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** Several throughout the movie by various real life political news anchors. Specifically, [[Creator/{{CNN}} Piers Morgan and Wolf Blitzer]] and about a third of the anchors of Creator/{{MSNBC}}.

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** Several throughout the movie by various real life political news anchors. Specifically, [[Creator/{{CNN}} Piers Morgan and Wolf Blitzer]] Blitzer and about a third of the anchors of Creator/{{MSNBC}}.MSNBC.
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It's venomous, not poisonous.


* ChewToy: Cam. He gets bitten by a poisonous snake, arrested for drunk driving and [[spoiler:stealing a cop car]], and shot in the leg by Marty.

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* ChewToy: Cam. He gets bitten by a poisonous venomous snake, arrested for drunk driving and [[spoiler:stealing a cop car]], and shot in the leg by Marty.



* MushroomSamba: Cam suffers a bad trip after being bit by a poisonous snake. Side effects included loss of sanity, fever, an erection and taking a bite out of a small animal.

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* MushroomSamba: Cam suffers a bad trip after being bit by a poisonous venomous snake. Side effects included loss of sanity, fever, an erection and taking a bite out of a small animal.



* RagingStiffie: One of the side effects Cam suffers from being bitten by a poisonous snake is a permanent erection.

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* RagingStiffie: One of the side effects Cam suffers from being bitten by a poisonous venomous snake is a permanent erection.
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Cam takes bites out of a live raccoon in the woods as food.

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* ExtremeOmnivore: Cam takes bites a bite out of a live raccoon ''live raccoon'' while running rampant in the woods as for food.

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* BrickJoke: The inappropriate song "Ass& Titties" by Mafia plays during a family dinner of Cam Brady's. The song is heard playing again in the family car when Cam's wife leaves him and takes the kids.

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* BrickJoke: The inappropriate song "Ass& Titties" "Azz and Tittiez" by Three 6 Mafia plays during a family dinner of at Cam Brady's. Brady's mansion. The song is heard playing again in the family car when as Cam's wife leaves him and takes the kids.


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* {{Hypocrite}}: Reynold holds a grudge towards his son Marty for his effeminate ways. But it didn't stop him from having an affair with a woman who could pass for Dog The Bounty Hunter.


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* MoodWhiplash: Any sadness felt in the scene where Cam's wife leaves him and takes the kids disappears as the song "Azz and Tittiez" by Three 6 Mafia plays loudly in the car.


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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten:
** Marty Huggins' father Reynold refuses to forgive his son for the way he dressed at his mother's funeral years ago. It's one of the reasons he holds his son in contempt for his effeminate mannerisms.
--> '''Marty''' Dad, if you're still holding a grudge because I wore Crocs to Mom's funeral... like I've told you a thousand times, I'm sorry. Mom would've wanted it that way. She was casual.
** When Marty finally stands up to his abusive father Reynold, he tells him he was aware of the time Reynold was having an affair with another woman that looked like Dog The Bounty Hunter. Much to Reynold's shock.
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* BrickJoke: The

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* BrickJoke: The inappropriate song "Ass& Titties" by Mafia plays during a family dinner of Cam Brady's. The song is heard playing again in the family car when Cam's wife leaves him and takes the kids.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Cam Brady's wife acts all loving and supportive but the minute he starts losing in the political race, she dumps him and takes the kids with her. Only returning to him to fake being a happy couple in the public eye because the Motch Brothers paid her a great sum of money to do so.


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* ItsAllAboutMe: Cam Brady's wife wants nothing more than to become a first lady and only reprimand her husband of his infidelities because it could wreck his political campaign and ruin her chances of becoming first lady.

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* SleepingSingle: Marty Huggins and his wife are revealed to have been sleeping in twin separate beds as a result of their sexless marriage.



* Twincest: During confessions, Mrs. Hadenhall reveals that she is her husband's twin sister and they're okay with it.

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* Twincest: {{Twincest}}: During confessions, Mrs. Hadenhall reveals that she is her husband's twin sister and they're okay with it.
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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Because she is not getting enough of her husband, Marty's wife touches herself to Drew Carey from The Price Is Right [[spoiler: and sleeps with Cam Brady]].
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* NoodleIncident: Cam recalls a time during his philandering when he was piled with copious amounts of Red Bull, Jell-O shots and goldschlager. His doctor thought he had Chron's disease. The end result were flakes of 24-karat gold in his stool for a month.
--> '''Cam''' I crapped gold!
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: After Cam Brady is bitten by a snake and he jumps out a window and disappears into the woods, everyone inside the church doesn't see him outside and thinks he has ascended to the sky and thinks it is a miracle.
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* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: A brief close-up shot of Cam Brady's hairy chest as Marty's wife rubs a popsicle on his nipple before he licks it.]]
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* EverybodyHasStandards: After Cam [[spoiler: seduces Marty's wife]] and records footage of it to spite Marty, his team refuses to air it on live television as it's essentially porn. So Cam fires some of his team on the spot and runs the footage anyway.


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* InstantSeduction: [[spoiler: Only a few drinks, some sweet talk and a simple peck on the lips and Marty's wife is ready to sleep with Cam]].
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Cam takes bites out of a live raccoon in the woods as food.


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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Cam has sex with his mistress inside a port-a-potty. She complains about the smell though.


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* MushroomSamba: Cam suffers a bad trip after being bit by a poisonous snake. Side effects included loss of sanity, fever, an erection and taking a bite out of a small animal.

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--> "Black Hawk down!"

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--> '''Cam Brady''': "Black Hawk down!"



* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Inverted. Marty's family confessions begin with "taking the Lord's name in vain" and end with beastiality and Drew Carey-masturbation.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Inverted. Marty's family confessions begin with "taking the Lord's name in vain" and end with beastiality bestiality and Drew Carey-masturbation.



* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:The married couple (whose wife had sex with Cam) turned out to be siblings. [[{{Squick}} But they're okay with it.]]]]

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* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:The married couple couple, Mr. Mendenhall and Mrs. Hadenhall, (whose wife had sex with Cam) turned out to be siblings. [[{{Squick}} But they're okay with it.]]]]


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* DepravedBisexual: During confessions, one spouse reveals to his wife that he's been having an affair with a waitress from a restaurant. His wife reveals that she too has been having an affair with the same waitress no less. Then they hug it out.


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* DrugsAreBad: During confessions, Mr. Hadenhall reveals that he's been running a meth lab out of his own children's tree fort.


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* RagingStiffie: One of the side effects Cam suffers from being bitten by a poisonous snake is a permanent erection.


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* Twincest: During confessions, Mrs. Hadenhall reveals that she is her husband's twin sister and they're okay with it.
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* BigNo: Cam screams this after accidentally punching a baby.


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* OhCrap: Everyone's reaction to Cam punching a baby.
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* SkewedPriorities: Cam cheats on his wife with two women (Shana and Mitzi) throughout the movie. However, she only gets angry with him as doing so ruins his chance of getting re-elected, caring more about the political and financial advantages of being a congressman's wife than monogamy with her husband.

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* [[KickTheDog Punch the Dog]]: On accident.

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* [[KickTheDog Punch the Dog]]: On accident.SeductionAsOneUpmanship: Cam Brady sleeps with Marty Huggins' wife and films it for his campaign as payback for Huggins using his son as part of his own.
-->'''Brady:''' Marty Huggins can't even take care of his own wife, so I did...
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* HollywoodHealing: Cam recovers very quickly from a Rattlesnake bite and getting shot by a hunting rifle.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Glenn Motch seems rather eager to get rid of Wade, already having tried to kill him in his sleep three times and trying to feign innocence in his relationship with Wattley, putting it all on Wade.]]

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Motch brothers decide at the start of the film that Cam has become unviable as their paid politician after his sex scandal and make Marty run as a replacement. [[spoiler: Only to discard Marty after he refuses to play along with their schemes. Glenn Motch seems rather eager to get rid of Wade, already having tried to kill him in his sleep three times and trying to feign innocence in his relationship with Wattley, putting it all on Wade.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: Revealed concerning Cam and Marty. [[spoiler: The reveal of this makes Cam realize that he's made a mistake.]]
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* EmbarrassingVoicemail: Cam accidentally leaves a sexually explicit message on the machine of a conservative Christian family.
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* SillyPrayer: Cam's attempt to recite The Lord's Prayer. Since he doesn't actually know it, he relies on Mitch pantomiming certain words, and gets most of it wrong.
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** Similarly, Marty seems to suffer no consequences from shooting his opponent in front of numerous witnesses. At best, that would've been charged as Aggravated Battery with a Firearm, but it doesn't prevent him from continuing in the election [[spoiler: and eventually serving in Congress]].
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Glenn Motch seems rather eager to get rid of Wade, already having tried to kill him in his sleep three times and trying to feign innocence in his relationship with Wattley, putting it all on Wade.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Cam cheats on his wife with two women (Shana and Mitzi) throughout the movie. However, she only gets angry with him as doing so ruins his chance of getting re-elected, caring more about the political and financial advantages of being a congressman's wife than monogamy with her husband.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Glenn Motch seems rather eager to get rid of Wade, already having tried to kill him in his sleep three times and trying to feign innocence in his relationship with Wattley, putting it all on Wade.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Cam cheats on his wife with two women (Shana and Mitzi) throughout the movie. However, she only gets angry with him as doing so ruins his chance of getting re-elected, caring more about the political and financial advantages of being a congressman's wife than monogamy with her husband.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Marty, very much so.
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A 2012 political comedy starring Creator/WillFerrell and Zach Galifianakis. Ferrell plays Democratic Congressman Cam Brady, who is running for his fifth term unopposed. After his public image is wrecked following a certain promiscuous act, Marty Huggins (Galifianakis), tourism director for the town of Hammond is chosen to run against Cam. HilarityEnsues.

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A 2012 political comedy starring Creator/WillFerrell and Zach Galifianakis.Creator/ZachGalifianakis. Ferrell plays Democratic Congressman Cam Brady, who is running for his fifth term unopposed. After his public image is wrecked following a certain promiscuous act, Marty Huggins (Galifianakis), tourism director for the town of Hammond is chosen to run against Cam. HilarityEnsues.

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