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3''Beerfest'' is a 2006 film from comedy troupe Creator/BrokenLizard. It's probably best described as an AffectionateParody of sports movies that uses cultural and NationalStereotypes to a ridiculous extent.
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5The plot of the movie revolves around brothers Jan and Todd Wolfhouse, whose German grandfather has just passed away. Charged with the task of bringing his ashes to the "family resting place" in Munich during {{Oktoberfest}}, they end up discovering [[TitleDrop Beerfest]], a secret underground drinking competition. Beerfest is presided over by [[BigBad Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen]], ''braumeister'' of the Von Wolfhausen brewery. He is furious at Jan and Todd's late grandfather for purportedly stealing his family's beer recipe, "the greatest in all the world," calling him a "thieving stable boy" and "bastard son of a whore." Americans are banned from Beerfest, and as Jan and Todd try to state their right to be there, they are handily beaten in an impromptu speed chug competition by the German team. After suffering humiliation at the hands of the von Wolfhausens, they return home with the intent to return to Beerfest with the first American team--and kick the Germans' asses.
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10* TheAce: The German team when it comes to drinking. And Gil, [[spoiler:Landfill's twin brother and replacement]].
11* ActorAllusion: [[Creator/JurgenProchnow Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen]] [[Film/DasBoot commanding a submarine]]. And saying he had a bad experience onboard once.
12* TheAlcoholic: Virtually ''everybody'' in this movie. The film even opens with a disclaimer warning the viewer not to attempt to drink like the characters.
13--> "...If you attempt to drink the amount of beer the characters do in this film, [[BrutalHonesty YOU WILL DIE]]."
14* AllGermansAreNazis: Surprisingly averted, although Fink (who is Jewish) is convinced to join the drinking team after hearing that their biggest rivals will be the Germans.
15** The Germans ''do'' briefly mock Fink's yarmulke towards the climax, [[spoiler:which causes him to develop "[[TranquilFury The Eye of the Jew]]" and helps him lead Team USA to victory.]]
16* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The DisasterDominoes that Jan and Todd trigger at Oktoberfest turns the entire crowd against them when a little boy on stage (who just happens to be Baron von Wolfhausen's grandson) is injured and started crying.
17* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Although each country is represented at Beerfest by only a single team, Scotland has its own team despite being part of the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom. Partly justified in that this is the [[RealityIsUnrealistic case for several real life sports]] (football, rugby, etc), but there is also a ''British'' team at Beerfest (identified as such by the Union Jacks on their outfits), which is never the case when the constituent parts of the United Kingdom get to play as themselves, as is clearly the case here; such a team should be the ''England'' team and would use the English flag (St. George's cross) and not the Union Jack.
18* AvengersAssemble: Putting the American team together.
19* BackupTwin: [[spoiler:Played for Laughs. When Phil "Landfill" is assassinated, his identical twin brother Gil shows up to the funeral, and ends up getting Landfill's nickname, his spot on the team...and even his ''wife''. And it turns out Phil already told Gil ''everything'' about the other team members, so he fills out the hole Phil left pretty effortlessly. It is even lampshaded by the other team members who notice that it is as if Phil hadn't died in the first place.]]
20* BaitAndSwitch: The plans for the Wolfhausen recipe [[spoiler:are stolen by Cherry, but it turns out that she merely stole a prototypical recipe for "a new low-carb strawberry ale.]] [[SoOkayItsAverage It's... okay.]]"
21* BerserkButton: A badly timed insult from the German team during the final event taps some epic "Jew Rage".
22** "I happen to have MARRIED that plastic fuck doll!"
23** Bringing up Landfill's previous job at the brewery causes an ''immediate'' shift in his mood.
24* BewareTheNiceOnes: The man Jan is gambling over quarters with in the beginning of the movie and gets his men to hold him down to beat the shit out of Jan? He's the minister who is residing over Johann's funeral.
25* BigGame: Beerfest itself.
26* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Cherry.]]
27* BilingualBonus: There's several, though ''Das Boot'' is a subversion, as it actually means "The Boat." Since Creator/JurgenProchnow is the Baron, however, it's obviously a StealthPun on his [[Film/DasBoot signature role]].
28* TheBrute: Hammacher and Schlemmer, the two monstrously large von Wolfhausen brothers, who spend much of the film bullying the main characters.
29* ButtMonkey: Fink.
30* ChekhovsGun: Johann Wolfhouse's beloved doll Popo, [[spoiler:which turns out to be the hiding place for the von Wolfhausen beer recipe]].
31* CongruentMemory: Fink's theory of "Drunken Recall," which is used on Todd (by having him chug an ''entire bottle'' of [[strike:Goldschläger]] [[ProductDisplacement generic gold-flecked liqueur]]) so that they can find the entrance to Beerfest.
32* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Cherry pushes Landfill into a vat of beer, where he ultimately drowns]]. Considering who the character is and that [[spoiler: he dies while trying to drink his way out]], it arguably crosses over with GreatWayToGo.
33* CultureEqualsCostume: ''Every single team'' at Beerfest. The German team wear lederhosen, the English team dress as FootballHooligans, the Irish team wear all-green outfits, the Mexican team dress like ranch hands, the Canadian team wear hockey uniforms, the Swedesh team is made up entirely of [[SexyScandinavian hot blonde women]] wearing skimpy ski vests, the Scottish team wear kilts and what is likely the Japanese team are all dressed in black suits that mark them, along with a member's [[{{Yubitsume}} missing fingers]], as {{Yakuza}}.
34** Fink during the course of the entire film (with his ever-changing wardrobe of yarmulkes).
35* DavidVersusGoliath
36* DenyingTheDeadParentsSins: Jan and Todd get pissed at the Germans for saying their grandfather stole a recipe for the greatest beer in the world. Not only did he indeed steal it, but [[spoiler: he was actually the rightful heir, which means so are they]].
37* DepravedHomosexual: The gay prostitute who hangs out with Barry and aggressively hits on Fink.
38* DeusExMachina: Hilariously parodied. [[spoiler: After Landfill is untimely murdered, the team learns that he just happens to have an identical twin brother who is better than him at everything, including drinking and sex. He even insists on still being called "Landfill" in order to honor his brother's legacy.]]
39* DisasterDominoes: Jan and Todd's initial arrival to Oktoberfest.
40* DontTryThisAtHome: The start of the movie warns of over-drinking and not to recreate what the actors are doing. Indeed, most of the "beer" in the movie was non-alcholic.
41* DoubleEntendre: [=GamGam=] gets a ''lot'' of these after Wolfgang tells the boys she was a whore.
42* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Cherry]] is this to the Germans.
43* DrunkenMaster: Barry is much better at drinking games when drunk.
44* {{Eagleland}}: So, so much.
45* EurekaMoment: Fink discovers the secret to beating the Boot at a bathroom urinal.
46* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Landfill runs a carnival booth now. And Barry? "It's $10 for a BJ, $12 for an HJ, [[DontAsk $15 for a ZJ]]..."
47* FanserviceExtra: At Oktoberfest when a bar fight causes a guy to slip and grab onto the tube top of the nearest girl. Newly stripped girl slips herself, grabs onto the tops of two ''other'' girls, and strips ''them''. And then ''those'' two girls slip, and pull down the tops of the three girls ''behind them''. A chain reaction of 6 uncredited topless blonde Fanservice Extras that has the men at Oktoberfest—as well as the male audience—cheering at each stage. Pure {{Fanservice}} all the way.
48** [[IntendedAudienceReaction This is by far the most likely scene in this movie to make female viewers roll their eyes and lament that]] AllMenArePerverts.
49** The SexyScandinavian girls from the Swedish team as well, who have no speaking lines and appear only in one scene where they flash the main characters.[[labelnote:*]]One of the Swedish girls did originally have a slightly bigger plot-relevant role but this was cut from the final version.[[/labelnote]]
50* FreestateAmsterdam
51* HomageShot: [[https://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2006_Beerfest/006BFT_Jurgen_Prochnowr_003.jpg This shot]] to [[https://www.dw.com/image/19016921_303.jpg this one]] from ''Film/DasBoot''.
52* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: [=GamGam=] is a very sweet old lady who was a prostitute in her youth.
53* HypocriticalHumor: Landfill, who is said to have converted to Islam while in jail, regularly imbibes alcohol and ingests pork products. Maybe he's just not that devout.
54* IAmNotLeftHanded: "We're not that drunk."
55* INever
56* IWasQuiteALooker: [=GamGam=], who was a beautiful young Bavarian [[spoiler:whore]].
57* JewishAndNerdy: Fink down to a T.
58* KarmaHoudini: The Baron has [[spoiler:Cherry executed because she failed him, yet his only comeuppance is that his team loses the tournament.]]
59* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Cherry causes Landfill's death, gloats about it to his twin brother, making them lose on the American team lose the Boot challenge, and tries to steal the beer recipe from them. When the Americans challenge the Germans to play double or nothing for the recipe they believe they already have it only for Fink that it is the wrong recipe Cherry stole. The Baron then has Cherry executed for it.]]
60* MiracleRally
61* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Fink and the monkey-frogs.
62* NoodleIncident: A ''lot'' of them, including the Z-job (if you have to ask, you can't afford it) and Landfill's termination from his job at the brewery.
63* OhNoNotAgain: When Barry wakes up in the field. [[spoiler: Naked. With blood on his lips. Next to an eviscerated deer]].
64* {{Oktoberfest}}
65* OpposingSportsTeam: The Germans.
66* PlotHole: Never during any of the ''Das Boot'' challenges are the Germans seen [[spoiler: having to turn the boot at the right moment]].
67* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler:"Feel that pullin' you down? That's the yeast, baby. It's like quicksand. Say goodbye!" - Cherry to Landfill after pushing him into a vat of beer.]]
68* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The American team. Oh so much.
69** To give you an idea, one of their members is a homeless male prostitute.
70%%* RatedMForManly
71* SequelHook: [[TheCameo Willie Nelson]] invites the guys to be his teammates at "Pot Fest".
72* SeriousBusiness: Those who don't obey the rules of Beerfest tend to get shot.
73* ShootTheMessenger: Upon learning that the Americans know the recipe to their beer, Baron von Wolfhausen orders the delivery boy to be disposed of immediately. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath The grandsons shove hoses down his throat, in his ears, and up his nose, and tap the keg.]]
74-->'''Messenger:''' No, no, no! What about "don't shoot the messenger", right?
75-->'''Gunter:''' [[ExactWords Oh, we're not going to "shoot" you.]]
76* ShoutOut:
77** Baron von Wolfhausen [[Film/DasBoot had a bad experience on a U-Boat once]].
78** Not to mention the "Das Boot" competition ''itself''.
79** There are also a number of veiled or not-so-veiled references to lines from ''Film/SuperTroopers'', usually delivered by the same actor. The most obvious is probably Landfill asking for "six Schnitzes."
80*** The German techno music from ''Film/SuperTroopers'' is heard during the scene where the Germans are training.
81** The "You do not talk about Beerfest" rule is also a shout-out to ''Film/FightClub''.
82** The Swedish team at Beerfest is made up entirely of attractive blonde women in bikinis. This is a reference to a series of Old Milwaukee beer commercials from the late-1980s and early-1990s that featured the "Swedish Bikini Team."
83* SlobsVsSnobs: The American team is nothing but a team of middle class and blue collar friends who like to drink, compared to the elitist and arrogant German team who have Olympic-style training regimens.
84* SmugSnake: The Germans.
85* StealthPun: Schnitzengiggle, the Wolfhouses' restaurant [[spoiler:and beer]].
86* ATankardOfMooseUrine: The American team desensitizes their taste buds via drinking ''actual'' ram's piss.
87** Later at the competition, [[BrickJoke the Germans are seen drinking it as well]] to warm up in between rounds.
88* TandemParasite: After the "strikeout" scene, only three of five passengers on a tandem bike are pedaling. That Todd is wearing a wedding gown while sitting in the rear seat just adds to the hilarity.
89* TarAndFeathers: Creator/ClorisLeachman's character and her son are tarred and feathered in turn of the century Germany.
90* ThemeNaming: Hammacher and Schlemmer, named after a Sharper Image-type store that deals in high-end gadgetry.
91* TookALevelInBadass: Fink near the end.
92* TrainingFromHell: Par for the course for the Germans, but then self-inflicted by the new Team USA. How intense could it be? ''Both teams actually drank ram's piss.''
93--->'''Barry Badrinath:''' (after drinking Ram's piss) "Oh man, that's the most disgusting thing I've ever drank."
94--->'''Landfill:''' "I doubt that very much, playboy!"
95* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:"The Eye of the Jew."]]
96* TVGenius: Fink, who goes so far as to develop a scientific approach to ''drinking''.
97** AllThereInTheManual: The segment explaining "Fink's Position," used by all of the American team during the final line chug, didn't make it into the final cut of the film. It's included as a deleted scene on the DVD, however.
98* UglyGuyHotWife: Landfill, despite being an overweight competitive eater, has a ''very'' attractive blonde wife.
99* UnderdogsNeverLose
100* TheUnintelligible: The English team (''not'' British, as there's a separate Scottish team) is painted this way, with their use of Cockney rhyming slang. If you actually know Cockney, however, [[BilingualBonus you can understand them perfectly]].
101* WildTeenParty: The American team attends one of these to brush up on their drinking game skills.
102* WoundedGazelleGambit: The American team pulls one of these at the end of the film, [[spoiler:letting the Germans think that they're too drunk to continue until they reveal the bluff and prove that they're [[BaitAndSwitch not ''that'' drunk]].]]

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