* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: In a movie focused around marching bands, there's bound to be a lot of this. The ending competition is full of it.
* HilariousInHindsight: Devon's line "I don't have a whole bunch of kids runnin' around" is impossible to take seriously anymore, given that, since the start of TheNewTwenties, Nick Cannon has fathered ''seven'' children and counting (and he already had three by that point, for a total of ten).
* HoYay: Devon and Sean, fullstop. And there's the moment with Jayson and Devon, too...
* MoralEventHorizon: Mr. Wade asking Devon for knowledge about Atlanta A&T's routines.
* SpecialEffectFailure: The printer that produces the sheet music is an ink-jet printer, but the sound of a dot-matrix printer is heard.