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Western Animation: Eight Crazy Nights

It's naughty. It's nice. It's animated.

Eight Crazy Nights is a heartwarming family holiday movie that will bring joy and laughter to people of all ages... yeah, right. It's actually about a Jewish drunk in his early thirties who learns not to be such an asshole to everyone. Why should (or why shouldn't) you check it out? Well, it involves rocket farts, snowman killing, old lady melon squeezing (not what it sounds like), and that's just the first five minutes.

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Actor Allusion: The film's title comes from a line in "The Hanukkah Song".
Adaptation Expansion: Whitey is based on a one-shot character from Sandler's album Stan and Judy's Kid.
Alter Kocker: Eleanore.
Anachronism Stew: Whitey dances to Styx's "Mr. Roboto" in a flashback scene taking place in 1981, while the song was actually released in 1983.
Animated Musical: Duh.
Anti Christmas Song: "Davey's Song".
Brick Joke: Davey picks on the fat kid in his team, telling him to wear a bra next time he comes on the court. We next see him at the mall trying on a bra in a changing stall.
Butt Monkey: Whitey, until the ending.
Beware the Nice Ones: Eleanore is ten pounds of ass-kicking in a five-pound bag. See the part when she's confronted by the man who stole her Liz Taylor wig as a child.
But Thou Must: A rare non-videogame example, Before Davey could leave the city on the bus all of the tires pop right in front of the place where the patch ceremony is being held.
Cloudcuckoolander: Eleanore.
Ahh, a burglar! Take what you want, but please don't chop my legs off!
Cool Old Guy: Whitey.
Disney Creatures Of The Farce: The deer.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Had Davey not got the town to acknowledge of how much of a jerk they've been to Whitey and what a service he did to the town, they wouldn't have given Whitey the recognition he deserved and Davey wouldn't be off the hook for the break-in.
Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Combined with Mushroom Samba (Whitey's drunk during this) and done by product placement of all things.
Hook Hand: "I wonder if that guy ever wiped his ass, with the wrong hand?!" "Yes..."
"I Am" Song
In The Style Of: The film's animation design is amazingly similar to the style used in another animated movie, The Iron Giant, as most of the animation crew worked on both movies.
Ink Suit Actor: Adam Sandler... ANIMATED!
"I Want" Song
Jerkass: Davey.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Davey becomes this by the end of the movie.
Multi Boobage: "Even Mrs. Selman with the one extra breast!"
Musicalis Interruptus: "And my trailer's caught on fire... FIRE?!"
My God, What Have I Done?: All of the townspeople. IN SONG!
Product Placement: The mall scene.
So Unfunny It's Funny: "Knock-knock." "Who's there?" "Dontcha." "Dontcha who?" "Don'tcha wish I wouldn't have gone to the hardware store so that I could've come up with a better joke this year?"
Spontaneous Choreography: It's to be expected from a movie that's basically a series of musicals.
Start of Darkness: Davey's descent to a life of drinking and jerkassery began because his parents died on Hanukkah.
Talking to Himself: Aside from Davey, Sandler also voices Whitey, Eleanore, and the deer.
Toilet Humor: A fair bit throughout. For instance, a deer "projectile shits" from laughing so hard. There's also Whitey's port-a-potty ride.
Transsexual: The mayor's wife. Though she looks more like a very obvious Crossdresser.
Two Scenes, One Dialogue: Or in this case, multiple scenes all singing in chorus.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: "See anything?" "Just some deer doing a pyramid."
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Said several times about Davey.
X-Ray Sparks: In the song where everyone is singing about how mean they've been to Whitey throughout the years, this happened to Whitey when he opted to be the TV antenna during a thunderstorm.