History YMMV / BigDaddy

* HilariousInHindsight: The McDonald's scene will seem weird to future viewers since McDonald's started serving breakfast all day in 2015.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Sonny briefly hangs out with some of Julian's friends in the schoolyard, slyly questioning them to try to find out if they're "smoking dope" or "drinking rum." [[CaptainObvious They aren't.]] Unusual as this scene is the punchline from a previous scene. Layla mentionned that she heard one of the biggest influences on a child is who s/he hangs out with and the such, and then makes a joke about how she hopes Julian isn't hanging around drugheads at school. She sees his reaction, assuming it's concern, but the ensuing BLAM reveals it might be shame.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Sonny briefly hangs out with some of Julian's friends in the schoolyard, slyly questioning them to try to find out if they're "smoking dope" or "drinking rum." [[CaptainObvious They aren't.]] Unusual as this scene is the the punchline from a previous scene. Layla mentionned that she heard one of the biggest influences on a child is who s/he hangs out with and the such, and then makes a joke about how she hopes Julian isn't hanging around drugheads at school. She sees his reaction, assuming it's concern, but the ensuing BLAM reveals it might be shame.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In something of an ActorAllusion to his role in ''HappyGilmore'' (also directed by Dennis Dugan), Sonny plays golf on the putting green on the roof of Kevin's apartment and tries to conjure up good luck for himself by telling Kevin that if he sinks his shot, he and Vanessa will get back together. He does make the shot - but [[AnimalMotifs a huge rat]] immediately crawls out of the hole, and Kevin remarks, "That can't be good." Turns out, Sonny's belief ''did'' turn out to be true FromACertainPointOfView: he and Vanessa ''did'' get back together (as in, met each other briefly in Vanessa's new place)...but then a loathsome creature - Sid - came between them.
** Also, when Sonny shows up at the party for Kevin near the beginning of the film, all the other guests mistake him for Kevin and shout "Surprise!" at him (and are therefore much less enthused when the ''real'' Kevin arrives a minute later, causing Corinne to complain: "We wasted the good surprise on ''you''! and run into the bathroom to cry). After watching the film a few times, you start to realize that Sonny and Kevin ''do'' look a great deal alike except for their hairstyles and Sonny's slightly darker complexion, and this becomes FridgeBrilliance when you connect it to Sonny's scheme later in the film to impersonate Kevin in order to gain custody of Julian (and, indeed, the physical similarity just might have been the reason why Sonny thought the ruse would work in the first place). There's definitely a {{Doppelganger}} theme there, even if it's not as elaborate as anything employed by Shakespeare or Dickens.

* NeverLiveItDown: Sonny gleefully brings up that Corinne used to work at Hooters whenever he's around her, much to her chagrin.
** Not limited to Sonny. One of their friends pretty much makes her (and needlessly so, since her honest testimony was actually putting Sonny in a good light) admit in court, during testimony, that she used to work there while she was attending medical school.
---> '''Corrine''': ''[under her breath]'' Asshole...

** Played straight with Arthur Brooks. The social services agent who brings suit against Sonny for fraudulence and kidnapping appears to be heartless when he drags a frightened, begging Julian out of Sonny's apartment. However, he sincerely has Julian's best interests at heart and was right to bring Sonny to trial. And when [[spoiler: it appears that]] he is going to lose his case, instead of becoming bitter he is so moved by Sonny's testimony that he immediately takes out a cell phone and calls his own father (along with most of the rest of the cast).
** Similarly, the characters are aghast when the judge rules that Sonny is to be jailed for "kidnapping" Julian...which is more or less what he actually did.

** Not limited to Sonny. One of their friends pretty much makes her (and needlessly so) admit in court, during testimony, that she used to work there while she was attending medical school.

** Also, when Sonny shows up at the party for Kevin near the beginning of the film, all the other guests mistake him for Kevin and shout "Surprise!" at him (and are therefore much less enthused when the ''real'' Kevin arrives a minute later, causing Corinne to complain: "We wasted the good surprise on ''you''! and run into the bathroom to cry). After watching the film a few times, you start to realize that Sonny and Kevin ''do'' look a great deal alike except for their hairstyles and Sonny's slightly darker complexion, and this becomes FridgeBrilliance when you connect it to Sonny's scheme later in the film to impersonate Kevin in order to gain custody of Julian (and, indeed, the physical similarity just might have been the reason why Sonny thought the ruse would work in the first place).

* UnfortunateImplications: Of all the kids in the school for Sonny to hound over smoking dope, what's the ethnicity of his victim?

* DesignatedVillain: Arthur Brooks. He's just doing his job - and is completely justified in doing so - but in the context of the film he comes off as somewhat mean.
** Deliberately invoked. Sunny lied to him.

** Subverted with Vanessa. She is correct (at first) when complaining that Sonny is lazy, irresponsible, and doesn't want to grow up - a fact that Sonny himself is willing to admit by the movie's climax. However, she loses any audience sympathy after lying to Sonny and then having a secret affair with Sid.

** Similarly, the audience is supposed to be aghast when the judge rules that Sonny is to be jailed for "kidnapping" Julian...which is more or less what he actually did.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Sonny briefly hangs out with some of Julian's friends in the schoolyard, slyly questioning them to try to find out if they're "smoking dope" or "drinking rum." [[CaptainObvious They aren't.]]
** Though that was less of a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, and more of a punchline. In the previous scene, Layla mentionned that she heard one of the biggest influences on a child is who s/he hangs out with and the such, and then makes a joke about how she hopes Julian isn't hanging around with drugheads at school. She sees his reaction, assuming it's concern, but the ensuing BLAM reveals it might be shame.

* TearJerker:[[spoiler:"I want Sonny to be my daddy!"]] Dear ''God''.
** And any sequence in the movie set to ''Sweet Child of Mine''.
** "I won't play the Kangaroo Song anymore."

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Julian's kindergarten teacher gets one of the best lines. ("One of the children wore rollerblades for Show & Tell, and Julian ''tripped him'' with a ''stick''!")
** This dialogue:
--->'''Vanessa:''' He has a 5-year plan.\\
'''Sonny:''' What? "Don't die"?
** "I watched ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' a lot. And one day it just clicked."
** "Lasagna? What the hell's the matter with you?"
** More hilarious dialogue:
--->'''Cashier:''' We stop serving breakfast at 10:30.\\
'''Sonny:''' Oh horse shit!\\
''[Julian cries]''\\
'''Sonny:''' I wasn't cursing at you, I was cursing at the lady.
*** "WILL SOMEBODY GET THIS KID A HAPPY MEAL!?"
** "What's your name? He'll write it on the wall!"
** The random goth dude:
--->'''Sonny''': You're mad at your dad, not at me, I forgive you!\\
'''Goth''' ''(walking away and sobbing quietly)'': I am, I am, I hate my father ...
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The climactic courtroom scene, where Sonny and his dad reconcile and everybody calls their papa.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Julian has a crippling phobia of strangers, so Sonny has the boy wear a pair of [[CoolShades sunglasses]] that [[MagicFeather "turn him invisible" whenever he has to deal with a new person]]. At Sonny's trial, Julian at first has to wear the shades when he is called to the witness stand and questioned by Layla. However, he finally manages to gain so much confidence that he ''calmly reaches up and takes the shades off''.

** Subverted with Vanessa. She is correct (at first) when complaining that Sonny is lazy, irresponsible, and doesn't want to grow up - a fact that Sonny himself is willing to admit by the movie's climax. However, she loses any audience sympathy after lying to Sonny and then having a secret affair with Sid - and gets a subtle but undeniable KickTheDog moment when, during an argument with Sonny in her apartment, she harshly tells Sid to be quiet so she can do the talking.
** She might have told Sid to be quiet because he and Sonny just traded hostile remarks, namely Sonny threatening Sid, who snarked out an 'I'd like to see him try.'

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Julian has a crippling phobia of strangers, so Sonny has the boy wear a pair of [[CoolShades sunglasses]] that [[MagicFeather "turn him invisible" whenever he has to deal with a new person]]. At Sonny's trial, Julian at first has to wear the shades when he is called to the witness stand and questioned by Layla. However, he finally manages to gain so much confidence that he ''calmly reaches up and takes the shades off''.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Julian's kindergarten teacher gets one of the best lines. ("One of the children wore rollerblades for Show & Tell, and Julian ''tripped him'' with a ''stick''!")

-->'''Vanessa:''' He has a 5-year plan.\\

-->'''Cashier:''' We stop serving breakfast at 10:30.\\

-->'''Sonny''': You're mad at your dad, not at me, I forgive you!\\

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The climactic courtroom scene, where Sonny and his dad reconcile and everybody calls their papa.
* DesignatedVillain: Arthur Brooks. He's just doing his job - and is completely justified in doing so - but in the context of the film he comes off as somewhat mean.

* FridgeHorror:
** Every major character except for Lenny Koufax was probably still living in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Sure hope they're okay. (And of course, if this were [[{{Watchmen}} alternate 1985]], they'd all have been [[spoiler: vaporized by Ozymandias and Doctor Manhattan's nuclear warhead]].)
*** Maybe they weren't around at that point.
** What kind of pervert looks through his son's underwear drawer?
*** That would be the first place to hide drugs.