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A pair of comedy films starring Creator/RobSchneider as a male prostitute.

''Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo'' (1999), directed by Mike Mitchell. Deuce Bigalow (Schneider) is a down-and-out fish tank repairman who couldn't land a date to save his life. He is called upon one day to examine an exotic fish belonging to [[HighClassCallGirl high-class male prostitute]] Antoine Laconte (Creator/OdedFehr), and he determines that it is sick. Antoine asks him to stay at his house and take care of it while he is away. While he is doing so, Deuce ends up smashing the fish tank. In order to raise the money to buy a new one, he decides to masquerade as Antoine, only to find that some of his clients are a little... off-beat.

''Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'' (2005), directed by Mike Bigelow (yes, oddly, the director shares the same first name as that of the director of the first one and the same last name as that of the character). A SerialKiller in [[FreestateAmsterdam Amsterdam]] is going around killing male prostitutes. Deuce heads there to spend some time with his pimp, T.J. (Creator/EddieGriffin), from the first film, only for T.J. to end up being suspected of the murders. T.J. implores him to find the real killer by re-entering work as a gigolo and visiting former clients of those murdered, who likewise turn out to be an oddball bunch. Ironically enough, the sequel may be more famous for Creator/RogerEbert giving the flick one of the most legendary reviews of his career[[note]]Schneider tried to claim that a critic who hadn't won a Pulitzer Prize was "unqualified" to review the film - Ebert, as it turns out, ''had'' won a Pulitzer, and thus ''was'' qualified to say "Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks"[[/note]] than anything else.

Compare ''Series/{{Hung}}'', of which the plot is almost identical.

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!!These films provide examples of:

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Pretty much every female character in these films (due to various personal quirks rather than being bad people) except the love interest in each.
* AntiVillain: Antoine in the first movie. He's not a bad guy, he just reacts...[[BerserkButton very badly]] if anyone damages his things.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[YankTheDogsChain Averted both times]] - one has a wooden leg [[spoiler: and gets eaten by a shark in between films]], the other has neuroses that outdo the first movie's [[HollywoodTourettes Tourettes Girl]].
* BandOfBrothels: The Royal Order Of European Man Whores.
* BestialityIsDepraved: Deuce really, ''really'' loves fish...
* BigWHAT: When TJ discovers that the incident where he opens and checking out inside [[HighClassCallGirl Heinz Hummer]]’s pants by the canal is put on newspapers.
* ButterFace: The chick from Chernobyl in the second movie.
* ButtMonkey: Deuce, big time.
* CloudCuckoolander: Eva in the second film.
* CoversAlwaysLie: ''European Gigolo'' is set in The Netherlands but the poster shows Italy.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The first movie's title. ''All'' gigolos are male.
* DestinationDefenestration: When infiltrating the European Gigolo Union, Deuce convinces the members about TJ’s innocence. Their response? Throwing Deuce through the window.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Antoine is known to dish this out on anyone who defaces his home, even by the slightest extent.
-->'''T.J. Hicks''': You know, Antoine's got a really bad temper. One time, I dropped a cigar ash on his carpet, and he made me pick it up... [[{{Squick}} with my anus]].
* DoubleEntendre: Nearly 99% of what Neil says to Deuce. [[AmbiguouslyGay It kinda makes you wonder]].
-->'''Neil''': "You may not wanna ''blow your whole wad'' on this tank."
-->"I'm not trying to ''flip you over'' and ''do you dry here''."
-->"Last time I didn't get the money up front, I got ''the big stiffy''"
* ExtremeOmnivore: Parodied with T.J. in the first film. He's eating regular food... in his hot tub, where some of it ends up in.
* FanserviceExtra:
** PageThreeStunna Katie Downes as the woman who washes windows in the second film. With her breasts pressed against the window.
** The woman in Deuce's pot-induced fantasy in the second film.
* FreestateAmsterdam: The second film.
* FreudianThreat: In the first film, Deuce has a misunderstanding with a bartender which results in the following masterpiece deadpan one-liner from Creator/NormMacdonald:
-->'''Bartender''': Ahh, perhaps you don't understand. Ahh... if you don't pay me now, I'm going to uhh... take this swizzle-stick, and uhh... I'll be shoving that right up your pee-hole.
* GroinAttack:
** In the first movie, Claire (Creator/GailOGrady) tells Deuce that she wants her $500 dollars from him and when he refuses to pay her, she proceeds to kick him in the family jewels before attacking him much further.
** It is revealed in flashback that [[spoiler:Gaspar Voorsboch is killing gigolos because he blames them for the accident that apparently destroyed his own genitals]].
* HeavySleeper: One of his clients is narcoleptic.
* [[HighClassCallGirl High Class Gigolo]]: Antoine in the first movie. The second has an entire organization of these.
* HollywoodTourettes: One of the clients in the first film has it. So Deuce takes her to a baseball game, where everyone is already cursing anyway.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Deuce, of course.
* InsistentTerminology: The phrase "manwhore" instead of "gigolo", which is maintained in both movies
* InspectorJavert:
** Both movies have different ones. [[spoiler:Especially the second one, who's really the WellIntentionedExtremist.]]
** The inspector in the second one is so sure that T.J. is the culprit, he flat out ignores any and all other evidence brought to him no matter how important it may be to the case, rolls his eyes at other suspects, repeatedly demands Deuce tells him where T.J. is, and when Deuce brings him what may be key evidence his response is to 'snatch it from him and throw it into a nearby trashcan'. [[spoiler:Of course, it's all a cover, since the inspector is in fact the man-whore killer]].
* LoopholeAbuse: How Deuce gets off of his prostitution charges in the first film; while his clients did pay him to spend time with them, he never actually had sex with any of them. The one woman he did have sex with, Kate, her friends paid for it and not Kate, and he returned the money because he had fallen in love with her. Since Deuce was never paid to have sex with anyone, the judge dismisses the case.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: At the climax of both movies, involving all the Abhorrent Admirers (less so in the second).
* MistakenForGay: As a RunningGag, this happens to T.J. repeatedly in the second film.
* MoodWhiplash: In the first film, a sweet scene of Deuce and Kate abruptly transitions to a patient getting a numbing injection into his forehead.
* MythologyGag: Rob Schneider would get a LOT of mileage out of the line "that's a HUGE bitch!"
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The very first joke in the first movie had Deuce cleaning an aquarium in his birthday suit, much to the disgust of the guests. He tries to justify it by saying chemicals from a swimsuit can be bad for the fish.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The poster above for ''European Gigolo'', shows Deuce in Pisa, Italy. He never goes there, but rather instead, he goes to Amsterdam.
* NiceGuy: Deuce himself. He encourages each of Antoine's clients to seek more from life.
* PlatonicProstitution: What Deuce actually wound up doing. This proves crucial later on, as he gets arrested on and subsequently acquitted of prostitution charges.
* PocketProtector: While TakingTheBullet meant for Deuce, Jabba the Slut is saved from a crossbow bolt by the piece of chicken she had stuffed in her shirt.
* RhymingTitle: Both the films' subtitles ends with "Gigolo", which rhymes with "Bigalow".
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: In the opening scene of the sequel, when the first victim gigolo is about to be murdered: pushed to the train track. As the train comes closer, he screams in a high pitch like a sissy.
* SecondLove: Deuce's first love was his wife, Kate, who is later revealed to have [[spoiler:died of being eaten by a shark while honeymooning]]. In the sequel, he eventually found love again in Eva and they end up married.
* SheCleansUpNicely: One AbhorrentAdmirer in the second movie is really just ThePigPen.
* SneezeOfDoom: In the sequel, when Svetlana Revenko, one of Deuce's client with a dick nose, sneezes, her mucus fly wildly and smears on some people in the restaurant.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: One legged Kate from the first movie.]]
* TakingTheBullet: Played with. See PocketProtector above.
* TeenyWeenie: A major source of insecurity for Detective Fowler in the first film. We then learn that his wife wasn't sleeping around because of his thin dick - she was doing it because he was so neurotic about it.
-->'''Detective Fowler''': It's not too ''small'', it's too ''thin'', okay!? My dick is too thin! ([[SuddenlyShouting Yelling]]) I got a thin dick!
* ToiletHumor: The second film. To paraphrase Richard Roeper, it's "''the cinematic equivalent of a bunch of 13 year old boys in a locker room repeating dirty phrases they've just learned.''"
* UnusualEuphemism: The second movie spams these.
* VisualInnuendo: Look at the poster for ''European Gigolo''. What does the Leaning Tower of Pisa remind you of?
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Both films end with these;
** ''Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo'' reveals that [[spoiler:Deuce married Kate, Deuce's father became a male prostitute, the overweight Fluisa underwent extensive liposuction and now worked as a model in Victoria's Secret known as Naomi, Ruth opened an all girls school for Tourette's, Carol managed to fulfill her dream trip to France, T.J. starts his own reality show dedicated to his experiences as a male prostitute, and an incarcerated Antoine marries Tina]]. Also, Norm Macdonald worked on the film for one day.
** In ''Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'' (with the opening revealing that [[spoiler:Kate was killed in a shark attack shortly after the marriage]]), the epilogue reveals that [[spoiler:T.J. moves on from gay man-whoring to become a rapper, Deuce marries Eva and she is shown being pregnant, Gaspar is gang raped in prison, and Kate's prosthetic leg is turned into a bong by a woman without a leg]]. Also, Norm Macdonald wishes he had his own sitcom.


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