History YMMV / LittleMissSunshine

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The dinner scene, with Richard telling Olive that ice cream will make her obese. Sure, he thinks about his daughter's health. Still, he is fatshaming a 7-years old little girl.

* UnintentionnallyUnsympathetic: The dinner scene, with Richard telling Olive that ice cream will make her obese. Sure, he thinks about his daughter's health. Still, he is fatshaming a 7-years old little girl.

** Probably intentional with the pageant announcer, who gave off a majorly creepy vibe.

*** In ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'', he voices Susumu Kodai, who [[spoiler:not only is a member of the armed forces, he also flies as well, and in the sequel, he became the captain of the titular ''Yamato'']].

* WhatAnIdiot: Frank, considering the whole family is in a hurry to make it to the pageant and there's already been enough delays like a [[spoiler:death on the trip]], maybe you can have ''waited'' until you've arrived at the destination before telling Dwayne that color-blind people can't be pilots. Mildly downplayed in that Dwayne clearly knew something was wrong, as seen by his panicked "What?" as he looks at Frank's face. Frank probably decided it would [[CruelToBeKind better to let him know rather than make him wait.]]

* MostAnnoyingSound: The van horn after it breaks.

* AngstWhatAngst: [[spoiler: After the "Super Freak" fiasco, the Hoovers are told that they're off the hook as long as Olive never enters any beauty pageants in California again. Ever. Their reaction is pretty much "That's okay with us." And really, after all the hell they went through to even get Olive to the pageant in the first place, you can't blame them.]]
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Olive's beauty-pageant performance: [[spoiler:an inappropriate and borderline erotic performance, set to the tune of "Super Freak", which, ironically, has her wearing ''more'' clothes than some of the other contestants.]]

* MostAnnoyingSound: The car horn when it's broken.

* CounterpartComparison: Dwayne can be compared to Kurt from ''Literature/ClariceBean'', another mopey teenager in a dysfunctional family.

* {{Squick}}: The beauty contest.
** Which goes into NightmareFuel if you consider that those girls all ''were'' real-life beauty pageant contestants and those ''were'' their real contest performances (minus Olive's, of course). To be fair, though, some of the girls' mothers insisted that things like the leg waxing were made up.
** Still depressingly TruthInTelevision.

* WhatAnIdiot: Frank, considering the whole family is in a hurry to make it to the pageant and there's already been enough delays like a [[spoiler:death on the trip]], maybe you can have ''waited'' until you've arrived at the destination before telling Dwayne that color-blind people can't be pilots.
** Mildly downplayed in that Dwayne clearly knew something was wrong, as seen by his panicked "What?" as he looks at Frank's face. Frank probably decided it would [[CruelToBeKind better to let him know rather than make him wait.]]
* TheWoobie: Olive. She is obviously not pageant material, but God bless her, she's so adorable and determined that you can't help but love her.

* RuleAbidingRebel: [[WordOfGod The film's creators]] seem to be nonplussed about their movie being interpreted as anti-establishment, satirical, or whatnot.

** Mildly downplayed in that Dwayne clearly knew something was wrong, as seen by his panicked "What?" as he looks at Frank's face. Frank probably decided it would [[CruelToBeKind better to let him know then rather than make him wait.]]

* MemeticMolester: The pageant announcer's creepy mannerisms and constant invasion of the pageant girls' personal space makes him come off as a pedophile.

* SignatureScene: Either Dwayne's AtomicFBomb or Olive's performance.

* ToughActToFollow: Dayton and Farris haven't directed another film for six years. Their next film, ''Film/RubySparks'', is about a writer who wrote a successful book in his late teens, but has been suffering from writer's block ever since.

** To be fair to Frank he didn't come straight out and say it at once, and Dwayne could tell he knew something was wrong and obviously wasn't going to just let the matter drop. There was really no way he ''could'' have put it off until a better moment, at that point.

** The beginning of the film is set at Albuquerque, has drugs as a sub-plot and stars Creator/BryanCranston (as an obnoxious business man) and Creator/DeanNorris (as a cop) in minor roles. Two years later, they'll headline [[Series/BreakingBad a TV show]] set in Albuquerque involving drugs as the main plot with the former portraying a teacher-turned-drug lord and the latter playing a high-ranking cop.

** The beginning of the film is set at Albuquerque, has drugs as a sub-plot and stars Creator/BryanCranston and Creator/DeanNorris (as ''a cop'') in minor roles. [[Series/BreakingBad Two years later, they'll headline a TV show set in Albuquerque involving drugs as the main plot with the latter playing a cop.]]
** The audience's reaction to Olive's dance number can be compared to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUdCVybeayE the backlash]] creator/AbigailBreslin met when she [[ShesAllGrownUp posed]] [[{{Fanservice}} sexy]] in 2013.

** To be fair to Frank, he didn't come straight out and say it right at the start, and Dwayne could tell he knew something was wrong and obviously wasn't going to just let the matter drop. There was really no way he ''could'' have put it off until a better moment at that point.

** To be fair to Frank, he didn't come straight out and say it right at the start; Dwayne could tell he knew something was wrong and obviously wasn't going to just let the matter drop. There was really no way he ''could'' have put it off until a better moment at that point.

** To be fair to Frank, he didn't come straight out and ''say'' it right at the start; Dwayne could tell he knew something was wrong and obviously wasn't going to just let the matter drop. There was really no way he ''could'' have put it off until a better moment.

** To be fair to Frank, he didn't come straight out and ''say'' it right at the start; Dwayne could ''tell'' he knew something was wrong and obviously wasn't going to just let the matter drop. There was really no way he ''could'' have put it off until a better moment.

** To be fair, he didn't come straight out and say it right at the start; Dwayne could ''tell'' he knew something was wrong and obviously wasn't going to just let the matter drop. There was no way he could have put it off until later.