Line #14 Film/WithoutAPaddle


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3	''Without a Paddle'' is a 2004 comedy starring Creator/SethGreen, Creator/MatthewLillard and Creator/DaxShepard.
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5	Tom (Shepard), Jerry (Lillard), and Dan (Green) reminisce about their childhood dreams when their best friend passes away. While looking through their old tree house, they remember their obsession with D.B. Cooper's treasure. When they find a recent map that their friend left for them, they decide to honor his memory and go on the search for the treasure that they planned as children. Along the way, they encounter a pair of heavily armed pot farmers, two lovely tree-dwelling hippies, and much more.
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7	A straight-to-DVD sequel was released in 2009.
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10	!!This film provides examples of:
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12	* TheAce: Billy was one before he died, if the things his friends said are anything to go by. When Dan sees a grieving woman dry-humping his casket, he remarks, "Billy's dead and he still has a better chance of getting laid than I do."
13	* AffectionateParody: Of movies about HillbillyHorrors.
14	* AwesomeButImpractical: Lampshaded. The cleaver one of the pot farmers favours is "scary but ultimately ineffective."
15	* AxCrazy: One of the pot farmers wants to kill the main characters with an axe. His partner keeps telling that they already have guns.
16	* BearsAreBadNews: The MamaBear that pursues them.
17	* BigBadDuumvirate: The pot farmers [[spoiler:and the sheriff.]]
18	* ButtMonkey: Dan. If there's a visual gag need, Dan is used. He gets mauled by a bear, inhales a bee, the forest hates him. His friends don't help that much either. When they need a door out of the barn, they throw Dan through the decaying wall to make one.
19	%%* [[TheBrute The Brutes:]] The pot farmers.
20	* CaughtInTheRain: The three main (male) characters are stranded in the rain in just their underwear and have to huddle together for warmth. They do, but only after [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain agreeing that they never speak of the incident again.]]
21	%%* ChekhovsGun: Dan's cell phone and its ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' ringtone.
22	%%* ChekhovsGunman: Del Knox is a literal example.
23	* ConsummateLiar: Tom. He doesn't even sell Harleys.
24	* DeadpanSnarker: The Native American canoe guy. ("Thanks for breaking glass where my kids play.") Jerry and Dan also count.
25	* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:The sheriff, who secretly has Elwood and Dennis working for him.]]
26	* DopeSlap: Dennis punches Elwood when he won't stop singing.
27	* DoubleEntendre:
28	-->"You were a Boy Scout, right?"\
29	"No, but I ate a brownie once."
30	* DyingAlone: [[spoiler:The fate of D.B. Cooper -- dying alone in a cave, with his legs broken, while stranded in the middle of a snowstorm]].
31	* FreudianExcuse: Tom blames his screwed up life on his crappy father. The guys call him on it.
32	* GenderBlenderName: Tom is pleasantly surprised to find out that the girl he's bedding's lover "Tony" is a beautiful woman. He invites her to join them, and gets beat up by the jealous woman instead.
33	%%* GranolaGirl: Flower and Butterfly.
34	* HairyGirl: Flower and Butterfly. Both are hippie girls with unshaved legs (but oddly enough, shaved armpits). Dan still likes Flower despite this.
35	* HandyFeet: Flower uses her "monkey feet" to answer the radio with the guys. She teaches Dan to do so as well by the end of the film.
36	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The pot farmers [[spoiler:and the sheriff]] are knocked unconscious when Jerry uses one of their grenades to cause a tree to fall on them during an attempted HeroicSacrifice.
37	%%* HorribleCampingTrip
38	* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The names of the landmarks.
39	-->'''Dan''': What's with all the satanic names? Isn't there a Fluffy Bunny Ridge?
40	* InevitableWaterfall: The boys go over one after surviving some intense rapids.
41	* InterruptedIntimacy: Tom is about to have sex with a woman when her angry girlfriend arrives.
42	* IntimateHealing: At one point, the boys have to huddle together in a cave, and their underwear, to prevent themselves from getting hypothermia. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain They subsequently agree this never leaves the cave]].
43	* IronicEcho: Dennis and Elwood sing one of "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" when they find the boys.
44	%%* LockAndLoadMontage
45	%%* LovableSexManiac: Tom.
46	* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Flower for Dan.
47	-->'''Dan''': Thank you, crazy hairy girl of my dreams.
48	* MamaBear: A literal one, who displays maternal instincts towards ''Dan''.
49	* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Del Knox, who was also [[spoiler:D.B. Cooper's partner.]]
50	* MsFanservice: The hippie girls are very attractive, at least until [[FanDisservice we see their extremely hairy legs]] (though they do rather inexplicably have shaved armpits). Both of them wear pretty revealing outfits, with the boys boasting they could all see their "downstairs".
51	* MyDefenseNeedNotProtectMeForever:
52	-->'''Jerry''': I don't need to outrun the bear... I just need to outrun ''you.''
53	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The boys travel in their underwear after they leave their clothes behind in the tree.
54	* NobodyPoops: Inverted when the hippie girls [[{{Squick}} throw bags of their own feces at the pot farmers]] in order to distract them while the guys make a getaway.
55	* NoodleIncident: Tom accidentally ran illegal immigrants across the border. In his defense, he thought that he just got really wasted and bought a bunch of sombreros, not realizing there were people under them.
56	* TheObiWannabe: Tom likes to pretend to be the world’s leading expert on everything.
57	* OhCrap: When Tom turns around and sees the bear.
58	* QueerEstablishingMoment: In a minor character example, Tom finds out the woman he's with is bisexual as her angry girlfriend arrives.
59	* RunningGag: Could you see their "downstairs?"
60	* StonersAreFunny: When the boys are chased through a pot field, they accidentally set the weed on fire and get stoned off the smoke.
61	* TakeOffYourClothes: The hippie girls encourage the boys to strip off their soaking clothes. While Dan and Jerry are reluctant, Tom strips down to his underwear immediately and asks for some "tender loving care" from the girls.
62	* TemptingFate / CueTheRain:
63	-->'''Dan''': Nothing could possibly get any worse!
64	-->(Crack of thunder and pouring rain)

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