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* SatanIsGood: Satan only wants what's best for Nicky. He's fine with him living on Earth.
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* SatanIsGood: The current Satan is never shown tempting the good. He punishes sinners, maintains the balance of good and evil, and is a supportive dad who only wants what's best for Nicky. He's fine with him living on Earth.
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* PokeThePoodle: When urged to turn a guy's coke into something disgusting (like moose piss), the best Nicky can do is turn it into Pepsi.
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* PokeThePoodle: When urged to turn a guy's coke Coke into something disgusting (like moose piss), the best Nicky can do is turn it into Pepsi.
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* SeeYouInHellSeeYouInHell: Nicky while holding Adrian in front of a train. It would've been quite literal, except "dying" for someone he loved sent Nicky to Heaven.
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* PokeThePoodle: When urged to turn a guy's coke into something disgusting (like moose piss), the best Nicky can do is turn it into Pepsi.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Satan punishes Death by growing boobs on his head. Later, when Cassius finds out there's something Satan and his crew won't tell him, Cassius [[spoiler: gives Death's head boobs a titty twister in order to learn the details.]]
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* KarmicRape: Part of Hitler's eternal punishment in Hell is to be periodically anally violated by the Devil with a pineapple.
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* TheCameo: An assload. The best has to be QuentinTarantino as a blind preacher, who suffers numerous AmusingInjuries when in Nicky's presence.
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* TheCameo: An assload. The best has to be QuentinTarantino Creator/QuentinTarantino as a blind preacher, who suffers numerous AmusingInjuries when in Nicky's presence.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Apparently, classic pop-rock band Music/{{Chicago}} puts subliminal messages in their songs commanding listeners to spill the blood of innocents.
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* ContinuityNod: When Nicky arrives in Heaven, he sees Chubs (who was ''Film/HappyGilmore'''s golf coach).
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr. as Cassius, has made a career out of being "that guy". [[Creator/HarveyKeitel Mr]] [[Film/ReservoirDogs White]] is Nicky's father, and [[LegallyBlonde Elle]] [[ReeseWitherspoon Woods]] is his mother.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr. as Cassius, has made a career out of being "that guy". [[Creator/HarveyKeitel Mr]] [[Film/ReservoirDogs White]] is Nicky's father, and [[LegallyBlonde [[Film/LegallyBlonde Elle]] [[ReeseWitherspoon Woods]] is his mother.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr. as Cassius, has made a career out of being "that guy". [[HarveyKeitel [[Creator/HarveyKeitel Mr]] [[Film/ReservoirDogs White]] is Nicky's father, and [[LegallyBlonde Elle]] [[ReeseWitherspoon Woods]] is his mother.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: When The Mayor (being possessed by Cassius) has lowered the drinking age from 21 to 10, we see three 10 year olds come out of a pub, drunk. One of them projectile vomits.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: When The Mayor (being possessed by Cassius) has lowered the drinking age from 21 to 10, we see three 10 year olds old boys come out of a pub, drunk. One of them projectile vomits.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr. as Cassius, has made a career out of being "that guy". [[HarveyKeitel Mr]] [[ReservoirDogs White]] is Nicky's father, and [[LegallyBlonde Elle]] [[ReeseWitherspoon Woods]] is his mother.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr. as Cassius, has made a career out of being "that guy". [[HarveyKeitel Mr]] [[ReservoirDogs [[Film/ReservoirDogs White]] is Nicky's father, and [[LegallyBlonde Elle]] [[ReeseWitherspoon Woods]] is his mother.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Subverted. Dan Marino wants to sell his soul to Dad, but he's rejected because Dad thinks he's too much of a nice guy to go to Hell... and because he's a Jets fan.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Subverted. Dan Marino wants to sell his soul to Dad, Satan, but he's rejected because Dad Satan thinks he's too much of a nice guy to go to Hell... and because he's a Jets fan.
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* ShapeShifterShowdown: Nicky and Adrian duel with their good and evil magic, with highlights including [[spoiler: Adrian turning a cute baby into a creepy midget]].
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* FiveManBand: Nicky assembles one of sorts:
** TheHero: Nicky
** TheLancer: Peter
** TheBigGuy: John
** TheSmartGuy: Mr. Beefy
** TheChick: Todd
** TheSixthRanger: Valerie
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** TheLancer: Peter
** TheBigGuy: John
** TheSmartGuy: Mr. Beefy
** TheChick: Todd
** TheSixthRanger: Valerie
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The heroic side has Nicky (the half-devil, half-angel), John and Peter (two metalhead Satanists), Mr. Beefy (a talking dog), Todd (an ambiguously gay struggling actor), and Valerie (a design student).
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* TakeThat: Grand Central Station is apparently the exit gate of Hell.
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* AHellOfATime: What happens when the two stoner metalheads die in a plane crash? They go to Hell. "They've never been happier."
** Then again said metalheads are [[PalsWithJesus Pals With The Devil's Son]] so it makes sense that they'd get special treatment.
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* AHellOfATime: What happens when the John and Peter (the two stoner metalheads metalheads) die in a plane crash? They go to Hell. "They've never been happier."
** Then again said metalheads are [[PalsWithJesus Pals With The Devil's Son]] so it makes sense that they'd get special treatment. They even get to stay in Nicky's old room (which is a stereotypical metalhead teen room, walls covered in band posters and all).
** Then again said metalheads are [[PalsWithJesus Pals With The Devil's Son]] so it makes sense that they'd get special treatment. They even get to stay in Nicky's old room (which is a stereotypical metalhead teen room, walls covered in band posters and all).
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* HybridPower: Being the offspring of Satan and an angel, Nicky can perform both good and evil miracles.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: When Nicky needed to go to hell again, Todd volunteers to do it. What does he do to motivate himself to kill Nicky, he imagines him to be [[TakeThat Kevin Spacey]] for stealing his acting parts.
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A BlackComedy film starring AdamSandler Creator/AdamSandler as the eponymous Nicky, the third son of {{Satan}}. After his two older half brothers escape from Hell, the Gates of Hell literally freeze over. No new souls can enter, so Nicky must journey to Earth and bring his brothers back. Meanwhile, due to this, Satan's power is weakening and his body literally begins to fall apart.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even with the sympathetic portrayal of the demons, it's the BigBad Adrian who balks at seeing [[spoiler:Creator/ClintHoward in drag and dancing barechested.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even with the sympathetic portrayal of the demons, it's the BigBad Adrian who balks at seeing [[spoiler:Creator/ClintHoward in drag and dancing barechested.barechested]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even with the sympathetic portrayal of the demons, it's the BigBad Adrian who balks at seeing [[spoiler:[[{{Squick}} Clint Howard in drag and dancing barechested]]]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even with the sympathetic portrayal of the demons, it's the BigBad Adrian who balks at seeing [[spoiler:[[{{Squick}} Clint Howard [[spoiler:Creator/ClintHoward in drag and dancing barechested]]]].barechested.
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A BlackComedy film starring AdamSandler as the eponymous Nicky, the third son of {{Satan}}. After his two older half brothers escape from Hell, the Gates of Hell literally freeze over. No new souls can enter, so Nicky must journey to Earth and bring his brothers back. Meanwhile, due to this, Satan's power is weakening and his body literally begins to fall apart.
[[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson]] has gone as far as calling it "the worst comedy ever made", though it remains a CultClassic.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AHellOfATime: What happens when the two stoner metalheads die in a plane crash? They go to Hell. "They've never been happier."
** Then again said metalheads are [[PalsWithJesus Pals With The Devil's Son]] so it makes sense that they'd get special treatment.
* ActorAllusion: OzzyOsbourne shows up just long enough to bite the head off a bat. This is based on an infamous incident that happened during an Ozzy Osbourne concert in the 1980s.
* AdolfHitler: See AssShove below.
* AllPartOfTheShow: A demon can get away with all sorts of mischief and "special effects" at a Harlem Globetrotters game. Even when the basketball ''explodes'', this only results in an annoyed referee.
* AlliterativeName: Valerie Veran, the last of Adam's "V-name" girlfriends.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCX80NUZa34 "Solve"]] is the image song for the Japanese release.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Nicky's roommate.
* AntiAntiChrist?: Nicky, who's actually quite a likable guy.
* AssShove: The ass is Hitler's. The shoved item is a pineapple. Apparently, by law, he has to receive an ass shove daily for his crimes. He gets to pick the pineapple, though.
** On the other hand, it's implied he is often forced to pick one of the larger ones. Ouch.
** The pineapple only happens once. The second time at the end of the movie [[spoiler:he has Cassius and Adrian shoved up there]].
-->'''Grandpa:''' Alright, boys! Enjoy your new home!
-->[[spoiler:'''Cassius and Adrian:''']] Oh nonononononono..!!!
-->'''Hitler:''' '''HOLY SCHNIT!!!'''
* AudibleGleam: The Flask, when first handed to Nicky.
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Apparently Satan's job. If either Adrian or Cassius took the throne, they would upset that balance.
* BigBad: Adrian.
* BigBrotherBully: The attacks from Cassius and Adrian (specifically, at least one event involving a shovel) are why Nicky has speech issues.
* BlackSpeech: Nicky usually speaks normally (for Nicky, anyway), but when he sleep talks...
** Mr. Beefy has [[IronicNurseryTune a variation on this]], too.
* TheCameo: An assload. The best has to be QuentinTarantino as a blind preacher, who suffers numerous AmusingInjuries when in Nicky's presence.
** ContinuityNod: Carl Weathers as Chubbs, who died in ''HappyGilmore'', appears in the Heaven scenes. Also, Rob Schneider's "You Can Do It" guy from ''TheWaterboy'' appears in the film's climax.
* CareBearStare:
-->'''Nicky''': Release the good.
-->''[shoots rainbows out of hands and group of bunnies appear]''
-->'''Nicky''': Yes, they're furry.
-->'''Demon''': Bunny, bunny, bunny, bunny!
* CelebrityPower: What ultimately defeats the BigBad? [[spoiler:Music/OzzyOsbourne, who was summoned from an orb that was given to Nicky by ''God'']].
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: "Are there ''boobs'' on my head?!" "Yeah, big ones."
* DealWithTheDevil: Subverted. Dan Marino wants to sell his soul to Dad, but he's rejected because Dad thinks he's too much of a nice guy to go to Hell... and because he's a Jets fan.
* DeathAsComedy: "I got hit by a bright light... that was attached to a lot of metal..."
* DetectEvil: The blind preacher can sense Nicky [[spoiler:and his son]]'s demonic presence, but doesn't seem to sense [[spoiler:their]] angel blood.
* DeusExMachina: See CelebrityPower above. Possibly one of the strangest Deus Ex endings in history.
* DumbIsGood: Nicky is far dumber than Adrian. One character even flat out remarks that there's no way Nicky can outsmart him.
** It's implied that Nicky isn't dumber because he's ''good'', so much as because he's suffered a lot of head trauma over the years. Thanks to his brothers.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even with the sympathetic portrayal of the demons, it's the BigBad Adrian who balks at seeing [[spoiler:[[{{Squick}} Clint Howard in drag and dancing barechested]]]].
--> '''Adrian''': Well... maybe not that horrible... but still pretty bad.
* EverythingsWorseWithBees: Henry Winkler is covered in bees... twice.
* EyeScream: "You got it right in the eye!"
* FemaleAngelMaleDemon: Parodied in that Nicky's father (Satan) is a bit of a DirtyOldMan, while Nicky's mother (an angel) is a blonde ValleyGirl.
* FrenchMaid: Adolf Hitler. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Yes]], [[{{Squick}} really]].
* GroinAttack: Nicky's brothers mind-wrestle him into punching himself in the crotch.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr. as Cassius, has made a career out of being "that guy". [[HarveyKeitel Mr]] [[ReservoirDogs White]] is Nicky's father, and [[LegallyBlonde Elle]] [[ReeseWitherspoon Woods]] is his mother.
* JustifiedExtraLives: Nicky was born in Hell and left it near the start of the movie. Dying and being sent back there just means he gets to leave and try again.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Who is Nicky's mom? Well, it says right on the poster, doesn't it?
* LegacyCharacter: Nicky's father is the second Satan; the first is [[TheCameo Rodney Dangerfield]]. Even in Hell, he gets no respect.
* LikeABadassOutOfHell: Albeit with someone who was born there.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Or mother, in this case.
* MetalHead: John and Peter are two Satanic Metalheads who think it's unbelievably awesome that they get to hang out with the Devil's son.
** Nicky himself probably also qualifies; his bedroom walls are covered with posters for various hard rock and heavy metal bands.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: At one point, Nicky's final fight with Adrian becomes a pillow fight.
* OurFounder: The first Satan (Lucifer?) founded Hell. Presumably after he was kicked out of Heaven.
* ThePeepingTom: The film starts with one falling out of his tree and going to Hell. Played by Jon Lovitz, no less.
* PillowFight
* ProductPlacement: "Popeye's Chicken is fuckin' awesome!"
** Which had a very weird sort of censoring on network TV - any instances of "Popeye's Chicken" being uttered is either bleeped or, in the case of the giant tub it came in, ''redacted''.
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Satan + Hitler + Pineapple. HilarityEnsues. [[AcceptableTargets It's Hitler, so it's okay]].
* SatanIsGood: Satan only wants what's best for Nicky. He's fine with him living on Earth.
* SeeYouInHell
* ShapeShifterShowdown: Nicky and Adrian duel with their good and evil magic, with highlights including [[spoiler: Adrian turning a cute baby into a creepy midget]].
* ShoutOut: Actually a rather touching one to [[SaturdayNightLive Chris Farley]], a good friend of Adam Sandler's, who had recently died. According to the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in Heaven, he ended up working in Heaven as a fitness instructor and dating Nicky's mother (ReeseWitherspoon).
* SpeechImpediment: Nicky. It's implied that this is due to [[ComedicSociopathy having his face smashed with a shovel]].
* SubliminalSeduction: Parodied. Nicky reveals a Satanic backwards message on a song by the soft-rock band Chicago.
** Funnily enough, the Music/OzzyOsbourne record they listen to doesn't have any, because "the Blizzard always came straight with his messages".
* TalkingAnimal: Mr. Beefy.
* ThemeNaming: ThoseTwoGuys are called John and Peter. Crosses into TheDanza as they are credited as Jonathan Loughran and Peter Dante. Yes, [[TheDivineComedy Dante]].
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Nicky is killed ''seven'' times in the span of the ninety minute movie. Being a denizen of Hell, he can just walk right back out. Deaths include: Being hit by a train twice, being hit by a truck and a bus, attacked by a polar bear off-screen, drowned by his roomate and for the finale hit in the head with a large rock.
* ToiletHumour: After all, it ''is'' an Adam Sandler movie.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Satan was originally going to be played by [[Music/{{ACDC}} Angus Young]], but he had to cancel before shooting.
** DustinHoffman was the first choice for Satan but turned it down.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
* YouWillKnowWhatToDo: The orb.
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A BlackComedy film starring AdamSandler as the eponymous Nicky, the third son of {{Satan}}. After his two older half brothers escape from Hell, the Gates of Hell literally freeze over. No new souls can enter, so Nicky must journey to Earth and bring his brothers back. Meanwhile, due to this, Satan's power is weakening and his body literally begins to fall apart.
[[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson]] has gone as far as calling it "the worst comedy ever made", though it remains a CultClassic.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AHellOfATime: What happens when the two stoner metalheads die in a plane crash? They go to Hell. "They've never been happier."
** Then again said metalheads are [[PalsWithJesus Pals With The Devil's Son]] so it makes sense that they'd get special treatment.
* ActorAllusion: OzzyOsbourne shows up just long enough to bite the head off a bat. This is based on an infamous incident that happened during an Ozzy Osbourne concert in the 1980s.
* AdolfHitler: See AssShove below.
* AllPartOfTheShow: A demon can get away with all sorts of mischief and "special effects" at a Harlem Globetrotters game. Even when the basketball ''explodes'', this only results in an annoyed referee.
* AlliterativeName: Valerie Veran, the last of Adam's "V-name" girlfriends.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCX80NUZa34 "Solve"]] is the image song for the Japanese release.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Nicky's roommate.
* AntiAntiChrist?: Nicky, who's actually quite a likable guy.
* AssShove: The ass is Hitler's. The shoved item is a pineapple. Apparently, by law, he has to receive an ass shove daily for his crimes. He gets to pick the pineapple, though.
** On the other hand, it's implied he is often forced to pick one of the larger ones. Ouch.
** The pineapple only happens once. The second time at the end of the movie [[spoiler:he has Cassius and Adrian shoved up there]].
-->'''Grandpa:''' Alright, boys! Enjoy your new home!
-->[[spoiler:'''Cassius and Adrian:''']] Oh nonononononono..!!!
-->'''Hitler:''' '''HOLY SCHNIT!!!'''
* AudibleGleam: The Flask, when first handed to Nicky.
* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Apparently Satan's job. If either Adrian or Cassius took the throne, they would upset that balance.
* BigBad: Adrian.
* BigBrotherBully: The attacks from Cassius and Adrian (specifically, at least one event involving a shovel) are why Nicky has speech issues.
* BlackSpeech: Nicky usually speaks normally (for Nicky, anyway), but when he sleep talks...
** Mr. Beefy has [[IronicNurseryTune a variation on this]], too.
* TheCameo: An assload. The best has to be QuentinTarantino as a blind preacher, who suffers numerous AmusingInjuries when in Nicky's presence.
** ContinuityNod: Carl Weathers as Chubbs, who died in ''HappyGilmore'', appears in the Heaven scenes. Also, Rob Schneider's "You Can Do It" guy from ''TheWaterboy'' appears in the film's climax.
* CareBearStare:
-->'''Nicky''': Release the good.
-->''[shoots rainbows out of hands and group of bunnies appear]''
-->'''Nicky''': Yes, they're furry.
-->'''Demon''': Bunny, bunny, bunny, bunny!
* CelebrityPower: What ultimately defeats the BigBad? [[spoiler:Music/OzzyOsbourne, who was summoned from an orb that was given to Nicky by ''God'']].
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: "Are there ''boobs'' on my head?!" "Yeah, big ones."
* DealWithTheDevil: Subverted. Dan Marino wants to sell his soul to Dad, but he's rejected because Dad thinks he's too much of a nice guy to go to Hell... and because he's a Jets fan.
* DeathAsComedy: "I got hit by a bright light... that was attached to a lot of metal..."
* DetectEvil: The blind preacher can sense Nicky [[spoiler:and his son]]'s demonic presence, but doesn't seem to sense [[spoiler:their]] angel blood.
* DeusExMachina: See CelebrityPower above. Possibly one of the strangest Deus Ex endings in history.
* DumbIsGood: Nicky is far dumber than Adrian. One character even flat out remarks that there's no way Nicky can outsmart him.
** It's implied that Nicky isn't dumber because he's ''good'', so much as because he's suffered a lot of head trauma over the years. Thanks to his brothers.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even with the sympathetic portrayal of the demons, it's the BigBad Adrian who balks at seeing [[spoiler:[[{{Squick}} Clint Howard in drag and dancing barechested]]]].
--> '''Adrian''': Well... maybe not that horrible... but still pretty bad.
* EverythingsWorseWithBees: Henry Winkler is covered in bees... twice.
* EyeScream: "You got it right in the eye!"
* FemaleAngelMaleDemon: Parodied in that Nicky's father (Satan) is a bit of a DirtyOldMan, while Nicky's mother (an angel) is a blonde ValleyGirl.
* FrenchMaid: Adolf Hitler. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Yes]], [[{{Squick}} really]].
* GroinAttack: Nicky's brothers mind-wrestle him into punching himself in the crotch.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr. as Cassius, has made a career out of being "that guy". [[HarveyKeitel Mr]] [[ReservoirDogs White]] is Nicky's father, and [[LegallyBlonde Elle]] [[ReeseWitherspoon Woods]] is his mother.
* JustifiedExtraLives: Nicky was born in Hell and left it near the start of the movie. Dying and being sent back there just means he gets to leave and try again.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Who is Nicky's mom? Well, it says right on the poster, doesn't it?
* LegacyCharacter: Nicky's father is the second Satan; the first is [[TheCameo Rodney Dangerfield]]. Even in Hell, he gets no respect.
* LikeABadassOutOfHell: Albeit with someone who was born there.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Or mother, in this case.
* MetalHead: John and Peter are two Satanic Metalheads who think it's unbelievably awesome that they get to hang out with the Devil's son.
** Nicky himself probably also qualifies; his bedroom walls are covered with posters for various hard rock and heavy metal bands.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: At one point, Nicky's final fight with Adrian becomes a pillow fight.
* OurFounder: The first Satan (Lucifer?) founded Hell. Presumably after he was kicked out of Heaven.
* ThePeepingTom: The film starts with one falling out of his tree and going to Hell. Played by Jon Lovitz, no less.
* PillowFight
* ProductPlacement: "Popeye's Chicken is fuckin' awesome!"
** Which had a very weird sort of censoring on network TV - any instances of "Popeye's Chicken" being uttered is either bleeped or, in the case of the giant tub it came in, ''redacted''.
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Satan + Hitler + Pineapple. HilarityEnsues. [[AcceptableTargets It's Hitler, so it's okay]].
* SatanIsGood: Satan only wants what's best for Nicky. He's fine with him living on Earth.
* SeeYouInHell
* ShapeShifterShowdown: Nicky and Adrian duel with their good and evil magic, with highlights including [[spoiler: Adrian turning a cute baby into a creepy midget]].
* ShoutOut: Actually a rather touching one to [[SaturdayNightLive Chris Farley]], a good friend of Adam Sandler's, who had recently died. According to the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in Heaven, he ended up working in Heaven as a fitness instructor and dating Nicky's mother (ReeseWitherspoon).
* SpeechImpediment: Nicky. It's implied that this is due to [[ComedicSociopathy having his face smashed with a shovel]].
* SubliminalSeduction: Parodied. Nicky reveals a Satanic backwards message on a song by the soft-rock band Chicago.
** Funnily enough, the Music/OzzyOsbourne record they listen to doesn't have any, because "the Blizzard always came straight with his messages".
* TalkingAnimal: Mr. Beefy.
* ThemeNaming: ThoseTwoGuys are called John and Peter. Crosses into TheDanza as they are credited as Jonathan Loughran and Peter Dante. Yes, [[TheDivineComedy Dante]].
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Nicky is killed ''seven'' times in the span of the ninety minute movie. Being a denizen of Hell, he can just walk right back out. Deaths include: Being hit by a train twice, being hit by a truck and a bus, attacked by a polar bear off-screen, drowned by his roomate and for the finale hit in the head with a large rock.
* ToiletHumour: After all, it ''is'' an Adam Sandler movie.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Satan was originally going to be played by [[Music/{{ACDC}} Angus Young]], but he had to cancel before shooting.
** DustinHoffman was the first choice for Satan but turned it down.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
* YouWillKnowWhatToDo: The orb.
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