Tommy Boy: Difference between revisions

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* [[The Alleged Car]]: Richard's car turns into this during the course of the film, between the M&M's, the door coming off at the gas station, the deer tearing up the entire backseat (and most of the rest of the car), and the hood coming off because of the oil can left in. By the end of the film, Richard parks it illegally and tells the objecting security guard to "keep it".

* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: Played during Big Tom's funeral.

* [[Amusing Injuries]] / [[Running Gag]]: Paul

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Son of a..."

** "I've got a plan!" "...Yikes."

* [[Chew Toy]]: Richard's car.

* [[Cleveland Rocks]]: Well, Sandusky, but close enough.

* [[Danger Takes a Backseat]]: The deer, in a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Richard

* [[Door Dumb]]: Tommy tries to open the front door to the university building, only to find it locked. After panicking and giving up, he slumps down on the steps just as another student calmly opens the ''adjacent'' door and walks in.

* [[Fake Video Camera View]]: When Richard is filming parts of the wedding.

* [[Fat and Skinny]]: "Fat guy in a little coat! Fat guy in a little coat!"

* [[Gilligan Cut]]: Richard tells Tommy they can't take no for an answer. Cut to the first customer saying "no" and Tommy going, "Okay, then" and getting up to leave.

* [[Gold Digger]]: Beverly, who marries Big Tom just so she can divorce him later on and take half his fortune.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: While Paul is arrested and [[Groin Attack|effectively vasectomized]], Beverly not only gets away scott-free but gets a brand-new, even richer sugar daddy.

** Justified, since Paul abandoned her while trying to escape and was the one who actually performed sabotage on the company. The only "evil" things Beverly did was marry a man for his money and lie about already being married (and try to sell off the company, but hey that's just business).

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Heartwarming reunion! Gleeful wedding! Tear-jerking funeral. Funny buddy road movie?

* [[Never Live It Down]]: In-universe: Tommy catches Richard ogling an attractive skinny-dipper. After some initial teasing, they go to bed:

'''Tommy''': Richard... Who's you're favorite little rascal? Alfalfa? Or is it ''Spanky''? ...Sinner. }}

* [[Phrase Catcher]] / [[Running Gag]]: "Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?"

** Tommy gets more than his share of these speeches from Richard throughout the movie, too.

* [[Something Something Leonard Bernstein]]: Done with [[REM|the trope naming song]] (they only catch the chorus and "6 O'clock, TV hour" before it goes down to mumbling).

* [[Travelling Salesman Montage]]: Of course.

* [[We Care]]: Zalinsky's ads: "I make car parts for the American working man, because that's what I am, and that's who I care about." The reality: "Truth is, I make car parts for the American working man because I'm a hell of a salesman and he doesn't know any better."

* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Beverly was this to Tommy until {{spoiler|it was revealed she was already married to Paul, thus making her marriage to Big Tom illegal}}.

* [[You Don't Want to Catch This]]: "Bees! Bees! Oh God, they're everywhere!"

 

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