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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Walking through a lingerie store, stroking the clothes hangers. The clothes hangers are big, black, and ribbed.

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Walking through a lingerie store, stroking the clothes hangers. The clothes hangers are big, black, and ribbed.ribbed.
** "Bill is going through some things, discovering himself. Don't you remember that?" <-- said by Bill's gay brother to his gay husband.


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* ImportantHaircut: Bill finally sheds his shitty hair at the end of the third act, returning to the fit Hollywood actor we expect. Somehow, this impromptu haircut also makes Bill shed his gut.
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* DawsonCasting: The teens in the movie are Mina Suvari, Jessica Alba, another woman in her mid-twenties, and some guy who might could be in his teens.
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* {{Escapism}}: Bill is desperate to escape from his life, and uses the donut franchise as his outlet.
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* CringeComedy: Bill is an awkward moron in a shitty family.
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* LoliconAndShotacon: Bill gets seduced by a teen boy, in an uncomfortable recreation of Humbert's version of what happened in ''Literature/Lolita''.

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* LoliconAndShotacon: Bill gets seduced by a teen boy, in an uncomfortable recreation of Humbert's version of what happened in ''Literature/Lolita''.''Literature/{{Lolita}}''.
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* LoliconAndShotacon: Bill gets seduced by a teen boy, in an uncomfortable recreation of Humbert's version of what happened in ''Literature/Lolita''.
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* MsFanservice: Elizabeth Banks spends a lot of time in her underwear.
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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Bill's brother in law is initially welcoming and happy to help, but Bill wears out his welcome and becomes a super annoyance living in a giant tent in the back yard and what the hell is he doing hanging out with that teenage boy?
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* KidsAreCruel: Bill finds out his wife is cheating on him with a local news guy, sees the guy on TV, and tracks him down and punches him right in his stupid pretty face. It goes viral and when he does a mentor thing the next day at his old school, all the kids applaud and reference his embarrassing sex tape where his wife said he had an acorn dick.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Walking through a lingerie store, stroking the clothes hangers. The clothes hangers are big, black, and ribbed.
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* ParentalIssues: Among the many things Bill is struggling with is the fact that he only has his job because his wife's dad owns the business.
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* CarpetOfVirility: Bill has quite the rug. Except we meet it when he's sad in the bathroom hating his beer belly.

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* ComfortFood: Bill hides candy bars everywhere. He doesn't hide them well.

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* BadHairDay: Bill's hair is terrible. Like, he's wearing a toupée except he isn't. He's so miserable he doesn't bother. Except he's trying to rock a hip young hairstyle and can't.
* ComfortFood: Bill hides candy bars everywhere. He doesn't hide them well. He also tries to sell his boss on a donut franchise.
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Creator/AaronEckhart is Bill. Bill is a desperately unhappy overweight middle age white man. He's probably also gay and falling in love with a teenage boy. Which is uncomfortable, because that's not okay anymore.

Bill is breaking up with his wife and living in a big tent in his brother's back yard. It's a mid-life crisis. Welcome to the party.

Meet Bill.

Also starring Creator/ElizabethBanks as Bill's estranged wife.

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* ComfortFood: Bill hides candy bars everywhere. He doesn't hide them well.
* FormerlyFit: Bill was a swimmer, now he's fat. Now he's swimming again and looking better.

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