Tommy Boy: Difference between revisions

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: When Tommy's future step-mother first appears she is referred to as being a "ten". Bo Derek has been referred to as being a "ten" before in the movie "10".

** During the flight to Chicago, David Spade is a rude flight attendant. [[Saturday Night Live|Why does that sound familiar?]]

* [[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.

** The Carpenters' "Superstar" is on the car radio - Tommy and Richard both shrug noncomittally about changing stations. Quick scene cut, and they're both singing along at the top of their lungs, tears streaming down their cheeks.

* [[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).

** 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).

* [[Throw It In]]: While there are probably other examples, "Does this make me look fat?" "No, your face does" is confirmed to have begun as an ad-lib.

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

* [[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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