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* GroinAttack: PlayedForLaughs. During the final game, a person fires a T-shirt cannon at the audience, which hits one guy in the groin.
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* GroinAttack: PlayedForLaughs. During the final game, a person fires a T-shirt cannon at the audience, which hits hitting one guy in the groin.
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* JennysNumber: Jeremiah's house has a "For Sale" sign with 867-5309.
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* JesusTaboo: Probably the least religious film by Halestorm Entertainment. The only religious elements of this film are an opening prayer and a heavenly near-death experience. It's more [[TargetAudience targeted at a general Christian audience]] than a Mormon audience.
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[[caption-width-right:350:It's the last season of church ball. Are you ready to get schooled?]]
[[caption-width-right:350:It's the last season of church ball. Are you ready to get schooled?]]
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* JerkJock: Bruce and Blake Bracken from the Crystal Hills team, who bullied Dennis since they were kids.
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* JerkJock: Bruce and Blake Bracken from the Crystal Hills team, who has bullied Dennis since they were kids.
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* SeriousBusiness: It's a movie about church basketball.
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* SeriousBusiness: It's a movie about a church basketball.basketball tournament, and it's taken very seriously.
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* BookEnds: The movie starts with a fight at a basketball game and ends with a fight at a baseball game.
* BrickJoke: The crazy Mud Lake coach from the start of the movie appears in a post-credits scene wandering around the bleachers.
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* BookEnds: The movie starts with a fight at a basketball game game, and ends with a fight at a baseball game.
* BrickJoke:The crazy Rodney Munch, Mud Lake coach from temporary coach, seen at the start of the movie appears in a post-credits scene wandering around the bleachers.bleachers.
* ClusterBleepBomb: Mickey Morgan gets this as SirSwearsalot in a family-friendly film.
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* ClusterBleepBomb: Mickey Morgan gets this as SirSwearsalot in a family-friendly film.
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* FluffyCloudHeaven: Thurman apparently dies during a game and goes to a cloudy heaven
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* FluffyCloudHeaven: Thurman apparently dies during a game and goes to a cloudy heavenheaven, where he dances with his love interest.
* FunnyForeigner: Nadar Nazbarechov from Uzbekistan, who is still adapting to American culture and actually prefers soccer over basketball.
* FunnyForeigner: Nadar Nazbarechov from Uzbekistan, who is still adapting to American culture and actually prefers soccer over basketball.
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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Dennis gets new neighbors and is excited because the three kids are very tall and like basketball. However, it turns out their father Charles Higgins is very short.
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* JerkJock: Bruce and Blake Bracken from the Crystal Hills team, who bullied Dennis since they were kids.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Dennis gets new neighbors and is excited because the three kids are very tall and likebasketball. However, basketball, but it turns out their father Charles Higgins is very short.short. [[spoiler:However, Charles is the only one who wants to play church ball.]]
* MentorArchetype: Mosey, who gives the team some advice on playing basketball. In the DVD commentary, the creators say they wanted him to be a Yoda-like character.
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* MentorArchetype: Mosey, who gives the team some advice on playing basketball. In the DVD commentary, the creators say they wanted him to be a Yoda-like character.
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* TrainingMontage: After the team convinces Jeremiah Jones to join, the get a proper training montage.
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''Church Ball'' is a 2006 comedy film about a [[UsefulNotes/{{Basketball}} basketball]] competition between [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} wards from the LDS Church]]. The film's main character is Dennis Buckstead, who's tasked with assembling a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Ragtag Team of Misfits]] from the Mud Lake Ward to take on reigning champions from the Crystal Hills Ward.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* BookEnds: The movie starts with a fight at a basketball game and ends with a fight at a baseball game.
* BrickJoke: The crazy Mud Lake coach from the start of the movie appears in a post-credits scene wandering around the bleachers.
* DownToTheLastPlay: Jeremiah Jones scores the winning point.
* EyepatchOfPower: Bishop Linderman wears one.
* FluffyCloudHeaven: Thurman apparently dies during a game and goes to a cloudy heaven
* GroinAttack: PlayedForLaughs. During the final game, a person fires a T-shirt cannon at the audience, which hits one guy in the groin.
* HowManyFingers: Dennis Buckstead holds up his pointer finger and asks a player how many fingers he's holding up. The answer is "one thumb", though another player says he's improving because last time he said four.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Right after one player prays that they will play as good Christians, a fight breaks out.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Dennis gets new neighbors and is excited because the three kids are very tall and like basketball. However, it turns out their father Charles Higgins is very short.
* OpposingSportsTeam: Crystal Hills, the long-time reigning champions.
* PublicServiceAnnouncement: The movie starts with a black-and-white commercial about the spiritual benefits of church basketball.
* SeriousBusiness: It's a movie about church basketball.
* SirSwearsalot: Mickey Morgan, though all his swears are bleeped. It's often the reason Mud Lake gets a foul.
* TheSwearJar: One character asks if Mickey has ever tried a swear jar. He says that he did once, and that his wife used the money to buy a gazebo.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: [[spoiler:Long-time losers Mud Lake beats the reigning champions Crystal Hills]].
* WhoopeeCushion: The doctor tells Dennis Buckstead he has a fractured tail-bone, so he puts an inflatable cushion in his car seat. The cushion deflates when he sits on it, which a passing lady finds "charming".
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!!This film contains examples of:
* BookEnds: The movie starts with a fight at a basketball game and ends with a fight at a baseball game.
* BrickJoke: The crazy Mud Lake coach from the start of the movie appears in a post-credits scene wandering around the bleachers.
* DownToTheLastPlay: Jeremiah Jones scores the winning point.
* EyepatchOfPower: Bishop Linderman wears one.
* FluffyCloudHeaven: Thurman apparently dies during a game and goes to a cloudy heaven
* GroinAttack: PlayedForLaughs. During the final game, a person fires a T-shirt cannon at the audience, which hits one guy in the groin.
* HowManyFingers: Dennis Buckstead holds up his pointer finger and asks a player how many fingers he's holding up. The answer is "one thumb", though another player says he's improving because last time he said four.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Right after one player prays that they will play as good Christians, a fight breaks out.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Dennis gets new neighbors and is excited because the three kids are very tall and like basketball. However, it turns out their father Charles Higgins is very short.
* OpposingSportsTeam: Crystal Hills, the long-time reigning champions.
* PublicServiceAnnouncement: The movie starts with a black-and-white commercial about the spiritual benefits of church basketball.
* SeriousBusiness: It's a movie about church basketball.
* SirSwearsalot: Mickey Morgan, though all his swears are bleeped. It's often the reason Mud Lake gets a foul.
* TheSwearJar: One character asks if Mickey has ever tried a swear jar. He says that he did once, and that his wife used the money to buy a gazebo.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: [[spoiler:Long-time losers Mud Lake beats the reigning champions Crystal Hills]].
* WhoopeeCushion: The doctor tells Dennis Buckstead he has a fractured tail-bone, so he puts an inflatable cushion in his car seat. The cushion deflates when he sits on it, which a passing lady finds "charming".
