The Boat: Difference between revisions

* [[Cool Boat]]: The masts and smokestack of the ''Damfino'' are collapsible, for passing under low bridges.

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: The newly launched ''Damfino'' sinks like a stone, Buster standing in the bow the whole time. (Possibly the inspiration for Captain Jack Sparrow's entrance in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]].'')

* [[Didn't Think This Through]]

** Getting the boat out of the basement. See picture.

* [[Distress Call]]

* [[Double Take]]

* [[Dutch Angle]]: Used to depict the ''Damfino'' going uphill.

* [[Epic Fail]]

* [[Fade to Black]]

* [[Fake Action Prologue]]: We open below decks on a storm-tossed boat -- wait, no we don't.

* [[Grievous Bottley Harm]]: The wife's first attempt to christen the ''Damfino'' leaves the bottle intact and the keel dented.

* [[Harmless Electrocution]]

* [[Human Ladder]]: Buster acts as one for his son as they're trying to climb back on board the ''Damfino.''

* [[Hollywood Darkness]]

* [[Irony]]: See [[Super Drowning Skills]], below. Also, the anchor ''floats.''

* [[It Got Worse]]: First, extracting the boat from the basement destroys the house. Then, the car goes in the water. Then the boat sinks during its launch. Then a storm hits while the family is aboard. Then one of the boys [[Visual Pun|pulls the plug]] of the bathtub the family is using as a lifeboat...

* [[Law of Disproportionate Response]]: Buster seems far more perturbed by the loss of his lifeboat (which he promptly replaces with a bathtub) than the collapse of his house.

* [[Lethal Chef]]: The pancakes are too tough to cut, and Buster uses one to patch a hole in the hull.

* [[Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony]]: Specifically, a ship christening, complete with bottle. It goes as well as everything else involving the boat.

* [[Slapstick]]

* [[Stop Drowning and Stand Up]]

* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: The ''boat,'' at least at first. Also the life preservers.