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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Vincent congratulates RJ on his treachery, prompting RJ to go back to save his friends.
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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Vincent congratulates RJ on his treachery, invoking a NotSoDifferent with him, prompting RJ to go back to save his friends.
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* HopeSpot: A particularly funny one, when the Spuddies survive a tremendous fall (even landing in a perfect column), causing RJ to gasp in joy. It's short lived when the decimated shopping cart and umbrella fall and crush it.
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* HopeSpot: A particularly funny one, when the Spuddies survive a tremendous fall (even landing in a perfect column), column with an AudibleGleam), causing RJ to gasp in joy. It's short lived when the decimated shopping cart and umbrella fall and crush it.
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** Dwayne [=LaFontaine=] indentifies himself with ''TheTerminator''. Too bad he's fat, middle-aged and balding.
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** Gets a CallBack when Dwayne sniffs, initially saying, "Amphibian" - Verne mutters, "Reptile", but to his surprise, Dwayne says, "[[GenreSavvy No...]] ''[[GenreSavvy reptile]]''!" It's an EstablishingCharacterMoment for Dwayne, indicating he knows his stuff when it comes to extermination.
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* InsistentTerminology: Verne is a reptile. Not a reptile. He'll be quick to tell you that.
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* InsistentTerminology: Verne is a reptile. Not a reptile.an amphibian. He'll be quick to tell you that.
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** You know the column of light at the end which appears when the exterminator's machine backfires on its creator? Looks like ''TheFifthElement'', another movie including Bruce Willis .
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** You know the column of light at the end which appears when the exterminator's machine backfires on its creator? Looks like ''TheFifthElement'', ''Film/TheFifthElement'', another movie including Bruce Willis .
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* AdaptationExpansion: Several more characters were added beyond the strip's core cast (RJ, Verne, Hammy).
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: The porcupine triplets. Out of the three, only Spike has a confirmed gender (Penny and Lou refer to him as "he" when talking about how the triplets kept waking their mother). Bucky, due to the male name and the male voice actor (actually played by the son of the director, Sami), is most likely also male. The last triplet, Quillo, is ambiguous. The name doesn't really have any implied gender, Quillo is voiced by a girl, and the triplets are always refered to as "kids", which could imply that at least one of them is a girl.
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*ViewerGenderConfusion: The porcupine triplets. Out of the three, only Spike has a confirmed gender (Penny and Lou refer to him as "he" when talking about how the triplets kept waking their mother). Bucky, due to the male name and the male voice actor (actually played by the son of the director, Sami), is most likely also male. The last triplet, Quillo, is ambiguous. The name doesn't really have any implied gender, Quillo is voiced by a girl, and the triplets are always refered to as "kids", which could imply that at least one of them is a girl.
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Like many other movies, it got its own [[VideoGame/OverTheHedge video game adaptation]].
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The movie has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4XfcGPpQI&feature=related "Key of Heart"]] as its Japanese theme and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xog20ur2I "People Say"]] as its Korean theme. Both were sung by BoA, who was the voice of Heather the opossum in both versions, making this a DoItYourselfThemeTune.
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The movie has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4XfcGPpQI&feature=related "Key of Heart"]] as its Japanese theme and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xog20ur2I "People Say"]] as its Korean theme. Both were sung by BoA, Music/{{BoA|Korea}}, who was the voice of Heather the opossum in both versions, making this a DoItYourselfThemeTune.
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* AxCrazy: Gladys. Is willing to risk arrest to kill a small group of animals, demands that they be killed as ''in''humanely as possible, and starts resisting arrest when she's arrested for something that the exterminator ''warned'' her was illegal and seems to be extremely surprised that she's being arrested at all.
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* AxCrazy: Gladys. Is willing to risk arrest to kill a small group of animals, demands that they be killed as ''in''humanely as possible, and starts resisting arrest when she's arrested for something that the exterminator had ''warned'' her was illegal and seems to be extremely surprised that she's being arrested detained at all.all. Sounds like someone [[TooDumbToLive too dumb to think clearly]].
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* CatStereotype: Tiger the Persian/Himalayan cat is snooty and standoffish.
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* CompanionCube: Subverted. "Steve" the hedge is ''really scary'' to Verne and company.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Gladys Sharp is a Corrupt Homeowners' Association President (we never do learn what her day job is). She crosses the line after buying an exterminator system that (according to Dwayne) "is illegal in every state, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas except Texas]]." And then when she's arrested, she starts fighting the police officers, getting herself in even more trouble.
* CompanionCube: Subverted. "Steve" the hedge is ''really scary'' to Verne and company.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Gladys Sharp is a Corrupt Homeowners' Association President (we never do learn what her day job is). She crosses the line after buying an exterminator system that (according to Dwayne) "is illegal in every state, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas except Texas]]." And then when she's arrested, she starts fighting the police officers, getting herself in even more trouble.
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** RJ warning Hammy that the last thing he needed was caffeine.
caffeine. Guess what Hammy uses to activate the Depelter Turbo?
* CompanionCube: Subverted. "Steve" the hedge is ''really scary'' to Verne andcompany.
company. They accidentally mistake it as talking when they overhear a mother scolding her son on the other side of the hedge.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Gladys Sharp is a Corrupt Homeowners' Association President (we never do learn what her day job is). She crosses the line after buying an exterminator system that (according to Dwayne) "is illegal in every state, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas except Texas]]." And then when she's arrested, she starts fighting the police officers, getting herself in even moretrouble.trouble, since now the cops can add resisting arrest to all the criminal charges she'll be facing, which might also include animal cruelty.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Gladys Sharp is a Corrupt Homeowners' Association President (we never do learn what her day job is). She crosses the line after buying an exterminator system that (according to Dwayne) "is illegal in every state, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas except Texas]]." And then when she's arrested, she starts fighting the police officers, getting herself in even more
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* DiabolusExMachina: Hilariously done. At one point, RJ, Verne and the snack wagon are high in the air (ItMakesSenseInContext) and falling. Fortunately, there was an umbrella on the top, so they rode it down. While they do so, some chips fly out of their can. However, the snack wagon crashed onto Gladys's car so hard, it created an explosion, which launched the chips back in the air. Not only did the chips impale the umbrella, the fire they picked up from the explosion burned the umbrella all together, leaving them no choice but to [[IFellForHours fall all the way back to earth]].
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* DiabolusExMachina: Hilariously done. At one point, RJ, Verne and the snack wagon are sent high in the air (ItMakesSenseInContext) because they are rocketed up a slide by a propane tank - high enough to be seen by a passenger jet flying by at cruising altitude - and falling. Fortunately, there was an umbrella on the top, so they rode it down. While they do so, some chips fly out of their can. However, the snack wagon crashed crashes onto Gladys's car so hard, hard (coupled with the fact that the wagon has a propane tank) that it created an explosion, causes a fireball to erupt, which launched launches the chips back in the air. Not only did do the chips impale the umbrella, the fire they picked up from the explosion burned burns the umbrella all together, leaving them no choice but to [[IFellForHours fall all the way back to earth]].
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* EverythingMakesAMushroom: Even opening a bag of the Doritos BrandX equivalent produces a mushroom cloud visible from space.
* FakeRabies: R.J. used whipped cream on Hammy to scare off some Girl Scouts and get their cookies.
* FakeRabies: R.J. used whipped cream on Hammy to scare off some Girl Scouts and get their cookies.
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* EverythingMakesAMushroom: Even opening a bag of the Doritos BrandX equivalent produces a mushroom cloud visible from space.
space that blankets the entire East Coast.
* FakeRabies: R.J. used whipped cream on Hammy to scare off some Girl Scouts and get their cookies. It is very effective as a scare strategy.
* FakeRabies: R.J. used whipped cream on Hammy to scare off some Girl Scouts and get their cookies. It is very effective as a scare strategy.
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* {{Lolcats}}: RJ breathes into a bag of '''OH-NO's''' when hyperventilating.
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* MonsterClown: "Scary clown!" (Okay, it's a monstrous bear descending with a clown balloon.)
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* MonsterClown: "Scary clown!" (Okay, it's Or, rather, a monstrous bear descending with on top of a clown balloon.)
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* WeCouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Verne tells RJ this had the end that all he had to do was ask -- [[TrueCompanions that's what families do]]. Though it's debatable if this really would have worked at any point, since he gained that family through deception in the first place.
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* WeCouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Verne tells RJ this had the end that all he had to do was ask -- [[TrueCompanions that's what families do]]. Though it's debatable if this really would have worked at any point, since he gained that family through deception in the first place.
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* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: Verne tells RJ this had the end that all he had to do was ask -- [[TrueCompanions that's what families do]]. Though it's debatable if this really would have worked at any point, since he gained that family through deception in the first place.
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* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: WeCouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Verne tells RJ this had the end that all he had to do was ask -- [[TrueCompanions that's what families do]]. Though it's debatable if this really would have worked at any point, since he gained that family through deception in the first place.
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**When Dwayne accidentally shoots the head off a plastic flamingo, he curses "Not again! Those things are so lifelike! Curse you, plastic moldsmen."
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***In fact, a trailer shows they were at one point going to be called "Jingles" (with the red can of Pringles Original, along with the Pringles face with a jester's hat).
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* DeathFromAbove: Inverted. [[spoiler: After the De-Pelter Turbo was activated with Gladys, Dwane, and Vincent the Bear inside it, its activation results in a large beam heading into space, also destroying a satellite, and the heat being hot enough to instantly create popcorn as well as burn the fur off Vincent.]]
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* DeathFromAbove: Inverted. [[spoiler: After the De-Pelter Turbo was activated with Gladys, Dwane, and Vincent the Bear inside it, its activation results in a large light beam heading into space, also destroying that shoots out of the atmosphere (taking out a satellite, passing satellite) and is actually visible from outside the Milky Way Galaxy, and the heat being hot enough to instantly create popcorn as well as burn the fur off Vincent.]]
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* EverythingMakesAMushroom: Including opening a bag of cheesy puffs.
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The movie has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jg_BG4wQjI "Key of Heart"]] as its Japanese theme and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xog20ur2I "People Say"]] as its Korean theme. Both were sung by BoA, who was the voice of Heather the opossum in both versions, making this a DoItYourselfThemeTune.
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* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The movie has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jg_BG4wQjI com/watch?v=ig4XfcGPpQI&feature=related "Key of Heart"]] as its Japanese theme and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xog20ur2I "People Say"]] as its Korean theme. Both were sung by BoA, who was the voice of Heather the opossum in both versions, making this a DoItYourselfThemeTune.
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''Over the Hedge'' is a 2006 film released by DreamworksAnimation and is based on [[ComicStrip/OverTheHedge the comic of the same name]].
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''Over the Hedge'' is a 2006 film released by DreamworksAnimation Creator/DreamWorksAnimation and is based on [[ComicStrip/OverTheHedge the comic of the same name]].
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* ScavengedPunk: RJ uses all materials taken from humans for surprising uses (special mention to his pocket fisherman grappling hook).
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: In-universe example: Verne keeps reminding everyone that he's a reptile, not an amphibian. (Dwayne gets it right, though, just by the smell.)
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* ChekhovsGun ChekhovsGun
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* DiabolusExMachina: Hilariously done. At one point, RJ, Verne and the snack wagon are high in the air ({{It Makes Sense In Context}}) and falling. Fortunately, there was an umbrella on the top, so they rode it down. While they do so, some chips fly out of their can. However, the snack wagon crashed onto Gladys's car so hard, it created an explosion, which launched the chips back in the air. Not only did the chips impale the umbrella, the fire they picked up from the explosion burned the umbrella all together, leaving them no choice but to [[{{IFellForHours}} fall all the way back to earth]].
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* DiabolusExMachina: Hilariously done. At one point, RJ, Verne and the snack wagon are high in the air ({{It Makes Sense In Context}}) (ItMakesSenseInContext) and falling. Fortunately, there was an umbrella on the top, so they rode it down. While they do so, some chips fly out of their can. However, the snack wagon crashed onto Gladys's car so hard, it created an explosion, which launched the chips back in the air. Not only did the chips impale the umbrella, the fire they picked up from the explosion burned the umbrella all together, leaving them no choice but to [[{{IFellForHours}} [[IFellForHours fall all the way back to earth]].
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* DinkyDrivers: The critters have to drive Dwayne's van after he gets knocked unconscious; the porcupine kids steer [[IKnowMortalKombat using skills acquired from playing]] ''[[CaptainErsatz Auto]] [[GrandTheftAuto Homicide 3]]''.
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* DinkyDrivers: The critters have to drive Dwayne's van after he gets knocked unconscious; the porcupine kids steer [[IKnowMortalKombat using skills acquired from playing]] ''[[CaptainErsatz Auto]] [[GrandTheftAuto [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto Homicide 3]]''.
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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Anyone ever noticed how girly RJ's screams can be? For instance, the scene where Verne and RJ plummet to the ground after their umbrella was burned up.
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* TrueCompanions: The animals. There are two friends-as-family groups involved: a father and daughter (Ozzie and Heather) and a nuclear family (the porcupines).
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The very universe of the movie. RJ doesn't even have to [[Manga/DeathNote eat a bag of potato chips]] for it to be epic. He only needs to ''open it'', [[DistantReactionShot causing a mushroom cloud of nacho cheese dust the size of a continent]].
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** The very universe of the movie. RJ doesn't even have to [[Manga/DeathNote eat a bag of potato chips]] for it to be epic. He only needs to ''open it'', [[DistantReactionShot causing a mushroom cloud of nacho cheese dust the size of a continent]].
** Verne tries to insist tree bark is "satisfying", and just as tasty as doughnuts and chips.
** The very universe of the movie. RJ doesn't even have to [[Manga/DeathNote eat a bag of potato chips]] for it to be epic. He only needs to ''open it'', [[DistantReactionShot causing a mushroom cloud of nacho cheese dust the size of a continent]].
** Verne tries to insist tree bark is "satisfying", and just as tasty as doughnuts and chips.
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** The very universe of the movie. RJ doesn't even have to [[Manga/DeathNote eat a bag of potato chips]] for it to be epic. He only needs to ''open it'', [[DistantReactionShot causing a mushroom cloud of nacho cheese dust]] [[BeyondTheImpossible dust the size of a continent]].
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-->'''Hammy:''' Just like Khan in ''[[StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Star Trek II]]''! The Genesis project was in the hands of the Enterprise, but Khan had his perfect plan to steal the invention of renewable life!
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-->'''Hammy:''' Just like Khan in ''[[StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Star ''Film/{{Star Trek II]]''! II|TheWrathOfKhan}}''! The Genesis project was in the hands of the Enterprise, but Khan had his perfect plan to steal the invention of renewable life!
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''Over the Hedge'' is a 2006 film released by DreamworksAnimation and is based on [[ComicStrip/OverTheHedge the comic of the same name]].
It follows the adventure of a handful of woodland animals: a turtle named Verne; a raccoon, RJ; and Hammy, a squirrel are a few of them. The animals have to deal with their home being turned into suburbs. In 2006 an animated film based on the comic was released by Dreamworks Animation. It starred BruceWillis as RJ, SteveCarell as Hammy, and Garry Shandling as Verne. The plot of the movie involves Verne and the others as RJ gives them their first introduction to the neighborhood that has been constructed around their home, accidentally taking over Verne's role as leader. In truth, he's just using them to gather food for a bear whose winter reserves he accidentally destroyed.
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!!The ''Film/OverTheHedge'' film contains examples of:
* AbsurdlyBrightLight: The Depelter Turbo's activation causes tans, pops popcorn, and can be seen from space.
* ActorAllusion:
** When things go bad for RJ, he goes into a planning monologue, just like [[Film/DieHard John McClane]] does all the time.
** Ozzy is an overacting LargeHam when it comes to playing dead. Did we mention he's voiced by WilliamShatner?
** Hammy suggests that they name the hedge Steve, which was a rather cute nod to his voice actor SteveCarell.
--> '''Hammy:''' Let's call it Steve!
--> '''Verne:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Steve?]]
--> '''Hammy:''' It's a pretty name.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The movie has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jg_BG4wQjI "Key of Heart"]] as its Japanese theme and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xog20ur2I "People Say"]] as its Korean theme. Both were sung by BoA, who was the voice of Heather the opossum in both versions, making this a DoItYourselfThemeTune.
* AnimalStereotypes: Squirrel, raccoon, turtles, and others are played straight. Subverted with the playful, (overly) friendly rottweiler.
* AxCrazy: Gladys. Is willing to risk arrest to kill a small group of animals, demands that they be killed as ''in''humanely as possible, and starts resisting arrest when she's arrested for something that the exterminator ''warned'' her was illegal and seems to be extremely surprised that she's being arrested at all.
* BannedInChina: Banned due to its "deception of free world."
* BeautifulAllAlong: Subverted when Stella actually needs a make-over to become very beautiful and seduce a pedigree cat. Becomes a a DoubleSubversion; Tiger doesn't care that she's a skunk or what she really looks like, he loves her anyway.
* BrandX: All the junk foods seen in the film are fictional brands, a surprising aversion of the expected ProductPlacement.
* BrickJoke: At the start of the film, Hammy says he buried some nuts in the woods and runs off to find them. At the end of the film, he finds them... and there were apparently enough to fill ''the whole log.''
** Also, the cookie that RJ says is junk, but Hammy wants. [[spoiler: Hammy is able to pick it up during his FTL jaunt.]]
* BrokenAesop: Stealing is all right, as long as you don't take more than you need.
** Well, hardly...RJ's stealing got him into trouble in the first place, and ended up nearly taking his new friends down with him. It's more "don't get in over your head", though the 'official' lesson would be "family is the 'Gateway to the Good Life'".
* BuffySpeak: Heather
-->"We, like, worked our tails off, y'know? Like a lot! And the food we gathered was totally... you know! And you're, you're all whatever!"
* CaffeineBulletTime: Hammy. He's normally so fast it's [[FlashStep almost teleporting]], but with one Jolt-style double-caffeinated soda, ''he can out'''walk''' lasers''. That's right, an [[FasterThanLightTravel FTL]] squirrel.
* CastingGag: During the credits, the cast watches TV.
-->'''Hammy:''' Just like Khan in ''[[StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Star Trek II]]''! The Genesis project was in the hands of the Enterprise, but Khan had his perfect plan to steal the invention of renewable life!
-->'''Verne:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Well, that was incredibly specific.]]
* CatStereotype: Tiger the Persian/Himalayan cat is snooty and standoffish.
* ChekhovsGun
** A throwaway line from Tiger about his breed having such a flat muzzle that it can lead to trouble breathing. [[spoiler:In his case, it's left him without a sense of smell.]]
** RJ warning Hammy that the last thing he needed was caffeine.
* CompanionCube: Subverted. "Steve" the hedge is ''really scary'' to Verne and company.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Gladys Sharp is a Corrupt Homeowners' Association President (we never do learn what her day job is). She crosses the line after buying an exterminator system that (according to Dwayne) "is illegal in every state, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas except Texas]]." And then when she's arrested, she starts fighting the police officers, getting herself in even more trouble.
* DeathFromAbove: Inverted. [[spoiler: After the De-Pelter Turbo was activated with Gladys, Dwane, and Vincent the Bear inside it, its activation results in a large beam heading into space, also destroying a satellite, and the heat being hot enough to instantly create popcorn as well as burn the fur off Vincent.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Hilariously done. At one point, RJ, Verne and the snack wagon are high in the air ({{It Makes Sense In Context}}) and falling. Fortunately, there was an umbrella on the top, so they rode it down. While they do so, some chips fly out of their can. However, the snack wagon crashed onto Gladys's car so hard, it created an explosion, which launched the chips back in the air. Not only did the chips impale the umbrella, the fire they picked up from the explosion burned the umbrella all together, leaving them no choice but to [[{{IFellForHours}} fall all the way back to earth]].
* DidNotDoTheResearch: In-universe example: Verne keeps reminding everyone that he's a reptile, not an amphibian. (Dwayne gets it right, though, just by the smell.)
* DinkyDrivers: The critters have to drive Dwayne's van after he gets knocked unconscious; the porcupine kids steer [[IKnowMortalKombat using skills acquired from playing]] ''[[CaptainErsatz Auto]] [[GrandTheftAuto Homicide 3]]''.
* DistantReactionShot: To the point of RunningGag. Several of them involving space.
* EverythingsNuttierWithSquirrels: Hammy.
* DuelingMovies: ''OpenSeason''.
* EverythingMakesAMushroom: Including opening a bag of cheesy puffs.
* FakeRabies: R.J. used whipped cream on Hammy to scare off some Girl Scouts and get their cookies.
* {{GASP}}: The gang, a few times, during Stella's encounter with Tiger.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In one quick shot during the major heist, from outside (where she's distracting the house owner's cat) Stella stands up from off-camera when she's startled by a crash, with some of her 'make-up' messed up while Tiger sits up after her with a dazed, goofy expression.
** The cork. Dear God, the cork.
** "You wanna help me find my nuts?"
*** Which, incredibly, is ''tamer'' than what they were originally going to go with:
--> '''Hammy:''' You wanna see what I do with my nuts?
* HandOrObjectUnderwear: Verne with a Cookie.
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Their Own Petard]]: Gladys Sharp and Dwayne [=LaFontant=] set up an illegal trap in her house to get rid of unwanted animals. [[spoiler: Hammy later activates the trap and trapping Gladys, Dwayne, and Vincent the Black Bear in the trap.]]
* HopeSpot: A particularly funny one, when the Spuddies survive a tremendous fall (even landing in a perfect column), causing RJ to gasp in joy. It's short lived when the decimated shopping cart and umbrella fall and crush it.
* HumansAreBastards: The only two major human characters in the movie are really nasty.
* HyperventilationBag: RJ does this once.
* InterspeciesRomance: Stella and [[spoiler: Tiger]], who conveniently has no sense of smell.
* {{Jerkass}}: RJ again. The filmmakers actually had a difficult time making RJ deserving of sympathy, even revising or adding scenes just to make him less of a jerk. Even Vincent called RJ's major jerk move "the most vicious, deceitful, self-serving thing [he'd] ever seen". However, at the end of the movie, he turns out to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* KarmaHoudini: Subverted with Dwayne [=LaFontant=]: [[spoiler: While Gladys Sharp and Dwayne [=LaFontant=] are being arrested by the police for their illegal trap that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard they got themselves caught inside with some help from Hammy]], and in the case of Vincent, sent to a wildlife shelter, Dwayne [=LaFontant=] tried to escape while exploiting Glady's attempt at fighting a Police Officer, and succeeded in going over the fence... only for him to step on a squeaker and presumably end up tackled by Nugant the Playful Rottweiler.]]
* KickTheDog: Verne has one of these moments later into the movie, [[spoiler: calling his friends "too stupid and naive", and while floundering around for a more tactful way of calling them too innocent to know better than to listen to RJ, "ignorant"]].
* LargeHam: Ozzie, played by ''WilliamShatner''. His character is a possum. They play dead. Think about that.
* {{Lolcats}}: RJ breathes into a bag of '''OH-NO's''' when hyperventilating.
* ManipulativeBastard: RJ has most of the characteristics of one.
* MonsterClown: "Scary clown!" (Okay, it's a monstrous bear descending with a clown balloon.)
* MoodSwinger: RJ. In one scene he goes from relaxed, to panic, to shame then to ''extremely panicked'' in the span of ten seconds.
* MotorMouth: Hammy, combined with being a CloudCuckooLander.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: RJ, after he sees the traps Gladys and Dwayne have set for the gang.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Verne's tail.
* NeverSayDie: Averted hard several times--Vincent outright says he's going to kill RJ, or RJ and his friends, or that he was on his way to kill RJ. Gladys insists that the animals get "disposed of as inhumanely as possible", and Heather says, "I don't wanna die, Dad, not for real."
* NonFatalExplosions: The De-Pelter Turbo produces quite the fireball for a machine that just leaves its victims hairless. There's even a beam of light from the device that takes out a passing satellite, and is visible on the ''galactic level!'' Yet it's still non-lethal ''somehow''.
** Well, you do have to prepare for a lot of ''stinging''.
* NoodleIncident: The ''Weedhacker Incident''. [[spoiler:RJ made it up, but still.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Vincent tells this to RJ (see Jerkass) which completes his HeelFaceTurn.
* OhCrap:
** "What ''is'' this place?!"
** Don't forget Dwayne's reaction when he realizes that the 'Depelter Turbo' is about to go off with him, Gladys and Vincent all on the receiving end.
* OverlyLongGag: "Now, the traps are set here...here...here...here...here....here...here...here...here...here...and here...here...here...here...here...big one here...here...and maybe a few over here."\\
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According to the director commentary, they just decided to "keep going until it's funny, and then ''keep going some more."''
* PassThePopcorn: RJ and Verne share some popcorn watching the Depelter Turbo, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny which they popped ''using the heat coming off it'']].
* PokemonSpeak: Nugent.
* ProductPlacement: Averted with the ''Pringles'' but played [[LargeHam DEADLY STRAIGHT]] with the ''THX''. And they're not even trying to be subtle.
** Subverted with the fact that the producers ''wanted'' them to be Pringles, but the Pringles company declined to allow their snack to be in the film. Hence, "Spuddies" were born.
** The chip that RJ shows to the group is unmistakably Dorito-shaped.
* SassyBlackWoman: Stella the skunk has a lot of sass and also her voice actor Wanda Sykes who often plays this role help her sound more like a sassy black women.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Anyone ever noticed how girly RJ's screams can be? For instance, the scene where Verne and RJ plummet to the ground after their umbrella was burned up.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Stella, who's amazement is a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, since she spends all of the film up til then resigned to her unattractiveness.
* ShoutOut:
** When Stella runs away from her new cat friend, Tiger, he shouts 'Stella!' in a reference to AStreetcarNamedDesire.
** Is it possible that the makeover scene [[HowStellaGotHerGrooveBack got Stella her groove back?]]
** Ozzie whispering [[Film/CitizenKane "Rosebud,"]] right before playing dead.
** ''[[GrandTheftAuto Auto Homicide III]]''!
** You know the column of light at the end which appears when the exterminator's machine backfires on its creator? Looks like ''TheFifthElement'', another movie including Bruce Willis .
** That [[http://i40.tinypic.com/15p3gq8.png mask]] they put on Vincent before they cart him off looks [[Main/TheSilenceOfTheLambs extremely familiar...]]
* ShowSomeLeg: Stella is given a make-over by RJ so that they can implement her "feminine charms" (cue makeover montage) to [[DistractedByTheSexy distract]] Tiger the Persian cat by passing her off as a beautiful stray cat.
* SoProudOfYou: Ozzie to his daughter [[spoiler: when she fools even ''him'' into thinking she's dead.]]
-->'''Ozzie:''' ''(warmly)'' That's my girl.
* StellarName: Stella, of course.
* TheStinger: [[spoiler: The [[FanNickname Hedgies]] go back to the vending machine RJ was raiding at the start of the film to get more food for the log. They actually get all the snacks this time...[[YankTheDogsChain but there are so many the vending machine slot can't be budged.]] [[LampshadeHanging "Kinda anti-climactic, huh?"]] "Shoot!"]]
* ThisIsGonnaSuck:
** Dwayne faced with the Depelter Turbo. "Prepare for a lot of stinging!"
** Also, when RJ and Verne's patio umbrella parachute is burned to a crisp. Verne gives RJ a withering look and simply says "You're the devil." RJ prefers to scream as they plummet to earth.
* TakeThat: After viewing a talk-show featuring a Dr. Phil analogue, who tells his subject to admit to being a "dirtbag," Lou the Porcupine remarks, "You know, I don't think that guy is a real doctor."
* TrueCompanions: The animals. There are two friends-as-family groups involved: a father and daughter (Ozzie and Heather) and a nuclear family (the porcupines).
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: Verne tells RJ this had the end that all he had to do was ask -- [[TrueCompanions that's what families do]]. Though it's debatable if this really would have worked at any point, since he gained that family through deception in the first place.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: RJ has a tendency to do this when [[OhCrap he realizes he's screwed.]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome:
** The very universe of the movie. RJ doesn't even have to [[Manga/DeathNote eat a bag of potato chips]] for it to be epic. He only needs to ''open it'', [[DistantReactionShot causing a mushroom cloud of nacho cheese dust]] [[BeyondTheImpossible the size of a continent]].
** Verne tries to insist tree bark is "satisfying", and just as tasty as doughnuts and chips.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Vincent congratulates RJ on his treachery, prompting RJ to go back to save his friends.
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''Over the Hedge'' is a 2006 film released by DreamworksAnimation and is based on [[ComicStrip/OverTheHedge the comic of the same name]].
It follows the adventure of a handful of woodland animals: a turtle named Verne; a raccoon, RJ; and Hammy, a squirrel are a few of them. The animals have to deal with their home being turned into suburbs. In 2006 an animated film based on the comic was released by Dreamworks Animation. It starred BruceWillis as RJ, SteveCarell as Hammy, and Garry Shandling as Verne. The plot of the movie involves Verne and the others as RJ gives them their first introduction to the neighborhood that has been constructed around their home, accidentally taking over Verne's role as leader. In truth, he's just using them to gather food for a bear whose winter reserves he accidentally destroyed.
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!!The ''Film/OverTheHedge'' film contains examples of:
* AbsurdlyBrightLight: The Depelter Turbo's activation causes tans, pops popcorn, and can be seen from space.
* ActorAllusion:
** When things go bad for RJ, he goes into a planning monologue, just like [[Film/DieHard John McClane]] does all the time.
** Ozzy is an overacting LargeHam when it comes to playing dead. Did we mention he's voiced by WilliamShatner?
** Hammy suggests that they name the hedge Steve, which was a rather cute nod to his voice actor SteveCarell.
--> '''Hammy:''' Let's call it Steve!
--> '''Verne:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Steve?]]
--> '''Hammy:''' It's a pretty name.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The movie has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jg_BG4wQjI "Key of Heart"]] as its Japanese theme and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xog20ur2I "People Say"]] as its Korean theme. Both were sung by BoA, who was the voice of Heather the opossum in both versions, making this a DoItYourselfThemeTune.
* AnimalStereotypes: Squirrel, raccoon, turtles, and others are played straight. Subverted with the playful, (overly) friendly rottweiler.
* AxCrazy: Gladys. Is willing to risk arrest to kill a small group of animals, demands that they be killed as ''in''humanely as possible, and starts resisting arrest when she's arrested for something that the exterminator ''warned'' her was illegal and seems to be extremely surprised that she's being arrested at all.
* BannedInChina: Banned due to its "deception of free world."
* BeautifulAllAlong: Subverted when Stella actually needs a make-over to become very beautiful and seduce a pedigree cat. Becomes a a DoubleSubversion; Tiger doesn't care that she's a skunk or what she really looks like, he loves her anyway.
* BrandX: All the junk foods seen in the film are fictional brands, a surprising aversion of the expected ProductPlacement.
* BrickJoke: At the start of the film, Hammy says he buried some nuts in the woods and runs off to find them. At the end of the film, he finds them... and there were apparently enough to fill ''the whole log.''
** Also, the cookie that RJ says is junk, but Hammy wants. [[spoiler: Hammy is able to pick it up during his FTL jaunt.]]
* BrokenAesop: Stealing is all right, as long as you don't take more than you need.
** Well, hardly...RJ's stealing got him into trouble in the first place, and ended up nearly taking his new friends down with him. It's more "don't get in over your head", though the 'official' lesson would be "family is the 'Gateway to the Good Life'".
* BuffySpeak: Heather
-->"We, like, worked our tails off, y'know? Like a lot! And the food we gathered was totally... you know! And you're, you're all whatever!"
* CaffeineBulletTime: Hammy. He's normally so fast it's [[FlashStep almost teleporting]], but with one Jolt-style double-caffeinated soda, ''he can out'''walk''' lasers''. That's right, an [[FasterThanLightTravel FTL]] squirrel.
* CastingGag: During the credits, the cast watches TV.
-->'''Hammy:''' Just like Khan in ''[[StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Star Trek II]]''! The Genesis project was in the hands of the Enterprise, but Khan had his perfect plan to steal the invention of renewable life!
-->'''Verne:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Well, that was incredibly specific.]]
* CatStereotype: Tiger the Persian/Himalayan cat is snooty and standoffish.
* ChekhovsGun
** A throwaway line from Tiger about his breed having such a flat muzzle that it can lead to trouble breathing. [[spoiler:In his case, it's left him without a sense of smell.]]
** RJ warning Hammy that the last thing he needed was caffeine.
* CompanionCube: Subverted. "Steve" the hedge is ''really scary'' to Verne and company.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Gladys Sharp is a Corrupt Homeowners' Association President (we never do learn what her day job is). She crosses the line after buying an exterminator system that (according to Dwayne) "is illegal in every state, [[EverythingIsBigInTexas except Texas]]." And then when she's arrested, she starts fighting the police officers, getting herself in even more trouble.
* DeathFromAbove: Inverted. [[spoiler: After the De-Pelter Turbo was activated with Gladys, Dwane, and Vincent the Bear inside it, its activation results in a large beam heading into space, also destroying a satellite, and the heat being hot enough to instantly create popcorn as well as burn the fur off Vincent.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Hilariously done. At one point, RJ, Verne and the snack wagon are high in the air ({{It Makes Sense In Context}}) and falling. Fortunately, there was an umbrella on the top, so they rode it down. While they do so, some chips fly out of their can. However, the snack wagon crashed onto Gladys's car so hard, it created an explosion, which launched the chips back in the air. Not only did the chips impale the umbrella, the fire they picked up from the explosion burned the umbrella all together, leaving them no choice but to [[{{IFellForHours}} fall all the way back to earth]].
* DidNotDoTheResearch: In-universe example: Verne keeps reminding everyone that he's a reptile, not an amphibian. (Dwayne gets it right, though, just by the smell.)
* DinkyDrivers: The critters have to drive Dwayne's van after he gets knocked unconscious; the porcupine kids steer [[IKnowMortalKombat using skills acquired from playing]] ''[[CaptainErsatz Auto]] [[GrandTheftAuto Homicide 3]]''.
* DistantReactionShot: To the point of RunningGag. Several of them involving space.
* EverythingsNuttierWithSquirrels: Hammy.
* DuelingMovies: ''OpenSeason''.
* EverythingMakesAMushroom: Including opening a bag of cheesy puffs.
* FakeRabies: R.J. used whipped cream on Hammy to scare off some Girl Scouts and get their cookies.
* {{GASP}}: The gang, a few times, during Stella's encounter with Tiger.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In one quick shot during the major heist, from outside (where she's distracting the house owner's cat) Stella stands up from off-camera when she's startled by a crash, with some of her 'make-up' messed up while Tiger sits up after her with a dazed, goofy expression.
** The cork. Dear God, the cork.
** "You wanna help me find my nuts?"
*** Which, incredibly, is ''tamer'' than what they were originally going to go with:
--> '''Hammy:''' You wanna see what I do with my nuts?
* HandOrObjectUnderwear: Verne with a Cookie.
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Their Own Petard]]: Gladys Sharp and Dwayne [=LaFontant=] set up an illegal trap in her house to get rid of unwanted animals. [[spoiler: Hammy later activates the trap and trapping Gladys, Dwayne, and Vincent the Black Bear in the trap.]]
* HopeSpot: A particularly funny one, when the Spuddies survive a tremendous fall (even landing in a perfect column), causing RJ to gasp in joy. It's short lived when the decimated shopping cart and umbrella fall and crush it.
* HumansAreBastards: The only two major human characters in the movie are really nasty.
* HyperventilationBag: RJ does this once.
* InterspeciesRomance: Stella and [[spoiler: Tiger]], who conveniently has no sense of smell.
* {{Jerkass}}: RJ again. The filmmakers actually had a difficult time making RJ deserving of sympathy, even revising or adding scenes just to make him less of a jerk. Even Vincent called RJ's major jerk move "the most vicious, deceitful, self-serving thing [he'd] ever seen". However, at the end of the movie, he turns out to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* KarmaHoudini: Subverted with Dwayne [=LaFontant=]: [[spoiler: While Gladys Sharp and Dwayne [=LaFontant=] are being arrested by the police for their illegal trap that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard they got themselves caught inside with some help from Hammy]], and in the case of Vincent, sent to a wildlife shelter, Dwayne [=LaFontant=] tried to escape while exploiting Glady's attempt at fighting a Police Officer, and succeeded in going over the fence... only for him to step on a squeaker and presumably end up tackled by Nugant the Playful Rottweiler.]]
* KickTheDog: Verne has one of these moments later into the movie, [[spoiler: calling his friends "too stupid and naive", and while floundering around for a more tactful way of calling them too innocent to know better than to listen to RJ, "ignorant"]].
* LargeHam: Ozzie, played by ''WilliamShatner''. His character is a possum. They play dead. Think about that.
* {{Lolcats}}: RJ breathes into a bag of '''OH-NO's''' when hyperventilating.
* ManipulativeBastard: RJ has most of the characteristics of one.
* MonsterClown: "Scary clown!" (Okay, it's a monstrous bear descending with a clown balloon.)
* MoodSwinger: RJ. In one scene he goes from relaxed, to panic, to shame then to ''extremely panicked'' in the span of ten seconds.
* MotorMouth: Hammy, combined with being a CloudCuckooLander.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: RJ, after he sees the traps Gladys and Dwayne have set for the gang.
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Verne's tail.
* NeverSayDie: Averted hard several times--Vincent outright says he's going to kill RJ, or RJ and his friends, or that he was on his way to kill RJ. Gladys insists that the animals get "disposed of as inhumanely as possible", and Heather says, "I don't wanna die, Dad, not for real."
* NonFatalExplosions: The De-Pelter Turbo produces quite the fireball for a machine that just leaves its victims hairless. There's even a beam of light from the device that takes out a passing satellite, and is visible on the ''galactic level!'' Yet it's still non-lethal ''somehow''.
** Well, you do have to prepare for a lot of ''stinging''.
* NoodleIncident: The ''Weedhacker Incident''. [[spoiler:RJ made it up, but still.]]
* NotSoDifferent: Vincent tells this to RJ (see Jerkass) which completes his HeelFaceTurn.
* OhCrap:
** "What ''is'' this place?!"
** Don't forget Dwayne's reaction when he realizes that the 'Depelter Turbo' is about to go off with him, Gladys and Vincent all on the receiving end.
* OverlyLongGag: "Now, the traps are set here...here...here...here...here....here...here...here...here...here...and here...here...here...here...here...big one here...here...and maybe a few over here."\\
\\
According to the director commentary, they just decided to "keep going until it's funny, and then ''keep going some more."''
* PassThePopcorn: RJ and Verne share some popcorn watching the Depelter Turbo, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny which they popped ''using the heat coming off it'']].
* PokemonSpeak: Nugent.
* ProductPlacement: Averted with the ''Pringles'' but played [[LargeHam DEADLY STRAIGHT]] with the ''THX''. And they're not even trying to be subtle.
** Subverted with the fact that the producers ''wanted'' them to be Pringles, but the Pringles company declined to allow their snack to be in the film. Hence, "Spuddies" were born.
** The chip that RJ shows to the group is unmistakably Dorito-shaped.
* SassyBlackWoman: Stella the skunk has a lot of sass and also her voice actor Wanda Sykes who often plays this role help her sound more like a sassy black women.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Anyone ever noticed how girly RJ's screams can be? For instance, the scene where Verne and RJ plummet to the ground after their umbrella was burned up.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Stella, who's amazement is a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, since she spends all of the film up til then resigned to her unattractiveness.
* ShoutOut:
** When Stella runs away from her new cat friend, Tiger, he shouts 'Stella!' in a reference to AStreetcarNamedDesire.
** Is it possible that the makeover scene [[HowStellaGotHerGrooveBack got Stella her groove back?]]
** Ozzie whispering [[Film/CitizenKane "Rosebud,"]] right before playing dead.
** ''[[GrandTheftAuto Auto Homicide III]]''!
** You know the column of light at the end which appears when the exterminator's machine backfires on its creator? Looks like ''TheFifthElement'', another movie including Bruce Willis .
** That [[http://i40.tinypic.com/15p3gq8.png mask]] they put on Vincent before they cart him off looks [[Main/TheSilenceOfTheLambs extremely familiar...]]
* ShowSomeLeg: Stella is given a make-over by RJ so that they can implement her "feminine charms" (cue makeover montage) to [[DistractedByTheSexy distract]] Tiger the Persian cat by passing her off as a beautiful stray cat.
* SoProudOfYou: Ozzie to his daughter [[spoiler: when she fools even ''him'' into thinking she's dead.]]
-->'''Ozzie:''' ''(warmly)'' That's my girl.
* StellarName: Stella, of course.
* TheStinger: [[spoiler: The [[FanNickname Hedgies]] go back to the vending machine RJ was raiding at the start of the film to get more food for the log. They actually get all the snacks this time...[[YankTheDogsChain but there are so many the vending machine slot can't be budged.]] [[LampshadeHanging "Kinda anti-climactic, huh?"]] "Shoot!"]]
* ThisIsGonnaSuck:
** Dwayne faced with the Depelter Turbo. "Prepare for a lot of stinging!"
** Also, when RJ and Verne's patio umbrella parachute is burned to a crisp. Verne gives RJ a withering look and simply says "You're the devil." RJ prefers to scream as they plummet to earth.
* TakeThat: After viewing a talk-show featuring a Dr. Phil analogue, who tells his subject to admit to being a "dirtbag," Lou the Porcupine remarks, "You know, I don't think that guy is a real doctor."
* TrueCompanions: The animals. There are two friends-as-family groups involved: a father and daughter (Ozzie and Heather) and a nuclear family (the porcupines).
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: Verne tells RJ this had the end that all he had to do was ask -- [[TrueCompanions that's what families do]]. Though it's debatable if this really would have worked at any point, since he gained that family through deception in the first place.
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: RJ has a tendency to do this when [[OhCrap he realizes he's screwed.]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome:
** The very universe of the movie. RJ doesn't even have to [[Manga/DeathNote eat a bag of potato chips]] for it to be epic. He only needs to ''open it'', [[DistantReactionShot causing a mushroom cloud of nacho cheese dust]] [[BeyondTheImpossible the size of a continent]].
** Verne tries to insist tree bark is "satisfying", and just as tasty as doughnuts and chips.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Vincent congratulates RJ on his treachery, prompting RJ to go back to save his friends.
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