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1	* GeniusBonus:
2	** At one point Robby tells Linda "Take off my Music/VanHalen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up". The film is set in 1985, the year that singer Music/DavidLeeRoth left Van Halen.
3	** When the wedding photographer rattles off several celebrity couples, younger viewers may not realize all of them ended in rather public and acrimonious divorces after the time the movie was set in.
4	--->"Well, you know, you can just look at a couple and, uh, you can tell right away that they're gonna stay together forever. Like, uh, [[Creator/DonaldTrump Donald]] and Ivana; and [[Creator/WoodyAllen Woody]] and [[Creator/MiaFarrow Mia]]; and [[Creator/BurtReynolds Burt]] and Loni..."
5	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: This was one of the first films where Sandler played a decent guy with only a few angry, immature outbursts rather than the other way around, indicating he had some range. Sandler himself said he knew it was a different kind of movie and tried to dial it back.
6	* HilariousInHindsight: Alexis Arquette as a [[WholesomeCrossdresser Boy George]] impersonator, considering that she would come out as a trans woman less than a decade after the film's release.
7	* MemeticMutation: Woe to any poor girls names Julia who were alive when this film came out and had to endure [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore the hundreds of times]] they'd be called "Julia Gulia."
8	* MoralEventHorizon: When Glenn reveals that he plans to [[spoiler: cheat on Julia when they're married.]]
9	* OneSceneWonder:
10	** Creator/SteveBuscemi as a drunken best man giving a ''very'' bitter speech.
11	** Creator/JonLovitz as another wedding singer, who revels in his new business after Robbie quits.
12	--->"He's losing his mind ... ''and I'm reaping all the benefits.''" ''[Creepy grin]''
13	** Music/BillyIdol as, well... [[AsHimself Billy Idol]].
14	--->'''Billy Idol:''' Ah, Glenn doesn't deserve her. All he cares about are possessions. Fancy cars, CD players. Even women are possessions to him.\
15	'''Robbie:''' See? Billy Idol gets it. I don't know why she doesn't get it.
16	** The Old Guy at the bar. Gets some of the best lines in his scenes.
17	* TheWoobie: Robbie, especially during the "Love Stinks" scene. Julia also qualifies, as she is with someone who blatantly doesn't appreciate her.
18	* WTHCostumingDepartment: Nicely averted for the most part with very Eighties-appropriate looks...save for Julia's hair. How exactly does a late-'90s Dido Flip translate into 1985 fashion?

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