| 1 | * AccidentalAesop: As a motivational speaker, be careful of how you present your message(s) to your audience because they may end up taking them the wrong way and it can lead to them doing dangerous and/or humiliating things. |
| 2 | * BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Carl [[spoiler:getting his car towed ''by himself'', before his other self mocks him for being a "no man"]]. Carl runs away in horror, [[spoiler:the other Carl calls him a jackoff and is never seen again. Due to the ambiguity of his titular "yes man" behavior, it's unknown if it's the covenant playing tricks with his mind, [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness or if it's just his mind itself.]]]] |
| 3 | * CriticalDissonance: Critics were divided on the film, while audience reception was more forgiving. It became Jim Carrey's second highest-grossing film, though not able to out-gross his highest-grossing film ''Film/BruceAlmighty''. |
| 4 | * SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Carl cheering up the tearful and grumpy lady in the wedding caterer's parlour, simply by speaking to her in her mother tongue (Korean) thus proving that he would listen to her. After she vents to him about how uncared-for she feels and Carl reassuring her, she is more than happy to help him pick everything. He later sets her up with his former boss, to great success. |
| 5 | * ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Critics felt that the film was too similar to Carrey's 1997 film ''Film/LiarLiar''. |
| 6 | %%* MemeticMutation: The cover of the movie. |
| 7 | * SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n4Vb91aJQg&feature=related "Wish you would step back from that ledge my friend..."]] |
| 8 | * SignatureScene: Carl talking down a suicidal man to Music/ThirdEyeBlind's "Jumper". |
| 9 | %%* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/LiarLiar''. |
| 10 | * UnintentionalPeriodPiece: |
| 11 | ** With references to the mid-2000s indie scene, Website/MySpace, and early 2000s movies, this movie might result as a rather interesting time capsule. |
| 12 | ** Part of the plot involves Carl being commended and given a promotion for earning huge profits for his bank, a storyline that you'd now be ''very'' unlikely to see after the financial crash that occurred around the time the movie was released. Mitigated a little in that the bank's directors, while not out-and-out {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, are depicted as cold-hearted individuals who are quite happy to shut down branches that aren't sufficiently profitable, without any regard for their employees. |
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