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1	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: During the scene where the kids are on a sugar rush, Tony suddendly gains MotionBlur when he runs in one shot. It could be RuleOfCool, but is still out of place and is never brought up again, especially after Tony stops wearing his Flash costume for the rest of the movie.
2	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
3	** Ben gradually going from being shy around the other kids to enjoying playing with his new friends.
4	** In one scene where Flash/Tony has gone missing, the grown-ups frantically search the house high and low. When they find his discarded Flash costume, they think it means he's gone missing. But then, they find an unfamiliar child casually eating cookies in his underwear, who turns out to be Tony. When they wonder why he's not in his Flash costume, he tells them he no longer wants to be Flash so much as he [[BeYourself wants to be Tony]]. Rather proud of he's left his phase, Charlie and the others are actually moved to see Tony's content with being a kid.
5	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Creator/EddieMurphy himself has 10 children, several of them born after this movie came out, to the point where he roasted Creator/BillCosby in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' monologue that he had become "America's Dad" now. While a lot of Murphy's comedies in the 2000s were panned, it's obvious that he didn't do this one just for the paycheck.
6	* HilariousInHindsight:
7	** The man from Child Services is asked to entertain the kids with a puppet show while the dads search for Tony/Flash. The "puppets" being used are action figures of Spock and Uhura and [[spoiler: they end up kissing]] at the end of the improvised puppet show.
8	** Marvin's correction on Tony's Franchise/TheFlash as Wally West became more funny now that Barry Allen had brought back to DC Universe and retook his identity from Wally West.
9	** One of the children solely speaking in Klingon became more into reality with an [[http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/08/a-man-once-tried-to-raise-his-son-as-a-native-speaker-in-klingon/ attempt]] by a father to make his son a native speaker of said language.
10	* {{Moe}}: All of the kids, but Ben is just beyond precious.
11	* SmallReferencePools: InUniverse, Tony imagined himself as Franchise/TheFlash but he seems to based his villains from other DC Universe heroes, which Marvin--a person with more knowledge in pop culture-- proceed to correct him and even explained to him about his arch-nemesis.
12	* TearJerker: The scene where Charlie has to explain to Ben that he's shutting down Daddy Day Care and returning to his old job, telling Ben that he'll be making more money and can buy him more toys. Ben then offers to sell all his toys so Charlie doesn't need money.
13	** Also borders on [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments poignantly heartwarming]] when one realizes Ben's basically telling his father he's more important to him than ''all the toys he owns''. It's not every child who voices they love their parent ''this much''.
14	* ValuesDissonance: In one scene, Charlie and Phil are MistakenForGay by some mothers, and their choice of words makes things worse, with the mothers being visibly uncomfortable. While that humor might have been acceptable in 2003, it comes off as incredibly homophobic by today's standards.

Context YMMV / DaddyDayCare