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* ComicallySmallBribe: Goodman makes an offer of a bribe to Peter to throw the game. He presents it in a briefcase and shows him what that amount of money looks like to try and sway him. He reveals a mostly empty case with only a single stack of bills.
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* BerserkButton: Gordon can deal with his mail-order bride treating him like a loser (or is blissfully ignorant and thinks he's HappilyMarried). What he ''can't'' forgive is her being unfaithful to him in front of his children, as when he sees her flirting with David Hasselhoff he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the opponents.

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* BerserkButton: Gordon can deal with his mail-order bride treating him like a loser (or is blissfully ignorant and thinks he's HappilyMarried). What he ''can't'' forgive is her being unfaithful to him in front of his children, as when he sees her flirting with David Hasselhoff Hasselhoff, he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the opponents.opponents and earning his team the win.



* BigNo: White yells this when Peter dodges the Sudden Death dodgeball blindfolded and just a second before Peter's dodgeball hits him in the face when he throws it at him.

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* BigNo: White yells this when Peter dodges the Sudden Death dodgeball blindfolded and just a second before Peter's dodgeball hits him in the face when he throws it at him.the winning shot.



** Lampshaded. After [[spoiler:Average Joe's wins the dodgeball tournament and Peter receives his betting winnings,]] the money is revealed in a treasure chest that reads 'Deus Ex Machina'.

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** Lampshaded. After [[spoiler:Average Joe's wins the dodgeball tournament and Peter receives his betting winnings,]] the money is revealed in a treasure chest that ironically reads 'Deus Ex Machina'.



** In the final match, White manages to take out Peter and win the match... but stepped over the line doing it. This counts as a foul and takes him out of the match, too, resulting in the Sudden Death tie breaker round. The DVD comes with an alternative ending where this doesn't happen and there's a DownerEnding.

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** In the final match, White manages to take out Peter and seemingly win the match... but stepped over the line doing it. This counts as a foul and takes him out of the match, too, resulting in the Sudden Death tie breaker tiebreaker round. The DVD comes with an alternative ending where this doesn't happen and there's a DownerEnding.



* EvilInc: Globo Gym. Hell, their company slogan is "We're better than you, and we know it."

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* EvilInc: Globo Gym. Hell, even their company slogan is "We're better than you, and we know it."
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* BigNo: Peter yells this when Peter dodges the Sudden Death dodgeball blindfolded and just before Peter hits him in the face with his dodgeball.

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* BigNo: Peter White yells this when Peter dodges the Sudden Death dodgeball blindfolded and just a second before Peter Peter's dodgeball hits him in the face with his dodgeball.when he throws it at him.
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* BigNo: Peter yells this when Peter dodges the Sudden Death dodgeball blindfolded and just before Peter hits him in the face with his dodgeball.
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** During the Average Joes' stay in Las Vegas, Dwight asks Gordon what happens on a double fault and the latter explains it results on a sudden death elimination under Continuation Rule 113-D. In the final game between the Joes and Globo Gym later on, [[spoiler:White steps over the line on his throw, resulting in a double fault leading to the sudden death match.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: In-universe, Owen proposes that they pay off the mortgage in [[CanadaEh Canadian dollars]], [[RidiculousExchangeRates presumably figuring the Canadian dollar is worth less.]] Peter informs him that they would need 70,000 Canadian dollars, and the guy despairs at the prospect of raising "$120,000"; Gordon corrects him, telling him he shouldn't have added the two numbers together (and at the then-current exchange rates, they'd need 73,313 Canadian dollars).

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* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: In-universe, Owen proposes that they pay off the mortgage in [[CanadaEh Canadian dollars]], dollars, [[RidiculousExchangeRates presumably figuring the Canadian dollar is worth less.]] Peter informs him that they would need 70,000 Canadian dollars, and the guy despairs at the prospect of raising "$120,000"; Gordon corrects him, telling him he shouldn't have added the two numbers together (and at the then-current exchange rates, they'd need 73,313 Canadian dollars).



* TheTriple: Dodgeball announcer Cotton [=McKnight=] is good at these. "It's an event greater than UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup, [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} World Series]], and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII combined!" and "Tomorrow we separate the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff, and the awkwardly feminine from the [[CanadaEh possibly Canadian]]" -- culminating in "Ladies and gentlemen, I have BEEN to the Great Wall of China, I have SEEN the Pyramids of Egypt ... [[BreadEggsMilkSquick I've even witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel]]!"

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* TheTriple: Dodgeball announcer Cotton [=McKnight=] is good at these. "It's an event greater than UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup, [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} World Series]], and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII combined!" and "Tomorrow we separate the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff, and the awkwardly feminine from the [[CanadaEh possibly Canadian]]" Canadian" -- culminating in "Ladies and gentlemen, I have BEEN to the Great Wall of China, I have SEEN the Pyramids of Egypt ... [[BreadEggsMilkSquick I've even witnessed a grown man satisfy a camel]]!"
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
** Peter's phone call from the video store. "The following videos are now overdue: ''Drunken Hussies 3'', ''Backdoor Patrol 5'', and ''Film/MonaLisaSmile''."
** Cotton's TheTriple always ends with something completely off topic.

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