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Best friends Mitch ([[Creator/NormMacDonald Norm [=MacDonald=]]]) and Sam ([[Creator/ArtieLange]]) (Creator/ArtieLange) need $50,000 to get Sam's father a life-saving heart operation. Problem is, both are completely incompetent when it comes to holding down a job. That is, until they figure out they can make a living out of the one thing they're actually good at: Revenge!
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Best friends Mitch ([[Creator/NormMacDonald Norm [=MacDonald=]]]) and Sam ([[Series/MadTV Artie]] [[Radio/TheHowardSternShow Lange]]) need $50,000 to get Sam's father a life-saving heart operation. Problem is, both are completely incompetent when it comes to holding down a job. That is, until they figure out they can make a living out of the one thing they're actually good at: Revenge!
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Best friends Mitch ([[Creator/NormMacDonald Norm [=MacDonald=]]]) and Sam ([[Series/MadTV Artie]] [[Radio/TheHowardSternShow Lange]]) ([[Creator/ArtieLange]]) need $50,000 to get Sam's father a life-saving heart operation. Problem is, both are completely incompetent when it comes to holding down a job. That is, until they figure out they can make a living out of the one thing they're actually good at: Revenge!
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* MoodWhiplash: Happens as Mitch and Sam stand on a rooftop and gaze up at the stars.
-->'''Mitch:''' Y'know, when I was young, my mom used to tell me that the lights we see in the sky are from stars that burned out millions of years ago. It's like life, you know? I mean, something can be one way you think all your life, and then...and then in reality it's completely different.\\
'''Sam:''' Yeah...\\
'''Man on sidewalk below:''' Hey! I'm gonna kill you, asshole!\\
'''Mitch:''' ''*looks down*'' Sam, are you pissing off the side of the building?\\
'''Sam:''' ''*zipping up*'' Sorta.
-->'''Mitch:''' Y'know, when I was young, my mom used to tell me that the lights we see in the sky are from stars that burned out millions of years ago. It's like life, you know? I mean, something can be one way you think all your life, and then...and then in reality it's completely different.\\
'''Sam:''' Yeah...\\
'''Man on sidewalk below:''' Hey! I'm gonna kill you, asshole!\\
'''Mitch:''' ''*looks down*'' Sam, are you pissing off the side of the building?\\
'''Sam:''' ''*zipping up*'' Sorta.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Hilariously inverted. [[spoiler:At the end of the film Jimmy gets married to the Vietnamese prostitute who bit his nose off, and she's a ''complete'' psychopath.]]
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* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted hard. Mitch punches one of the frat boys in the face and is in a very intense amount of pain afterwards, partly because he has almost no fighting experience.
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* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted hard.Averted. Mitch punches one of the frat boys in the face and is in a very intense amount of pain afterwards, partly because he has almost no fighting experience.
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* DeadpanSnarker: It's Norm freaking [=McDonald=]. Of course this is a trope.
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* SmugSnake: Travis Cole. No surprise given he is played by Christopher McDonald.
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* SmugSnake: Travis Cole. No surprise given he is played by Christopher McDonald.[=McDonald=].
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* TheCameo: DonRickles as the theater owner. Also, Creator/AdamSandler as {{Satan}}, and Gary Coleman as himself. Oh, also, John Goodman as the mayor and Rebecca Romijn as the Bearded Lady.
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* EvilIsPetty: Travis Cole wants the buolding torn down for money. Getting Mitch and San to do it was just for cruelty.
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* EvilIsPetty: Travis Cole wants the buolding building torn down for money. Getting Mitch and San Sam to do it was just for cruelty.
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* DisposableSexWorker: Parodied when Mitch plays a prank that makes it appear that all the vehicles at a used car dealership have dead hookers in the trunks.
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* EvilIsPetty: Travis Cole wants the buolding torn down for money. Getting Mitch and San to do it was just for cruelty.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Cole can smile and reassure You he is good while plotting to ruin Your entire life for a minor mistake.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Cole can smile and reassure You he is good while plotting to ruin Your entire life for a minor mistake.
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* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted hard. Mitch punches one of the frat boys in the face and is in a very intense amount of pain afterwards, partly because he has almost no fighting experience.
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* TheSlacker: Mitch, of course.
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* TheCameo: DonRickles as the theater owner. Also, Creator/AdamSandler as {{Satan}}, and GaryColeman Gary Coleman as himself. Oh, also, JohnGoodman John Goodman as the mayor and RebeccaRomijn Rebecca Romijn as the Bearded Lady.
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* DeadpanSnarker: It's Norm freaking McDonald. Of course this is a trope.
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* DeadpanSnarker: It's Norm freaking McDonald.[=McDonald=]. Of course this is a trope.
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Co-written by [=MacDonald=], and directed by BobSaget. Yes, the star of ''FullHouse'' and ''AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''!
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Co-written by [=MacDonald=], and directed by BobSaget. Creator/BobSaget. Yes, the star of ''FullHouse'' ''Series/FullHouse'' and ''AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''!
''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''!
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Pretty much the entire point of the film.
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* RealityEnsues: Mitch plays a prank on Mildred's abusive boss that damages the business and gets her fired.
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* RousingSpeech: Parodied. Mitch gives the residents of the building a speech to convince them to aid in scheme. When they aren't suitably motivated, he adds in the bit listed in HeroicSacrifice.
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Best friends Mitch (NormMacDonald) ([[Creator/NormMacDonald Norm [=MacDonald=]]]) and Sam ([[MadTV ([[Series/MadTV Artie]] [[HowardStern [[Radio/TheHowardSternShow Lange]]) need $50,000 to get Sam's father a life-saving heart operation. Problem is, both are completely incompetent when it comes to holding down a job. That is, until they figure out they can make a living out of the one thing they're actually good at: Revenge!
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* TheCameo: DonRickles as the theater owner. Also, AdamSandler Creator/AdamSandler as {{Satan}}, and GaryColeman as himself. Oh, also, JohnGoodman as the mayor and RebeccaRomijn as the Bearded Lady.
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* BeautyInversion: RebeccaRomijn Supermodel Rebecca Romijn plays the Bearded Lady.
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* BadassGranda: Pops, who used to be a boxer and scares the hell out of Mitch.
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* BadassGranda: BadassGrandpa: Pops, who used to be a boxer and scares the hell out of Mitch.
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* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Dr. Farthing is demanding $50,000 because he needs to pay off his bookie. [[spoiler:In the ending Mitch notes that Farthing got into even ''further'' debt after performing the operation and his bookie had him beaten to death.]]
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* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Dr. Farthing is demanding $50,000 because he needs to pay off his bookie. [[spoiler:In the ending Mitch notes that Farthing got into even ''further'' debt after performing the operation and his bookie had him beaten to death.death anyway.]]
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* SurpriseIncest: When Mitch was in high school he had sex with Sam's sister... not knowing that the three of them all have the same dad.
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* SurpriseIncest: When Mitch was in high school he had sex with Sam's sister... not knowing that the three of them all have the same dad. Cue FridgeHorror from Mitch and Sam when they realize it.
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* TheMasochismTango: [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Jimmy marries the Vietnamese prostitute who bit his nose off.]]
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* HumiliationConga: Mitch gets two. At the beginning of the film, he loses his job and has his girlfriend throw him out on the street and then his car breaks down. After his mistake about the apartment building is revealed, he loses his new girl, loses his business, gets punched in the stomach by the landlord, gets kicked out of Sam's place, and has his car robbed while he's sleeping in it. At this point, he's so defeated all he can do is ask the thief to be quiet about it so he can sleep.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: The idea behind Mitch and Sam's revenge business. They'll get back at the people in your life that did you wrong.
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* CannotTellALie: Mitch can't say "no" normally when he lies. Sam calls him on it.
* ChainsawGood: The off-screen drug deal fight.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* RatedMForManly: Pops.
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-->Sort of.of.
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* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Dr. Farthing is demanding $50,000 because he needs to pay off his bookie. [[spoiler:In the ending Mitch notes that Farthing got into even ''further'' debt after performing the operation and his bookie had him beaten to death.]]
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Best friends Mitch ({{Norm MacDonald}}) (NormMacDonald) and Sam ([[MadTV Artie]] [[HowardStern Lange]]) need $50,000 to get Sam's father a life-saving heart operation. Problem is, both are completely incompetent when it comes to holding down a job. That is, until they figure out they can make a living out of the one thing they're actually good at: Revenge!
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[[caption-width-right:302:Revenge is sweet(and surprisingly affordable)!]]
Best friends Mitch ({{Norm MacDonald}}) and Sam ([[MadTV Artie]] [[HowardStern Lange]]) need $50,000 to get Sam's father a life-saving heart operation. Problem is, both are completely incompetent when it comes to holding down a job. That is, until they figure out they can make a living out of the one thing they're actually good at: Revenge!
Co-written by [=MacDonald=], and directed by BobSaget. Yes, the star of ''FullHouse'' and ''AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''!
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* BeautyInversion: RebeccaRomijn plays the Bearded Lady.
* TheCameo: DonRickles as the theater owner. Also, AdamSandler as {{Satan}}, and GaryColeman as himself. Oh, also, JohnGoodman as the mayor.
* ComedicSociopathy
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the theater, one man of the audience fails to realize that the production has been completely ruined by our heroes and applauds with amusement and compliments the cast as if all of the scandalous events were part of the show.
* DumbassHasAPoint: For a big lummox, Sam is surprisingly astute at times, like when he figures out Kathy likes Mitch because she's so pissed off at him, or when he points out how he knows when Mitch is lying.
--> '''Sam''': Did you ever kill anyone?
--> '''Mitch''': No.
--> '''Sam''': Did you ever climb Mt. Everest?
--> '''Mitch''': No.
--> '''Sam''': Okay. Did you ever say [[StupidSexyFlanders you can see]] why women find SeanConnery sexy?
--> '''Mitch''': [[BlatantLies Nnooooo...!]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: A guy hires the pair to get back at some obnoxious and noisy neighbors. The pair break into the house and hide fish all over the house to stink up the place. Suddenly said neighbors arrive prompting the two to hide. The neighbors turn out to be mobsters carrying out a drug deal. One of them says "Smells like fish in here," which the others mistake for some sort of code phrase and accuse him of wearing a wire causing a brutal massacre to occur (see SoundOnlyDeath below). Then the employer shows up...
-->'''Employer''': That's it! The noise has GOT TO STOP! ''[sees the horrible carnage]''...Oh my God! I never asked you to do this!
* GroinAttack: Pops [=McKenna=] can really squeeze a pair of balls.
--> [[HeliumSpeech Note to self: Forget about fathering children.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Kind of a funny example:
-->'''Mitch''': Are you with me?
-->''*dead silence*''
-->'''Mitch''': Okay, are you with me based on the assumption that if I screw up, you all get to kick my ass?
-->''*crowd shouts enthusiastically*''
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: After they find out they're half-brothers, Mitch and Sam reminisce.
-->'''Sam''': Remember in the second grade when we used those rusty soda can tops to become blood brothers? Well, it was really a bunch of trouble for nothing because we were already brothers!
-->'''Mitch''': Yeah, that's right. Hey, you remember in fifth grade when I was under the monkey bars and I sneaked a peek at your sister's underwear? You remember that? No, no, I was sneaking a peek at my ''own'' sister's underwear!
-->'''Sam''': Hahahaha, that's right! Oh yeah, and remember in the twelfth grade, [[BrotherSisterIncest you had sex with her?]] Ha—
-->''*awkward silence*''
-->'''Mitch''': Okay, enough reminiscing.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Mitch finds out after Pops' heart attack that he's his father.
-->'''Kathy''': You two are brothers?
-->'''Mitch''': Yeah, it's a long story.
-->'''Sam''': My dad boned his mom.
-->'''Mitch''': Okay, it's a short story.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Doctor Farthing (ChevyChase) offers to push Pops up on the heart-donor list if they'll help him pay off his gambling debts.
* MushroomSamba: Mitch has this after eating tainted brownies.
-->[[{{Satan}} We eat the pig, and then together we BURN!]]
* ParallelPornTitles: ''Film/MenInBlack Who Like To Have Sex With Each Other''
* RapeDiscretionShot: PlayedForLaughs with the PrisonRape scene. Not only is the rape itself not shown, but Mitch's reaction is comically understated.
* RunningGag: Mitch's Notes to Self; actually becomes a plot point.
* SoundOnlyDeath: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The fish scene.]]
-->Show this guy what we do to cops!
-->''*Gunshots*''
-->Say hello to the Devil for me!
-->Behind you!
-->I've been hit! Pablo, kill them! Kill them!!!
-->Make your gun spark(?) like the Devil himself!
-->''*More Gunshots*''
-->Burn in hell, you bastards!
-->Oh, sweet Jesus, he's got me!
-->Mark, over there! Grab it! I use it to cut firewood!
-->''*[[ChainsawGood RRRNNNNNN!!!]]*''
-->Now you're killing me with that chainsaw!
-->[[NarmCharm He took away my chainsaw, and now he's using it on me!]]
-->Oh, God, is that a hand grenade?
-->''*Loud Explosion*''
* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Dr. Farthing is demanding $50,000 because he needs to pay off his bookie.
* UrineTrouble:
-->Sam, are you pissing off the side of the building?
-->Sort of.
[[caption-width-right:302:Revenge is sweet(and surprisingly affordable)!]]
Best friends Mitch ({{Norm MacDonald}}) and Sam ([[MadTV Artie]] [[HowardStern Lange]]) need $50,000 to get Sam's father a life-saving heart operation. Problem is, both are completely incompetent when it comes to holding down a job. That is, until they figure out they can make a living out of the one thing they're actually good at: Revenge!
Co-written by [=MacDonald=], and directed by BobSaget. Yes, the star of ''FullHouse'' and ''AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''!
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!!!Tropes
* BeautyInversion: RebeccaRomijn plays the Bearded Lady.
* TheCameo: DonRickles as the theater owner. Also, AdamSandler as {{Satan}}, and GaryColeman as himself. Oh, also, JohnGoodman as the mayor.
* ComedicSociopathy
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the theater, one man of the audience fails to realize that the production has been completely ruined by our heroes and applauds with amusement and compliments the cast as if all of the scandalous events were part of the show.
* DumbassHasAPoint: For a big lummox, Sam is surprisingly astute at times, like when he figures out Kathy likes Mitch because she's so pissed off at him, or when he points out how he knows when Mitch is lying.
--> '''Sam''': Did you ever kill anyone?
--> '''Mitch''': No.
--> '''Sam''': Did you ever climb Mt. Everest?
--> '''Mitch''': No.
--> '''Sam''': Okay. Did you ever say [[StupidSexyFlanders you can see]] why women find SeanConnery sexy?
--> '''Mitch''': [[BlatantLies Nnooooo...!]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: A guy hires the pair to get back at some obnoxious and noisy neighbors. The pair break into the house and hide fish all over the house to stink up the place. Suddenly said neighbors arrive prompting the two to hide. The neighbors turn out to be mobsters carrying out a drug deal. One of them says "Smells like fish in here," which the others mistake for some sort of code phrase and accuse him of wearing a wire causing a brutal massacre to occur (see SoundOnlyDeath below). Then the employer shows up...
-->'''Employer''': That's it! The noise has GOT TO STOP! ''[sees the horrible carnage]''...Oh my God! I never asked you to do this!
* GroinAttack: Pops [=McKenna=] can really squeeze a pair of balls.
--> [[HeliumSpeech Note to self: Forget about fathering children.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Kind of a funny example:
-->'''Mitch''': Are you with me?
-->''*dead silence*''
-->'''Mitch''': Okay, are you with me based on the assumption that if I screw up, you all get to kick my ass?
-->''*crowd shouts enthusiastically*''
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: After they find out they're half-brothers, Mitch and Sam reminisce.
-->'''Sam''': Remember in the second grade when we used those rusty soda can tops to become blood brothers? Well, it was really a bunch of trouble for nothing because we were already brothers!
-->'''Mitch''': Yeah, that's right. Hey, you remember in fifth grade when I was under the monkey bars and I sneaked a peek at your sister's underwear? You remember that? No, no, I was sneaking a peek at my ''own'' sister's underwear!
-->'''Sam''': Hahahaha, that's right! Oh yeah, and remember in the twelfth grade, [[BrotherSisterIncest you had sex with her?]] Ha—
-->''*awkward silence*''
-->'''Mitch''': Okay, enough reminiscing.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Mitch finds out after Pops' heart attack that he's his father.
-->'''Kathy''': You two are brothers?
-->'''Mitch''': Yeah, it's a long story.
-->'''Sam''': My dad boned his mom.
-->'''Mitch''': Okay, it's a short story.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Doctor Farthing (ChevyChase) offers to push Pops up on the heart-donor list if they'll help him pay off his gambling debts.
* MushroomSamba: Mitch has this after eating tainted brownies.
-->[[{{Satan}} We eat the pig, and then together we BURN!]]
* ParallelPornTitles: ''Film/MenInBlack Who Like To Have Sex With Each Other''
* RapeDiscretionShot: PlayedForLaughs with the PrisonRape scene. Not only is the rape itself not shown, but Mitch's reaction is comically understated.
* RunningGag: Mitch's Notes to Self; actually becomes a plot point.
* SoundOnlyDeath: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The fish scene.]]
-->Show this guy what we do to cops!
-->''*Gunshots*''
-->Say hello to the Devil for me!
-->Behind you!
-->I've been hit! Pablo, kill them! Kill them!!!
-->Make your gun spark(?) like the Devil himself!
-->''*More Gunshots*''
-->Burn in hell, you bastards!
-->Oh, sweet Jesus, he's got me!
-->Mark, over there! Grab it! I use it to cut firewood!
-->''*[[ChainsawGood RRRNNNNNN!!!]]*''
-->Now you're killing me with that chainsaw!
-->[[NarmCharm He took away my chainsaw, and now he's using it on me!]]
-->Oh, God, is that a hand grenade?
-->''*Loud Explosion*''
* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Dr. Farthing is demanding $50,000 because he needs to pay off his bookie.
* UrineTrouble:
-->Sam, are you pissing off the side of the building?
-->Sort of.
