History Film / RatRace

* FromBadToWorse: After being told to go to Silver City, New Mexico, the contestants come up with the idea to take a charter flight to the airport nearest there and make their way over, except for Enrrico, who suffered a bout of narcolepsy, and Nick [[RefusalOfTheCall who thought the whole thing was a scam]]. Duane and Blaine couldn't secure plane tickets, so they decide to destroy the airport's radar antenna. HilarityEnsues.

-->EccentricMillionaire '''Donald Sinclair'''

** Vera and Merrill steal the world's fastest car by pretending to be HoodOrnamentHotties showing it off.

* BavarianFireDrill: Owen and the bus driver.
-->'''Owen:''' And your hat.\\

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The "Barbie Museum" is dedicated to Klaus Barbie. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie Klaus Barbie]] was a real-life SS officer who actually was nicknamed "TheButcher of Lyon".

* AlliterativeTitle: '''''Ra'''''t '''''Ra'''''ce''.

* EpicRace

* FreudianSlip[=/=]VerbalBackspace: "I really like your dyke ... BIKE!" Bev immediately {{Facepalm}}s when Randy does this.

* GenkiGirl: Tracy.

* MisplacedNamesPoster: As pictured above, none of the eight actors are directly above their names. For starters, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg is standing on Cuba Gooding's name.
** In the case of Vince Vieluf, his agent tried to pressure the studio to give him top billing, and not only did the studio not do so, he was omitted from any promotional material. Vince fired his agent soon after.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: For the most part of the race, Enrico is in dead last place, sleeping in the lobby. Then the Cody brothers stop all air traffic out of the airport, thus preventing a heart from being flown to El Paso for transplant. That heart gets put into a van to be driven there, and on the way it stops to pick up Enrico. [[spoiler: After escaping the driver and catching a bullet train, Enrico gets to the locker ''before everyone else''.]]

!!This film is an example of:

* BikerBabe: Not attractive. But ''[[AllBikersAreHellsAngels really]]'' aggressive.
** Though not without reason - after all, both Mr. ''and'' Mrs. Pear had just flipped her off (Mr. Pear by accident and Mrs. Pear to badly demonstrate what he did), and Mr. Pear complimented her: "[[FreudianSlip I really like your dyke]]... er, [[VerbalBackspace bike!]]" Also, driving around a car decorated with swastikas tends to inspire anger.

* The Pear family: Randy (Creator/JonLovitz) and Bev (Kathy Najimy), who are on vacation at the casino with their kids Jason (Brody Smith) and Kimberly (Jillian Marie Hubert).

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Cranked UpToEleven with ''a helicopter''.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The bullet fired from the greedy mechanic's revolver flies alongside Vera and Merrill's rocket car as a gag to demonstrate how fast their going even though the vehicle is said to have exceeded Mach 1 (the speed of sound in air)[[note]]1,235kph/767mph[[/note]]. In reality, most bullets go roughly 2.5 times faster than Mach 1 on average.

* HeadsOrTails: Owen fumbled the coin toss at a crucial football game and, as a reuslt, is mocked by everyone who recognizes him for making such a basic error. He defends himself by pointing out that he was given a commemorative coin with a design that made it whard to tell which side of the coin was which.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: 13 main characters (the contestants and Sinclair), a few supporting ones, and many small roles.

* CrazyCatLady: Crazy ''Squirrel'' Lady. She really loves those squirrels.
** And she is played by Kathy Bates. Which really [[invoked]][[NeverLiveItDown doesn't]] [[{{Film/Misery}} help]].

* StandardSnippet: "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" while Duane and Blaine sabotage the radar tower, "Ride Of The Valkyries" as Tracy does her helicopter attack, "La Traviata" when the Codys are chasing the keymaker.

** Sean, Tracy's then-boyfriend, when he sees her helicopter approaching while having a TwoPersonPoolParty with his "ex" Charlene. Hilariously, his first instinct is to [[invoked]][[WhatAnIdiot dunk Charlene under the water]], as if drowning the poor woman would hide her from Tracy.

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: First the Cody Brothers run into a herd of cows. Duane Cody collides with quite a few while holding onto a hot air balloon. Then one of those gets snagged by the balloon, becoming a RunningGag.

** Randy eventually admits that the "Hitlermobile" really is a beautiful car. And at the end of the film, [[spoiler:he's playing Hitler's harmonica at the concert.]]
--->"ARE YOU INSANE?! THIS IS ''HITLER'S CAR''!!"

-->They're always pissed, honey. They're ''Nazis''. It's like it's their ''job''.

* ColonyDrop: Referenced. When everyone arrives in the suite, Donald Sinclair tells them that an asteroid is going to destroy Earth and he's picked them to help repopulate the planet. He then bursts into laughter, saying he couldn't resist.

* NoodleImplement: When Harold Grisham invites Vicky into his room, he makes [[ComicSutra a strange proposal]]:

* RightBehindMe: While the contestants are making a dash for the airport, the Cody brothers are looking at a map trying to find it. Behind them, a plane is coming in for a landing.

* ColonyDrop: Referenced. When everyone arrives in the suite, Donald Sinclair tells them that an asteroid is going to destroy the planet and he's picked them to help repopulate the planet. He then bursts into laughter, saying he couldn't resist.

* FreudianSlip[=/=]VerbalBackspace: "I really like your dyke ... BIKE!"

* NotSoAboveItAll: Nick Schaffer starts out as the only one not convinced by Sinclair's too-good-to-be-true offer. But when he meets a helicopter pilot just as all the planes have been grounded, including all the other contestants…