History Film / TheWash

* OnlyKnownByTheirNicknane: A lot of the characters. In fact, many of the carwash employees have their nicknames ''on their name tags''.

* FromBadToWorse: Jimmy and Dee Loc free Mr. Washington from the kidnappers, only to have the misfortune of running into a vengeful, AK-47-wielding Chris.

* StupidCrooks: The kidnappers may be two of the ''dumbest'' kidnappers in film history. They not only make the ransom call ''from their own house where they are also keeping the hostage'', but they also ''forget to block their Caller ID''. Hell, Slim even ''accidentally gives Face's name away'' during the ransom call! They also prove ''extremely'' easy to fool when Antoinette calls pretending to be the Census bureau (see: BavarianFireDrill) and when Dee Loc sends his girl Diane to distract Slim while Dee Loc and his other girl, Vickey, sneak Mr. Washington out.

* EvilVersusEvil: When Chris arrives at the car wash, he gets into a brief gunfight with one of the kidnappers.

* CelebrityParadox: Julio G introduces a "world premiere" of a new song by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg (which doubles as a ThemeTuneCameo, since the name of the song is "The Wash"), who are presumably *not* the Dre and Snoop who play the film's two main characters.

''The Wash'' is a 2001 comedy film starring Music/DrDre, SnoopDogg, DJ Pooh (who is also the director), and Music/{{Eminem}}.

The Wash is a 2001 comedy film starring Music/DrDre, SnoopDogg, DJ Pooh (who is also the director), and Music/{{Eminem}}.

* BavarianFireDrill: Antoinette calls the kidnappers' house to try and establish how many people are inside, by pretending to be from the
"Census Bureau". She doesn't have to try too hard.

** [[CheechAndChong Tommy Chong]] as Dee Loc's pot connection.

** {{Music/Ludacris}} as another angry customer.
** PaulyShore as a man trapped in the trunk of a Mafioso's car.
* CelebrityParadox: Julio G introduces a "world premiere" of a new song by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg (which doubles as a ThemeTuneCameo, since the name of the song is ''The Wash''), who are presumably *not* the Dre and Snoop who play the film's two main characters.
* ComicallySmallDemand: Slim misinterprets Face's suggestion of "fifty cent" for the ransom as fifty ''actual cents'' and not fifty thousand dollars.
--> '''Slim:''' ''Fifty cent? Is that what all this is about? Two'' '''''punk-ass motherfuckin' quarters?'''''

* StupidCrooks: The kidnappers may be two of the ''dumbest'' kidnappers in film history. They not only make the ransom call ''from their own house where they are also keeping the hostage'', but they also ''forget to block their Caller ID''. Hell, Slim even ''accidentally gives Face's name away'' during the ransom call! They also prove ''extremely'' easy to fool when Antoinette calls pretending to be the Census bureau (see: BavarianFireDrill) and when Dee Loc sends his girl Diane to distract Slim while Dee Loc and his other girl Vickey sneak Mr. Washington out.

* ShoutOut: A cop asks a barely conscious C-Money if he got [[{{Film/Friday}} knocked the fuck out]].
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Dee Loc may constantly hassle Sean for his half of the rent, ''and'' he may be insubordinate to Sean at work, ''and'' he may have ruined Sean's date, ''and'' he may have cost Sean his job at the Foot Locker, but that doesn't mean he won't step in to protect Sean when Chris turns his gun on him.

* ActorAllusion: At one point, Dee Loc exclaims that he "paid the cost to be the boss", which is also the title of one of SnoopDogg's albums.

* AndADietCoke: Security guard DeWayne finishes a food order with one of these at the end of the movie while he's detaining Chris.

* BavarianFireDrill: Antoinette calls the kidnappers' house to try and establish how many people are inside, under the guise of calling from the Census Bureau. She doesn't have to try too hard.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: DeWayne may look like a fat, incompetent rent-a-cop, but he manages to get the drop on Chris in the end while he's threatening Dee Loc and Sean.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Apart from a pre-''Film/EightMile'' Eminem as Chris, would-be kidnapper Face is also played by Shawn Fonteno, better known as [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Franklin from GTA V]].