* {{Adorkable}}: Barry. He's a kind-hearted simpleton taxidermist who's desperate for a friend.
* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Needless to say, it's hard to find an audience when your movie revolves around a man being stalked and harassed.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Not only is "[[Music/TheBeatles Fool on the Hill]]" the most perfect song choice for this movie period, it plays over the creation of elaborate [[MundaneMadeAwesome Mouse Dioramas]].
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Creator/ChrisODowd's character Marco, the LargeHam blind fencer at the dinner, is an absolute scene stealer.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** [[Film/AntMan1 Five years later]], Tim's actor, Creator/PaulRudd, portrays a ManChild while a man in glasses serves as his StraightMan in contrast to Barry (Creator/SteveCarell) as the Manchild and Tim (Rudd) as the Straight Man. Bonus points for Creator/RandallPark (who has a minor role in this film) who appears in [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp this certain sequel]].
** This would not be the [[Film/TheWitches2020 only film]] where Creator/OctaviaSpencer interacts with animals, who are this time WasOnceAMan.
* HoYay: Tim and Barry definitely have their moments, especially when Barry's all chummy to Tim.
* MemeticMutation: [[https://youtu.be/MVRR0XlqA4g Therman’s laugh scene]].
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Future Oscar winner Creator/OctaviaSpencer as the animal psychic ("She's talking to the lobster!").
** Also comedic icon and star on ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'', Creator/RandallPark, as one of Tim's former coworkers.
* TheScrappy: Darla. She's a crazed StalkerWithACrush who tries to destroy Tim's life, and we are supposed to find it funny.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Common criticism to how it was Americanized.
* TheWoobie: Tim attends the dinner because he wants to impress Julie, and that decision [[spoiler: allowed a stalker to harass him and damage his house and car, and almost cost his relationship with Julie]]. Barry has been treated like there's nothing wrong with his personality, while Tim [[spoiler: and Barry's wife]] didn't tell him what people honestly thought about him and had to learn the hard way.
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