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** The "Black Sheep" sequence is an obvious reference to [[Music/TheBeachBoysSmile ''Smile'' by The Beach Boys]] and its legendarily troubled recording sessions. Less obvious is the fact that the line "I'm losing my fleece from trying, I'm losing no sleep, I'm dying" can be sung directly to the tune of the chorus to "Good Vibrations".
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** The "Black Sheep" sequence is an obvious reference to [[Music/TheBeachBoysSmile ''Smile'' by The ''Music/{{SMiLE|The Beach Boys]] Boys}}'' and its legendarily troubled recording sessions. Less obvious is the fact that the line "I'm losing my fleece from trying, I'm losing no sleep, I'm dying" can be sung directly to the tune of the chorus to "Good Vibrations".
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** The "Black Sheep" sequence is an obvious reference to Music/TheBeachBoysSmile and its legendarily troubled recording sessions. Less obvious is the fact that the line "I'm losing my fleece from trying, I'm losing no sleep, I'm dying" can be sung directly to the tune of the chorus to "Good Vibrations".
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** The "Black Sheep" sequence is an obvious reference to Music/TheBeachBoysSmile [[Music/TheBeachBoysSmile ''Smile'' by The Beach Boys]] and its legendarily troubled recording sessions. Less obvious is the fact that the line "I'm losing my fleece from trying, I'm losing no sleep, I'm dying" can be sung directly to the tune of the chorus to "Good Vibrations".
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** Dewey sawing the couch in half after a breakup? Music/JohnDenver did that in real life.
** The "Black Sheep" sequence is an obvious reference to Music/TheBeachBoysSmile and its legendarily troubled recording sessions. Less obvious is the fact that the line "I'm losing my fleece from trying, I'm losing no sleep, I'm dying" can be sung directly to the tune of the chorus to "Good Vibrations".
** In Jack White's cameo as Elvis, he calls himself "The King" while showing off his karate skills to Dewey. In real life, Elvis ''hated'' being called "The King" or "The King of Rock and Roll"--in his own opinion, the only person worth being called "The King of Rock and Roll" was Music/FatsDomino, and the only person worth being called "The King" was Jesus Christ.
** The old man who gives Dewey his first guitar? He's played by a real musician: David "Honeyboy" Edwards, who at the time of the film's release was [[LastOfHisKind the last surviving Mississippi Delta bluesman of the 1930s.]] He was the last person to ever see Music/RobertJohnson alive, and the scene vaguely resembles the story of Johnson's alleged DealWithTheDevil.
** The "Black Sheep" sequence is an obvious reference to Music/TheBeachBoysSmile and its legendarily troubled recording sessions. Less obvious is the fact that the line "I'm losing my fleece from trying, I'm losing no sleep, I'm dying" can be sung directly to the tune of the chorus to "Good Vibrations".
** In Jack White's cameo as Elvis, he calls himself "The King" while showing off his karate skills to Dewey. In real life, Elvis ''hated'' being called "The King" or "The King of Rock and Roll"--in his own opinion, the only person worth being called "The King of Rock and Roll" was Music/FatsDomino, and the only person worth being called "The King" was Jesus Christ.
** The old man who gives Dewey his first guitar? He's played by a real musician: David "Honeyboy" Edwards, who at the time of the film's release was [[LastOfHisKind the last surviving Mississippi Delta bluesman of the 1930s.]] He was the last person to ever see Music/RobertJohnson alive, and the scene vaguely resembles the story of Johnson's alleged DealWithTheDevil.
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* MemeticMutation: The movie parodies the tropes and cliches of music biopics so effectively that it's basically become impossible to make one nowadays without someone, somewhere, pointing out that ''Walk Hard'' has ''already'' made fun of it, with a handy quote at the ready to prove it.
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* MemeticMutation: The movie parodies the tropes and cliches of music biopics so effectively that it's basically become impossible to make one nowadays without someone, somewhere, pointing out that ''Walk Hard'' has ''already'' made fun of it, with a handy quote at the ready to prove it.
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* QuestionableCasting: The choices to portray musicians, for the purposes of comedy. Weirdly, all the choices somehow make ''sense'' when viewed through the twisted logic of the film.
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* WTHCastingAgency: The choices to portray musicians, for the purposes of comedy. Weirdly, all the choices somehow make ''sense'' when viewed through the twisted logic of the film.
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** Creator/PaulRudd, Creator/JackBlack, Creator/JustinLong and Jason Schwartzman as bickering John Lennon, Paul [=McCartney=], George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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** Creator/PaulRudd, Creator/JackBlack, Creator/JustinLong and Jason Schwartzman Creator/JasonSchwartzman as bickering John Lennon, Paul [=McCartney=], George Harrison Music/JohnLennon, Music/PaulMcCartney, Music/GeorgeHarrison and Ringo Starr.Music/RingoStarr.
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* GeniusBonus: The movie has a ton of in-jokes and stylings covering the history of rock and roll - for instance, Ringo Starr's suggestion for a song "about an octopus" is waved off by his bandmates; "Octopus's Garden" was one of only ''two'' Beatles songs where Ringo received sole writing credit. The more you know about the genres and musicians the film covers, the funnier it is.
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* MemeticMutation: The movie parodies the tropes and cliches of music biopics so effectively that it's basically become impossible to make one nowadays without someone, somewhere, pointing out that ''Walk Hard'' has ''already'' made fun of it, with a handy quote at the ready to prove it.
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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Dewey reconnecting with his many, many children after his CreatorBreakdown and getting his life back on track as a result. While the [[ExplosiveBreeder obscene number of children]] is played for absurdity, their actual bonding is played as genuinely sweet. Part of the montage is even scored to a lovely cover of [[Series/ThePartridgeFamily "Come On Get Happy."]]
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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Dewey reconnecting with his many, many children after his CreatorBreakdown and getting his life back on track as a result. While the [[ExplosiveBreeder [[MassivelyNumberedSiblings obscene number of children]] is played for absurdity, their actual bonding is played as genuinely sweet. Part of the montage is even scored to a lovely cover of [[Series/ThePartridgeFamily "Come On Get Happy."]]
