History YMMV / Eurotrip

* MemeticMutation: [[Memes/{{Eurotrip}} Has its own list]].

* MisaimedFandom: Some use "Scotty Doesn't Know" as an empowering and fun break-up song celebrating someone dumping their lame partner and bragging that they've found someone better. As anyone who has actually seen the scene in the movie where it's played, Fiona is framed as a cheating slut and Scotty is obviously emotionally hurt by what she's done.

* AcceptableTargets:
** Europeans: The film is essentially a series of sketches where the protagonists interact with virtually every European stereotype you can imagine, including a club of rowdy British soccer hooligans, a French robot street performer, an Italian businessman who tries to molest them on a trailer, and more.
** [[SelfDeprecation The Americans themselves as well]]; Cooper is a culturally ignorant moron who thinks a trip to Europe is an excuse to have sex and do drugs, and Jamie is an overeager tourist armed with an expensive camera, an European guidebook, and lots of pointless trivia on famous landmarks.
** Teenagers: They're stupid, impulsive, over-sexed, binge-drinking emotional idiots with no common sense or self-preservation instincts.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: During a sequence where the camera comically pans down a line at a museum, it stops and runs back to pan up and down a woman's legs. No other reason for it than the movie's love of fanservice. Could count as a ShoutOut to Creator/TexAvery.

* IdiotPlot: Scotty receives a mildly suggestive e-mail from a penpal suggesting an in-person meeting. Mistaking it as a gay come-on, he drunkenly fires off an angry rejection, only to realize in the morning that his penpal is actually an attractive woman who he would ''love'' to have a "physical" meeting with, but when he attempts to apologize, finds that she's blocked his email account. Because [[SarcasmMode there's no other way of getting a hold of someone once they've blocked your email account]], he sets off to Europe to apologize in person. Since the whole thing is just an ExcusePlot to get the characters on a [[RoadTripPlot series of wacky European adventures]], the viewer is advised [[MST3KMantra to just go with it]].
** Though it could be somewhat justified if you go with the idea that he wanted to meet her in person to prove himself to her. If you want to apologise to somebody, simply setting up a new email account to get around the block doesn't quite have the same impact as travelling across the world to meet them in person.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: The European stereotypes are so blatant and [[UpToEleven over the top]] that they pretty much cease being offensive and Europeans can just enjoy the mocking of the stereotypes, rather than mocking of the Europeans. It also helps that Cooper himself is a stereotype of the culturally ignorant American tourist (and to a degree, so is everyone else), so the film takes shots at both sides of things.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Just because the film has a green fairy and it is made from the writers of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' doesn't mean it's for kids. Its humor is more raunchy and direct than the Creator/DrSeuss adaptation.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** While finding a Manchester United fanclub in London isn't ''[[http://prideofmanchester.com/sport/musc/template.htm totally]]'' unrealistic, the odds of stumbling across one of them instead of a fan club of Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur or West Ham -- or even one of the smaller clubs like Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers, Leyton Orient, Millwall, (A.F.C.) Wimbledon, Brentford, or Barnet -- are pretty astronomical.[[note]]This might actually be a subtle gag about English football culture. Among fans of other teams, it is often believed that most Man United fans don't actually live in Manchester, and are shallow idiots who only like them because they're successful. [[/note]]).
** Being able to leave Slovakia without their passports, as passport checks at some Schengen countries' (including Slovakia's) borders hadn't yet been abolished.
** "Mieke" is actually a Dutch name[[note]]It's the diminuitive of Maria[[/note]]. It's used much more rarely in German and Europeans wouldn't first think of a German girl when hearing it. In the movie it's presented as a typical German name. The writers likely just went with it because it was a non-English female name that could be mistaken for a male name by English speakers when read off an email.

** The leader of the soccer hooligans as portrayed by Creator/VinneJones is also well loved.

** The leader of the soccer hooligans as portrayed by Creatore/VinneJones is also well loved.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The green fairy seen after the men drink absinthe is a scene stealer that combines crass with delight. Helps that he was played by the actor of [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kenny Bania]].

* DesignatedHero: Scotty and his friends aren't the most pleasant people, though in Cooper's case the audience is meant to laugh at him rather than with him. Cooper is shown taking sexual advantage of dumb drunk girls and Scotty's "love" for Mieke is motivated more out of her being a hot girl who seems interested than anything beyond that (given he saw her as just a friend when he was unaware of her gender). It's also apparent he was LovingAShadow regarding Fiona since he didn't seem to really know (or care) much about her actual personality, to the point where she could cheat on him in broad daylight for a full year. It also doesn't help that Scott and Cooper's behavior are deemed as homophobic by modern standards of viewers who watched this movie more than a decade after its release.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The movie pretty much runs on the promise of seeing topless European women all the time, and it does not disappoint. The trailers were also not shy about showing off Michelle Trachtenberg's bikini scene.

* DesignatedHero: Scotty and his friends aren't the most pleasant people. Cooper is shown taking sexual advantage of dumb drunk girls and Scotty's "love" for Mieke is motivated more out of her being a hot girl who seems interested than anything beyond that (given he saw her as just a friend when he was unaware of her gender). It's also apparent he was LovingAShadow regarding Fiona since he didn't seem to really know (or care) much about her actual personality. It also doesn't help that Scott and Cooper's behavior are deemed as homophobic by modern standards of viewers who watched this movie more than a decade after its release.

* MisaimedFandom: Some use "Scotty Doesn't Know" as an empowering and fun break-up song celebrating someone dumping their lame partner and bragging that they've found someone better. As anyone who has actually seen the scene in the movie where it's played, Fiona is framed as a cheating slut and Scotty is obviously emotionally hurt by what she's done. Though, given some of Scottie's behaviour, this could circle back into feeling he had it coming.

* SignatureScene: Creator/MattDamon's cameo because it is where we first hear "Scotty Doesn't Know".

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Scotty's entire quest. He's going out of his way to prove his love to a girl he only knows via email, who he can't contact directly via the means he would normally. Why? Because, while under the impression they were a gay man, he sent them a ''viciously'' homophobic message that equated gay attraction = predatory, and she blocked him for it. And his "love" for Mieke is extremely shallow, since he only saw them as a friend while assuming they were a guy, but as soon as he realised they were a girl, he decided to fly across the world just to pursue them (again, after they had blocked him for a viciously mean-spirited message he sent her). It's not hard to assume Scotty probably had it coming.

* JustHereForGodzilla:
** Many fans of Creator/MattDamon just want to see his cameo.
** Fans of Creator/LucyLawless want to see her as a dominatrix.

* IdiotPlot: Scotty ''also'' "doesn't know" about the dozens of other ways to get in touch with someone should they block your e-mail address, apparently, the simplest being just emailing her under another account. But if he did that, we wouldn't have a movie. Somewhat justified in that he does it to prove his love to her, that he's willing to come and meet her in person, which a phone call or email wouldn't accomplish.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Just because the film has a green fairy and it is made from the writers of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' doesn't mean it's for kids. Its humor is more raunchy and direct than the Dr. Seuss adaptation.

* AcceptableTargets:
** Europeans: The film is essentially a series of sketches where the protagonists interact with virtually every European stereotype you can imagine, including a club of rowdy British soccer hooligans, a French robot street performer, an Italian businessman who tries to molest them on a trailer, and more.
** [[SelfDeprecation The Americans themselves as well]]; Cooper is a culturally ignorant moron who thinks a trip to Europe is an excuse to have sex and do drugs, and Jamie is an overeager tourist armed with an expensive camera, an European guidebook, and lots of pointless trivia on famous landmarks.
** Teenagers: They're stupid, impulsive, over-sexed, binge-drinking emotional idiots with no common sense or self-preservation instincts.

* DesignatedHero: Scotty and his friends aren't the most pleasant people. Cooper is shown taking sexual advantage of dumb drunk girls and Scotty's "love" for Mieke is motivated more out of her being a hot girl who seems interested than anything beyond that (given he saw her as just a friend when he was unaware of her gender), and both are ''viciously'' homophobic. It's also apparent he was LovingAShadow regarding Fiona since he didn't seem to really know (or care) much about her actual personality.

* MisaimedFandom: Some use "Scotty Doesn't Know" as an empowering and fun break-up song celebrating someone dumping their lame partner and bragging that they've found someone better. As anyone who has actually seen the scene in the movie where it's played, Fiona is framed as a cheating slut and Scotty is obviously emotionally hurt by what she's done.

** "Scotty Doesn't Know." Hilarious, cruel and oh-so-catchy. The remix heard in Bratislava is surprisingly cool.

** Europeans: The film is essentially a series of sketches where the protagonists interact with virtually every European stereotype you can imagine.