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* MissingTrailerScene: In the trailer, Jindrake falls out of his chair during the scene where he has Max in his office. The scene still appears in the film, but the part with Jindrake falling out of his chair is absent.
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* SilenceYouFool: Principle Jindrake frequently yells "CEASE!" whenever he wants everyone to be silent.
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* KissingCousins: It turns out [[AllThereInTheManual on their FaceBook pages]], it is revealed that Max and Jenna are cousins.
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A live action Disney flick from 2001, directed by Tim Hill (who went on to make the CGI ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'') and co-written by Jonathan Bernstein (who went on to write the novel ''{{Hottie}}'').''Literature/{{Hottie}}''). The characters and plot are very predictable, but it's got some witty lines and great performances, especially from its young actors and Larry Miller, who serve up several slices of LargeHam. If you can ignore some of the toilet humour and the [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] vibes, it's actually a pretty funny movie.
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* HeelRealization: Max, after speaking with the janitor.
--> '''Max''': It took [[AlmightyJanitor a man with a plunger]] to make me realize that I had to do something. I thought I'd stood up to the bullies, but all I'd really done was hit and run. That's not courage. That's ex-courage.
--> '''Max''': It took [[AlmightyJanitor a man with a plunger]] to make me realize that I had to do something. I thought I'd stood up to the bullies, but all I'd really done was hit and run. That's not courage. That's ex-courage.
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* BullyHunter: Max spends the movie getting back at Dobbs, Troy, and Jindrake. It's deconstructed since it only ''angers'' the people he bullied, and since he was supposedly moving away, he made his two best friends targets of the former two, and caused Jindrake's RevengeByProxy. After speaking with the janitor, he realizes all he did was [[DirtyCoward hit and run]] rather than deal with the people who bullied him constructively.
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* BullyHunter: Max spends the movie getting back at [[TheBully Dobbs, Troy, Troy]], and Jindrake.[[SadistTeacher Jindrake]]. It's deconstructed since it only ''angers'' the people he bullied, and since he was supposedly moving away, he made his two best friends targets of the former two, and caused Jindrake's RevengeByProxy. After speaking with the janitor, he realizes all he did was [[DirtyCoward hit and run]] rather than deal with the people who bullied him constructively.
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* RevengeByProxy: After being horribly pranked by Max, Jindrake responds by canceling after school programs. [[spoiler: Of course he was already embezzling money from these programs, but he wanted Max to look like the culprit]].
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* AlmightyJanitor: The school janitor becomes one when he [[spoiler:locks Jindrake into the storage room after learning the principal cut his overtime pay]].
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* AlmightyJanitor: The school janitor becomes one when he [[spoiler:locks Jindrake into the storage room after learning the principal cut his overtime pay]].pay.]] He also give Max the advice he needs to make amends, and a lesson of how to truly be a man.
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* ActorAllusion: This isn't the [[TheNuttyProfessor first time]] that Larry Miller portrayed a JerkAss school administrator, or being humiliated by a rodent, for that matter.
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* ThrowItIn: Alex Linz was orignally supposed to portray Max as being flustered when he meets Jenna at school, but he flubbed up and chuckled. The creators thought this was better, so they kept it in.
** A lot of Jindrake's personality was ad-libbed by Larry Miller, basing it on the dean from Animal House.
** A lot of Jindrake's personality was ad-libbed by Larry Miller, basing it on the dean from Animal House.
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Incorrect information. The source was completely unrelated.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Apparently recently, there are a few facebook pages on the characters in the movie and reflect on some things that weren't made clear in the movie. For example, apparently Jenna's full name is "[[http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1197260407#!/profile.php?id=100002393835964 Jenna Smith]]", and she was an aspiring actress.
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A live action Disney flick from 2001, directed by Tim Hill (who went on to make the CGI ''AlvinAndTheChipmunks'') ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'') and co-written by Jonathan Bernstein (who went on to write the novel ''{{Hottie}}''). The characters and plot are very predictable, but it's got some witty lines and great performances, especially from its young actors and Larry Miller, who serve up several slices of LargeHam. If you can ignore some of the toilet humour and the [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] vibes, it's actually a pretty funny movie.
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* KissingCousins: It turns out [[AllThereInTheManual on their FaceBook pages]], it is revealed that Max and Jenna are cousins.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: Part of Max's revenge on Dobbs and the Ice Cream Man were stealing something important to both of them, and then giving the stolen item to the opposite party, and arranging a meeting. Both Dobbs and the Ice Cream Man are both arrogant and domineering in their own ways, so Max knew that the two of them would only make things worse for themselves. All in all, a fairly clever BatmanGambit.
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* Techbane: Jindrake. To put it simply, whenever he attempts to make the announcements via telemonitor, he usually ends them when pressing the button to turn off the camera, only for it to turn out that he didn't actually turn it off, and usually humiliates himself in the process (First instance is when he, while bragging about himself in a manner to a movie review, ended up exposing that he was actually faking his image as President of the United States and even being near Washington, and the second instance had him sticking pencils up his nose and referring to himself as a walrus [although this part may have been intentional]), with Rangoon, his secretary, usually telling him that the camera, or rather, the red light, is still on. He does eventually manage to figure it out, though (apparently, he needs to press the button twice for it to turn off).
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* WalkingTechbane: Jindrake. To put it simply, whenever he attempts to make the announcements via telemonitor, he usually ends them when pressing the button to turn off the camera, only for it to turn out that he didn't actually turn it off, and usually humiliates himself in the process (First instance is when he, while bragging about himself in a manner to a movie review, ended up exposing that he was actually faking his image as President of the United States and even being near Washington, and the second instance had him sticking pencils up his nose and referring to himself as a walrus [although this part may have been intentional]), with Rangoon, his secretary, usually telling him that the camera, or rather, the red light, is still on. He does eventually manage to figure it out, though (apparently, he needs to press the button twice for it to turn off).
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A live action Disney flick from 2001, directed by Tim Hill (who went on to make the CGI ''AlvinAndTheChipmunks'') and co-written by Jonathan Bernstein (who went on to write the novel ''[[Hottie]]'').''{{Hottie}}''). The characters and plot are very predictable, but it's got some witty lines and great performances, especially from its young actors and Larry Miller, who serve up several slices of LargeHam. If you can ignore some of the toilet humour and the [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] vibes, it's actually a pretty funny movie.
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A live action Disney flick from 2001, directed by Tim Hill (who went on to make the CGI ''AlvinAndTheChipmunks'').''AlvinAndTheChipmunks'') and co-written by Jonathan Bernstein (who went on to write the novel ''[[Hottie]]''). The characters and plot are very predictable, but it's got some witty lines and great performances, especially from its young actors and Larry Miller, who serve up several slices of LargeHam. If you can ignore some of the toilet humour and the [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] vibes, it's actually a pretty funny movie.
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* TheFatGuy: Robe.
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-->'''Jindrake:''' my, you're a smart little boy... But so am I.
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* ThatCameOutWrong: Jindrake embodies this,
-->'''Jindrake:''' my, you're a smart little boy... But so am I.
-->'''Jindrake:''' my, you're a smart little boy... But so am I.
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* FreudianExcuse: Troy [=McGinty=] bears a nasty grudge against Max Keeble because Max's father once wore a frightening costume at his son's birthday party, which Troy attended.
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* FreudianExcuse: Troy [=McGinty=] bears a nasty grudge against Max Keeble [[DisproportionateRetribution because Max's father once wore a frightening costume at his son's birthday party, which Troy attended.]]
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* DidDoTheResearch: In the film, there were mentions of the Junior High School's highest level being 9th Grade. The school system of University Place, Washington (the implied setting of the movie) does indeed have 9th grade being the highest level in the Junior High School setting.
** DidNotDoTheResearch: Likewise, Max and his friends were stated to be in the 7th Grade as starting attendees of Junior High. In real life, the University Place school system's earlier grade level for Junior High is 8th grade, not 7th grade.
** DidNotDoTheResearch: Likewise, Max and his friends were stated to be in the 7th Grade as starting attendees of Junior High. In real life, the University Place school system's earlier grade level for Junior High is 8th grade, not 7th grade.
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* TheDogBitesBack: The movie is filled with this towards the bullies: [=McGinty=] and Dobbs meet this sort of thing from Max Keeble, and later from the entire student body. Likewise, it is also strongly implied that the teachers and staff, as soon as they learned the truth about Jindrake's embezzlement of the school's funds, proceeded to fight back against him, including locking him up in the Janitor's closet for a while (and presumably letting Max escape from it). Also, the teacher who let Dobbs steal Max's money and punished Max for something Max had absolutely no control over ended up being one of the few targets during the food fight to actually have a unified front against her.
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* CharacterBlog: Max Keeble, Troy McGinty, and Jenna (full name Jenna Smith) each have a facebook page recently created about them.
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* FridgeLogic: Max mentions he plays the bassoon in marching band, but the bassoon isn't a marching band instrument.
** Never doubt the versatility of a pit band section. Over my four years of marching band, our pit included various mallet percussion, bass guitar, electric guitar, bassoons, timpani, a drum kit, even synthesized strings (played on a keyboard) at one point...
** Never doubt the versatility of a pit band section. Over my four years of marching band, our pit included various mallet percussion, bass guitar, electric guitar, bassoons, timpani, a drum kit, even synthesized strings (played on a keyboard) at one point...
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* SquirrelsInMyPants: At one point, thanks to Jindrake unknowingly spraying animal pheronomes into his mouth (Max had rigged his breath spray supply with mating pheronomes), a squirrel enters the library and crawls all over Jindrake, eventually cumulating in the squirrel giving Jindrake an implied groin attack before it leaves due to Jindrake crashing into the other room, all while the superintendent is observing the library without any notice.
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It's [[HighSchoolHustler Max Keeble]]'s first day of junior high, and things are going badly. Over the course of the day, he is accosted by not one, not two, not three, but ''four'' separate bullies: an evil Ice Cream man, a thuggish brute, an entrepreneurial lunch-money thief, and the malevolent (and stupid) school principal Jindrake, who wants to pave over an animal shelter so he can build a football stadium. To top it all off, when Max gets home, his dad announces that his MeanBoss has assigned him a new post in Chicago: By the end of the week, the family has to move.
Max is depressed at first, but quickly realizes that, [[TheUnfettered with no fear of retribution]], he can exact revenge on the bullies. He and his best friends Robe (a chubby kid who always wears a robe) and Megan organize a series of [[ZanyScheme zany plots]] to give the bullies what's coming to them. Of course, this being the movies, things don't go exactly as planned, and Max eventually has to [[CrossingTheBurntBridge fix what he's broken]] and stand up to his oppressors once and for all.
A live action Disney flick from 2001, directed by Tim Hill (who went on to make the CGI ''AlvinAndTheChipmunks''). The characters and plot are very predictable, but it's got some witty lines and great performances, especially from its young actors and Larry Miller, who serve up several slices of LargeHam. If you can ignore some of the toilet humour and the [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] vibes, it's actually a pretty funny movie.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: This isn't the [[TheNuttyProfessor first time]] that Larry Miller portrayed a JerkAss school administrator, or being humiliated by a rodent, for that matter.
* AdultsAreUseless: Even the ones who aren't actively evil are still unhelpful
* AllJustADream: The beginning of the film.
* AllThereInTheManual: Apparently recently, there are a few facebook pages on the characters in the movie and reflect on some things that weren't made clear in the movie. For example, apparently Jenna's full name is "[[http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1197260407#!/profile.php?id=100002393835964 Jenna Smith]]", and she was an aspiring actress.
* AlmightyJanitor: The school janitor becomes one when he [[spoiler:locks Jindrake into the storage room after learning the principal cut his overtime pay]].
* AlphaBitch: Max Keeble's crush, and his best friend Megan's worst enemy. (To be fair, she's really more of a BrainlessBeauty who's so shallow that she doesn't realize she's being mean.)
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Max might qualify, given his funny name, [[JewishMother obsessive-compulsive mother]], and dad's quirky sense of humor and background in show business (okay, advertising).
* AnythingButThat: Invoked by Jindrake, when discussing "The Keeble"
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Principal Jindrake plans to pave over an animal shelter to build a football stadium, cuts 97% of the school budget in order to build said football stadium, ''locks one of his students up in the janitor's room as punishment'', and steals toilet paper from the school supply closet. Evil.
** Not to mention that even when the only possible reason for building it (to land himself a promotion from the Superintendent "Crazy Legs," which not only failed, but any chances of his ever becoming superintendent was sunk beyond any chance of recovery [as a deleted scene revealed]) was no longer viable, he still intends to demolish the animal shelter anyways. Then there is the fact that, while (unknowingly) confessing to the entire school that he fiddled with the budget, he not only does so without any regret, but he also even went as far as to insult the classes, faculty and staff, as evidenced by the quote below:
-->'''Jindrake:''' So I fiddled with the budget. Fiddlesticks, it's my budget. So we don't have enough science textbooks, big deal, Science is for nerds. Not enough band instruments, who cares?! Band is for losers! So the Janitor has to work without pay... he should pay ''me'' for the privilege!
* BadHumorTruck: Jamie Kennedy as the Evil Ice Cream Man (that's actually the character's name). His Truck, at least in the dream sequence at the beginning, is even modified with an Ice Cream Cannon.
* BadJobWorseUniform: Max's dad is an ad man, and his boss dresses him up in ridiculous costumes to secure clients.
** In a deleted scene, when Max attempts to contact his father at the ad agency, he was also working as someone who plays a Samurai complete with a sword, only to apparently cut himself shortly after swinging the katana, indicating that the uniform might actually ''injure'' the actor and not just humiliate him/her.
* BigEater: Robe.
* BookDumb: When Troy [=McGinty=] is properly introduced by Max Keeble, a report card depicting his grades is briefly shown, and most of it are "F"s, with the exception of Woodshop, which even that was at best a "D".
* BookEnds: Meta-example: The filming of the movie started with Alex Linz going into the ventilation shaft when shooting the scene of Max and his friends breaking into the school. The filming of the movie concluded with Linz exiting the ventilation shaft.
* BrainlessBeauty: Jenna, Max's crush, is either this or the AlphaBitch.
* ButtMonkey: Really, you have to feel sorry for that uptight teacher who gets pelted with chocolate pudding and knocked into a garbage bin during the "food fight" scene.
** Then again, given the fact that she had Max write a 2000 word essay (and eventually have 12,000) due on Friday just because he was late and dripping (which he couldn't even help due to Troy [=McGinty=] putting him through a swirlie.), and simply let Dobbs steal Max's lunch money and get away with it, [[AssholeVictim she kind of deserved it]].
* CallingCard: One of the Bullies, Troy [=McGinty=], shows everyone who he intends to bully for the day by wearing a coat, to which he promptly unzips to show a shirt with the victim of the day's name that is written in such a way to resemble a word carved into the body. Max Keeble, when getting back at [=McGinty=], even does a variation of [=McGinty=]'s modus operatum that has a spraypaint streak across his shirt with his name in white letter that he displays to the school before enacting revenge against him.
* {{Cameo}}: Several, the most ridiculous being L'il Romeo. (Tony Hawk's appearance, at least, can be explained away as being AllJustADream.)
* CantYouReadTheSign: "What, does this seat have your name on it?" "Yes." (points to name on seat)
* CharacterBlog: Max Keeble, Troy McGinty, and Jenna (full name Jenna Smith) each have a facebook page recently created about them.
* ChekhovsSkill: Max's paperboy aim
* ChildHater: Principal Jindrake, who refers to his students as acne-scarred riff-raff. You have to wonder just how this a**hole got his job, anyway.
* ComicallySmallBribe: Variation: The Evil Ice Cream Man doesn't even attempt to use money to bribe his way out of a speeding ticket, but instead uses a Snow Doodle. Predictably, it fails.
* CompensatingForSomething: A variation is utilized with Jindrake: Whenever he does the announcements (via telemonitor), he often dresses himself in a manner similar to the President of the United States of America, and has his office utilize a pull up curtain that apparently depicts the Capitol Building in the background.
* CrossingTheBurntBridge: basically the plot of the movie.
* DeanBitterman: The deluded and tyrannical Principal Elliot T. Jindrake. He's played by Larry Miller, who coincidentally also played a bitter dean in TheNuttyProfessor.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Jindrake, no other? Specifically, this line when, during his tour with the Superintendent through the school, they witness a food fight:
-->"This is completely without precedent. Not only that, but it's never happened before!"
* DidDoTheResearch: In the film, there were mentions of the Junior High School's highest level being 9th Grade. The school system of University Place, Washington (the implied setting of the movie) does indeed have 9th grade being the highest level in the Junior High School setting.
** DidNotDoTheResearch: Likewise, Max and his friends were stated to be in the 7th Grade as starting attendees of Junior High. In real life, the University Place school system's earlier grade level for Junior High is 8th grade, not 7th grade.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The Evil Ice Cream Man wanted to kill or at the very least maim Max just because Max's mom called the Health Department and nailed him after Max was unluckily enough to discover a cockroach in his Ice Cream.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When accepting Jenna's invitation to a milkshake party at buddies (under the promise of nine (actually one) milkshakes), he is being cheered on by various other students when downing his ninth shake in a very similar manner to a binge drinking contest for a WildTeenParty.
** Also, Both during and after [=McGinty=] being terrorized by "[=MacGoogles=]" in a blackouted and shut in gym, his reaction is almost similar to a rape victim.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Wherein Jindrake reveals that he cut school funds to finance his football stadium due in part to Max Keeble turning on the announcement camera without him knowing.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Evil Ice Cream Man may intend to either kill Max Keeble or at the very least maim him in retribution for discovering a cockroach in his ice cream that presumably got him in deep trouble with the health administration, yet even he objects to someone like Dobbs stealing students money, especially if they are potential customers.
* EvilGloating: Goes hand-in-hand with the EngineeredPublicConfession above.
* EvilRedhead: Troy [=McGinty=].
* FaceHeelTurn: It is implied when Max and Troy encounter each other that they used to be friends given Max's excited greeting before realizing Troy intended to bully him.
* FridgeLogic: Max mentions he plays the bassoon in marching band, but the bassoon isn't a marching band instrument.
** Never doubt the versatility of a pit band section. Over my four years of marching band, our pit included various mallet percussion, bass guitar, electric guitar, bassoons, timpani, a drum kit, even synthesized strings (played on a keyboard) at one point...
* FoodFight: Theres nothing like the sweet taste of rebelious freedom in school.
* FreudianExcuse: Troy [=McGinty=] bears a nasty grudge against Max Keeble because Max's father once wore a frightening costume at his son's birthday party, which Troy attended.
* FunnyForeigner: The three giant exchange students brought in from Eastern Europe to play football. Though at the end, it's revealed they might actually be {{Fauxreigner}}s...
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Max briefly falls hard for the blonde, leggy AlphaBitch freshman student that all the guys drool over. Whenever this character appears, she is accompanied by the opening strains of Britney Spear's "Baby One More Time."
** And then, of course, there's the hilarious "pheromones" subplot.
* GoldenMoment: With the janitor. "Any kid can make a mess. It takes a MAN to clean it up!"
* GroinAttack: When Jindrake is trying to give Crazy Legs a tour of the school as per the inspection, due to unknowingly ingesting Animal Pheronomes from his mouth spray, a squirrel finds Jindrake and attempts to find his mate due to the pheronomes within Jindrake, and... well, let's just say that the Squirrel eventually finds a certain area to test his teeth on.
* HeliumSpeech: Robe attempts to invoke this on himself while waiting for Max to arrive for the going away party, and succeeds.
* HighSchoolHustler: Max, well, kind of as he is a ''Junior'' High school student. One of the complaints about the movie was it was unoriginal and that Max is a preteen ripoff of the more famous hustler [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]].
* HongKongDub: When Max goes into his "kung fu" stance
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Max, trying to save the bullies from an angry mob of nerds who want to throw them in a dumpster, insists, "If you bully them you will be just like them!" Then he tells them to "let them go," [[UnhandThemVillain with]] [[ExactWords predictable results]].
* IncrediblyLamePun: "See you bassoon!" Max even lampshades how bad of a pun it was by saying "'See you bassoon'? ehh... stupid."
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Troy [=McGinty=] ''almost'' becomes one once we learn that he was traumatized as a child by the sight of Max's father dressed as a bizarre cartoon character. I say "almost" because that certainly doesn't justify his being a complete JerkAss a decade later.
* IronicEcho: Sort of. [[spoiler:"I was just running away from my problems, and that's not courage. That [[{{Malaproper}} excourage]]."]]
** Also, when Megan tells Jenna to leave after Max turned down her invitation, she says to Jenna the exact same thing that Jenna herself told her when they first met when dismissing her from the chair: "Shoo-Shoo." Of course, Jenna reacts with indifference.
* KarmaHoudini: The Yearbook guys, given the fact that they were as much bullying as Troy [=McGinty=] and Dobbs were since their primary use of their journalism skills was to essentially take pictures of the students in embarassing or traumatising situations (and even make innocent pictures seem a lot worse with their choice of titles, i.e. "How's this: 'Sheep arrive for slaughter'" on the very first day of school), and unlike Troy, Dobbs, Jindrake, or even the Evil Ice Cream Man, they still haven't received their comeuppance by the end of the movie.
** They seemed more passionate about their jobs than anything instead of bullying (i.e. they were excited about covering the FoodFight), and the only incriminating thing they did was take photos of [[ItMakesSenseInContext Max being manhandled by Troy]]... and try to write an article about traumatized Troy. But besides their yearbook gig, they also serve as informants to Worried Kid by warning him about the bullies he should be aware of to get the plot moving.
* LargeHam: Larry Miller as the principal is over-the-top in Larry Miller's under-the-top way.
* LastDayToLive: About two thirds of the film is this; the rest is [[spoiler:cleaning up the mess Max made when it's revealed his family isn't moving after all]].
* LastMinuteHookup: Max/ Megan sort of comes out of nowhere
** by "sort of" it is because it was justified, considering how he ditched her earlier as a direct result of deciding to attend [[AlphaBitch Jenna's]] party instead of the going away party that Robe and Megan were holding, and felt guilty when he found out.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Surprisingly, the AlphaBitch has one that plays every time she appears. Unsurprisingly, it's the intro to Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time"
** Jenna's not the only one who has a Leitmotif. Actually, a few of the major characters have one as well. Dobbs, for example, has the song "If Everybody Looked the Same" (the one that has this lyric that is said really fast as part of the opening.)
* LoveIsInTheAir: Max switches the principal's mouth spray with [[HollywoodScience liquid pheromones]], which causes animals to, um, "chase" after him.
* {{Malaproper}}: Principal Jindrake speaks in nothing but these.
--> "I don't encourage horseplay and malarkey, I excourage it."
* MeanBoss: [[TheGhost Mr. Keeble's boss]] forces him to wear ridiculous costumes in advertising pitches (and in one deleted scene, at least one of the costumes actually have the capacity of hurting the actor]], then says he has to move to Chicago in a week or be fired. Principal Jindrake plays the part very well.
* TheMovingExperience: Variation, as Max's family really ''is'' moving away, but [[spoiler:his dad decides to quit his job, so they end up not moving after all]].
* {{Narrator}}: Max is the voice over narrator of his own first week of school.
* NoodleIncident: In the second half, when Don Keeble explains that they won't be moving, he mentioned that he quit and "gave Fodge a dose of his own medicine." Exactly how he did so was never explained, although it is implied that he may have somehow gotten Fodge to wear one of the dorkish costumes.
* OffscreenCrash: Jindrake drives past the animal shelter, where he sees Max. Of course, he watches Max a little too closely, and the road not close enough.
* {{Only Known by Their Nickname}}: Robe. (According to Max, his real first name is Robert.)
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Used in-story, when one of the Eastern European exchange students reveals himself to be surprisingly eloquent.
* PowerTrio
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Superintendent seems to legitimately care about the kids learning and well being, expressing shock that Jindrake, when revealing his plans in regards to building the stadium, admitted that he actually cut back on "unimportant" things such as fire-extinguishers and milk. It is also subtly implied that he doesn't actually like Jindrake or think he is a good candidate for ascendency for his retirement, but has to put up with him, anyways.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Sort of. The Evil Ice Cream Man himself doesn't have red eyes, but during the opening dream sequence as well as one brief moment when Max explains who he is to the audience, his eyes glow red.
* RunningGag: Robe's willingness to eat anything, Jindrake's poor mastery of the English language, Jindrake forgetting to turn off the camera (at first), the newspaper guys...
* RussianGuySuffersMost: Inverted: A student named "Vladimir" (which is a Russian name, which implies Russian descent) was intended to be one of the victims to Troy [=McGinty=]'s bullying routine (he had his name written on his shirt in a way similar to a gash), but unlike Max Keeble or Robe, the other on-screen victims, Vladimir ran off before [=McGinty=] could get the chance to deal the pain.
* SadistTeacher: Jindrake. Well, technically he's more like a Sadist Principal, but still.
* Techbane: Jindrake. To put it simply, whenever he attempts to make the announcements via telemonitor, he usually ends them when pressing the button to turn off the camera, only for it to turn out that he didn't actually turn it off, and usually humiliates himself in the process (First instance is when he, while bragging about himself in a manner to a movie review, ended up exposing that he was actually faking his image as President of the United States and even being near Washington, and the second instance had him sticking pencils up his nose and referring to himself as a walrus [although this part may have been intentional]), with Rangoon, his secretary, usually telling him that the camera, or rather, the red light, is still on. He does eventually manage to figure it out, though (apparently, he needs to press the button twice for it to turn off).
* TheTroubleWithTickets: The Evil Ice Cream Man ends up being pulled over by a policeman while chasing down Max Keeble for speeding and presumably attempted manslaughter. The EICM then tries to get out of the situation by bribing the Policeman with a Snow-Doodle. Going by what happens immediately thereafter, the Policeman didn't accept the bribe.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The two guys who work for the newspaper
* TitleDrop: Well, half of the title. "Ready for the big move?"
** Or "Not moving was the biggest move of all."
* ToThePain: Jindrake, threatening Max with a new form of punishment he calls "The Keeble." Which thankfully never got a chance to be implemented. Then again, maybe it did, assuming his locking Keeble within the janitor's closet was supposed to be the punishment in question.
* ToiletHumor: Robe getting sick due to his claustrophobia springs to mind
* TooDumbToLive: The ending where Jindrake ends up drawing all of the animals to himself when attempting to destroy the Animal shelter by using his mouthspray. Jindrake, you'd think that by now you'd at least put two-and-two together in regards to the connections between the animals reacting and you using the spray, since it has occured at least twice before (three times before if one counts a deleted scene where, shortly after Jindrake does a mouthspray during his tour of the school for the Superintendent, a dog escapes from a woman's car and proceeds to attack his pants leg.)
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The original trailer pretty much spoils the big plot twist.
* TrappedInContainment: [=McGinty=], when picking Robe as the second kid to bully in the school year, places Robe in a glass case (presumably some sort of trophy case). Made even worse due to the fact that Robe is severely claustrophobic, and just as Max Keeble is alerting the students about his condition after freeing him, he throws up from the trauma (the contents apparently being a Chili Omelet, given Robe's comment shortly after hurling).
* TwoTimerDate: Of the third category, where Max goes to a milkshake party with Jenna's friends instead of the Going Away Party held by Robe and Megan. See WhatTheHellHero below.
* TheUnfettered: Max revenges himself against his bullies because he knows he's not going to be around to suffer the consequences. His friends, however...
* ThrowItIn: Alex Linz was orignally supposed to portray Max as being flustered when he meets Jenna at school, but he flubbed up and chuckled. The creators thought this was better, so they kept it in.
** A lot of Jindrake's personality was ad-libbed by Larry Miller, basing it on the dean from Animal House.
* UnhandThemVillain: At the end of the movie, the three giant exchange students offer to throw the school bullies in a dumpster. After Max insists IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim, he tells them to "let the bullies go," which, of course, they do-- and let them fall into the dumpster themselves. Also, just as Principal Jindrake is about to run his big bulldozer over a poor defenseless animal, Max jumps in front of it and says: "Not today, Jindraike. That's far enough."
* VillainousBreakdown: Dobbs utterly ''goes to pieces'' when his palm pilot is stolen.
** He has it easy compared to [=McGinty=] when he was trapped in a Gym with its power cut with [=MacGoogles=]. The guy was in such a massive emotional and mental wreck that he was huddled in a corner quivering while in a fetal position, barely even able to speak, and was also implied to be in dire need of psychological counseling in a manner similar to having to deal with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
* VisualPun: Upon learning that they won't be moving, Lily remarks that Don will now be the big cheese. During this scene, Don Keeble is wearing a Cheese costume (making him quite literally the big cheese).
* WhatTheHellHero: On the last day before the move, Max accepted Jenna's invitation to have a Milkshake party at Buddies, when he was supposed to go to a going away party held by Megan and Robe. Suffice to say, as soon as they found out about this, they weren't pleased.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Big brute of a bully Troy is ''terrified'' of a Barney-like Scottish frog named [=MacGoogles=] (The trauma was made even worse when Mr. Keeble tries to reveal that he's actually [=MacGoogles=], not because of it's an adult playing the role, but because he actually thought that [=MacGoogles=] ''ate'' Mr. Keeble). He eventually manages to get over it, after the School Nurse attempts to help him eliminate the psychological trauma of the event.
* [[YouFailBiologyForever You Fail Mathematics Forever]]: Jindrake, during his assembly, tells them that he's improving the school's zero tolerance policy to one of subzero tolerance, which is more than zero. However, sub-zero is actually a number even less than zero; in other words, a negative number.
* YoungEntrepreneur: Bully Dobbs is a Wall Street-smart kid who decides to regain his lost millions by stealing lunch money on the pretence that he's "investing" it.
* ZanyScheme: The various plots to ruin the bullies-- stealing Dobbs' palm pilot, melting the Evil Ice Cream Man's ice cream, terrorizing Troy with a giant frog, and setting Jindrake up for a HumiliationConga.
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Max is depressed at first, but quickly realizes that, [[TheUnfettered with no fear of retribution]], he can exact revenge on the bullies. He and his best friends Robe (a chubby kid who always wears a robe) and Megan organize a series of [[ZanyScheme zany plots]] to give the bullies what's coming to them. Of course, this being the movies, things don't go exactly as planned, and Max eventually has to [[CrossingTheBurntBridge fix what he's broken]] and stand up to his oppressors once and for all.
A live action Disney flick from 2001, directed by Tim Hill (who went on to make the CGI ''AlvinAndTheChipmunks''). The characters and plot are very predictable, but it's got some witty lines and great performances, especially from its young actors and Larry Miller, who serve up several slices of LargeHam. If you can ignore some of the toilet humour and the [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] vibes, it's actually a pretty funny movie.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: This isn't the [[TheNuttyProfessor first time]] that Larry Miller portrayed a JerkAss school administrator, or being humiliated by a rodent, for that matter.
* AdultsAreUseless: Even the ones who aren't actively evil are still unhelpful
* AllJustADream: The beginning of the film.
* AllThereInTheManual: Apparently recently, there are a few facebook pages on the characters in the movie and reflect on some things that weren't made clear in the movie. For example, apparently Jenna's full name is "[[http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1197260407#!/profile.php?id=100002393835964 Jenna Smith]]", and she was an aspiring actress.
* AlmightyJanitor: The school janitor becomes one when he [[spoiler:locks Jindrake into the storage room after learning the principal cut his overtime pay]].
* AlphaBitch: Max Keeble's crush, and his best friend Megan's worst enemy. (To be fair, she's really more of a BrainlessBeauty who's so shallow that she doesn't realize she's being mean.)
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Max might qualify, given his funny name, [[JewishMother obsessive-compulsive mother]], and dad's quirky sense of humor and background in show business (okay, advertising).
* AnythingButThat: Invoked by Jindrake, when discussing "The Keeble"
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Principal Jindrake plans to pave over an animal shelter to build a football stadium, cuts 97% of the school budget in order to build said football stadium, ''locks one of his students up in the janitor's room as punishment'', and steals toilet paper from the school supply closet. Evil.
** Not to mention that even when the only possible reason for building it (to land himself a promotion from the Superintendent "Crazy Legs," which not only failed, but any chances of his ever becoming superintendent was sunk beyond any chance of recovery [as a deleted scene revealed]) was no longer viable, he still intends to demolish the animal shelter anyways. Then there is the fact that, while (unknowingly) confessing to the entire school that he fiddled with the budget, he not only does so without any regret, but he also even went as far as to insult the classes, faculty and staff, as evidenced by the quote below:
-->'''Jindrake:''' So I fiddled with the budget. Fiddlesticks, it's my budget. So we don't have enough science textbooks, big deal, Science is for nerds. Not enough band instruments, who cares?! Band is for losers! So the Janitor has to work without pay... he should pay ''me'' for the privilege!
* BadHumorTruck: Jamie Kennedy as the Evil Ice Cream Man (that's actually the character's name). His Truck, at least in the dream sequence at the beginning, is even modified with an Ice Cream Cannon.
* BadJobWorseUniform: Max's dad is an ad man, and his boss dresses him up in ridiculous costumes to secure clients.
** In a deleted scene, when Max attempts to contact his father at the ad agency, he was also working as someone who plays a Samurai complete with a sword, only to apparently cut himself shortly after swinging the katana, indicating that the uniform might actually ''injure'' the actor and not just humiliate him/her.
* BigEater: Robe.
* BookDumb: When Troy [=McGinty=] is properly introduced by Max Keeble, a report card depicting his grades is briefly shown, and most of it are "F"s, with the exception of Woodshop, which even that was at best a "D".
* BookEnds: Meta-example: The filming of the movie started with Alex Linz going into the ventilation shaft when shooting the scene of Max and his friends breaking into the school. The filming of the movie concluded with Linz exiting the ventilation shaft.
* BrainlessBeauty: Jenna, Max's crush, is either this or the AlphaBitch.
* ButtMonkey: Really, you have to feel sorry for that uptight teacher who gets pelted with chocolate pudding and knocked into a garbage bin during the "food fight" scene.
** Then again, given the fact that she had Max write a 2000 word essay (and eventually have 12,000) due on Friday just because he was late and dripping (which he couldn't even help due to Troy [=McGinty=] putting him through a swirlie.), and simply let Dobbs steal Max's lunch money and get away with it, [[AssholeVictim she kind of deserved it]].
* CallingCard: One of the Bullies, Troy [=McGinty=], shows everyone who he intends to bully for the day by wearing a coat, to which he promptly unzips to show a shirt with the victim of the day's name that is written in such a way to resemble a word carved into the body. Max Keeble, when getting back at [=McGinty=], even does a variation of [=McGinty=]'s modus operatum that has a spraypaint streak across his shirt with his name in white letter that he displays to the school before enacting revenge against him.
* {{Cameo}}: Several, the most ridiculous being L'il Romeo. (Tony Hawk's appearance, at least, can be explained away as being AllJustADream.)
* CantYouReadTheSign: "What, does this seat have your name on it?" "Yes." (points to name on seat)
* CharacterBlog: Max Keeble, Troy McGinty, and Jenna (full name Jenna Smith) each have a facebook page recently created about them.
* ChekhovsSkill: Max's paperboy aim
* ChildHater: Principal Jindrake, who refers to his students as acne-scarred riff-raff. You have to wonder just how this a**hole got his job, anyway.
* ComicallySmallBribe: Variation: The Evil Ice Cream Man doesn't even attempt to use money to bribe his way out of a speeding ticket, but instead uses a Snow Doodle. Predictably, it fails.
* CompensatingForSomething: A variation is utilized with Jindrake: Whenever he does the announcements (via telemonitor), he often dresses himself in a manner similar to the President of the United States of America, and has his office utilize a pull up curtain that apparently depicts the Capitol Building in the background.
* CrossingTheBurntBridge: basically the plot of the movie.
* DeanBitterman: The deluded and tyrannical Principal Elliot T. Jindrake. He's played by Larry Miller, who coincidentally also played a bitter dean in TheNuttyProfessor.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Jindrake, no other? Specifically, this line when, during his tour with the Superintendent through the school, they witness a food fight:
-->"This is completely without precedent. Not only that, but it's never happened before!"
* DidDoTheResearch: In the film, there were mentions of the Junior High School's highest level being 9th Grade. The school system of University Place, Washington (the implied setting of the movie) does indeed have 9th grade being the highest level in the Junior High School setting.
** DidNotDoTheResearch: Likewise, Max and his friends were stated to be in the 7th Grade as starting attendees of Junior High. In real life, the University Place school system's earlier grade level for Junior High is 8th grade, not 7th grade.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The Evil Ice Cream Man wanted to kill or at the very least maim Max just because Max's mom called the Health Department and nailed him after Max was unluckily enough to discover a cockroach in his Ice Cream.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When accepting Jenna's invitation to a milkshake party at buddies (under the promise of nine (actually one) milkshakes), he is being cheered on by various other students when downing his ninth shake in a very similar manner to a binge drinking contest for a WildTeenParty.
** Also, Both during and after [=McGinty=] being terrorized by "[=MacGoogles=]" in a blackouted and shut in gym, his reaction is almost similar to a rape victim.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Wherein Jindrake reveals that he cut school funds to finance his football stadium due in part to Max Keeble turning on the announcement camera without him knowing.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Evil Ice Cream Man may intend to either kill Max Keeble or at the very least maim him in retribution for discovering a cockroach in his ice cream that presumably got him in deep trouble with the health administration, yet even he objects to someone like Dobbs stealing students money, especially if they are potential customers.
* EvilGloating: Goes hand-in-hand with the EngineeredPublicConfession above.
* EvilRedhead: Troy [=McGinty=].
* FaceHeelTurn: It is implied when Max and Troy encounter each other that they used to be friends given Max's excited greeting before realizing Troy intended to bully him.
* FridgeLogic: Max mentions he plays the bassoon in marching band, but the bassoon isn't a marching band instrument.
** Never doubt the versatility of a pit band section. Over my four years of marching band, our pit included various mallet percussion, bass guitar, electric guitar, bassoons, timpani, a drum kit, even synthesized strings (played on a keyboard) at one point...
* FoodFight: Theres nothing like the sweet taste of rebelious freedom in school.
* FreudianExcuse: Troy [=McGinty=] bears a nasty grudge against Max Keeble because Max's father once wore a frightening costume at his son's birthday party, which Troy attended.
* FunnyForeigner: The three giant exchange students brought in from Eastern Europe to play football. Though at the end, it's revealed they might actually be {{Fauxreigner}}s...
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Max briefly falls hard for the blonde, leggy AlphaBitch freshman student that all the guys drool over. Whenever this character appears, she is accompanied by the opening strains of Britney Spear's "Baby One More Time."
** And then, of course, there's the hilarious "pheromones" subplot.
* GoldenMoment: With the janitor. "Any kid can make a mess. It takes a MAN to clean it up!"
* GroinAttack: When Jindrake is trying to give Crazy Legs a tour of the school as per the inspection, due to unknowingly ingesting Animal Pheronomes from his mouth spray, a squirrel finds Jindrake and attempts to find his mate due to the pheronomes within Jindrake, and... well, let's just say that the Squirrel eventually finds a certain area to test his teeth on.
* HeliumSpeech: Robe attempts to invoke this on himself while waiting for Max to arrive for the going away party, and succeeds.
* HighSchoolHustler: Max, well, kind of as he is a ''Junior'' High school student. One of the complaints about the movie was it was unoriginal and that Max is a preteen ripoff of the more famous hustler [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]].
* HongKongDub: When Max goes into his "kung fu" stance
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Max, trying to save the bullies from an angry mob of nerds who want to throw them in a dumpster, insists, "If you bully them you will be just like them!" Then he tells them to "let them go," [[UnhandThemVillain with]] [[ExactWords predictable results]].
* IncrediblyLamePun: "See you bassoon!" Max even lampshades how bad of a pun it was by saying "'See you bassoon'? ehh... stupid."
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Troy [=McGinty=] ''almost'' becomes one once we learn that he was traumatized as a child by the sight of Max's father dressed as a bizarre cartoon character. I say "almost" because that certainly doesn't justify his being a complete JerkAss a decade later.
* IronicEcho: Sort of. [[spoiler:"I was just running away from my problems, and that's not courage. That [[{{Malaproper}} excourage]]."]]
** Also, when Megan tells Jenna to leave after Max turned down her invitation, she says to Jenna the exact same thing that Jenna herself told her when they first met when dismissing her from the chair: "Shoo-Shoo." Of course, Jenna reacts with indifference.
* KarmaHoudini: The Yearbook guys, given the fact that they were as much bullying as Troy [=McGinty=] and Dobbs were since their primary use of their journalism skills was to essentially take pictures of the students in embarassing or traumatising situations (and even make innocent pictures seem a lot worse with their choice of titles, i.e. "How's this: 'Sheep arrive for slaughter'" on the very first day of school), and unlike Troy, Dobbs, Jindrake, or even the Evil Ice Cream Man, they still haven't received their comeuppance by the end of the movie.
** They seemed more passionate about their jobs than anything instead of bullying (i.e. they were excited about covering the FoodFight), and the only incriminating thing they did was take photos of [[ItMakesSenseInContext Max being manhandled by Troy]]... and try to write an article about traumatized Troy. But besides their yearbook gig, they also serve as informants to Worried Kid by warning him about the bullies he should be aware of to get the plot moving.
* LargeHam: Larry Miller as the principal is over-the-top in Larry Miller's under-the-top way.
* LastDayToLive: About two thirds of the film is this; the rest is [[spoiler:cleaning up the mess Max made when it's revealed his family isn't moving after all]].
* LastMinuteHookup: Max/ Megan sort of comes out of nowhere
** by "sort of" it is because it was justified, considering how he ditched her earlier as a direct result of deciding to attend [[AlphaBitch Jenna's]] party instead of the going away party that Robe and Megan were holding, and felt guilty when he found out.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Surprisingly, the AlphaBitch has one that plays every time she appears. Unsurprisingly, it's the intro to Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time"
** Jenna's not the only one who has a Leitmotif. Actually, a few of the major characters have one as well. Dobbs, for example, has the song "If Everybody Looked the Same" (the one that has this lyric that is said really fast as part of the opening.)
* LoveIsInTheAir: Max switches the principal's mouth spray with [[HollywoodScience liquid pheromones]], which causes animals to, um, "chase" after him.
* {{Malaproper}}: Principal Jindrake speaks in nothing but these.
--> "I don't encourage horseplay and malarkey, I excourage it."
* MeanBoss: [[TheGhost Mr. Keeble's boss]] forces him to wear ridiculous costumes in advertising pitches (and in one deleted scene, at least one of the costumes actually have the capacity of hurting the actor]], then says he has to move to Chicago in a week or be fired. Principal Jindrake plays the part very well.
* TheMovingExperience: Variation, as Max's family really ''is'' moving away, but [[spoiler:his dad decides to quit his job, so they end up not moving after all]].
* {{Narrator}}: Max is the voice over narrator of his own first week of school.
* NoodleIncident: In the second half, when Don Keeble explains that they won't be moving, he mentioned that he quit and "gave Fodge a dose of his own medicine." Exactly how he did so was never explained, although it is implied that he may have somehow gotten Fodge to wear one of the dorkish costumes.
* OffscreenCrash: Jindrake drives past the animal shelter, where he sees Max. Of course, he watches Max a little too closely, and the road not close enough.
* {{Only Known by Their Nickname}}: Robe. (According to Max, his real first name is Robert.)
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Used in-story, when one of the Eastern European exchange students reveals himself to be surprisingly eloquent.
* PowerTrio
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Superintendent seems to legitimately care about the kids learning and well being, expressing shock that Jindrake, when revealing his plans in regards to building the stadium, admitted that he actually cut back on "unimportant" things such as fire-extinguishers and milk. It is also subtly implied that he doesn't actually like Jindrake or think he is a good candidate for ascendency for his retirement, but has to put up with him, anyways.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Sort of. The Evil Ice Cream Man himself doesn't have red eyes, but during the opening dream sequence as well as one brief moment when Max explains who he is to the audience, his eyes glow red.
* RunningGag: Robe's willingness to eat anything, Jindrake's poor mastery of the English language, Jindrake forgetting to turn off the camera (at first), the newspaper guys...
* RussianGuySuffersMost: Inverted: A student named "Vladimir" (which is a Russian name, which implies Russian descent) was intended to be one of the victims to Troy [=McGinty=]'s bullying routine (he had his name written on his shirt in a way similar to a gash), but unlike Max Keeble or Robe, the other on-screen victims, Vladimir ran off before [=McGinty=] could get the chance to deal the pain.
* SadistTeacher: Jindrake. Well, technically he's more like a Sadist Principal, but still.
* Techbane: Jindrake. To put it simply, whenever he attempts to make the announcements via telemonitor, he usually ends them when pressing the button to turn off the camera, only for it to turn out that he didn't actually turn it off, and usually humiliates himself in the process (First instance is when he, while bragging about himself in a manner to a movie review, ended up exposing that he was actually faking his image as President of the United States and even being near Washington, and the second instance had him sticking pencils up his nose and referring to himself as a walrus [although this part may have been intentional]), with Rangoon, his secretary, usually telling him that the camera, or rather, the red light, is still on. He does eventually manage to figure it out, though (apparently, he needs to press the button twice for it to turn off).
* TheTroubleWithTickets: The Evil Ice Cream Man ends up being pulled over by a policeman while chasing down Max Keeble for speeding and presumably attempted manslaughter. The EICM then tries to get out of the situation by bribing the Policeman with a Snow-Doodle. Going by what happens immediately thereafter, the Policeman didn't accept the bribe.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The two guys who work for the newspaper
* TitleDrop: Well, half of the title. "Ready for the big move?"
** Or "Not moving was the biggest move of all."
* ToThePain: Jindrake, threatening Max with a new form of punishment he calls "The Keeble." Which thankfully never got a chance to be implemented. Then again, maybe it did, assuming his locking Keeble within the janitor's closet was supposed to be the punishment in question.
* ToiletHumor: Robe getting sick due to his claustrophobia springs to mind
* TooDumbToLive: The ending where Jindrake ends up drawing all of the animals to himself when attempting to destroy the Animal shelter by using his mouthspray. Jindrake, you'd think that by now you'd at least put two-and-two together in regards to the connections between the animals reacting and you using the spray, since it has occured at least twice before (three times before if one counts a deleted scene where, shortly after Jindrake does a mouthspray during his tour of the school for the Superintendent, a dog escapes from a woman's car and proceeds to attack his pants leg.)
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The original trailer pretty much spoils the big plot twist.
* TrappedInContainment: [=McGinty=], when picking Robe as the second kid to bully in the school year, places Robe in a glass case (presumably some sort of trophy case). Made even worse due to the fact that Robe is severely claustrophobic, and just as Max Keeble is alerting the students about his condition after freeing him, he throws up from the trauma (the contents apparently being a Chili Omelet, given Robe's comment shortly after hurling).
* TwoTimerDate: Of the third category, where Max goes to a milkshake party with Jenna's friends instead of the Going Away Party held by Robe and Megan. See WhatTheHellHero below.
* TheUnfettered: Max revenges himself against his bullies because he knows he's not going to be around to suffer the consequences. His friends, however...
* ThrowItIn: Alex Linz was orignally supposed to portray Max as being flustered when he meets Jenna at school, but he flubbed up and chuckled. The creators thought this was better, so they kept it in.
** A lot of Jindrake's personality was ad-libbed by Larry Miller, basing it on the dean from Animal House.
* UnhandThemVillain: At the end of the movie, the three giant exchange students offer to throw the school bullies in a dumpster. After Max insists IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim, he tells them to "let the bullies go," which, of course, they do-- and let them fall into the dumpster themselves. Also, just as Principal Jindrake is about to run his big bulldozer over a poor defenseless animal, Max jumps in front of it and says: "Not today, Jindraike. That's far enough."
* VillainousBreakdown: Dobbs utterly ''goes to pieces'' when his palm pilot is stolen.
** He has it easy compared to [=McGinty=] when he was trapped in a Gym with its power cut with [=MacGoogles=]. The guy was in such a massive emotional and mental wreck that he was huddled in a corner quivering while in a fetal position, barely even able to speak, and was also implied to be in dire need of psychological counseling in a manner similar to having to deal with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
* VisualPun: Upon learning that they won't be moving, Lily remarks that Don will now be the big cheese. During this scene, Don Keeble is wearing a Cheese costume (making him quite literally the big cheese).
* WhatTheHellHero: On the last day before the move, Max accepted Jenna's invitation to have a Milkshake party at Buddies, when he was supposed to go to a going away party held by Megan and Robe. Suffice to say, as soon as they found out about this, they weren't pleased.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Big brute of a bully Troy is ''terrified'' of a Barney-like Scottish frog named [=MacGoogles=] (The trauma was made even worse when Mr. Keeble tries to reveal that he's actually [=MacGoogles=], not because of it's an adult playing the role, but because he actually thought that [=MacGoogles=] ''ate'' Mr. Keeble). He eventually manages to get over it, after the School Nurse attempts to help him eliminate the psychological trauma of the event.
* [[YouFailBiologyForever You Fail Mathematics Forever]]: Jindrake, during his assembly, tells them that he's improving the school's zero tolerance policy to one of subzero tolerance, which is more than zero. However, sub-zero is actually a number even less than zero; in other words, a negative number.
* YoungEntrepreneur: Bully Dobbs is a Wall Street-smart kid who decides to regain his lost millions by stealing lunch money on the pretence that he's "investing" it.
* ZanyScheme: The various plots to ruin the bullies-- stealing Dobbs' palm pilot, melting the Evil Ice Cream Man's ice cream, terrorizing Troy with a giant frog, and setting Jindrake up for a HumiliationConga.
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