- Adorkable: Olive has big glasses, an adorable personality, red cowboy boots, pink leopard print shorts, sweatbands and she also comes off as a tad awkward but that just makes her even more endearing.
- Angst? What Angst?: After the "Super Freak" fiasco, the pageant officials decide not to press charges against the Hoovers as long as Olive never enters any beauty pageants in California again. After all the hell they went through to even get Olive to the pageant in the first place, their reaction is pretty much "That's okay with us". However, their understated reaction is also representative of their Character Development since they've discovered the superficiality behind child pageants and now know they weren't worth participating in aside from honoring Edwin's wishes. Their reaction isn't underwhelming, but actually satisfied.
- Crosses the Line Twice:
- Olive's beauty-pageant performance: an inappropriate and borderline erotic performance, set to the tune of "Super Freak", which, ironically, has her wearing more clothes than some of the other contestants.
- Grandpa dying? Tragic. The family stealing his body from the hospital so they won't "leave him behind" and then putting him in the trunk of their bus? Priceless.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: The biker dad, Kirby and Ms. California, for being the only three genuinely supportive people involved in the beauty pageant.
- Memetic Molester: The pageant announcer's creepy mannerisms and constant invasion of the pageant girls' personal space makes him come off as a pervert.
- Memetic Mutation:
- Dwayne screaming FUUUUCCCCKKK!!!!!!! after upon discovering he is colorblind, and therefore unable to join the Air Force. The clip has been taken out of context to express displeasure at various topics.
- "YEAH, ALRIGHT!"Explanation
- Moe: Olive is obviously not pageant material, but she's so adorable and determined that you can't help but love her.
- They Really Can Act:
- Abigail Breslin more than earned her Oscar nomination, especially considering her age and the fact she was part of an All-Star Cast.
- This movie is perhaps the first indication that Steve Carell could do more than just screwball comedies, around a decade prior to the performances he gave in Foxcatcher and The Big Short.
- Tough Act to Follow: Dayton and Farris didn't direct their next film, Ruby Sparks, until six years after this one. Their subsequent projects have tended to receive positive critical reception but they haven't reached nearly as much popularity as their first feature.
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