Meatballs
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1979 Bill Murray comedy about a summer camp. Tripper (Murray) leads the camp counselors in Wacky Hijinks against both their straight-laced boss Morty and the evil-ish rich-kids camp across the lake.
Tropes used in Meatballs include:
- Butt Monkey: Morty and Spaz.
- Rudy is mostly treated as this off-camera. He gets better.
- Chekhov's Gun: Rudy and Tripper bonding as early morning joggers. Rudy's marathon win against the Camp Mohawk ringer gives Camp North Star its victory over the hated rich-kid's camp.
- Coming of Age: Rudy is the loner geek kid suffering at the camp who learns to accept the challenges of growing up, instead of withdrawing from the world. Also, he wins a ton of peanuts from Tripper in a poker game.
- Deadpan Snarker: Tripper.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Spaz, whenever he's around busty Wendy.
- Mystery Meat
Tripper:Here's an update on tonight's dinner. It was veal. I repeat, veal. The winner of tonight's Mystery Meat contest is Jeffrey Corbin who guessed "some kind of beef." |
- Rousing Speech: "It just doesn't matter!"
- Slap Slap Kiss: A lot of that going on between the guys and girls' counselors, but the movie focuses on the crazy relationship between Tripper and Roxanne.
- Slobs Versus Snobs: Camp North Star vs. Camp Mohawk.
- Summer Campy: The first one is arguably the funniest Summer Camp movie yet made.
- Understatement: During the basketball game between the North Star campers versus the Mohawk guys: "Our guys don't look so good."
- Also: "Well, the zone is not working..."
- The Voice: Tripper does double-duty as the P.A. announcer for the camp. Thank God Tripper is played by Bill Murray.