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* NauseaFuel: InUniverse. After the family goes out for dinner, they return to find the raccoons have knocked over their garbage. Roman mutters "Look at the size of the maggots on that meat!" leading Chet (who had a 72 oz. steak MegaMealChallenge) to run away gagging.

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* NauseaFuel: InUniverse. After the family goes out for dinner, they return to find the raccoons have knocked over their garbage. Roman mutters "Look at the size of the maggots on that meat!" leading Chet (who had a 72 96 oz. steak MegaMealChallenge) to run away gagging.
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* RascallyRaccoon: Multiple scenes show raccoons raiding the cabin's trash. They also feature in TheStinger.

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* RascallyRaccoon: Multiple scenes show raccoons raiding the cabin's trash. They get more daring as Chet tries further efforts to stop them, even deciding to break into the cabin when the trash cans were brought indoors. They also feature in TheStinger.

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* HeelFaceTurn: For most of the film, Roman comes across as an arrogant, know-it-all jackass. Then he becomes humble when he admits to Chet (and even his own family) that he blew his fortune and he's broke.

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* HeelFaceTurn: For most of the film, Roman comes across as an arrogant, know-it-all jackass. Then he becomes humble when he admits to Chet (and even his own family) that he blew a series of bad investments wiped out his fortune and he's broke.



* MysteryMeat: Roman claims hot dogs are made of "lips and assholes". The raccoons agree.
** The television edit of the film changes it to "lips and garbage."

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* MysteryMeat: Roman claims hot dogs are made of "lips and assholes". The raccoons agree.
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agree. The television edit of the film changes it to "lips and garbage."
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The poster, as seen above, is made to resemble the cover of a magazine such as ''Field & Stream'' or ''Outdoor Life''.

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* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The film's poster, as seen above, is made to resemble the cover of a magazine such as ''Field & Stream'' or ''Outdoor Life''.
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* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The poster, as seen above, is made to resemble the cover of a magazine.

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* PackagedAsOtherMedium: The poster, as seen above, is made to resemble the cover of a magazine.magazine such as ''Field & Stream'' or ''Outdoor Life''.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Towards the climax, [[spoiler: Chet finally gets through to Roman that he needs to ''be'' a father to his daughters. And he can start by rescuing them from the mine shaft and being comforting and reassuring to them. At one point during the rescue, he begins noting to his daughters that they're sitting on a box of explosives, but catches himself upon realizing he needs to comfort them, a far cry from the Roman who [[InnocentlyInsensitive unintentionally]] scared them with a scary story earlier.]]

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* CharacterDevelopment: Towards the climax, [[spoiler: Chet [[spoiler:Chet finally gets through to Roman that he needs to ''be'' a father to his daughters. And he can start by rescuing them from the mine shaft and being comforting and reassuring to them. At one point during the rescue, he begins noting to his daughters that they're sitting on a box of explosives, but catches himself upon realizing he needs to comfort them, a far cry from the Roman who [[InnocentlyInsensitive unintentionally]] scared them with a scary story earlier.]]



* CrazyPrepared: Wally's shotgun lamp seen when the family first arrives [[spoiler: turns out to still be fully operational, loaded and ready to fire]].

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* CrazyPrepared: Wally's shotgun lamp seen when the family first arrives [[spoiler: turns [[spoiler:turns out to still be fully operational, loaded and ready to fire]].



--> '''Chet''': [[{{Understatement}} That's gotta hurt.]]

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--> '''Chet''': -->'''Chet:''' [[{{Understatement}} That's gotta hurt.]]



-->'''Roman:''' Tell you what: If I can get a dessert down him, you think you could throw in some Paul Bunyan hats for the kids?
-->'''Chet:''' ''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck *whimpers*]]''

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-->'''Roman:''' Tell you what: If I can get a dessert down him, you think you could throw in some Paul Bunyan hats for the kids?
-->'''Chet:'''
kids?\\
'''Chet:'''
''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck *whimpers*]]''



* ShotInTheAss: [[spoiler: How the bear is fended off during it's assault on the cabin in the climax]].
* ShoutOut:

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* ShotInTheAss: [[spoiler: How [[spoiler:How the bear is fended off during it's assault on the cabin in the climax]].
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** When the supposedly well-to-do Roman reveals to Chet that [[spoiler: he's flat broke]].
** And then at the end, when Connie blurts out that she [[spoiler: invited Roman and his clan to stay with them]].

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** When the supposedly well-to-do Roman reveals to Chet that [[spoiler: he's [[spoiler:he's flat broke]].
** And then at the end, when Connie blurts out that she [[spoiler: invited [[spoiler:invited Roman and his clan to stay with them]].

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* CrazyPrepared: Wally's shotgun lamp seen when the family first arrives [[spoiler: turns out to still be fully operational, loaded and ready to fire]].



* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: Chet tries to warn the family about the bear before she breaks into the house.
* HamAmdCheese: From slowly turning off the lamps one by one with a smirk on his face and growling like a bear in the kid's faces to holding a fireplace broom like a shotgun and throwing a glass of alcohol in the fireplace causing a big fireball to puncuate a jumpscare, John Candy clearly had a ball filming the bear story scene.

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* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: Chet tries to warn the family about the bear before she breaks into the house.
* HamAmdCheese: From slowly turning off the lamps one by one with a smirk on his face and growling like a bear in the kid's faces to holding a fireplace broom like a shotgun and throwing a glass of alcohol in the fireplace causing a big fireball to puncuate a jumpscare, John Candy clearly had a ball filming the bear story scene.
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* ShotInTheAss: [[spoiler: How the bear is fended off during it's assault on the cabin in the climax]].


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* SustainedMisunderstanding: Chet's impromptu water-skiing has this is spades; first, while teaching Ben the ropes of waterskiing, he waves at his wife who is in the speedboat, which Roman misinterprets as Chet saying ''he's'' actually going and is ready which results in Chet being dragged around the lake at high speeds, his repetition of "You bastard!" towards Roman is misheard by Kate as "Go faster!" and finally, all the accidental stunts Chet pulls off while flailing about and trying to keep his balance is mistaken by everybody but him as him being a pro waterskiier which gets him a round of applause once he's finally on his feet in shallow water.


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* TheVoiceless: Aside from screaming or giggling, Roman's daughters have no lines of dialogue until the last 20 minutes of the film.
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* HamAmdCheese: From slowly turning off the lamps one by one with a smirk on his face and growling like a bear in the kid's faces to holding a fireplace broom like a shotgun and throwing a glass of alcohol in the fireplace causing a big fireball to puncuate a jumpscare, John Candy clearly had a ball filming the bear story scene.
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* BringMyBrownPants: When Roman tries to fend the bear off with a fireplace poker and the bear gets on it's back legs and roars, the absolutely scared-shitless expression on Roman's face definitely hints he'll need a change of clothes.


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* FreakOut: An early-morning fishing trip with Chet, Roman, and Chet's two sons using leeches as bait ends this way after everyone falls asleep in the boat and wakes up to discover leeches crawling all over them.


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* MadnessMantra: While the bear is rampaging through the cabin, Chet, as a result of going through the trauma of knowing a dangerous bear he encountered years ago is still alove and having to run for his very life, for much of the scene all he can say is "Big bear... big bear chase me...".
* MassOhCrap: The entire family reacts this way when the bald-headed bear from Chet's story confirms it's existence to the rest of the family by effortlessly smashing down the door to the cabin.


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* MistakenForBadass: Chet's flailing during his high octane water-skiing results in him unintentionally pulling off numerous impressive stunts such as somersaulting on top of the water, doing a jump and even able to ski on just one ski after accidentally losing one, which pretty much everyone at the beachs and docks see and, thinking he's doing all these stunts on purpose, he gets an off-screen standing ovation once he's finally back on his feet.


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* TheUnintelligible:
** Lightning Rod Reg has a stutter so bad it takes him a dozen tries to get past the word "in".
** When Chet returns to the cabin after [[spoiler:accidentally freeing the bear]], he attempts to warn his family of the coming danger but through a combination of having just encountered the same bear that was out for him and his wife's blood years ago and having to run as fast as his feet can carry him while being overweight, he's barely able to even speak once he's back inside.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Chet during his impromptu waterskiing when he notices he's about to ski through a patch of water lilies that are at crotch level.
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* NauseaFuel: InUniverse. After the family goes out for dinner, tgey return to find the raccoons have knocked over their garbage. Roman mutters "Look at the size of the maggots on that meat!" leading Chet (who had a 72 oz. steak MegaMealChallenge) to run away gagging.

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* NauseaFuel: InUniverse. After the family goes out for dinner, tgey they return to find the raccoons have knocked over their garbage. Roman mutters "Look at the size of the maggots on that meat!" leading Chet (who had a 72 oz. steak MegaMealChallenge) to run away gagging.
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* NauseaFuel: InUniverse. After the family goes out for dinner, tgey return to find the raccoons have knocked over their garbage. Roman mutters "Look at the size of the maggots on that meat!" leading Chet (who had a 72 oz. steak MegaMealChallenge) to run away gagging.
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* IncrediblyLameFun: Chet has a knack for this, to Roman's constant annoyance. One such example is when he passes up an opportunity to see a female Elvis Presley impersonator because he wants to wish happy birthday to someone he never met, simply because the man had lived to be 109 years. Roman lampshades it during their later argument.
-->'''Roman:''' You, Chet, wouldn't notice fun if it fell onto your face!
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** When Roman's twin girls first appear, the theme to ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' plays

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** When Roman's twin girls first appear, the theme to ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' plays''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' plays.

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* ShoutOut: When Roman's twin girls first appear, the theme to ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' plays
Chet calls the two bears that climb onto his car Yogi and Boo Boo.

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Chet calls the two bears that climb onto his car Yogi and Boo Boo.

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