History Film / TheSlamminSalmon

* TheCameo: The film features small roles for Morgan Fairchild, Creator/LanceHenriksen, Creator /WillForte, Creator/OliviaMunn and Sendhil Ramamurthy.

* TheCameo: The film features small roles for Morgan Fairchild, Lance Henriksen, Will Forte, Olivia Munn and Sendhil Ramamurthy.

The wait staff includes: '''Nuts''' (Jay Chandresekhar), a heavily medicated man, who becomes "Zongo" when he doesn't take his meds; '''Connor''' (Steve Lemme), a former waiter who has returned after a failed acting career; '''Donnie Kinogie''' (Paul Soter), busboy-turned-waiter in order to meet the Champ's demands; '''Guy Metdrapedes''' (Eric Stolhanske), the most arrogant and underhanded of them all; '''Tara''' (Creator/CobieSmulders), who is working her way through med school; and '''Mia''' (April Bowlby), who is saving to enroll in a ballet academy.

* TrappedByGamblingDebts: The Champ owes the Yakuza a debt of 20,000 dollars. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he actually owes them 20,000 in Yen, and he just thought that yen and dollars were equal in value.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Champ is clearly Mike Tyson with a sprinkle of George Foreman.
** Another character is a TV executive specializing in crime shows, named [[Creator/DickWolf Dick]] [[GratuitousSpanish Lobo]].

* ShoutOut: [[Film/GlengarryGlenRoss "Strawberry daiquiris are for closers!!"]]

* AccidentalMisnaming: The Champ calls Donnie "Dave 2", and pronounces Metdrapedes as "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Meat Drapes]]."

The wait staff includes: '''Nuts''' (Jay Chandresekhar), a heavily medicated man, who becomes "Zongo" when he doesn't take his meds; '''Connor''' (Steve Lemme), a former waiter who has returned after a failed acting career; '''Donnie Kinogie''' (Paul Soter), busboy-turned-waiter in order to meet the Champ's demands; '''Guy Metdrapedes''' (Eric Stolhanske), the most arrogant and underhanded of them all; '''Tara''' (Cobie Smulders), who is working her way through med school; and '''Mia''' (April Bowlby), who is saving to enroll in a ballet academy.

** At the end of the movie, [[spoiler: Guy]] is duct-taped to a punching bag as punishment for coming in last place. A woman suffered a similar fate at the hands of [[VideoGame/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi Balrog]].

* TrappedByGamblingDebts: The Champ owes the Yakuza a debt of 20,000 dollars. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he actually owes them 20,000 in Yen, and he just thought that yen and dollars were the same thing.]]

Former world heavyweight boxing champion "[[RedBaron Slammin']]" Cleon Salmon (MichaelClarkeDuncan) is the owner of one of Miami's most popular seafood restaurants, dubbed ''"The Slammin' Salmon."'' When he racks up a $20,000 gambling debt to the {{Yakuza}}, he tells the restaurants manager, Rich (Kevin Heffernan), that they need to take in twenty grand in one night, since his own extravagant lifestyle has left him unable to pay. Hoping to motivate the wait staff (and avoid the Champ's wrath), Rich begins offering prizes out of his own pocket to whoever the top seller is by the end of the night. When this does not work as well as expected. The Champ issues his own ultimatum: whoever is the lowest seller by the end of the night is getting a "broken rib sandwich." The staff then begins to one-up and sabotage each other hoping to come out on top.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted for laughs with Mia. While she spends the first part of the evening exploiting her looks for big checks and tips, once her face is burned she gets more and more repulsive for the rest of the evening.

* IronButtMonkey: Poor Mia gets burned, beat up, and set on fire.

* FakeTwinGambit: [[spoiler: Dave poses as Donnie when Tara gives him a BigDamnKiss at the end.]]. She figures it out when he starts getting ''too'' into it.

->-'''The Champ''', after punching a living swordfish in the head.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* TwinThemeNaming: Donnie and Dave.

* TwinThemeNamimg: Donnie and Dave.

* IsenricalTwinIDTag: Dave wears his chef outfit while Donnie wears the wait staff uniform. Donnie is further ID'd with blue lips after Connor starts making him drink Blue Curaçao. [[spoiler: Which is the first hint that it's actually Dave participating in the BigDamnKiss at the end.]]