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* DoggedNiceGuy: Garrett is a rather pathetic example until Elizabeth's PetTheDog moment near the end.
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** Garrett is a rather pathetic example until Elizabeth's PetTheDog moment near theend.end.
** Russel is another example, as he makes no secret of his interest in Elizabeth, but never quite slips into EntitledToHaveYou, never does anything mean to Scott (Elizabeth's initially-preferred paramour), and is notably the only man who tries to tell her that she doesn't need boob implants.
** Garrett is a rather pathetic example until Elizabeth's PetTheDog moment near the
** Russel is another example, as he makes no secret of his interest in Elizabeth, but never quite slips into EntitledToHaveYou, never does anything mean to Scott (Elizabeth's initially-preferred paramour), and is notably the only man who tries to tell her that she doesn't need boob implants.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Scott, the object of Elizabeth's affection, is dating Amy, who is a redhead. Subverted as he's not the hero, nor is he the protagonist's final guy.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The chubby, geeky boy declares his love for the most popular girl in class... and she clearly and instantly rejects him. In one of her few nicer scenes, Elizabeth honestly (but not cruelly) tells him that girls like her simply don't go for guys like him, and that he won't be "cool" until college. [[PetTheDog She even gives him her bra]] to make the other kids think he hooked up with an older girl to restore his reputation.
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* WorkingWithTheEx: Actors Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz previously dated for a few years. In this movie, Timberlake plays the substitute teacher Diaz's character is trying to pursue. They had previously been in Shrek the third together, but they didn't have to work with each other or have any scenes together.
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* WorkingWithTheEx: Actors Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz previously dated for a few years. In this movie, Timberlake plays the substitute teacher Diaz's character is trying to pursue. They had previously been in [[WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird Shrek the third Third]] together, but they didn't have to work with each other or have any scenes together.
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''Bad Teacher'' is a 2011 comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan and starring Creator/CameronDiaz in the title role. Also in the cast are Creator/JustinTimberlake, Creator/JasonSegel, Creator/LucyPunch, Creator/PhyllisSmith, and Creator/JohnMichaelHiggins.
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''Bad Teacher'' is a 2011 comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan Creator/JakeKasdan and starring Creator/CameronDiaz in the title role. Also in the cast are Creator/JustinTimberlake, Creator/JasonSegel, Creator/LucyPunch, Creator/PhyllisSmith, and Creator/JohnMichaelHiggins.
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* AlphaBitch: Chase in Elizabeth's eighth grade class, Elizabeth herself claims she was one in school too.
* ApatheticTeacher: Elizabeth at first. She spends lots of time viewing films with kids at class.
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* AlphaBitch: Chase in Elizabeth's eighth grade class, class. Elizabeth herself claims she was one in school too.
as well, and it's easy to believe.
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* BabyTrap: In a desperate attempt, Elizabeth tries to convince her fiancé that she's pregnant. She later discussed it with Lyn how hard it is to get pregnant "by accident" because the guys got really careful.
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* BabyTrap: In a desperate attempt, Elizabeth tries to convince her fiancé that she's pregnant. She later discussed it discusses with Lyn how hard it is to get pregnant "by accident" because the as guys got really careful.these days are so paranoid that they keep their used condoms.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Amy initially seems sweet and wholesome, if not a bit kooky, but she's actually quite spiteful and mentally unhinged. There's even talk of a NoodleIncident in 2008 when she supposedly had a psychotic episode.
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* CassandraTruth: Everyone seems completely oblivious to the truth of [[RefugeInAudacity Amy's complaints about Elizabeth]]. Though being that everyone thought Amy was crazy (she even had an incident in 2008) it makes sense why they didn't believe her.
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* CassandraTruth: Everyone seems completely oblivious to the truth of [[RefugeInAudacity Amy's complaints about Elizabeth]]. Though being that In fairness, everyone thought Amy was crazy (she even had an incident in 2008) (or just too annoying to deal with), so it makes sense why that they didn't believe her.
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** Surprisingly enough, Elizabeth is honest to Garrett, offers him hard, but much-needed insight harsh (but much-needed) insight, and gives him her bra bra, which he uses as evidence that he made out with a girl.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Principal Wally Snur, who shrugs off Elizabeth's neglecting her duties and hogging all the car wash money and to make things worse he offered a prize money for whichever teacher gains the highest test scores for his/her class, which pushed Elizabeth into aggressively attacking her kids.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Principal Wally Snur, who shrugs off Elizabeth's neglecting her duties and hogging all the car wash money and to make things worse he offered a prize money for whichever teacher gains the highest test scores for his/her class, which pushed inspired Elizabeth into to aggressively attacking push her kids.kids to excel.
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* StupidStatementDanceMix: More like a word.
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* UltimateJobSecurity: Partly because she's hot; partly because she's TheDeterminator.
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* UltimateJobSecurity: Partly because she's hot; partly because she's TheDeterminator.{{Determinator}}.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Elizabeth nastily tells Amy, "I don't eat muff pie", in response to the latter's attempt at befriending her.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Elizabeth nastily tells Amy, "I "[[MistakenForGay I don't eat muff pie", pie]]", in response to the latter's attempt at befriending her.
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* BareYourMidriff: Elizabeth wears a short shirt during the car-wash scene. She's wet, too.
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''Bad Teacher'' is a 2011 comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan, Kasdan and starring Creator/CameronDiaz, Creator/CameronDiaz in the title role. Also in the cast are Creator/JustinTimberlake, Creator/JasonSegel, Creator/LucyPunch, Creator/PhyllisSmith, and Creator/JasonSegel.
Creator/JohnMichaelHiggins.
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Adapted into a short-lived [[RecycledTheSeries TV series]] on Creator/{{CBS}} in 2014, with Creator/AriGraynor in the lead.
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''Bad Teacher'' is a 2011 comedy film starring Creator/CameronDiaz as a middle school teacher in the Illinois school system with a crude streak. When a new substitute teacher (Music/JustinTimberlake) enters the picture and she finds out he comes from a wealthy family, she decides [[ACupAngst she needs a boob job in order to win his affection]]. And as fate would have it, the best teacher in the district receives a bonus that year, and she decides to turn her slovenly ways around in order to acquire it, by becoming the best teacher ever. Obviously, it's easier said than done.
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''Bad Teacher'' is a 2011 comedy film starring Creator/CameronDiaz as a middle school teacher in the Illinois school system with a crude streak. When a new substitute teacher (Music/JustinTimberlake) enters the picture and she finds out he comes from a wealthy family, she decides [[ACupAngst she needs a boob job in order to win his affection]]. And as fate would have it, the best teacher in the district receives a bonus that year, and she decides to turn her slovenly ways around in order to acquire it, by becoming the best teacher ever. Obviously, it's easier said than done.
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''Bad Teacher'' is a 2011 comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan, starring
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* CloudCuckoolander: Amy. She's weird, sits on urinals, organizes teachers' watches etc.
** Scott's pretty odd too, with his desire to go back in time and end slavery, [[YouKeepUsingThatWord odd definition of the phrase "pro-choice,"]] lacking songwriting skills, and frequent missing of Elizabeth's more obvious come-ons.
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* CloudCuckoolander: CloudCuckoolander:
** Amy. She's weird, sits on urinals, organizes teachers' watches etc.
** Scott's pretty odd too, with his desire to go back in time and end slavery,[[YouKeepUsingThatWord odd definition of the phrase "pro-choice,"]] "pro-choice," lacking songwriting skills, and frequent missing of Elizabeth's more obvious come-ons.
** Amy. She's weird, sits on urinals, organizes teachers' watches etc.
** Scott's pretty odd too, with his desire to go back in time and end slavery,
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Scott says that he's pro-choice, and that people should have total control of their own bodies. Except for abortion, of course.
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* WhoWearsShortShorts: Elizabeth wears Daisy Dukes for the car-wash fundraiser.
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* FanserviceCarWash: Elizabeth spices what was a normal and tame one up by showing up in a tied shirt and daisy dukes, exploiting her sex appeal for all its worth and managing to break the school's money record in doing so.
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** GoodIsImpotent: While not exactly "good", Amy is a relatively nice teacher, and because of that, she keeps being outmaneuvered and played by Elizabeth, who is quite happy to hit her below the belt.
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** The conflict between the seemingly nice, but immature, Amy and the bitchy, but crafty, Elizabeth [[spoiler: ends with Amy being framed for possessing drugs and transferred to a crappy school while Elizabeth is promoted to the guidance counselor and is able to get away with her actions]]. The lesson is no matter how "nice" you may be as a person, a ruthless, lying {{Jerkass}} with greater street smarts will win out over you, especially if you naively try and convince yourself that you can get this person to like you. Amy only nearly succeeds in [[spoiler: getting Elizabeth fired by engaging in a bit of trickery with the desks, but Elizabeth was able to outmaneuver her anyways through a bit of blackmail and deception]].
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** The conflict between the seemingly nice, but immature, Amy and the bitchy, but crafty, Elizabeth [[spoiler: ends with Amy being framed for possessing drugs and transferred to a crappy school while Elizabeth is promoted to the guidance counselor and is able to get away with her actions]]. The lesson is no matter how "nice" you may be as a person, a ruthless, lying {{Jerkass}} with greater street smarts will win out over you, especially if you act like a weirdo to people and naively try and convince yourself that you can get this person to like you. Amy only nearly succeeds in [[spoiler: getting Elizabeth fired by engaging in a bit of trickery with the desks, but Elizabeth was able to outmaneuver her anyways through a bit of blackmail and deception]].
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* FatalFlaw: Amy loses in the end because her naive immaturity prevents her from being able to deal with an underhanded {{Jerkass}} like Elizabeth, who doesn't give a shit about playing fair or maturity.
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** GoodIsImpotent: While not exactly "good", Amy is a relatively nice teacher, and because of that, she keeps being outmaneuvered and played by Elizabeth, who is quite happy to hit her below the belt.
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* {{Foil}}: Amy and Elizabeth are both this to each other.
** Amy is, on the surface, a model teacher: a peppy person who engages with her students with fun lessons. But she's a naive, socially awkward, and downright childish person who lacks charisma and a backbone.
** Elizabeth is a selfish, jaded, and disinterested educator, but she makes up for it with charisma, street smarts, and trickery.
** Amy is, on the surface, a model teacher: a peppy person who engages with her students with fun lessons. But she's a naive, socially awkward, and downright childish person who lacks charisma and a backbone.
** Elizabeth is a selfish, jaded, and disinterested educator, but she makes up for it with charisma, street smarts, and trickery.
* HardTruthAesop:
** InUniverse, Elizabeth ''harshly'' tells Garrett that some girls like Chase are shallow bitches who will never care about "sensitive" guys like him, nor be impressed by his poetry and he should just move on.
** The conflict between the seemingly nice, but immature, Amy and the bitchy, but crafty, Elizabeth [[spoiler: ends with Amy being framed for possessing drugs and transferred to a crappy school while Elizabeth is promoted to the guidance counselor and is able to get away with her actions]]. The lesson is no matter how "nice" you may be as a person, a ruthless, lying {{Jerkass}} with greater street smarts will win out over you, especially if you naively try and convince yourself that you can get this person to like you. Amy only nearly succeeds in [[spoiler: getting Elizabeth fired by engaging in a bit of trickery with the desks, but Elizabeth was able to outmaneuver her anyways through a bit of blackmail and deception]].
** InUniverse, Elizabeth ''harshly'' tells Garrett that some girls like Chase are shallow bitches who will never care about "sensitive" guys like him, nor be impressed by his poetry and he should just move on.
** The conflict between the seemingly nice, but immature, Amy and the bitchy, but crafty, Elizabeth [[spoiler: ends with Amy being framed for possessing drugs and transferred to a crappy school while Elizabeth is promoted to the guidance counselor and is able to get away with her actions]]. The lesson is no matter how "nice" you may be as a person, a ruthless, lying {{Jerkass}} with greater street smarts will win out over you, especially if you naively try and convince yourself that you can get this person to like you. Amy only nearly succeeds in [[spoiler: getting Elizabeth fired by engaging in a bit of trickery with the desks, but Elizabeth was able to outmaneuver her anyways through a bit of blackmail and deception]].
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* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: In one scene, Elizabeth gives her bra to one of her shy, awkward students so that he can use it as "proof" that he was caught making out with an eighth-grade girl, thereby making himself look cool to his classmates as well as the girl he has a crush on.]]
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* PetTheDog: Elizabeth is definitely a grade-A bitch, but she does have a few good moments.
** During her ruthless SternTeacher mode, Elizabeth gives her students a rather odd boon if they get a question right: letting them sock her with a dodgeball.
** She encourages [[ShipperOnDeck her pudgy colleague to go hang out]] with [[MaleGaze a dude]] who was checking her out.
** [[spoiler: In one scene, Elizabeth gives her bra to one of her shy, awkward students so that he can use it as "proof" that he was caught making out with an eighth-grade girl, thereby making himself look cool to his classmates as well as the girl he has a crush on.]]
** During her ruthless SternTeacher mode, Elizabeth gives her students a rather odd boon if they get a question right: letting them sock her with a dodgeball.
** She encourages [[ShipperOnDeck her pudgy colleague to go hang out]] with [[MaleGaze a dude]] who was checking her out.
** [[spoiler: In one scene, Elizabeth gives her bra to one of her shy, awkward students so that he can use it as "proof" that he was caught making out with an eighth-grade girl, thereby making himself look cool to his classmates as well as the girl he has a crush on.]]
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* {{Womanchild}}: Amy Squirrell. If she doesn't get what she wants, she'll throw a huge tantrum about it. Even her own students are put off by her disturbing immaturity as she treats them all like kindergarteners.
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** Amy Squirrell. If she doesn't get what she wants, she'll throw a huge tantrum about it. Even her own students are put off by her disturbing immaturity as she treats them all like kindergarteners.
** Elizabeth is this as well. She's an incredibly lazy, vapid, and self-absorbed person without any conception of responsibility, using fraud and deception to get her way.
** Amy Squirrell. If she doesn't get what she wants, she'll throw a huge tantrum about it. Even her own students are put off by her disturbing immaturity as she treats them all like kindergarteners.
** Elizabeth is this as well. She's an incredibly lazy, vapid, and self-absorbed person without any conception of responsibility, using fraud and deception to get her way.
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* JizzedInMyPants: Timberlake's character...and we see the proof.
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* CoughSnarkCough: A boy in a class is caught eavesdropping on 2 girls; a classmate calls him a loser while doing this.
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* QuittingToGetMarried: Elizabeth attempted to do this before her fiancé dumped her.
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* BeastialityIsDepraved: When Russell has his first real conversation with Elizabeth at lunch, she lies to him saying she caught her ex-fiance trying to do it with his dog.
