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* FireForgedFriends: While Lil does insist she's only Violet's boss, she does seek her out to see how her father is, and closes the bar early to support her in her singing.
* GoodBadGirl: Cammie is presented as a ShamelessFanserviceGirl but she's the nicest of the coyotes.



* MissingMom: Violet's mother died prior to the start of the movie

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* MissingMom: Violet's mother died five years prior to the start of the movie



* MundaneSolution: Violet's stage fright magically disappears even knowing people are watching her when all the lights in the room are turned off.

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* MundaneSolution: Violet's stage fright magically disappears even knowing people are watching her when all the lights in the room are turned off. To be fair, she had already been singing in front of people for a while, singing along to the jukebox.



* PetTheDog: Rachel in the ending is taking shots at a new girl in Coyote Ugly, similar to how she did Violet when she started. But when no one is looking, she looks over at Violet with a kind look on her face.



* ReallyGetsAround: Cammie

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* ReallyGetsAround: CammieCammie, who is the most shameless of the coyotes, and Lil jokes about her sleeping around.
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''Coyote Ugly'' is a 2000 [[{{Dramedy}} comedy-drama]] produced by Creator/JerryBruckheimer and directed by David [=McNally=] about songwriter Violet Sanford (Creator/PiperPerabo), [[FishOutOfWater who moves to New York City to try to make it big with her music]]. She ends up getting a job at the eponymous woman-run bar, which prominently features scantily-clad bar-dancers teasing the male patrons. She eventually comes out of her shell with the help of her Australian boyfriend (Creator/AdamGarcia) and the girls at Coyote Ugly.

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''Coyote Ugly'' is a 2000 [[{{Dramedy}} comedy-drama]] film produced by Creator/JerryBruckheimer and directed by David [=McNally=] about songwriter Violet Sanford (Creator/PiperPerabo), [[FishOutOfWater who moves to New York City to try to make it big with her music]]. She ends up getting a job at the eponymous woman-run bar, which prominently features scantily-clad bar-dancers teasing the male patrons. She eventually comes out of her shell with the help of her Australian boyfriend (Creator/AdamGarcia) and the girls at Coyote Ugly.

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* BitchAlert: Rachel happily is introduced as "the New York bitch", and Cammie insists she doesn't mind "because she really is a bitch".

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* BitchAlert: Rachel happily is introduced as "the New York bitch", and Cammie insists she doesn't mind "because she really is a bitch". Sure enough, her EstablishingCharacterMoment is randomly cutting a man's ponytail off.



* CallBack: Midway through the movie, Zoe arrives at the bar as a customer, but is convinced to get up and dance. In the ending, [[spoiler: Violet is now in this position as a successful songwriter, and gets up to dance with [=LeAnn=] Rimes]].



* FanserviceWithASmile: The bar seems to run on this.

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* FanserviceWithASmile: The bar seems to run on this. It's women-only staff (except for the bouncers), and they have to wear tight leather pants, crop tops and other sexy clothes. The real Lil Lovell describes the reasoning as persuasion to make the male customers spend as much as possible.



* FlairBartending: Played straight with the veteran barkeeps who have been doing the job for a while. It's averted for comedy with Violet/Jersey, whose attempts fail whens she tries.

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* FlairBartending: Played straight with the veteran barkeeps who have been doing the job for a while. It's averted for comedy with Violet/Jersey, whose attempts fail whens when she tries.tries, but she does get better during a GoodTimesMontage. In the ending, when there's a new girl at Coyote Ugly, she's seen failing similarly to Violet.



* InformedAttribute: Lil jokes that Cammy can only call herself TheTease "if you stop sleeping around".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rachel lives up to her nickname "The New York Bitch", but she has a couple of PetTheDog moments towards Violet.
* {{Joisey}}: Melanie Lynskey puts on a very thick New Jersey accent for her role as Violet's less ladylike friend Gloria. Violet doesn't have a strong accent, but her actress ironically is actually from New Jersey.



* NaiveNewcomer: Violet, when she moves to New York at first.

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* NaiveNewcomer: Violet, when she moves to New York at first. Lil eventually confesses that she was one once as well.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Rachel is the "New York Bitch", who's aggressive and abrasive even to her friends. Cammy is the NiceGirl who helps Violet pick out her wardrobe and train her on the spot. Lil is something of a BadBoss who cares mainly about her bar over its employees, but she does show kindness towards Violet near the end.



* TokenWholesome: Lil presents Violet as this, compared to the more outgoing girls at the bar, nicknaming her 'The Jersey Nun'; guessing that men will be turned on by her apparent innocence.



* WorkHardPlayHard: Lil enforces her rules for the bar with an iron fist, and fires girls on the spot for breaking them. On the other hand, she was so impressed with Violet's idea to auction off Kevin that she herself placed a bid even though Violet had to do it because she put ''Lil'' out of pocket. The other Coyotes too, since dancing and exuberance is part of the job.

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* WorkHardPlayHard: Lil enforces her rules for the bar with an iron fist, and fires girls on the spot for breaking them. On the other hand, she was so impressed with Violet's idea to auction off Kevin that she herself placed a bid even though Violet had to do it because she put ''Lil'' out of pocket.pocket (although she likely also realised the potential of upping the bids). The other Coyotes too, since dancing and exuberance is part of the job.

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* BrooklynRage: Rachel is the only actual New Yorker of the Coyotes, and is the hot-tempered, always getting into fights type. Lil happily says she gave her a raise after she punched a guy trying to grope her.

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* BrooklynRage: Rachel is the only actual New Yorker of the Coyotes, and is the hot-tempered, always getting into fights type. Lil happily says she gave her a raise after she punched a guy trying to grope her. She also backfists a guy catcalling Violet's performance in the climax.



* TheDitz: Cammie

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* {{Disneyfication}}: Elizabeth Gilbert and the real Lil Lovell describe the film as a very sugar coated version of their time in Coyote Ugly. Lil recalls once obliging a guy who offered $1000 to do a shot out of her underwear, someone crashing a motorcycle through the wall, and an A-list actor getting so drunk he defecated in the bathroom (missing the toilet).
* TheDitz: CammieCammy thinks a joking "I love you" from Violet means she's being flirted with.


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* HollywoodOld: Maria Bello was only 31 but at the time was deemed too old to dance on the bar with the others, so Lil is never seen dancing.

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* ArtisticLicenseMusic: Violet arrives nearly late for a performance at a club and appears to just go on stage without warming up her voice or doing any kind of sound check (which she maybe might have done offscreen before the performance).



* AwardBaitSong: "Can't Fight the Moonlight" performed by [=LeAnn=] Rimes and also written by no stranger to this, Diane Warren.

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* AwardBaitSong: "Can't Fight the Moonlight" performed by [=LeAnn=] Rimes and also written by no stranger to this, Diane Warren. Interestingly enough, the song was a last minute replacement for "Right Kind of Wrong", because test audiences didn't find it uplifting enough.



* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: The Coyotes all wear tops that show off the midriff as part of the act. Part of Violet's 'makeover' for her first night is Lil making sure her midriff is exposed too.



* BigRottenApple: Violet and Glory are {{Squick}}ed out as soon as they arrive in New York by all the grime and fish guts everywhere, and Violet's apartment is robbed early on in the film.
* BitchAlert: Rachel happily is introduced as "the New York bitch", and Cammie insists she doesn't mind "because she really is a bitch".
* BrooklynRage: Rachel is the only actual New Yorker of the Coyotes, and is the hot-tempered, always getting into fights type. Lil happily says she gave her a raise after she punched a guy trying to grope her.



* CountryMouse: Violet.

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* CountryMouse: Violet.CountryMouse:
** Violet, even though she's from an urban area; just much smaller compared to New York.
** Lil admits that she was this when she first moved to the city too.



* MaleGaze: Might as well have been called "Male Gaze: The Movie".

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* MaleGaze: Might as well have been called "Male Gaze: The Movie". But there's some of this in-universe too, as the aim of the girls is to get the men to pay to see them do whatever.



* ManicPixieDreamGuy: Kevin fits a lot of these qualities as an upbeat, comic-collecting Australian with a MysteriousPast including inexplicable exotic dancing skills whose main job in the story is to help Violet overcome her stage fright.

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* ManicPixieDreamGuy: Kevin fits a lot of these qualities as an upbeat, comic-collecting Australian with a MysteriousPast including inexplicable exotic dancing skills skills[[note]]Which were added in at the last minute when they learned Adam Garcia was a dancer.[[/note]] whose main job in the story is to help Violet overcome her stage fright.fright. She however calls him out on deliberately withholding his past so he doesn't have to connect with anyone.



* SassyBlackWoman: "I am ''dying'' to make ''your'' dreams come true."

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* SassyBlackWoman: "I am ''dying'' to make ''your'' dreams come true."" Averted with Zoe, played by Tyra Banks, who's actually leaving Coyote Ugly to go to law school.
* SensualSlavs: Cammie's nickname is 'The Russian Tease' and she assures them that she really is a tease.



* WorkHardPlayHard: Lil enforces her rules for the bar with an iron fist, and fires girls on the spot for breaking them. On the other hand, she was so impressed with Violet's idea to auction off Kevin that she herself placed a bid even though Violet had to do it because she put ''Lil'' out of pocket.
** The other Coyote's too, since dancing and exuberance is part of the job.

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* WorkHardPlayHard: Lil enforces her rules for the bar with an iron fist, and fires girls on the spot for breaking them. On the other hand, she was so impressed with Violet's idea to auction off Kevin that she herself placed a bid even though Violet had to do it because she put ''Lil'' out of pocket. \n** The other Coyote's Coyotes too, since dancing and exuberance is part of the job.
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* AwardBaitSong: "Can't Fight the Moonlight" performed by [=LeAnn=] Rimes and also written by no stranger to this, Diane Warren.
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* BareYourMidriff: Everyone does this
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* AdvertisedExtra: Zoe, played by Tyra Banks, appears prominently on the poster even though she only appears in two scenes, with a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in the final scene.
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* SuffersNewbiesPoorly: Rachel. Early on, she tries to get Violet fired (and very nearly succeeds). Then, at the end of the movie, when another new coyote is having trouble mastering the art of FlairBartending, she declares "Hey, Lil! I don't think your new girl's gonna hack it!", before smiling at Violet as if to say "You, on the other hand, are all right in my book."
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''Coyote Ugly'' is a 2000 [[{{Dramedy}} comedy-drama]] produced by Creator/JerryBruckheimer and directed by David [=McNally=] about songwriter Violet Sanford (Creator/PiperPerabo), [[FishOutOfWater who moves to New York City to try to make it big with her music]]. She ends up getting a job at the eponymous woman-run bar, which prominently features scantily-clad bar-dancers teasing the male patrons. She eventually comes out of her shell with the help of her Australian boyfriend (Adam Garcia) and the girls at Coyote Ugly.

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''Coyote Ugly'' is a 2000 [[{{Dramedy}} comedy-drama]] produced by Creator/JerryBruckheimer and directed by David [=McNally=] about songwriter Violet Sanford (Creator/PiperPerabo), [[FishOutOfWater who moves to New York City to try to make it big with her music]]. She ends up getting a job at the eponymous woman-run bar, which prominently features scantily-clad bar-dancers teasing the male patrons. She eventually comes out of her shell with the help of her Australian boyfriend (Adam Garcia) (Creator/AdamGarcia) and the girls at Coyote Ugly.
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-->-- Creator/{{Seanbaby}}, [[LampshadeHanging hanging a lampshade]] on the film as only he can.

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-->-- Creator/{{Seanbaby}}, '''Creator/{{Seanbaby}}''', [[LampshadeHanging hanging a lampshade]] on the film as only he can.

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