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* AbusiveParents: For the very little time she ''does'' spend in her son's life, Peggy doesn't think of him as anything more than a means to an end for her. It begins even before he's born: She smokes while she's pregnant and wears an "I'm with Stupid" T-shirt with the arrow pointing down to her belly. She even said her pregnancy only put a damper on her aspirations to stardom... at least until she figured out her ''kid'' could do what she was unable to. After Dickie was born, she auditioned him for any possible part, even dressing him as a girl anytime the part called for one. Likely, this was all done without his consent. Then after his successful sitcom stint got canned, [[ParentalAbandonment she abandoned him completely]].
** She gets no better in the deleted scenes. The next time she sees her son again, [[he's presumably honeymooning with Grace and Peggy comes to his hotel room. All she can do is embark on a foul-mouthed rant about how she deserves better service than she's getting from the hotel, and all Dickie can do in response is quietly promise her cab fare, presumably because now he'd rather she just left his life altogether.]]
** She gets no better in the deleted scenes. The next time she sees her son again, [[he's presumably honeymooning with Grace and Peggy comes to his hotel room. All she can do is embark on a foul-mouthed rant about how she deserves better service than she's getting from the hotel, and all Dickie can do in response is quietly promise her cab fare, presumably because now he'd rather she just left his life altogether.]]
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* ParentalAbandonment: Hmmm... His father was [[DisappearedDad never there]], and his mother left when he was a mere child after his show was axed. [[SarcasmMode Yep, surefire "Parents of the Year" award-winners right there.]]
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** [[spoiler: George Finney eventually leaves the family for Dickie's ex.]]
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** [[spoiler: George Finney eventually leaves the family for Dickie's ex. ''Then'' she knocks him on the head, leaving him with "walking amnesia", and his most recent whereabouts were that he was hitchhiking into the desert. Safe to say Sam and Sally will probably never see him again.]]
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* FlippingTheBird: When the mother decides to make Dickie have cereal instead of coffee for breakfast, Dickie looks in, remarks that there's a surprise inside, reaches inside, and flips her the bird.
* FormerChildStar: Obviously from the title.
** Many real-life former child stars also make appearances as themselves. Many even record a song about being former child stars during the end credits.
* FormerChildStar: Obviously from the title.
** Many real-life former child stars also make appearances as themselves. Many even record a song about being former child stars during the end credits.
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* FlippingTheBird: When the mother decides to make Dickie have cereal instead of coffee for breakfast, Dickie looks in, remarks that there's a surprise inside, reaches inside, and flips her the bird.
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* FormerChildStar:Obviously from the title.
** Many real-life former child stars also makeOn multiple levels. First and foremost there's Dickie himself, followed by minor appearances from many [[RealLife real]] people who were themselves famous as themselves. Many even record children. Former child stars, including many who weren't in the main story itself, perform a song number about being former child stars fame and the price they paid for it during the end credits.
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* OscarBait: Rob Reiner's upcoming film, "Mr. Blake's Backyard", is clearly meant to be this.
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* OscarBait: Rob Reiner's upcoming film, "Mr. ''Mr. Blake's Backyard", Backyard'', is clearly meant to be this.of a high enough quality to win prestigious accolades. Having exhausted all his other options, Dickie decides it's the Oscars or bust - a film of this caliber is the only type of thing that will give him what he's looking for. And you ''know'' it's serious when Creator/SeanPenn is said to be trying out for the same part...
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* CastingGag: Dickie Robert's mother is played by Doris Roberts.
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* OscarBait: Rob Reiner's upcoming film, "Mr. Blake's Backyard", is clearly meant to be this.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Dickie faces off in a boxing match against Emmanuel Lewis (4'3") and gets beaten mercilessly.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Dickie faces off in a boxing match against Emmanuel Lewis (4'3") and gets beaten mercilessly.
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* CrossCastRole: Dickie's mother would dress him up for any part that studios were auditioning for. If a studio was auditioning girls, she'd dress him like a girl.
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* StageMom: Dickie's mother wanted to be an actress, having to give up her dream when she was pregnant with Dickie, and encouraged Dickie to act (even dressing her son up as a girl if there was a need for a girl role), and left her son when his fame went away.
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* InformedAbility: Though the viewers only see Dickie's day-to-day antics and general wackiness, he is apparently a brilliant actor. He blew away Rob Reiner in his off-screen audition for a drama-heavy role.
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* KarmaHoudini: While looking for a celebrity to help get Dickie Roberts to meet with Rob Reiner, Dickie leaves his valet parking job driving a customers car, where he ends up being threatened by a driver who writes down the license plate number, but isn't worried because it's not his car and he had the windows tinted. [[spoiler: The car ends up belonging to Rob Reiner, who gets attacked by the man and ends up needing a kidney, which Dickie's agent donates in exchange for letting Dickie audition, and Dickie gets the part, with Rob never finding out that Dickie was responsible.]]
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* TheBully: Sam and Sally get bullied when Dickie picks them up. Dickie embarrasses the bullies for them.
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* ComplimentBackfire: Dickie tells the mother that she's too beautiful to be a mom, but after acknowledging that she obviously is a mom, she might not be as beautiful as he thinks.
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* GhostStory: Dickie and the kids tell scary stories in the treehouse.
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* TreehouseOfFun: On Dickie's first night with the family, the kids suggest Dickie sleep in their treehouse, so they won't have to deal with him. He turns it into a cool, retro treehouse, and the kids join him that night.
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* GoshDangItToHeck: Dickie teaches the kids "Shizzle", a secret way to swear.
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* DisappearedDad: Dickie says that he never met his father but claims that his father is David Cole (Hutch from ''Series/StarskyAndHutch''). [[spoiler: He later admits this is not true, and that he only has one memory of his actual father.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Dickie says that he never met his father but claims that his father is David Cole Soul (Hutch from ''Series/StarskyAndHutch''). [[spoiler: He later admits this is not true, and that he only has one memory of his actual father.]]
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* KickTheDog: When Dickie appears on Celebrity Boxing, he not only gets his butt kicked by Emmanuel Lewis, but the emcee refuses to let the referee throw in the towel, and after Dickie's beaten, the emcee kicks him while he's announcing Emmanuel as the winner.
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* CareerResurrection: Dickie believes that he'll get this if cast as the star of "Mr. Blake's Backyard". The celebrity who tells him about the film even says that it'll be like what ''Film/PulpFiction'' was to Creator/JohnTravolta.
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* PrankCall: Although not done for the sake of a joke (Dickie did it to help the kids mother know what house she was supposed to go to), Dickie calls the fire department about a false fire.
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* FlippingTheBird: When the mother decides to make Dickie have cereal instead of coffee for breakfast, Dickie looks in, remarks that there's a surprise inside, reaches inside, and flips her the bird.
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* CareerResurrection: Dickie believes that he'll get this if cast as the star of "Mr. Blake's Backyard". The celebrity who tells him about the film even says that it'll be like what ''Film/PulpFiction'' was to Creator/JohnTravolta.
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* Jerkass: {{Jerkass}}: George Finney is one to his family.
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* Jerkass: George Finney is one to his family.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dickie.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dickie.
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* DisappearedDad: Dickie says that he never met his father but claims that his father is David Cole (Hutch from ''Series/StarskyAndHutch''). [[spoiler: He later admits this is not true, and that he only has one memory of his actual father.]]
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* MissingMom: Dickie's mother abandoned him once he lost stardom.
* MissingMom: Dickie's mother abandoned him once he lost stardom.
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* ProductPlacement: Dickie Roberts is a valet parking driver at Morton's.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Dickie Roberts became a child star from appearing on ''The Glimmer Gang''.
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* ManChild: Dickie Roberts is this, not just when he's supposed to be treated like a child.
* ShowWithinAShow: Dickie Roberts became a child star from appearing on ''The GlimmerGang''.Gang''.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: In the form of an ''E! True Hollywood Story'' documentary.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: In the form of an ''E! True Hollywood Story'' documentary.
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* ChekovsGun: Dickie "borrows"customers car from work, and ends up angering a driver, who threatens him, writing down the license plate number (and unable to see the driver, due to tinted windows). [[spoiler: Turns out the car belonged to Rob Reiner, leading to him being attacked, and after Dickie's agent agrees to donate a kidney, agrees to let Dickie audition for the movie.]]
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* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: Dickie "borrows"customers car from work, and ends up angering a driver, who threatens him, writing down the license plate number (and unable to see the driver, due to tinted windows). [[spoiler: Turns out the car belonged to Rob Reiner, leading to him being attacked, and after Dickie's agent agrees to donate a kidney, agrees to let Dickie audition for the movie.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The driver Dickie pisses off while driving a car he "borrowed" from a customer doesn't see who is driving (due to tinted windows) and writes down the license plate number. [[spoiler: Turns out the car belongs to Rob Reiner, who he finds and attacks.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The driver Dickie pisses off while driving a car he "borrowed" from a customer doesn't see who is driving (due to tinted windows) and writes down the license plate number. [[spoiler: Turns out the car belongs to Rob Reiner, who he finds and attacks.]]
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* Foreshadowing: During his first meeting with Rob Reiner, Reiner mentions that he saw Dickie valet parking at a restaurant. [[spoiler: It turns out Rob Reiner owned the car that Dickie had "borrowed", resulting in him getting attacked from the driver Dickie had pissed off while driving it.]]
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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: During his first meeting with Rob Reiner, Reiner mentions that he saw Dickie valet parking at a restaurant. [[spoiler: It turns out Rob Reiner owned the car that Dickie had "borrowed", resulting in him getting attacked from the driver Dickie had pissed off while driving it.]]
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* AsHimself: Rob Reiner, Brendan Frasier, Dick Van Patten, and many former child stars.
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* Foreshadowing: During his first meeting with Rob Reiner, Reiner mentions that he saw Dickie valet parking at a restaurant. [[spoiler: It turns out Rob Reiner owned the car that Dickie had "borrowed", resulting in him getting attacked from the driver Dickie had pissed off while driving it.]]
* Foreshadowing: During his first meeting with Rob Reiner, Reiner mentions that he saw Dickie valet parking at a restaurant. [[spoiler: It turns out Rob Reiner owned the car that Dickie had "borrowed", resulting in him getting attacked from the driver Dickie had pissed off while driving it.]]
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'''Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star''' is a 2003 comedy film starring Creator/DavidSpade as FormerChildStar [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dickie Roberts]], who wants to [[CareerResurrection wants to be a star again]]. He desperately wants to star in Creator/RobReiner's upcoming film, but while he has the right basic look Reiner had in mind, he doesn't think Dickie is right for the part, due to the role being a "real person" and Dickie not knowing how a normal person lives, due to not having a normal childhood, so Dickie hires a family to treat him like a child for two months in order to be able to get an audition.
!!''Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star'' contains examples of:
* CastingGag: Dickie Robert's mother is played by Doris Roberts.
* CatchPhrase: On "The Glimmer Gang", Dickie's catch phrase was "This is nucking futs!"
* FormerChildStar: Obviously from the title.
* ShowWithinAShow: Dickie Roberts became a child star from appearing on ''The Glimmer Gang''.
!!''Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star'' contains examples of:
* CastingGag: Dickie Robert's mother is played by Doris Roberts.
* CatchPhrase: On "The Glimmer Gang", Dickie's catch phrase was "This is nucking futs!"
* FormerChildStar: Obviously from the title.
* ShowWithinAShow: Dickie Roberts became a child star from appearing on ''The Glimmer Gang''.
