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* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Epic Stick Lady during "Dancing Queen".
* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: Sleep with three guys and not know your baby's father? No, don't take a paternity test, wait a few years and have fun singing about it.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: Due to premiering on the same day as ''The Dark Knight'' it wasn't as big a success as it should have been. However, it did extremely well in Europe (where superhero movies aren't that popular), and is the [[Avatar (
** Actually, releasing it on the same day as [[The Dark Knight]] (as counterprogramming) was an intentional choice, and may have even ''helped'' its success. It made $144 million in the US, which is huge for a musical chick flick. Moulin Rouge, for example, was considered a success at $57 million. Of course, its ridiculous foreign gross still means that its an example of this trope.
** Not to mention it actually ''did'' outgross [[Avatar]] in ABBA's native country, Sweden.
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* [[So Bad It's Good]]: Pierce Brosnan's singing.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: ''Two'' moments right in succession: Donna singing ''Slipping Through My Fingers'' while getting Sophie ready for the wedding and ''The Winner Takes It All'' sung by Donna to Sam a few moments later.
* [[WTH? Casting Agency]]: What is [[Meryl Streep]] doing in a musical?
** [[So My Kids Can Watch|She went to see the stage show with her daughter for her eleventh birthday and got kinda hooked on the idea.]]
*** Also, one critic commented once on how she keeps touching her face and using her expressions mostly for acting, which makes it seem as if she’s just a head. One journalist in Israel asked her if she was trying to prove she has a body as well, and Streep replied this might have been the case.
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