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Two [[The Slacker|slackers]] named Dwayne and Travis want to make a hundred-thousand dollars quickly so they can hire an assassin to kill Dwayne's father, the Major, and get his inheritance money. Eventually, they come up with a [[Sarcasm Mode|sensible]] idea: [[Crosses the Line Twice|order a pizza, have it delivered, kidnap the pizza man, strap a bomb to his chest, and force him to rob a bank or the bomb will detonate]]. The unfortunate delivery man, Nick, teams up with his best friend Chet, whom he recently had a falling out with when he confessed that he had slept with Chet's sister, to get the job done.

 

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=== List of tropes that appear in 30 Minutes or Less: ===

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Nick, Jesse Eisenberg's character, [[The Social Network|saying that he doesn't go on Facebook]].

* [[Affably Evil]]: Chongo the assassin.

* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Dwayne, Travis and The Major}}

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: The Major has a pen-gun and isn't afraid to use it.

** Nick and Chet pretending to be hispanic

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Early on, Nick mentions a new laser pointer he bought Chet. During the climax, {{spoiler|Chet uses it to trick Dwayne and Travis into thinking Nick's got a sniper backing him up so that they can escape.}}

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Nick

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: {{spoiler|While the money ends up being booby-trapped, Nick and Chet get out alive and Nick confessed his love to Kate.}}

** The post credits scene shows that {{spoiler|Dwayne, Travis, and the Major survived and started their own successful tanning salon business.}}

* [[Everybody Lives]]: {{spoiler|In the end, the only person who dies is Chongo the assassin.}}

* [[Fire Breathing Weapon]]: Travis has one of these.

* [[Good All Along]]: {{spoiler|After Chongo decides to kill Duane, he breaks into his house and runs into The Major. The Major refuses to tell Chongo where Duane is, even after being told Chongo was hired by Duane to kill him. The Major's pretty much just your basic, fed-up-dad-with-layabout-son type of character, he's just more mean about it because he's a retired Marine.}}

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Travis is a bit smarter than Dwayne. While Dwayne can "think like a millionaire", Travis is the one who comes up with the bomb idea, reconnaissance, {{spoiler|and kidnapping Kate}}.

* [[Indy Ploy]]: They have ten hours before the bomb goes off, but that's still a pretty small amount of time Chet and Nick have to come up with a way to rob a bank. {{spoiler|Which they successfully pull off.}}

** {{spoiler|Juci, who came up with the idea of murdering The Major in the first place and who actually ''does'' try and kill Chet and Nick also gets away scot free and without even the severe injuries the other surviving bad guys end up with.}}

* [[Kill It With Fire]]: {{spoiler|Chongo's demise.}}

* [[Minion With an F In Evil]]: Travis isn't comfortable with the idea of killing The Major, or of people actually getting hurt in their attempt to get the money. On the other hand, he doesn't hesitate to {{spoiler|kill Chongo, albeit in self-defense}}.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Juici

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: {{spoiler|The money that all of the characters had been fighting for during the entire length of the film was rendered useless the moment it was taken out of the bank due to a hidden dye bomb. However, nobody figures this out until they actually open the case at the end of the film.}}

* [[Spiteful Spit]]: Duane to The Major's new truck.

* [[The Stinger]]: {{spoiler|Dwayne, Travis and The Major all survived their injuries and started a tanning salon/prostitution ring together. Dwayne also got Juici.}}

* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]: Nick and Chet being mistaken for hispanic

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: One of the TV Spots {{spoiler|includes Nick trying to tell Dwayne to pull over because the bomb's in his van, before it explodes}}.

* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]

** {{spoiler|Travis later gives this to Dwayne, while changing the codes on the remote detonator, after Dwayne plans on cutting his losses and blowing Nick up.}}