Line #47 Film/AmericanPie


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3	->''"Oh, and this one time, at band camp..."''
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5	''American Pie'' is a 1999 teenage {{sex comedy}} film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, written by Adam Herz, and featuring a large {{ensemble cast}} including Creator/JasonBiggs, Creator/ChrisKlein, Creator/NatashaLyonne, Creator/ThomasIanNicholas, Creator/SeannWilliamScott, Creator/TaraReid, Creator/MenaSuvari, Creator/EugeneLevy, Creator/JenniferCoolidge, Creator/AlysonHannigan, Creator/EddieKayeThomas, and Creator/ShannonElizabeth.
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7	The film concentrates on five boys at East Great Falls High -- Jim (Biggs), Kevin (Nicholas), Oz (Klein), Finch (Thomas), and Stifler (Scott) -- who make a pact to lose their virginity before their high school graduation (save for Stifler, who has already done so). The title of the film has [[DoubleMeaningTitle various meanings]], referring on a surface level to a scene in the film in which Jim is caught masturbating with a pie after previously being told that a vagina feels "like warm apple pie", and also to the idea [[WordOfGod proposed by Adam Herz]] that the quest to lose one's virginity in high school is as "American as apple pie" itself.
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9	The film ranked 49th on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies" list, and 22nd on ''Entertainment Weekly''[='s=] list of the "50 Best High School Movies". In 2000, readers of ''Total Film'' magazine voted ''American Pie'' the 6th greatest comedy film of all time.
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11	The Weitz brothers' first film, ''American Pie'' was a huge box-office hit and spawned three direct sequels, beginning with ''American Pie 2'' (2001) and then ''American Wedding'' (2003). The [[TrilogyCreep fourth installment]], ''Film/AmericanReunion'' (2012), featured the entire primary cast of the first two films reprising their roles for the first time in over a decade.
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13	Following the ''American Pie'' trilogy chronicling the courtship and marriage of characters Jim Levenstein and Michelle Flaherty, the ''American Pie'' name became a brand name in a manner similar to the ''National Lampoon'' film series for a number of direct-to-video spinoff films: ''American Pie Presents: Band Camp'' (2005), ''American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile'' (2006), ''Film/AmericanPiePresentsBetaHouse'' (2007), ''American Pie Presents: The Book of Love'' (2009), and ''American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules'' (2020).
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15	''Definitely'' not to be confused with the ultra-famous Music/DonMcLean song from the album ''Music/AmericanPie''.
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18	!!Tropes:
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21	[[folder:Series-Wide]]
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23	* AllMenArePerverts: One of the most consistent aspects of the entire film series is that the dudes are trying to get laid and will go through great lengths to do so.
24	** In the first film, Jim, Kevin, Oz, and Finch are on a QuestForSex to lose their virginities before college. Jim [[ExtremeOmnisexual masturbates with an apple pie]] and the guys goad Jim into secretly live-streaming the ForeignExchangeStudent Nadia while she changes in his room, which he does and accidentally sends the link out to every person in their school...cue a montage of all of the male students excitedly tuning in. This is deconstructed as it is strongly implied that the only reason they want to get laid is because of the assumption that EveryoneHasLotsOfSex in high school and those who don't are considered losers by boys. Oz's relationship with Heather is jeopardized when she sees him, Stifler, and the other guys on the lacross team joke about Oz getting it on with her at prom, making her feel used. The end of of the film sees all four of the male characters realize that getting laid is not as important as finding someone special.
25	** Subverted in the fourth movie for Oz, when he is way too dull to keep up with his sexually adventurous girlfriend.
26	** ''Reunion'' deals with the pull between old high school glory and the need to mature and be an adult, and ultimately decides that it's up to the individual of which to embrace, or if they want to find a compromise.
27	%% ** The ''American Pie Presents'' series' male protagonists follow this all the way through.
28	%% * AllWomenAreLustful:
29	%% ** Most of the girls are perverts too. Michelle most of all.
30	%% ** This is in full swing in ''American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules'' with the quartet of female protagonists.
31	* AmericanTitle: '''American''' Pie.
32	* AmbiguouslyJewish: The Levensteins have a Jewish surname and some [[JewishAndNerdy stereotypical traits]], though until the third film their religion isn’t explicitly mentioned.
33	%% * AscendedExtra:
34	%% ** Stifler, a result of his BreakoutCharacter status.
35	%% ** Michelle wasn't introduced until 2/3 of the way through the first movie and had less than four minutes of screentime.
36	%% * NerdsAreSexy: Well, band geeks in this case, but you gotta admit Michelle cleans up good.
37	* BreakoutCharacter:
38	** Steve Stifler and the entire Stifler family basically has become synonymous with the entire franchise.
39	** Jim's dad fits this too. He appears in all of the movies, including the spin-offs. Each time there's something new revealed about his past, eventually coming to reveal that [[spoiler:he was basically the creator of the Bible from the first movie.]]
40	** Finally there is Michelle. It's easy to forget because her scenes are so memorable but she doesn't have much actual screentime in the original film. It is only the second film on that turns her from a near-OneSceneWonder[[invoked]] into a prominent character.
41	%% * BumblingDad: Jim's dad.
42	%%* ButtMonkey: Jim.
43	* CasanovaWannabe: Oz at the beginning of the first movie, who is nicknamed Nova by his friends for being good with women, only to be laughed at and rebuffed when he tries to get with a college chick using cheesy one liners.
44	* CaughtWithYourPantsDown:
45	** In the first movie, we have the pie scene. Also, the intro involves Jim's parents walking in while he's trying to watch a scrambled porno. A tube sock preserves what little dignity he has left. Noah [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it when, in a later scene, he finds condoms in Jim's nightstand.
46	--->'''Jim's Dad:''' Well, they're safer than a tube sock.
47	** And again in the intro of the second movie when Jim's parents come to visit him on the college campus only to walk in just as he having sex with a girl. Doesn't help that said girl's parents suddenly show up too. Also in the second movie, Jim mistakes superglue for lube and glues himself to... himself. And his ''other'' hand to the porn movie he was wanking to.
48	** ''[[RunningGag And again]]'' in the intro to the third movie, Jim's Dad interrupts Michelle giving Jim head under the table. ''In a restaurant''. It's safe to say that pretty much all of the movies start with this. The third movie also had Jim and Stifler getting caught engaging in what appeared to be bestiality, and Stifler having sex with Jim's grandmother.
49	** Eric Stifler, Naked Mile, Grandmother. That is all.
50	** The fourth movie has Jim getting caught jerking off by his son and shutting his laptop on his dick, then walking into the bathroom finding Michelle masturbating in the bathtub.
51	** Nadia and her boyfriend/date walk in on Michelle and Jim doing it at the reunion.
52	* CharacterDevelopment: Oddly for a teen franchise, the bullying jock Steve Stifler slowly turns into a protagonist through this trope.
53	%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Finch.
54	%% * CoolOldGuy: And ''how''. Eugene Levy and Noah Levenstein DEFINE this.
55	%%* CovertPervert: Michelle.
56	%%* CringeComedy
57	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Jessica.
58	* {{Dominatrix}}: ShrinkingViolet Michelle turns out to be this. The idea was a ThrowItIn by Creator/AlysonHannigan. In ''American Reunion'' she dresses in S&M bondage gear for a night of leather fun.
59	%% * DotingParent: Say what you will about Mr. Levenstein, but he really does care about Jim.
60	* DoubleEntendre:
61	** Thanks to that one time at band camp we get this:
62	-->"Jenny, where did you put my clarinet?" \
63	"Oh, I think I stuck it in your box."
64	** All over the place in ''Reunion''.
65	-->"Get off!" \
66	"I'm about to!"
67	-->"Jim, don't you wanna come?"
68	* FanBoy: Sherman for ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''. The "Sherminator" went as far as naming his son Furlong after the portrayer of John Connor in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
69	* {{Flanderization}}:
70	** Stifler's JerkJock antics are turned up to eleven in the third film. It doesn't help that he's in [[SpotlightStealingSquad almost every scene]].
71	** Creator/AlysonHannigan probably should have thought about it twice when she decided to ThrowItIn about Michelle being a {{dominatrix}}.
72	%% * FourPhilosophyEnsemble:
73	%% ** The Optimist: Jim
74	%% ** The Cynic: Finch
75	%% ** The Realist: Oz
76	%% ** The Apathetic: Kevin
77	%% * FourTemperamentEnsemble:
78	%% ** Sanguine: Jim
79	%% ** Choleric: Kevin
80	%% ** Melancholic: Finch
81	%% ** Phlegmatic: Oz
82	%% * {{Fratbro}}: Stifler to a T.
83	%% * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Stifler.
84	%% * FunWithAcronyms: Guess what MILF stands for?
85	%% * GiveGeeksAChance: Nadia, who seems to fetishize nerds.
86	* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Sex Bible. It is a bit unusual, in that, unlike most examples of the trope, it has clearly been updated, expanded and revised over time.
87	* HeartIsWhereTheHomeIs: Jim has a shot at getting with the hot foreign student Nadia, but he blows it and has to settle for the dorky band nerd Michelle instead. In [[Film/AmericanPie2 the sequel]], he gets another chance to reignite things with Nadia, but this time he deliberately chooses a more permanent relationship with Michelle.
88	* HiddenHeartOfGold: It will take some industrial power tools to dig through all that selfish, spiteful, sex crazed macho bullheadness, but once you do you will find that Steve Stifler has a loyal, sensitive and ''very'' kind heart... just don't expect him ever admit having one.
89	* IBangedYourMom:
90	** The first film has arguably ''the'' most well known example in pop culture (Bonus points for helping popularize the term MILF) when [[spoiler:Finch]] gets lucky with [[spoiler:the aforementioned mother of Steve Stifler near the end when all four of the boys get laid after prom]]. Cue big laughs from the audience/viewer and [[spoiler:Steve]] fainting from this revelation! [[spoiler:Finch]] later goes on to have sex with [[spoiler:Stifler's mom]] twice more; once in the second movie and yet again in the third.
91	** Thirteen years after the first film, [[spoiler:Stifler]] ''finally'' gets even with [[spoiler:Finch]] at the reunion in the fourth movie when he strikes up a conversation with the latters ''own mother'' and naturally, one thing leads to another...
92	* InformedAttractiveness: Stifler's mom. Actress Jennifer Coolidge was even able to play a HollywoodHomely character a couple of years later in ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' with the only real visual change being a marginally less flattering haircut.
93	* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: A rare pre-Website/YouTube example, in which Jim accidentally sends the website of Nadia's stream to the entire school. And given what happens once he joins the video... yeah. Coincidentally, in ''American Reunion'', it is revealed to have gone viral on [=YouTube=].
94	* {{Jerkass}}: Steve Stifler starts out as this, but after some CharacterDevelopment, he turns into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
95	* JerkJock: Stifler, who plays on the lacrosse team in the first film and is a callous, insensitive guy to women who also [[VirginShaming virgin shames]] all of his guy friends.
96	* LousyLoversAreLosers: ButtMonkey protagonist Jim ends up [[SpeedSex climaxing early]] when trying to sleep with Nadia. She gives him a second chance... but he ends up coming early ''again'', much to her dissatisfaction. Made even more humiliating by the fact the incident was being recorded on a webcam. This even gets a CallBack in the sequel ''Film/AmericanReunion'' when Jim is teased about the incident by both Selena and Kara (and is acknowledged that the video [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube is now on YouTube]]).
97	%% * LovableJock: Oz, also a member of said lacrosse team.
98	%% * LovableSexManiac: Pretty much every character, but especially Stifler.
99	* TheMagnificent: Stifler calls himself "The Stifmeister". Then the teens in ''Reunion'' think it's an EmbarrassingNickname.
100	%%* ManChild: Stifler.
101	%%* MrsRobinson: Stifler's Mom.
102	* NerdsArePervs: The film's a high school SexComedy about a group of friends on a QuestForSex to [[SexAsRiteOfPassage fulfill their destiny as men]] to lose their virginities before college, so all of the main characters are {{Hormone Addled Teenager}}s trying to get laid. But for this trope:
103	** Protagonist Jim is JewishAndNerdy, turns into an awkward, silent mess around girls he's interested in, boasts about his high SAT scores at a party, and opens the film (after the ColdOpen where he's [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Caught With His Pants Down]]) discussing how hot [[PerverseSexualLust Ariel]] from ''Franchise/TheLittleMermaid'' is. He also infamously "[[ExtremeOmnisexual has sex]]" with an apple pie after he asks his friends what third base feels like and one replies, "like warm apple pie."
104	** Chuck Sherman, so nerdy that the idea of him getting laid before Jim and his friends is the motivation behind their QuestForSex, is a CasanovaWannabe who [[spoiler:has been spreading lies that he slept with a girl at Stifler's party, and many others. When she gets wind of this, she publicly exposes him at prom, revealing he's not only [[NerdsAreVirgins a virgin]], but he also]] once tried to have sex with a grapefruit.
105	** Michelle, the band geek that Jim eventually takes to prom who goes on and on about inane stories of her time at band camp, reveals herself to be a sexually dominant super freak, who shares how she used her own flute to masturbate in an infamous WhamLine and only agreed to be Jim's prom date because she knew he'd be an easy lay. In fact, according to her, ''all'' band geeks are sex-obsessed {{Covert Pervert}}s who use band camp as a place to hook up with each other. She gets [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] in the sequels, in which she becomes a full blown {{Dominatrix}}.
106	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten:
107	** Jim's ahem, premature performance on webcam, which the entire school witnesses.
108	** Oz's run on ''Celebrity Dance-Off'', where he lost to Creator/GilbertGottfried, and almost everyone that recognizes him in ''Reunion'' mentions.
109	* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Just about any party in the series. Stifler's parties are described in the first film as a place where people go just to hook up.
110	* ThePornomancer: If Stifler's claims are true, then he's had sex with a significant percentage of the girls he went to high school with.
111	* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
112	** Michelle's fast way of talking came from the fact that Alyson Hannigan really had to pee before her call-back audition.
113	** Jim had to be written out of the golf conversation between Kevin and Finch because Jason Biggs had fallen ill after taking too many zinc supplements.
114	* RunningGag:
115	** The primary one is having all movies open with the protagonist (Jim in the theatrical films and whoever leads in the direct-to-video films) caught in an awkward sexual moment, like Jim's parents walking in on him masturbating in the first movie. See CaughtWithYourPantsDown.
116	** The second running gag is Stifler accidentally ingesting some kind of bodily substance. In the first film, it's Kevin's ejaculate in a beer.
117	** Finch has sex with Stifler's mom in every film.
118	* SensualSlavs: Nadia, an Eastern European ForeignExchangeStudent, who is treated as MsFanservice and has the film's only scene with explicit nudity. She also has no qualms about masturbating in the bed of a guy she barely knows after snooping around when left to her devices and finding his PornStash.
119	* SexComedy: The success of the first ''American Pie'' movie caused the resurrection of the teen sex comedy genre in the late-1990s (the genre had previously been popular in the 1980s, but fizzled out by the end of the decade).
120	%% * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Heather and Oz.
121	* SirSwearsALot: Stifler has such a filthy mouth.
122	--> '''Stifler:''' Observe the fucking Stifmeister. What is his defining characteristic?\
123	'''Jim:''' He uses the 'F' word excessively.\
124	'''Stifler:''' Thanks, man.
125	%% * SmugSnake: Finch to Stifler in later films.
126	%% * StacysMom: Stifler's mom is the reason everybody knows what "MILF" means. She is certainly the TropeCodifier for the acronym.
127	%% * [[StraightMan Straight Men]]: Kevin and Oz to the antics of Jim, Finch, and especially Stifler.
128	%% * ThematicThemeTune: "Laid" by James.
129	%% * ThirdPersonPerson: Stifler and the Sherminator.
130	%% * ThoseTwoGuys: The MILF guys.
131	%%* ToiletHumor: Many examples, particularly regarding Stifler.
132	%% * TokenEvilTeammate: Stifler.
133	%% * UndyingLoyalty: Yes, Steve Stifler ''is'' a selfish and sex-crazed jackass... but once he is your friend, he is your friend for '''life.'''
134	%% * UnratedEdition
135	%% * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Stifler.
136	%% * WomensMysteries: Inverted with the Sex Bible, passed down from brother to brother.
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140	[[folder:''American Pie'']]
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142	* AnAesop: Despite being a movie about a QuestForSex, it ultimately says that losing one's virginity, especially in high school, really isn't that important.
143	* AggressiveSubmissive: Jim pursues Michelle, but she ends up the dominant one in their sex scene.
144	* BaitAndSwitchComment: The trailers had spoiled Michelle's shocking band camp story, so the audience was left expecting it every time she began a sentence "This one time at band camp...", only to have her describe some tame event. Until things finally pay off in the end[[note]]On the other hand, the trailer didn't ''quite'' spoil it, as network TV ads meant they couldn't let her say "pussy". So you only hear "I stuck a flute..." before cutting to Jim doing a SpitTake. After an entire movie of innocent "Band Camp" stories, most viewers had decided it was just deceptive editing to make an innocuous scene look more shocking than it was. When Michelle busted out the ultimate punchline to this RunningGag, few people were prepared[[/note]].
145	* BecomingTheMask: Oz pretends to be a sensitive guy interested in singing to seduce girls. Finally, he becomes one.
146	* BetweenMyLegs: Showing Jim's reaction through Nadia's legs as she takes off her underwear.
147	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Michelle's stories from band camp. First, a whole bunch of annoying stories, then one about Spin the Bottle, and then one about [[DoubleEntendre using her flute to make her sing]].
148	* BrickJoke:
149	** Early in the film, Oz tells Jim that a vagina feels like "warm apple pie". Later, Jim notices that his mother has prepared an apple pie. Guess what he does.
150	--->'''Jim's Dad:''' We'll just tell your mother that...we ate it all.
151	** During the post-prom party, Stifler checks to make sure his beer hasn't been tainted (recalling the "pale ale" incident).
152	** Jim's webcam striptease for Nadia. Only Jim's dad watches this time without Jim's knowledge.
153	* [[TheCameo Celebrity Cameo]]: Among other people, the members of Music/{{Blink 182}} watch Jim and Nadia's webcast.
154	* CargoShip: Both in-universe:
155	** "This one time, at band camp..."
156	** Ahem... ''the pie''.
157	** Sherman's date at the prom mentions that Sherman is actually a virgin and once tried to screw a grapefruit.
158	* CopycatCover: As a nod to the original film and overall series, the [[https://aldomni.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/american-reunion-american-pie-wallpaper.jpg poster]] for ''American Reunion'' (2012) mimics the poster for ''American Pie'' (1999).
159	* DisproportionateRetribution: Stifler's LaxativePrank, simply because Finch spread a rumor that he defeated Stifler in a fight.
160	* DontTryThisAtHome: A young man who imitated the infamous pie scene burned... ahem himself, badly.
161	* FoodEnd: Jim, Finch, Oz, and Kevin eat breakfast at the Dog Years Diner and toast the "next step" in their respective lives.
162	* {{Foreshadowing}}: It's mentioned in the rumors spread about Finch that he slept with Stifler's mom. [[spoiler:Guess how Finch ends up losing his virginity?]]
163	* GenreRelaunch: ''American Pie'' temporarily brought back the teen sex comedy genre, which had been popular in the early-to-mid 1980s before fading into obscurity.
164	%%* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: Sherman.
165	* TheILoveYouStigma: Vicky tells Kevin "I love you" after receiving her acceptance letter. Kevin does not tell her the same and he tells his friends that he is worried about it. He finally gets over it to say it back to her as they're about to have sex.
166	* IgnoredEpiphany: The girl Stifler tries to seduce before he accidentally [[spoiler:drinks a cup of semen]] initially rebuffs his advances by correctly speculating that he's just seducing her for his own enjoyment and bragging rights and that it won't mean anything to him. However, he quickly and easily convinces her that she's wrong and she is prepared to have sex with him before he throws up on her.
167	* InformedAbility: Nadia being a Czech exchange student. We never hear her speak a word of it, and she has very little accent (though she very well could have learned it early enough in her life to be this fluent).
168	%%* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Nadia.
169	* JizzedInMyPants: Perhaps the most famous movie example happens to Jim. Twice in as many minutes.
170	* LaxativePrank: It's played on Finch, courtesy of Stifler.
171	* MsFanservice: Nadia. And for some (especially older men), Stifler's mom.
172	* NotStayingForBreakfast: This happens to Jim when Michelle ditches him after some post-prom nookie, because she didn't want to put him through the awkwardness of saying goodbye.
173	* PoorMansPorn: Jim gets caught by his parents looking at scrambled porn.
174	* QuestForSex: The conflict is the main characters vowing to each other that they'll get laid by the time Prom comes along at their high school. However, it ultimately shows that this quest is making everyone miserable, because they have no idea how to get laid and/or are so stressed out about it that they can't perform.
175	* RaceForYourLove: Oz runs from the lacrosse pitch to perform a competition duet with Heather.
176	* RightThroughHisPants: Mocked at the beginning of the movie, when Jim is trying to watch porn while avoiding looking at the male star.
177	* SayMyName: Come on, you know the scene...
178	* SexAsRiteOfPassage: The whole point of the movie.
179	* SexyShirtSwitch: Nadia puts on one Jim's shirts when he catches her masturbating. By the end of the scene, that's all she wears.
180	* ShoutOut:
181	** To ''Film/TheGraduate''. You know the scene.
182	--> '''Stifler's mom''' ''(with [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel "Mrs. Robinson"]] in the background)''''':''' Mr. Finch, [[InvertedTrope are you trying to seduce me?]]
183	** Also, to ''Film/{{Carrie\|1976}}'' in Jim's powder blue tux/ruffled shirt combo.
184	* ShroudedInMyth: Finch and his rumors.
185	* SpeedSex: And how! Jim gets so excited at the thought of having sex with Nadia that he climaxes ''twice'' before they even get to the actual sex, leaving Nadia unsatisfied.
186	* SpitTake: "...and this one time, at Band Camp, [[spoiler:I stuck a flute in my pussy.]]"
187	* TheTalk: Played painfully straight.
188	* TheirFirstTime: Ultimately, the pact between Jim, Kevin, Oz, and Finch is fulfilled:
189	** Jim ends up scoring with Michelle, though she leaves before dawn. [[spoiler:They will finally make their connection in the second film.]]
190	** Kevin and Victoria have an awkward first time together, and they break up the next morning. [[spoiler:It takes a while for Kevin to accept Victoria as simply being a friend.]]
191	** Oz and Heather have a very romantic first time, and come out of the party with the strongest relationship, though Oz plays coy to the others initially when they debrief at Dog Years.
192	** Finch has a hot liaison with Stifler's mom, and [[spoiler:it begins a long-lasting but ultimately star-crossed FWB arrangement.]]
193	* UnbuiltTrope: Despite inspiring decades worth of QuestForSex movies, near the end the notion is ripped to shreds at the prom. [[spoiler:Finch and Jim have made themselves into laughing stocks given their attempts to woo women have blown up in their face. Oz has genuinely fallen in love and is disgusted that his pre-CharacterDevelopment ideas are being hung over his head, and Kevin does love his girlfriend Vicky, he's too insecure to go through with losing his virginity and admit he loves her, believing it all has to be perfect. So at the prom, he's unbelievable smug that he's not alone, but when he finds out they can't and won't go through with it, he tries to force them. Jim even says at the prom that he's "not gonna stand around busting [his] balls over something that, quite frankly, isn't that damn important."]]
194	* WhamLine: "And this one time, at band camp, [[spoiler:I stuck a flute in my pussy]]."
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200	* AssShove: Michelle does this to Jim with a trumpet as a form of sex play.
201	* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption
202	** Per Oz, who when this takes place is having phone sex with his long-distance girlfriend:
203	--> ''"I've got a -"'' ['''BEEEP!'''] ''call waiting."''
204	* AutoErotica: Finch and Stifler's mom at the end.
205	* BelligerentSexualTension: For a brief moment, Stifler and Jessica entertain the idea that this might just be the reason for the animosity between them.
206	* BettyAndVeronica: Jim is the Archie to Michelle's Betty and Nadia's Veronica.
207	* BrickJoke: During the "lesbians" scene, when Stifler is being forced to grab Finch's ass, Finch comments that he is comfortable enough with his sexuality to allow Stifler to do it, while Stifler, on the other hand, is completely disgusted. Near the end of the movie, when [[spoiler:the "lesbians" reveal they aren't lesbians after all, an intrigued Stifler says that he'll do ''anything'' to sleep with them, including grabbing other guys' asses and making out with everybody]] because he is "comfortable with his sexuality."
208	* ConcertKiss: Jim and Michelle.
209	* {{Corpsing}}:
210	** Natasha Lyonne was genuinely cracking up at the line asking how many women she's slept with.
211	** The lesbian scene has lots of shots that omit Finch (despite him being there too) because Eddie Kaye Thomas kept bursting out laughing at Seann William Scott's antics.
212	* CoversAlwaysLie: Shows Jim curiously looking at Nadia, who's on his right, as if he's more interested in her instead of Michelle, who's on his left since [[spoiler: Jim leaves Nadia for Michelle]].
213	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: A huge scene is based entirely around this, to the point that people randomly listening over two-way radios are getting into it.
214	* GuyOnGuyIsHot: Re the aforementioned scene, the sexy girls only agree to perform lesbian acts with each other if three of the guys perform homoerotic acts with each other in return. HilarityEnsues.
215	* LatinLover: Oz spends much of the film worried about his girlfriend living in a house of these while on study abroad.
216	* LoveEpiphany: Jim, when he realizes that he loves Michelle in the midst of talking to Nadia.
217	* MsFanservice: The two "lesbians."
218	* TheReveal: Stifler's Mom's first name. [[spoiler:It's Jeanine.]]
219	* SoundtrackDissonance: The scene where Kevin finally makes peace with Vicky breaking up with him is accompanied by the song "I Will" by Lucia, which is all about leaving an ''abusive'' relationship.
220	* AThreesomeIsHot: Happens to [[spoiler:Stifler]] at the end of the movie.
221	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Spoils pretty much all the funniest scenes, in fact.
222	* TyingUpRomanticLooseEnds: Nadia ends up with The Sherminator (although presumably it was a one night stand, since in the fourth movie she is seen with a different date).
223	* UrineTrouble: Stifler thinks champagne is being poured onto his head when he's actually being urinated on from the balcony.
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227	[[folder:''American Wedding'']]
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229	* BettyAndVeronica: Cadence is the Archie to Finch's Betty and Stifler's Veronica.
230	* BrickJoke: When Finch is helping Jim locate Michelle's wedding dress, he asks Jim to let him speak to the people inside the store because they are his "people." Stifler inquires, "They're gay?" Finch retorts that they're "styled", "cultured", and "sophisticated", to which Stifler responds, "So they're gay." Later on when Stifler ends up in the gay bar and is trying to prove that EvenTheGuysWantHim, he tells Bear, "I've got style... I'm cultured... I'm sophisticated."
231	* CallBack: During the bachelor party, the police stripper asks the guys if they want her and the other stripper to make out, but before Stifler can excitedly say yes, he remembers what happened with the "lesbians" of the last movie, so he says "Fuck no."
232	* CockFight: Finch and Stifler fight over Cadence by pretending to be a HandsomeLech and a NiceGuy, respectively, after getting different ideas as to what she wants in a guy.
233	* {{Corpsing}}: January Jones can be seen trying not to laugh when Stifler is thrusting behind Mrs. Flaherty to piss off Jim, even though Jones' character, Cadence, is not supposed to be aware of what's going on.
234	* CringeComedy: Watching Stifler and Finch attempt to swap personalities to impress Cadence is cringeworthy to say the least. And then there's the scene with the wedding ring and the dogs...
235	* DemotedToExtra: Kevin, displaced by Stifler.
236	* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Finch.]]
237	* FourManBand: With the absence of Oz.
238	** OnlySaneMan: Kevin
239	** TheSmartGuy: Finch
240	** The Pervert: Stifler
241	** ButtMonkey: Jim
242	* GayBarReveal: The bar where Stifler shows off his dancing skills turns out to be a gay bar. This being Stifler, he didn't realize which kind of bar it was until the others told him to look around and pay attention: "Oh my God! What the fuck is going on?"
243	* IdiotHero: Stifler.
244	* InsultBackfire: The final exchanges between Stifler and Finch at the end of the movie.
245	--> '''Finch:''' [[spoiler:Grandmother Fucker]].\
246	'''Stifler:''' Yeah? Well, you're a Mother Fucker!\
247	'''Finch:''' ''(proudly)'' [[SmugSnake Yes I am]].
248	* JerkassHasAPoint: Stifler points out that he's been looking out for Jim's sex life ever since high school, because the first tits Jim ever saw were because of him (as Stifler gave Jim the idea for the Nadia video), and the first girl Jim ever hooked up with (Michelle) was at Stifler's post-prom party, at his cottage. The Stif-Man showed him the way!
249	--> "Finch, he does make a good point." "Yeah, he does... you never heard me say that."
250	* LadykillerInLove: Stifler with Cadence.
251	* LostWeddingRing: Resulting in one of the series' most {{squick}}-tastic scenes.
252	* LoveTriangle: Stifler, Cadence, and Finch.
253	* MarketBasedTitle: Known as ''American Pie: The Wedding'' in Britain.
254	* TheMillstone: Stifler, before he redeems himself at the end.
255	* MistakenForGay: Stifler, when he unwittingly finds himself in a gay bar, and isn't aware what's going on until he's told to take another look around.
256	* MsFanservice: The two strippers, Officer Crystal and Fraulein Brandi.
257	* OhCrap:
258	** Stifler when he boasts to Finch about his impending sexcapade with Cadence, only to discover that she's [[RightBehindMe right behind him]].
259	** Also when Stifler realizes that he accidentally fed the wedding ring to the dogs.
260	* ProductPlacement: ''Every'' major character drives a then-new Toyota. In ''[[SeriousBusiness Michigan]]''.
261	* PutOnABus: Oz, Vicky, Jessica, Heather, Sherman, and Nadia are all absent from this film.
262	* RoadApples: A later stage of the wedding ring rescue.
263	* SequelNonEntity: Oz. WordOfGod says they simply had nothing for him to do, so the character just wasn't included. Though it's hinted he was in L.A. at the time of Jim's wedding as an in-Universe explanation.
264	* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Cadence to Stifler, who [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level up in kindness]].
265	* SupportingProtagonist: Jim, sidelined by Stifler's antics despite his wedding being the main storyline.
266	* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: Stifler shows off his dancing skills in one of these.
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271
272	* AccidentalMisnaming: Stifler's boss continually calls him "Staphler".
273	* ActorAllusion:
274	** During Jessica's cameo, she announces that "I'm a lesbian now." Natasha Lyonne played a lesbian character in ''Film/ButImACheerleader'' the same year the original ''American Pie'' was released, and she did again in ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack''. With an added CallBack as Stifler says "IKnewIt!", given that in ''American Pie 2'':
275	-->'''Stifler''': How many girls did you sleep with this year?\
276	'''Jessica''': Wouldn't you like to know?\
277	'''Stifler''': [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Fuck yeah I would.]]
278	** Stifler says that ''New Moon'' is his favourite book in ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''. Chris Weitz (''American Pie'' co-director) directed the film version.
279	** The film's wish list also mentions something about a vampire slayer, as a clear nod to Alyson Hannigan's role in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
280	** When Stifler meets Finch's mother, she says "are you ready for me?" - as a nod to Creator/RebeccaDeMornay's scene in ''Film/RiskyBusiness'' where she says the same thing to Creator/TomCruise.
281	** Creator/JayHarrington had also played a Dr Ron in ''Series/DesperateHousewives''.
282	* AdvertisedExtra: Natasha Lyonne is on the poster for the fourth film, when she only has a cameo.
283	* AmbiguouslyGay: John. He and Justin haven't been hanging out because their friendship doesn't go both ways; also, he seems to likes shirtless men.
284	** CampStraight: However, the directors' commentary for the DVD states he is straight.
285	* AscendedExtra: John, who sets up the main storyline by planning the reunion.
286	* AssShove: Stifler's mom tells Jim's dad about a time, when she walked in on Stifler shoving her hairbrush up his ass. And not the handle side first. In her room.
287	* BlackComedyRape: Oz gets practically this done to him by [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale his Ecstasy tipping girlfriend]], just as Heather walks in...
288	* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz ''were'' right to call out Stifler on his behavior, as not only did he needed to learn to be a better friend but also to stop dwelling on his "High School" years. However, Stifler points out that they never really treated him as a friend to begin with nor really bothered to convey to him the problem they had with his behavior beforehand.
289	* TheBusCameBack: Everybody but Jim's Mom, who is [[BusCrash dead]].
290	* CallBack: Being about the characters' high school reunion, we get many:
291	** The poster looks almost exactly like the one for the first movie, with the characters (now thirteen years older) in the same positions.
292	** The film opens with the camera panning across Jim's room as we hear what appears to be sexual activity, but is something entirely different.
293	** Jim's tube sock makes a reappearance (again with unfortunate results).
294	** The camera following Stifler as he does an evaluation of his workplace is reminiscent of those he did for his house parties in the first two movies.
295	** Jim finds the dirty magazines his dad gave to him (with the pages stuck together).
296	** Finch is reintroduced while riding a moped, in contrast to his scooter from the first movie.
297	** Jim is reminded only too well about the incidents of SpeedSex, from both Selena and Kara (and is acknowledged that the video is now on [=YouTube=]).
298	** Selena tells Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz that they were all probably "desperate virgins back then." The guys briefly decline before sharing a look with each other (because they all ''were'' virgins at the time).
299	** Jim wakes up bottomless after a night of partying and finds a completely destroyed pie. He and his dad share a look, knowing only too well what happened...
300	** When Oz reunites with Heather and her new boyfriend at the beach, Stifler runs up to him and interrupts like he did in the first movie when Heather was about to ask Oz to prom, even calling Heather "choir chick" again.
301	** Stifler throwing a party like the one at the end of the first movie, and Jim and Michelle attempting to recreate the events of it.
302	** While making out with Selena, Finch spots a picture of Stifler's mom on the wall. He briefly recalls the three previous flings he had with Stifler's mom and looks between the two, as if trying to choose, before ultimately deciding to move on and be with Selena.
303	** After Jim and Michelle have sex in the music room, Jim holds up a flute and asks if he was better than the flute (referring to the WhamLine before their first night together in the first movie).
304	** [[BookEnds The movie ends]] with the gang (now including Stifler) having hot dogs at Dog Years and toasting to "the next step."
305	* TheCameo: Creator/NeilPatrickHarris pops up as the host of ''Celebrity Dance-Off'', a ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' parody which Oz was a contestant on.
306	* CanonDiscontinuity: The DirectToVideo spin-offs are effectively ignored in the first ten minutes -- Stifler never went into directing porn movies, and while Michelle and Jim do have a son, he's far too young to be the one mentioned in the spinoff series.
307	* CharacterAgedWithTheActor
308	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: No mention at all of Michelle's sister Candence, or mention of what happened with her and Stifler. Michelle's parents are also absent.
309	* CoitusInterruptus: [[spoiler: During the reunion, Nadia accidentally walks in on Jim and Michelle having sex in the music room.]]
310	** Stifler's mom also claims she had walked-in on Stifler having sex more times than she can count.
311	* DeadSparks: Subverted for Jim and Michelle - they do still clearly love each other and really want to reignite the passion of the early days, but the stresses of adult life and the birth of their son understandably put a damper on that. Jim's father gives him advice on how to avert this.
312	* {{Deconstruction}}: Stifler himself is deconstructed. His pranks now come across as violent felonies rather than funny, the gay jokes he makes now just seem homophobic, and he himself just comes off as rather pathetic.
313	* DestructoNookie: [[spoiler:Jim and Michelle have one in the music room after making up with each other.]]
314	* DisproportionateRetribution: "They splashed us..." [[spoiler:Some younger guys on the beach steal bikini tops. The gang chases them. Stifler then ''destroys their jetskis.'' That adds up to about $25,000 damage.]]
315	** Finch arrives on a motorcycle that he claims to have won while betting on the World Cup. However, [[spoiler:Finch actually stole it from his boss at Staples, for which he is arrested. His motive was not being given a raise that he'd been promised.]]
316	* FanDisservice: Jim's dick pressed against a clear pot lid after waking up pantless in the kitchen.
317	* HandOrObjectUnderwear: Jim covers himself with the lid of a pan. Then he's reminded that it's made of glass...
318	* HiredForTheirLooks: Stifler tells a group of pretty women, "Ladies, you'd better be working hard - you weren't hired for your looks. Actually you were." He then points to another woman and says, "Not you."
319	* INever: Oz and Heather play this with their respective dates.
320	* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/NeilPatrickHarris cameos. He co-stars with Creator/AlysonHannigan on ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' and with Creator/JohnCho in the ''Film/HaroldAndKumar'' films.
321	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Kara.
322	* InsultBackfire: Finch and Stifler's reunion goes like this:
323	--> '''Stifler:''' So, finally come out of the closet?\
324	'''Finch:''' How is your mom, by the way?
325	* {{Jerkass}}: AJ, Dr. Ron, Mia, and Stifler's boss.
326	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Stifler.]]
327	* LaserGuidedKarma: Stifler [[spoiler:finally gets revenge on Finch for sleeping with his mom when he just so happens to meet Finch's attractive mother.]]
328	* MarketBasedTitle: Known as ''American Pie: The Reunion'' in Britain.
329	* MaybeEverAfter[=/=]PairTheSpares: At the end, Jim's Dad meets Stifler's Mom. TheStinger [[spoiler:shows her discretely pleasuring him in a movie theater.]]
330	* MissingTrailerScene: In the trailer, there is a scene where Stifler asks two girls on a beach where the thief who took their tops went.
331	* MrFanService: Oz. Even one of the guys says to him "you have an amazing body".
332	* MsFanservice: Kara and Mia. Also Michelle in her fetish gear.
333	* ReallyGetsAround: Oz's girlfriend Mia. [[spoiler:No wonder he goes back to Heather.]]
334	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
335	** Stifler gives one to his boss in, saying that even though he has money, he's still a loser... who's poorly-endowed.
336	** The other guys in turn give one to Stifler earlier on for being trapped in the past and always finding a way to ruin things.
337	* RememberTheNewGuy:
338	** Several never before mentioned characters turn up out of the blue, such as Selena (Michelle's Band Camp BFF), Loni 'Blowjob' Lipstein (a former... intimate of Stifler), Mitch and Adam (members of the lacrosse team and good buddies with Stifler and presumably Oz) and Kara, the girl Jim used to babysit.
339	** While Kara's a harder case to argue, several of the younger actors that appear as non-speaking extras in the original film could stand in for the roles in later films. For example, in the first appearance of Michelle and the band geeks (when they come to Stifler's door and he tells them to leave), there is a young AmbiguouslyBrown woman. There are several teammates who don't speak in the rugby scenes.
340	* SequelReset: After seemingly making peace with the guys in ''Wedding'', Stifler is back to his old self in this film, and goes through the whole JerkWithAHeartOfGold transformation again. [[spoiler:He is finally accepted by the guys as one of their own near the end of the movie when they realize that, even though Stifler is a dick, he's a "fun dick", and "their dick."]]
341	* ShakingTheRump: Kara's mom does this a few times in front of Oz (she saw him on ''Celebrity Dance-Off'' and is a huge fan of his), even going so far as to provocatively performing this move ''directly on him!''
342	* ShesAllGrownUp: How Jim sees Kara, the girl next door he used to babysit.
343	* {{Sideboob}}: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]].
344	* SoundtrackDissonance : When Jim and Michelle have their eyes-meet-across-the-room moment and their makeup speech, the song playing in the background is "The Freshmen" by the Verve Pipe--a song about a young man's girlfriend having an abortion (and possibly date rape).
345	* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: [[spoiler:Happens when Stifler finally decides he's had enough of his BadBoss and gives him a brutal TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]
346	* TeamPowerWalk: The guys entering the reunion dance, with Stifler as the newest addition to their group.
347	* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] and [[InvokedTrope invoked]] when the gang needs to talk their way into a suburban family's home. Stifler knocks on the door and tells the man of the house that their car has broken down and he needs to call AAA. The man says "None of the three of you have cell phones?". After the gang gets inside the house, a defensive Stifler says that when he used to do this, cell phones didn't exist.
348	* TeenyWeenie: Stifler compares his boss' penis to "a leprechaun's pinky".
349	* TransparentCloset: After 13 years, [[spoiler:Jessica]] announces that she's a lesbian... to no one's surprise.
350	* WhatDidIDoLastNight: After reuniting with his old friends, Jim wakes up in the kitchen of his family home, pants-less and surrounded by random types of food scattered all over the place. In a deleted/extended version of the scene, Michelle finds a desecrated apple pie just as Jim's Dad walks in and asks what happened to it. Jim and his father exchange a panicked look, remembering the incident from 1999.
351	* WhatTheHellHero: Stifler gives the other guys one of these, calling them out for how much they hurt his feelings by not making an effort to stay in touch with him.
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