Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: Difference between revisions

Meet Tucker and Dale. They are two best friends who have taken a little vacation to fix a cabin in the woods which Tucker has bought. On their way there, they ran into the aforementioned college kids at the gas station. They inadvertently give the wrong first impression and the kids are convinced that they are typical creepy backwood hicks like the ones in movies. Later on our two heroes meet the kids again when they are fishing. They accidentally scare the female lead of this film, Allison, when she's about to go for a swim and she almost drowns. They save her, but again they give the wrong impression about themselves and the college kids think they have actually ''kidnapped her''. Several accidents and [[Poor Communication Kills|more misunderstandings]] later, the planned vacation goes to south big time for our duo as they have to put their best against... '''EVIL'''.

 

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* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Chad's [[Weapon of Choice]] at first.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Allison, who doesn't even button her fly all the way up to expose more midriff.

* [[Blood-Splattered Innocents]]

* [[Bloody Hilarious]]

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Tucker, who accumulates all of the nonfatal injuries throughout the film. Dale comes through without a scratch.

* [[California Doubling]]: [[Canada, Eh?|Alberta]] for West Virginia.

* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Tucker accidentally cuts through a hornet's nest with a chainsaw and accidentally charges through the co-eds while swinging the chainsaw wildly at the swarming hornets. Later Dale has a chainsaw-versus-pipe fight with Chad.

** Chamomile tea. Good thing the lumber mill happened to have some laying around.

** The poorly fixed column in the cabin.

** Dale's thing for being able to remember ''any'' bit of trivia.

** Inverted by Chad's axe. Chad practices throwing it several times, but it's Dale who actually throws and hits something with it. He's shocked.

* [[Cobweb Jungle]]: Tucker's cabin when he and Dale enter it. They proclaim proudly that it's just a little dusty.

* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: Tucker and Dale find newspaper clippings of all the cabin owner's victims. All Tucker notices is the free hot dog coupon.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: When a college kid can't get the sheriff's handgun to fire, Dale helpfully explains that the safety is on, and the kid instantly blows his head off after disengaging it. Revolvers don't actually have safeties, so there's no reason why the gun wouldn't fire initially.

* [[Disney Villain Death]]: {{spoiler|Chad.}}

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]?

It can't be. They lied to me. How could they? }}

* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Dale.

* [[Final Girl]]: Allison, thanks to her friends.

* [[Fingore]]: When the college kids catch Tucker, Chad severs two of his fingers.

* [[Flipping the Bird]]: "[[Verb This|Press pass this]]!"

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Chad's hatred for hillbillies comes from the fact that they attacked his parents 20 years ago.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Dale is a trivia genius and much more bold than his timid personality would suggest.

* [[Hillbilly Horrors]]: A parody of the genre.

* [[Hollywood Darkness]]

* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]: It's Memorial Day! Just like it was 20 years ago...

* [[How We Got Here]]: The very first scene of the film.

* [[Idiot Savant]]: Dale has a remarkable memory, but little education.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Dale manages to sever the rope tying Allison by ''throwing an axe''. He is visibly surprised at the result. It is also worth pointing out that he failed to cut it with a ''chain saw'' moments earlier.

* [[I Owe You My Life]]: Allison stays with Tucker and Dale for the time as a way to pay them back for saving her life.

* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: {{spoiler|Chad goes from frat boy on a camping trip to Ax Crazy awfully quick.}}

* [[Knight Templar]]: Chad.

* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: Dale gets one at the saw mill when he is going to rescue Allison.

* [[Machete Mayhem]]: When Dale goes to rescue Tucker, he arms himself with a machete.

* [[Man On Fire]]: Chad accidentally sets Jason on fire. Despite Dale and Tucker's attempts at advice, Chloe just makes it worse by dousing him with the first liquid she could grab, which happened to be flammable.

* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Tucker drops a beer into his lap as he's being pulled over. Dale tries to clean it up, but gets his sleeve caught. As the sheriff approaches, Dale pulls himself away from Tucker's crotch and rips his shirt off. The disgusted sheriff tells them that they can expect unimaginable pain where they're headed (hell) which goes right over the hillbillies' heads.

* [[Mistaken for Murderer]]: Tucker and Dale being mistaken for killer hillbillies is the premise of the film.

* [[My Car Hates Me]]: When trying to escape from Chad at his [[Ax Crazy|Ax Craziest]], Dale struggles to get the car started.

* [[Name and Name]]: Mixed with [[Versus Title]].

* [[Nice Guy]]: Tucker and especially Dale are so well-meaning and friendly you can't help but feel bad for them as their vacation falls apart.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Jason ''initially'' acts as this for the first half of the movie.

** A [[Hillbilly Horrors]] film from the hillbillies' point of view.

* [[Police Are Useless]]: The local sheriff is kind of an idiot. He mistakes Tucker and Dale for gay lovers and later follows them inside the murder cabin. Even the airheaded teens can't believe he's so stupid.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: {{spoiler|Chad when it comes to hillbillies.}}

* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: Dale, sort of. He didn't finish grade school, but apparently has a very good mind for trivia.

* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: When Allison tries to explain to Chad and Naomi what happened, Naomi erroneously deduces that she is going through this.

* [[Television Geography]]: The movie takes place in the backwoods of West Virginia, but the foliage in the area looks nothing like West Virginia's. West Virginia forests are mostly broadleaf deciduous trees, packed rather densely, but the forest in the movie was coniferous and thin... not unlike the forests in [[California Doubling|Alberta, Canada]].

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Chad adds this few times.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The co-eds, who all die due to their own idiot actions.

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: Quite a few death scenes are spoiled by the trailer. Especially the first three, which are the most abrupt and unexpected.

* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Dale is a fat, dirty hillbilly, while Allison is a beautiful college student. They get together.

* [[Unwilling Suspension]]: Tucker when he is caught by the college kids.

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