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* BriefAccentImitation: Todd and Asha imitate each other's accents on the ferry and it is just [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments awful]].
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* BriefAccentImitation: Todd and Asha imitate each other's accents on the ferry and it is just [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments awful]].awful.
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* Main/FairForItsDay: When it was released (2006), the movie was praised for it’s anti-racist message, but watching it today it appears to be confirming as many stereotypes as it’s trying to go against and lots of the things that seemed progressive back then are now considered outdated.
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* Main/DefrostingTheIceKing: Todd doesn’t care for India when he first gets there. Not until Asha suggests that he gets to know the place. By the end of the movie he is a much better person in general.
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* Main/DefrostingTheIceKing: Todd Main/DefrostingTheIceQueen: A male example with Todd, who doesn’t care for India when he first gets there. Not until Asha suggests that he gets get to know the place. By the end of the movie he is a much better person in general.
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* Main/BigotWithACrush: Downplayed, because he isn’t downright evil, but Todd is pretty prejudiced against the Indians in the beginning of the movie and he falls in love with Asha.
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* Main/DefrostingTheIceKing: Todd doesn’t care for India when he first gets there. Not until Asha suggests that he gets to know the place. By the end of the movie he is a much better person in general.
* Main/FairForItsDay: When it was released (2006), the movie was praised for it’s anti-racist message, but watching it today it appears to be confirming as many stereotypes as it’s trying to go against and lots of the things that seemed progressive back then are now considered outdated.
* Main/FairForItsDay: When it was released (2006), the movie was praised for it’s anti-racist message, but watching it today it appears to be confirming as many stereotypes as it’s trying to go against and lots of the things that seemed progressive back then are now considered outdated.
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* Main/ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Todd happens to be in India in time to catch Holi (The Festival of Colors).
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* Main/QueerPeopleAreFunny: In the beginning of the movie Auntie Ji asks Todd if he doesn’t have a girlfriend because he’s gay. It’s played as a joke.
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* Main/SympatheticAdulterer: [[spoiler: Asha. It’s justified because she’s in an Main/ArrangedMarriage.]]
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** And at the very end: "Who can I send to China?" Cut to a pair of shoes walking briskly along an airline terminal. [[spoiler:It's Puro, with a huge smile; since he didn't lose his employment after all, he was able to marry his fiancee, and she's right behind him, also with a huge smile. Aww.]]
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Todd Hamilton is a call center manager for a large American novelty company. He's good at his job and feeling optimistic about his prospects, but his life is thrown into chaos when his bosses find out how much they can save by [[OperatorFromIndia outsourcing the entire center to a small town in India]]. His job in Seattle no longer exists, so Todd is given a simple ultimatum: he can move to India, or be fired.
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Todd Hamilton is a call center manager for a large American novelty company. He's good at his job and feeling optimistic about his prospects, but his life is thrown into chaos when his bosses find out how much they can save by [[OperatorFromIndia outsourcing the entire center to a small town in India]]. His job in Seattle no longer exists, so Todd is given a simple ultimatum: he can move to India, or be fired.
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--> '''Todd''': Puro, what is that?
--> '''Puro''': (indicating a device with a large digital readout) Oh, this? This our MPI monitor, Minutes Per Incident. This going to go up on the wall. This is the average time our agents solve the call in. (Todd points to the cow) What? Oh, that's just a cow. Must have wandered in.
** This is TruthInTelevision since cows in India are given free reign to go where they please.
--> '''Puro''': (indicating a device with a large digital readout) Oh, this? This our MPI monitor, Minutes Per Incident. This going to go up on the wall. This is the average time our agents solve the call in. (Todd points to the cow) What? Oh, that's just a cow. Must have wandered in.
** This is TruthInTelevision since cows in India are given free reign to go where they please.
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--> '''Todd''': Puro, what is that?
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'''Puro''': (indicating a device with a large digital readout) Oh, this? This our MPI monitor, Minutes Per Incident. This going to go up on the wall. This is the average time our agents solve the call in. (Todd points to the cow) What? Oh, that's just a cow. Must have wandered in.
** This is TruthInTelevision since cows in India are given free reign to go where theyplease.please.
* VerbedTitle: It's what happens to Todd's job, and he follows it to India.
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'''Puro''': (indicating a device with a large digital readout) Oh, this? This our MPI monitor, Minutes Per Incident. This going to go up on the wall. This is the average time our agents solve the call in. (Todd points to the cow) What? Oh, that's just a cow. Must have wandered in.
** This is TruthInTelevision since cows in India are given free reign to go where they
* VerbedTitle: It's what happens to Todd's job, and he follows it to India.
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* BriefAccentImitation: Todd and Asha imitate each other's accents on the ferry and it is just [[CrowningMomentOfFunny awful]].
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* BriefAccentImitation: Todd and Asha imitate each other's accents on the ferry and it is just [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments awful]].
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Todd Hamilton is a call center manager for a large American novelty company. He's good at his job and feeling optimistic about his prospects, but his life is thrown into chaos when his bosses find out how much they can save by [[OperatorFromIndia outsourcing the entire center to a small town in India]]. His job in Seattle no longer exists, so Todd is given a simple ultimatum: he can move to India, or be fired.
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Todd Hamilton is a call center manager for a large American novelty company. He's good at his job and feeling optimistic about his prospects, but his life is thrown into chaos when his bosses find out how much they can save by [[OperatorFromIndia outsourcing the entire center to a small town in India]]. His job in Seattle no longer exists, so Todd is given a simple ultimatum: he can move to India, or be fired.
Todd Hamilton is a call center manager for a large American novelty company. He's good at his job and feeling optimistic about his prospects, but his life is thrown into chaos when his bosses find out how much they can save by [[OperatorFromIndia outsourcing the entire center to a small town in India]]. His job in Seattle no longer exists, so Todd is given a simple ultimatum: he can move to India, or be fired.
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It was loosely adapted into an [[Series/{{Outsourced}} NBC sitcom of the same name]].
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It was loosely adapted into an [[Series/{{Outsourced}} NBC sitcom of the same name]].
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Basis for the [[Series/{{Outsourced}} NBC sitcom of the same name]], but the two are noticeably different. More on that on its own page.
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* BrickJoke: Todd's phone getting stolen.
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* BrickJoke: Todd's phone getting stolen. Also the fact that the call center is under construction and is missing an exterior wall. [[note]]The building is completed just as the call center is outsourced to China.[[/note]]
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* UnusualEuphemism: In-universe example of ''holiday in Goa''.
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* UnusualEuphemism: In-universe example of ''holiday in Goa''.Goa''.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Todd is shocked to see a live cow standing in the unfinished call center building. When Todd questions it, Puro thinks he's talking about something else.
--> '''Todd''': Puro, what is that?
--> '''Puro''': (indicating a device with a large digital readout) Oh, this? This our MPI monitor, Minutes Per Incident. This going to go up on the wall. This is the average time our agents solve the call in. (Todd points to the cow) What? Oh, that's just a cow. Must have wandered in.
** This is TruthInTelevision since cows in India are given free reign to go where they please.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Todd is shocked to see a live cow standing in the unfinished call center building. When Todd questions it, Puro thinks he's talking about something else.
--> '''Todd''': Puro, what is that?
--> '''Puro''': (indicating a device with a large digital readout) Oh, this? This our MPI monitor, Minutes Per Incident. This going to go up on the wall. This is the average time our agents solve the call in. (Todd points to the cow) What? Oh, that's just a cow. Must have wandered in.
** This is TruthInTelevision since cows in India are given free reign to go where they please.
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* CultureClash
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CultureClash: Both Todd's experience of India, and the call center workers' attempts to understand their American customers.
*FishOutOfWaterFishOutOfWater: Todd in India.
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* OperatorFromIndia
OperatorFromIndia: Part of the basic premise
*ThereIsOnlyOneBedThereIsOnlyOneBed: When Todd and Asha are forced to get a hotel, when a ferry fire strands them on an island overnight.
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My Name Is Not Durwood has been split. Bad examples and those not fitting other tropes are being removed.
* AccidentalMisnaming: There is a RunningGag about the Indian characters mispronouncing Todd's name as "Toad." This was a one-off gag in the TV series but seems to have been dropped.
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* MyNameIsNotDurwood: There is a RunningGag about the Indian characters mispronouncing Todd's name as "Toad." This was a one-off gag in the TV series but seems to have been dropped.
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ambiguous link (there\'s an unrelated novel as well)
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Basis for the [[{{Outsourced}} NBC sitcom of the same name]], but the two are noticeably different. More on that on its own page.
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Basis for the [[{{Outsourced}} [[Series/{{Outsourced}} NBC sitcom of the same name]], but the two are noticeably different. More on that on its own page.
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2006 RomanticComedy about an American heading up a [[OperatorFromIndia call center in India]]. Basis for the [[{{Outsourced}} NBC sitcom of the same name]].
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Todd arrives in his new office to find that managing an Indian call center is about more than people skills; the operators know next to nothing about American culture, and the products they're trying to sell - to Americans - are largely alien to them. HilarityEnsues.
Along the way, "Mister Toad" (the accent is a problem) meets a beautiful woman named Asha, and begins slowly falling in
Basis for the [[{{Outsourced}} NBC sitcom of the same
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* BrickJoke: Todd's phone getting stolen.
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* BittersweetEnding: At least for Todd and Asha.
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* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: The Indian characters speak English, but without American terminology, resulting in such things as an operator trying to sell an eraser while calling it a "rubber," which means "condom" in America.
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* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: The Indian characters speak English, but without American terminology, resulting in such things as an operator trying to sell an eraser while calling it a "rubber," which means "condom" in America.America.
* UnusualEuphemism: In-universe example of ''holiday in Goa''.
* UnusualEuphemism: In-universe example of ''holiday in Goa''.
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Watch it [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4803045557036299674# here]].
