Best friends Mitch (Norm MacDonald) and Sam (ArtieLange) need $50,000 to get Sam's father a life-saving heart operation. Problem is, both are completely incompetent when it comes to holding down a job. That is, until they figure out they can make a living out of the one thing they're actually good at: Revenge!Co-written by MacDonald, and directed by Bob Saget. Yes, the star of Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos!
Provides Examples Of:
Badass Grandpa: Pops, who used to be a boxer and scares the hell out of Mitch.
Beauty Inversion: Supermodel Rebecca Romijn plays the Bearded Lady.
Cannot Tell a Lie: Mitch can't say "no" normally when he lies. Sam calls him on it.
Comically Missing the Point: In the theater, one man of the audience fails to realize that the production has been completely ruined by our heroes and applauds with amusement and compliments the cast as if all of the scandalous events were part of the show.
Dumbass Has a Point: For a big lummox, Sam is surprisingly astute at times, like when he figures out Kathy likes Mitch because she's so pissed off at him, or when he points out how he knows when Mitch is lying.
Gone Horribly Right: A guy hires the pair to get back at some obnoxious and noisy neighbors. The pair break into the house and hide fish all over the house to stink up the place. Suddenly said neighbors arrive prompting the two to hide. The neighbors turn out to be mobsters carrying out a drug deal. One of them says "Smells like fish in here," which the others mistake for some sort of code phrase and accuse him of wearing a wire causing a brutal massacre to occur (see Sound Only Death below). Then the employer shows up...
Employer: That's it! The noise has GOT TO STOP! [sees the horrible carnage]...Oh my God! I never asked you to do this!
Groin Attack: Pops McKenna can really squeeze a pair of balls.
Mitch: Okay, are you with me based on the assumption that if I screw up, you all get to kick my ass?
*crowd shouts enthusiastically*
Humiliation Conga: Mitch gets two. At the beginning of the film, he loses his job and has his girlfriend throw him out on the street and then his car breaks down. After his mistake about the apartment building is revealed, he loses his new girl, loses his business, gets punched in the stomach by the landlord, gets kicked out of Sam's place, and has his car robbed while he's sleeping in it. At this point, he's so defeated all he can do is ask the thief to be quiet about it so he can sleep.
Sam: Remember in the second grade when we used those rusty soda can tops to become blood brothers? Well, it was really a bunch of trouble for nothing because we were already brothers!
Mitch: Yeah, that's right. Hey, you remember in fifth grade when I was under the monkey bars and I sneaked a peek at your sister's underwear? You remember that? No, no, I was sneaking a peek at my own sister's underwear!
Sam: Hahahaha, that's right! Oh yeah, and remember in the twelfth grade, you had sex with her? Ha—
The Masochism Tango: At the end of the film, Jimmy marries the Vietnamese prostitute who bit his nose off.
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Doctor Farthing (Chevy Chase) offers to push Pops up on the heart-donor list if they'll help him pay off his gambling debts.
Mushroom Samba: Mitch has this after eating tainted brownies.
Surprise Incest: When Mitch was in high school he had sex with Sam's sister... not knowing that the three of them all have the same dad. Cue Fridge Horror from Mitch and Sam when they realize it.
Trapped by Gambling Debts: Dr. Farthing is demanding $50,000 because he needs to pay off his bookie. In the ending Mitch notes that after performing the operation his bookie had him beaten to death anyway.
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