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¨ActuallyPrettyFunny: Gibson finds pretty funny when the cop team makes them pull over so they can drive past at one point. Preston is pretty damn angry that it happened, though.
-->'''Gibson''': Dammit, man, can't you take a joke?
-->'''Gibson''': Dammit, man, can't you take a joke?
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Kandinsky and Avila (the Buick Skyhawk team) disguises their car and themselves as policemen from every state they pass in order to keep the cops away. For further irony, they are actual cops (from L.A.) At one point, the both of them discuss the pros and cons of this idea by pointing out that a police car roaring down the street with lights on parts traffic "like Moses at the Red Sea", but if any cops catch them there is going to be a gigantic shit-storm falling on their heads.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: Lapchick is the only racer who gets one. It's a funny tuba tune. Roscoe gets ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}''-esque march.
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* [[GoodOlBoy Good Ol' Boys]]: The Camaro Z28 team (but especially Gibson, who hollers rebel yells [[LareHam as loudly]] as Creator/GaryBusey is capable of). Also the Arizona state trooper.
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* [[GoodOlBoy Good Ol' Boys]]: The Camaro Z28 team (but especially Gibson, who hollers rebel yells [[LareHam [[LargeHam as loudly]] as Creator/GaryBusey is capable of). Also the Arizona state trooper.
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* TheBigRottenApple: Full of useless cops and casual crime -- Roscoe is robbed by a random mugger, the cop who picks him up when he calls for someone to pick him up is on a first-name basis with a crazy flasher that gets in their way, and the Sergeant that drives him to the airport makes very gleefully clear that now that the racers and Roscoe are not in the city, he could give less of a shit.
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* CrazyPrepared: Bannon calls Smith a "schemer" early in the film, and it shows. He hired one of the best race drivers in the world, his support crew, and pre-arranged refueling and maintenance stops alonside his racing route. The biggest obstacle to his victory is not having the entire police force of the country out to get him, but his driver being an impulsive horn-dog.
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* CrazyPrepared: Bannon calls Smith a "schemer" early in the film, and it shows. He hired one of the best race drivers in the world, his support crew, and pre-arranged refueling and maintenance stops alonside his racing route.route, including one inside of a rolling truck that helps them also get across a roadblock. The biggest obstacle to his victory is not having the entire police force of the country out to get him, but his driver being an impulsive horn-dog.
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* CryingWolf: After the first time Kandinsky and Avila manage to swindle Preston and Gibson to pull over because they are driving in a fake police car, the latter two think that a second patrol car that asks them to pull over while driving through Arizona is the other racers and keep speeding... and then they figure out that [[OhCrap it's an actual police car]] and floor it. The real police car's engine eventually [[ExplosiveOverclocking explodes from the strain of the chase]], allowing Preston and Gibson to escape.
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* CryingWolf: After the first time Kandinsky and Avila manage to swindle Preston and Gibson to pull over because they are driving in a fake police car, the latter two think that a second patrol car that asks them to pull over while driving through Arizona is the other racers and keep speeding... and then they figure out that [[OhCrap it's an actual police car]] and floor it. The real police car's engine eventually [[ExplosiveOverclocking explodes from the strain of the chase]], allowing Preston and Gibson to escape. Ironically, Kandinsky and Avila are driving right behind that patrol car and the policeman, believing them to be fellow cops, orders them to continue the pursuit.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: Lapchick is the only racer who gets one. It's a funny tuba tune. Roscoe gets a pseudo-march.
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* RuleOfThree: [[RunningGag While the rest of the race is going on]], we get three cut-aways to the Jaguar team stranded in the starting line over on New York. The last time we see them, it's been 12 InUniverse hours since the race started and they still haven't been able [[TheAllegedCar to get the damned car started]], [[RageQuit so they call it quits]].
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* [[GoodOlBoy Good Ol' Boys]]: The Camaro Z28 team. Also the Arizona state trooper.
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A light-hearted version with a roadster-driving {{Jerkass}} that [[DoubleAgent scams money out of both Smith and Roscoe to drive the runners into a police trap]]. Smith and Bannon catch up to him a few minutes after they dodge the roadblock and take back all of the money and rip the steering wheel out of the man's roadster, leaving him stranded in the middle of the desert (and Franco [[ChekhovsGag squirts him with his water pistol]] after making the man believe that he was going to be blown away for his betrayal).
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A light-hearted version with a roadster-driving {{Jerkass}} that [[DoubleAgent [[PlayingBothSides scams money out of both Smith and Roscoe to drive the runners into a police trap]]. Smith and Bannon catch up to him a few minutes after they dodge the roadblock and take back all of the money and rip the steering wheel out of the man's roadster, leaving him stranded in the middle of the desert (and Franco [[ChekhovsGag squirts him with his water pistol]] after making the man believe that he was going to be blown away for his betrayal).
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* CryingWolf: After the first time Kandinsky and Avila manage to swindle Preston and Gibson to pull over because they are driving in a fake police car, the latter two think that a second patrol car that asks them to pull over while driving through Arizona is the other racers and keep speeding... and then they figure out that [[OhCrap it's an actual police car]] and floor it. The real police car's engine eventually [[ExplosiveOverclocking explodes from the strain of the chase]], allowing Preston and Gibson to escape.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Lapchick the Mad Hungarian. ''Literally''. Franco, to a lesser extent. Also Ace "Mr. Guts" Preston in the Camaro Z-28, toward the end, as he tries to get through a traffic jam by [[CarSkiing going up on two wheels]] (while giving a rebel yell).
* DrivingIntoATruck: One team uses this ploy to evade a police roadblock and make a pit stop.
* DrivingIntoATruck: One team uses this ploy to evade a police roadblock and make a pit stop.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Lapchick the Mad Hungarian. ''Literally''. Franco, to a lesser extent. Also Ace "Mr. Guts" Preston and his assistant Gibson in the Camaro Z-28, toward the end, as he Gibson tries to get through a traffic jam by [[CarSkiing going up on two wheels]] (while giving a rebel yell).
* DrivingIntoATruck:One At one point, Smith demonstrates how CrazyPrepared he is by having his support team uses helping him use this ploy to evade a police roadblock and make a pit stop.
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* HumiliationConga: Roscoe's begins with him getting his stakeout car sabotaged by Bannon so he can't warn the NYPD that the racers are off or blockade their start himself, then he has his luggage, money and ''pants'' stolen [[TheBigRottenApple a random New York City mugger]], and then he's humiliated in front of every law enforcement group he liaisons with from coast to coast. The film leaves in the air whether or not him telling Bannon and Smith that he's done and he's gonna quit being a cop at the end is for real or just a bluff to buy time for the racers' cars to be towed away. Of course, ''then'' his victory is short-lived because Bannon and Smith ''immediately'' start another Gumball Rally, just one heading back to New York...
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* TollBoothAntics: Two cars attempt to get through a toll lane ahead of one another. This results in both cars getting wedged between the toll booths.
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* ThereAreNoRules: Smith makes clear at the beginning that aside from whoever arrives first and in the shortest time being declared the winner, there are no rules to the Gumball Rally. And he exploits this to the fullest.
* TollBoothAntics:Two cars attempt to get through The Preston/Gibson team wastes time in a toll lane ahead of one another. This results booth in both cars getting wedged between New York because Gibson screws up tossing a nickel into the toll booths. booth's receptacle, then steps out of the Camaro and starts to look all over for the fallen coin, then Preston angrily drives to the side of the road to wait for him and the way he does so brings the attention of a policeman and they presumably waste a lot of time dealing with him because the next scene has Preston being so determined to not stop that he forces Gibson to take a leak in a bottle.
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* AvengersAssemble: The film starts with Bannon sending the rally code for the Gumball Rally drivers to convene for a new bout, and a montage of a few of the teams answering.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Bit failed because it's obvious it's a film about racing, but still the opening AvengersAssemble sequence makes it look like Bannon is bringing the drivers together for a heist ("ladies and gentlemen, you have been selected because you have the necessary skills. You are here because you have the determination to succeed...") and then clarifies that it's for a race ("...just a few magic hours flat-out against the red line, with ''no'' catalytic converter, and no 55-mile an hour speed limit! Ladies and gentlemen, the Gumball Rally has ''begun''!")
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* HerosClassicCar: Bannon's Shelby Cobra vs. Smith's top-of-the-line Ferrari.
-->'''Smith''': So Mike... what is this, a vintage car event?\\
-->'''Bannon''': Well Smitty, you know some things get meaner as they get older.
-->'''Smith''': So Mike... what is this, a vintage car event?\\
-->'''Bannon''': Well Smitty, you know some things get meaner as they get older.
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* SuperRinger: Franco Bertollini is mentioned by Bannon to be one of the best racers in the world, and was hired by [[TheRival Smith]] to be his driver in the Rally.
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* MadeOfIron: Lapchick the Mad Hungarian gets in several massive motorcycle crashes throughout the film and he carries on.
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* WackyWaysideTribe: A biker gang harasses Jose and Angie in one scene, and for a couple of minutes it becomes a LighterAndSofter biker exploitation film.
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: As part of Franco Bertollini's EstablishingCharacterMoment, we see him in a hotel room in bed with a woman right after arriving on the country and the night before the rally, with "Santa Lucia" playing on the background. As he gives his grand farewell to the woman, we find out that Franco hired a small band and that it has been standing on the corridor this whole time.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: Lapchick is the only racer who gets one. It's a funny tuba tune.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: As part of Franco Bertollini's EstablishingCharacterMoment, we see him in a hotel room in bed with a woman right after arriving on the country and the night before the rally, with "Santa Lucia" playing on the background. As he gives his grand farewell to the woman, we find out that Franco hired a small band and that it has been standing on the corridor this whole time.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: As part of Franco Bertollini's EstablishingCharacterMoment, we see him in a hotel room in bed with a woman right after arriving on the country and the night before the rally, with "Santa Lucia" playing on the background. As he gives his grand farewell to the woman, we find out that Franco hired a small band and that it has been standing on the corridor this whole time.
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* ArchEnemy: Roscoe considers Smith this to him, because Smith is the biggest "schemer" of the two organizers of the Rally. Both Smith and Bannon consider Roscoe more of a FriendlyEnemy.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Zig-zagged with Roscoe being a very driven officer of the law and most of the other officers that try to arrest the racers being useless (or at least way over their head), and there's the NYPD and the {{Jerkass}} sergeant who serves as a liaison for Roscoe who are very happy to tell them all "good riddance".
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* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: At one point, Bannon and Smith manage to screw over Roscoe by driving straight towards a massive roadblock he set at exactly fifty-five miles per hour. [[BotheringByTheBook Because they are not speeding, the other policemen decide they're not committing a crime and let them pass]].
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* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: At one point, Bannon and Smith manage to screw over Roscoe by driving straight towards a massive roadblock he set at exactly fifty-five miles per hour. [[BotheringByTheBook [[LawfulStupid Because they are not speeding, the other policemen decide they're not committing a crime and let them pass]].
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* AsYouKnow: Smith [[JustifiedTrope acknowledges the fact that some (but not all) of the racers are newcomers to the competition]] to explain the rules of the Gumball Rally to the audience.
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Kandinsky and Avila's plan to disguise themselves and their patrol car to look like the police of every state they pass hits a snag when an Arizona patrolman notices that the car they are using (a Buick Skyhawk) is not the one the Arizona police uses (Dodge Polaras) and pulls them over. They end up [[BavarianFireDrill having to pretend on the fly]] that they are part of a film crew to avoid being arrested.
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* TheAllegedCar: One of the teams enters the race with a Jaguar, but it refuses to start and they give up after they [[EpicFail end up twelve hours behind all of the other teams]].
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* MyLittlePanzer: Franco's super-realistic water pistol. He [[ChekhovsGag twice]] manages to scare someone by making him think that he's going to shoot them before squirting them in the face.
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* TheVoiceless: Lapchick, the "Mad Hungarian," who becomes SuddenlyVoiced.
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* TheVoiceless: Lapchick, the "Mad Hungarian," who becomes SuddenlyVoiced.SuddenlyVoiced as the film's very last gag.
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* BadassDriver: Franco is hired for his reputation as one.
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* BadassDriver: Franco is [[SuperRinger was hired by Smith]] for his reputation as one.
* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: Roscoe is completely unable to stop the race and gets quite the HumiliationConga from trying, but he gets a ([[HereWeGoAgain temporal]]) last laugh by asking the rules in the Queen Mary parking lot to be changed so he will have all of the cars towed while everybody's celebrating.
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* LatinLover: Franco. He gets laid twice during the film, considers getting laid more important than racing (this one [[FlawExploitation is more detrimental for Smith than he really wanted it to be in the final act]]), and has a weird fetish of doing motor sounds when he's having sex.
* RedBaron: Lapchick and Ace "Mr. Guts" Preston are the only characters with nicknames, but Lapchick's "Mad Hungarian" moniker is the only one that gets mentioned repeatedly.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A light-hearted version with a roadster-driving {{Jerkass}} that [[DoubleAgent scams money out of both Smith and Roscoe to drive the runners into a police trap]]. Smith and Bannon catch up to him a few minutes after they dodge the roadblock and take back all of the money and rip the steering wheel out of the man's roadster, leaving him stranded in the middle of the desert (and Franco [[ChekhovsGag squirts him with his water pistol]] after making the man believe that he was going to be blown away for his betrayal).
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A light-hearted version with a roadster-driving {{Jerkass}} that [[DoubleAgent scams money out of both Smith and Roscoe to drive the runners into a police trap]]. Smith and Bannon catch up to him a few minutes after they dodge the roadblock and take back all of the money and rip the steering wheel out of the man's roadster, leaving him stranded in the middle of the desert (and Franco [[ChekhovsGag squirts him with his water pistol]] after making the man believe that he was going to be blown away for his betrayal).
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* ToyotaTripwire: Lapchick gets doored.
* VaporTrail: Happens accidentally to one team of racers (the van entirely filled with fuel so they wouldn't have to stop to refuel).
* VaporTrail: Happens accidentally to one team of racers (the van entirely filled with fuel so they wouldn't have to stop to refuel).
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* ToyotaTripwire: Lapchick gets doored.
doored by a random motorist at one point.
* VaporTrail: Happens accidentally to one team of racers (the van entirely filled with fuel so they wouldn't have to stop torefuel).refuel) thanks to some jackass that tosses his cigarette away after his car dropped its exhaust pipe and damaged the underside of the van.
* VaporTrail: Happens accidentally to one team of racers (the van entirely filled with fuel so they wouldn't have to stop to
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* WatchThePaintJob: One person enters the race by getting a job delivering a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow to Los Angeles. [[HilarityEnsues It doesn't end well]]. Especially after the sandstorm.
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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Angie spends the whole movie wearing an American flag bikini top.
* WatchThePaintJob: One person enters the race by getting a job delivering a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow to Los Angeles. [[HilarityEnsues It doesn't end well]]. Especially after the sandstorm. Jose finally wrecks the car when he punts it in anger at the parking spot of its film executive owner and it goes rolling down a hill and hits a truck.
* WatchThePaintJob: One person enters the race by getting a job delivering a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow to Los Angeles. [[HilarityEnsues It doesn't end well]]. Especially after the sandstorm. Jose finally wrecks the car when he punts it in anger at the parking spot of its film executive owner and it goes rolling down a hill and hits a truck.
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* WetBlanketWife: Jose's girlfriend Angie spends the whole film whining that she didn't wanted to be part of the race and nagging Jose about going back to New York/just stop the car so she can get off and go back on her own even if she is in the literal middle of the country (and at one point makes him lose control of the Rolls-Royce by giving him a DopeSlap, which causes a multiple-car pile-up).
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* TheBigRaceBeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: At one point, Bannon and Smith manage to screw over Roscoe by driving straight towards a massive roadblock he set at exactly fifty-five miles per hour. [[BotheringByTheBook Because they are not speeding, the other policemen decide they're not committing a crime and let them pass]].
* TheBigRace: From one coast to the other, non-stop.
* TheBigRace: From one coast to the other, non-stop.
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* CoolCar: Several. Even TheAllegedCar among the contestants gets cool points by virtue of being a Jaguar.
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* EpicRaceEpicRace: From one coast to the other, non-stop and in open defiance of the national speed limits.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharactersLoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Even when several epic pratfalls cull about half of the racing teams before they can even leave New York City (let alone State), that still leaves about a dozen major characters.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStoryVeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There was a trans-continental underground race that rebelled against the 55 MPH limit, but ironically it's the ''true'' Film/TheCannonballRun.
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* WackyRacingWackyRacing: It's a comedy and most of the cast is spread amongst the racing teams. Also all strategies are accepted, and the two most notable ones is a pair of policemen that disguise themselves as policemen of every state they pass and a crew in a van modified to hold enough gas to race truly non-stop through the country (although [[EveryCarIsAPinto that one ended in some explosive mishaps]]).
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* DownLADrain: The film climaxes with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnl4Y-nYdJE a race down the LA river]] between Bannon's Cobra and Smith's Ferrari.
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* DownLADrain: The film climaxes with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnl4Y-nYdJE a race down the LA river]] concrete L.A. River channel]] between Bannon's Cobra and Smith's Ferrari.
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* DownLADrain: The end included [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnl4Y-nYdJE a race down the LA river]].
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* SuddenlyVoiced at the very end, as he loses control of his bike (again) and plunges into the water alongside the ''Queen Mary'':
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* SuddenlyVoiced SuddenlyVoiced: Lapchick at the very end, as he loses control of his bike (again) and plunges into the water alongside the ''Queen Mary'':
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* RuleOfCool: At the beginning of the film, it's made very clear that this is a standard rally race with staggered start times (albeit in tiny, 10-second intervals). In other words, they're technically racing against the clock, not against each other. At the end of the race this is conveniently forgotten as the Ferrari and Cobra (which were only separated by one interval) race to get to the finish line first, because it's more fun to watch cars race each other than the clock.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the beginning of the film, it's made very clear that this is a standard rally race with staggered start times (albeit in tiny, 10-second intervals). In other words, they're technically racing against the clock, not against each other. At the end of the race this is conveniently forgotten as the Ferrari and Cobra (which were only separated by one interval) race to get to the finish line first.
