History Film / ThePacifier

* MistakenForSubculture: Seth, the older son, is mistaken for a Neo-Nazi when he dyes his hair blond and a swastika was found in his locker. Turns out that he was actually playing Rolf in ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Seth's Nazi armband is traced to the secret that he's playing Rolfe in a stage production of ''The Sound of Music''.

* OddCouple: The premise of this movie is about a strict, by-the-books US Navy colonel having to bodyguard, and ultimately parent, a group of undisciplined, selfish children and teenagers who've been spoiled rotten by their parents.

-->'''Shane''': Gimme 20. ''(Scott takes out his wallet)'' I meant ''push-ups''!

* ButNowIMustGo: Once their mother returns home [[spoiler: and they take down the North Korean spies]], Shane tearfully tells the kids he can't stay with them any longer. Though it turns out Shane chose not to return to the Navy, instead he has become the new wrestling coach for their high school.

* MyFavoriteShirt: Shane's shirt gets mustard and bologna on it, prompting this phrase. Funny, considering all his shirts are ''the same...''

%% * BaldOfAwesome: Shane (well, technically a shaved head, but hey...)

%% * ChekhovsGunman: [=Principal/PO3=] Claire Fletcher, Garry the duck, and the neighbors.
%% * ChekhovsSkill:
%% ** Zoe's parallel parking.
%% ** And Tyler crying when Lulu crosses her eyes.

%% * DeathCourse: One of the more ludicrous examples.

%% * HateSink: Vice Principal Murney.

%% * ImprobableParkingSkills: Shane and Zoe have them.

%% ** Also Vice Principal Murney.

%% ** Also played straight in the opening scene.
%% * MeaningfulEcho: "You do things my/our way! No highway option!"

%% * MrFanservice: Shane goes shirtless at one point.

%% * SlippedTheRopes: Two of the kids do this, silently and impressively.

%% * TokenRomance: Shane and Claire.
%% * ToThePain: Shane describes the exact grapples he pulls on the wrestling coach as he is doing them.

* AerithAndBob: Zoe, Seth, Lulu, Peter, and Tyler are the kids names. Like, why did Lulu get the odd name out? Everyone else has normal names.

* BaldOfAwesome: Shane (well, technically a shaved head, but hey...)

** ChekhovsGunman: [=Principal/PO3=] Claire Fletcher, Garry the duck, and the neighbors.
** ChekhovsSkill: Zoe's parallel parking.
*** And Tyler crying when Lulu crosses her eyes.

* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Zoe covers Tyler's eyes when Murney comes out in a nasty looking wrestling outfit.

* DeathCourse: One of the more ludicrous examples.

** It should be noted that infants get a pass on such issues as long as it's not focused on.

* GroinAttack: Garry the duck ''bites'' a terrorist there.

* HateSink: Vice Principal Murney.

* ImprobableParkingSkills: Shane and Zoe have them.

** Also Vice Principal Murney.

** Also played straight in the opening scene.
* MeaningfulEcho: "You do things my/our way! No highway option!"

* MrFanservice: Shane goes shirtless at one point.
** [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl Reluctant Fanservice Guy:]] He's pretty embarrassed when seen by Lulu and her Firefly troop in that state, though.
* MyFavoriteShirt: Shane's shirt gets mustard and bologna on it, prompting this phrase.
** Also hilarious considering all of his shirts are the ''same!''

* SlippedTheRopes: Two of the kids do this, silently and impressively.
* ShoutOut: The kids' mother's name Julie Plummer is an explicit reference to ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'' stars '''Julie''' Andrews and Christopher '''Plummer'''.

* TokenRomance: Shane and Claire.
* ToThePain: Shane describes the exact grapples he pulls on the wrestling coach as he is doing them.

* YouAreNumberSix: Given Shane's background in the U.S. Navy SEALS, Shane discards the kids' names. He labels them "Red One", "Red Two", "Red Three" and "Red Four".
** Don’t forget “Red Baby”.

** Creator/BradGarrett himself feels very embarrassed about being forced to wear that nasty wrestling outfit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLomSAWw5Aw&t=110s as proven in a behind-the-scenes featurette]]. The first 30 seconds of the featurette shows montages of him in the wrestling outfit doing silly poses until Brad begs while blocking the camera "Please! This has ''gotta'' stop! Enough! Enough!"

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Seth's Nazi armband is traced to the secret that he's playing Rolfe in a stage production of The Sound of Music.

* FishOutOfWater: The entire premise is that Shane is a strict, disciplined Navy SEAL Lieutenant charged with managing a suburban family, where he has to learn that treating the Plumbers like a Navy SEAL squad isn't the best approach.

* SadistTeacher: Dwayne Murney, while not really a ''sadist'', is an arrogant and abusive wrestling coach.

A Navy Seal is sent to babysit five obnoxious kids while their mother goes to Switzerland. [[TemptingFate What could possibly go wrong?]]

** Creator/BradGarrett himself feels very embarrassed about being forced to wear that nasty wrestling outfit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLomSAWw5Aw&t=110s as proven in an interview]]. The first 30 seconds of the interview keeps showing montages of him in the wrestling outfit doing silly poses until Brad begs while blocking the camera "Please! This has ''gotta'' stop! Enough! Enough!"

** Creator/BradGarrett himself feels very embarrassed about being forced to wear that nasty wrestling outfit as proven in an interview. The first 30 seconds of the interview keeps showing montages of him in the wrestling outfit doing silly poses until Brad begs while blocking the camera "Please! This has ''gotta'' stop! Enough! Enough!"

* TitleDrop: Shane is describing his special ops wrestling grapples with one in particular (and his personal favorite) called "the Pacifier." Just so you know, [[OrificeInvasion it involves putting his own fist in his mouth]].

* MrFanservice: Shane goes shirtless at few point
** [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl Reluctant Fanservice Guy:]] He's pretty embarrassed when seen by others in that state though

Creator/VinDiesel stars in his first family comedy. After a rescue mission to save government scientist Howard Plummer ends with the scientist dead and Navy Seal Shane Wolfe (Diesel) in the hospital, Shane is sent to protect the deceased scientist's family while their mother Julie (Faith Ford) and Shane's superior Captain Bill Fawcett (Chris Potter) goes to Zurich, Switzerland, to retrieve a deposit box her husband had left there. Initially, the five kids, {{Alpha Bitch}} wannabe Zoe (Creator/BrittanySnow), rebel without a cause Seth (Max Theriot), [[ScoutOut Firefly Scout]] Lulu (Morgan York), toddler Peter, and baby Tyler, cannot stand their new guardian and do everything they can think of to get him out. In response, Shane treats the family to some military style discipline.

* ParentalAbandonment: Shane was raised by his father, who sent him off to military school so that he could keep being a soldier. He was then killed in action.

-->'''Shane''': Gimme 20. ''(Scott takes out his wallet)'' I meant ''pushups''!

-->'''Shane''': Gimme 20. ''(Scott takes out his wallet)'' I meant ''push-ups''!

-->'''Shane''': Gimme 20. ''(Scott takes out his wallet)'' No, no, no, I meant ''push-ups''!

* [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bitch]]: Shown during the WildTeenParty below. Zoe is yelling at her boyfriend for inviting a whole bunch of people that she didn't know to her house for a party. After Shane gets back and makes them clean up the mess they made (which includes [[RunningGag baloney plastered to the ceiling with mustard]]), she's upset...''because her boyfriend will never speak to her again.'' Shane, being a SEAL, has the sense to call her out on that.

* SuckECheeses: Woody Woodchuck's. It does not look like a very fun place to be with Kids screaming and fighting, and the employees wear terrible-looking [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill around-the-head braces ...]]

* SuckECheeses: Woody Woodchuck's.