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'''Big Tom:''' I told you not to cover them.\\\
'''Big Tom:''' For God's sakes, stop covering your damn eyes!
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'''Big Tom:''' For God's sakes, stop covering your damn eyes!
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** I know.
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* HotMom: Beverly.
-->'''Tommy''': No offense; but if I sent a picture of your mom back to my buddies at college, she'd definitely be "Boner of the Month"!
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-->'''Tommy''': No offense; but if I sent a picture of your mom back to my buddies at college, she'd definitely be "Boner of the Month"!
-->'''Paul''': [[SarcasmMode I'm honored.]]
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-->'''Client''': There's a problem: I don't like you. I never have, and I probably never will. You're a smug, unhappy little man who treats people like they're idiots.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tommy. Richard, upon realizing this, explains this to him by comparing "Book Smart" (which Tommy clearly lacks) with "Street Smart". Once Tommy relaxes and [[CentipedesDilemma stops trying too hard]], he becomes an excellent salesman.
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A 1995 comedy directed by Peter Segal and starring ChrisFarley and DavidSpade.
Tommy Callahan (Farley) is the ManChild son of auto part factory owner Tom Callahan (Brian Dennehy). Big Tom marries Beverly Barish-Burns (Bo Derek), a new wife with a rather conniving "son" Paul (Rob Lowe), then has a heart attack and dies at the wedding reception. Shortly after, his now-widow and stepson use their stocks to try and sell the company to auto magnate Ray Zalinsky (DanAykroyd), putting all the workers at Callahan out of business (which was, of course, their goal all along).
The only way for Tommy to avert this is to sell enough brake pads to make the company profitable. But will a bumbling idiot who took seven years to finish college have enough business savvy to sell enough brake pads...and will he be able to overcome the scheming of his new "family"?
The movie was panned by critics (RogerEbert put it on his [[RogerEbertMostHatedFilmList Most Hated Film List]]), but it was a success commercially and was Chris Farley's BreakoutRole.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Richard has one while ogling MsFanservice from his hotel window. Tommy [[NeverLiveItDown never lets him live it down.]]
* ActorAllusion: When Tommy's future step-mother first appears she is referred to as being a "ten". Bo Derek has been referred to as being a "ten" before in the movie "10".
** During the flight to Chicago, David Spade is a rude flight attendant. [[SaturdayNightLive Why does that sound familiar?]]
* TheAllegedCar: Richard's car turns into this during the course of the film, between the M&M's, the door coming off at the gas station, the deer tearing up the entire backseat (and most of the rest of the car), and the hood coming off because of the oil can left in. By the end of the film, Richard parks it illegally and tells the objecting security guard to "keep it".
* AmazingFreakingGrace: Played during Big Tom's funeral.
* AmusingInjuries / RunningGag: Paul
* BreatheOnTheFan: ''Luke... I am your father.''
* CatchPhrase: "Son of a..."
** "I've got a plan!" "...Yikes."
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown / ADateWithRosiePalms: Richard
* ChewToy: Richard's car.
* ClevelandRocks: Well, Sandusky, but close enough.
* DangerTakesABackSeat: The deer, in a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* DeadpanSnarker: Richard
* DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: "No no no, your face does."
* DoorDumb: Tommy tries to open the front door to the university building, only to find it locked. After panicking and giving up, he slumps down on the steps just as another student calmly opens the ''adjacent'' door and walks in.
* FakeVideoCameraView: When Richard is filming parts of the wedding.
* FanService: The skinny dipping woman at the hotel pool.
* FatAndSkinny: "Fat guy in a little coat! Fat guy in a little coat!"
* GilliganCut: Richard tells Tommy they can't take no for an answer. Cut to the first customer saying "no" and Tommy going, "Okay, then" and getting up to leave.
** The Carpenters' "Superstar" is on the car radio - Tommy and Richard both shrug noncomittally about changing stations. Quick scene cut, and they're both singing along at the top of their lungs, tears streaming down their cheeks.
* GoldDigger: Beverly, who marries Big Tom just so she can divorce him later on and take half his fortune.
* JerkAss: Richard, although he evolves into somewhat of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* KarmaHoudini: While Paul is arrested and [[GroinAttack effectively vasectomized]], Beverly not only gets away scott-free but gets a brand-new, even richer sugar daddy.
** Justified, since Paul abandoned her while trying to escape and was the one who actually performed sabotage on the company. The only "evil" things Beverly did was marry a man for his money and lie about already being married (and try to sell off the company, but hey that's just business).
* LargeHam: Tommy, of course.
* ManChild: Tommy, again.
* MoodWhiplash: Heartwarming reunion! Gleeful wedding! Tear-jerking funeral. Funny buddy road movie?
* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe: Tommy catches Richard ogling an attractive skinny-dipper. After some initial teasing, they go to bed:
-->'''Tommy''': Big day tomorrow. Hope we can keep this momentum goin'.
-->'''Richard''': Yup. That'd be good.
-->'''Tommy''': Richard... Who's you're favorite little rascal? Alfalfa? Or is it ''Spanky''? ...Sinner.
* PhraseCatcher / RunningGag: "Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?"
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Richard gets a very well-deserved one from a prospective client, who calls him out on being a smug, condescending JerkAss to everyone he meets.
** Tommy gets more than his share of these speeches from Richard throughout the movie, too.
* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: Done with [[{{REM}} the trope naming song]] (they only catch the chorus and "6 O'clock, TV hour" before it goes down to mumbling).
* ShoutOut: ''StarWars''.
* ThrowItIn: While there are probably other examples, "Does this make me look fat?" "No, your face does" is confirmed to have begun as an ad-lib.
* TravellingSalesmanMontage: Of course.
* WeCare: Zalinsky's ads: "I make car parts for the American working man, because that's what I am, and that's who I care about." The reality: "Truth is, I make car parts for the American working man because I'm a hell of a salesman and he doesn't know any better."
* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: Tommy certainly wasn't expecting someone would buy from him...
* WickedStepmother: Beverly was this to Tommy until [[spoiler:it was revealed she was already married to Paul, thus making her marriage to Big Tom illegal]].
* YouDontWantToCatchThis: "Bees! Bees! Oh God, they're everywhere!"
** [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall My God]].
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Tommy Callahan (Farley) is the ManChild son of auto part factory owner Tom Callahan (Brian Dennehy). Big Tom marries Beverly Barish-Burns (Bo Derek), a new wife with a rather conniving "son" Paul (Rob Lowe), then has a heart attack and dies at the wedding reception. Shortly after, his now-widow and stepson use their stocks to try and sell the company to auto magnate Ray Zalinsky (DanAykroyd), putting all the workers at Callahan out of business (which was, of course, their goal all along).
The only way for Tommy to avert this is to sell enough brake pads to make the company profitable. But will a bumbling idiot who took seven years to finish college have enough business savvy to sell enough brake pads...and will he be able to overcome the scheming of his new "family"?
The movie was panned by critics (RogerEbert put it on his [[RogerEbertMostHatedFilmList Most Hated Film List]]), but it was a success commercially and was Chris Farley's BreakoutRole.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Richard has one while ogling MsFanservice from his hotel window. Tommy [[NeverLiveItDown never lets him live it down.]]
* ActorAllusion: When Tommy's future step-mother first appears she is referred to as being a "ten". Bo Derek has been referred to as being a "ten" before in the movie "10".
** During the flight to Chicago, David Spade is a rude flight attendant. [[SaturdayNightLive Why does that sound familiar?]]
* TheAllegedCar: Richard's car turns into this during the course of the film, between the M&M's, the door coming off at the gas station, the deer tearing up the entire backseat (and most of the rest of the car), and the hood coming off because of the oil can left in. By the end of the film, Richard parks it illegally and tells the objecting security guard to "keep it".
* AmazingFreakingGrace: Played during Big Tom's funeral.
* AmusingInjuries / RunningGag: Paul
* BreatheOnTheFan: ''Luke... I am your father.''
* CatchPhrase: "Son of a..."
** "I've got a plan!" "...Yikes."
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown / ADateWithRosiePalms: Richard
* ChewToy: Richard's car.
* ClevelandRocks: Well, Sandusky, but close enough.
* DangerTakesABackSeat: The deer, in a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* DeadpanSnarker: Richard
* DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: "No no no, your face does."
* DoorDumb: Tommy tries to open the front door to the university building, only to find it locked. After panicking and giving up, he slumps down on the steps just as another student calmly opens the ''adjacent'' door and walks in.
* FakeVideoCameraView: When Richard is filming parts of the wedding.
* FanService: The skinny dipping woman at the hotel pool.
* FatAndSkinny: "Fat guy in a little coat! Fat guy in a little coat!"
* GilliganCut: Richard tells Tommy they can't take no for an answer. Cut to the first customer saying "no" and Tommy going, "Okay, then" and getting up to leave.
** The Carpenters' "Superstar" is on the car radio - Tommy and Richard both shrug noncomittally about changing stations. Quick scene cut, and they're both singing along at the top of their lungs, tears streaming down their cheeks.
* GoldDigger: Beverly, who marries Big Tom just so she can divorce him later on and take half his fortune.
* JerkAss: Richard, although he evolves into somewhat of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* KarmaHoudini: While Paul is arrested and [[GroinAttack effectively vasectomized]], Beverly not only gets away scott-free but gets a brand-new, even richer sugar daddy.
** Justified, since Paul abandoned her while trying to escape and was the one who actually performed sabotage on the company. The only "evil" things Beverly did was marry a man for his money and lie about already being married (and try to sell off the company, but hey that's just business).
* LargeHam: Tommy, of course.
* ManChild: Tommy, again.
* MoodWhiplash: Heartwarming reunion! Gleeful wedding! Tear-jerking funeral. Funny buddy road movie?
* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe: Tommy catches Richard ogling an attractive skinny-dipper. After some initial teasing, they go to bed:
-->'''Tommy''': Big day tomorrow. Hope we can keep this momentum goin'.
-->'''Richard''': Yup. That'd be good.
-->'''Tommy''': Richard... Who's you're favorite little rascal? Alfalfa? Or is it ''Spanky''? ...Sinner.
* PhraseCatcher / RunningGag: "Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?"
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Richard gets a very well-deserved one from a prospective client, who calls him out on being a smug, condescending JerkAss to everyone he meets.
** Tommy gets more than his share of these speeches from Richard throughout the movie, too.
* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: Done with [[{{REM}} the trope naming song]] (they only catch the chorus and "6 O'clock, TV hour" before it goes down to mumbling).
* ShoutOut: ''StarWars''.
* ThrowItIn: While there are probably other examples, "Does this make me look fat?" "No, your face does" is confirmed to have begun as an ad-lib.
* TravellingSalesmanMontage: Of course.
* WeCare: Zalinsky's ads: "I make car parts for the American working man, because that's what I am, and that's who I care about." The reality: "Truth is, I make car parts for the American working man because I'm a hell of a salesman and he doesn't know any better."
* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: Tommy certainly wasn't expecting someone would buy from him...
* WickedStepmother: Beverly was this to Tommy until [[spoiler:it was revealed she was already married to Paul, thus making her marriage to Big Tom illegal]].
* YouDontWantToCatchThis: "Bees! Bees! Oh God, they're everywhere!"
** [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall My God]].
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