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* CompetitionCouponMadness: Barry realizes that by buying pudding cups in bulk, he can take advantage of Healthy Choice's frequent flier promotion and amass an enormous amount of frequent flier miles. He has to buy a ticket the old-fashioned way to follow Lena to Hawaii as it takes 6-8 weeks for the coupons to be redeemed, but he'll be able to use the million miles he's collected to accompany her around the world in the future.
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* SignificantBackgroundEvent: Lena can be seen before she's actually introduced in the film, out of focus in a red outfit, following Barry as he shops for pudding at the grocery store.
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* FreudianExcuse: It's implied that a lot of Barry's issues stem from his relationship with his older sisters, who are simultaneously dominating and cruelly bullying.

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* FreudianExcuse: It's implied that a A lot of Barry's mental and anxiety issues stem from his relationship with his older sisters, who are simultaneously dominating dominating, overbearing, and cruelly bullying.



* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Despite being one of the darkest films of Adam Sandler's career, the film is actually ''very'' optimistic.

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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Despite being one of the darkest films of Adam Sandler's career, the film is actually ''very'' ''Very'' optimistic.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Despite being one of the darkest films of Adam Sandler's career, the film is actually ''very'' optimistic.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Barry does not seem to have a formal diagnosis, but shows poor social skills, acute anxiety and aggressive outbursts. Normally he's shy and reserved, but he sometimes gets extremely upset at certain emotional stimuli. He has tremendous difficulty staying calm whenever his sisters go too far in teasing him and wears the same blue suit throughout the entire film, which spans roughly a week.

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