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* [[Bad Bad Acting]]:
{{quote|"Oh. Woe to me. Business is bad."}}
** Business is ''bad''?!
* [[Beautiful All Along]]
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]
* [[Black Sheep]]: Toula.
* [[Closer to Earth]]: Toula's mother, compared to her father. When Toula announces she's getting married, her father has a [[Heroic BSOD]] while her mother tries to convince him nothing's wrong with it.▼
* [[California Doubling]]: A movie about events that took place in Winnipeg, written by a Winnipeg writer, starring a Winnipeg actress... was set in Chicago and filmed primarily in Toronto.
* [[Close-Knit Community]]
▲* [[Closer to Earth]]: Toula's mother, compared to her father. When Toula announces she's getting married, her father has a [[Heroic BSOD]] while her mother tries to convince him nothing's wrong with it.
* [[Converting for Love]]: Ian, to Greek Orthodoxy. Since the Church isn't used to adults converting, he is
** Actually, there are plenty of adult conversions. You wear a white gown, not bathing trunks, then dress in a special outfit afterwards. There are special tubs for adult baptisms.
* [[Culture Clash]] / [[Not So Different]]: The entire point of the movie is [[An Aesop]] about this, with plenty of [[Rule of Funny|opportunity for jokes]] along the way.▼
* [[Cultural Posturing]]: There is nothing that Mr. Portokalos can't trace back to Greece. Even ''[[Up to Eleven|kimonos]]''.
▲* [[Culture Clash]] / [[Not So Different]]: The entire point of the movie is [[An Aesop]] about this, with plenty of [[Rule of Funny|opportunity for jokes]] along the way.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Toula, when she first sees Ian. Later Ian when he sees Toula in the tour office, leads to a brutal beatdown by an old lady.
* [[Engagement Challenge]]
* [[Fairytale Wedding Dress]]: Toula's dress, even though with the veil it looks overdone.
* [[Fourth Date Marriage]]
* [[Fun with Foreign Languages]]
* [[Glad You Thought of It]]
* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]
* [[Greasy Spoon]]: The Portokalos establishment is an excellent example of a Greek-American diner in the city.
* [[Happily Married]]: Toula's parents. Probably Ian's parents.
** And Ian and Toula, as shown in the [[Distant Finale]].
* [[Hilarity Ensues]]: Every time Ian's family tries to interact with Toula's.
* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]]: "I'll kill you and [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]."
** Subverted in that Toula's male relatives are just messing around with Ian.
*** ... Maybe.
* [[Impossibly Tacky Clothes]]: Toula's reaction to her wedding dress. "I'm a snow beast."
** Even more so for the bridesmaids' dresses.
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* [[Odd Name Out]]: Almost all of the young family members have the name (or variation) of Anita (including Athena and Angelo), Diane or Nick (including Nikki). The outsider? Toula.
{{quote|"Costas, Nick, Nick, Nick, Costas..."
"And I am GUS!"
* [[Old Maid]]: Toula is only 30, but her parents seem to think she needs to get married ''right away''.
** Her father started calling her old at FOURTEEN!
*** This is exaggerated [[Truth in Television]], as any child of Greek immigrants will tell you. It's a pretty common attitude in the Eastern Mediterranean that [[Christmas Cake|any woman over 25 who isn't married is an embarrassment to the family]].
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Aversion: Unlimited Nicks.
** And Nikki.
** Note that this is partly [[Truth in Television]], as Greek children are traditionally named after their grandparents. Obviously it doesn't usually get ''that'' bad, but still.
* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]: Toula goes into a long rant about her stifling family environment when her Greek ethnicity is brought up in conversation.
* [[Real Men Eat Meat]]: Ian is a vegetarian and Toula's family is naturally shocked by this. Leads to a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]:
{{quote|"What do you mean, you don't eat no meat? ... [[Completely Missing the Point|That's okay, I make lamb]].}}
* [[Running Gag]]: Gus Portokalos thinks Windex is the solution to everything.
** Becomes a bit of a [[Brick Joke]] at the end of the film when Ian sprays some on a wedding-day zit and it ''actually works''.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: At the start, Toula's dad believes she should do this. As the film progresses, it appears to be more of "stay in the enclave", and applies to his son as well: Greeks hang out with Greeks, marry Greeks, work at the family business, and so forth.
* [[Tactful Translation]]: Unimpressed with Ian's attempt to wish him a happy Easter ("Cheestro Nasty!"<ref>meant to be ''Χριστός ἀνέστη'' (''Christos Anesti'' meaning "Christ is Risen!")</ref>), Gus mutters in Greek, "My people were writing philosophy when your people were still swinging in trees." At Ian's confused look, Toula says, "He likes you."
* [[There Are Two Kinds of People in the World]]: "...Greeks, and everybody else who wish they were Greek."
* [[Truth in Television]]: As any Greek-American who's seen the film will readily tell you. And not only them.
** Indeed. This movie was a big hit because America is a nation of immigrants meaning that a whole lot of us have wacky ethnic relatives - which ethnicity doesn't really matter because they are ALL like Toula's family, in their own way.
* [[The Windy City]]▼
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Well, Toula is a female - but the same concept applies.
** It's hinted that Toula's brother Nick (who apparently wants to study art) has similar issues.
* [[When I Was Your Age]]
{{quote|'''Maria Portokalos:''' "Nicko! Don't play with the food! When I was your age, we didn't ''have'' food!"}}
▲* [[The Windy City]]
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