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* CultureEqualsCostume: ''Every single team'' at Beerfest. The German team wear lederhosen, the English team dress as FootballHooligans, the Irish team wear all-green outfits, the Mexican team dress like ranch hands, the Canadian team wear hockey uniforms, and the Swedesh team is made up entirely of [[SexyScandinavian hot blonde women]] wearing skimpy ski vests.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Fink and the monkey-frogs.
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* BilingualBonus: There's several, though ''Das Boot'' is a subversion, as it actually means "The Boat." Since Creator/JurgenProchnow is the Baron, however, it's obviously a StealthPun on his [[Film/DasBoot signature role]].
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Although each country is only represented at Beerfest by a single team, Scotland has its own team despite being part of the United Kingdom.
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* ShoutOut: Baron von Wolfhausen [[Film/DasBoot had a bad experience on a U-Boat once]].
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** The Swedish team at Beerfest is made up entirely of attractive blonde women in bikinis. This is a reference to a series of Old Milwaukee beer commercials from the late-1980s and early-1990s that featured the "Swedish Bikini Team."
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* NoodleIncident: A ''lot'' of them, including the Z-job (if you have to ask, you can't afford it).
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** FridgeBrilliance: Of course not. [[spoiler: It's supposed to be the trick the American team figures out to get an edge over them.]]
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* PlayingAgainstType: Steve Lemme's character in this movie is the exact opposite of most of his other Broken Lizard roles, personality-wise.
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* [[FakeNationality Fake German]]: The three von Wolfhausen boys (all Americans) as well as the emcee (British).
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* ActorAllusion: Baron von Wolfhausen (Jurgen Prochnow) had a [[Film/DasBoot bad experience on a U-Boat]]. And, of course it's hammered home with the glass boot itself.
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* CultureEqualsCostume: ''Every single team'' at Beerfest. The German team wear lederhosen, the English team dress as FootballHooligans, the Irish team wear all-green outfits, the Mexican team dress like ranch hands, the Canadian team wear hockey uniforms, and the Swedesh team is made up entirely of [[SexyScandivnavian [[SexyScandinavian hot blonde women]] wearing skimpy ski vests.
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--> "...If you attempt to drink the amount of beer the characters do in this film, YOU WILL DIE."
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The DisasterDominoes turns the entire crowd against them when a little boy on stage is injured and started crying.
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** The Germans do ''do'' briefly mock Fink's yarmulke towards the climax though, climax, [[spoiler:which causes him to develop "[[TranquilFury The Eye of the Jew]]" and helps him lead Team USA to victory.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The DisasterDominoes that Jan and Todd trigger at Oktoberfest turns the entire crowd against them when a little boy on stage (who just happens to be Baron von Wolfhausen's grandson) is injured and started crying.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The man Jan is gambling over quarters with in the beginning of the movie and gets his men to hold him down to beat the shit out of Jan, he's the minister who is residing over Johann's funeral.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The man Jan is gambling over quarters with in the beginning of the movie and gets his men to hold him down to beat the shit out of Jan, he's Jan? He's the minister who is residing over Johann's funeral.
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* DenyingTheDeadParentsSins: Jan and Todd get pissed at the Germans for saying their granfather stole a recipe for the greatest beer in the world. Not only did he indeed steal it, but [[spoiler: he was actually the rightful heir, which means so are they]].
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* DenyingTheDeadParentsSins: Jan and Todd get pissed at the Germans for saying their granfather grandfather stole a recipe for the greatest beer in the world. Not only did he indeed steal it, but [[spoiler: he was actually the rightful heir, which means so are they]].
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* DeusExMachina: Hilariously parodied. [[spoiler: How they replace After Landfill after he is murdered - untimely murdered, the team learns that he just happens to have a an identical twin brother who is better than him at everything, including drinking and sex.sex. He even insists on still being called "Landfill" in order to honor his brother's legacy.]]
** The SexyScandinavian girls from the Swedish team as well, who have no speaking lines and appear only in one scene where they flash the main characters.[[labelnote:*]]One of the Swedish girls did originally have a slightly bigger plot-relevant role but this was cut from the final version.[[/labelnote]]
* JewishAndNerdy: Fink down to a T.
-->'''Messenger:''' No, no, no! What about "don't shoot the messenger", right?
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* ATankardOfMooseUrine: The American team desensitizes their taste buds via drinking ''actual'' ram's piss.piss.
** Later at the competition, [[BrickJoke the Germans are seen drinking it as well]] to warm up in between rounds.
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* TheAce: The German team when it comes to drinking. And Gil, [[spoiler:Landfill's twin brother and replacement]].
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* DepravedHomosexual: The gay prostitute who hangs out with Barry and aggressively hits on Fink.
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* BerserkButton: A badly timed insult from the German team during the final insult untaps some epic "Jew Rage."
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* BackupTwin: [[spoiler:Landfill's twin brother, Gil, who ends up getting Landfill's nickname, his spot on the team...and even his ''wife''.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Baron von Wolfhausen (Jurgen Prochnow) had a [[Film/DasBoot bad experience on a U-Boat]].
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''Beerfest'' is a 2006 film from comedy troupe BrokenLizard. It's probably best described as an AffectionateParody of sports movies that uses cultural and NationalStereotypes to a ridiculous extent.
The plot of the movie revolves around brothers Jan and Todd Wolfhouse, whose German grandfather has just passed away. Charged with the task of bringing his ashes to the "family resting place" in Munich during {{Oktoberfest}}, they end up discovering [[TitleDrop Beerfest]], a secret underground drinking competition. Beerfest is presided over by [[BigBad Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen]], ''braumeister'' of the Von Wolfhausen brewery. He is furious at Jan and Todd's late grandfather for purportedly stealing his family's beer recipe, "the greatest in all the world," calling him a "thieving stable boy" and "bastard son of a whore." Americans are banned from Beerfest, and as Jan and Todd try to state their right to be there, they are handily beaten in an impromptu speed chug competition by the German team. After suffering humiliation at the hands of the von Wolfhausens, they return home with the intent to return to Beerfest with the first American team--and kick the Germans' asses.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* ActorAllusion: Baron von Wolfhausen (Jurgen Prochnow) had a [[Film/DasBoot bad experience on a U-Boat]].
* TheAlcoholic: Virtually ''everybody'' in this movie. The film even opens with a disclaimer warning the viewer not to attempt to drink like the characters.
--> "...If you attempt to drink the amount of beer the characters do in this film, YOU WILL DIE."
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The DisasterDominoes turns the entire crowd against them when a little boy on stage is injured and started crying.
* AvengersAssemble: Putting the American team together.
* BackupTwin: [[spoiler:Landfill's twin brother, Gil, who ends up getting Landfill's nickname, his spot on the team...and even his ''wife''.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: The plans for the Wolfhausen recipe [[spoiler:are stolen by Cherry, but it turns out that she merely stole a prototypical recipe for "a new low-carb strawberry ale.]] [[SoOkayItsAverage It's... okay.]]"
* BerserkButton: A badly timed insult from the German team during the final insult untaps some epic "Jew Rage."
** "I happen to have MARRIED that plastic fuck doll!"
* BigGame: Beerfest itself.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Cherry.]]
* ButtMonkey: Fink.
* ChekhovsGun: Johann Wolfhouse's beloved doll Popo, [[spoiler:which turns out to be the hiding place for the von Wolfhausen beer recipe]].
* CongruentMemory: Fink's theory of "Drunken Recall," which is used on Todd (by having him chug an ''entire bottle'' of [[strike:Goldschläger]] [[ProductDisplacement generic gold-flecked liqueur]]) so that they can find the entrance to Beerfest.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Cherry pushes Landfill into a vat of beer, where he ultimately drowns]].
* CultureEqualsCostume: ''Every single team'' at Beerfest. The German team wears lederhosen, the Mexican team dress like ranch hands, the Canadian team wears hockey uniforms, and the Swedesh team is made up entirely of hot blonde women wearing ski vests.
** Fink during the course of the entire film (with his ever-changing wardrobe of yarmulkes).
* DavidVersusGoliath
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: How they replace Landfill after he is murdered - he just happens to have a twin brother who is better than him at everything, including drinking and sex.]]
* DisasterDominoes: Jan and Todd's initial arrival to Oktoberfest.
* DontTryThisAtHome: The start of the movie warns of over-drinking and not to recreate what the actors are doing. Indeed, most of the "beer" in the movie was non-alcholic.
* DoubleEntendre: [=GamGam=] gets a ''lot'' of these after Wolfgang tells the boys she was a whore.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Cherry]] is this to the Germans.
* DrunkenMaster: Barry is much better at drinking games when drunk
* {{Eagleland}}: So, so much.
* EurekaMoment: Fink discovers the secret to beating the Boot at a bathroom urinal.
* [[FakeNationality Fake German]]: The three von Wolfhausen boys (all Americans) as well as the emcee (British).
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Landfill runs a carnival booth now. And Barry? "It's $10 for a BJ, $12 for an HJ, [[DontAsk $15 for a ZJ]]..."
* FanserviceExtra: At Oktoberfest when a bar fight causes a guy to slip and grab onto the tube top of the nearest girl. Newly stripped girl slips herself, grabs onto the tops of two ''other'' girls, and strips ''them''. And then ''those'' two girls slip, and pull down the tops of the three girls ''behind them''. A chain reaction of 6 uncredited topless blonde Fanservice Extras that has the men at Oktoberfest—as well as the male audience—cheering at each stage. Pure {{Fanservice}} all the way.
** This is by far the most likely scene in this movie to make female viewers roll their eyes and lament that AllMenArePerverts.
* FreestateAmsterdam
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: [=GamGam=] is a very sweet old lady who was a prostitute in her youth.
* HypocriticalHumor: Landfill, who is said to have converted to Islam while in jail, regularly imbibes alcohol and ingests pork products. Maybe he's just not that devout.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: "We're not that drunk."
* INever
* IWasQuiteALooker: [=GamGam=], who was a beautiful young Bavarian [[spoiler:whore]].
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Landfill]]
* MiracleRally
* NoodleIncident: A ''lot'' of them, including the Z-job (if you have to ask, you can't afford it).
* OhNoNotAgain: When Barry wakes up in the field. [[spoiler: Naked. With blood on his lips. Next to an eviscerated deer]].
* {{Oktoberfest}}
* OpposingSportsTeam: The Germans.
* PlayingAgainstType: Steve Lemme's character in this movie is the exact opposite of most of his other Broken Lizard roles, personality-wise.
* PlotHole: Never during any of the ''Das Boot'' challenges are the Germans seen [[spoiler: having to turn the boot at the right moment]].
** FridgeBrilliance: Of course not. [[spoiler: It's supposed to be the trick the American team figures out to get an edge over them.]]
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The American team. Oh so much.
** To give you an idea, one of their members is a homeless male prostitute.
* RatedMForManly
* SequelHook: [[TheCameo Willie Nelson]] invites the guys to be his teammates at "Pot Fest."
* SeriousBusiness: Those who don't obey the rules of Beerfest tend to get shot.
* ShootTheMessenger: Upon learning that the Americans know the recipe to their beer, Baron von Wolfhausen orders the delivery boy to be disposed of immediately. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath The grandsons shove hoses down his throat, in his ears, and up his nose, and tap the keg.]]
* ShoutOut: Baron von Wolfhausen [[Film/DasBoot had a bad experience on a U-Boat once]].
** Not to mention the "Das Boot" competition ''itself''.
** There are also a number of veiled or not-so-veiled references to lines from ''SuperTroopers'', usually delivered by the same actor. The most obvious is probably Landfill asking for "six Schnitzes."
*** The German techno music from ''SuperTroopers'' is heard during the scene where the Germans are training.
** The "You do not talk about Beerfest" rule is also a shout-out to ''FightClub''.
* StealthPun: Schnitzengiggle, the Wolfhouses' restaurant [[spoiler:and beer]].
* ATankardOfMooseUrine: The American team desensitizes their taste buds via ''actual'' ram's piss.
* TarAndFeathers: Cloris Leachman's character and her son are tarred and feathered in turn of the century Germany.
* ThemeNaming: Hammacher and Schlemmer, named after a Sharper Image-type store that deals in high-end gadgetry.
* TookALevelInBadass: Fink near the end.
* TrainingFromHell: Par for the course for the Germans, but then self-inflicted by the new Team USA. How intense could it be? ''Both teams actually drank ram's piss.''
--->'''Barry Badrinath:''' (after drinking Ram's piss) "Oh man, that's the most disgusting thing I've ever drank."
--->'''Landfill:''' "I doubt that very much, playboy!"
* TVGenius: Fink, who goes so far as to develop a scientific approach to ''drinking''.
** AllThereInTheManual: The segment explaining "Fink's Position," used by all of the American team during the final line chug, didn't make it into the final cut of the film. It's included as a deleted scene on the DVD, however.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Landfill, despite being an overweight competitive eater, has a ''very'' attractive wife.
* UnderdogsNeverLose
* TheUnintelligible: The English team (''not'' British, as there's a separate Scottish team) is painted this way, with their use of Cockney rhyming slang. If you actually know Cockney, however, [[BilingualBonus you can understand them perfectly]].
* WildTeenParty: The American team attends one of these to brush up on their drinking game skills.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:The Baron has Cherry executed when it's revealed that she stole the wrong beer recipe.]]
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''Beerfest'' is a 2006 film from comedy troupe BrokenLizard. It's probably best described as an AffectionateParody of sports movies that uses cultural and NationalStereotypes to a ridiculous extent.
The plot of the movie revolves around brothers Jan and Todd Wolfhouse, whose German grandfather has just passed away. Charged with the task of bringing his ashes to the "family resting place" in Munich during {{Oktoberfest}}, they end up discovering [[TitleDrop Beerfest]], a secret underground drinking competition. Beerfest is presided over by [[BigBad Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen]], ''braumeister'' of the Von Wolfhausen brewery. He is furious at Jan and Todd's late grandfather for purportedly stealing his family's beer recipe, "the greatest in all the world," calling him a "thieving stable boy" and "bastard son of a whore." Americans are banned from Beerfest, and as Jan and Todd try to state their right to be there, they are handily beaten in an impromptu speed chug competition by the German team. After suffering humiliation at the hands of the von Wolfhausens, they return home with the intent to return to Beerfest with the first American team--and kick the Germans' asses.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* ActorAllusion: Baron von Wolfhausen (Jurgen Prochnow) had a [[Film/DasBoot bad experience on a U-Boat]].
* TheAlcoholic: Virtually ''everybody'' in this movie. The film even opens with a disclaimer warning the viewer not to attempt to drink like the characters.
--> "...If you attempt to drink the amount of beer the characters do in this film, YOU WILL DIE."
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The DisasterDominoes turns the entire crowd against them when a little boy on stage is injured and started crying.
* AvengersAssemble: Putting the American team together.
* BackupTwin: [[spoiler:Landfill's twin brother, Gil, who ends up getting Landfill's nickname, his spot on the team...and even his ''wife''.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: The plans for the Wolfhausen recipe [[spoiler:are stolen by Cherry, but it turns out that she merely stole a prototypical recipe for "a new low-carb strawberry ale.]] [[SoOkayItsAverage It's... okay.]]"
* BerserkButton: A badly timed insult from the German team during the final insult untaps some epic "Jew Rage."
** "I happen to have MARRIED that plastic fuck doll!"
* BigGame: Beerfest itself.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Cherry.]]
* ButtMonkey: Fink.
* ChekhovsGun: Johann Wolfhouse's beloved doll Popo, [[spoiler:which turns out to be the hiding place for the von Wolfhausen beer recipe]].
* CongruentMemory: Fink's theory of "Drunken Recall," which is used on Todd (by having him chug an ''entire bottle'' of [[strike:Goldschläger]] [[ProductDisplacement generic gold-flecked liqueur]]) so that they can find the entrance to Beerfest.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Cherry pushes Landfill into a vat of beer, where he ultimately drowns]].
* CultureEqualsCostume: ''Every single team'' at Beerfest. The German team wears lederhosen, the Mexican team dress like ranch hands, the Canadian team wears hockey uniforms, and the Swedesh team is made up entirely of hot blonde women wearing ski vests.
** Fink during the course of the entire film (with his ever-changing wardrobe of yarmulkes).
* DavidVersusGoliath
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: How they replace Landfill after he is murdered - he just happens to have a twin brother who is better than him at everything, including drinking and sex.]]
* DisasterDominoes: Jan and Todd's initial arrival to Oktoberfest.
* DontTryThisAtHome: The start of the movie warns of over-drinking and not to recreate what the actors are doing. Indeed, most of the "beer" in the movie was non-alcholic.
* DoubleEntendre: [=GamGam=] gets a ''lot'' of these after Wolfgang tells the boys she was a whore.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Cherry]] is this to the Germans.
* DrunkenMaster: Barry is much better at drinking games when drunk
* {{Eagleland}}: So, so much.
* EurekaMoment: Fink discovers the secret to beating the Boot at a bathroom urinal.
* [[FakeNationality Fake German]]: The three von Wolfhausen boys (all Americans) as well as the emcee (British).
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Landfill runs a carnival booth now. And Barry? "It's $10 for a BJ, $12 for an HJ, [[DontAsk $15 for a ZJ]]..."
* FanserviceExtra: At Oktoberfest when a bar fight causes a guy to slip and grab onto the tube top of the nearest girl. Newly stripped girl slips herself, grabs onto the tops of two ''other'' girls, and strips ''them''. And then ''those'' two girls slip, and pull down the tops of the three girls ''behind them''. A chain reaction of 6 uncredited topless blonde Fanservice Extras that has the men at Oktoberfest—as well as the male audience—cheering at each stage. Pure {{Fanservice}} all the way.
** This is by far the most likely scene in this movie to make female viewers roll their eyes and lament that AllMenArePerverts.
* FreestateAmsterdam
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: [=GamGam=] is a very sweet old lady who was a prostitute in her youth.
* HypocriticalHumor: Landfill, who is said to have converted to Islam while in jail, regularly imbibes alcohol and ingests pork products. Maybe he's just not that devout.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: "We're not that drunk."
* INever
* IWasQuiteALooker: [=GamGam=], who was a beautiful young Bavarian [[spoiler:whore]].
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Landfill]]
* MiracleRally
* NoodleIncident: A ''lot'' of them, including the Z-job (if you have to ask, you can't afford it).
* OhNoNotAgain: When Barry wakes up in the field. [[spoiler: Naked. With blood on his lips. Next to an eviscerated deer]].
* {{Oktoberfest}}
* OpposingSportsTeam: The Germans.
* PlayingAgainstType: Steve Lemme's character in this movie is the exact opposite of most of his other Broken Lizard roles, personality-wise.
* PlotHole: Never during any of the ''Das Boot'' challenges are the Germans seen [[spoiler: having to turn the boot at the right moment]].
** FridgeBrilliance: Of course not. [[spoiler: It's supposed to be the trick the American team figures out to get an edge over them.]]
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The American team. Oh so much.
** To give you an idea, one of their members is a homeless male prostitute.
* RatedMForManly
* SequelHook: [[TheCameo Willie Nelson]] invites the guys to be his teammates at "Pot Fest."
* SeriousBusiness: Those who don't obey the rules of Beerfest tend to get shot.
* ShootTheMessenger: Upon learning that the Americans know the recipe to their beer, Baron von Wolfhausen orders the delivery boy to be disposed of immediately. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath The grandsons shove hoses down his throat, in his ears, and up his nose, and tap the keg.]]
* ShoutOut: Baron von Wolfhausen [[Film/DasBoot had a bad experience on a U-Boat once]].
** Not to mention the "Das Boot" competition ''itself''.
** There are also a number of veiled or not-so-veiled references to lines from ''SuperTroopers'', usually delivered by the same actor. The most obvious is probably Landfill asking for "six Schnitzes."
*** The German techno music from ''SuperTroopers'' is heard during the scene where the Germans are training.
** The "You do not talk about Beerfest" rule is also a shout-out to ''FightClub''.
* StealthPun: Schnitzengiggle, the Wolfhouses' restaurant [[spoiler:and beer]].
* ATankardOfMooseUrine: The American team desensitizes their taste buds via ''actual'' ram's piss.
* TarAndFeathers: Cloris Leachman's character and her son are tarred and feathered in turn of the century Germany.
* ThemeNaming: Hammacher and Schlemmer, named after a Sharper Image-type store that deals in high-end gadgetry.
* TookALevelInBadass: Fink near the end.
* TrainingFromHell: Par for the course for the Germans, but then self-inflicted by the new Team USA. How intense could it be? ''Both teams actually drank ram's piss.''
--->'''Barry Badrinath:''' (after drinking Ram's piss) "Oh man, that's the most disgusting thing I've ever drank."
--->'''Landfill:''' "I doubt that very much, playboy!"
* TVGenius: Fink, who goes so far as to develop a scientific approach to ''drinking''.
** AllThereInTheManual: The segment explaining "Fink's Position," used by all of the American team during the final line chug, didn't make it into the final cut of the film. It's included as a deleted scene on the DVD, however.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Landfill, despite being an overweight competitive eater, has a ''very'' attractive wife.
* UnderdogsNeverLose
* TheUnintelligible: The English team (''not'' British, as there's a separate Scottish team) is painted this way, with their use of Cockney rhyming slang. If you actually know Cockney, however, [[BilingualBonus you can understand them perfectly]].
* WildTeenParty: The American team attends one of these to brush up on their drinking game skills.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:The Baron has Cherry executed when it's revealed that she stole the wrong beer recipe.]]
