History Film / SuperTroopers

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Mac. And while on duty, no less. And while checking himself with the radar speed gun.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Invoked by the bordello owner:
-->'''Guy {{LeFranc}}''': "Hey officers! How about a beer and a tug, on the house?"
** Thorny's response when asked whom he's orgasming with.

** TheChick: Rabbit

* JerkAss: Farva, of course. Most of the Canadians are total pricks as well, though [[JerkassHasAPoint suddenly finding out they have to either leave or change nationalities wouldn't put most people in a great mood]].

* AmbiguouslyBi: Ramathorn, his wife and the German couple.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: [[spoiler: Canadians using Vermont's wilderness and small towns as waypoints to run drugs is actually a common problem dealt with by both state and local police. It's actually to the point where heroin has become a serious problem in areas like St. Johnsbury and St. Albans.]]

''Creator/{{Broken Lizard}}'s Super Troopers'' is a 2001 comedy film about highway troopers in the state of Vermont. They're on the verge of being shut down and are engaged in a [[InterserviceRivalry turf war]] with the local Spurbury Police. Over the course of the movie, they discover a marijuana shipping operation, and tracking down the culprits may be the key to proving their worth to the state and keeping their jobs.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Unrelated]] [[SimilarlyNamedWorks to]] the Music/{{ABBA}} song "Super Trouper".

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: The sequel takes place two years after the first, which was released nearly 2 decades earlier. This isn't that much of a problem since the first movie averts being an UnintentionalPeriodPiece and makes no reference to the time period, though the sequel makes reference to iPhones, texting, video chat, and [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump making America great again]], stuff that wasn't in use during the era of the first movie.

* BadassMustache: Having one is standard operating procedure, apparently. The others pick at Rabbit for being unable to grow one, [[spoiler: and in the epilogue scene, the wispy mustache he's got on is actually fake, which he rips off when it's time to [[LetsGetDangerous get serious.]]]] They actually pick on Foster to "grow a goddamned mustache" and Foster responds that he hasn't shaven in two weeks.

* CastingGag:
** Daniel von Bargen (Grady) played a prison guard in ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', while Brian Cox (O'Hagan) played Hannibal Lecter himself in ''Film/{{Manhunter}}''''.
** Kevin Heffernan's parents kept asking for a cameo, so he finally gave them one...where he calls them "chicken fuckers."

* MistakenEethnicity: It's a running joke that no one knows what race Ramathorn is.

* DrivingStick: Mac and Foster fail to try to get the semi started. They claim they can't drive stick. Thing is, Mac is shown to be perfectly capable of operating a manual car early in the film (we're even shown a close-up of him shifting gears).
** Justified, in that most modern American semi trucks tend to have between ten and ''eighteen'' gears. It could easily have been in sixth gear despite appearing to be in first [[note]]On a 10-speed gearbox, "first" gear (back and left) with the range selector in the 'high' position is actually sixth gear - first through fifth are in low range.[[/note]]
** Also, most semis will have split-shift manual transmissions, which adds a huge level of complexity over a regular passenger/sports car's stick shift. There's a reason why truck drivers have to be trained to operate their rigs.

* {{Eagleland}}: The brand of America that Farva intends to bring to the town. He recites the pledge, and the national anthem (both extremely wrong) aggressively to the townsfolk, demanding they learn the words.
* {{Expy}}: Lonnie Laloush for Farva, they actually have an eerie stare down at one point where they realize it.

* BiTheWay: Ramathorn.

* BadassMustache: Having one is standard operating procedure, apparently. The others pick at Rabbit for being unable to grow one, [[spoiler: and in the epilogue scene, the wispy mustache he's got on is actually fake, which he rips off when it's time to [[LetsGetDangerous get serious.]]]]
** They actually pick on Foster to "grow a goddamned mustache" and Foster responds that he hasn't shaven in two weeks.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Rod Farva lives and breathes this trope. He assaults a cashier at Dimpis Burger because of a prank played on him (which he totally deserved), and there was an incident before the film involving a bus of grade school kids which is shown during the credits.

* EuropeansAreKinky: the German couple.
** Not much kinkier than Ramathorn and his hippie girlfriend, although the German guy does get off on watching his wife with other men.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Thorny would totally be for Rabbit having sex with the German woman - except the car she and her husband are in is stolen. As he says - "Any other day I'd step in and show you how to swing but the car is stolen!" [[spoiler:Doesn't stop him from having the Germans over to his house for some bi fun later, but, emphatically, ''after'' they've been arrested and charged with the theft.]]

* FanDisservice: Farva's "delousing"
** Kevin Heffernan insists in the commentary that his penis wasn't supposed to be visible, but they decided to {{Throw It In}} and horrify us all.

* OnlySaneMan: Ursula. O'Hagan also qualifies for most of the film.

* RuleOfFunny: The billboard scene would never happen in Vermont, being as there are no billboards in the state (they're illegal).
** Technically, advertising for a business on its' own site is exempt, but something with "billboard" form factors would run afoul of any local sign ordinances, and would be unlikely to pass Act 250 environmental review.

* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: The drug Farva tries is some kind of tranquilizer. He's completely incapacitated for a while, and rides a scooter until all of his motor functions return.