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=== This film contains examples of: ===
* [[Alone with the Psycho]]:
** In the beginning of the film, Patch is forced to room with a man who goes
** {{spoiler|Carin's visit to Larry Silver's house. It doesn't end well for either of them.}}
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Patch does numerous funny things at the hospital, annoying Dean Walcott, but Patch's grades are among the highest in the class.
** Which is even stranger considering that he never studies.
* [[Character Title]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Patch.
* [[Comedy as a Weapon]]: Patch believes in helping patients through
* [[Dan Browned]]
* [[Dean Bitterman]]
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Patch's attempted suicide is what
* [[Fan Disservice]]: {{spoiler|Patch moons the audience at his graduation.}}
* [[Gender Flip]]: The person Carin is based on was a man in real life.
* [[Jerkass]]: Patch is this in the eyes of the Dean and initially to Carin. Some of his antics, such as the gynecologist setup, could be construed more as this than the opposite intention of being humorous.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Patch doesn't just get away with things that are ethically questionable, but ''outright illegal'', like stealing drugs from a hospital and practicing medicine without a license. Yet, he somehow manages to worm out of getting expelled from medical school, much less getting sent to prison.
* [[The Lancer]]: Truman.
* [[Neutral Female]]: Carin once she stops being a [[Straw Feminist]]. Really, she answers the phone and hears an [[Obviously Evil|obviously insane man]] who wants "somebody to talk to." So naturally, she goes to his house alone.
* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Mendelson.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]
* [[Rape as Backstory]]: Carin was apparently molested as a child.
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