History Film / MissCongeniality

* PoorCommunicationKills: Avterted. When Gracie realizes [[spoiler: the tiara is a bomb]], she fails to tell Vic or [[spoiler:Cheryl]] who ends up winning the pageant.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: Gracie discovers [[spoiler:Cheryl and Stan are put to be drowned in a hotel's pirate ship because Cheryl says in a HostageVideo "my booty is in the line"]].

* NotSoAboveItAll: Gracie illicitly brings in pizza, and all of the contestants chow down because they enjoy indulging like anyone else.

* IronicEcho: Kathy teaches Gracie on how a Miss United States contestant should act, particularly saying "yes" instead of "yeah". [[spoiler:It comes back to bite Kathy in the ass when she gets arrested.]]

* TheMakeover: When Grace is transformed into "Gracie" for the pageant, with the assistance of a team of [[MakeoverFairy Makeover Fairies]].
* MeaningfulEcho: "I really do want World Peace".

-->'''Victor Melling:''' They've got their Southern Belles, their Midwestern farmer's daughters, spunky Western cowgirls, and I have... Dirty Harriet.

* PoorCommunicationKills: When Gracie realizes [[spoiler: the tiara is a bomb]], she fails to tell Vic or [[spoiler:Cheryl]] who ends up winning the pageant.

* PrecisionFStrike: A loose wire getting reconnected resulted in Gracie getting a painful blast of feedback in her ear. When she screams out "'''Jesus Christ!'''" the other contestants are horrified. She eventually turns it around by saying she forgot to pray before eating breakfast.

* RunningGag: "You think I'm goooorgeous, you want to kissss me..."

* GeniusDitz: Cheryl, in spite of appearing very dumb and inane, is actually a physics major!

'''Gracie:''' It is not a beauty pageant; it is a ''scholarship program''!\\

* IronicEcho: "It is not a beauty pageant -- it is a ''scholarship program''!"\\
[''rolls eyes''] Yeah, yeah.\\
''[[MeaningfulEcho Yes!]]''

* PantyShot: Of a sort. Gracie wears frilly bloomers as part of her "talent show" outfit.

A 2000 comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and starring Creator/SandraBullock, along with Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/BenjaminBratt, Creator/WilliamShatner, Creator/ErnieHudson, and Creator/CandiceBergen.

* CloudCuckoolander: Cheryl.
* ConcertClimax: The end.

* UndercoverModel: Gracie at the pageant. She also provides the trope image.

* {{Fainting}}: As soon as Cheryl sees that the crown was a bomb, she faints in Gracie's arms (who discovers she's heavier than expected...).

As events continue, it becomes apparent that disaster may well be nigh, and it's down to Hart to successfully imitate a pageant contestant, win the trust of the other ladies, and discover who is planning to turn a harmless pageant into a horror movie.

* DemotedToExtra: Understandably, most of the pageant contestants. The only ones that were actually in the movie for any decent amount of time (aside from Gracie as New Jersey) were Rhode Island, California, New York, Texas, and Hawaii.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Victor Melling (Creator/MichaelCaine), the man hired to teach Grace how to be feminine.

* CampGay: One of the suspects Grace and Sam look for is a drag queen resembling Dolly Patron. Several of the drag queens in the bar are this too.

* HostageVideo: The one of Cheryl and Stan began the entire plot.

* OutOfCharacterAlert:

* RecursiveCrossdressing: Sam and Gracie go undercover dressed as drag queens looking like Tina Turner and a masquerade dancer named Coco. Sam Fuller's head almost explodes at the prospect of going undercover as a DragQueen:

* ShoutOut:
** Gracie and Sam lip sync in disguise along to "Proud Mary" by Ike Turner and Tina Turner.

** And this meets LuckyTranslation and GettingCrapPastTheRadar in some Spanish versions: ¡ '''P'''lexo solar! ¡'''E'''mpeine! ¡'''N'''ariz! ¡'''E'''ntrepierna!

* SuddenlySexuality: When Miss New York is eliminated, she calls out to her girlfriend in the audience and tells all the lesbians watching that if she can do it, so can they. Grace claps for her, and the producers wonder if they can say "lesbian" on air.
** With another layer added, since when he asks if they can say "lesbian," his female assistant director manning the controls simply snarks, "You got a problem with that?"
** Paired with LipstickLesbian as both Miss New York and her girlfriend are gorgeous. (Fun Fact: The actress playing New York's girlfriend was supposed to be the original Miss New Jersey. A scene where Gracie and Eric confront her about her appearance in ''[[ParallelPornTitles Arma-get-it-on]]'' was cut; the director felt bad about it, and offered the role of New York's girlfriend to her as an apology.)
** Also paired with StraightGay, as this declaration is the only indication that we get that she's homosexual.
* SuspiciouslyCleanCriminalRecord: Used to establish that the villain was untouchable which meant... well, they had to use the plot of ''[[CrazyEnoughToWork Miss Congeniality]]''.

* ImprobableAge: Miss USA contestants have to be between 18 and 27. Sandra Bullock was 35 when the first film was made (an in-movie case of DawsonCasting, since Gracie mentions in an off-hand remark that she's at least thirty, but the FBI are still trying to pass her off as being in her twenties).

* RecursiveCrossdressing: Sam Fuller's head almost explodes at the prospect of going undercover as a DragQueen: