History Film / UncleBuck

* BadassLongcoat: Buck's tweed overcoat, perfect for crashing house parties and other CrazyAwesome deeds.

* EverybodyHasStandards: [[spoiler: Bug may not have been [[AttemptedRape attempting rape]] on Tia at the time, but Buck still goes ahead with making Bug pay for his lechery. Because (A) this implies Bug is [[YourCheatingHeart cheating]] on Tia, and (B) no girl deserves to be in this situation.]]

'''Buck:''' I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're all good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good! [[PapaWolf You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I'm coming looking for you]]! Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.

* FreudianSlip: It's really hard to talk to that vice principal without mentioning her... Well...
-->"I'm Buck Melanoma, Moley Russel's Wart. .... Not her wart, I'm the wart. She's my tumor. My growth. My pimple."

* CordonBleughChef: Don't eat Buck's breakfast. Although it's never actually stated that it's ''bad''... Tia turns it down because she's being a bitch, and Miles seems shocked to see something different (an appropriately kidlike reaction). The sole mentioned aspect of it is that he put onions in the scrambled eggs.

-->'''Asst. Principal:'' I see a bad egg when I look at your niece. She is a twiddler, a dreamer, a sillyheart! She is a chatterbox, and frankly, I don't think she takes a thing in her life or her career as a student seriously.\\

'''Buck:'' I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're all good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good! [[PapaWolf You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I'm coming looking for you]]! Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Tia lies to Shanice about how Uncle Buck is cheating on her with another woman, just so she can spite him for the petty crime of embarrassing her at school and chasing away Bug for her own well-being.
Partly justified, as Tia's just a teenager and has a self-centered worldview where her only concern is what little social life she has at her new school.

* BaitAndSwitch: Buck drops an expensive plate. Obviously it'll shatter into a million pieces, right? Wrong. It stays in one piece[[spoiler:, until Buck mumbles “Unbreakable, huh?” and whacks it against the piano]].

* BaitAndSwitch: Buck drops an expensive plate. Obviously it'll shatter into a million pieces, right? Wrong. It stays in one piece [[, spoiler: until Buck mumbles “Unbreakable, huh?” and whacks it against the piano]].

* BaitAndSwitch: Buck drops an expensive plate. Obviously it'll shatter into a million pieces, right? Wrong. It stays in one piece, until Buck whacks it against the piano.

Much of said hilarity comes from Buck's repeated encounters with [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Tia's boyfriend]], Bug. Buck knows Bug is just using her, and pretends to be AxCrazy for Bug's benefit. Tia decides that ThisMeansWar When not trying to save Tia from herself, Buck [[ItMakesSenseInContext cooks giant pancakes, punches out drunken clowns]], and tries to come to terms with working for his girlfriend [[AerithAndBob Chanice]]. All this builds to a [[{{Heartwarming/Film}} Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming]] in which Buck must choose between freedom and responsibility. Macaulay Culkin's performance as Tia's little brother will remind many viewers of ''Film/HomeAlone'', and for good reason: it inspired the movie.

Spawned a sequel TV sitcom that premiered in September 1990 on CBS, starring Kevin Meaney as Buck, who becomes guardian of the three children after their parents are killed in a car accident. Panned by critics, it didn't even finish its first season before being cancelled, after airing only 16 of 22 filmed episodes. A second TV sitcom premiered in 2016 on NBC, this time with an all-black cast in an attempt to cash in on ABC's ''Series/{{Blackish}}''. This version was also panned by critics and only lasted 8 episodes.

Spawned a sequel TV sitcom that premiered in September 1990 on CBS, starring Kevin Meaney as Buck, who becomes guardian of the three children after their parents are killed in a car accident. Panned by critics, it didn't even finish its first season before being cancelled, after airing only 16 of 22 filmed episodes.

** "A lot of people hate this hat. It angers a lot of people, just the sight of it. Ah, I'll tell you a story about that on the way to school." Unfortunately we don't get to hear the story.
** The hat he was wearing was a leather Ushanka, which is associated with Russia (at the time of filming, the Soviet Union), so it's not hard to see why people didn't like it, but we never get to hear why someone like Buck would wear it.
** It's clear that at one point Buck had a good relationship with his family. It's never revealed what happened to destroy it.

* GentleGiant: Comes with being played by JohnCandy Sure, he's pretty scary if you're a heartless educator or an inebriated party clown or a punk, but just watch the scene where Buck tries to convince Maizy she can't sleep in his bed. D'awwwwww.

* TheAllegedCar / CoolCar: Buck's jalopy (he calls it "The Beast"), which [[KeepingUpAppearances backfires like clockwork]]. It becomes cool when we see what's in the trunk.