History Film / Anchorman2TheLegendContinues

** Champ comments that Canada can''t have news because nothing happens there.
* TemporaryBlindness: [[spoiler:Ron is rendered blind late in the second act. It turns out to be fixable, but Veronica doesn't let him know...]]

** Champ Kind was quite misogynistic in the first film but never said or did anything racist, as opposed to this film where his racism is his most prominent characteristic.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: [[spoiler: Ron spends the entire movie thinking Gary has psychic powers because Ron doesn't know what a psychologist is. The movie treats it like just another thing Ron is ignorant about but during the brawl at the end Gary saves Ron with Telekinesis.]]

* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: [[spoiler: Ron spends the entire movie thinking Gary has psychic powers because Ron doesn't know what a psychologist is. The movie treats it like just another thing Ron is ignorant about but during the brawl at the end Gary saves Ron with Telekinesis.]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Wes Mantooth:''']] Oh, I know I'm gonna burn in hell. So I sure as shit ain't afraid to burn here on earth.\\

--> '''Ron''': '''LET'S GO AND HAVE INTERRACIAL SEX!'''

-->'''Brian''': If you drank half a bottle of that, that’s…that’s like…that’s like nine or ten gulps. I mean, you couldn’t tell that was ketchup?
-->'''Ron''': Did I stutter? I'm '''BLIND'''!

** A subtle, possible unintentional one: Brick makes several references to the future that appear to be either gags (like talk of jetpacks) or anachronistic mistakes (like quoting the ''Ghostbusters'' theme a few years before it was released). They are never mentioned again, if at all. But then later... [[spoiler: in the final battle he has a sci-fi raygun of some sort.]] This might also be a callback to the first movie, where Brick mentions that many years later, he will be diagnosed with mental disability.

* TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight: [[spoiler: Ron spends the entire movie thinking Gary has psychic powers because Ron doesn't know what a psychologist is. The movie treats it like just another thing Ron is ignorant about but during the brawl at the end Gary saves Ron with Telekinesis.]]

-->'''Champ:''' (dismissive) 24 hours of sports?
-->'''Ron:''' [[SubvertedTrope That actually sounds pretty good to me.]]
-->'''Brian:''' I'd watch that.

-->'''Wesley Jackson:''' The most requested video of the day: a new band called "Burgundy's Sucking Chest Wound"!
-->'''Jeff Bullington:''' Jeff Bullington, ESPN All-Sports. Tonight's play of the game is me, extracting your spine from your dead body.
-->'''[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Gen. Stonewall Jackson's Ghost]]:''' May the Lord anoint this hallowed field of battle.

* ThisIsUnforgivable: Champ & Brian's reaction when [[spoiler:Ron yells at Brick]].

* TheCameo: There's a lot of them. Music/{{Drake}} appears early in the film [[MaleGaze commentating on Veronica's ass.]] [[Series/HappyEndings Eliza Coupe]] appears as one of the dolphin trainers when Ron briefly works at [=SeaWorld=].
** The climactic news brawl has [[spoiler: Creator/SachaBaronCohen as part of Creator/TheBBC World Service news team, Music/KanyeWest leading Creator/{{MTV}}, Creator/TinaFey and Creator/AmyPoehler from the ''Series/EntertainmentTonight'' news team, Creator/JimCarrey and Creator/MarionCotillard from the apologetic Canadian team, Creator/LiamNeeson leading the history news team with Creator/JohnCReilly as Stonewall Jackson's ghost, and Creator/WillSmith from the Creator/{{ESPN}} news team, ending with Creator/KirstenDunst as a Greek goddess giving them the okay to start the brawl]]!
** [[spoiler: Creator/HarrisonFord is Mack Tannen.]]

* MeleeATrois: The final battle has at least '''[[UpToEleven eight]]''' different factions, including Ron's team, Jack Lime's team, [[spoiler: the BBC reporters, the ''Entertainment Tonight'' team, the ESPN representatives, the Canadian news team, the History channel team, and Were-hyena Mack Tannen]] all brawling with each other.

* {{Corpsing}}: Creator/ChristinaApplegate can clearly be seen losing her shit just before each camera angle switch in the opening screaming scene.

The sequel to ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'', released in 2013 by Creator/{{Paramount}}, which currently owns the rights to the ''Anchorman'' franchise courtesy of their ownership of the Creator/DreamWorks library.

* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: After losing his bet with Ron and being forced to change his name to Jack Lame, Jack tries to get around the "embarrassing punishment" part by telling people that it's pronounced "Lamé", which annoys Ron.

** Jack tries this after losing the bet with Ron, [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY wanting to pronounce his new name of Jack Lame as "Jack Lamé"]], but is ultimately shot down by Ron.