History Film / AmericanPie

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz ''were'' right to point out to Stifler about his behavior. Stifler did, in fact, needed to learn to be a better friend, and not only, but also needed to stop dwelling in the "High School" years. But then Stifler points out to them that they never really ever treated him as a friend to begin neither calling, texting, or contacting him in anyway for awhile. Nor did the other four guys even bothered to communicate with Stifler about the problem they had with his behavior.

--> '''Stifler's mom''' ''(with [[SimonAndGarfunkel "Mrs. Robinson"]] in the background)''''':''' Mr. Finch, [[InvertedTrope are you trying to seduce me?]]

* TheDanza: The MILF guys, played by Jonathan Cho and Justin Isfeld, are named John and Justin.

* MaybeEverAfter: At the end, Jim's Dad meets Stifler's Mom. TheStinger shows her discretely pleasuring him in a movie theater.

''American Pie'' is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, and written by Adam Herz. It was the first film to be directed by the Weitz brothers, and the first film in the ''American Pie'' series. The film was a box-office hit and spawned three direct sequels first with ''American Pie 2'' (2001) and then ''American Wedding'' (2003). The [[TrilogyCreep fourth installment]], ''American Reunion'', which featured the entire primary cast of the first two films reprising their roles, was released in 2012.

''American Pie'' is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, and written by Adam Herz. It was the first film to be directed by the Weitz brothers, and the first film in the ''American Pie'' series. The film was a box-office hit and spawned three direct sequels first with ''American Pie 2'' (2001) and then ''American Wedding'' (2003). The [[TrilogyCreep fourth installment]], ''American Reunion'', featured the entire primary cast of the first two films reprising their roles and was released in 2012.

''American Pie'' is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, and written by Adam Herz. It was the first film to be directed by the Weitz brothers, and the first film in the ''American Pie'' series. The film was a box-office hit and spawned three direct sequels first with ''American Pie 2'' (2001) and then ''American Wedding'' (2003). ''American Reunion'', a [[TrilogyCreep fourth installment]] featured the entire primary cast of the first two films reprising their roles was released in 2012.

''American Pie'' is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, and written by Adam Herz. It was the first film to be directed by the Weitz brothers, and the first film in the ''American Pie'' series. The film was a box-office hit and spawned three direct sequels with ''American Pie 2'' (2001) and then ''American Wedding'' (2003). ''American Reunion'', a [[TrilogyCreep fourth installment]] with the entire primary cast of the first two films reprising their roles was released in 2012.

''American Pie'' is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, and written by Adam Herz. It was the first film to be directed by the Weitz brothers, and the first film in the ''American Pie'' series. The film was a box-office hit and spawned three direct sequels: ''American Pie 2'' (2001), ''American Wedding'' (2003), and ''American Reunion'' (2012).

''American Reunion'', a [[TrilogyCreep fourth installment]] with the entire primary cast of the first two films reprising their roles was released in 2012.

* AllMenArePerverts: The Big Quest for Jim, Kevin, Oz, and Finch is getting laid.

Not to be confused with the ultra-famous Music/DonMcLean song from the album ''Music/AmericanPie''.

* GreatBigBookOfEverything: The Sex Bible.

* SequelNonEntity: Oz. WordOfGod says they simply had nothing for him to do, so the character just wasn't included. Though it's hinted he was in L.A. at the time of Jim's wedding as an in-Universe exclamation.

** Creator/AlysonHannigan probably should have thought about it twice when she decided to ThrowItIn about Michelle being a dominatrix.

'''''American Pie''''' is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, and written by Adam Herz. It was the first film to be directed by the Weitz brothers, and the first film in the ''American Pie'' series. The film was a box-office hit and spawned three direct sequels: ''American Pie 2'' (2001), ''American Wedding'' (2003), and ''American Reunion'' (2012).

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Stifler and all of his relatives.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Averted.

* [[NerdsAreSexy Band Geeks Are Sexy]]: Well, you gotta admit Michelle cleans up good.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Stifler, though he mellows, and ultimately settles as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in ''American Wedding''.

'''Finch:''' ''[proudly]'' [[SmugSnake Yes I am]].

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Cadence to Stifler.

** After Jim and Michelle have sex in the music room, Jim holds up a flute and asks if he was better than the fltue (referring to the WhamLine before their first night together in the first movie).

** While Kara's a harder case to argue, several of the younger actors that appear as non-speaking extras in the original film could stand in for the roles in later films. For example, in the first appearance of Michelle and the band geeks (when they come to Stiffler's door and he tells them to leave), there is a young AmbiguouslyBrown woman. There are several team mates who don't speak in the rugby scenes.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: After reuniting with his old friends, Jim wakes up in his kitchen pantless and surrounded by nachos and other kinds of food.

* InformedAbility: Nadia being a Czech exchange student. We never hear her speak a word of it, she doesn't have a accent, not even a Czech NAME, for God's sake.

* CanonDiscontinuity: The spin-offs are effectively ignored in the first ten minutes -- Stifler never went into directing porn movies, and while Michelle and Jim do have a son, he's far too young to be the one mentioned in the spinoff series.

** Finally there is Michelle. It's easy to forget because her scenes are so memorable but she doesn't have much actual screentime in the original film. It is only the second film on that turns her from a near-OneSceneWonder into a prominent character.

'''Film/AmericanPie''' is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, and written by Adam Herz. It was the first film to be directed by the Weitz brothers, and the first film in the ''American Pie'' series. The film was a box-office hit and spawned three direct sequels: ''American Pie 2'' (2001), ''American Wedding'' (2003), and ''American Reunion'' (2012).

''American Reunion'', [[TrilogyCreep a fourth installment with the entire primary cast of the first two films reprising their roles]] was released in 2012.

** Subverted with Oz, who didn't feel the need to brag about it like the other guys.
*** Subverted even harder with Oz in the fourth movie, when he is way too dull to keep up with his adventurous girlfriend.

* AscendedExtra: Stifler, a result of his BreakoutCharacter status.

* BadassBoast \ TheMagnificent: Stifler calls himself "The Stifmeister". Then the teens in ''Reunion'' think it's an EmbarrassingNickname.

* BreakoutCharacter \ SpotlightStealingSquad: Steve Stifler and the entire Stifler family basically has become synonymous with the entire franchise.
** Jim's dad fits this too. He appears in all of the movies, including the Spin-Offs. Each time there's something new revealed about his past, eventually coming to reveal that [[spoiler:he was basically the creator of the Bible from the first movie]]
** Finally there is Michelle. It's easy to forget because her scenes are so memorable but she doesn't have much actual screentime in the original film. It is only the second film on that turns her from a near-One Scene Wonder into a prominent character.

* CasanovaWannabe: The Sherminator.
** Oz arguably. He stops when he finds out women aren't turned on by it.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: In the first movie, we have the pie scene. In the second movie, Jim mistakes superglue for lube and glues himself to... himself. And his ''other'' hand to the porn movie he was wanking to.
** Also, the intro to the first movie involves Jim's parents walking in while he's trying to watch a scrambled porno. A tube sock preserves what little dignity he has left. Noah [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it when, in a later scene, he finds condoms in Jim's nightstand.

*** And again in the second movie when Jim's parents come to visit him on the college campus only to walk in just as he having sex with a girl. Doesn't help that said girl's parents suddenly show up too.
** And the third movie had Jim and Stifler getting caught engaging in what appeared to be bestiality, and Stifler having sex with Jim's grandmother.
*** ''[[RunningGag And again]]'' in the intro to the third movie, Jim's Dad interrupts Michelle giving Jim head under the table. ''In a restaurant''.

** Pretty much all of the movies start with this.

* CoolOldGuy: And ''how'''. Eugene Levy and Noah Levenstein DEFINE this.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Socks. Webcams. Flutes. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Superglue]]. Discuss.
** The titular pie.

* {{Dominatrix}}: ShrinkingViolet Michelle turns out to be this. The idea was a ThrowItIn by [[CovertPervert Alyson Hannigan.]] In ''American Reunion'' she dresses in bondage gear for a night of leather fun.

* DoubleEntendre: Thanks to that one time at band camp we get this:

"Oh, I think I stuck it in your box." See BrickJoke

** Stifler's JerkJock antics are turned UpToEleven in the 3rd film. It doesn't help that he's in [[{{SpotlightStealingSquad}} almost every scene]].
** Creator/AlysonHannigan probably should have thought about when she decided to ThrowItIn about Michelle being a dominatrix.

* IAteWhat: In ''American Wedding,'' Stifler is waiting for a ring-eating dog to defecate. When he gets it, the bride's mother mistakes it for a chocolate truffle and Stifler prevents her from eating it by... you know.
** This is a running gag with Stifler. In the first film, the incident with Kevin's beer. In the second one, he drinks piss thinking it's champagne.
** The third one is actually his official JerkWithAHeartOfGold moment, as the first two were his LaserGuidedKarma being the JerkJock, but the third act he did intentionally to get the ring and prevent Michelle's mother from eating feces. RogerEbert called it a rather noble act (and also nauseating). Though had he let her eat it she might have discovered the ring and he'd have some explaining to do.
* IBangedYourMom: The first film has arguably ''the'' most well known example in pop culture (Bonus points for helping popularize the term MILF) when [[spoiler: Finch gets lucky with the aforementioned mother of Steve Stifler near the end when all four of the boys get laid after prom. Cue big laughs from the audience/viewer and Steve fainting from this revelation!]]
** [[spoiler: Finch later goes on to have sex with Stifler's mom twice more; once in the second movie and yet again in the third.]]
*** [[spoiler: Thirteen years after the first film, Stifler ''finally'' gets even with Finch at the reunion in the fourth movie when he strikes up a conversation with the latters ''own mother'' and naturally, one thing leads to another...]]
* Informed Attractiveness: Stifler's mom. Actress Jennifer Coolidge was even able to play a Hollywood Homely character a couple of years later in Legally Blonde with the only real visual change being a marginally less flattering haircut.
* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: A rare pre-Website/YouTube example, in which Jim accidentally sends the website of Nadia's stream to the entire school. And given what happens once he joins the video... yeah. Coincidentally, in ''American Reunion'', it is revealed to have gone viral on Youtube.

* LovableJock: Oz.

** Oz's run on Celebrity Dance-Off, where he lost to Creator/GilbertGottfried, and almost everyone that recognizes him in ''Reunion'' mentions.

* RuleOfThree: Used as a sex indicator in the second movie, and the "Band camp" line in the first.
** The second running gag is Stifler ingesting some bodily substance.

** Finch having sex with Stifler's mom. Reunion manages to invert it.
** Cadence is neither seen nor mentioned in ''American Reunion''.
* RunningGag: The two primary ones are having all movies open with the protagonist (Jim in the theatrical films and whoever leads in the DTV films) caught in an awkward sexual moment. See CaughtWithYourPantsDown.
** Also, Stifler ingesting some kind of bodily substance.

--> '''Stifler:''' Observe the fucking Stifmeister. What is his defining characteristic?
--> '''Jim:''' He uses the 'F' word excessively.
--> '''Stifler:''' Thanks, man.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Stifler

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Michelle's stories from band camp. First, a whole bunch of annoying stories, then one about Spin the Bottle, and then one about [[DoubleEntendre using her flute to make her sing.]]

* DontTryThisAtHome: A young man who imitated the infamous pie scene burned...* ahem* himself, badly.

* ShoutOut: To ''TheGraduate''. You know the scene.

** Also, to Film/{{Carrie}} in the powder blue tux/ruffled shirt combo.

* {{Corpsing}}: Seann William Scott's antics during the lesbian scene are clearly making Eddie Kaye Thomas laugh, most noticeably when Stifler tells Jim that he's a lousy kisser.

* LatinLover: Oz spends much of the film worried about his girlfriend living in a house of these while on Study Abroad.

* BrickJoke:
** When Finch is helping Jim locate Michelle's wedding dress, he asks Jim to let him speak to the people inside the store because they are his "people." Stifler inquires, "They're gay?" Finch retorts that they're "styled", "cultured", and "sophisticated", to which Stifler responds, "So they're gay." Later on when Stifler ends up in the gay bar and is trying to prove that EvenTheGuysWantHim, he tells Bear, "I've got style... I'm cultured... I'm sophisticated."

* GayBarReveal: In the third film, the bar where Stifler shows off his dancing skills in American Pie 3. This being Stifler, he didn't realize which kind of bar it was until the others told him to look around and pay attention: "Oh my God! What the fuck is going on?"

* InsultBackfire: The final exchanges between Stifler & Finch at the end of the movie.
--> '''Finch:''' [[spoiler:Grandmother Fucker]].
--> '''Stifler:''' Yeah? Well, you're a Mother Fucker!
--> '''Finch:''' ''[Proudly]'' [[SmugSnake Yes I am]].

** "Finch, he does make a good point." "Yeah, he does... you never heard me say that."

* LostWeddingRing: Resulting in one of the series' most squick-tastic scenes.

*** Also when he realizes that he accidentally fed the wedding ring to the dogs.

* SequelNonEntity: Oz. WordOfGod says they simply had nothing for him to do, so the character just wasn't included. Though it's hinted he was in L.A. at the time of Jim's Wedding as an in-Universe exclamation.

** Jim is reminded only too well about the incidents of SpeedSex, from both Selena and Kara (and is acknowledged that the video is now on You Tube).

** While making out with Selena, Finch spots a picture of Stifler's Mom on the wall. He briefly recalls the three previous flings he had with Stifler's Mom and looks between the two, as if trying to choose, before ultimately deciding to move on and be with Selena.

* TheCameo: Creator/NeilPatrickHarris pops up as the host of Celebrity Dance-Off, a DancingWithTheStars parody which Oz was a contestant on.

* DisproportionateRetribution: "They splashed us..." [[spoiler: Some younger guys on the beach steal bikini tops. The gang chases them. Stifler then ''destroys their jetskis.'' That adds up to about $25,000 damage.]]

--> '''Stifler:''' So, finally come out of the closet?
--> '''Finch:''' How is your mom, by the way?

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Stifler gives one to his boss in, saying that even though he has money, he's still a loser...who's poorly-endowed.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Several never before mentioned classmates turn up out of the blue, such as Selena (Michelle's Band Camp bff), Loni 'Blowjob' Lipstein (a former... intimate of Stifler) and Mitch and Adam (members of the lacrosse team and good buddies with Stifler and presumably Oz.)
** Also Kara the girl Jim used to babysit is never mentioned before.
*** While Kara's a harder case to argue, several of the younger actors that appear as non-speaking extras in the original film could stand in for the roles in later films. For example, in the first appearance of Michelle and the band geeks (when they come to Stiffler's door and he tells them to leave), there is a young AmbiguouslyBrown woman. There are several team mates who don't speak in the rugby scenes.

* SuddenlySexuality \ TransparentCloset: After 13 years, [[spoiler: Jessica]] announces that she's a lesbian... to no one's surprise.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] and {{Invoked}} when the gang needs to talk their way into a suburban family's home. Stifler knocks on the door and tells the man of the house that their car has broken down and he needs to call AAA. The man says "None of the three of you have cell phones?". After the gang gets inside the house, a defensive Stifler says that when he used to do this, cell phones didn't exist.

* OhCrap: Edgar in "Beta House", when the fat guy's girlfriend walks up in a [[spoiler:sheep costume, and proceeds to make him ejaculate, losing the Greek Olympiad]].

--->'''Jim's Dad:''' Well, at least it's not a tube sock.