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* EvenEvilHasStandards: After Lewis gets arrested, Betty asks him if he's trying to coerce her to get back with him in return for Lewis' freedom. He replies that he'd never try something like that.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: He's played by Ted [=McGinley=] after all.
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* DawsonCasting: Curtis Armstrong was 30 when he first played Booger, who's supposed to be 18.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Lewis in the fourth movie.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's boorish and actively tries to gross people out, but he's always there for his friends.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:Revealing he's a ClosetGeek is deliberately played as like someone revealing being gay, including the phrase "coming out of the closet"]].
* EasilyForgiven: Played with in the third movie. Lewis is perfectly willing to put past bullying behind him, but Betty is apprehensive and Booger is outright antagonistic. After exonerating Lewis at the trial and [[spoiler:revealing he's a ClosetGeek]], though, everyone embraces him as a friend.
* FriendlessBackground: Implied during the third movie. Stan tells Betty that no one has any real friends, just people who use each other before moving on.
* EasilyForgiven: Played with in the third movie. Lewis is perfectly willing to put past bullying behind him, but Betty is apprehensive and Booger is outright antagonistic. After exonerating Lewis at the trial and [[spoiler:revealing he's a ClosetGeek]], though, everyone embraces him as a friend.
* FriendlessBackground: Implied during the third movie. Stan tells Betty that no one has any real friends, just people who use each other before moving on.
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!!! Ogre
Frederick Aloysius "Ogre" Palowakski
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* AesopAmnesia: In all the sequels, Lewis has to learn the exact same lesson over and over.
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* AesopAmnesia: In all the sequels, third film, Lewis has to learn the exact same lesson over and over.as the first.
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** "My son, soon you will take over."
** "To truly hock a loogie, one must not retrieve the phlegm from the throat, but from the soul.
** Booger: This room is a pigsty.\\
Snotty: Thank you.
** "My son, soon you will take over."
** "To truly hock a loogie, one must not retrieve the phlegm from the throat, but from the soul.
** Booger: This room is a pigsty.\\
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* MemeticMutation: NEEEEERDS!!
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* CharacterRerailment: In the first movie Booger calls the Mu's "pigs" but comes to love them, then in the second movie he only hits on the conventionally attractive girls. And in the third and fourth movie he's back to UglyCute Mu's.
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* CharacterRerailment: In the first movie Booger calls the Mu's "pigs" but comes to love them, then in the second movie he only hits on the conventinally conventionally attractive girls. And in the third and fourth movie he's back to UglyCute Mu's.
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