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''[[Walk Hard]]'' tells the tale of Dewey Cox, a musical prodigy whose musical career spanned the 50's to the 70's. Along the way Dewey takes lots of drugs, bangs lots of groupies and eventually learns that the path to happiness lies in spending time with his dozens of illegitimate children. It's not the kind of a movie you watch for the plot.

* [[Biopic]]: Parodied. Very much.

* [[Casting Gag]]: Jack Black and Jack White both in cameos. Don't try to convince yourself this is a coincidence

* [[Country Matters]]

* [[Cover Version]]: One of the songs attempted during Dewey's first recording session? A country version of ''"That's Amore".'' It's so bad that it shakes the producer's faith in the Jewish people.

* [[Explosive Breeder]]: Edith is constantly pregnant, she and Dewey have approximately 10 children in less than seven years... Dewey himself has several dozen more over the years.

* [[Falling in Love Montage]]: Seen between Dewey and Darlene. As it happens, their montage includes such questionable activities as [[Erotic Eating|licking, sucking, slurping ice-cream cones with very ambiguous expressions...]]

* [[Fan Disservice]]: John C Reilly, '''naked'''. [[Squick|Ew.]]

** In the extended cut, this is actually avoided in one scene where an obvious body double with heavily muscular features is used during a sex scene.

* [[First Girl Wins]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] with Dewey eventually falling in love with his back up singer, Darlene and divorcing his first wife, whom had previously won.

* [[Flashback Stares]]: Right before he begins an act, Dewey can be found staring at a wall in the dark, backstage. His best friend explains that he has to [[Lampshade Hanging|think back on his entire life before every show.]]

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Near the end, Dewey is stumbling around fighting off "The Temptations". Cue the clean-cut boy band.

* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: At the height of his hard drug problem, Dewey starts shouting instead of signing and telling his band to play extremely fast and dissonantly. One of his band members is disgusted by the result -- nobody's ever going to listen to this garbage, especially not with Dewey singing like some kind of "''punk''".

** "Get outta here, Dewey! You don't want no part of this shit!"

** "You're never gonna make it!"

* [[Show Within a Show]]: Dewey's schlocky 70's TV show.

* [[The Sixties]] (Parodied)

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Pretty much every single thing Nate says before they play machete fight.

* [[The Unfavorite]]: Dewey to his father.

{{quote| '''Dad:''' The wrong kid died!}}

** Even when the scene when he FINALLY starts to enjoy his son's music and dances with his wife, his wife dies tragically when she dances out the window and blames Dewey for it.

{{quote| Mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the coliseum <br />

Rim job fairy teapots mask the temper tantrum O' say can you see 'em }}

 

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