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* LesYay: Between Amber and Lisa, when Lisa gives up her costume so the former of the two can compete. They even kiss each other on the cheek!
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's not quite villainous, [[spoiler that's his wife]], but Lester Leeman is pretty sexist, and throws out racist remarks against Jews, Mexicans, and black people in most of his appearances.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's not quite villainous, [[spoiler [[spoiler: that's his wife]], but Lester Leeman is pretty sexist, and throws out racist remarks against Jews, Mexicans, and black people in most of his appearances.
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* BadBadActing: Former pageant winner Connie Rudrud shilling for Saint Paul Pork Products.
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** "What? Oh, my God. Lights, camera, and me without a stitch of makeup on!"
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* RunningGag: Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club, Lutheran orphanages, the world's oldest living Lutheran, and so on.
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* TradeSnark: Sarah Rose Cosmetics ®©™
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* BilingualBonus: The first time we meet Molly's adoptive family, the Howards, their daughter's dialogue in Japanese is not translated. She says: "Dad, Mom, when are we going back to Tokyo? I hate it here, they put butter on EVERYTHING!"
* BlatantLies: The police, after some ''thorough'' investigating, find that all of the deaths are just accidents that happened through very convenient coincidences and are totally not deliberate murders.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Becky being a skilled shooter.
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* ChekhovsSkill: The first scene at the Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club has Becky being a skilled shooter.not aiming for the center of the human-shaped target, but rather, for the area right above the target's right eye. [[spoiler: Cue the morgue, and Amber pulls back the cloth to reveal...]]
-->"And I know for a fact that she only had a good [[SmokingHotSex smoke]] ''after'' a ride on her [[FreudWasRight dad's tractor]]."
** And Leslie's running her hand up the Washington Monument replica on her head during the opening number of the pageant.
** And Leslie's running her hand up the Washington Monument replica on her head during the opening number of the pageant.
* {{Eagleland}}: Parodied with Gladys' uncreative ideas for pageant themes.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Jesus loves winners." And Becky is ''very'' intent on winning.
* TheFundamentalist: Downplayed, but still present. While no one character is particularly fundamentalist, we do see that the town's Lutherans are very outspoken about how much more moral and traditional they are than the 'sin cities'. [[{{Hypocrite}} Then all the murders start happening.]]
* GilliganCut: Amber's hesitant, uncertain naming and spelling all the United States in alphabetical order cuts from a tentative "Arizona?" to Amber confidently naming and spelling West Virginia.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Enchanted}} Amy Adams]]' film debut; in fact, it was eventual co-star Kirstie Alley who persuaded Adams to go through with her audition when she was having second thoughts. She's now arguably the biggest star of anyone involved with the film to this day. To a lesser extent BrittanyMurphy who had already had some exposure from ''{{Clueless}}'' but had not quite become a 'name' star yet. Also, AlexandraHolden, who may be familiar to a generation too young to get into JohnHughes movies, as last year's winner, with a lot of make-up and just plain ''[[SaturdayNightLive Acting!]]'' to make her look like she's dying of anorexia.
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* HonestJohnsDealership: Lester Leeman is a sleazy furniture salesman.
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* InnocentInaccurate: Tess: "Spike, my German shepherd, [[ReleasedToElsewhere he went to live with a nice family on a farm]] after he attacked me..."
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: John Dough does this all the time.
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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Girl]]: Amber isn't as dorky, awkward, dumb, or as backstabbing as the other contestants save for Molly
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* FridgeLogic: Why can't Amy Adams character give her costume to Amber? Or the girl who performed the Soylent Green speech? Then Brittany Murphy's character could have performed too.
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* CuteAndPsycho: Becky
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* {{Yangire}}: Becky
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* HalfwayPlotTwist: The first half of the movie is build-up to the pageant. Then the pageant happens...and there's still a half hour of film left.
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* FridgeLogic: Why can't Amy Adams character give her costume to Amber? Or the girl who performed the Soylent Green speech? Then Brittany Murphy's character could have performed too.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Amber vs. Becky over Brett.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: Gladys's attempt at revenge against Amber inadvertently leads to Amber getting her dream job.]]
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* AlliterativeName: Amber Atkins, Annette Atkins, Lars Larson, etc.
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* HairOfGold: Amber.
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* PinballProtagonist: Amber.
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* PinballProtagonist: Amber. Amber.
* PunBasedTitle: Murders surrounding a beauty pageant!
* PunBasedTitle: Murders surrounding a beauty pageant!
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* SmallTownBoredom: Amber. Really, though, almost everyone hates living in Mount Rose.
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** Molly's sister.
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* PunnyName: John Dough.
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Film/DropDeadGorgeous is a 1999 BlackComedy {{Mockumentary}} about a small town beauty pageant in Minnesota and the murders surrounding it.
In much the same vein of BlackComedy as {{Heathers}}.
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* CrowningMomentofFunny: "You know what, Dad? Peter's gay! *beat* GAY!!!"
** Becky's talent performance. Is "Crowning Moment of Offensive" a trope yet?
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* DawsonCasting: Various grades. DeniseRichards was old enough to be going to her tenth reunion.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Enchanted}} Amy Adams]]' film debut; in fact, it was eventual co-star Kirstie Alley who persuaded Adams to go through with her audition when she was having second thoughts. She's now arguably the biggest star of anyone involved with the film to this day. To a lesser extent BrittanyMurphy who had already had some exposure from ''{{Clueless}}'' but had not quite become a 'name' star yet.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Enchanted}} Amy Adams]]' film debut; in fact, it was eventual co-star Kirstie Alley who persuaded Adams to go through with her audition when she was having second thoughts. She's now arguably the biggest star of anyone involved with the film to this day. To a lesser extent BrittanyMurphy who had already had some exposure from ''{{Clueless}}'' but had not quite become a 'name' star yet. Also, AlexandraHolden, who may be familiar to a generation too young to get into JohnHughes movies, as last year's winner, with a lot of make-up and just plain ''[[SaturdayNightLive Acting!]]'' to make her look like she's dying of anorexia.
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* InformedAbility: Both subverted and {{Lampshaded}} at the same time. Becky's dance is depicted as genuinely awful, despite Gladys' efforts to play up its quality. The subversion comes with Amber's dancing, where most of the complicated routines were performed by a body double. Oddly enough, Kirsten Dunst also began learning tap dance to perform some of the basic sequences herself, and is still tapping more than a decade later.
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* InformedAbility: Both subverted and {{Lampshaded}} at the same time. Becky's dance is depicted as genuinely awful, despite Gladys' efforts to play up its quality. The subversion comes with Amber's dancing, where most of the complicated routines were performed by a body double. Oddly enough, Kirsten Dunst KirstenDunst also began learning tap dance to perform some of the basic sequences herself, and is still tapping more than a decade later.
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* CreatorCameo: [[TheVoiceless Judge #3]] is writer and producer [[TheDrewCareyShow Lona]] [[TheSimpsons Williams]].
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** Becky's talent performance. Is "Crowning Moment of Offensive" a trope yet?
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* CrowningMomentofFunny: "You know what, Dad? Peter's gay! <b>GAY!!!</b>
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* TheUnfavorite: Lisa is implied to be this in her family.
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* LesYay: Between Amber and Lisa, when Lisa gives up her costume so the former of the two can compete. They even kiss each other on the cheek!
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nice job blowing up your own daughter due to your own carelessness, Mom!
