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* HillbillyIncest: Raymus and Raylene are a southern hillbilly married couple who are also brother and sister, and they keep their deformed inbred son in the basement.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Despite being played by Iranian-American actor Amir Talai, the character of Raza Syed is implied to be Pakistani.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Despite being played by Iranian-American actor Amir Talai, Creator/AmirTalai, the character of Raza Syed is implied to be Pakistani.

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* TheStoolPigeon: Colton sells the duo out to Fox so they won't interfere with his wedding to Vanessa. And earlier, the old lady in the plane who mistakes Kumar for a terrorist.



* TakeThat: "It'll be like ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}'', except it won't suck".
* TheStoolPigeon: Colton sells the duo out to Fox so they won't interfere with his wedding to Vanessa. And earlier, the old lady in the plane who mistakes Kumar for a terrorist.

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* TakeThat: "It'll be like ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}'', except it won't suck".
* TheStoolPigeon: Colton sells the duo out to Fox so they won't interfere with his wedding to Vanessa. And earlier, the old lady in the plane who mistakes Kumar for a terrorist.
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* ToiletHumor: In the beginning, Kumar uses the toilet... while Harold is using the shower.
-->'''Kumar:''' ''(to Harold)'' May I remind you that we both just ate 30 burgers and 4 large orders of fries?

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Kumar decides to bring his weed and bong ''on the airplane'', which naturally gets him (and Harold) into a lot of trouble. Harold calls him out on this.



* FreeFallFight: [[spoiler: Agent Fox leaps out of an airplane without wearing a parachute just so he can shoot at the title heroes on the way down.]]

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* FreeFallFight: [[spoiler: Agent [[spoiler:Agent Fox leaps out of an airplane without wearing a parachute just so he can shoot at the title heroes on the way down.]]
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* DrunkDriver: Creator/NeilPatrickHarris. Except with shrooms...and a bottle of whiskey.

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* DrunkDriver: Creator/NeilPatrickHarris. Except with shrooms... and a bottle of whiskey.



'''Translator''': [[''in Korean'']] Your son..?\\
'''Harold's Dad''': [snaps] Oh, shut up! You're an idiot!\\
'''Translator''':...I don't know what you're saying buddy, fuck you.

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'''Translator''': [[''in Korean'']] '''Translator:''' [''in Korean''] Your son..?\\
'''Harold's Dad''': Dad:''' [snaps] Oh, shut up! You're an idiot!\\
'''Translator''':...'''Translator:''' ...I don't know what you're saying buddy, fuck you.



** [[spoiler:Colton]] turning Harold and Kumar over to Fox arguably cost him dearly, as the duo end up befriending the president and this enables them to clear their names, ruin his wedding, and he himself ended up ruining his reputation and losing everything. Things might've actually ended up going his way had he actually helped the duo like Harold suggested he would.

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** [[spoiler:Colton]] turning Harold and Kumar over to Fox arguably cost him dearly, as the duo end up befriending the president and this enables them to clear their names, ruin his wedding, and he himself ended up ruining his reputation and losing everything. Things might've actually ended up going his way had he actually helped the duo like Harold suggested he would.



-->''Look chief, I ain't gonna argue sublantics with you.''

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-->''Look --->''Look chief, I ain't gonna argue sublantics with you.''



-->''They thought you guys were terrorizers!''

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-->''They --->''They thought you guys were terrorizers!''



* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: George W. Bush(!) sees that the two aren't terrorists, and pardons them since they were wrongfully convicted.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: George W. Bush(!) Bush sees that the two aren't terrorists, and pardons them since they were wrongfully convicted.



* SameStoryDifferentNames: Kumar and George W. Bush - their relationship with their dads being similar. Of course they were both high when they were making the comparison.
* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. Harold and Kumar run off the road right by a group of tough looking black guys playing basketball. The guys take off as the black guys come towards them with tools...and a spare tire. Turns out they were just offering to help the guys with their car. One of them is an orthodontist.

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* SameStoryDifferentNames: Kumar and George W. Bush - -- their relationship with their dads being similar. Of course course, they were both high when they were making the comparison.
* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. Harold and Kumar run off the road right by a group of tough looking black guys playing basketball. The guys take off as the black guys come towards them with tools... and a spare tire. Turns out they were just offering to help the guys with their car. One of them is an orthodontist.



* ThreeWaySex: Kumar fantasizes about this with his ex-girlfriend, Vanessa, and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments a giant bag of weed]].

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* ThreeWaySex: Kumar fantasizes about this with his ex-girlfriend, Vanessa, and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a giant bag of weed]].

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* BurnTheWitch: It doesn't take much to accuse the two of being terrorists.

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* BurnTheWitch: BurnTheWitch:
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It doesn't take much to accuse the two of being terrorists.



* CallBack: Neil Patrick Harris leaves Harold and Kumar in ''White Castle'', claiming to be going "wherever God takes me." When they meet again in ''Escape From Guantanamo Bay'', the following exchange occurs:
--> '''Kumar:''' What are you doing here?
--> '''NPH:''' [[DeusExMachina This is where God took me.]]

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* CallBack: CallBack:
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Neil Patrick Harris leaves Harold and Kumar in ''White Castle'', claiming to be going "wherever God takes me." When they meet again in ''Escape From Guantanamo Bay'', the following exchange occurs:
--> '''Kumar:''' --->'''Kumar:''' What are you doing here?
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here?\\
'''NPH:''' [[DeusExMachina This is where God took me.]]



* FanService: The whole sequence with Raza takes place at a "bottomless party" (consisting 99% of attractive women) for no particular reason. The Blu-ray cut have an option to set the party scene into a "topless party".

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* FanService: {{Fanservice}}: The whole sequence with Raza takes place at a "bottomless party" (consisting 99% of attractive women) for no particular reason. The Blu-ray cut have an option to set the party scene into a "topless party".



-->'''Kumar''': [[spoiler: "It looks like Osama Bin Laden's beard!!!"]]

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-->'''Kumar''': [[spoiler: "It [[spoiler:It looks like Osama Bin Laden's beard!!!"]]beard!!!]]



-->'''Ron:''' They're supposed to be in prison! That is where terrorists belong! These fuckers are going down. Dead or alive. [to the translator] Tell them that in their fake ching-chong language.
-->'''Translator''': [[''in Korean'']] Your son..?
-->'''Harold's Dad''': [snaps] Oh, shut up! You're an idiot!
-->'''Translator''':...I don't know what you're saying buddy, fuck you.
* GreedyJew: Subverted when Fox tries to interrogate Harold and Kumar’s Jewish neighbors Rosenberg and Goldstein by bribing them with coins to get them to speak. After he leaves, they take the coins.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Dr. Beecher]] states his intention to protect Harold and Kumar just as he slips on some marbles and accidentally ejects himself, Harold, Kumar, and [[spoiler:Fox]]. [[spoiler:Beecher is killed within seconds, although he takes Fox with him unknowingly]].

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-->'''Ron:''' They're supposed to be in prison! That is where terrorists belong! These fuckers are going down. Dead or alive. [to the translator] Tell them that in their fake ching-chong language.
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language.\\
'''Translator''':
[[''in Korean'']] Your son..?
-->'''Harold's
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'''Harold's
Dad''': [snaps] Oh, shut up! You're an idiot!
-->'''Translator''':...
idiot!\\
'''Translator''':...
I don't know what you're saying buddy, fuck you.
* GreedyJew: Subverted when Fox tries to interrogate Harold and Kumar’s Kumar's Jewish neighbors Rosenberg and Goldstein by bribing them with coins to get them to speak. After he leaves, they take the coins.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Dr. Beecher]] states his intention to protect Harold and Kumar just as he slips on some marbles and accidentally ejects himself, Harold, Kumar, and [[spoiler:Fox]]. [[spoiler:Beecher is killed within seconds, although he takes Fox with him unknowingly]].

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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Dr. Beecher]] states his intention to protect Harold and Kumar just as he slips on some marbles and accidentally ejects himself, Harold, Kumar, and [[spoiler:Fox]]. [[spoiler:Beecher is killed within seconds.]]
** [[spoiler:Though unknowingly, he takes Fox with him]].

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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Dr. Beecher]] states his intention to protect Harold and Kumar just as he slips on some marbles and accidentally ejects himself, Harold, Kumar, and [[spoiler:Fox]]. [[spoiler:Beecher is killed within seconds.]]
** [[spoiler:Though unknowingly,
seconds, although he takes Fox with him]].him unknowingly]].



* {{Malaproper}}: Ron Fox.

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* {{Malaproper}}: {{Malaproper}}:
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Ron Fox.



* TheMillstone: Kumar. Starting with bringing a bong on a plane, and not getting any better from there.
* MisaimedFandom: In-universe example: agent Ron Fox tells Creator/NeilPatrickHarris that ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is what inspired him to work for the government hunting terrorists; however, ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is actually a ''satire'' of jingoistic fearmongers like Fox (the book isn't, but the movie is).

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* TheMillstone: Kumar. Starting with bringing a bong on a plane, and not getting any better from there.
* MisaimedFandom: In-universe example: agent Ron Fox tells Creator/NeilPatrickHarris that ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is what inspired him to work for the government hunting terrorists; however, ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is actually a ''satire'' of jingoistic fearmongers fear-mongers like Fox (the book isn't, but the movie is).
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Picking up right where the last movie left off, Harold (Creator/JohnCho) and Kumar (Creator/KalPenn), fresh from their trip to White Castle, have decided to follow Harold's neighbor Maria to Amsterdam. On the plane Kumar and the bong he brought on are mistaken for a terrorist and a bomb, and Kumar, along with his "North Korean accomplice" Harold, are thrown in Guantanamo Bay. The two escape and head to Texas, pursued by an overzealous Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security (Creator/RobCorddry). An old friend of theirs, Colton, is getting married to Kumar's ex-girlfriend Vanessa (Creator/DanneelAckles), and has invited President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush to the wedding. Harold wants to get a pardon; Kumar wants to ruin the wedding after wanting to reconnect with Vanessa as well as Colton betraying them.

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Picking up right where the last movie left off, Harold (Creator/JohnCho) and Kumar (Creator/KalPenn), fresh from their trip to White Castle, have decided to follow Harold's neighbor Maria to Amsterdam. On the plane Kumar and the bong he brought on are mistaken for a terrorist and a bomb, and Kumar, along with his "North Korean accomplice" Harold, are thrown in Guantanamo Bay. The two escape and head to Texas, pursued by an overzealous Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security (Creator/RobCorddry). An old friend of theirs, Colton, Colton (Creator/EricWinter), is getting married to Kumar's ex-girlfriend Vanessa (Creator/DanneelAckles), and has invited President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush to the wedding. Harold wants to get a pardon; Kumar wants to ruin the wedding after wanting to reconnect with Vanessa as well as Colton betraying them.

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* GagBoobs: Neil's prostitute Tits Hemmingway. Played by real life big bust model, Echo Valley. Those aren't prosthetics, her tits are really that big.
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* AngryBlackMan: Subverted. Harold and Kumar's car they borrow from Raza breaks down in a neighborhood that the two think is filled with angry black men and run off before a bunch of guys roll out equipment to help fix their car.
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* FanService: The whole sequence with Raza takes place at a "bottomless party" (consisting 99% of attractive women) for no particular reason. The Blu-ray cut have an option to set the party scene into a "topless scene".

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* FanService: The whole sequence with Raza takes place at a "bottomless party" (consisting 99% of attractive women) for no particular reason. The Blu-ray cut have an option to set the party scene into a "topless scene".party".
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* FanService: The whole sequence with Raza takes place at a "bottomless party" (consisting 99% of attractive women) for no particular reason.

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* FanService: The whole sequence with Raza takes place at a "bottomless party" (consisting 99% of attractive women) for no particular reason. The Blu-ray cut have an option to set the party scene into a "topless scene".

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