a half years!'' I'm no dummy!}}

{{quote|'''Charles:''' I've been going to this high school for ''seven and a half years!'' I'm no dummy!}}

* [[The Determinator]]: "I want my two dollars!!"

* [[Driven to Suicide]]

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* [[Homemade Sweater From Hell]]: Jenny wears a reindeer outfit which comes complete with an antler-headpiece, and gives one to her husband which is aardvark-themed.

* [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]]: Lane ditching the paperboy.

{{quote| '''Lane:''' My little brother got his arm stuck in the microwave. So my mom had to take him to the hospital. My grandma dropped acid this morning, and she freaked out. She hijacked a busload of... penguins. So it's sort of a family crisis. Bye! }}

{{quote|'''Lane:''' My little brother got his arm stuck in the microwave. So my mom had to take him to the hospital. My grandma dropped acid this morning, and she freaked out. She hijacked a busload of... penguins. So it's sort of a family crisis. Bye! }}

* [[Instant Expert]]: "Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn."

* [[Insult Backfire]]: Played with when Stalin insults Lane and Charles at one point during the New Years dance; Lane is insulted, but Charles finds it hilarious, even interrupting Stalin's dance with Beth because he's still laughing.

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* [[Language of Love]]: Subverted, when {{spoiler|it turns out that Monique speaks English fairly fluently.}}

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Hoo boy. Jenny. Lane pokes one of her creations with his fork, and it ''starts moving away''.

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Monique.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Roy ''Stalin''.

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* [[Stock Shout Out]]: Lane doing Frankenstein-imbuing-the-creature-with-life at the start of the "Everybody Wants Some" sequence.

* [[The Stoner]]: Charles. Or he would be, if he could find anything to get stoned on.

{{quote| How are we going to get real drugs in this town? We can't even get cable!}}

{{quote|How are we going to get real drugs in this town? We can't even get cable!}}

** Snorting ''real snow'' seems to work for him.

{{quote| This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?}}

{{quote|This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?}}

* [[Suicide as Comedy]]: Detecting a theme yet?

{{quote| And dying when you're not really sick is really sick, you know. Really!}}

{{quote|And dying when you're not really sick is really sick, you know. Really!}}

* [[Title Drop]]: The singer at the school dance.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]

* [[Totally Radical]]: Lane's father awkwardly attempts to "connect" with him.

* [[Trash Landing]]:

{{quote| [[Acceptable Targets|"Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that!"]]}}

{{quote|[[Acceptable Targets|"Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that!"]]}}

* [[Unkempt Beauty]]: Monique looks surprisingly hot with car grease on her face.

* [[Vanity License Plate]]: The villain's Trans-Am.