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* EmbarrassingNickname: As members of the Indian Guides, Ben and Jack need to adopt "Indian" names. Jack gives Ben the reasonable "Little Wing", but Ben, as part of his scheme, names Jack the embarrassing handle "Squatting Dog".
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* EmbarrassingNickname: As members of the Indian Guides, Ben and Jack need to adopt "Indian" names. Jack gives Ben the reasonable "Little Wing", but Ben, as part of his scheme, names saddles Jack with the embarrassing handle "Squatting Dog".
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** When Ben's mother says she is dating seriously, Ben responds, "This is about sex, right?"isn't it?"
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** Jack is prevented from keeping a promise to take Ben white water rafting by an attempt on his life courtesy of Joey Renda and his goons.
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** Jack is prevented from keeping a promise to take Ben white water rafting by an attempt on his life courtesy of Joey Renda and his goons. Unfortunately, since Jack withholds the truth from Ben and Sandy, that he was in real danger, this causes Ben to feel betrayed and sets back their relationship.
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Not to be confused with ''Film/ManOfTheHouse''.
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Not to be confused with ''Film/ManOfTheHouse''.
[[Film/ManOfTheHouse the 2005 film of the same name]] starring Creator/TommyLeeJones.
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* IGaveMyWord: An important theme throughout the movie:
** In the backstory, when Ben's biological father left, he promised to return, but didn't.
** Jack is prevented from keeping a promise to take Ben white water rafting by an attempt on his life courtesy of Joey Renda and his goons.
** Jack refuses a transfer order to Portland in order to keep a promise to take Ben to an Indian Guides campout.
** In the backstory, when Ben's biological father left, he promised to return, but didn't.
** Jack is prevented from keeping a promise to take Ben white water rafting by an attempt on his life courtesy of Joey Renda and his goons.
** Jack refuses a transfer order to Portland in order to keep a promise to take Ben to an Indian Guides campout.
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* {{Manchild}}: Chet Bronski, Norman's dad and the chief of the Indian Guides tribe, is a big kid and a positive example of this trope, as Ben [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] in the end.
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''Film/ManOfTheHouse1995'' is a 1995 film about an eleven-year-old boy, Ben Archer (played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas), who has been raised by his mother (played by Creator/FarrahFawcett) since he was five, when his father left with his secretary. Since then, it has been just the two of them, and Ben has been the eponymous "man of the house."
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* MagicalNativeAmerican: PlayedForLaughs as Chief Red Crow, an actual Native American chief, teaches the Indian Guides to do a rain dance, jokingly claiming credit for all the rain in Seattle.
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* MagicalNativeAmerican: PlayedForLaughs as Chief Red Crow, an actual Native American chief, teaches the Indian Guides to do a rain dance, RainDance, jokingly claiming credit for all the rain in Seattle.
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* RainDance: Led by Red Crow, the Indian Guides do a rain dance to "Gonna Make You Sweat".
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* WouldHurtAChild: Although Jack is the mobsters' target, they are perfectly willing to kill Ben to cover their tracks.
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* ScoutOut: The Indian Guides are a RealLife example, engaging in crafts, campouts, cookouts, and white water rafting.
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* [[GoodStepmother Good Stepfather]]: Jack's objective is to prove to a mistrustful Ben that he can be this. he succeeds in the end.
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* SexySecretary: In the backstory, Ben's father ran off with his secretary.
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* ButtMonkey: Jack is this, largely thanks to Ben's antics. When Jack moves in, Ben objects to his sleeping with Sandy (in either sense of the word) and Jack has to sleep on the cot from hell. Then, Ben convinces Jack to join Indian Guides with the sole purpose of embarrassing him. To this end, Ben saddles Jack with the EmbarrassingNickname Squatting Dog, tricks him into wearing an OverlyStereotypicalDisguise to a cookout, complete with war paint that Jack is allergic to, which causes him trouble at work the next day. Later, thanks to sabotaged brakes courtesy of Joey Renda, Jack ends up in the Puget Sound and comes home sopping wet, to be met with NoSympathy from Sandy and Ben (although, to be fair, Jack did conceal that the "car trouble" he had was a life-threatening situation).
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* HollywoodLaw: Not the law itself so much as how it's practiced. In the movie, Jack, a U.S. Attorney, is seen prosecuting a criminal and later defending a lawsuit against the government. Especially in a big city like Seattle, civil and criminal law are practiced by separate divisions of the U.S. Attorney's Office, so Jack would either be prosecuting criminals or prosecuting (and defending) lawsuits, but not both.
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* TheyDo: Jack and Sandy get married in the end.
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* WeddingFinale: The movie ends when Jack, having earned Ben's blessing, marries Sandy.
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* StereotypeFlip: When Ben comes home from school, he finds Jack with Chief Red Crow, who greets Ben with a stereotypical "How", before reverting to his normal speech -- General American English.
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* StereotypeFlip: When Ben comes home from school, school following what he thinks was a successful WoundedGazelleGambit, he finds Jack with Chief Red Crow, who greets Ben with a stereotypical "How", before reverting to his normal speech -- General American English.
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* OverlyStereotypicalDisguise: As part of his scheme to embarrass Jack, Ben tells him he has to wear one of these to an Indian Guides cookout.
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* EmbarrasingNickname: As members of the Indian Guides, Ben and Jack need to adopt "Indian" names. Jack gives Ben the reasonable "Little Wing", but Ben, as part of his scheme, names Jack the embarrassing handle "Squatting Dog".
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* EmbarrasingNickname: EmbarrassingNickname: As members of the Indian Guides, Ben and Jack need to adopt "Indian" names. Jack gives Ben the reasonable "Little Wing", but Ben, as part of his scheme, names Jack the embarrassing handle "Squatting Dog".
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Indian Guides are a real organization, and the movie accurately depicts their activities. They do not, however, fight mobsters.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: When Jack objects to the name Squatting Dog, Ben claims that it was after a beloved pet with a case of the squirts. When asked for alternatives, the choice Ben gives depends on whether the movie is airing on network television. The original alternative name Ben gives is "Numb Nuts", allegedly after a beloved pet squirrel. The network-television-friendly alternative name is "Butt Head", after a beloved pet goat.
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Now, Ben's mother, Sandy has an announcement. She has started dating seriously, and her boyfriend, U.S. Attorney Jack Sturges (played by Creator/ChevyChase), is moving into their new apartment. Wary of a man who will, once again, let the two of them down, Ben begins scheming to sabotage the new relationship. To set Jack up for embarrassment, Ben enrolls the two in the local Indian Guides group. In so doing, Ben hopes that Jack will insist on quitting the group and look bad in front of Sandy.
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Now, Ben's mother, Sandy has an announcement. She has started dating seriously, and her boyfriend, U.S. Attorney Jack Sturges (played by Creator/ChevyChase), is moving into their new apartment. Wary of a man who will, once again, let the two of them down, Ben begins scheming to sabotage the new relationship. To set Jack up for embarrassment, Ben enrolls the two in the local Indian Guides group. In so doing, Ben hopes that Jack will insist on quitting the group and look bad in front of Sandy.
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''Film/ManOfTheHouse1995'' is a 1995 film about an eleven-year-old boy, Ben Archer (played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas), who has been raised by his mother (Played by Creator/FarrahFawcett) since he was five, when his father left with his secretary. Since then, it has been just the two of them, and Ben has been the eponymous "man of the house."
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''Film/ManOfTheHouse1995'' is a 1995 film about an eleven-year-old boy, Ben Archer (played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas), who has been raised by his mother (Played (played by Creator/FarrahFawcett) since he was five, when his father left with his secretary. Since then, it has been just the two of them, and Ben has been the eponymous "man of the house."
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* TimeShiftedActor: Ben is played by Jimmy Baker at age five, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas at age eleven.
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Film/ManOfTheHouse1995 is a 1995 film about an eleven-year-old boy, Ben Archer, who has been raised by his mother since he was five, when his father left with his secretary. Since then, it has been just the two of them, and Ben has been the eponymous "man of the house."
Now, Ben's mother, Sandy has an announcement. She has started dating seriously, and her boyfriend, U.S. Attorney Jack Sturges, is moving into their new apartment. Wary of a man who will, once again, let the two of them down, Ben begins scheming to sabotage the new relationship. To set Jack up for embarrassment, Ben enrolls the two in the local Indian Guides group. In so doing, Ben hopes that Jack will insist on quitting the group and look bad in front of Sandy.
Now, Ben's mother, Sandy has an announcement. She has started dating seriously, and her boyfriend, U.S. Attorney Jack Sturges, is moving into their new apartment. Wary of a man who will, once again, let the two of them down, Ben begins scheming to sabotage the new relationship. To set Jack up for embarrassment, Ben enrolls the two in the local Indian Guides group. In so doing, Ben hopes that Jack will insist on quitting the group and look bad in front of Sandy.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Ben sees Jack's moving in as this, because of the changes it brings about, but the film actually averts this trope.
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* ArcSymbol: The collage that Ben and Sandy have been building over the past six years. Jack's completion of the collage in the end symbolizes his completing Ben and Sandy's family by becoming a part of it.
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Now, Ben's mother, Sandy has an announcement. She has started dating seriously, and her boyfriend, U.S. Attorney Jack Sturges, is moving into their new apartment. Wary of a man who will, once again, let the two of them down, Ben begins scheming to sabotage the new relationship.
relationship. To set Jack up for embarrassment, Ben enrolls the two in the local Indian Guides group. In so doing, Ben hopes that Jack will insist on quitting the group and look bad in front of Sandy.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Ben definitely shows shades of this, setting Jack up for some embarrassing situations, some of which could impact his job. At one point, knowing about Jack's allergy, Ben tricks Jack into putting on war paint for an Indian Guides outing. The resultant rash is still visible the next day, when Jack has to defend the U.S. government in a lawsuit brought by a local Native American tribe. As a result, Jack gets chewed out by his boss and taken off the case.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Ben definitely shows shades of this, setting Jack up for some embarrassing situations, some of which could impact his job. At one point, knowing about Jack's allergy, Ben tricks Jack into putting on war paint to which he is allergic for an Indian Guides outing. The resultant rash is still visible the next day, when Jack has to defend the U.S. government in a lawsuit brought by a local Native American tribe. As a result, Jack gets chewed out by his boss and taken off the case.case.
* CreepyChild: Ben shows shades of this, describing increasingly gruesome ways to kill people throughout the movie, including:
** Boiling people in acid.
** Throwing people off a cliff after drilling holes in their heads with power-tools to make it look like an industrial accident.
** Wrapping people up in wet rawhide so when it hardens, it mashes their bones and squeezes their internal organs out through their bodily orifices like a tube of toothpaste.
* CreepyChild: Ben shows shades of this, describing increasingly gruesome ways to kill people throughout the movie, including:
** Boiling people in acid.
** Throwing people off a cliff after drilling holes in their heads with power-tools to make it look like an industrial accident.
** Wrapping people up in wet rawhide so when it hardens, it mashes their bones and squeezes their internal organs out through their bodily orifices like a tube of toothpaste.
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* FreudianExcuse: Ben's antics stem from a desire to protect himself and his mother from being hurt by someone like his father again.
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* MeaningfulName: Ben '''Archer'''. He becomes an actual archer by joining Indian Guides, and his archery skills help him and Jack evade the mobsters during the climax.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Of the emotional rather than the physical variety. After Ben's stunt with the war paint gets Jack in trouble at work, Jack tells Ben that they have to quit the Indian Guides. Ben acts upset, but this is the payoff for his entire scheme.
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Meanwhile, in court, Jack has just put an aging mobster away for a long time, and his son swears revenge.
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* FriendlyRivalry: Jack encounters Chief Red Crow in defending a lawsuit by the latter's tribe against the U.S. government. Later, Jack recruits the chief to make his Indian Guides tribe more authentic.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Ben shows shades of this when Jack moves in, only seeing the impact it has on ''his'' life. Justified because Ben is eleven years old.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The ending theme, "Return to Innocence", was no doubt chosen because it is a BilingualSong that incorporates English as well as what sounds like Native American singing. In fact, the foreign singing is Taiwanese.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The ending theme, "Return to Innocence", was no doubt chosen because it is a BilingualSong [[MultilingualSong bilingual song]] that incorporates English as well as what sounds like Native American singing. In fact, the foreign singing is Taiwanese.
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Not to be confused with ''Film/ManOfTheHouse''.
Film/ManOfTheHouse1995 is a 1995 film about an eleven-year-old boy, Ben Archer, who has been raised by his mother since he was five, when his father left with his secretary. Since then, it has been just the two of them, and Ben has been the eponymous "man of the house."
Now, Ben's mother, Sandy has an announcement. She has started dating seriously, and her boyfriend, U.S. Attorney Jack Sturges, is moving into their new apartment. Wary of a man who will, once again, let the two of them down, Ben begins scheming to sabotage the new relationship.
Meanwhile, in court, Jack has just put an aging mobster away for a long time, and his son swears revenge.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The ending theme, "Return to Innocence", was no doubt chosen because it is a BilingualSong that incorporates English as well as what sounds like Native American singing. In fact, the foreign singing is Taiwanese.
* BecomingTheMask: Ben originally joins the Indian Guides in an attempt to embarrass Jack and sabotage the latter's relationship with Sandy. He comes to actually like the group.
* BigDamnHeroes: Just when Jack and Ben have been captured and are about to be blown to bits, the Indian Guides show up to save them.
* BlackBestFriend: Darryl is this to Ben.
* DisappearedDad: Ben's dad deserted the family when Ben was five.
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: Joey Renda and his goons come across as this. After the brake tampering fails, their actions come across as comical rather than menacing.
* FireForgedFriends: Ben finally warms up to Jack during the camping trip, when they face off against Joey Renda and his goons.
* FriendlyRivalry: Jack encounters Chief Red Crow in defending a lawsuit by the latter's tribe against the U.S. government. Later, Jack recruits the chief to make his Indian Guides tribe more authentic.
* HomeAloneAntics: Ben and Jack do this, not in their home, but in the forest where they're camping out as they dodge the mobsters.
* JerkassRealization: Although no lecture is needed, Ben realizes that he has been a {{Jerkass}} to Norman when, during a sleepover, they bond over video games.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Jack hides the truth from Sandy and Ben, that the mob is out to kill him, and has sabotaged his car. This leads Ben to feel betrayed when Jack's absence (caused by the VehicularSabotage below) causes Ben to miss a white water rafting trip.
* MagicBrakes: The brakes on Jack's vehicle are this. Once they are cut by Joey's goons, the only thing that stops his car is landing in Puget Sound.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: PlayedForLaughs as Chief Red Crow, an actual Native American chief, teaches the Indian Guides to do a rain dance, jokingly claiming credit for all the rain in Seattle.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Type 2 with Sandy and Jack. Ben is wary of Jack because of his own father's desertion, but comes to warm up to Jack once Jack proves himself.
* ParentsAsPeople: Sandy's desire to date is portrayed realistically and sympathetically.
* StuffedIntoALocker: Ben meets Norman by discovering him in a locker. Later, when Ben tries to stand up for Norman against bullies, Ben and Norman both end up in lockers.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior:
** When Ben's mother says she is dating seriously, Ben responds, "This is about sex, right?"
** Throughout the film, Ben describes especially gruesome ways to kill people, such as boiling people's heads in acid, dumping them off cliffs after drilling holes in their heads to make it look like an industrial accident, and wrapping people up in wet rawhide so when it hardens, it will mash their bones and squeeze their internal organs out of their bodily orifices like a tube of toothpaste.
* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: It is by bonding over this type of game that Ben realizes that Norman can actually be a good friend.
* VehicularSabotage: Joey's goons cut the brakes on Jack's car, sending him into Puget Sound.
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Film/ManOfTheHouse1995 is a 1995 film about an eleven-year-old boy, Ben Archer, who has been raised by his mother since he was five, when his father left with his secretary. Since then, it has been just the two of them, and Ben has been the eponymous "man of the house."
Now, Ben's mother, Sandy has an announcement. She has started dating seriously, and her boyfriend, U.S. Attorney Jack Sturges, is moving into their new apartment. Wary of a man who will, once again, let the two of them down, Ben begins scheming to sabotage the new relationship.
Meanwhile, in court, Jack has just put an aging mobster away for a long time, and his son swears revenge.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The ending theme, "Return to Innocence", was no doubt chosen because it is a BilingualSong that incorporates English as well as what sounds like Native American singing. In fact, the foreign singing is Taiwanese.
* BecomingTheMask: Ben originally joins the Indian Guides in an attempt to embarrass Jack and sabotage the latter's relationship with Sandy. He comes to actually like the group.
* BigDamnHeroes: Just when Jack and Ben have been captured and are about to be blown to bits, the Indian Guides show up to save them.
* BlackBestFriend: Darryl is this to Ben.
* DisappearedDad: Ben's dad deserted the family when Ben was five.
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: Joey Renda and his goons come across as this. After the brake tampering fails, their actions come across as comical rather than menacing.
* FireForgedFriends: Ben finally warms up to Jack during the camping trip, when they face off against Joey Renda and his goons.
* FriendlyRivalry: Jack encounters Chief Red Crow in defending a lawsuit by the latter's tribe against the U.S. government. Later, Jack recruits the chief to make his Indian Guides tribe more authentic.
* HomeAloneAntics: Ben and Jack do this, not in their home, but in the forest where they're camping out as they dodge the mobsters.
* JerkassRealization: Although no lecture is needed, Ben realizes that he has been a {{Jerkass}} to Norman when, during a sleepover, they bond over video games.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Jack hides the truth from Sandy and Ben, that the mob is out to kill him, and has sabotaged his car. This leads Ben to feel betrayed when Jack's absence (caused by the VehicularSabotage below) causes Ben to miss a white water rafting trip.
* MagicBrakes: The brakes on Jack's vehicle are this. Once they are cut by Joey's goons, the only thing that stops his car is landing in Puget Sound.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: PlayedForLaughs as Chief Red Crow, an actual Native American chief, teaches the Indian Guides to do a rain dance, jokingly claiming credit for all the rain in Seattle.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Type 2 with Sandy and Jack. Ben is wary of Jack because of his own father's desertion, but comes to warm up to Jack once Jack proves himself.
* ParentsAsPeople: Sandy's desire to date is portrayed realistically and sympathetically.
* StuffedIntoALocker: Ben meets Norman by discovering him in a locker. Later, when Ben tries to stand up for Norman against bullies, Ben and Norman both end up in lockers.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior:
** When Ben's mother says she is dating seriously, Ben responds, "This is about sex, right?"
** Throughout the film, Ben describes especially gruesome ways to kill people, such as boiling people's heads in acid, dumping them off cliffs after drilling holes in their heads to make it look like an industrial accident, and wrapping people up in wet rawhide so when it hardens, it will mash their bones and squeeze their internal organs out of their bodily orifices like a tube of toothpaste.
* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: It is by bonding over this type of game that Ben realizes that Norman can actually be a good friend.
* VehicularSabotage: Joey's goons cut the brakes on Jack's car, sending him into Puget Sound.
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