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One of the last teen sex comedies to come from the late 1990s, early 2000s boom. Scotty [[It's Not You, It's Me|gets dumped]] by his girlfriend on graduation. He then goes on a trip to Berlin to meet his German pen pal Mi(e)ke (pronounced Mee-kah, a German feminine name ''nach Deutschland'') and declare his everlasting love for her. He is accompanied by his sassy friend Cooper and [[Worst Whatever Ever|"worst twins ever"]] Jenny and Jamie. There are many wacky cameos, including [[Matt Damon]], Vinne Jones, [[Xena|Lucy Lawless]], Fred Armisen and the two stars of ''[[Absolutely Fabulous (TV)|Absolutely Fabulous]]''. Also starring [[The Adventures of Pete and Pete|Michelle]] [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Trachtenberg]].
 
''[[Euro TripEurotrip]]'' breaks the mold of many teen comedies, in that it never actually crosses the line from 'kind of goofy' to 'gross slapstick', and actually succeeds in inserting a bit of warmth and heart into the story.
 
It was filmed entirely in Prague.
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* [[British Pubs]]
* [[California Doubling]]: Being filmed in Prague, it kinda explains why we can see the Coliseum from the Vatican (which is impossible in real life).
* [[The Cameo]]: Quite a few, most notably [[Matt Damon]] and an uncredited [[Arrested Development (TV series)|Jeffrey]] [[The Larry Sanders Show|Tambor]] (they were filming ''[[The Brothers Grimm (Creator)|The Brothers Grimm]]'' and ''[[Hellboy (Filmfilm)|Hellboy]]'' in Prague at the time).
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Jamie's Leica M7 camera. {{spoiler|Near the end, he sells it so Scotty can afford to travel to Vatican City to meet Mieke}}.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: {{spoiler|The [[Football Hooligans]]}} and in a deleted scene {{spoiler|the Italian tourist}}.
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** The reign of Roman Emperor Constantine is said to be in the fifth century by one character. It was in the fourth.
** The map displays Ireland as being part of the United Kingdom, when its actually an independent state.
* [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]]: Jamie gets robbed at knife-point in Amsterdam, but he's too busy getting a blowjob from a local girl to put up much of a fight.
* [[Doctor Jekyll and Mister Jack Daniels]] : {{spoiler|The Twins when they visit the bar in Bratislava -- leads to [[Kissing Under the Influence]] and [[Twincest]]}}.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female Onon Male)]]: The Club Vandersexx scene again. Arguably justified, since it's an S&M club where guys normally ''pay'' for that kind of thing, but still...
* [[Dramatic Slip]]: Subverted. One of them falls, says "Go on without me!".... and then, when he realizes nobody's helping him, gets up again and keeps running.
* [[Ear Worm]]/[[Running Gag]]: Even in-universe.
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* [[Fan Disservice]]: The characters go to a nude beach, expecting to see beautiful naked women. They find hundreds of flabby, ugly male tourists who went to look for beautiful women too (it seems the actual beautiful women only go to the beach when the tourists aren't around).
** Even better: The beautiful women actually hang out around a local landmark that tourists usually avoid due to it being [[Irony|"boring"]], and that one of the main characters had initially suggested visiting, only to be ignored.
* [[Fan Service]]: Michelle Trachtenberg has definitely grown into her looks (the first time we see her [[Male Gaze|she's bending over in tight jeans]]), but it takes a long time for the other characters to realise. Even after she flashes passing drivers in a bid to get them a ride ([[Not Distracted Byby the Sexy|it doesn't work]] - see also [[Show Some Leg]] below). And then, of course, there's [[Everybody Remembers the Stripper|the girl in the hot tub]].
* [[Football Hooligans]]: Led by Vinnie Jones.
* [[Freestate Amsterdam]] / [[Marijuana Is LSD]]: Played straight and subverted: {{spoiler|[[Your Mind Makes It Real|The brownies contain no marijuana, they were just hyperventilating]].}}
* [[Fridge Horror]]: When Cooper first walks into Club Vandersexx, [[Lucy Lawless (Music)|the Dominatrix]] acknowledges the fact that he's American. If she's well aware that he's an American, she must have known that he wouldn't be able to pronounce the safeword that she wrote down. And as pointed out above, the safeword is written in some weird Scandinavian tongue that isn't even spoken in Amsterdam. So when she does the whole "session" with him, she's not providing the usual services that she would to a customer...she's just torturing Cooper for the hell of it and taunting him with the fact that he can't make her stop.
** Not exactly fridge here, since her expression gives off that she's clearly indulging in & enjoying torturing the ignorant American.
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Was there something stopping Scotty from setting up a new email address and saying he was drunk?
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** I thought that but in a re-watch I got the impression that Mieke blocked her own address.
* [[Funny Money]]
* [[Fun Withwith Foreign Languages]]: It basically drives the plot.
** [[Fun Withwith Subtitles]]
* [[Gay Paree]]
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: See [[Smallville|Lana Lang]] as an upfront two-timing slut. Buffy's little sister is also in this movie. To say nothing of Jason Bourne as a musician (responsible for belting out "Scotty Doesn't Know"), and Xena, Warrior Princess as a Dutch dominatrix.
** Also, [[I CarlyICarly|Miss Briggs]] is seen in confessional, and Scotty's dad is - hey now - [[The Larry Sanders Show|Hank Kingsley]]!
* [[Intoxication Ensues]]
* [[It's Not You, It's Me]]: Although, seconds later, Fiona retracts this and insist that it ''[[Kick the Dog|is]]'' in-fact Scotty's fault.
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