History Film / MadeaGoesToJail

** Chuck likely never faces any consequences for having cheated on his bar exam Linda likely never follows through with telling the ADA about it.

* ThreatBackfire: [[spoiler: Although Linda warned him to keep his mouth shut or she'll tell the head A.D.A. that he cheated on his bar exam to get his job, Chuck tells Josh that Linda falsified Candace's file to get her sent to prison and away from him. Josh tells everyone else in the church, including the head A.D.A., the Mayor and the Governor of his fiancé's actions]].

* OhCrap: Madea's reaction when she finds out Judge Mabeline isn't ruling on her case. The much tougher Judge Mathis is.

Also, Candace has this reaction when she finds out that the john who's car she gets into is actually a police officer.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In jail, the some of the inmates participate in a class about forgiveness, and many of them insist on using their past traumas as reasons for being in jail. Madea scoffs at them for trying to play the victim, reminding them that they were in jail because of ''their own'' actions and that they should take responsibility for them instead of using past traumas to justify their own misdeeds. Candace in particular takes this lesson to heart.

* PromiscuityAfterRape: Candy became a prostitute after being gang-related in college.

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''Madea Goes to Jail'' is a 2009 film by Creator/TylerPerry reprising his role as Madea, the don't-mess-with-me matriarch who finds herself in jail after one too many entanglements with the law. Meanwhile, in the B-plot to the movie, a prostitute named Candace (Keshia Knight Pulliam) fatefully encounters Josh (Derek Luke), her best friend from college who now works as an assistant district attorney. Sympathizing with her plight, Josh endears himself to get to the bottom of how she ended up on the streets in an effort to relieve his guilt about his success. As the details unfold, {{The Reveal}} leads Candice back to the man truly meant for her and helps to get her off of the streets. With the help of her friend Donna (Vanessa Ferlitto), and Helen (Viola Davis), a serious {{Determinator}} of the Church, justice is eventually done.

* BerserkButton: Madea already has about a hundred of them, but three that show up in this movie are: Don't throw any parties when she's not home, don't ask her for some "me time" if you're Cora, and don't park in her favorite space at the grocery store.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: During the scene where [[spoiler:Candace gets arrested for skipping court]] a prostitute can be heard in the background saying "What's going on baby, wanna [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]?" Even the captions picked it up. Yet the movie is still rated PG-13[[note]]Using the F-word in a sexual context is usually an automatic "R" rating, even if it's just once[[/note]].

* OhCrap: Madea's reaction when she finds out Judge Mabeline isn't ruling on her case. The much tougher, Judge Mathis is.

* WhenEldersAttack: Should've the police expected this when arresting Madea.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: During the scene where [[spoiler:Candace gets arrested for skipping court]] a prostitute can be heard in the background saying "What's going on baby, wanna [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]? Even the captions picked it up. Yet the movie is still rated PG-13[[note]]Using the F-word in a sexual context is usually an automatic "R" rating, even if it's just once[[/note]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: During the scene where [[spoiler:Candace gets arrested for skipping court]] a prostitute can be heard in the background saying "What's going on baby, wanna [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]? Even the captions picked it up. Yet the movie is still rated PG-13[[note]]Using the F-word in a sexual context is an automatic "R" rating, even if it's just once[[/note]].

* TheReveal: The audience finds out that Linda [[spoiler:had been adding charges of otherwise dead cases to current ones, thus landing a number of female perpetrators to prison for much longer sentences.]] Upon finding out about this, Josh [[spoiler:rats Linda out, leaves her at the altar, alerts the media, and prompts a formal investigation.]]

* ThreatBackfire: [[spoiler: Although Linda warned him to keep his mouth shut or she'll tell the head A.D.A. that he cheated on his bar exam to get his job, Chuck tells Josh that Linda falsified Candace's file to get her sent to prison and away from him.]]

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In jail, the some of the inmates participate in a class about forgiveness, and many of them insist on using their past traumas as reasons for being in jail. Madea scoffs at them for trying to play the victim, reminding them that they were in jail because of ''their own'' actions that they should take responsibility for them instead of using past traumas to justify their own misdeeds. Candace in particular takes this lesson to heart.

** Tonya. {{Up to Eleven}}!

* ExactWords: After Madea tows someone's car due to the owner taking her parking spot, the lady gets angry and demands that Madea puts her car down. Madea says "ok" and drops the lady's car down, but said car is flipped upside down instead.

* MuggingTheMonster: The lady who taunted Madea over taking a parking spot certainly did this.