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* KickTheSonOfABitch: After Monty won't stand up to Jeff's refusal to let Simon sleep in the basement and lies to Simon about it, Simon leaves without leaving the thesis.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Monty and Courtney snipe at each other throughout the movie. [[TheyDo Until they finally hook up at the end]].

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* BelligerentSexualTension: Monty and Courtney snipe at each other throughout the movie. [[TheyDo Until movie, until they finally hook up at the end]].end.
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Fraser portrays Montgomery Kessler, an honors Government senior at Harvard University and pet pupil of the harsh Professor Pitkannen (Creator/GoreVidal). Monty's rooms in a house with Courtney (Moira Kelly), an art student; Everett (Creator/PatrickDempsey), a college radio DJ and legacy student; and Jeff (Josh Hamilton), a neurotic pre-med student. After his computer crashes, Monty loses the only paper copy of his thesis in a library boiler room. Attempting to retrieve it, he comes across Simon B. Wilder (Pesci), a homeless man who is living in the boiler room and burning the thesis. Simon extorts food and new underwear from Monty in exchange for pages of his thesis, but Monty instead calls security and has Simon arrested. In order to get his thesis back, Monty puts Simon up in a broken-down van in his backyard.

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Fraser portrays Montgomery Kessler, an honors Government senior at Harvard University and pet pupil of the harsh Professor Pitkannen (Creator/GoreVidal). Monty's rooms in a house with Courtney (Moira Kelly), (Creator/MoiraKelly), an art student; Everett (Creator/PatrickDempsey), a college radio DJ and legacy student; and Jeff (Josh Hamilton), a neurotic pre-med student. After his computer crashes, Monty loses the only paper copy of his thesis in a library boiler room. Attempting to retrieve it, he comes across Simon B. Wilder (Pesci), a homeless man who is living in the boiler room and burning the thesis. Simon extorts food and new underwear from Monty in exchange for pages of his thesis, but Monty instead calls security and has Simon arrested. In order to get his thesis back, Monty puts Simon up in a broken-down van in his backyard.
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* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Monty
** TheLancer: Simon
** TheSmartGuy: Jeff
** TheBigGuy: Everett
** TheChick: Courtney
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-->'''Everett:''' I have a complaint.//
'''Simon:''' (''to Courtney'') [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Boy oh boy, let me help you with that...]].//

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-->'''Everett:''' I have a complaint.//
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'''Simon:''' (''to Courtney'') [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Boy oh boy, let me help you with that...]].//\\
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* BaitAndSwitch: After the other roommates return to the house after Christmas break, it's discovered that Simon had accidentally used Everett's pet chicken as his and Monty's holiday meal. Everett angrily walks into the common area holding the chicken's cage.
-->'''Everett:''' I have a complaint.//
'''Simon:''' (''to Courtney'') [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Boy oh boy, let me help you with that...]].//
'''Everett:''' My van still isn't fixed.[[note]]Everett had made it a condition of Simon being allowed to stay that his van be repaired.[[/note]]
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%%* DeadManWriting: [[spoiler:Simon's obituary.]]

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%%* * DeadManWriting: [[spoiler:Simon's obituary.]]



%%* TheDreaded: Pitkannen.

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%%* * TheDreaded: Pitkannen.
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* AlmightyJanitor: The smartest, most influential professor a couple of Harvard undergrads meet wasn't of the university's faculty,...but was an allegedly smelly, wise-cracking homeless man.
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* PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith: Simon, in disgust with Pitkannen, asks which door he can leave from. Pitkannen cites the trope as a rule of Harvard's; Simon snarkly tacks "asshole" onto the end of his question in response.
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* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWJ_yWAaXAI I'll Remember]] by {{Music/Madonna}}. It got an Oscar nomination.

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* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWJ_yWAaXAI I'll Remember]] by {{Music/Madonna}}. It got an Oscar nomination.Grammy and Golden Globe nominations.

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