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* InexplicablyAwesome: It is never explained how Zohan and the Phantom are capable of the superhuman feats they display. Feats including: SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability, [[WallCrawl sticking to the ceiling]], {{contortionis|t}}m, remote control over ''severed limbs'' and [[MakeMeWannaShout glass-shattering chanting]].
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* InexplicablyAwesome: It is never explained how Zohan and the Phantom are capable of the superhuman feats they display. Feats including: SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability, [[WallCrawl sticking to the ceiling]], {{contortionis|t}}m, remote control over ''severed limbs'' and [[MakeMeWannaShout [[GlassShatteringSound glass-shattering chanting]].
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* MakeMeWannaShout: Zohan and Phantom are both able to make a sound that although harmless on their own, [[WonderTwinPowers when combined]] they create a legendary sonic attack that can destroy glass, blow electric connections, and pop breast implants like balloons.
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* SuperScream: Zohan and Phantom are both able to make a sound that although harmless on their own, [[WonderTwinPowers when combined]] they create a legendary sonic attack that can destroy glass, blow electric connections, and pop breast implants like balloons.
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** Their leader, who like the rest of the far-right terrorists actively tries to kill the hero and his friends and also tries to sabotage innocent people's businesses is very notable as he is also homophobic. Both literally AND in the modern definition.
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** Their leader, who like the rest of the far-right terrorists actively tries to kill the hero and his friends and also tries to sabotage innocent people's businesses is very notable as he his homophobia is also homophobic. Both literally exaggerated to the point that he's homophobic in both the literal sense AND in the modern definition.
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** Their leader, who like the rest of the far-right terrorists actively tries to kill the hero and his friends and also tries to sabotage innocent people's businesses is very notable as he is also homophobic. Both literally AND in the modern definition.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Being something of a Film/JamesBond parody, Zohan has sex with nearly every woman in the film, including the "old biddies" that come into his hair salon.
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* BadassIsraeli: A ''constant'' RunningGag - an Israeli, long released from the army and running a falafel shop in America, is certainly going to keep grenades, rocket launchers and other heavy weaponry stashed somewhere, just in case. Also, a UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} agent can clearly leap from to roof and do cool things with his ligaments. Just look at the poster. Zohan is not ''A'' Mossad agent, he is ''THE'' Mossad agent!
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* BadassIsraeli: A ''constant'' RunningGag - -- an Israeli, Israeli long released from the army and running a falafel shop in America, is certainly going to keep grenades, rocket launchers launchers, and other heavy weaponry stashed somewhere, just in case. Also, a UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} agent can clearly leap from to the roof and do cool things with his ligaments. Just look at the poster. Zohan is not ''A'' '''a''' Mossad agent, agent; he is ''THE'' '''the''' Mossad agent!
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* {{Trumplica}}: Interestingly, an example created before making characters based on Trump (or in this case, parodying Trump to an exaggerated degree) was popular. Grant Walbridge hits all the stops. The tropes throughout this page show him to be a loud obnoxious racist real estate developer trying to push people out of their neighborhood, while obsessed with garish displays of wealth including his supermodel girlfriend's perfectly symmetrical breast implants. Unlike most versions he's shorter than the protagonists, in reasonably good shape with an overall silver futuristic motif.
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* {{Trumplica}}: Interestingly, an example created before making characters based on Trump (or (or, in this case, parodying Trump to an exaggerated degree) was popular. Grant Walbridge hits all the stops. The tropes throughout this page show him to be a loud loud, obnoxious racist real estate developer trying to push people out of their neighborhood, neighborhood while obsessed with garish displays of wealth wealth, including his supermodel girlfriend's perfectly symmetrical breast implants. Unlike most versions versions, he's shorter than the protagonists, protagonists and in reasonably good shape shape, with an overall silver futuristic motif.
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* ParodySue: Zohan. Does impossible wire-fu martial arts, feels zero pain, has a massive budgie stuffed down his trousers and is attracted mainly to every woman besides his love interest, all PlayedForLaughs.
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* ParodySue: Zohan. Does Zohan does impossible wire-fu martial arts, feels zero pain, has a massive budgie stuffed down his trousers trousers, and is attracted mainly to every woman besides his love interest, all PlayedForLaughs.
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* RuleOfFunny: The only way to describe the very impossible stunts in this movie such as Zohan tying a guy's limbs to make him look like a pretzel or being able to stand with ''both feet in the air'' while kicking ass and getting his shoe size.
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* RuleOfFunny: The only way to describe the very impossible stunts in this movie movie, such as Zohan tying a guy's limbs to make him look like a pretzel or being able to stand with ''both feet in the air'' while kicking an ass and getting his shoe size.size.
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* SmallReferencePools: Surprisingly, the supposedly sophisticated Walbridge doesn't know what hummus is - this despite the fact that hummus is available in most large American cities, and not just in Semitic communities.
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* SmallReferencePools: Surprisingly, the supposedly sophisticated Walbridge doesn't know what hummus is - -- this despite the fact that hummus is available in most large American cities, and not just in Semitic communities.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The leader of the White Supremacists has a LongList of things he hates, starting with Jews, Arabs, black people, Asians, and etcetera, then quickly derailing into things like the New York Times, dogs in purses, various celebrities and long walks on the beach.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The leader of the White Supremacists has a LongList of things he hates, starting with Jews, Arabs, black people, Asians, and etcetera, then quickly derailing into things like the ''The New York Times, Times'', dogs in purses, various celebrities and long walks on the beach.
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* BadassIsraeli: A ''constant'' RunningGag - an Israeli, long released from the army and running a falafel shop in America, is certainly going to keep grenades, rocket launchers and other heavy weaponry stashed somewhere, just in case. Also, a Mossad agent can clearly leap from to roof and do cool things with his ligaments. Just look at the poster. Zohan is not ''A'' Mossad agent, he is ''THE'' Mossad agent!
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* BadassIsraeli: A ''constant'' RunningGag - an Israeli, long released from the army and running a falafel shop in America, is certainly going to keep grenades, rocket launchers and other heavy weaponry stashed somewhere, just in case. Also, a Mossad UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} agent can clearly leap from to roof and do cool things with his ligaments. Just look at the poster. Zohan is not ''A'' Mossad agent, he is ''THE'' Mossad agent!
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** The Zohan when he learned that the Israli government gave back the Phantom.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:[[invoked]] An in-story example. Israelis and Palestinians love three things: Mariah Carey, hacky sack, and disco.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:[[invoked]] An in-story example. Israelis and Palestinians love three things: Mariah Carey, Music/MariahCarey, hacky sack, and disco.
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* InexplicablyAwesome: It is never explained how Zohan and the Phantom are capable of the superhuman feats they display. Feats including: SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability, [[WallCrawl sticking to the ceiling]], [[{{Contortionist}} contortionism]], remote-control over ''severed limbs'' and [[MakeMeWannaShout glass-shattering chanting]].
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* InexplicablyAwesome: It is never explained how Zohan and the Phantom are capable of the superhuman feats they display. Feats including: SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability, [[WallCrawl sticking to the ceiling]], [[{{Contortionist}} contortionism]], remote-control {{contortionis|t}}m, remote control over ''severed limbs'' and [[MakeMeWannaShout glass-shattering chanting]].
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* ParodySue: Zohan. Does impossible wire-fu martial arts, feels zero pain, has a massive budgie stuffed down his trousers and is attracted mainly to every women besides his love interest, all PlayedForLaughs.
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* RapidFireComedy: The jokes and sight gags do not let up. In one scene they are shown playing hacky-sac ''with a cat'' for no discernible reason.
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* RealMenWearPink: Zohan and the Phantom are the coolest men alive. They both love Mariah Carey and dream of being a hairdresser and [[spoiler:shoe salesman]] respectively.
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* RealMenWearPink: Zohan and the Phantom are the coolest men alive. They both love Mariah Carey Music/MariahCarey and dream of being a hairdresser and [[spoiler:shoe salesman]] respectively.
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* RuleOfFunny: The only way to describe the very impossible stunts in this movie such as Zohan tying a guy's limbs to make him look like a pretzel or being able stand with ''both feet in the air'' while kicking ass and getting his shoe size.
* RunningGag: Using hummus for ''everything,'' up to and including toothpaste and putting out fires.
* RunningGag: Using hummus for ''everything,'' up to and including toothpaste and putting out fires.
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* RuleOfFunny: The only way to describe the very impossible stunts in this movie such as Zohan tying a guy's limbs to make him look like a pretzel or being able to stand with ''both feet in the air'' while kicking ass and getting his shoe size.
* RunningGag: Using hummus for''everything,'' ''everything'', up to and including toothpaste and putting out fires.
* RunningGag: Using hummus for
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* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Zohan and some other Israelis pepper their speech with Yiddishisms in a manner no actual Israeli would, certainly not in that age group, and certainly not if they’re not even Ashkenazi. (Though it just adds an extra level of hilarity to the film if you are Israeli.)
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* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Zohan and some other Israelis pepper their speech with Yiddishisms in a manner no actual Israeli would, certainly not in that age group, and certainly not if they’re not even Ashkenazi. (Though it just adds an extra level of hilarity to the film if you are ''are'' Israeli.)
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** Walbridge, after his girlfriend's [[GagBoobs [[BoobBasedGag perfectly proportioned breasts deflate]].
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* {{Trumplica}}: Interestingly, an example created before making characters based on Trump (or in this case, parodying Trump to an exaggerated degree) was popular. Grant Walbridge hits all the stops. The tropes through out this page show him to be a loud obnoxious racist real estate developer trying to push people out of their neighborhood, while obsessed with garish displays of wealth including his supermodel girlfriends perfectly symmetrical breast implants. Unlike most versions he's shorter then the protagonists, in reasonably good shape with an overall silver futuristic motif.
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* {{Trumplica}}: Interestingly, an example created before making characters based on Trump (or in this case, parodying Trump to an exaggerated degree) was popular. Grant Walbridge hits all the stops. The tropes through out throughout this page show him to be a loud obnoxious racist real estate developer trying to push people out of their neighborhood, while obsessed with garish displays of wealth including his supermodel girlfriends girlfriend's perfectly symmetrical breast implants. Unlike most versions he's shorter then than the protagonists, in reasonably good shape with an overall silver futuristic motif.
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* BigNo: Walbridge, after his girlfriend's [[GagBoobs perfectly proportioned breasts deflate]].
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** Walbridge, after his girlfriend's [[GagBoobs perfectly proportioned breasts deflate]].
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* BerserkButton: Don't spit on the Zohan. He'll throw you through the air and steal your goat.
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* BilingualBonus: Averted, subverted ''and'' played straight in the same film. Lots of the stuff said in the film is gibberish[[note]]No, there is no such thing as ''muchentuchen'' or ''fizzy bubbelach'', and the occasional word uttered in surprised with lots of khkhkh sounds is made up; as a matter of fact, ‘Zohan’ is not even a real Israeli name.[[/note]], Sandler uses few Hebrew words [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage with Yiddish pronunciation]], and Ido Mosseri as Oori calls the Walbridge employee a homo in legitimate Hebrew. But the most notable example of this trope is when the Phantom calls Zohan a jerk[[note]][[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike which happens to mean ‘I’m a maniac’ in Russian]][[/note]] in Hebrew with dramatic inflection, which is somewhat of a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} for Israeli viewers. Also, ‘puntakhat’, while it’s not an actual Hebrew word, slang or not, sounds like a corruption of ‘pot’ (vagina) and ‘takhat’ (arse).
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* BilingualBonus: Averted, subverted ''and'' played straight in the same film. Lots of the stuff said in the film is gibberish[[note]]No, there is no such thing as ''muchentuchen'' or ''fizzy bubbelach'', and the occasional word uttered in surprised with lots of khkhkh sounds is made up; as a matter of fact, ‘Zohan’ is not even a real Israeli name.[[/note]], Sandler uses few Hebrew words [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage with Yiddish pronunciation]], and Ido Mosseri as Oori calls the Walbridge employee a homo in legitimate Hebrew. But the most notable example of this trope is when the Phantom calls Zohan a jerk[[note]][[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike which happens to mean ‘I’m a maniac’ in Russian]][[/note]] in Hebrew with dramatic inflection, which is somewhat of a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} for Israeli viewers.inflection. Also, ‘puntakhat’, while it’s not an actual Hebrew word, slang or not, sounds like a corruption of ‘pot’ (vagina) and ‘takhat’ (arse).
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* GagPenis: Zohan has a notable bulge in his pants, which he uses at one point to [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments scratch a record]]. Later shown that most of the bulge is being made up by his pubic hair in two separate scenes.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Zohan ''loves'' hummus. He puts it on everything he eats and even [[{{Squick}} brushes his teeth with it]]. Also, Fizzy Bubbelech, of which he can down an entire bottle in less than a second.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Zohan ''loves'' hummus. He puts it on everything he eats and even [[{{Squick}} brushes his teeth with it]].it. Also, Fizzy Bubbelech, of which he can down an entire bottle in less than a second.
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* MagicalRealism: No one really bats an eyelash towards the cartoonishly superhuman feats Zohan and Phantom perform.
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* MagicalRealism: No one really bats an eyelash towards the cartoonishly superhuman feats Zohan and Phantom perform.
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* TheCameo: John [=McEnroe=] (in his [[Film/MrDeeds second Sandler movie]]), Creator/HenryWinkler (in [[Film/TheWaterboy his]] [[Film/LittleNicky third]]), and Music/MariahCarey (in a better movie than her [[Film/{{Glitter}} usual]]). So too did George Takei, and Bruce Vilanch.
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* TheCameo: John [=McEnroe=] (in his [[Film/MrDeeds second Sandler movie]]), Creator/HenryWinkler (in [[Film/TheWaterboy his]] [[Film/LittleNicky third]]), and Music/MariahCarey (in a better movie than her [[Film/{{Glitter}} usual]]). So too did George Takei, and Bruce Vilanch.
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* AnAesop: The UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict is meaningless outside the region and people should get along, as they are more alike than they think.
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* AnAesop: The UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict is meaningless outside the region and people should get along, as they are more alike than they think.
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* Mooning: When Michael arrives home from work, his first sight is the beefy bare backside of his mother, whose skirt is in disarray while she makes out with Zohan. The lady appears to be played in this scene by a double, and not principal actress Lainie Kazan.
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* Mooning: {{Mooning}}: When Michael arrives home from work, his first sight is the beefy bare backside of his mother, whose skirt is in disarray while she makes out with Zohan. The lady appears to be played in this scene by a double, and not principal actress Lainie Kazan.
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* Mooning: When Michael arrives home from work, his first sight is the beefy bare backside of his mother, whose skirt is in disarray while she makes out with Zohan. The lady appears to be played in this scene by a double, and not principal actress Lainie Kazan.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: An [[{{InUniverse}} in-story]] example. Israelis and Palestinians love three things: Mariah Carey, hacky sack, and disco.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:[[invoked]] An [[{{InUniverse}} in-story]] in-story example. Israelis and Palestinians love three things: Mariah Carey, hacky sack, and disco.
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* ActorAllusion:
** Creator/RobSchneider being [[BestialityIsDepraved really close to a goat?]] [[Film/TheAnimal Seen it.]]
** And Zohan isn't [[Film/BillyMadison the first Adam Sandler character]] to like things "silky [and] smooth."
** Plus, John Turturro [[Film/MrDeeds once again]] plays a character with [[spoiler: a thing for people's feet]].
** Creator/RobSchneider being [[BestialityIsDepraved really close to a goat?]] [[Film/TheAnimal Seen it.]]
** And Zohan isn't [[Film/BillyMadison the first Adam Sandler character]] to like things "silky [and] smooth."
** Plus, John Turturro [[Film/MrDeeds once again]] plays a character with [[spoiler: a thing for people's feet]].
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A 2008 action comedy directed by Creator/DennisDugan and starring Creator/AdamSandler (who co-wrote the script with Creator/JuddApatow and Robert Smigel) as the titular Israeli super soldier, and Creator/JohnTurturro as his arch-nemesis, The Phantom. ([[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No, not]] [[ComicStrip/ThePhantom that one.]] [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Or that one.]])
The plot goes something like this: Zohan Dvir is an Israeli super soldier, sort of a cross between Chuck Norris and Borat, who becomes tired of the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict. He fakes his own death, and moves to the United States, where he fulfills his life-long dream of becoming a (heterosexual) hairdresser.
The plot goes something like this: Zohan Dvir is an Israeli super soldier, sort of a cross between Chuck Norris and Borat, who becomes tired of the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict. He fakes his own death, and moves to the United States, where he fulfills his life-long dream of becoming a (heterosexual) hairdresser.
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A 2008 action comedy directed by Creator/DennisDugan and starring Creator/AdamSandler (who co-wrote the script with Creator/JuddApatow and Robert Smigel) Creator/RobertSmigel) as the titular Israeli super soldier, super-soldier, and Creator/JohnTurturro as his arch-nemesis, The Phantom. ([[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No, not]] No]], not [[ComicStrip/ThePhantom that one.]] Or [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Or that one.]])
The plot goes something like this: Zohan Dvir is an Israelisuper soldier, SuperSoldier, sort of a cross between Chuck Norris and Borat, who becomes tired of the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict. He fakes his own death, and moves to the United States, where he fulfills his life-long dream of becoming a (heterosexual) hairdresser.
The plot goes something like this: Zohan Dvir is an Israeli
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* BadassIsraeli: A ''constant'' RunningGag - an Israeli, long released from the army and running a falafel shop in America, is certainly going to keep grenades, rocket launchers and other heavy weaponry stashed somewhere, just in case. Also, a Mossad agent can clearly leap from to roof and do cool things with his ligaments. Just look at the poster.
** Zohan is not ''A'' Mossad agent, he is ''THE'' Mossad agent!
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* BadassIsraeli: A ''constant'' RunningGag - an Israeli, long released from the army and running a falafel shop in America, is certainly going to keep grenades, rocket launchers and other heavy weaponry stashed somewhere, just in case. Also, a Mossad agent can clearly leap from to roof and do cool things with his ligaments. Just look at the poster.
**poster. Zohan is not ''A'' Mossad agent, he is ''THE'' Mossad agent!
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* BilingualBonus: Averted, subverted ''and'' played straight in the same film. Lots of the stuff said in the film is gibberish[[note]]No, there is no such thing as ''muchentuchen'' or ''fizzy bubbelach'', and the occasional word uttered in surprised with lots of khkhkh sounds is made up; as a matter of fact, ‘Zohan’ is not even a real Israeli name.[[/note]], Sandler uses few Hebrew words [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage with Yiddish pronunciation]], and Ido Mosseri as Oori calls the Walbridge employee a homo in legitimate Hebrew. But the most notable example of this trope is when the Phantom calls Zohan a jerk[[note]][[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike which happens to mean ‘I’m a maniac’ in Russian]][[/note]] in Hebrew with dramatic inflection, which is somewhat of a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} for Israeli viewers.
** Also, ‘puntakhat’, while it’s not an actual Hebrew word, slang or not, sounds like a corruption of ‘pot’ (vagina) and ‘takhat’ (arse).
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* BilingualBonus: Averted, subverted ''and'' played straight in the same film. Lots of the stuff said in the film is gibberish[[note]]No, there is no such thing as ''muchentuchen'' or ''fizzy bubbelach'', and the occasional word uttered in surprised with lots of khkhkh sounds is made up; as a matter of fact, ‘Zohan’ is not even a real Israeli name.[[/note]], Sandler uses few Hebrew words [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage with Yiddish pronunciation]], and Ido Mosseri as Oori calls the Walbridge employee a homo in legitimate Hebrew. But the most notable example of this trope is when the Phantom calls Zohan a jerk[[note]][[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike which happens to mean ‘I’m a maniac’ in Russian]][[/note]] in Hebrew with dramatic inflection, which is somewhat of a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} for Israeli viewers.
**viewers. Also, ‘puntakhat’, while it’s not an actual Hebrew word, slang or not, sounds like a corruption of ‘pot’ (vagina) and ‘takhat’ (arse).
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* GagPenis: Zohan has a notable bulge in his pants, which he uses at one point to [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments scratch a record]].
**record]]. Later shown that most of the bulge is being made up by his pubic hair in two separate scenes.
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* RuleOfCool: It's pretty much directly stated that Zohan and Phantom can give uppercuts with their feet, control severed body parts, and walk on ceilings because once you become cool enough you can just do that kind of thing.
** Zohan can even uppercut with one foot while [[spoiler: Phantom takes his shoe size]] and thus has his other leg raised in the air. That's right, ''Zohan can stand when both his feet are in the air.''
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**thing. Zohan can even uppercut with one foot while [[spoiler: Phantom takes his shoe size]] and thus has his other leg raised in the air. That's right, ''Zohan can stand when both his feet are in the air.''
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* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Well, just look at this page's image. Adam Sandler Is About to Blow-Dry You!
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* SexGoddess: [[LikesOlderWomen Zohan]] considers old Mrs. Greenhouse as one, claiming she's "An angel with [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility the flexibility of a circus freak]]". In the UnratedEdition, he says she's "An angel with a magic throat".
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* PressurePoint: When applying at a kid's hair salon, Zohan unintentionally causes a child to cry and uses a Vulcan nerve pinch to [[WouldHurtAChild instantly knock him out]]. This causes the rest of the kids in the salon to cry as well. Zohan is completely unfazed by this.
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* FultonStreetFolly: The Israeli and Palestinian immigrants' neighborhood is located in Lower Manhattan.
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* AnAesop: The UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict, and people should get along.
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* AnAesop: The UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict, UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict is meaningless outside the region and people should get along.along, as they are [[NotSoDifferent more alike than they think]].
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* BuffoonishTomcat: While there were brief, silly, hilarity-filled scenes of showing screen time on this regular housecat and the following cat wasn't portrayed to be as dumb as it looks, there was an game Zohan and his friend(s) play called "Cat Sack", in which they use an cat from Micheal's apartment as Zohan and his friends's punting like a soccerball in their own version of hacky-sack; the cat throughout every scene seems to be harmless, going with the flow, cool with the kicks he's given as the cat NEVER gets irritated and falls into the ExtremeDoormat ButtMonkey status with what slapstick he was just inflicted on as he remains unharmed and easygoing overall.
* CampStraight: Several characters (including his own parents at one point) mistake him for being gay.
* CampStraight: Several characters (including his own parents at one point) mistake him for being gay.
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* BuffoonishTomcat: While there were brief, silly, hilarity-filled silly scenes of showing screen time on this regular featuring Michael's housecat and the following cat it wasn't portrayed to be as dumb as it looks, there was an game Zohan and his friend(s) play called "Cat Sack", in which they use an cat from Micheal's apartment as Zohan and his friends's punting punt it like a soccerball in their own version of hacky-sack; the a hacky-sack. The cat throughout every scene seems to be harmless, going with the flow, unharmed and cool with the kicks he's given as the cat NEVER gets irritated and falls into the ExtremeDoormat ButtMonkey status with what slapstick he was just inflicted on as he remains unharmed and easygoing overall.irritated.
* CampStraight: Several characters (including his own parents at one point) mistakehim Zohan for being gay.
* CampStraight: Several characters (including his own parents at one point) mistake
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* ClownCar: In the climax, there is an instance of mooks getting out of a car...waaay more than the car should fit.
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* ClownCar: In the climax, there is an instance of mooks Palestinians getting out of a car...taxi...waaay more than the car taxi should fit.
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* EatsBabies: In a parody of the iconic ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' TrainingMontage, Phantom wakes up early, cracks some eggs into a glass, and ''drinks the live chicks inside''. He also punches a heavy bag, then a side of beef, then a live cow.
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* EatsBabies: In a parody of the iconic ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' TrainingMontage, Phantom wakes up early, cracks some eggs into a glass, and ''drinks the live chicks inside''. He also punches a heavy bag, then a side of beef, then a live cow. (He wasn't expecting the cow to moo back.)
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* {{Fauxreigner}}: Zohan and Phantom take out a mob of [[DeepSouth Southern rednecks]] disguised as stereotypical Arab terrorists and Hasidic Jews (so that the Israelis and Palestinians would each think the other ethnic group was vandalizing their shops).
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* {{Fauxreigner}}: Zohan and Phantom take out a mob of [[DeepSouth Southern rednecks]] disguised as stereotypical Arab terrorists and Hasidic Jews (so that the Israelis and Palestinians would each think [[FalseFlagOperation the other ethnic group was vandalizing their shops).shops]]).
* AnImmigrantsTale: A story of an Israeli coming to New York City to escape his problems and fulfill UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, only to encounter new ones with his past following close behind him.
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** Zohan can even uppercut with one foot while [[spoiler: Phantom takes his shoe size.]] and thus has his other leg raised in the air. That's right, ''Zohan can stand when both his feet are in the air.''
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** Zohan can even uppercut with one foot while [[spoiler: Phantom takes his shoe size.]] size]] and thus has his other leg raised in the air. That's right, ''Zohan can stand when both his feet are in the air.''
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Parodied by the guy who hid grenades in boiling oil in a deep fat fryer.
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* SpottingTheThread: Dalia was able to tell that Zohan was lying about who he was because she saw how he looked at Fizzy Bubblech.
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* SpottingTheThread: Dalia was able to tell that Zohan was lying about who he was because she saw how after he looked at Fizzy Bubblech.downed a bottle of fizzy bubblech in less than a second.
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* JadedProfessional: Zohan is tired of fighting in a war where nothing he does seems to matter. He complains about capturing the Phantom only a few months before only to have him again after he was traded back and got up to his old tricks.