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* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Even after Monix's training, Jackie's not a particularly good basketball player, but he excels at "granny style" free throws.
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* ArtifactTitle: Presumably the Flint Tropics started out in Florida before relocating to Michigan (this also counts as a HistoricalInJoke, as many actual ABA teams switched cities during the league's existence).
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* ArtifactTitle: Presumably the Flint Tropics started out in Florida before relocating to Michigan (this also counts as a HistoricalInJoke, as many actual ABA and NBA teams switched cities during their existence and kept their names even if they made little sense, such as the league's existence).Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans/Utah Jazz).
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee, Father Pat, are arguing, and Father Pat, a priest, ends up implying he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Father Pat's congregation in disgust. Jackie did, however, start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Father Pat.
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee are arguing and the referee, Father Pat, are arguing, and Father Pat, who also happens to be a priest, ends up implying implies he thinks believes that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into [[TranquilFury into]] StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Father Pat's congregation in disgust. Jackie did, however, start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Father Pat.
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* AnachronismStew: In one scene, the Tropics are playing against the Anaheim Amigos. In reality, the Amigos had relocated to Los Angeles and became the Stars in 1968.
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* AnachronismStew: In one scene, the Tropics are playing against the Anaheim Amigos. In reality, the Amigos had relocated to Los Angeles and became the Stars in 1968. The name might have been used simply because [[RuleOfFunny it's funnier]].
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* BearsAreBadNews: Dewie the bear. "There will be no refunds! Your refund will be escaping this deathtrap with your life!"
** Dewie reappears at the very end [[spoiler:when he mauls the Commissioner]]. "Everybody panic! It's just like the Titanic, but it's full of bears!"
** Dewie reappears at the very end [[spoiler:when he mauls the Commissioner]]. "Everybody panic! It's just like the Titanic, but it's full of bears!"
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* BearsAreBadNews: Dewie the bear. "There will be no refunds! Your refund will be escaping this deathtrap with your life!"
**life!" Dewie reappears at the very end [[spoiler:when he mauls the Commissioner]]. "Everybody panic! It's just like the Titanic, but it's full of bears!"
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* [[IHaveManyNames I Have Many Nicknames]]: Clarence Withers has 4 nicknames. As follows: "Jumping" Johnny Johnson, Sugar Dunkerton, Downtown "Funky Stuff" Malone, and Coffee Black.
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* [[IHaveManyNames I Have Many Nicknames]]: IHaveManyNames: Clarence Withers has 4 nicknames. As follows: "Jumping" Johnny Johnson, Sugar Dunkerton, Downtown "Funky Stuff" Malone, and Coffee Black.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Cornelius seems amused by the fact that he was hit by a stray bullet while his friends were playing around with a gun they thought was unloaded.
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* JugglingLoadedGuns: While playing poker, after the JiveTurkey incident, Lou pretends to threaten Cornelius with a gun as a prank, and says it's not loaded. ''Everyone at the poker table'' takes turns pointing the gun and pulling the trigger at each other. Predictably, the gun ''does'' have one round left; the bullet ricochets around the room and hits Cornelius's arm (it's in a cast). ''It's still played for laughs'' even though his arm is ''bleeding through the cast''.
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* JugglingLoadedGuns: While playing poker, after the JiveTurkey incident, Lou pretends to threaten Cornelius with a gun as a prank, and says it's not loaded. ''Everyone at the poker table'' takes turns pointing the gun and pulling the trigger at each other. Predictably, the gun ''does'' have one round left; the bullet ricochets around the room and [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace hits Cornelius's arm arm]] (it's in a cast). ''It's still played for laughs'' even though his arm is ''bleeding through the cast''.
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* BearsAreBadNews: Dewie the bear. "There will be no refunds! Your refund will be escaping this deathtrap with your life!"
** Dewie reappears at the very end [[spoiler:when he mauls the Commissioner]]. "Everybody panic! It's just like the Titanic, but it's full of bears!"
** Dewie reappears at the very end [[spoiler:when he mauls the Commissioner]]. "Everybody panic! It's just like the Titanic, but it's full of bears!"
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* JiveTurkey: Turns out calling some a "Jive Turkey" is a ''very'' rude insult among Jackie's circle. So much so he tries claiming Cornelius called Lou a cocksucker instead.
* JugglingLoadedGuns: While playing poker, one guy pretends to threaten someone with a gun as a prank, and says it's not loaded. ''Everyone at the poker table'' takes turns pointing the gun and pulling the trigger at each other. Predictably, the gun ''does'' have one round left; the bullet ricochets around the room and Cornelius's arm (it's in a cast). ''It's still played for laughs'' even though his arm is ''bleeding through the cast''.
* JugglingLoadedGuns: While playing poker, one guy pretends to threaten someone with a gun as a prank, and says it's not loaded. ''Everyone at the poker table'' takes turns pointing the gun and pulling the trigger at each other. Predictably, the gun ''does'' have one round left; the bullet ricochets around the room and Cornelius's arm (it's in a cast). ''It's still played for laughs'' even though his arm is ''bleeding through the cast''.
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* JiveTurkey: Turns out calling some a "Jive Turkey" is a ''very'' rude insult among Jackie's circle. So much so he so, Jackie tries claiming Cornelius called Lou a cocksucker instead.
* JugglingLoadedGuns: While playing poker,one guy after the JiveTurkey incident, Lou pretends to threaten someone Cornelius with a gun as a prank, and says it's not loaded. ''Everyone at the poker table'' takes turns pointing the gun and pulling the trigger at each other. Predictably, the gun ''does'' have one round left; the bullet ricochets around the room and hits Cornelius's arm (it's in a cast). ''It's still played for laughs'' even though his arm is ''bleeding through the cast''.
* JugglingLoadedGuns: While playing poker,
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* DarkReprise: Jackie earned all his money that he bought the Tropics with using royalties from his song "Love Me Sexy." He later goes through a HeroicBSOD of sorts, and sings a variation of that song while lying in a dumpster. Yes, it's sad and drunken.
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* FunnyAfro: Several. It is set in the 1970s after all.
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* FunnyAfro: Several. It is set in the 1970s TheSeventies after all.
* JugglingLoadedGuns: While playing poker, one guy pretends to threaten someone with a gun as a prank, and says it's not loaded. ''Everyone at the poker table'' takes turns pointing the gun and pulling the trigger at each other. Predictably, the gun ''does'' have one round left; the bullet ricochets around the room and Cornelius's arm (it's in a cast). ''It's still played for laughs'' even though his arm is ''bleeding through the cast''.
* LoopholeAbuse:
** Ain't no rule says you can't play drunk. Well, there is a rule, but they can't enforce it. ("Remember those 30 free throws I did in Minnesota last year?" "Yeah?" "I don't.")
** When they first use the [[spoiler:alley-oop]], the ref rules it a violation, although the protagonists are ready and throw the rule book at him. The ref is forced to allow it.
* LoopholeAbuse:
** Ain't no rule says you can't play drunk. Well, there is a rule, but they can't enforce it. ("Remember those 30 free throws I did in Minnesota last year?" "Yeah?" "I don't.")
** When they first use the [[spoiler:alley-oop]], the ref rules it a violation, although the protagonists are ready and throw the rule book at him. The ref is forced to allow it.
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* RealityEnsues: Even after everything the Tropics do to make it to fourth place [[spoiler:the NBA refuses to take them as one of the merger teams because Flint is too small a media market to host a pro team.]]
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* RealityEnsues: Even after everything the Tropics do to make it to fourth place [[spoiler:the NBA refuses to take them as one of the merger teams because Flint is too small a media market to host a pro team.]]]]
* SkewedPriorities: When Jackie is in the ring with a bear and the bear is all over him like a cheap suit, he implores, “Watch my hair! The only thing I care about is my hair!”
* WastebasketBall: Ed Monix misses the wastebasket while being introduced as the team's new captain.
* SkewedPriorities: When Jackie is in the ring with a bear and the bear is all over him like a cheap suit, he implores, “Watch my hair! The only thing I care about is my hair!”
* WastebasketBall: Ed Monix misses the wastebasket while being introduced as the team's new captain.
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee, Father Pat, are arguing, and Father Pat, a priest, ends up implying he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Father Pat's congregation in disgust. Jackie did, however, start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Father Pat.
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee, Father Pat, are arguing, and Father Pat, a priest, ends up implying he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Father Pat's congregation in disgust. Jackie did, however, start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Father Pat.Pat.
* RealityEnsues: Even after everything the Tropics do to make it to fourth place [[spoiler:the NBA refuses to take them as one of the merger teams because Flint is too small a media market to host a pro team.]]
* RealityEnsues: Even after everything the Tropics do to make it to fourth place [[spoiler:the NBA refuses to take them as one of the merger teams because Flint is too small a media market to host a pro team.]]
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A 2008 sports-comedy, starring Creator/WillFerrell, Woody Harrelson, and [[{{OutKast}} André Benjamin.]]
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee, Father Pat, are arguing, and Father Pat end up implying he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Father Pat's congregation in disgust. Jackie did, however, start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Father Pat.
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee, Father Pat, are arguing, and Father Pat end Pat, a priest, ends up implying he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Father Pat's congregation in disgust. Jackie did, however, start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Father Pat.
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Cornelius gets shot in the arm (which had already been broken). He, along with everybody else, just laughs it off.
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* ArtifactTitle: Presumably the Flint Tropics started out in Florida before relocating to Michigan (this also counts as a HistoricalInJoke, as many ABA teams switched cities during the league's existence).
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee, Father Pat, are arguing, and Father Pat end up implying he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Father Pat's congregation in disgust. Jackie did, however, start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Father Pat.
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee father Pat are arguing, and Pat end up implying he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Pats congregation in disgust.
** Jackie did however start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Pat, however as a priest what Pat said really hits home.
** Jackie did however start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Pat, however as a priest what Pat said really hits home.
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee father Pat referee, Father Pat, are arguing, and Pat end up implying he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Pats Father Pat's congregation in disgust.
**disgust. Jackie did however did, however, start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Pat, however as a priest what Pat said really hits home.Father Pat.
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A 2008 sports-comedy, starring Creator/WillFerrell, Woody Harrelson, and [[{{Outkast}} Andre Benjamin.]]
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Jackie isn't particularly talented as either a player or a coach, but he is quite savvy in marketing.
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* OneHitWonder: Jackie's disco hit "Love Me Sexy."
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* JiveTurkey: Turns out calling some a "Jive Turkey" is a ''very'' rude insult among Jackie's circle. So much so he tries claiming Cornelius called Lou a cocksucker instead.
* OneHitWonder: InUniverse: Jackie's disco hit "Love Me Sexy."
* OneHitWonder: InUniverse: Jackie's disco hit "Love Me Sexy."
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: One of the Tropics' more outlandish promotional stunts has Jackie wrestling a bear after a game. ABA teams actually hosted man vs. bear wrestling matches on game days to lure in fans.
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee father Pat are arguing, and Pat end up implying he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Pats congregation in disgust
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee father Pat are arguing, and Pat end up implying he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Pats congregation in disgustdisgust.
** Jackie did however start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Pat, however as a priest what Pat said really hits home.
** Jackie did however start the argument by spewing vulgarities and death threats at Pat, however as a priest what Pat said really hits home.
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee father Pat are arguing, and Pat end up impling he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Pats congregation in disgust
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee father Pat are arguing, and Pat end up impling implying he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Pats congregation in disgust
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* OneHitWonder: Jackie's disco hit "Love Me Sexy."
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* OneHitWonder: Jackie's disco hit "Love Me Sexy.""
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee father Pat are arguing, and Pat end up impling he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Pats congregation in disgust
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: While Jackie and the referee father Pat are arguing, and Pat end up impling he thinks that Jackie's mom went to hell when she died. Jackie goes into StunnedSilence and walks away, along with several others including the announcer who declares he's leaving Pats congregation in disgust
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Jackie Moon, a OneHitWonder singer during the mid 70's, is player-owner of the ABA's floundering Flint Michigan Tropics. And further problems arise, when the NBA and ABA announce a merger, bringing 4 teams with them, the Tropics not being one of them. With his team in danger of being dissolved, Jackie embarks on a publicity spree, to get into the playoffs, and save the Tropics.
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Jackie Moon, a OneHitWonder singer during the mid 70's, 1970s, is player-owner the owner/coach/player of the ABA's floundering Flint Michigan Tropics. And further Further problems arise, when the NBA and ABA announce a merger, bringing 4 merger. The NBA want four teams with them, from the ABA and the Tropics is not being one of among them. With his team in danger of being dissolved, Jackie embarks on a publicity spree, to get into the playoffs, and save the Tropics.
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* AnachronismStew: In one scene, The Tropics are playing against a team called the Anaheim Amigos...who had relocated to L.A. and been renamed the Stars almost a decade prior to the year the movie is set in.
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* AnachronismStew: In one scene,The the Tropics are playing against a team called the Anaheim Amigos...who Amigos. In reality, the Amigos had relocated to L.A. Los Angeles and been renamed became the Stars almost a decade prior to the year the movie is set in.in 1968.
* AnachronismStew: In one scene,
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* FunnyAfro: Several. It is set in the 70's after all.
* OneHitWonder: Jackie's disco hit "Love me sexy."
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* FunnyAfro: Several. It is set in the 70's 1970s after all.
* OneHitWonder: Jackie's disco hit "Loveme sexy.Me Sexy."
* OneHitWonder: Jackie's disco hit "Love
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* AnachronismStew: In one scene, The Tropics are playing against a team called the Anaheim Amigos...who had relocated to L.A. and been renamed the Stars almost a decade prior to the year the movie is set in.
* [[IHaveManyNames I Have Many Nicknames]]: Clarence Withers has 4 nicknames. As follows: "Jumping" Johnny Johnson, Sugar Dunkerton, Downtown "Funky Stuff" Malone, and Coffee Black.
* [[IHaveManyNames I Have Many Nicknames]]: Clarence Withers has 4 nicknames. As follows: "Jumping" Johnny Johnson, Sugar Dunkerton, Downtown "Funky Stuff" Malone, and Coffee Black.
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* ChocolateBaby: Inverted. Jackie's mother was apparently a black woman. This is never explained.
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* ChocolateBaby: Inverted Inverted. Jackie's mother was apparently a black woman. This is never explained.
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* ChocolateBaby: Inverted Jackie's mother was apparently a black woman. This is never explained.
* FluffyCloudHeaven: When Jackie sees his mother.
* FluffyCloudHeaven: When Jackie sees his mother.
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A 2008 sports-comedy, starring WillFerrell, Woody Harrelson, and [[{{Outkast}} Andre Benjamin.]]
Jackie Moon, a OneHitWonder singer during the mid 70's, is player-owner of the ABA's floundering Flint Michigan Tropics. And further problems arise, when the NBA and ABA announce a merger, bringing 4 teams with them, the Tropics not being one of them. With his team in danger of being dissolved, Jackie embarks on a publicity spree, to get into the playoffs, and save the Tropics.
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* OneHitWonder: Jackie's disco hit "Love me sexy."
Jackie Moon, a OneHitWonder singer during the mid 70's, is player-owner of the ABA's floundering Flint Michigan Tropics. And further problems arise, when the NBA and ABA announce a merger, bringing 4 teams with them, the Tropics not being one of them. With his team in danger of being dissolved, Jackie embarks on a publicity spree, to get into the playoffs, and save the Tropics.
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* OneHitWonder: Jackie's disco hit "Love me sexy."
