History YMMV / RatRace

** Also Randy, whose wife is willing to hit him and crash the car if he doesn't immediately do what he wants. Gotta wonder what their home life is like.

* TheWoobie: The entire Pear family outside of Randy, who forces them to experience a living Hell for the sake of winning the race. After spending the majority of the movie simply not telling them about ''why'' he's doing it, he drugs them when they refuse to continue following along after learning the truth. Special mention goes to poor Kimberly, who Randy forces to defecate out the window of a moving car because he won't pull over for a bathroom break.

* TheWoobie: The entire Pear family outside of Randy, who forces them to experience a living Hell for the sake of winning the race. After spending the majority of the movie simply not telling them about ''why'' he's doing it, he drugs them when they refuse to continue following along after learning the truth. Special mention goes to poor Kimberly, who Randy forces to defecate out the window of a moving car because he won't pull over for a bathroom break.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: There is a scene where one of the betting millionaires brings a prostitute to his room and tells her that he wants them to perform an increasingly weird sex-act (get naked, put on sailor-hats, relax in a hotter full of pesto bismal as he clips her nails and she shaves his ass). When she gets ahold of herself, she says that it will cost him $3000. Then suddenly, the rest of the rich betters come out of hiding, revealing that the whole thing was just another wager between them, guessing how much she would have charged for it.

** Randy and the Hitlermobile, full stop. It begins with a Jewish family accidentally going to a Nazi museum because it's advertised as a "Barbie" museum, and their daughter thinks it's for the doll and not the SS officer Klaus Barbie. When they leave and find another racer trashed their car, they steal Adolf Hitler's touring car the museum had on display outside. They get attacked by a biker gang, during which Randy smears lipstick on his upper lip to resemble a mustache and burns his tongue with a cigarette lighter so he can't talk properly. Finally, they drive the car through a fence into a World War II veteran celebration festival where Randy goes up on stage and tries to explain himself, but thanks to his burnt tongue his can only talk in garbled mumbles that sound vaguely German. Forget crossing the line twice, they're playing double dutch with it.[[note]]In addition to the jump rope variant, "Double Dutch" can also mean gibberish, including German-sounding gibberish like Charlie Chaplin used in ''Film/TheGreatDictator.''[[/note]]

* TheWoobie: The entire Pear family outside of Randy, who forces them to experience a living Hell for the sake of winning the race. After spending the majority of the movie simply not telling them about ''why'' he's doing it, he drugs them when they refuse to continue following along after learning the truth. Special mention goes to poor Kimberly, who he forces to defecate out the window of a moving car because Randy won't pull over for a bathroom break.

* {{Squick}}: "But Dad, I'm ''prairie-dogging!''"

** Randy and the Hitlermobile, full stop. It begins with a Jewish family accidentally going to a Nazi museum because it's advertised as a "Barbie" museum, and their daughter thinks it's for the doll and not the SS officer Klaus Barbie. When they leave and find another racer trashed their car, they steal Adolf Hitler's touring car the museum had on display outside. They get attacked by a biker gang, during which Randy smears lipstick on his upper lip to resemble a mustache and burns his tongue with a cigarette lighter so he can't talk properly. Finally, they drive the car through a fence into a World War II veteran celebration festival where Randy goes up on stage and tries to explain himself, but thanks to his burnt tongue his can only talk in garbled mumbles that sound vaguely German. Forget crossing the line twice, they're playing double dutch with it.

* EsotericHappyEnding: As noted under ShaggyDogStory on the main page, the [[{{Main/WAFF}} feel-good]] and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]] ending scene, complete with LaserGuidedKarma for Sinclair and his buddies, probably won't be as happy for all involved a while after the credits stop rolling.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/{{Grimm}} Monroe]] is the locksmith that steals the key from the Cody brothers.

** Randy and the Hitlermobile, full stop. It begins with a Jewish family accidentally going to a Nazi museum because it's advertised as a "Barbie" museum, and their daughter thinks it's for the doll and not the SS officer Klaus Barbie. When they leave and find another race trashed their car, they steal Adolf Hitler's touring car the museum had on display outside. They get attacked by a biker gang, during which Randy smears lipstick on his upper lip to resemble a mustache, gets a cigarette lighter on his tongue so he can't talk properly. Finally, they crash into a World War II veteran meeting where Randy goes up on stage and tries to explain himself, but thanks to his burnt tongue his can only talk in garbled mumbles that sound vaguely German. Forget crossing the line twice, they're playing double dutch with it.

* CrossesTheLineTwice:

** Randy [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digging himself deeper]] after he mistakenly drives the stolen Hitlermobile into a ceremony for WWII veterans while looking like Hitler, didn't help that he had burned his tongue, to which while trying to explain himself he was mumbling incoherently which came out sounding suspiciously German.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Pollini being [[MistakenForPedophile mistaken for a pedophile]] because his hand is in a baby's clothes looking for his key? Uncomfortable. Him exclaiming "[[InnocentInnuendo I think I am touching it" when the parents see him? Hilarious.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Pollini being [[MistakenForPedophile mistaken for a pedophile]] because his hand is in a baby's clothes looking for something? Uncomfortable. Him exclaiming that he's looking for (and found) [[InnocentInnuendo the key?]] Hilarious.

* DesignatedVillain: Donald Sinclair. He doesn't tell the racers he and a bunch of other millionaires are betting on them, and some of the bets they do make come off as kind of callous, but he's otherwise totally upfront about the conditions of the race, he's polite to the racers, doesn't sabotage or impede them in any way, really does have a cash prize waiting for them, and isn't directly responsible for any of the problems the racers run into [[spoiler: including not getting the money]]. Yet at the end [[spoiler: him getting shamed into donating millions of dollars he wasn't interested in donating is treated like a moral victory instead of incredibly unfair.]]

* DeletedScene: One such scene shows what happened to the crooked key maker after he floated away with a cow and a hot air ballon.
** Another scene explains how Owen ended up so close to Silver City. After outrunning the stranded, and pissed, [[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy]] conventioneers, he climbs onboard a house that is being moved by truck. Said house is owned [[Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage Diamond Dallas Page]] who beats up Owen and throws him out of the moving house, close to his destination.

** Creator/DeanCain as Tracy's cheating boyfriend.

* DesignatedVillain: Elliot Sinclair. He doesn't tell the racers he and a bunch of other millionaires are betting on them, and some of the bets they do make come off as kind of callous, but he's otherwise totally upfront about the conditions of the race, he's polite to the racers, doesn't sabotage or impede them in any way, really does have a cash prize waiting for them, and isn't directly responsible for any of the problems the racers run into [[spoiler: including not getting the money]]. Yet at the end [[spoiler: him getting shamed into donating millions of dollars he wasn't interested in donating is treated like a moral victory instead of incredibly unfair.]]

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Pollini being [[MistakenForPedophile mistaken for a pedophile]] because his hand is in a baby's clothes looking for something? Uncomfortable. Him exclaiming that he's looking for (and found) [[DoubleEntendre the key?]] Hilarious.

* GeniusBonus: The prize of $2 million is approximately what the $350,000 from ''ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' would've been worth in 2001.

** Creator/DeanCain as Tracy's cheating boyfriend.
* TooDumbToLive: The skeleton that slides out of one of the cars in the Squirrel Lady's graveyard of cars. Possibly. Barring death or some crippling injury brought on by the crash, the occupant never bothered to get out of the car and try to get back to civilization?
** Maybe not - the skeleton is still clutching a take away food bag in its hand. At a guess, it's someone who died on impact.

* OneSceneWonder: Creator/KathyBates as the "Squirrel Lady".

** Maybe not - the skeleton is still clutching a take away food bag in its hand. At a guess, it's someone who died on impact.