YMMV / Road Trip

• Base-Breaking Character: Barry, which is a pretty much a given considering he is played by Tom Green. A wonderfully unusual side character whose bizarre comedy hijinks balance out the more straight, raunchy road-comedy plot at the film's center, or a nauseatingly unfunny weirdo who has little reason to exist in the movie other than questionably serving as an Unreliable Narrator to justify the movie's more implausible sequences. And that's before you get to the role this movie likely played in helping get Green's most infamous work off the ground.
• Director Displacement: Ivan Reitman was an executive producer on the film.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Rubin has become one, mainly because he provides the movie's (comparitavely) subtler moments of comedy as well as some unexpected Genius Bonus.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Some only watch it for Amy Smart given that she gets naked for a couple scenes.
• Moral Event Horizon: Jacob was merely a creepy God-botherer until he pretended to be Josh's professor on the phone and tricked him into thinking he had an extension on the crucial midterm.
• Nausea Fuel: The diner scene, considered the pinnacle of squick even in a movie that has its share of grossout moments. Doubles as Nightmare Fuel considering how effortlessly the server flips the french toast into his exterior, which suggests he's had a lot of practice hence many more victims.
• Retroactive Recognition: Danny Pudi a.k.a. Abed is Arash in the sequel.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions; The movie spends an awfully long time on Barry's obsession with feeding Rubin's pet snake, despite it having little relevance to plot other than cementing his established trait as a major Cloud Cuckoolander and delivering a fleeting Take That, Scrappy! moment towards Josh.
• Unintentional Period Piece: While this applies mostly for the technology-related reasons stated above, the fact that at least two characters are hyped up for what would eventually become Attack of the Clones not only instantly dates this to the start of the 2000s, but even indicates that it was written and filmed before the Hype Backlash for The Phantom Menace had hit full swing.

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