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* [[The Ace]]: Wal's brother.
* [[Alien Lunch]]: Happens as Wal is scoffing down the lunch Cooch made him in the back country. Wal remarks that he loves freshwater crayfish only for Cooch to remark "Yeah, but how do you feel about them [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_weta:Cave weta|cave wetas?"]]
* [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels]]: Horse's girlfriend belongs to a bikie gang, and his ferocity endears him to them.
* [[Angry Guard Dog]]:
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* [[Badass]]: Horse.
* [[Berserk Button]]: The Dog will go to amazing lengths to make sure his name remains secret. At a dog show, he sticks himself halfway into a loud speaker trying to get the mouthy beggar inside. Once, to stop Aunt Dolly from saying it, he actually [[Squick|sticks his tongue inside her mouth]], [[Crowning Moment of Funny|much to their mutual disgust and horror]].
* [[Bratty Half -Pint]]: Pongo to a tee.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: 'Spit' Murphy
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Horse, hoo boy Horse.
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* [[Gag Boobs]]: Dolores 'Cheeky' Hobson, we are looking at ''you''.
* [[A Handful for An Eye]]: Rangi does this to Lex Murphy in one strip. Not having any sand available, he improvises by using a handful of dried sheep droppings.
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]:
** Cousin Kathy. Being [[Purity Sue|the sweetest thing alive]] doesn't hurt.
** Jess is this for dogs when she's in heat, [[Justified Trope|naturally]].
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Inverted with Dolores the sow and poor Horace the boar. She's about twice his size and a bit overbearing.
* [[Intellectual Animal]]: The Dog seems to be one of these in a world otherwise populated by mostly normal animals, and even he can't actually speak.
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Cooch has a pretty poorly hidden attraction to his cousin Kathy ([[Hello, Nurse!|and it's hard to blame him]])
* [[Large Ham]]: The Dog.
{{quote| '''Dog''': ''Curse this accursed rain!'' Forty days and forty nights adrift! Well, a day and a half anyway...}}
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* [[Thought Bubble Speech]]
* [[Upperclass Twit]]: Townies fill a similar role.
* [[What the Fu Are You Doing?]]: Rangi Jones learned all of his fighting moves from watching kung fu movies.
* [[Widget Series]]: It's very... New Zealandy.
* [[Write Who You Know]]: Horse, of all people... er, cats.
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* [[My Life Flashed Before My Eyes]]: Early in the film, the Dog starts drowning, prompting a flashback to his first day on the farm and his first encounters with Wal, Major, the Murphys, Jess, Cooch, and Pew.
* [[Not Now, WereWe're Too Busy Crying Over You!]]: In the Dog's flashback, Wal's reaction to the new puppy going missing. He's too busy telling Cooch what a great little fellow the Dog was to notice that the reason for Cooch's visit is that he's found the Dog and brought him back.
* [[Third-Person Flashback]]: The Dog's flashback is in third-person -- and includes Wal waking up, getting dressed, spotting Aunt Dolly's car approaching, and rushing around clearing up... none of which the Dog (who was in the car with Aunt Dolly) was there for.