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The aliens come to Earth because Nil is facing imminent doom for want of salt, and they aim to solve this problem with a golf ball-sized orb that will extract all the salt from Earth's ocean. Unfortunately, the orb is knocked off course during its entry into Earth's atmosphere, so the aliens must search New York City to find it. During the search, Dave meets a young boy, Josh, who recently had the orb in his possession, and Josh's attractive single mother, Gina. More than a few complications occur (along with a good deal of [[Hilarity Ensues|laughs]]) as the Captain gets to know Earth's people in general, and Gina in particular (with whom he becomes rather smitten).

 

 

* [[Alien Lunch]]: Gina hands Dave a bottle of ketchup while preparing a meal, and Dave proceeds to drink about half of it.

* [[Aliens Steal Cable]]: And figure out how to navigate the internet on the side.

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The DVD and Blu-Ray releases of the film contain featurettes that explain a little more about the culture of planet Nil and the characters' backgrounds (No. 4 is apparently tall for a Nillian; No. 3 was No. 2's personal assistant at one point; and, in a rather dark turn, any Nillian who shows emotions is ''killed on the spot'', which makes you wonder [[Fridge Logic|if this will happen to the crew when they return to the uninfluenced planet]]),as well as revealing the 'numbers' of some of the characters whose are not blatantly stated in the film (for example, the Head Engineer is Number 10).

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Number Two, following the anti-mutiny.

* [[Camp Gay]]: Number Four, the ship's security officer, was originally quite the manly type, but exposure to Earth culture causes him to become one of these instead.

* [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Stun Gun]]: at one point the ship is "KO'ed" and paramedics "resuscitate" it with a defibrillator. {{spoiler|This gives Josh the idea to do the same thing later with a taser.}}

* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: Take your pick between the [[MacGuffin]] landing in the room of the boy whose mom accidentally hits Dave with a car ''when he arrives three months later'', or one of the officers assigned to investigate the crater from Dave's landfall being the [[Agent Mulder]].

* [[Crash Into Hello]]: If Gina hitting Dave ''with her car'' doesn't count...

* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Played a little better than most, the aliens are relatively new to Earth culture, but are actually able to deduce most things and not stand out too horribly.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Elizabeth Banks!

* [[I Am Spartacus]]: After the Captain regains control of Dave following the anti-mutiny, he asks the crew for their input regarding the decision of whether or not they should save Earth.

'''Number Four:''' I am Johnny Dazzles, and I am ''[[Camp Gay|fabulous!]]'' *[[Beat]]* What? Not ''everybody'' has to be Dave Ming Cheng. }}

* [[MacGuffin]]: The [[Spore|terraforming orb.]]

* [[Mobile Suit Human]] ''and'' [[Humongous Mecha]] in one

* [[Oh Crap]]: Dave has one of these moments, after he is reminded that the M in MRI (which he is about to undergo) stands for "magnetic". The Captain and Number Three share two Oh Crap moments after they are {{spoiler|ejected from the ship by Number Two. One happens when they find themselves standing next to a fire hydrant that is about to be "marked" by a passing dog; the other happens shortly thereafter, when they are nearly run over by a taxi as the Captain tries to get Number Three unstuck from a piece of used bubble gum.}}

* [[Whole Costume Reference]]: Turns out Dave's suit was based on Ricardo Montalban in ''[[Fantasy Island]]''.

* [[You Are Number Six]]: Even their homeworld name Nil can mean 'zero'.

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