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[[File:hpExh_2465.jpg|frame|There are millions of women in this city, Nick. Millions.]]
Roger Swanson is a smooth-talking, Madison Avenue copy-writer, with an uncanny ability to cold-read people. When he isn't applying his skill by
▲{{quote| '' "Sex is Everywhere"'' - '''Roger Swanson'''}}
▲Roger Swanson is a smooth-talking, Madison Avenue copy-writer, with an uncanny ability to cold-read people. When he isn't applying his skill by 'reminding consumers that they're missing something from their lives' and that 'his product is the only thing that can fill the void', he will be applying it to women in bars. Despite his ability, his cynicism and down-right insulting characterizations of the women around him are a turn-off, such that he is [[Hoist by His Own Petard]].
Roger's nephew, Nick, is visiting New York scouting universities and pays his uncle a visit. While out to lunch, Nick confesses that he doesn't have a girlfriend and finds it difficult to talk to girls. Within the family, Roger is known as a ladies man, so Nick asks his uncle for help. Roger's offer "So, you need help with the ladies, Nick?" becomes the premise of the film.
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* [[Alcohol Is Poison]]: The position taken by Nick out of principle instead of pregnancy, before being rebuked by his uncle. He later refuses coffee, stating that he doesn't put caffeine into his body. Roger {{spoiler|abstaining from launching into a lecture about the importance of coffee in society, as he had with alcohol, men's ability to read maps etc, is used as a sign of character growth.}}
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Discussed by the main characters, wherein Roger is able to extract a confession from Andrea that for her this principle is actually true.
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'''Andrea''': "Well, actually, guys who ride cycles are pretty sexy. " }}
** Subverted with Roger, however; while he's unquestionably an asshole, he fails to get anywhere with her.
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Prevented.
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* [[Changed My Mind, Kid]]: An unusual example, as {{spoiler|Roger puts Nick in 'danger' in the first place.}}.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Nick wears a medic alert bracelet with instructions to have him cryogenically frozen in case of premature death.
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* [[Couldn't Find a Pen]]: Roger's message for Donovan.
* [[Female Gaze]]: Discussed (sarcastically) by the characters.
* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: Played for laughs
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'''Nick''': "Yes. Like Michael Jordan."
'''Roger''': "Right. That's the wrong sport, but I like your enthusiasm." }}
* [[Handsome Lech]]: Roger, not that it gets him very far.
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* [[In Da Club]]: Subverted, the duo must sneek in and hide behind foliage.
* [[Inherently Funny Words]]: Roger and his work colleagues muse over what might be the plural of 'clitoris'
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'''Joyce''': "Clitorissimo." }}
* [[It Got Worse]]: The fail-safe.
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* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Roger
* [[Title Drop]]: By Nick
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* [[Urban Legend Love Life]]: Roger
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Nick, {{spoiler|as Roger does not hesitate to ruin the romance between Nick and Sophie when he finds Andrea has no interest in him, and his 'I'm secretly married' shtick falls flat.}}
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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:Roger Dodger]]
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