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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:300:''No mercy. No shame. [[LyingCreator No sequel]].'']] |
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| 4 | ->'''Gail Hailstorm:''' What would have been your last words to Drew? |
| 5 | ->'''Shorty:''' Run, bitch! RUUUUN! |
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| 7 | ''Scary Movie'' is a movie series that pastiches horror film tropes in the vein of ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' and ''Film/TheNakedGun''. |
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| 9 | The series was originally directed by Creator/KeenenIvoryWayans, and was written in large part by his brothers {{Creator/Shawn|Wayans}} (playing Ray, pictured top right) and {{Creator/Marlon|Wayans}} (playing Shorty, pictured bottom left). The first movie was mainly a parody of the first ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'' (by extent missing the point that ''Scream'' was itself a parody of horror movies), although it also heavily spoofed ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'' and took jabs at various other films, and not necessarily just from the horror genre. Despite the promises of no sequels, a second movie was released under the tagline "[[ILied We Lied]]", which mainly spoofed the 1999 remakes of ''Film/{{The Haunting|1999}}'' and ''Film/{{House on Haunted Hill|1999}}''. |
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| 11 | Following the departure of the Wayans family from the series, the following two films were directed by [[Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker David Zucker]] (who directed, wrote and produced the previously mentioned ''The Naked Gun'' and ''Airplane'' films alongside his brother Jerry and their partner Jim Abrahams). The third movie combined the storylines of ''Film/{{Signs}}'' and ''Literature/TheRing'', while it had a subplot spoofing ''Film/EightMile''. The "[[TrilogyCreep fourth and final chapter of the trilogy]]" mainly parodied ''Film/TheVillage2004'', ''Film/TheGrudge'' and ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' while also incorporating a bit of ''Film/SawI''. |
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| 13 | After years in DevelopmentHell, a fifth film was released in April 2013, and mainly parodies ''Film/{{Mama}}'', ''Film/ParanormalActivity'' and ''Film/BlackSwan'', while also touching on ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', ''Film/{{Inception}}'', ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' and ''Franchise/EvilDead''. |
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| 15 | These films helped to kick off a new wave of parody films, including the... [[ShallowParody less well received ones]] of [[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg]], who were minor contributing writers to the first film of this series. |
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| 17 | Compare ''Film/ShriekIfYouKnowWhatIDidLastFridayTheThirteenth'', which came out around the same time as the first movie and has a very similar main plotline (the way it's tackled notwithstanding). |
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| 19 | !!Provides examples of: |
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| 23 | [[folder:The series in general]] |
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| 25 | * AwfulTruth: Used and parodied mercilessly across all films regarding who the monster/killer could be. |
| 26 | * BigNo: |
| 27 | ** Which will always end with someone getting run over. In the first two movies anyway. |
| 28 | ** In a deleted scene in the third film, Brenda says this when she got fired for trying to warn everyone about the deadly tape (because it doesn't involve boobies). |
| 29 | * BlackDudeDiesFirst: |
| 30 | ** Defied in the first film, when the black news crew leaves as soon as the deaths start. |
| 31 | --->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF0GO6kRABE Black news reporter]]''': Reporting live for Black TV. White folks are dead, we're getting the fuck out of here! |
| 32 | ** Ironically, its also ''inverted'' in the first movie. The last victim of the killer is Ray, who is black (though he's [[UnexplainedRecovery gotten better]] in the next movie). |
| 33 | ** Also lampshaded in the second film, as Brenda yells at the white folks for suggesting [[LetsSplitUpGang they split up]]. |
| 34 | ---> '''Brenda''': Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh UH! Now wait a minute, hold up! How come when anytime this scary shit happens, and we should stick together, you white people always say "let's split up"?\ |
| 35 | '''Theo''': She's right, we should stick together.\ |
| 36 | '''Dwight''': She's right. Okay. You three, follow me! ''[Points to the white members of the group, leaving the three black people in another group]''\ |
| 37 | '''Shorty''': Ain't that a bitch.\ |
| 38 | '''Brenda''': We gonna die, y'all. |
| 39 | ** Played straight in the third movie, when Brenda is the first main character to die because of the tape. (Cindy would have helped her if not for the boy-who-cried-wolf scenario of the scene). |
| 40 | * TheBrainlessBeauty: |
| 41 | ** Buffy Gilmore & Greg Phillippe. The former is so vapid and stupid that she berates the killer as ''he cuts off her head'', the latter can barely spell his name. |
| 42 | ** And the most clueless of them all, Cindy! But only in the later films. Creator/AnnaFaris is definitely beautiful, and Cindy is definitely brainless in ''3'' and ''4'', but in the first two films she's a parody of unpopular, HollywoodHomely {{Final Girl}}s. |
| 43 | * ButtMonkey: |
| 44 | ** Cody and Rachel, child characters who take a lot of physical abuse. |
| 45 | ** Cindy in the first two movies. |
| 46 | * ChoosyBeggar: A homeless man asks Cindy and her friends if they can spare a dollar. Buffy is utterly repulsed by him, but Cindy gives him a sandwich. The homeless man responds by saying "I said a dollar, bitch!" and throws the sandwich back at Cindy. |
| 47 | * CloudCuckooLander: Virtually every character, but Oliver (played by Michael Madsen) in ''Scary Movie 4'' stands out, as demonstrated in BreadEggsBreadedEggs. Another notable quote from the third movie: |
| 48 | -->What I'm trying to say Tom, is that you and I should be fighting these things, it should be us coming up out of the ground. Of course we'll have to bury ourselves first, but it'll be worth it. Cool breeze, no sunblock, worms. When we build our tripods, they'll have four legs. |
| 49 | * DawsonCasting: Lampshaded in-universe in the first film when the characters talk about how, if they were in a horror movie, they'd be played by people in their 20s and 30s (which all of the real-life actors are). They all stop for a moment, letting that sink in. |
| 50 | * DeconstructorFleet: The entire series of films. Although it tears down horror movies the most, no film is safe from being mocked. |
| 51 | * DepravedHomosexual: Ray is [[TransparentCloset so gay it hurts]], even though he tries to deny it. He shows his depraved side when he rapes a MonsterClown puppet who ''really'' [[MuggingTheMonster chose the wrong victim]]. It's [[BlackComedyRape played for laughs]]. |
| 52 | * DisruptingTheTheater: Brenda is infamous for ruining movies for the rest of the audience with her obnoxious behaviour (loud phone conversations, spoiling the ending, etc.). It culminates in her being murdered not by Ghostface, but by the audience when they finally get enough. |
| 53 | %%How?* DumbBlonde: Cindy Campbell in the later films. |
| 54 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Averted--despite what the title says, these are NOT Scary Movies, but comedies. ''Scary Movie'' was the original intended title of ''Film/Scream1996'', a genuine horror film despite its parodic elements. |
| 55 | * TheFool: Just about every main character, most notably Cindy Campbell. |
| 56 | * GagPenis: |
| 57 | ** In ''Scary Movie'', Ray gets one right through his skull when he puts his ear up to a glory hole in the movie-theater bathroom. |
| 58 | ** In ''Scary Movie 2'', a monster clown doll tries to scare Ray and drags him under the bed. A minute later, [[MuggingTheMonster the tables turn on the clown]] and he tries to escape... only for Ray's suddenly snake-like penis wrap around the clown's throat and drag him back under the bed! |
| 59 | ** The fourth movie [[AnAesop teaches us]] to never try swallowing ''all'' of the Viagra pills. |
| 60 | * GenreBlindness: Most characters, most blatantly parodied in the first movie when Drew Decker sees two signs pointing towards "Safety" and [[ThisWayToCertainDeath "Death"]] while running from a killer. Guess which one she chooses? |
| 61 | * JumpScare: As already mentioned, these are not generally scary movies, despite the name. What scariness is to be found in them is often of this type. Similarly, the CatScare (or, in one case, a Horse Scare) is also often used. |
| 62 | * LampshadeHanging: The films tend to point out ridiculous conventions of horror movies, like LetsSplitUpGang being thoroughly called out in ''2''. |
| 63 | * LethallyStupid: EVERYBODY!!! Especially Cindy and George. |
| 64 | * LockerMail: Greg is left a threatening message on his locker consisting of the words "I know" written on a Polaroid of his TeenyWeenie. |
| 65 | * LookBothWays: Every movie ends with someone getting hit by a car or a bus [[spoiler:except the fifth one... until TheStinger]]. |
| 66 | %%* LovableSexManiac: Brenda Meeks. |
| 67 | * MakeWayForThePrincess: Buffy, with Brenda and Cindy following close behind. |
| 68 | * NarrowParody: The later films in the series ended up like this. Originally, they worked, as most HorrorTropes were [[TropeCodifier codified]] in TheEighties or earlier, so anyone with even a passing familiarity with the horror genre will get the jokes. However, later gags became a lot more obvious and telegraphed while the pool of references narrowed from broader subgenres of horror ({{slasher|Movie}}s in the first, HauntedHouse[=/=][[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] movies in the second) to specific, recent movies (some of which weren't even horror). The first big complaint from fans was the inclusion in the third film of an extended parody of ''Film/EightMile'', which had nothing to do with horror movies. The fourth film was probably the worst for this, as the primary plot is a spoof of ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'', which isn't really a horror film so much as an action film, and there's also an extended (and plot-critical) parody of ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'', something else which is in no way a horror film. |
| 69 | * NegativeContinuity: Each film makes barely any reference to the events of the previous, often bringing characters back to life who were very clearly dead with no acknowledgement other than the occasional waviest of [[HandWave hand waves]]. |
| 70 | * NoFourthWall: Repeatedly and gleefully broken, often with an AsideGlance. |
| 71 | * OhNoNotAgain: Cindy keeps forgetting Cody, leading to a moment of regret and anxiety at the end of ''3'' when she notices him missing again. She doesn't hit him backing up the car like she did before--another car plows into him from the side. |
| 72 | * OverlyLongGag: A very common theme is that this kind of joke is used throughout the series. |
| 73 | * ParodyNames: Usually referencing the original actors (in the original, Bobby ''Prinze'', ''Drew'' Decker, Greg ''Phillipe''; in the fourth, ''Tom'' Ryan), the original character (in the original, Gale Weathers: Gail Hailstorm, Randy Meeks: Brenda Meeks, Dewey Riley: Doofus; in the second: [[Film/TheExorcist Regan McNeil]]: Megan [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Voorhees]]) or both (Cindy Campbell: Sidney Prescott, played by Neve Campbell). |
| 74 | * ResetButton: Parodied in the context of dead characters [[UnexplainedRecovery being alive in the next movie with little (or no) explanation]]. It often gets a LampshadeHanging. |
| 75 | ** Happens to Brenda repeatedly. She got stabbed to death in the first movie, but then comes back for the 2nd with no explanation. And then in the 3rd movie, she dies again. In the 4th, Cindy finds her on crashed plane. The following exchange occurs. |
| 76 | --->'''Cindy:''' Brenda! I thought you were dead! |
| 77 | --->'''Brenda:''' Oh Cindy, I thought you were dead too. |
| 78 | ** Found in ''2'' as well. |
| 79 | --->'''Cindy:''' Oh, my God, Ray! What are you doing here? |
| 80 | --->'''Ray:''' It's the sequel. |
| 81 | --->'''Cindy:''' Oh... right. |
| 82 | ** She also dismisses forever the facts that Ray slept with her ex-boyfriend and tried to kill her. |
| 83 | * RunningGag: Several throughout the series and many in individual films, most notably Cindy constantly changing her career, Brenda's promiscuity, and the fact that someone ''always'' [[LookBothWays gets hit by a vehicle]] at the end of every movie[[note]]Apart from number 4; originally it was supposed to end with Creator/JamesEarlJones getting hit by a bus, but a postscript sequence parodying ''that'' interview with Oprah and Creator/TomCruise was filmed and added fairly close to the film's release.[[/note]] (and right after a BigNo, too!). Also, Cindy's many boyfriends and their powerful... uh, [[{{squick}} emissions]]. |
| 84 | * SassyBlackWoman: Brenda is a black woman depicted as quick to call out nonsense going on around her with a sassy, belligerent attitude. |
| 85 | * SeinfeldianConversation: Mahalik and CJ have nonsensical conversations about issues such as whether one can wake up dead, the difference between mice and rats, or the paradox of turning up missing. |
| 86 | * SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: As a straight-up parody, these movies are way over on the silly side of things. Every death and horror moment is played for laughs, although later movies are increasingly less about horror films in general. |
| 87 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: Brenda dying every other movie only to come back in the next one with no explanation. |
| 88 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Mahalik and C.J. in the third and fourth films. |
| 89 | * ToiletHumor / VulgarHumor: Used pretty often. Basically all body fluids (urine, feces, snot, vomit, semen...) are used for comedy. |
| 90 | * UncleTomfoolery: Shorty Meeks is an exaggerated black buffoon character depicted as a lazy goofy stoner. Mahalik and CJ also play into this stereotype, though the characters themselves seem aware of it and Lampshade it. |
| 91 | %%* WhatHappenedToTheMouse |
| 92 | * WholePlotReference: |
| 93 | ** The first two mostly follow one movie in the central plot, ''Film/Scream1996'' for the first and ''Film/TheHaunting1999'' for the second. |
| 94 | ** The third mixes ''Film/TheRing'' and ''Film/{{Signs}}'' and also tosses in a bit of ''Film/EightMile'' just for giggles. |
| 95 | ** The fourth is an amalgam of ''four'' pictures (''Film/TheVillage2004'', ''Film/TheGrudge'', ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' and ''Film/SawI''). |
| 96 | ** The fifth has elements from ''Film/ParanormalActivity'', ''Film/BlackSwan'', ''{{Film/Mama}}'' and ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes''. |
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| 100 | [[folder:''Scary Movie'']] |
| 101 | * ActorAllusion: Creator/DavidLander's role, Principal "Squiggy" Squiggman. His character in ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' was named like that. Not only that, his haistyle is the same, and he has a poster of Shotz Beer (the brewery where the series' eponymous duo works) on his wall. |
| 102 | * AlphaBitch: Played with. Buffy is firmly in the {{Lovable|Alpha Bitch}} side of the trope until her turn in the queue of death comes up. |
| 103 | * AggressiveSubmissive: Bobby is the one pressuring Cindy into sex, while Cindy ends up being the dominant one when they finally do it. |
| 104 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Buffy and Cindy have boyfriends, but mention going down on each other one time. However, given that they swore to never speak of it again, it could have just as easily been bicurious experimentation. |
| 105 | * AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Cindy is literally plastered to the ceiling by a veritable geyser that leaves her boyfriend visibly drained of all his body fat and fluids. This follows from her chastity, suggesting she had been keeping it off for so long that he was just that impossibly loaded up. |
| 106 | * AndThisIsFor: The film spoofs this mercilessly. At a movie theatre showing of ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'', Brenda talks loudly through the film, and spoils the ending for the other audience members. Infuriated, one audience member [[spoiler:grabs the Killer's knife, and stabs Brenda with it. After this, a succession of other audience members attack her for ruining other films: a cop beats her with a nightstick for ruining ''Film/TheFugitive'', a bishop hits her with a mitre for ruining ''Film/BigMommasHouse'', a rabbi stabs her for ruining ''Film/SchindlersList'', a Buddhist monk slashes her stomach for ruining all Jackie Chan movies, a woman dressed like Mother Teresa hits her for ruining ''Film/BoogieNights'', and two girls stab her for ruining ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise''.]] |
| 107 | * AssPull[[invoked]]: Parodied at the end of the first movie, where the killer is revealed [[spoiler: to be the developmentally disabled Doofy, who turns out to be faking his disability and has already gotten away and is shown taking off his disguise and is then picked up by his girlfriend and [[TheBadGuyWins drives off into the sunset]]. Earlier in the film, the girlfriend had no idea that he was even the mastermind, but they're revealed to have been working together in the ending.]] |
| 108 | * AssholeVictim: PlayedForLaughs. Brenda is watching a movie in a crowded theater; she's being loud and obnoxious, ruining the movie for everyone else. Ghostface is then shown to be sitting in the seat next to her... but before he gets the chance (in a parody of ''Film/Scream2''), one of the other moviegoers steals his knife and stabs her. He then [[PassThePopcorn just sits and drinks his soda]] while ''all the other audience members'' (including a rabbi, the Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa, and the Pope) continue to stab her to death. When Brenda stumbles in front of the screen and finally falls dead, they ''applaud''. |
| 109 | * TheBadGuyWins: At the end [[spoiler:Doofy turns out to be the real Ghostface killer, and murders all of Cindy's friends and the two idiots copying him. He's then revealed to have been working together with Gail, the reporter covering the story, and they both drive off before they can be caught.]] |
| 110 | * BeautyContest: Spoofed in the first movie. At a beauty pageant Buffy says that she's gonna do a dramatic reading, then witnesses her boyfriend Greg being murdered on the auditorium balcony by the masked killer. She breaks down in tears pleading for help, but the judges think it's AllPartOfTheShow and declare her the winner for her "convincing performance". |
| 111 | * BeneathSuspicion: [[spoiler:Doofy]] is the killer but never faces suspicion and gets away with the crimes due to [[spoiler:posing as a mentally disabled man no one would think capable of planning a murder spree.]] |
| 112 | * BigBad: [[spoiler:Doofy Gilmore]] is the killer. |
| 113 | * BigShutUp: Gail Hailstorm screams this at Kenny the cameraman when she's on the verge of gagging over him accidentally touching her breast and he won't stop babbling about it. |
| 114 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Buffy pretends to be sweet and innocent and puts on an act for her parents, but immediately tears off her demure wardrobe and reveals her mean, shallow side out of their sight. |
| 115 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: The film's crew is featured in one scene when Bobby tells Cindy they're in a movie, and when the ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' theme song starts playing during another scene, James Van Der Beek shows up, only to realize he's on the wrong set. |
| 116 | * BreastAttack: Drew Decker gets stabbed in the breast by Ghostface, and her breast implant pops out, leaving her relatively unharmed and Ghostface rather perplexed. |
| 117 | * BrickJoke: Buffy calls out Doofy for using the vacuum cleaner as a sex toy, and a later scene shows him upset at being disturbed in his room, vacuum in tow. |
| 118 | * BulletTime: The movie parodied ''Film/TheMatrix'' bullet-time scene with a thrown disc-shaped object. The killer bends back... and you can hear a crack. When time speeds back up, he can't "un-bend". |
| 119 | * TheCameo: Creator/JamesVanDerBeek appears, apparently in-character as [[Series/DawsonsCreek Dawson Leery]], climbing into Cindy's window before realizing he's in the wrong house. |
| 120 | * CatScare: Parodied several times, first with a character checking for a noise finds a cat, then a dog, then a ''horse''. |
| 121 | * CharacterFilibuster: Parodied when [[spoiler: Ray]] states that "Watching TV shows doesn't create serial killers. ''Cancelling'' TV shows does!" [[ActorAllusion He then states how]] ''Series/TheWayansBros'' was a good show that didn't get a proper final episode [[spoiler: while repeatedly stabbing Bobby with a knife.]] |
| 122 | * CreatorCameo: Keenen Ivory Wayans appears as a slave in the ''Film/{{Amistad}} II'' trailer. |
| 123 | * CreepyGymCoach: The high school coach is a man pretending to be a woman (played by a roided female bodybuilder) who's apparently just using the job to spy on teenage girls. Cindy only realizes this when she goes to the coach's office for advice and sees a pair of balls hanging from "her" skirt. |
| 124 | * CurtainCamouflage: At some point in the beginning of the movie, the killer hides behind a curtain. Or he would, if not for his hook poking out. |
| 125 | * DeathByGenreSavviness: Parodied with [[spoiler:Buffy]]'s death scene, where she condescendingly calls out all of the clichés of a slasher death scene, even after her head has been cut off. |
| 126 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: At one point, Buffy refers to Doody as a "retarded retard". |
| 127 | * DepravedHomosexual: Bobby is an odd example in that his crimes ''aren't'' sexual in nature, but he only becomes a serial killer after Cindy denies him sex and he realizes that he and Ray (his partner in the killing spree) are gay soulmates. Ray denies the accusation however--with increasing implausibility, as Bobby notes all the things they do together, up to and including going down on each other. |
| 128 | -->'''Bobby''': "But - you made love to me!"\ |
| 129 | '''Ray''': "No, whoa, whoa, whoa, first of all ''you'' sucked ''my'' -"\ |
| 130 | '''Bobby''': Whatever, Ray! |
| 131 | * DisguisedInDrag: Used for a gross-out gag with the high school sports coach "[[MeaningfulName Ms. Mann]]", a very muscular guy who is pretending to be a woman so he can get closer to the students. This becomes obvious when Cindy goes to her for advice and [[{{Squick}} sees a set of balls hanging out]]. (The person who played the coach was female bodybuilder Jayne Trcka). |
| 132 | * TheDogWasTheMastermind: The ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}''-esque serial killer is actually revealed to be [[spoiler: Doofy, the apparently mentally disabled police officer. Then again it is a parody.]] |
| 133 | * DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Most of the cast is dead, and the killer has escaped suspicion until literally the minute after he left the police station. The last scene of the film is the killer and his girlfriend driving off into the sunset, and the heroine screaming into the sky before being hit by a car.]] |
| 134 | * EurekaMoment: Sheriff Burke and Cindy in the penultimate scene after [[spoiler: David Keegan]] is confirmed to be dead and thus couldn't have been the killer. With her lead suspect cleared, Cindy has no idea who else it could possibly be. Going off the evidence they have, Burke theorizes it has to be someone who's connected to all the victims, who knew about the accident, and who could move around without being noticed. Cindy mulls that over for a moment...and then she slowly realizes that [[spoiler: Doofy]] meets all of Burke's criteria. |
| 135 | * EveryoneHasStandards: While describing a party at Puff Daddy's place, Brenda admits she doesn't care that her friend [[AlphaBitch Buffy]] is a hoe, but says that banging one of the back-up dancers is disgusting. |
| 136 | -->'''Brenda:''' That shit is nasty. That's lower than the security guard. At least security can get you backstage! |
| 137 | * ExpressiveMask: |
| 138 | ** Ghostface, whose mask face gets visibly stoned when smoking weed. |
| 139 | ** Also, the smiling Ghostface from the poster as seen in the "''Wassuuuuuup!!!''" sequence. |
| 140 | * FairPlayWhodunnit: Despite being a parody, the film has this structure. The characters being murdered don't know who's hunting them, but the audience is indeed given enough clues to figure it out before the reveal at the film's end. |
| 141 | * FauxHorrific: Brenda reacts to ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' like she's at a screening of a tense horror movie, including screaming and shouting advice to the characters like they're facing their doom in a typical horror scenario. |
| 142 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Plenty to the reveal of [[spoiler: Doofy]] being the killer. |
| 143 | ** [[spoiler:By far the biggest sign is early on in the film, when the killer calls Cindy, while she is staying at Buffy's house. As Cindy realises that the voice on the other end of the line is the killer, Buffy's mother calls for Doofy to come to the phone. After she calls his name, the killer says "No, it isn't me", before hanging up.]] |
| 144 | ** The three that are actually shown to us at the end. Two were used in one of the movies being spoofed (although the killer's counterpart in the original is not the killer), but the third is a big one: [[spoiler:Doofy had a crush on the first victim when she babysat him, and he also knew about them running over that guy.]] |
| 145 | ** [[spoiler:Doofy giving information on the police's investigation to Gail, things he probably wouldn't know if he didn't eavesdrop.]] |
| 146 | ** [[spoiler:The extra work he puts into killing Buffy could have only been personal, like revenge against a sister who has bullied him for years.]] |
| 147 | ** [[spoiler:When he tricks his fellow officer into sniffing his finger's which smell like shit, the look on Doofy's face looks less like a mentally-challenged person, and more like he knows exactly what he's doing.]] |
| 148 | ** [[spoiler:The fact that the filmmakers continually show us a character who's supposed to be mentally-challenged repeatedly giving a bunch of creepy {{Kubrick Stare}}s is a dead giveaway the he's faking the mental disability.]] |
| 149 | * FreezeFrameBonus: One of the previews for the movie Brenda and Ray watch is rated I for "Immature", with the description "We thought it would be funny to put this here. [[TakeThatAudience Kiss our asses take it off pause]]". |
| 150 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: During [[spoiler:Buffy's]] death scene, it's shown that the high school's name is "B.A. Corpse High School". |
| 151 | * GenreSavvy: The black reporters at the school are well-aware [[BlackGuyDiesFirst that black people don't survive long in horror movies]] and make a point to leave as soon as possible. |
| 152 | * GivingThemTheStrip: While fleeing Ghostface in the opening scene, Drew Decker [[{{Fanservice}} manages to lose her sweater and then her skirt (before running through a lawn sprinkler in slo-mo)]]. Subverted in that it still doesn't keep her from getting killed. |
| 153 | * HerBoyfriendsJacket: Parodied. While Ray and Brenda are chilling out she's wearing his football shirt, which turns him on. He asks her to wear more of his football clothing, ''including his pads and helmet'' to Brenda's increasing confusion. When he [[WrongNameOutburst accidentally call her "Brendan"]], it's cemented that he wants to pretend she's a man. |
| 154 | * HotterAndSexier: Features a lot raunchier {{fanservice}} that the films being parodied. |
| 155 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
| 156 | ** Whilst inside the theater, Brenda warns the rest of the audience not to talk during the movie, while merrily doing so herself. Her behavior is so obnoxious that they resort to murdering her so they can enjoy the remainder of the presentation. |
| 157 | ** Brenda starts complaining to Cindy about her dislike of Buffy, insulting her and claiming that the worst part is how “fake” Buffy is— until Buffy arrives and Brenda cheerfully greets her like a best friend. Brenda later does the same thing with Buffy’s competition. |
| 158 | ** While they're being chased by the killer, Gail yells at Kenny to "move your fat ass" - it's clear, as shown [[MaleGaze from Kenny's camera]], that ''she'' is fairly large on the bottom. |
| 159 | * InOneEarOutTheOther: [[spoiler: Ray gets seemingly killed by a penis through the ears, though he gets better.]] |
| 160 | * ISeeDeadPeople: The movie parodied the line as used in ''Film/TheSixthSense''. Shorty says "I see dead people" to his buddies. They all laugh and agree with each other that they scored some ''really'' good weed. |
| 161 | * JackTheRipoff: There are ''three'' separate Ghostfaces, two of whom are copycats. [[spoiler:Bobby and Ray]] are the impostors, while [[spoiler:Doofy]] is the real Ghostface killer. |
| 162 | * KarmaHoudini: |
| 163 | ** [[spoiler: Doofy escapes all legal consequences for the murders by running off with Gail at the end.]] |
| 164 | ** [[spoiler: Gail herself. [[DisproportionateRetribution She kills a student for being annoying]], abuses Kenny and is partially responsible for his and Heather’s death. She also helps Doofy run away together to escape the police.]] |
| 165 | * KickTheDog: Gail constantly abuses Kenny over minor inconveniences (though it’s pretty justified when he touches her boob), even during her big PetTheDog moment, she still insults his weight. |
| 166 | * MaleGaze: |
| 167 | ** Carmen Electra in the role of Drew Decker is stripped to her bra and panties in the opening scene. |
| 168 | ** Creator/AnnaFaris is stripped to only her bra in her sex scene. |
| 169 | ** Creator/ShannonElizabeth proudly shows off her figure in all her scenes. |
| 170 | * MisplacedSorrow: One girl is outraged to find a fellow student has been murdered...because she planned to cheat off said student's test that day. |
| 171 | * MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Parodied when Cindy sends an email to the police reading "White woman in trouble!" and the next shot shows the house surrounded by police cruisers. |
| 172 | * MurderSimulators: As a ''Scream'' spoof, criticism of this accusation is echoed and further parodied. When Cindy accuses the killers of becoming homicidal lunatics by watching too much TV, one of them corrects her: it's ''[[ScrewedByTheNetwork canceling]]'' TV shows that actually made them killers, and he goes on to lament the end of ''Series/TheWayansBros'', an earlier show the creators were involved in. |
| 173 | * NippleAndDimed: During one of the locker room scenes, there is a very brief moment when a nipple is visible on an unnamed background character. |
| 174 | * NoDressCode: Buffy arrives at school dressed modestly in a cardigan. Once her father is gone, she changes into a Stripperific outfit and attends school that way. |
| 175 | * NoPeekingRequest: {{Parodied|Trope}} when the killer stalks Cindy with a ShortDistancePhoneCall, taunting her that he's in the same house with her, but she can't find him... just as she sees his legs sticking out from behind a couch. |
| 176 | -->'''Cindy:''' Um, you're behind the couch, I can see your feet.\ |
| 177 | '''Killer:''' D'oh! Okay, okay close your eyes! ''[Quickly scurries out and starts looking for another hiding spot]'' No peeking! |
| 178 | * NostrilShot: Parodied, where the character [[Film/TheBlairWitchProject talking to the camera Blair Witch-style]] has a runny nose that just keeps running. |
| 179 | * NotHisSled: [[spoiler:The movie is a mix and match spoof of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' and ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', and despite being entirely comedic, manages to do this by having neither murderer be like the ones from the movies this one is parodying. Bobby and Ray, the equivalent to Billy and Stu are only copycat killers to the real Ghostface and have only killed people at the party. The Fisherman is merely a RedHerring and has nothing to do with theirs or the real killer's motive--the guy that Cindy and her friends ran over was buried without issue. The real killer turns out to be Doofy (the film's equivalent of Officer Dewey Riley), who appears to kill people all around just for the pleasure of it and is faking his mental disability (as a spoof of ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'').]] |
| 180 | * NotQuiteDead: The guy the friend group ran over and assumed they killed in the flashback remained alive until the group finally disposed of the "body", actually killing him for real once done. |
| 181 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Doofy pretends to be mentally disabled and evades all suspicion for his crimes as the killer.]] |
| 182 | * OffingTheAnnoyance: Played for laughs when a reporter of the killing spree in the town is annoyed by a teenager who pops up behind her to goof off in front of the camera. She pulls out a gun and shoots him, then immediately changes her report of the murderer's toll from "1 dead teen" to "2 dead teens". |
| 183 | * OffscreenTeleportation: Played with, where the killer shows himself to the main character and is seen scurrying back behind the tree when she looks away. |
| 184 | * OnceMoreWithClarity: Once Cindy realizes that [[spoiler: Doofy]] was the killer all along during her EurekaMoment, [[spoiler: several Doofy or Doofy-centric scenes from earlier in the film are replayed with the new context to confirm her suspicions.]] This is also in parody of the similar 'Once More' sequence from ''The Usual Suspects''. |
| 185 | * PetTheDog: Gail Hailstorm spends all of her scenes with Kenny bullying him for his weight and incompetence, but [[spoiler: when the killer hunts her and Kenny down, she screams for him to run faster, and after he’s killed she sobs to the camera, apologizing to Kenny’s family and blaming herself for it.]] |
| 186 | %%* PlotInducedStupidity: Spoofed when Buffy doesn't believe that the killer exists, apparently forgetting that her boyfriend was murdered by the killer in front of her eyes earlier. After winning the pageant, nothing else seem to matter to her anyway. |
| 187 | * PrisonRape: When Cindy apologizes to Bobby in the school cafeteria for getting him locked up overnight because she believed him to be the killer, a big burly prisoner walks into frame and thanks Bobby for the "company". |
| 188 | * ReallyGetsAround: Cindy's mother, if the sheriff's and the school principal's lewd comments are any indication. |
| 189 | * RealTrailerFakeMovie: The trailer for ''Film/{{Amistad}} II''. |
| 190 | * SarcasticConfession: [[spoiler: Doofy partway through the film when Cindy catches him wearing a Ghostface mask and he exclaims, "It's me, Cinds!". In the context of the scene on the first viewing, it's played as a panicked reassurance. Cindy (and by extension the audience) doesn't realize it was actually a Sarcastic Confession until her EurekaMoment.]] |
| 191 | * SayMyName: Cindy and Bobby while in bed, finally having sex. Bobby's dream has come true. |
| 192 | -->'''Cindy:''' WHAT'S MY NAME, BOBBY?\ |
| 193 | '''Bobby:''' What?\ |
| 194 | '''Cindy:''' ''(slaps him)'' WHAT'S MY NAME, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH]]? ''(slaps him HARD)''\ |
| 195 | '''Bobby:''' ''(cries)'' Ow, God, it's CINDY! |
| 196 | * SexComedy: Not officially, but since the HormoneAddledTeenager is a key component of the SlasherMovie formula being parodied, there are plenty of ludicrous graphic sex gags that [[CrossesTheLineTwice redefine "over the top"]]. |
| 197 | * SexyShirtSwitch: Parodied. Ray likes seeing Brenda in his football jersey and has her put on his pads and helmet so he can obscure her female form before having sex with her. |
| 198 | * SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: See the poster up there? Protagonist Creator/AnnaFaris is eschewed in favor of Carmen Electra ([[DeadStarWalking dies in the opening scene]]) and then-popular Creator/ShannonElizabeth. ([[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3309214720/tt0175142 the DVD adds her, though]]) |
| 199 | * SlowMotionDrop: Parodied, when Cindy drops a coffee cup after realizing the identity of the killer, and a ''goldfish'' is seen flopping around in the contents. |
| 200 | * ShoutOut: |
| 201 | ** A fight scene between Cindy and the Killer movie parodies ''Film/TheMatrix'', see BulletTime. |
| 202 | ** The character of Series/{{Buffy|theVampireSlayer}} Series/{{Gilmore|Girls}}. |
| 203 | ** While hanging around with Shorty and the other stoners, the Killer spooks them for a laugh by mimicking the "ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma" {{leitmotif}} from the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' films. |
| 204 | ** Cindy demanding Bobby SayMyName while she cowgirls him is a reference to ''Film/AmericanPie''. |
| 205 | ** The TwistEnding, in which [[spoiler:Doofy turns out to be the killer, drops his pretense of being mentally handicapped, gets into a car and drives away]], parodies the ending of ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''. |
| 206 | ** Cindy spots The Killer outside her classroom, much like Laurie spotted Michael in the first ''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}''. |
| 207 | *** This one scene is also the only time where The Killer is wearing the [[https://imgur.com/a/V3bPzT1 authentic]] [[Film/{{Scream}} Ghostface]] mask. |
| 208 | ** During the first scene with Bobby, Cindy mentions that one time she [[Film/TheExorcist puked green slime and masturbated with a crucifix]]. |
| 209 | * SpoofedTheIronicFilmSeriously: The movie got some flak for parodying [[Film/{{Scream}} a movie series]] that was already meant to be a satire of the SlasherMovie genre. It works mostly because ''Scream'' itself [[IndecisiveParody doesn't really seem sure whether it's meant to be a parody]], and seems more like a straight entry of the genre at times. |
| 210 | * SuchAPhony: Brenda complains about Buffy to Cindy, saying that Buffy is "as fake as press-on nails". However, when Buffy approaches them, Brenda greets her with a sweet "Hey, baby girl!". |
| 211 | * SuicideAsComedy: Cindy yells into the air "What are you waiting for?!" in frustration. Little does she realize that on the roof behind her a man is actually getting ready to jump to his death. Upon hearing her he asks "What am I ''waiting for''? WHAT AM I WAITING FOR?!" and jumps. |
| 212 | -->'''Teacher:''' FUCK YOOOOOUUUUUUUU!!! *Splat* |
| 213 | * TakeThat: Doofy, a parody of David Arquette's character Dewey from ''Film/Scream1996''. While Dewey is a [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass dorky yet genuinely competent officer]] when push comes to shove, Doofy exaggerates this into being a developmentally disabled buffoon [[spoiler:who's actually the villain putting on a ruse.]] |
| 214 | * TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: The film has a variation involving a note and an ImagineSpot: |
| 215 | --> ''I know what you did last Halloween.''\ |
| 216 | [cut to Cindy's imagination: she's remembering a romantic afternoon with Bobby. When she snaps back, she unfolds and reads more of the note]\ |
| 217 | ''No, bitch! I'm talking about the guy you killed!'' |
| 218 | * TeacherStudentRomance: After preaching about the need for religion in schools, a teacher is shown breastfeeding her baby, then handing him to a student, saying "Here, spend some time with your daddy." She then points to another student and says "I'll see you after class," rather provocatively. |
| 219 | * TeenyWeenie: The Killer's threatening message to Greg is the words "I Know" on a polaroid of his small dick. |
| 220 | -->'''Greg:''' A small dick's like a disability, man! Would you make fun of a guy in a wheelchair?! Huh? [[ClusterFBomb Where are you, you sick fuck?! I'll kick the shit outta you, all right?!]] It's not the size of the hammer, it's the nail you're throwing it at! |
| 221 | * TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: Spoofed by having a news crew go to the scene where they expect a killer to appear. Naturally, he does show up and kill a girl waiting for her boyfriend to come back, and then the whole thing turns into a ''[[Film/TheBlairWitchProject Blair Witch Project]]'' spoof as the news crew runs away. |
| 222 | * ThisWayToCertainDeath: Parodied when Carmen Electra's character is faced with an actual road sign clearly marked 'Death', and still follows it. |
| 223 | * TooDumbToLive: |
| 224 | ** The film opens with Carmen Electra's character being menaced by a serial killer while her parents are out. She glances to the side, where a table has things like a revolver, a knife, a grenade, and a banana neatly laid out. She takes the banana. And while running away, she comes to a fork in the road where there are two signs. One points towards [[ThisWayToCertainDeath "Death"]], the other one towards "Safety". Guess which path she chooses? |
| 225 | ** [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] with Buffy Gilmore, who's convinced that the serial killer is a prankster even as he cuts her head off and throws it into a bin. |
| 226 | * TransparentCloset: A RunningJoke with Ray. Throughout the movie he does many questionable things such as tucking his shirt like a CampGay, describing a male character as having "long hair", a "pretty little mouth", and a "perfect ass", and ''wants'' to go to prison so he can meet some [[PrisonRape sex-starved convicts]]. He has a girlfriend, Brenda, who is clearly TheBeard -- he makes out with her regularly, but his WrongNameOutburst shows he would rather be making out with a Brendan. Despite everybody with two brain cells to rub together being able to see it, he's deeply in denial. |
| 227 | -->'''Bobby''': That's right Cindy - I'm gay. And in case you haven't noticed, so is Ray.\ |
| 228 | ''({{Beat}})''\ |
| 229 | '''Ray''': ''(confused)'' What? I ain't gay.\ |
| 230 | '''Bobby''': What are you talking about? You took me to that club.\ |
| 231 | '''Ray''': So? They play good music.\ |
| 232 | '''Bobby''': Well, what about our trip to San Francisco then?\ |
| 233 | '''Ray''': I wanted to go shopping.\ |
| 234 | '''Bobby''': [on the verge of crying] But... you made love to me.\ |
| 235 | '''Ray''': No hohoho, first of all ''you'' sucked ''my''-\ |
| 236 | '''Bobby''': Whatever, Ray! |
| 237 | * TwistEnding: The film parodies the ending of ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'', by revealing that [[spoiler:Officer Doofy actually isn't retarded at all, and was the mastermind behind all the murders]], and ends with him being picked up and driven away in much the same manner as that film's main character. |
| 238 | * TwoDunIt: Subverted. There are three separate killers all adopting the Ghostface persona. The first two are two guys working together, while the "real" killer is a guy ObfuscatingStupidity who kills the former two for trying to upstage him. |
| 239 | * UncoolUndies: When Greg[=/=]Buffy and Ray[=/=]Brenda are making out in the back seat of the car. Greg enthusiastically removes Buffy's lacy thong panties from under her skirt. Ray does the same to Brenda, only to find himself holding a huge pair of white cotton underwear. Brenda is defensive: |
| 240 | -->"It's laundry day!" |
| 241 | * UnexplainedRecovery: Even prior to the sequels, the first movie has Ray [[InOneEarOutTheOther impaled through the head wih a penis]], but he turns up a few scenes later entirely unharmed save for [[OnlyAFleshWound a small bandage]] over one ear. |
| 242 | * VillainsOutShopping: Parodied when the Ghostface killer calls up Shorty. After they start goofing off with each other, it turns out that the killer is just relaxing at home and watching a football game--in full costume. |
| 243 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: Cindy roars like the [[Film/TheExorcist possessed Regan]] as she's dominating Bobby in bed. |
| 244 | * VulgarHumor: Several times, but the award goes to the onscreen trepanning of a character's skull by an erect penis. [[spoiler: [[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better]].]] |
| 245 | * WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Cindy asks Ray and Shorty to come over to her house later, and bring some friends, to deter an attack by the serial killer: |
| 246 | --> '''Shorty''': ''(to the entire school cafeteria)'' Party at Cindy's house! Drunk white women for everybody! |
| 247 | * WhiteMaskOfDoom: The mock [[Film/{{Scream}} Ghostface]]. |
| 248 | * YourMom: Brenda berates her brother Shorty, and he calls her mother stupid. She points out that he just insulted his own mother, as they're full siblings. Then he insults her father, and she doesn't mind because she never met the guy, and as he realizes, neither has he. |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:''Scary Movie 2'']] |
| 252 | * AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Once again, Cindy making her boyfriend climax causes her to be splashed against a surface by several buckets of semen. Another girl is raped in her sleep by a ghost, with his invisible penis creating a visible bulge on the back of her head. |
| 253 | * AngelsPose: Cindy, Brenda, and Theo during their showdown with [[spoiler: Hanson]], riffing on the ''[[Film/CharliesAngels2000 Charlie's Angels]]'' film from the year before. |
| 254 | * BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: Parodied in ''Film/TheExorcist'' spoof segment. The priests end up manhandling and spitting vomit on the possessed girl (hey, [[ZombiePukeAttack she started it]]) before just deciding to shoot her when they get fed up with her insults. |
| 255 | * BerserkButton: Don't say bad stuff about Father [=McFeely=]'s mother. |
| 256 | * BlackComedyRape: |
| 257 | ** A ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'' spoof involves [[MuggingTheMonster Ray and the Clown Doll]], where the former ends up raping the doll after it tries to kill him. |
| 258 | ** Alex gets raped as well, but she gets into it. Then becomes a StalkerWithACrush, much to the ghost's dismay. |
| 259 | ** At the beginning of the movie, [[Creator/JamesWoods Father [=McFeely=]]] going to help exorcise the demon from the little girl. When the demon starts screaming "FUCK ME!" a la ''Film/TheExorcist''. Cut to [[Creator/AndyRichter his partner]] looking on in shock as [=McFeely's=] ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice actually climbing on top of her and has to be told to stop.]]'' |
| 260 | * BodilyFluidBlacklightReveal: Dwight demonstrates he is able to perform a blowjob on himself. A few scenes later when the ghost of Hugh Kane is on the loose and everyone has to put on Infra-Red Goggles, Alex looks through her own goggles and can see traces of blacklit fluid around Dwight's mouth, prompting Dwight to ask what she's giggling at. |
| 261 | * BoyMeetsGhoul: Parodied when Shorty encounters a ghoul who's a real {{Butterface}}... but he immediately jumps into bed with her by solving the problem with a paper bag to cover her head. |
| 262 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: Happens in-universe, where Cindy is singing along ([[HollywoodToneDeaf badly]]) to Vitamin C's "Graduation (Friends Forever)" on the radio. Eventually, Vitamin C stops the song to tell Cindy to "shut the fuck up and let me sing!". |
| 263 | * TheButlerDidIt: The creepy, depraved butler Hanson turns out to be in league with the evil ghost inhabitating the haunted house. |
| 264 | * {{Butterface}}: Parodied with the ghoul that attacks Shorty. At first he's horrified and it looks like she's strangling him, but he's actually having sex with her, solving the problem with a paper bag ("No no, no kissing!"). They're still together at the very end. |
| 265 | * CatScare: Parodied with Cindy being spooked by a cat in her room, and then getting beaten up by it in a fight. |
| 266 | %%* TheChewToy: Dwight. |
| 267 | * CreativeClosingCredits: The first half of the credits highlight production photos of director Keenen Ivory Wayans and the crew and actors, showing that they all had a lot of fun making it. |
| 268 | * DeadAllAlong: In the alternate ending, Cindy was the only one alive as everyone else are ghosts. |
| 269 | * DemBones: Parodied when Cindy is being chased by a skeleton, only to be reprimanded by Brenda for being afraid of a pile of bones. To illustrate her point, Brenda pulls the skeleton apart and reassembles him badly. |
| 270 | * DisturbedDoves: A trio of white doves fly through the frame (in trademark Creator/JohnWoo style) as Dwight and the Ghost [[Main/MotorcycleJousting charge one another on their wheelchairs]] in a parody of Woo's 2000 film ''Film/MissionImpossibleII''. |
| 271 | * DontYouDarePityMe: Parodied with Dwight, a paraplegic wheelchair user, who gets offended every time someone offers to help him with anything. He does this even when it would be ridiculously hard to do by himself, like crawling up two flights of stairs. It even extends to sex--when Theo offers to "help him out" in a bid to get his keys, Dwight takes it as condescending and refuses, opting to fellate himself. |
| 272 | * FavorsForTheSexy: Parodied. As soon as the sultry Theo enters the mansion's dinner room and catches the attention of all the guys in the room, she demands that they give her a chair. Every chair in the room gets slid over to her, including one yanked out from under Cindy, and Dwight's wheelchair, willingly offered. |
| 273 | * GagPenis: [[spoiler:Ray Wilkins elongates his member into a coil to grab the Clown Doll by the neck as it tries to crawl away from him in terror, parodying the snaking arm of the doll in ''Poltergeist''. Ray's penis is strong enough to drag the Clown Doll back under the bed as it leaves clawmarks on the wooden floor.]] |
| 274 | * TheGlassesGottaGo: Subverted and parodied. When [[TheVamp Theo]] tries to seduce Dwight into giving her the keys out of the HauntedHouse, she takes off his glasses in hopes that it makes him prettier. All it does is make his eyes cross, and she quickly replaces the glasses. |
| 275 | * HollywoodExorcism: The film opens with an extended parody of ''The Exorcist''. The exorcism is even wackier, one of the priests is an unprofessional pervert, they all projectile vomit on each other, and eventually the priests just say "screw this" and [[KillTheHostBody pull out a gun]]. |
| 276 | * IgnoreTheFanservice: Theo attempts to vamp Dwight to get the keys to escape the haunted house. It doesn't work. Not because he isn't attracted to her, as he gets quite aroused by her flirting, but because he takes her offer to [[DoubleEntendre "help him out"]] the wrong way. Dwight, who has to use a wheelchair, [[DontYouDarePityMe refuses help from anyone]], so he just starts [[ScrewYourself blowing himself]]. She has to knock him out to get the keys. |
| 277 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: Shorty; after watching the unhygienic butler Hanson shove his dirty deformed hand into the turkey (ruining everyone's appetites), reaches for a bottle of red wine and quickly polishes it off. |
| 278 | * LetsSplitUpGang: Averted then played straight with a side-helping of BlackDudeDiesFirst, as Buddy suggests splitting up, only for Brenda to call him out on how stupid the idea is. He then suggests two teams, conveniently calling the white people in the group over to him. |
| 279 | -->'''Shorty, left with Ray and Brenda''': (''With an AsideGlance'') Ain't that a ''bitch''?\ |
| 280 | '''Brenda''': We gonna die, y'all! |
| 281 | * LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Cindy takes various random items and somehow creates a bulldozer out them after being locked in a refrigerator while hiding from a ghost. |
| 282 | * MuggingTheMonster: The [[MonsterClown scary clown doll]] pulls Ray Wilkins under the bed and gets a major surprise. |
| 283 | -->'''Clown''': Come on. Let's play.\ |
| 284 | ''({{Beat}})''\ |
| 285 | '''Clown''': Hey, what are you doing?\ |
| 286 | '''Ray Wilkins''': Uncle Ray-Ray's got a game for you.\ |
| 287 | '''Clown''': Hey, get your finger out of there! |
| 288 | * NameOfCain: In the ''Film/{{The Haunting|1999}}'' spoof, the villainous ghost was called Hugh Kane. The original character in ''Haunting'' was called Hugh C'''r'''ain, technically getting just around this trope. The name may also be a nod to ''Film/CitizenKane''. |
| 289 | * NuclearCandle: When Cindy shows Buddy the secret study, he lights one candle, which then illuminates nearly the whole room. |
| 290 | * ParallelPornTitles: Actually, "ghetto" versions of Christmas songs -- "I'm Dreaming of a White Woman", "All I Want For Christmas Are The Charges Dropped", "Santa Claus Is Cumming On Mom", etc. |
| 291 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Father [=McFeely=] almost bails when he's introduced to the possessed Megan. |
| 292 | --> '''Megan''': (''growls'') |
| 293 | --> '''Father [=McFeely=]:''' (''runs'') Fuck this! |
| 294 | * SequelSnark: The TagLine of the first movie was "No mercy. No shame. No sequel." This didn't stop a sequel from being released the very next year (with the TagLine "[[ILied We Lied]]"). |
| 295 | * SmokingHotSex: After one of the residents has sex with the evil ghost, she's seen smoking a cigarette in bed. And next to her, a floating cigarette. |
| 296 | * ShoutOut: "Hell House" is a shout-out to Hill House, the main location in both versions of ''[[Film/TheHaunting1963 The]] [[Film/TheHaunting1999 Haunting]]'' (and '''not''' the Creator/RichardMatheson novel ''Hell House'', as some have claimed -- the Wayans Brothers had never heard of that novel when they made the film, so the similarities between it and the novel's film adaptation are coincidental). |
| 297 | * TakeMyHand: Parodied when Dwight falls to the ground from a perilous window dangle because he refuses to take the deformed hand of the filthy Hanson, despite Hanson insisting it's his "strong hand". |
| 298 | * TongueOnTheFlagpole: During a parody of ''Film/TheExorcist'', Father Harris enters the room with the possessed girl inside and complains about how cold the room is. He then kisses the small metal cross he has with him, only for his lips to get stuck to it. |
| 299 | * VolleyingInsults: Hanson the caretaker (who has a deformed hand) and Dwight (who is a paraplegic) despise each other as soon as they meet, proceeding to throw a string of ableist insults at each other with common turns of phrase that poke at each other's disabilities. |
| 300 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: The opening spoofs ''Film/TheExorcist'' with the girl and the priests vomiting on each other. |
| 301 | * WhiteDudeBlackDude: Done in the basketball scene, where the Wayans brothers are shown dancing very suavely... and immediately followed by Cindy and Buddy dancing very awkwardly, with the Wayans looking on in silent disapproval/disgust. |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | [[folder:''Scary Movie 3'']] |
| 305 | * AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: The protagonists are shown boarding over a door to keep aliens out (in a parody of ''Film/{{Signs}}''). George says nobody could get through it...cue Cindy opening the door with no problem to join them. It turns out they'd just nailed some planks to it without fastening them to the wall. |
| 306 | * AchillesHeel: Parodied. The aliens are fighting the group (though just because strangling is how they say hello), when Mahalik decapitates one with a shovel and says: |
| 307 | -->'''Mahalik:''' I found it! Without their heads, they're powerless! |
| 308 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: The aliens apparently can talk to humans, though they only do so once one of their group has been killed in an altercation. |
| 309 | * AliensStealCable: The aliens accidentally saw the tape from ''Film/TheRing'' while doing this. They were trying to get ''Film/PootieTang''. |
| 310 | * AndStarring: "Featuring Music/QueenLatifah / Special Appearance by Creator/EddieGriffin / With Creator/DeniseRichards / With Creator/ReginaHall / and Creator/CharlieSheen." |
| 311 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The Architect describing the Samara expy: "We loved our daughter, but she was evil. Made the horses crazy, killed our puppies, hid the remote. Really sick shit." |
| 312 | * BattleRapping: It features the battle between real rapper Fat Joe and the film's character, George, a hilarious parody of the rap battles in ''Film/EightMile''. |
| 313 | -->'''George''': I wear khaki pants / My middle name's Lance / My grandma's from France / So maybe I'm whack / 'Cause my skin ain't black / But you can't talk smack / 'Cause whitey just struck back! |
| 314 | * BoobBasedGag: Cindy, when flashing her chest to the office, suddenly has comically huge breasts. Amusingly, in the prior movies she had been mocked for [[HollywoodHomely supposedly]] having a small and unimpressive chest. Given it follows her being ordered to do a fluff news report [[SexSells on breast implants]], it may also be a gag that she has paid for a breast enhancement between films. |
| 315 | * BreakingBadNewsGently: Parodied when George informs Sue about the death of Brenda, who was her teacher. It seems like he'll be considerate in telling her this news, since she's only a child. Instead he just loudly screams the distressing news in her face and tells her he ran over her dog too. ("EVERYONE you love around you is DYING!") |
| 316 | * BreathlessNonSequitur: The news reporter Ross Giggins delivers a report on an alien invasion, telling people that the White House is advising everyone to board up their homes and then continues without a pause or change in tone "And now a news exclusive. The [[Literature/TheRing killer videotape]] you've been hearing about. We're the only station that has it, and we're showing it all night. Very exciting. Let's roll it again." (''plays videotape'') |
| 317 | * CargoShip: In-universe. The Architect notes that since he's confined to a room in the middle of nowhere he hasn't been with a women in ages. He's had to make do with his chair, which he calls "Linda". |
| 318 | * TheCavalry: When it looks like the Logan farm is about to become ground zero for the alien invasion, a convoy of tricked-out [=SUVs=] comes rolling in blaring hip-hop and carrying CJ and several rather heavily-armed gangsters as last-second backup because the hood would always have George's back. Then two of them get into a verbal tussle about one stepping on the other's foot which soon escalates into a shouting match and they all kill each other. |
| 319 | * CelebrityCasualty: Simon Cowell is shot to death by rappers when he criticizes their singing. |
| 320 | * CensorshipBySpelling: One of President Harris's advisers tells him that he should go on TV and tell everyone that there's no such thing as [=UFOs=]. The president's reaction seems to indicate he thinks he's a victim of this trope. "Don't spell in front of me, dammit." |
| 321 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: |
| 322 | ** A black janitor hijacks the teleprompter for revenge on the anchor, typing that he's having sex with a the anchor's wife and bragging about how she loves it. The anchor reads it all with a straight face without noticing the content is insulting him. |
| 323 | ** Also, during the rap battle scene, when told to lose the KKK-looking hoodie he's wearing, George says "I know, we're in the hood now!" |
| 324 | * CreditsGag: About halfway through the closing credits, there's a message reading "We are about halfway through this thing!" |
| 325 | * CrossCulturalHandshake: The aliens greet each other by getting the person they're greeting in a choke hold. They say goodbye with a GroinAttack. |
| 326 | * DestinationDefenestration: George gets thrown out of a window twice, once for being MistakenForRacist and again for accidentally desecrating Brenda's corpse. |
| 327 | * DisasterDominoes: Brenda's funeral devolves into chaos when Cindy discusses the event, saying "it's a wake" and George thinks she said the body is awake. The crowd gets into a brawl while they try to revive Brenda, ending in George applying electricity and blowing her corpse into pieces. |
| 328 | * DodgyToupee: Used as a throwaway gag. The psychic CreepyChild whom Cindy is caring for goes around Brenda's funeral service giving people cynical and mocking advice ("smoke all you want, you're gonna be hit by a car next week anyway"). He tells the guy with an obvious toupee that he's not fooling anyone. |
| 329 | * DramaticGunCock: Parodied. One of the characters dramatically pumps... a shovel. A shell falls out somehow. |
| 330 | * DVDBonusContent: Alternate endings not included in the theater release (including one in ''Scary Movie 3'' parodying ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk). |
| 331 | %%* ExtraYExtraViolent: Mentioned. |
| 332 | %%* EyeLightsOut: Parodied. |
| 333 | * FanserviceFauxFight: The film opens with a pillow fight between Katie (Jenny [=McCarthy=]) and Becky (Pamela Anderson), both made out as eye candy. |
| 334 | * ForgotToMindTheirHead: |
| 335 | ** Tom bumps his head twice on an overhead lamp while sitting up in bed in the morning. |
| 336 | ** Cindy comes home to find George passed out at a table. She asks him what happened he says that he doesn't know. He and Cody were playing a fun game when he looked down and... |
| 337 | -->'''George''': (''seeing five dice reading 6 on the table'') Oooh, Yahtzee! (''stands up and bangs his head on a shelf, passes out'') |
| 338 | %%* TheFunInFuneral: |
| 339 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: As George is breaking the news to Sue that her teacher Brenda died in the most brutal way possible, Tom is standing in the background wincing, making stop motions with his arms and cringing, then walks out of the room. |
| 340 | * {{Gasshole}}: This series is no stranger to this style of humor, but the 3rd installment gave us Aunt Shaneequa, Music/QueenLatifah's flatulent take on the Oracle from The Matrix. When Cindy arrives at her home, she takes a seat in one of the red leather chairs, making a mild fart noise that she blames on the chair. Shaneequa then shamelessly rips a comically long, lengthy fart, punctuated by a smile as she casually takes a drag from her cigarette and quips, "Yes... the chair." The look on Cindy's face as she's at a loss for words has to be seen to be believed. |
| 341 | -->'''Aunt Shaneequa''': "Let's find a men's room... I'm feelin' it." |
| 342 | * GoIntoTheLight: Played for laughs, when Creator/CharlieSheen's character urges his dying wife to go into the light as he doesn't want to answer to her [[LastRequest dying wish]] for [[VowOfCelibacy his celibacy]]. |
| 343 | * ICantHearYou: Cindy gets a call from the girl from the scary videotape in ''Literature/TheRing'' after watching the video, but at first can't understand that she's being told "seven days" (meaning that the girl is going to come and kill her in seven days) due to bad connection. |
| 344 | -->'''Tabitha''': (''indistinct'') Seven days. |
| 345 | -->'''Cindy''': What? Willie Mays? |
| 346 | -->'''Tabitha''': (''still indistinct'') Seven days. |
| 347 | -->'''Cindy''': Who's gay? Hello? |
| 348 | * IfItBleedsItLeads: Purposely averted by the news station that Cindy Campbell works for. Despite her urging them to cover the story of the killer videotape in which viewers are brutally murdered by a scary woman seven days after watching it, the station is only interested in covering fluff stories and [[SexSells stuff like breast implants]]. Then, once they finally become convinced of the tape's existence, they choose to ''play'' it. |
| 349 | * InsultBackfire: |
| 350 | -->'''Aide:''' Mr. President, are you out of your mind?!\ |
| 351 | '''President:''' Like a fox! |
| 352 | * LastRequest: Parodied when Tom, in a flashback, finds his wife breathing out her last after she's pinned to a tree as a result of a tragic car accident. Her last request is that [[VowOfCelibacy he never sleep with another woman again]], and he quickly pretends that her last words are too unintelligible to make out and tells her to go into the light. |
| 353 | * MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Brenda calls this out after mistaking Tabitha's well on the TV as a news report about a white girl who fell down a well. |
| 354 | --> '''Brenda''': Another little white girl fell down a well! Fifty black people got their ass beat by the police today, but the ''whole world'' gotta stop for one little whitey down a hole! |
| 355 | * MistakenForFlatulence: PlayedForLaughs. Cindy sits on a vinyl chair. What follows is a squeaking sound that she quickly claims was the chair. Aunt Shaneequa sits on another chair, resulting in a very loud fartlike noise (implied to ''not'' be a result of the chair), but she uses the same excuse. |
| 356 | * MistakenForRacist: George puts on a KKK-esque pointed white hoodie and does what looks like a Nazi salute in front of a predominantly black audience at a rap battle. He gets promptly thrown out a second-story window. |
| 357 | * NobodyEverComplainedBefore: The aliens appear to attack the protagonists, who then kill one of them in retaliation, but the aliens inform them that strangling each other is their standard way of saying hello. A [[GroinAttack kick to the groin]] is how they [[CrossCulturalHandshake say goodbye]]. |
| 358 | * NotEvilJustMisunderstood: The aliens aren't looking to launch an invasion of Earth. They're just there because they accidentally watched the ''The Ring'' videotape like the other characters, so they need to do something about Tabitha before she comes to kill them. |
| 359 | * OnlySaneMan: The President's aide is more logical than his Commander in Chief and has better social sense and no comedic idiocy like the rest of the movie's cast. |
| 360 | * OracularUrchin: Cody, a boy with psychic visions who was adopted by his aunt. |
| 361 | * OtherworldlyCommunicationFailure: The main plot centers on a perceived invasion from a hostile alien race. However it turns out that the aliens are actually friendly and are on Earth to find Tabitha (parodying Samara from ''Film/TheRing'') as their entire population accidentally watched the cursed tape and are now slated to die in seven days. When asked why they were attacking the humans, the aliens explain that to say "hello" in their language, you [[CrossCulturalHandshake grab someone in a chokehold]]. To say "goodbye", you [[GroinAttack kick the other person in the nuts]]. |
| 362 | * PassedInTheirSleep: Parodied where C.J. and Mahalik discuss the trope and end up arguing if one can actually "wake up dead". |
| 363 | * PeacefulInDeath: Parodied: "My sweet sweet Brenda---She looks so peaceful..." (cut to Brenda with a horrified expression and hands like claws) |
| 364 | * PerfectlyCromulentWord: The guy in the lighthouse tells Cindy that she is "inexorably seeking a sedulant probability." When she questions this, he continues, holding a dictionary with "What about contingent affirmation? That's got to mean something." |
| 365 | * PrecisionFStrike: Brenda delivers one to her elementary school class after someone throws a bunch of crayons at George and Sue as they leave the room. |
| 366 | -->'''Brenda''': Now who the fuck did that?! |
| 367 | * PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: George, a white man aspiring to be a rapper. The black characters aren't impressed, especially not after he tanks his rap-battle success with accidentally racist gestures. |
| 368 | * SavedByThePlatformBelow: The lady who parodies Anna Morgan from ''Film/TheRing'' jumps off a cliff only to crash into a tree branch. "Oh, shit!" she says before rolling off it. |
| 369 | * ScriptSwap: Cindy, desperate to get out the story of the cursed video tape, and a mistreated janitor both hijack Giggins' teleprompter to change the script he's delivering live as a news anchor. |
| 370 | * ShoutOut: |
| 371 | ** Among other things, to the Zucker brothers' film ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' which also starred Creator/LeslieNielsen in an ActorAllusion: |
| 372 | --->'''President Harris:''' I just wanted to wish you both good luck, we're all counting on you. |
| 373 | ** ''Film/AirForceOne''. When Harris [[WhatWouldXDo wondered what "President Ford" would have done,]] it seems like he was talking about UsefulNotes/GeraldFord. However the camera pans along to show a still portrait of Creator/HarrisonFord in his presidential suit [[BaitAndSwitch instead.]] |
| 374 | * SuddenlyShouting: When George breaks the news to Sue about her teacher Brenda's death. |
| 375 | -->'''George''': (''quietly'') Sue?\ |
| 376 | '''Sue''': Yes?\ |
| 377 | '''George''': You know your teacher, Miss Brenda?\ |
| 378 | '''Sue''': Yeah.\ |
| 379 | '''George''': SHE'S DEAD! (''Sue screams.'') GONE FOREVER! DIED A HORRIBLE, PAINFUL DEATH! GONE, GONE, GONE, JUST LIKE YOUR DOG!\ |
| 380 | '''Sue''': My dog's dead?\ |
| 381 | '''George''': I JUST RAN HIM OVER WITH THE CAR WHEN I DROVE IN! EVERYONE YOU LOVE AROUND YOU IS DYING! (ReactiveContinuousScream) |
| 382 | * TakeThat: MJ, being a parody of Music/MichaelJackson and referencing contemporary scandals and his extreme physical appearance in critical fashion. |
| 383 | * TelevisionPortal: Tabitha, the parody of Samara, naturally crawls out of the TV in one scene. In another, Cindy shows Shaneequa the Oracle the cursed video tape, and a fly lands on the sceeen over the nose of the woman brushing her hair. When Shaneequa swats the fly, the woman recoils in pain and reaches out to fight her, resulting in a tussle where Shaneequa is pulling the videotape-woman out of the screen and ripping out chunks of her hair. |
| 384 | * TheyLookLikeUsNow: Parodied. President Harris worries that the aliens may have started impersonating human beings, then mistakes people with disabilities for the aliens during a memorial ceremony and punches them, throwing the entire event into chaos. |
| 385 | * {{Troll}}: Tabitha, the girl from the ''Literature/TheRing'' video, takes the form of a beautiful girl, claiming that seeing Cindy's love for Cody has freed her and she'll never have to kill again. "Really?" asks Cindy and she transforms back into her horrifying form, telling her she was just screwing with her. |
| 386 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: The movie shows two men projectile vomiting at a barbecue and in the alternate ending, Cindy is fighting the many Tabithas Matrix Reloaded style, she grabs a pole, jumps up, spins around on it, gets sick and vomits all over the Tabithas sending them flying. Gross. |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:''Scary Movie 4'']] |
| 390 | * AdamWesting: In the opening scene, Dr. Phil portrays himself as a fake psychiatrist with a FreudianExcuse, while Shaq portrays himself as a bumbling klutz. |
| 391 | * ArtisticLicenseGeography: A sight gag involving Detroit before and after the alien attack in which the only difference is the presence of alien invaders, the city already being a violent hellhole even before the attack. Too bad the city they show is actually San Diego, not Detroit. |
| 392 | * AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Parodied, when the ghost boy (from ''Film/TheGrudge'') and Cindy have a conversation in "Japanese" that is really just random product names and commonly known Japanese words. |
| 393 | -->'''Cindy:''' Hello?\ |
| 394 | '''Japanese Boy:''' ...\ |
| 395 | '''Cindy:''' Harro? '''''Subtitles''': Hello?''\ |
| 396 | '''Japanese Boy:''' Nissan Honda Mitsubishi Subaru! '''''Subtitles''': I was killed and my soul walks the earth!''\ |
| 397 | '''Cindy:''' Harikari tsunami kamikaze banzai. '''''Subtitles''': How sad, my life is also tragic.'' |
| 398 | * BlackBoxerStereotype: Parodied in a spoof of ''Film/MillionDollarBaby''. Cindy's (female) opponent is a very obvious black transwoman ([[SelfParody played by Mike Tyson himself]]) who goes around biting every one of his opponents' ears off, ''including the judge's''. |
| 399 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In a scene parodying ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'', Tom is discussing the alien invasion with a man holed up in house. Then the man throws this line out there: |
| 400 | -->''"This ain't a war, anymore than there's a war between men and maggots. Or, dragons and wolves. Or, men riding dragons, throwing wolves at maggots."'' |
| 401 | * BreastAttack: The movie has a torture machine designed to do this. |
| 402 | * CelebrityCasualty: Dr. Phil [=McGraw=] cuts off his own foot to escape his chains but dies of blood loss and Shaquille O'Neal is poisoned to death. |
| 403 | * ClotheslineStealing: When Cindy and Brenda arrive at the Amish village, they decide to steal clothes from a hamper to better blend in with the villagers. |
| 404 | * ContinuityNod: Cindy got hit on the face with a baseball. |
| 405 | -->"I've taken balls to the face before." |
| 406 | * CoversAlwaysLie: In this case, Posters Always Lie. ''Film/KingKong'' appears on the poster but is not even referenced once in the film itself. |
| 407 | * DeathTrap: Most present in the movie's ''Film/SawI'' parody, though true to the nature of the series, several traps are quite silly (example: The Nutcracker, a device that [[GroinAttack kicks a victim in the groin]]). |
| 408 | * DelusionsOfEloquence: In ''Film/TheVillage2004'' parody, an entire series of jokes is built around this: |
| 409 | -->'''Brenda''': This is shit up with which we will not put! |
| 410 | ** That specific line is a reference to a joke frequently attributed to UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, complaining about the pedantry of grammarians objecting to [[PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith putting prepositions at the end of sentences]]. |
| 411 | * EnemyMine: Suggested in the Detroit gag. (see ArtisticLicenseGeography above) |
| 412 | * EyeScream: PlayedForLaughs. In a parody of the opening scene of ''Film/SawII'', Cindy (after missing several obvious hints and being told by Jigsaw outright) figures she has to get the key from behind her eye. Turns out she had a glass eye "[[NoodleIncident from a bad bar fight in '96]]" so getting the key is less painful. |
| 413 | * FinishingEachOthersSentences: Subverted. |
| 414 | -->'''Cindy Campbell''': It looks like we have a lot in...\ |
| 415 | '''Tom Ryan''': ...common.\ |
| 416 | '''Cindy''': We're already finishing each other's...\ |
| 417 | '''Tom''': ...dinner!\ |
| 418 | '''Cindy''': ...sentences. |
| 419 | * GrandFinale: With the fifth movie being an apparent [[ContinuityReboot reboot]] of the series, the fourth film can act as one, as not only is the earth saved from aliens, but all the surviving characters happily find their true loves (even Brenda!), and it's implied that [[PowerOfLove love]] will help humanity defeat any future threat. |
| 420 | * HappyEndingOverride: The third movie ended with Cindy finding happiness with George and Cody, and Tom becoming a priest again after recovering from his wife's death. Come this movie, Cody has been shipped off to military school, George is dead, and Tom is depressed and also meets his end following an unfortunate accident involving a cat and some Viagra. |
| 421 | * ItsAllMyFault: Parodied: |
| 422 | -->'''Cindy:''' I blame myself. |
| 423 | -->'''Tom:''' As well you should. |
| 424 | * KilledOffscreen: Dr. Phil and Shaq in the opening scene, after Phil's LifeOrLimbDecision have him severing his ''wrong'' foot. Cue the titles, and then their skeletons appears in the final scene (with Brenda mistaking Shaq's femur to be a dinosaur's). |
| 425 | --> '''Brenda''': I don't believe it! The aliens killed the dinosaurs! |
| 426 | * LifeOrLimbDecision: The opening parodies the ''Film/SawI'' example with Shaquille O'Neil and Dr. Phil about to be killed by nerve gas. After being suckered into cutting off his own leg, Phil realizes it's the wrong one and they die anyway. |
| 427 | * MagicCountdown: Dr. Phil claims they have "one minute left" before the nerve gas kills him and Shaq. Shaq's remaining attempts to score a basket, stopping to momentarily argue with Dr. Phil, Phil having a breakdown that Shaq needs to talk him out off, the two of them struggling to cut their chains before Phil decides to cut his leg instead, all that takes around a minute and thirty seconds. |
| 428 | * ManipulativeBastard: ''Shaquille O'Neil'', when convincing Dr. Phil to cut off his leg: |
| 429 | -->'''Shaquille O'Neil''': You first.\ |
| 430 | '''Dr. Phil''': Bullshit!\ |
| 431 | '''Shaquille O'Neil''': Yeah, you're probably not man enough. I guess your momma was right. ''(smugly smiles)'' \ |
| 432 | '''Dr. Phil''': ''(enraged)'' Never! ''(holds up saw)'' Who's the coward now, momma?! ''(begins sawing)''\ |
| 433 | '''Shaquille O'Neil''': Candy from a baby. |
| 434 | * {{Metaphorgotten}}: Parodied when the guy who's hiding in a cellar from the aliens tells Tom the metaphor from ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' that the alien invasion is no more a real war than there is between man and maggots. He continues: there's also no real war between dragons and wolves. And man, riding dragons, throwing wolves at maggots. Tom gives the camera a vacant expression in response. |
| 435 | * MuggedForDisguise: Subverted when Cindy and Brenda pull two "village" women into the bushes, and after a brief scuffle the women emerge looking disgruntled but with their outfits intact ... followed by Cindy and Brenda, who were the ones actually beaten up. They later settle for spare garments from a clothesline. |
| 436 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: While speaking to the U.N., the president accidentally activates TheNudifier, first on himself and then on the entire audience. HilarityEnsues. |
| 437 | * {{Narrator}}: James Earl Jones [[spoiler:who, at the end of the movie, is hit by a bus]]. |
| 438 | * NeverTrustATrailer: One [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0zAlXr1UOs trailer]] suggests that Shaquille O'Neill and Dr. Phil are trapped along with the main protagonists. They both die in the prologue. |
| 439 | * NoTimeToExplain: Parodied, when the Tom Cruise/''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' character says "We're leaving this house in 30 seconds, there's no time to explain," and a random passerby runs up to the window and screams "Alien Attack!". Tom admits that that pretty much covered it. |
| 440 | * TheNudifier: Appears when they ReverseThePolarity on the body-disintegrator, ending with mass weaponized FanDisservice to the characters (which we are not privy to, fortunately). For reference, the representatives were so disgusted, the Japanese ambassador committed seppuku on the spot. |
| 441 | * RagingStiffie: Charlie Sheen swallowing an entire bottle of Viagra pills. When he throws himself over the balcony and hits the ground, his erection breaks through the asphalt of the street, and it keeps his pelvis off the ground. |
| 442 | * SceneryGorn: Parodied. When [[TripodTerror TriPods]] attack the world, Detroit is shown before and after the invasion. The only difference is the inclusion of [=TriPods=], all of the burning and collapsed buildings having been there before. |
| 443 | * ShownTheirWork: For a comedy film, the movie gets a lot of details from the films it spoofs right. For instance, the license plate on the minivan is the same as in the ''War of the Worlds'', the carjacker who tries to steal the van uses the same model of pistol the carjacker in that film used, and the Army soldiers seen in the streets are also from the 10th Mountain Division, as in the film. |
| 444 | * ThisWasHisTrueForm: Played for laughs, when Michael Jackson's shown to have had so much plastic surgery that the first time he gets zapped, he ends up looking like he did in the ''Music/{{Bad}}'' music video. He then gets zapped a second time, causing him to revert to his ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' appearance. The third blast then reveals his true self, namely a middle-aged black guy with a receding hairline, before a fourth and final blast totally destroys him. |
| 445 | %% * TokenBlackFriend: Brenda (to Cindy) and Mahalik (to George). Heavily parodied. |
| 446 | [[/folder]] |
| 447 | |
| 448 | [[folder:''Scary Movie 5'']] |
| 449 | * BaldOfAuthority: The head of the ape research center is a bald man portrayed by Creator/TerryCrews. |
| 450 | * BloodyHilarious: Maria tears the head off a chicken, which sprays an ''incredible'' amount of blood all over the place. |
| 451 | * BreastExpansion: During the ''Film/{{Inception}}'' sequence, Jody's breasts get bigger at Dom's command. |
| 452 | * BrickJoke: Music/SnoopDogg says that he'd like to buy a yacht with a shark in a pool aboard, puzzling his friend. At the end, [[spoiler:Mama]] crashes into the pool and is eaten by the shark. Snoop turns to the other guy and says "I knew that shark would come in handy". |
| 453 | * CaptainErsatz: They couldn't or wouldn't get the original cast, but it is obvious they wrote it with it in mind. Jody is Cindy, Kendra is Brenda, Snoop Dogg and his pal are CJ and Mahalik, etc. |
| 454 | * CelebrityCasualty: Creator/CharlieSheen dies when Creator/LindsayLohan hits him with her car. |
| 455 | * TheChewToy: Jody and Kendra find the Necronomicon, and read out the curse and the word that ends the curse a couple of times. Nothing happens to them. [[BodyHorror The perfectly innocent family upstairs however...]] |
| 456 | * CoversAlwaysLie: In this case, Posters Always Lie. The poster gives Creator/KatrinaBowden a demonic looking OverlyLongTongue (that she is using to InOneEarOutTheOther Sarah Hyland). No character has a tongue like that in the actual film. |
| 457 | * DelusionsOfDoghood: The younger child behaves like a dog most of the time. |
| 458 | * HighPressureBlood: Maria tears the head off a chicken, which sprays blood at such high speed that she's able to paint a crucifix on the wall. |
| 459 | * InOneEarOutTheOther: The [[http://cdn1.macmillerofficial.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SM5_Revise_FINAL.jpg poster]] has Katrina Bowden using her OverlyLongTongue to give Sarah Hyland an ear cleaning she probably won't forget. |
| 460 | * InNameOnly: Most of the cast and crew are absent from this flick. |
| 461 | * Letters2Numbers: ''Scary Movie 5'' is actually named ''[=Scary MoVie=]'', with that V being a roman numeral 5. |
| 462 | * SomethingElseAlsoRises: Parodied, during a lesbian sex scene, shown through metaphors such as [[VisualPun scissors]], tacos, and even tunnels (which are normally used as metaphors for straight sex). |
| 463 | [[/folder]] |
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