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* ThoseTwoGuys: Jesse and Chester are a pair of loser stoners who spend all their time together. And get matching tattoos. And date twin sisters. And occasionally make out. Ashton Kutcher and Sean William Scott were also this on set.
-->'''Jennifer and Marla, in an out-take:''' ''They're mooning us!''
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* SlutShaming: The BigBad of the film are the evil space sluts, described that way directly in text.
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%%* AsianRudeness: At a drive-through.

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%%* * AsianRudeness: At a drive-through.The Chinese Fooooooood drive-thru woman keeps asking "and then?" as people try to order. [[OverlyLongGag She keeps going and going]]. Either she [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish only knows the one phrase in order to get more order out of people]] or [[{{Troll}} she just likes fucking with customers]].



%%* RentAZilla: How many stoner flicks do you know that have a Super Hot Giant Alien?

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%%* * RentAZilla: How many stoner flicks do you know that have a Super Hot Giant Alien?Alien? In addition to the fountain of memes, the film was famous for the giant chick showing off her panties. Never quite [[Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie ''Catholic High School Girls in Trouble'']], but up there.



%%* RuleOfFunny: What the entire movie runs on.
%%* SassyBlackWoman: The impound lot attendant.

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%%* * RuleOfFunny: What the entire movie runs on.
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on. It's 90 minutes of absurdity where Sean William Scott and Ashton Kutcher run around LA acting like stoner dumbasses in the middle of a ridiculous sci-fi adventure involving gay nordic dudes and hot alien chicks. And Zoltan.
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SassyBlackWoman: The impound lot attendant.attendant. She threatens first to break the guys' fingers then to ''cut them off'', all while [[EvilLaugh cackling like a maniac]].
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* AceCustom: Zoltan's followers wear bubble wrap hoodie space suits. Zoltan's has a purple hood.

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* TooDumbToLive: Tommy when he decides to keep standing next to the alien giantess instead of running which results in [[spoiler: her eating him alive]]

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* TooDumbToLive: TooDumbToLive:
** Jessie mimes taking the fire extinguisher off the wall and beating Zoltan's followers with it. Chester fails to understand os badly that Jessie walks over, pulls the fire extinguisher off the wall, and mimes beating the followers. Chester ''still'' doesn't get it, so Jessie gets fed up and finally does it himself.
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Tommy when he decides to keep standing next to the alien giantess instead of running which results in [[spoiler: her eating him alive]]
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* ThemeTwinNaming: The Twins are named Wylma and Walda.

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* ThemeTwinNaming: The Twins are named Wylma Wanda and Walda.Wilma.
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* ThemeTwinNaming: The Twins are named Wylma and Walda.
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** The Twins work at a school for the blind. One of the teachers is coaching a kid at t-ball, telling him to focus on the beeps of the device on the tee. Then the teacher's pager goes off and the kid nails him in the groin with the bat.
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'''Laundromat Owner:''' ''IDIOTS!!'' '''Your''' tattoo says "dude" and '''your''' tattoo says "sweet"!

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'''Laundromat Owner:''' '''Tailor:''' ''IDIOTS!!'' '''Your''' tattoo says "dude" and '''your''' tattoo says "sweet"!
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* ThatPoorCat: When the guys' boss shows up to yell at them for embezzling pizzas, they throw the pizza so it sticks to the ceiling. A slice falls down and Jessie throws it off screen; cue screaming cat. A second slice falls and Chester catches it, throwing it off screen; cue screaming dog.
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-->Dude... did we get super stoned and buy a ton of pudding?\\
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--> "'''''SWEET!'''''"

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--> "'''''SWEET!'''''""'''''SWEET!'''''"\\
'''Laundromat Owner:''' ''IDIOTS!!'' '''Your''' tattoo says "dude" and '''your''' tattoo says "sweet"!

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* AsianRudeness: At a drive-through.

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* BrokenRecord: "And then?"

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* ChekhovsSkill: An extensive knowledge of Animal Planet trivia saves them from a lunatic ostrich rancher and give Chester the idea to press a hard to reach button with a crazy straw.

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* ChekhovsSkill: ChekhovsSkill:
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An extensive knowledge of Animal Planet trivia saves them from a lunatic ostrich rancher and give Chester the idea to press a hard to reach button with a crazy straw.



* DiabolusExNihilo: The Super Hot Giant Alien, on top of being something one wouldn't expect in a stoner comedy, really comes out of left field. The alien women just suddenly merge into this giant woman that devours Tommy, in a rather [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM-y]] way to ([[spoiler:almost]]) kill off a character, and goes on a rampage.

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* DiabolusExNihilo: DiabolusExNihilo:
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The Super Hot Giant Alien, on top of being something one wouldn't expect in a stoner comedy, really comes out of left field. The alien women just suddenly merge into this giant woman that devours Tommy, in a rather [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM-y]] way to ([[spoiler:almost]]) kill off a character, and goes on a rampage.



* FrenchJerk: Pierre, the ostrich guy.
** Until Chester answers his question correctly. Then he's all smiles, at least with Jesse and Chester. (He's still a jerk with Mark, though).

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* FrenchJerk: Pierre, the ostrich guy.
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guy. Until Chester answers his question correctly. Then he's all smiles, at least with Jesse and Chester. (He's still a jerk with Mark, though).



* GiantWoman: Super Hot Giant Alien!

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* %%* GiantWoman: Super Hot Giant Alien!



* HeterosexualLifePartners: Jesse and Chester. [[HoYay Or are they?]]

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* %%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Jesse and Chester. [[HoYay Or are they?]]



* JerkJock: Tommy.
* TheJoyOfX: The title is often parodied.

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* %%* JerkJock: Tommy.
* %%* TheJoyOfX: The title is often parodied.



%%* SwallowedWhole: [[spoiler:Tommy]].



* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Jesse and Chester are both rude, selfish jerks who don't have their lives together ''at all'' and sadistically cause chaos and discomfort to anyone who puts up with them. Together, they [[spoiler: save the world]].
** Though to be fair, most of the chaos they cause is unintentional on their part.

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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist:
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Jesse and Chester are both rude, selfish jerks who don't have their lives together ''at all'' and sadistically cause chaos and discomfort to anyone who puts up with them. Together, they [[spoiler: save the world]].
** Though to be fair, most of the chaos they cause is unintentional on their part.
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** There's also Christy Boner whose list of offenses include: cheating on her boyfriend with one of the main characters (while said mains were too drunk/stoned out of their minds to remember), breaking up with her boyfriend after he suffered in a HumiliationConga, and probably most notably, seemed pretty satisfied watching her boyfriend be [[spoiler: devoured alive by a giant woman.]] [[AssholeVictim Then again,]] it's a bit difficult to feel sorry for [[JerkJock Tommy]]. She's also [[PetTheDog very nice to her new boyfriend]] [[spoiler: Nelson]]

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** There's also Christy Boner whose list of offenses include: cheating on her boyfriend with one of the main characters (while said mains [[QuestionableConsent were too drunk/stoned out of their minds to remember), remember]] ), breaking up with her boyfriend after he suffered in a HumiliationConga, and probably most notably, seemed pretty satisfied watching her boyfriend be [[spoiler: devoured alive by a giant woman.]] [[AssholeVictim Then again,]] it's a bit difficult to feel sorry for [[JerkJock Tommy]]. She's also [[PetTheDog very nice to her new boyfriend]] [[spoiler: Nelson]]
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* MommyMobile: Zoltan and his team of weird, awkward ufologists ride around in his mother's minivan.
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Not even this very wiki is immune. For the trope for situations where characters misplace their motor vehicles, see DudeWheresOurCar. It also [[TropeNamers inspired the names]] of two other tropes, DudeWheresMyRespect and DudeWheresMyReward.

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Not even this very wiki website is immune. For the trope for situations where characters misplace their motor vehicles, see DudeWheresOurCar. It also [[TropeNamers inspired the names]] of two other tropes, DudeWheresMyRespect and DudeWheresMyReward.
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Not even this very wiki is immune. For the trope for situations where characters misplace their motor vehicles, see DudeWheresOurCar. It also inspired the names of two other tropes, DudeWheresMyRespect and DudeWheresMyReward.

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Not even this very wiki is immune. For the trope for situations where characters misplace their motor vehicles, see DudeWheresOurCar. It also [[TropeNamers inspired the names names]] of two other tropes, DudeWheresMyRespect and DudeWheresMyReward.
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Not even this very wiki is immune. For the trope for situations where characters misplace their motor vehicles, see DudeWheresOurCar.

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Not even this very wiki is immune. For the trope for situations where characters misplace their motor vehicles, see DudeWheresOurCar. It also inspired the names of two other tropes, DudeWheresMyRespect and DudeWheresMyReward.
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* SwallowedWhole: Tommy gets swallowed whole by the Super Hot Giant Alien.


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* YourSizeMayVary: The Super Hot Giant Alien's size doesn't remain consistent. When she first transforms she appears to be around 25 feet tall. She appears smaller than that when she crawls out of the arcade and then much larger once she's outside.
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%%zce* DudeWheresOurCar: TropeNamer.

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%%zce* * DudeWheresOurCar: TropeNamer.TropeNamer because the whole movie is about our two stoner heroes trying to find their car and, by extention, the gifts they got for their girlfriends.
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* CoveredInGunge: When Tommy is shown to have survived his time in the stomach of the Super Hot Giant Alien, he's coated from head to toe in a clear, slimy substance.
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%%* StrangeSalute: The culist's "Zoltan!" salute involves placing their left palm facing out and their right palm facing in while touching their thumbs together, forming a sort of "Z". This is usually accompanied by them shouting "Zoltan!"

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%%* * StrangeSalute: The culist's "Zoltan!" salute involves placing their left palm facing out and their right palm facing in while touching their thumbs together, forming a sort of "Z". This is usually accompanied by them shouting "Zoltan!"
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%%* StrangeSalute: Zoltan!
%%* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Nelson

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%%* StrangeSalute: Zoltan!
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The culist's "Zoltan!" salute involves placing their left palm facing out and their right palm facing in while touching their thumbs together, forming a sort of "Z". This is usually accompanied by them shouting "Zoltan!"
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Zero-context examples aren't allowed and should be commented out.


* RentAZilla: How many stoner flicks do you know that have a Super Hot Giant Alien?
* RuleOfFunny: What the entire movie runs on.
* SassyBlackWoman: The impound lot attendant.

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* %%* RentAZilla: How many stoner flicks do you know that have a Super Hot Giant Alien?
* RescueEquipmentAttack: PlayedForLaughs. Jesse gestures to Chester to smash the two men wearing bubble wrap jackets with a fire extinguisher. Chester doesn't understand, so Jesse grabs the extinguisher himself and knocks them both with it.
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RuleOfFunny: What the entire movie runs on.
* %%* SassyBlackWoman: The impound lot attendant.



* StrangeSalute: Zoltan!
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Nelson
* SwallowedWhole: [[spoiler:Tommy]].

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* %%* StrangeSalute: Zoltan!
* %%* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Nelson
* %%* SwallowedWhole: [[spoiler:Tommy]].
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I don't think we're supposed to pothole Ms Fanservice like that. I also fixed a Administrivia.Chained Sinkhole and hid an entry with no context.


* DiabolusExNihilo: The [[MsFanService Super Hot]] [[AttackOfThe50ftWhatever Giant Alien,]] on top of being something one wouldn't expect in a stoner comedy, really comes out of left field. The alien women just suddenly merge into this giant woman that devours Tommy, in a rather [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM-y]] way to ([[spoiler:almost]]) kill off a character, and goes on a rampage.

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* DiabolusExNihilo: The [[MsFanService Super Hot]] [[AttackOfThe50ftWhatever Hot Giant Alien,]] Alien, on top of being something one wouldn't expect in a stoner comedy, really comes out of left field. The alien women just suddenly merge into this giant woman that devours Tommy, in a rather [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM-y]] way to ([[spoiler:almost]]) kill off a character, and goes on a rampage.



* DudeWheresOurCar: TropeNamer.

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* %%zce* DudeWheresOurCar: TropeNamer.
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* KarmaHoudini: The two neighbors who hit Jesse and Chester with their cars never receive any sort of punishment for committing vehicular assault.
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tweak the Chekov's Gun entry a bit and omit the repetition in the Year's Supply Prize entry


* ChekhovsGun: Numerous examples. One example is the lifetime supply of pudding the duo find in their cupboard. This helps them decide which group of mysterious strangers are on their side by asking [[spoiler:what they got the night before during a game of mini-golf where they won it]].

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* ChekhovsGun: Numerous examples. One example is the lifetime supply of pudding the duo find in their cupboard. cupboards. This helps them decide which group of mysterious strangers are on their side by asking [[spoiler:what they got the night before scored during a game of mini-golf where on the previous night; when the answer explains the pudding they won it]].know it is the correct one]].



* YearsSupplyPrize: The main characters wake up to find their house filled with chocolate pudding, and [[WhatDidIDoLastNight they have no idea what happened the previous day]] to figure out where it came from. It turns out to be a ChekhovsGun when they need to figure out which of two groups of aliens they were with the previous night and they ask both groups what they won the previous night. Only the group they were with can confirm they won a lifetime's supply of pudding when they hit a hole-in-one while playing mini-golf.

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* YearsSupplyPrize: The main characters wake up to find every cupboard in their house filled with packages of chocolate pudding, and [[WhatDidIDoLastNight they have no idea what happened the previous day]] to figure out where it came from. It turns out to be a ChekhovsGun when they need to figure out which of two groups of aliens they were with the previous night and they ask both groups what they won the previous night. Only the group they were with can confirm they won a lifetime's supply of pudding when they hit a hole-in-one while playing mini-golf.from.]]
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* YearsSupplyPrize: The main characters wake up to find their house filled with chocolate pudding, and [[WhatDidIDoLastNight they have no idea what happened the previous day]] to figure out where it came from. It turns out to be a ChekhovsGun when they need to figure out which of two groups of aliens they were with the previous night and they ask both groups what they won the previous night. Only the group they were with can confirm they won a lifetime's supply of pudding when they hit a hole-in-one while playing mini-golf.
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Nowadays, that shouldn't be listed as a trope since it's a definition-only page atm.


* PantyShot: We see plenty of Super Hot Giant Alien's "big-ass panties".
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* DangerouslyShortSkirt: The Super Hot Giant Alien is running around in a miniskirt despite being at least over six meters tall, so of course this leads to a lot people seeing up her skirt.

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