Previews: Official Trailer
This film has examples of:
- 20 Minutes into the Past: The film takes place in 2017 and finishes in 2020.
- Bait-and-Switch: At the film's end, it looks as if Lou had passed away. Turns out, she was still alive and only away in the garage getting chips for the Super Bowl party.
- Book Ends: The film begins and ends with the quartet watching an NFL playoff game featuring Tom Brady.
- Food Slap: During the spicy hot wing eating challenge, one contestant splashes some milk in his face after rubbing hot sauce in his eye.
- Foreshadowing: Tons for why Lou wants to go to this game so desperately.
- When Betty asks Lou why they didn't take her car, she claims that her car is in the shop.
- Lou getting more and more aggravated and desperate every time something goes wrong before the Super Bowl.
- Lou refusing to answer her daughter Sara's phone calls.
- Lou refusing to open an envelope.
- Heroism Motive Speech: After the four women sneak into the Patriots coordinators' booth, Lou gives Tom Brady a motivational speech which gives him just the spirit he needs to help him and his team win the Super Bowl.
- I Ate WHAT?!: Lou, Trish, Maura, and Betty enjoy some gummy bears they're given at a party but the women are shocked when they learn too late that what they've just eaten marijuana gummies.
- Insistent Terminology: Betty has to keep reminding Lou that she's 74, not 80.
- The Last Dance: Why Lou wanted to go to the Super Bowl. She fears that her cancer has come back as she doesn't want to go through chemotherapy again.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The end credits shows the women with Tom Brady enjoying a tropical vacation at a beach, asking him what are his plans for retirement in the future and joking that it would be a bad thing if he should retire from playing football. Brady's retirement two days before the film's theatrical release was announced on a beach.
- Morality Pet: Lou and Tom Brady seem to be this for one another as they both give each other the motivation they need in life to accomplish something: Tom inspired Lou to fight through chemotherapy and Lou inspired Tom to win the Super Bowl.
- Mushroom Samba: Trish, Lou, Betty, and Maura accidentally become high from eating weed gummy bears... though what kind of marijuana would lead to one hallucinating that you and everyone around you look like Guy Fieri is anyone's guess.
- Precision F-Strike: After Lou's motivational speech, Tom Brady says to his team "Let's fucking do this!" and the Patriots hit the field.
- Scatter Brained Senior: Betty has to remind her husband Mark a few times to wear pants before he leaves the house to teach at a university.
- Shout-Out:
- While attending a party, the women say that the mansion they're at is so big, it probably has "one of those secret Eyes Wide Shut themed sex parties going on somewhere". Maura later finds a mask like those worn at said parites and puts it on.
- Gugu makes a reference to Lady Gaga preparing for her halftime show.
- Sorry That I'm Dying: Lou confesses to her friends that she fears that her cancer may have returned.
- Too Desperate to Be Picky: Betty is so hungry that she enters herself into a spicy hot wing eating challenge just to have something to eat. As Guy Fieri assures her, she doesn't have to eat the whole wing.
- The Unreveal: We never learn if Lou's cancer had returned or not. Considering that she's still alive and well at the end, it may be the latter.
- Wham Line: Lou to her friends: "I bought those tickets online."
- Wham Shot: When the ticketmaster doesn't accept the four tickets Lou, Betty, Trish, and Maura have to enter the Superbowl.
- You Keep Using That Word: Betty keeps calling her fanny pack a "strap-on", even though her friends have to remind her that's not actually the word for it.
