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* {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]]}} Or is it?

* [[Ambulance Chaser]]: Arthur Belt (played by Jon Lovitz), who is literally seen chasing an ambulance until he comes across North. Apparently, he just uses it to beat the traffic.

* [[Artistic License]]: The various cultures depicted. {{spoiler|When an 11 year old dreams the whole thing inaccuracies are to be expected.}}

* [[Beachcombing]]: Seen in Hawaii.

* [[Big Eater]]: The Tex family.

* [[Broken Aesop]]: The film's message is ostensibly about the value of family and accepting one's parents. It does nothing to convince the audience that North had any logic in going back to them.

* [[Crapsack World]]: Everyone in the movie aside from North, his mentor figure, and the [[Unfortunate Implications|whitebread family he's with]] are boorish, insensitive, loud, selfish, ethnocentric, and incapable of showing sincerity. And arguably, none of them are really that much better.

* [[Critical Research Failure]]: Just about every depiction of every ethnicity. {{spoiler|Justified because [[Invoked Trope|it's all in North's imagination]] and that's all he knows.}}

* [[Eagle Land]]: Played straight and inverted. Foreigners and Americans who don't exactly fit Type 1 are shoehorned into Type 2.

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Winchell.

* [[Fan Disservice]]: North's crack... that is all.

* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: [[In-Universe]] -- there's nothing on TV in France but [[Jerry Lewis]] movies.

* [[Hollywood Atlas]]: Most of the segments are horrific pastiches of cultural stereotypes, including:

** [[Everything Is Big in Texas]]: To the point that the prospective parents here intend to fatten North up because they pride themselves on having the biggest of everything. And apparently dress like Elvis in his latter days playing Joe Buck in a production of ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]'' on Ice.

** [[Gay Paree]]

** [[Hula and Luaus]]

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: "Your Honor... the defense rests."

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: North's "crack".

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Winchell would've been one [[All Just a Dream|if the whole thing had actually happened]].

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The assassination plot in the final third is awfully dark for a light fantasy.

* [[Prophetic Names]]: The evil journalist kid is named [[wikipedia:Walter Winchell|Winchell]].

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]

* [[Shoot the Money]]: [[Dan Aykroyd]] and [[Reba McEntire]] appear as the [[Everything Is Big in Texas|stereotypical Texan family]], and sing the film's only song, a parody of ''[[Bonanza]]'', despite not being a musical.

* [[That Reminds Me of a Song]]: The Texan parents sing a parody of the ''[[Bonanza]]'' theme song to North.

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The "all just a dream" ending means that the highly unflattering representations of the different cultures are based entirely on North's mental image of them, and therefore, ''[[In-Universe|North is a gigantic fucking racist]]''.

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