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--->'''Chessy:''' It's almost as if you were... Forget it, it's impossible.\\
'''Annie as Hallie:''' Almost as if I were who, Chessy? \\
'''Chessy:''' ''(starts to walk off)'' Nobody. Forget I mentioned it.\\

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--->'''Chessy:''' It's Boy, if I didn't know any better, I'd say it's almost as if like you were... Forget it, it's impossible.\\
'''Annie as Hallie:''' Almost as if I were who, Chessy? \\
Chessy?\\
'''Chessy:''' ''(starts to walk off)'' Nobody. Nobody. Forget I mentioned it.\\



** One of the first signs that the girls' similarities run deeper than usual is the fact that both of them like to eat Oreos topped with peanut butter, which everybody else seems to find disgusting.
** More so because both Oreos and peanut butter are far less commonly sold in Britain than they are in America; the English-raised Annie liking that particular combination of food would be especially unusual.

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** One of the first signs that the girls' similarities run deeper than usual their looks is the fact that both of them like to eat Oreos topped with peanut butter, which everybody else seems to find disgusting.
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disgusting. More so because both Oreos and peanut butter are far less commonly sold in Britain than they are in America; the English-raised Annie liking that particular combination of food would be especially unusual.

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* WritersCannotDoMath: Given a birthday of October 11, the twins are about 11 years and 8 months old at the start of camp, supposedly 11 years and 9 months after their parents' wedding. Mind you, Nick and Elizabeth married within days of meeting, and Liz wasn't 8 months pregnant during the opening credits.



* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Meredith summons Chessy with a bell, treating her like she's not a friend at all and merely a servant; she orders her to get a martini for herself and a double martini for Nick. Chessy shoots Nick a "Seriously?" look, to which he tells Chessy to obey her, because the stress he's already feeling [[note]] after his failed attempts to tell Hallie that he wants to marry Meredith [[/note]] is giving him a migraine.

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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Meredith summons Chessy with a bell, treating her like she's not a friend at all and merely a servant; she orders her to get a martini for herself and a double martini for Nick. Chessy shoots Nick a "Seriously?" look, to which he tells asks Chessy to obey humor her, because the stress he's already feeling [[note]] after his failed attempts to tell Hallie that he wants to marry Meredith [[/note]] is giving him a migraine.
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-->'''Annie-as-Hallie:''' I hope you're joking. Meredith, she's not the girl for you. It's not possible, I'm dreaming. What--
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* {{Unishment}}: Annie and Hallie being banished to the isolation cabin ends up being this, as it provides the opportunity for them to work out the truth about their being twis and also to bond with each other and plot their switch. It also ends up being fortunate that no one can hear when they scream their heads off during the ear-piercing scene.

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* AllThereInTheScript: The end credits give Grandfather's first name as Charles (which makes sense, considering that was the name of his counterpart in the original).
* AmbiguouslyBi: Hallie is certainly the more tomboyish of the twins and while she kept a Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio photo, seems to be attracted to (or at least impressed by) the Tie-Dye Girl. They're friends for the rest of the camp session.
-->'''Hallie:''' ''(after seeing the Tie-Dye Girl lifting her bag out of the pile)'' Whoa, now that's my kind of woman![[note]]She was ostensibly talking about the girl being strong enough to pull her duffel bag out of a pile but still...[[/note]]

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* AllThereInTheScript: AllThereInTheScript:
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The end credits give Grandfather's first name as Charles (which makes sense, considering that was the name of his counterpart in the original).
** The first friend Hallie meets is Zoe.
** Tie-Dye Girl is Nicole.
** Annie's Black friend is Jackie.
** Her friend who offers to punch Hallie is Crosby.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Hallie is certainly the more tomboyish of the twins twins, and while she kept a Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio photo, seems to be attracted to (or at least impressed by) the Tie-Dye Girl.Nicole (Tie-Dye Girl). They're friends for the rest of the camp session.
-->'''Hallie:''' ''(after seeing the Tie-Dye Girl Nicole lifting her bag out of the pile)'' Whoa, now that's my kind of woman![[note]]She was ostensibly talking about the girl being strong enough to pull her duffel bag out of a pile pile, but still...[[/note]]



* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: During the fencing match at camp, one of the sisters leans against a tree and yawns while she parries strikes against her.

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* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: During the fencing match at camp, one of the sisters leans against a tree haystack and yawns while she parries strikes against her.
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* HomageShot: After checking in at the hotel, Nick and Meredith enter the elevator ''en route'' to their suite, when Nick turns around and sees his old wife Elizabeth in the lobby. The sight of her poleaxes him so thoroughly that he leans dramatically to the side to keep her in view as the elevator door closes. The whole sequence is a recreation of the same scene from ''[[Film/MyFavoriteWife Move Over, Darling]]''.

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* HomageShot: After checking in at the hotel, Nick and Meredith enter the elevator ''en route'' to their suite, when Nick turns around and sees his old wife Elizabeth in the lobby. The sight of her his old wife poleaxes him so thoroughly that he leans dramatically to the side to keep her in view as the elevator door closes. The whole sequence is a recreation of the same scene from ''[[Film/MyFavoriteWife Move Over, Darling]]''.closes--just like Creator/CaryGrant does in ''Film/MyFavoriteWife''.
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* HomageShot: After checking in at the hotel, Nick and Meredith enter the elevator ''en route'' to their suite, when Nick turns around and sees his old wife Elizabeth in the lobby. The sight of her poleaxes him so thoroughly that he leans dramatically to the side to keep her in view as the elevator door closes. The whole sequence is a recreation of the same scene from ''[[Film/MyFavoriteWife Move Over, Darling]]''.
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* StoppedDeadInTheirTracks:
** When Chessy questions why "Hallie" [[TwinSwitch (actually her sister, Annie)]] is acting so strangely, she starts to say it's almost as if Hallie was someone else. Chessy starts to walk off, dismissing the idea, until "Hallie" mentions Annie. This shocks Chessy into stopping since Hallie isn't supposed to know Annie exists.
--->'''Chessy:''' It's almost as if you were... Forget it, it's impossible.\\
'''Annie as Hallie:''' Almost as if I were who, Chessy? \\
'''Chessy:''' ''(starts to walk off)'' Nobody. Forget I mentioned it.\\
'''Annie as Hallie:''' Almost as if I were... Annie?\\
'''Chessy:''' ''(stops in her tracks, before turning around)'' You know about Annie?\\
'''Annie:''' ''(in British accent)'' [[TheReveal I]] ''[[InternalReveal am]]'' [[AccentRelapse Annie]].
** When the twins' parents Elizabeth and Nick see each other for the first time in eleven years, Nick is holding his younger fiancé Meredith in the elevator. Since he was unaware Elizabeth was coming, and Elizabeth was unaware Nick was engaged to someone else, they both stop in their tracks, stunned as the elevator doors close on Nick and Meredith.

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* CompanyCrossReferences: Meredith is called [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella DeVil]] several times.



** Meredith is called [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella DeVil]] several times.
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* NinetiesHair: In the main story, on the other hand, Elizabeth's short layered cut makes her look a fair bit like Princess Diana.

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* NinetiesHair: In the main story, on the other hand, Elizabeth's short layered cut makes her look a fair bit like Princess Diana.UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales.
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* RapidFireNo: This is Annie's reaction once Hallie mentions that she has pierced ears, meaning that Annie will have to get hers pierced in order for their plan to work.
-->'''Annie:''' No. No, no, and no! Not happening! Sorry, wrong number, I won't! I refuse.
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* IronicEcho: "Get the picture?"
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* AgeLift: The twins are eleven years old in this film, aging them down from the 1961 version, where they're thirteen, and up from the original book, where they're nine.
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* DangerousInterrogative:
** [[GoldDigger Meredith]] threatens to make life hell for [[TheTrickster Hallie and Annie]] when she marries their father, Nicholas, as the twins try to make ''her'' life hell during the HorribleCampingTrip (for Meredith anyway) they're on in order to break them up.
--->'''Meredith:''' One more trick from you two, and I promise I'll make your lives miserable from the day I say "I do." Got it? ''(turns to walk off)''\\
'''Hallie:''' Got it, [[MaliciousMisnaming Cruella.]]\\
'''Meredith:''' ''(turning sharply back to her)'' What did you call me?\\
'''Hallie:''' Nothing, nothing, not a thing... ''(under her breath)'' Cruella.
** This happens again when Meredith is finally at her wits' end thanks to the twins and has it out with her fiancee over them:
--->'''Nicholas:''' ''(seeing Meredith sopping wet and seething)'' What's going on?\\
'''Meredith:''' Here's what's going on, buddy: the day we get married is the day I ship those ''(points at his daughters) brats'' off to Switzerland! Get the picture? It's me or them. Take your pick.\\
'''Nicholas:''' ''(gesturing toward his daughters)'' Them.\\
'''Meredith:''' ''(eyes widening in anger)'' Excuse me?\\
'''Nicholas:''' T-H-E-M, them. ''(leans in close to her)'' [[IronicEcho Get the picture?]]
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* EarPiercingPlot: In order to fool the father into believing Annie is Hallie, Annie is forced to get her ears pierced by Hallie. The rise almost gets exposed when Hallie goes posing as Annie…with her ears pierced. However the mother is rather happy “Annie” got the piercings.

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* EarPiercingPlot: In order to fool the father into believing Annie is Hallie, Annie is forced to get her ears pierced by Hallie. The rise ruse almost gets exposed when Hallie goes posing as Annie…with her ears pierced. However the mother is rather happy “Annie” got the piercings.
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* EarPiercingPlot: In order to fool the father into believing Annie is Hallie, Annie is forced to get her ears pierced by Hallie.

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* EarPiercingPlot: In order to fool the father into believing Annie is Hallie, Annie is forced to get her ears pierced by Hallie. The rise almost gets exposed when Hallie goes posing as Annie…with her ears pierced. However the mother is rather happy “Annie” got the piercings.
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* EarPiercingPlot: In order to fool the father into believing Annie is Hallie, Annie is forced to get her ears pierced by Hallie.

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* LegFocus: Discussed about both Elizabeth and Meredith:
** Martin suggests a LittleBlackDress for Elizabeth in light of her having good legs.
** A very drunk ("totally zonked!") Elizabeth attempts to get out of the cab by trying to put her foot in Martin's hand, showing some serious leg.
--->'''Martin:''' Other end, Madam.
** After seeing Nick in the elevator, his arms wrapped around a young lady, Elizabeth refers to her as "leggy".



* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother, Like Daughters]]: Elizabeth tricks Meredith into agreeing that Elizabeth shouldn't join the rest of the family on the camping trip, enabling the twins to focus their energy on wearing Meredith out and driving her off. It's not lost on Nick, either.

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* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother, Like Daughters]]: LikeFatherLikeSon: Elizabeth tricks Meredith into agreeing that Elizabeth shouldn't join the rest of the family on the camping trip, enabling the twins to focus their energy on wearing Meredith out and driving her off. It's not lost on Nick, either.



* ShesGotLegs: Discussed about both Elizabeth and Meredith:
** Martin suggests a LittleBlackDress for Elizabeth in light of her having good legs.
** A very drunk ("totally zonked!") Elizabeth attempts to get out of the cab by trying to put her foot in Martin's hand, showing some serious leg.
--->'''Martin:''' Other end, Madam.
** After seeing Nick in the elevator, his arms wrapped around a young lady, Elizabeth refers to her as "leggy".
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* ArtisticLicenseStatistics: Drawing a royal flush at ''any'' point in a game of poker (let alone as the final hand) is a ''once in a lifetime'' occurrence, not just evidence of being a decently skilled player. Seriously: in most variants of poker, the odds of drawing a royal flush are less than one in '''half a million'''.
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* ShouldersUpNudity: When Annie jumps into the lake naked she is seen only from the shoulders up and the knees down save for a brief shot that shows a silhouette of her full body as she dives into the lake.
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* BigEater: Hallie eats a lot, but Annie doesn't. Chessie notices the difference in their appetite and comments on it, prompting the InternalReveal. [[spoiler:This, (along with Sammy the dog barking and growling at "Hallie") helps Chessy realize the girls have switched, and Annie confirms it later.]]

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* BigEater: Hallie eats a lot, but Annie doesn't. Chessie Chessy notices the difference in their appetite and comments on it, prompting the InternalReveal. [[spoiler:This, (along with Sammy the dog barking and growling at "Hallie") helps Chessy realize the girls have switched, and Annie confirms it later.]]



* CampStraight: Martin, Elizabeth's butler, gives fashion advice, dons an all-leather biker ensemble, wears a Speedo to the pool, and gets together with Chessie mid-film.

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* CampStraight: Martin, Elizabeth's butler, gives fashion advice, dons an all-leather biker ensemble, wears a Speedo to the pool, and gets together with Chessie Chessy mid-film.
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* RhymeThemeNaming: The twin sisters' names are Hallie and Annie.
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** Given that the twins' final prank on her was pulling her air mattress out while she's sleeping on it in the middle of the night onto the lake, which could have had lethal results (especially considering she had taken "one large sleeping pill" before going to bed), it's not hard to see why that one would be the final straw for her leading to her VillainousBreakdown.

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** Given that the twins' final prank on her was pulling her air mattress out while she's sleeping on it in the middle of the night onto the lake, which could have had lethal results (especially considering she had taken "one large sleeping pill" before going to bed), it's not hard to see why that one would be the final straw for her leading to her VillainousBreakdown. Even Nick seems to agree, as the twins are "punished until the end of the century" for that one.
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* NewOldFlame: Upon seeing his ex-wife again after being estranged for years, Nick obviously falls in love again with Elizabeth as he is unable to take his eyes off her despite being with his future wife, Meredith, inside an elevator. Later, when encountering Elizabeth again, he [[HeadTurningBeauty is so mesmerized by her beauty, so much so until he plunges into the pool]].

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* NewOldFlame: Upon seeing his ex-wife again after being estranged for years, Nick obviously falls in love again with Elizabeth as he is unable to take his eyes off her despite being with his future wife, fiancée, Meredith, inside an elevator. Later, when encountering Elizabeth again, he [[HeadTurningBeauty is so mesmerized by her beauty, so much so until that he plunges into the pool]].
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* NewOldFlame: Upon seeing his ex-wife again after being estranged for years, Nick obviously falls in love again with Elizabeth as he is unable to take his eyes off her despite being with his future wife, Meredith, inside an elevator and later he [[HeadTurningBeauty plunges into the pool, mesmerized by Elizabeth's beauty]].

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* NewOldFlame: Upon seeing his ex-wife again after being estranged for years, Nick obviously falls in love again with Elizabeth as he is unable to take his eyes off her despite being with his future wife, Meredith, inside an elevator and later elevator. Later, when encountering Elizabeth again, he [[HeadTurningBeauty is so mesmerized by her beauty, so much so until he plunges into the pool, mesmerized by Elizabeth's beauty]].pool]].
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* LoveAtFirstSight: the Parkers' housekeeper/nanny, Chessy, and the James' family butler, Martin, instantly fall in love from the moment they meet for the first time in the complicated circumstances: when the twins' mother finally discover her twins' intentions over her and her ex-husband, Nick's, reunion set up.

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* LoveAtFirstSight: the Parkers' housekeeper/nanny, Chessy, and the James' family butler, Martin, instantly fall in love from the moment they meet for the first time in the a complicated circumstances: situation: when the twins' mother finally discover her twins' intentions over in setting up her and her ex-husband, Nick's, reunion set up.seemingly-coincidental reunion.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: the Parker's housekeeper/nanny, Chessy, and the James' family butler, Martin, instantly fall in love from the moment they meet for the first time in the complicated circumstances (when the twins' mother finally discover her twins' intentions over her and her ex-husband, Nick's, reunion arrangement).

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* LoveAtFirstSight: the Parker's Parkers' housekeeper/nanny, Chessy, and the James' family butler, Martin, instantly fall in love from the moment they meet for the first time in the complicated circumstances (when circumstances: when the twins' mother finally discover her twins' intentions over her and her ex-husband, Nick's, reunion arrangement).set up.
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* NewOldFlame: Upon seeing his ex-wife again after being estranged for years, Nick is obviously still in love with Elizabeth as he is unable to take his eyes off her despite being with his future wife, Meredith, inside an elevator and later he [[HeadTurningBeauty plunges into the pool, mesmerized by Elizabeth's beauty]].

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* NewOldFlame: Upon seeing his ex-wife again after being estranged for years, Nick is obviously still falls in love again with Elizabeth as he is unable to take his eyes off her despite being with his future wife, Meredith, inside an elevator and later he [[HeadTurningBeauty plunges into the pool, mesmerized by Elizabeth's beauty]].
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* NewOldFlame: Upon seeing his ex-wife again after being estranged for years, Nick is obviously still in love with Elizabeth that he [[HeadTurningBeauty plunges into the pool when distracted]] and unable to take his eyes off her despite being with his future wife, Meredith, inside an elevator.

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* NewOldFlame: Upon seeing his ex-wife again after being estranged for years, Nick is obviously still in love with Elizabeth that as he [[HeadTurningBeauty plunges into the pool when distracted]] and is unable to take his eyes off her despite being with his future wife, Meredith, inside an elevator.elevator and later he [[HeadTurningBeauty plunges into the pool, mesmerized by Elizabeth's beauty]].

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