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* GoneHorriblyRight: When Willard and Rusty find out Muffin escaped, the destruction (and Willard's blood) at the crime scene makes everyone think it was Willard that got kidnapped, and they're able formulate a new plan to get even more money from Miss Crock.

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* GoneHorriblyRight: When Willard and Rusty find out Muffin escaped, the destruction (and Willard's blood) at the crime scene makes everyone think it was Willard that got kidnapped, and they're able to formulate a new plan to get even more money from Miss Crock.
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* SerialEscalation: Once everyone else believes it was 'Willard that got taken, he and Rusty decide not only to roll with it, but to also suddenly and completely without provocation demand five times the initial ransom.
-->'''Willard:''' Come on, Rusty, I'm ''better'' than a dog! I'm ''five times'' better!\\
'''Ms Crock:''' [''Reading a new ransom note''] ''"FIVE. Million. Dollars?!"''\\
'''Chip:''' It's repugnant!\\
'''Ms Crock:''' It's like a rise in ''stock!'' ''Why did he jump from ONE to FIVE?!''
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* GoneHorriblyRight: When Willard and Rusty find out Muffin escaped, they formulate a new plan to get money from Miss Crock.

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* GoneHorriblyRight: When Willard and Rusty find out Muffin escaped, they the destruction (and Willard's blood) at the crime scene makes everyone think it was Willard that got kidnapped, and they're able formulate a new plan to get even more money from Miss Crock.
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* CrooksAreBetterArmed: When two cops arrive to Grover Cleaver's home with the suspicion of him being the abducter, they are armed only with their regular sidearms. Grover somehow got his hands on [[{{BFG}} an M-60 machine gun]].

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* CrooksAreBetterArmed: When two cops arrive to Grover Cleaver's home Police are never seen with the suspicion of him being the abducter, they are armed only with their regular sidearms. anything more than ordinary handguns. Grover somehow got his hands on [[{{BFG}} an M-60 machine gun]].gun]] and a Rocket Launcher.
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** And later when Willard and Rusty release the "kibble" video to the news, and she's swarmed by the press at her house.
--->'''Reporter:''' Your chauffeur was chained up like a dog! Don't you have any compassion?!\\
'''Ms. Crock:''' I'll show you "compassion." ''[[SuddenlyShouting GET YOUR ASSES OFF MY PROPERTYYYYYY!!!]]''

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* CloudCuckoolander: Grover leads a Jack Lord fan club, is a coroner who likes to collect the trinkets he finds in dead bodies, and owns an M60 Machine Gun and RPG Launcher.

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* CloudCuckoolander: Grover leads a Jack Lord fan club, club (of which he appears to be the sole member), is a coroner who likes to collect the trinkets he finds in dead bodies, and owns an M60 Machine Gun and RPG Launcher.



* DiggingYourselfDeeper: After everyone thinks Willard is the victim, he and Rusty improvise more and more wild plans to milk the situation for more money and dissuade the cops from investigating further.

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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: After everyone thinks Willard is the victim, he and Rusty improvise more and more wild plans to milk the situation for more money and dissuade the cops from investigating further.further, which only serves to make things more troublesome for everyone involved.



* GoneHorriblyWrong: This film LIVES this trope.

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* GoneHorriblyWrong: This film LIVES this trope. Just about everything fails to go according to plan, resulting in an ever-exacerbating GambitPileup.



* PunnyName: Willard Filmore and Grover Cleaver are both plays on the names of U.S. Presidents Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland.

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* PunnyName: Willard Filmore Fillmore and Grover Cleaver are both plays on the names of U.S. Presidents Millard Fillmore UsefulNotes/MillardFillmore and Grover Cleveland.UsefulNotes/GroverCleveland.
* RunningGag: Rusty tends to hit people with whatever he can get his hands on (namely a desk lamp) when he's scared. First he hits Chip with a lamp from Ms. Crock's nightstand, then he hits the detective with his own desk lamp, and [[RuleOfThree finally]] he [[spoiler: takes out Chip]] with a lava lamp at gunpoint.

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* [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Lady]]: Ms. Crock. She's impatient, impolite to nearly everyone (especially Willard), and absurdly stingy with her considerable wealth.



* LargeHam: Just about everyone gets a chance to go over the top, particularly Ms. Crock and Grover.



* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Ms. Crock has very little tact when it comes to anyone she isn't making a business deal. Even when handing over the ransom to the "kidnapper", she behaves indignantly and berates him for being a criminal.

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* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Ms. Crock has very little tact when it comes to anyone she isn't making a business deal. Even when handing over the ransom to the "kidnapper", she behaves indignantly and berates him for being a criminal. When the police question her on trying to figure out why anyone would kidnap her chauffeur, she can only answer ''"Not that I know of"'' to ''all'' their questions.
-->'''Detective:''' Ma'am, this man worked for you for 15 years, and you don't know if he has any friends or enemies?\\
'''Chip:''' Look, Detective, Ms. Crock has told you everything she knows.\\
'''Detective:''' What are you talking about? She hasn't told me ''anything!''\\
'''Ms. Crock:''' [''Gets up''] Look! If it makes you happy, you go right ahead and find Willard Fillmore... As for me, it's time for my nap! [''Leaves'']

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* TheCoroner: Grover Cleaver



* TheCoroner: Grover Cleaver

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* TheCoroner: Grover CleaverSharpDressedMan: Defied by the penny-pinching Ms. Crock. Willard's ratty chauffeur suit that's been falling apart for the last 15 years is the same one his father wore when he was Crock's chauffeur for 15 years until his death. And not only was the man ''buried'' in it, Ms. Crock convinced the undertaker to ''give it back'' so she could give it to Willard.
-->'''Willard:''' Ms. Crock, it's Christmas, and I'm ''only'' asking for a new uniform.\\
'''Ms. Crock:''' ''Only'' a new uniform? Then it'll be ''only'' a new broom, maybe? And pretty soon ''I'' [[SerialEscalation will be only BANKRUPT]]!
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* CrooksAreBetterArmed: When two cops arrive to Grover Cleaver's home with the suspicion of him being the abducter, they are armed only with their regular sidearms. Grover somehow got his hands on [[{{BFG}} an M-60 machine gun]].
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* KavorkaMan: Grover gets a happy ending as Miss Crock's new lover, [[AMatchMadeInStockholm after abducting her]].
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* FanDisservice: When the police arrest Chip, we get a [[SarcasmMode nice]] view of sixty-year-old Sherman Hemsley in a Speedo.


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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Chip successfully manages to screw Willard out of the ransom money of faking his own abduction, but he reveals being a two-faced jerk to Miss Crock (who [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold paid as requested, even when Willard believed she was not going to]]) and, because the police had a record of the ransom's serial numbers, he is eventually traced and arrested and (accidentally) turned into the FallGuy of the abduction.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Nobody gets away with anything in this film, to the point where you could call this film "Can't Get Away With Nothin: The Movie". [[spoiler: Though at the end, Chip ends up taking the fall for pretty much everything, having been caught red-handed with the ransom money he swapped with cabbage for the initial drop. Willard gets a generous severance, and takes his friends to move to a tropical paradise, and Grover moves in with Ms. Crock.]]

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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Nobody gets away with anything in this film, to the point where you could call this film "Can't Get Away With Nothin: Nuthin': The Movie". [[spoiler: Though at the end, Chip ends up taking the fall for pretty much everything, having been caught red-handed with the ransom money he swapped with cabbage for the initial drop. Willard gets a generous severance, and takes his friends to move to a tropical paradise, and Grover moves in with Ms. Crock.]]
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Nobody gets away with anything in this film. [[spoiler: Though at the end, Chip ends up taking the fall for pretty much everything, having been caught red-handed with the ransom money he swapped with cabbage for the initial drop. Willard gets a generous severance, and takes his friends to move to a tropical paradise, and Grover moves in with Ms. Crock.]]

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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Nobody gets away with anything in this film.film, to the point where you could call this film "Can't Get Away With Nothin: The Movie". [[spoiler: Though at the end, Chip ends up taking the fall for pretty much everything, having been caught red-handed with the ransom money he swapped with cabbage for the initial drop. Willard gets a generous severance, and takes his friends to move to a tropical paradise, and Grover moves in with Ms. Crock.]]
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* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Ms. Crock has very little tact when it comes to anyone she isn't making a business deal. Even when handing over the ransom to the "kidnapper", she behaves indignantly and berates him for being a criminal.

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The film also stars Creator/ElaineStritch as Willard's crusty old boss Virginia Crock, Creator/DannyDeVito as a less-than-stable coroner,Creator/ShermanHemsley as Ms. Crock's greedy sycophantic partner, and Creator/SarahSilverman as Willard's girlfriend Hillary.

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The film also stars Creator/ElaineStritch as Willard's crusty old boss Virginia Crock, Creator/DannyDeVito as a less-than-stable coroner,Creator/ShermanHemsley coroner, Creator/ShermanHemsley as Ms. Crock's greedy sycophantic partner, and Creator/SarahSilverman as Willard's girlfriend Hillary.



* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Nobody gets away with anything in this film.

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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Nobody gets away with anything in this film. [[spoiler: Though at the end, Chip ends up taking the fall for pretty much everything, having been caught red-handed with the ransom money he swapped with cabbage for the initial drop. Willard gets a generous severance, and takes his friends to move to a tropical paradise, and Grover moves in with Ms. Crock.]]



* DeathFakedForYou: Willard attempts to work with a coroner by the name of Grover Cleaver, but of course, this goes wrong.

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* DeathFakedForYou: Willard attempts to work with a coroner by the name of Grover Cleaver, but of course, this goes wrong.wrong when Grover picks a corpse whose ''only'' matching details are gender and skin color.



* LoonyFan: Grover Cleaver is one of Jack Lord. He is the President and sole member of a Jack Lord fan club and the single full-sized cardboard figure of Lord as Steve [=McGarrett=] he owns, in contrast to his dusty and Spartan room, is as creepy as a full-blown RoomFullOfCrazy.

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* LoonyFan: Grover Cleaver is one of Jack Lord.Creator/JackLord. He is the President and sole member of a Jack Lord fan club and the single full-sized cardboard figure of Lord as Steve [=McGarrett=] he owns, in contrast to his dusty and Spartan room, is as creepy as a full-blown RoomFullOfCrazy.



* SatisfiedStreetRat: Willard encounters two after getting the suitcase with the ransom money.

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* SatisfiedStreetRat: Willard encounters two after getting the suitcase with the ransom money. They behave like grown up thugs, demanding his suitcase, before ''stabbing him in the leg, kicking him on the ground, then tasing him''.



* TitleDrop: Grover sees that his face in on wanted posters ''everywhere'' and just goes into hysterics, running down the street shouting ''"I'm screwed! I'm screwed! I'm screwed!"''



* TooDumbToLive: Arguably the main protagonist duo, but Grover is something special. First he picks out a corpse that is all kinds of wrong for the purposes of impersonating Willard (the only details he got right were the gender and skin color of the body), then he just dumps the body at a wax museum in broad daylight (giving police an incredibly accurate sketch for the wanted posters), then opts to just kidnap Ms Crock himself and writes a ransom note ''on his own personalize stationary.''

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* TooDumbToLive: Arguably the main protagonist duo, but Grover is something special. First he picks out a corpse that is all kinds of wrong for the purposes of impersonating Willard (the only details he got right were the gender and skin color of the body), then he just dumps the body at a wax museum in broad daylight (giving police an incredibly accurate sketch for the wanted posters), then opts to just kidnap Ms Crock himself and writes a ransom note ''on his own personalize stationary.'''' Then when a cop car arrives at his location (driven by Willard and Rusty), his first instinct is to ''ventilate'' the vehicle with a machine gun.
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The film also stars Elaine Stritch as Willard's crusty old boss Virginia Crock, Creator/DannyDeVito as a less-than-stable coroner,Creator/ShermanHemsley as Ms. Crock's greedy sycophantic partner, and Creator/SarahSilverman as Willard's girlfriend Hillary.

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The film also stars Elaine Stritch Creator/ElaineStritch as Willard's crusty old boss Virginia Crock, Creator/DannyDeVito as a less-than-stable coroner,Creator/ShermanHemsley as Ms. Crock's greedy sycophantic partner, and Creator/SarahSilverman as Willard's girlfriend Hillary.
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* PunnyName: Willard Filmore and Grover Cleaver are both plays on the names of U.S. Presidents Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland.
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* ToiletHumor: "Sweet Jesus, we kidnapped a turd!"

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* ToiletHumor: "Sweet Jesus, we kidnapped a turd!"turd!"
* TooDumbToLive: Arguably the main protagonist duo, but Grover is something special. First he picks out a corpse that is all kinds of wrong for the purposes of impersonating Willard (the only details he got right were the gender and skin color of the body), then he just dumps the body at a wax museum in broad daylight (giving police an incredibly accurate sketch for the wanted posters), then opts to just kidnap Ms Crock himself and writes a ransom note ''on his own personalize stationary.''
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* AtomicFBomb: Ms. Crock delivers one after the Chip tells her that the Danes are going to cancel their deal and walk if she doesn't save her company's reputation, leading to a DistantReactionShot of her letting out a single echoing "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" before cutting to a press conference of her agreeing to pay the ransom.

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* CloudCuckoolander: Grover leads a Jack Lord fan club, is a coroner who likes to collect the trinkets he finds in dead bodies, and owns an M60 Machine Gun and RPG Launcher.



* DiggingYourselfDeeper: After everyone thinks Willard is the victim, he and Rusty improvise more and more wild plans to milk the situation for more money and dissuade the cops from investigating further.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the end, Miss Crock lightens up and even sends Willard a new suit and her best wishes for Willard's time at a community college.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the end, Miss Crock lightens up after coming clean with him why she was always so hard on him, letting him retire with a generous severance, and even sends Willard a new suit and her best wishes for Willard's time at a community college.
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Screwed is a 2000 film about a chauffeur by the name of Willard Filmore (Creator/NormMacDonald) who, fed up with his boss' abusive behavior, concocts a plan with his friend Rusty (Creator/DaveChappelle) to kidnap her precious dog Muffin in order to get a ransom from her. However, something [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] on the night of the heist, leading to the would-be dognappers trying to remedy an already wild situation that continues to spiral out of control.

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Screwed is a 2000 film about a chauffeur by the name of Willard Filmore (Creator/NormMacDonald) who, fed up with his boss' abusive behavior, concocts a plan with his friend Rusty (Creator/DaveChappelle) to kidnap her precious dog Muffin in order to get a ransom from her. However, something [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] on the night of the heist, leading to heist. The dog escapes their custody, but the damage caused during the heist lead authorities to believe that it was ''Willard'' who was kidnapped, causing the two would-be dognappers trying to remedy struggling to find a clean escape from an already wild situation that continues to spiral out of control.
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Screwed is a film about a chauffer by the name of Willard Filmore who, fed up with his boss' abusive behavior, concots a plan to get a ransom from her, only for things to spiral out of control.

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Screwed is a 2000 film about a chauffer chauffeur by the name of Willard Filmore (Creator/NormMacDonald) who, fed up with his boss' abusive behavior, concots concocts a plan with his friend Rusty (Creator/DaveChappelle) to kidnap her precious dog Muffin in order to get a ransom from her, only for things her. However, something [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] on the night of the heist, leading to the would-be dognappers trying to remedy an already wild situation that continues to spiral out of control.
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The film also stars Elaine Stritch as Willard's crusty old boss Virginia Crock, Creator/DannyDeVito as a less-than-stable coroner,Creator/ShermanHemsley as Ms. Crock's greedy sycophantic partner, and Creator/SarahSilverman as Willard's girlfriend Hillary.
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* LoonyFan: Grover Cleaver is one of Jack Lord. He is the President and sole member of a Jack Lord fan club and the single full-sized cardboard figure of Lord as Steve [=McGarrett=] he owns, in contrast to his dusty and Spartan room, is as creepy as a full-blown RoomFullOfCrazy.
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* TheCoroner: Grover Cleaver
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* GoneHorriblyRight: When Willard and Rusty find out Muffin escaped, they formulate a new plan to get money from Miss Crock.
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* CantGetAwayWithNothin: Nobody gets away with anything in this film.

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* CantGetAwayWithNothin: CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Nobody gets away with anything in this film.
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Screwed is a film about a chauffer by the name of Willard Filmore who, fed up with his boss' abusive behavior, concots a plan to get a ransom from her, only for things to spiral out of control.

!!This film provides examples of:

*AccidentalKidnapping: When Miss Crock's dog, Muffin, escapes from Willard and Rusty, the public think WILLARD was kidnapped.
*BadBoss: Miss Virginia Crock.
*BerserkButton: Willard loses it twice in the film. First, he gets a pie and cufflinks for Christmas instead of a new suit. Then, near the film's climax, he finally rages at Miss Crock for her mistreatment of him throughout the years.
*BloodyHilarious: Willard gets bitten by Miss Crock's dog while trying to kidnap him, and his blood sprays all over the place.
*BornIntoSlavery: Willard lived in Miss Crock's house his whole life, taking up his father's position as manservant of the house.
*ButtMonkey: Everybody.
*CantGetAwayWithNothin: Nobody gets away with anything in this film.
*DeathFakedForYou: Willard attempts to work with a coroner by the name of Grover Cleaver, but of course, this goes wrong.
*GoneHorriblyWrong: This film LIVES this trope.
*JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the end, Miss Crock lightens up and even sends Willard a new suit and her best wishes for Willard's time at a community college.
*KidsAreCruel: See SatisfiedStreetRat below.
*OhCrap: This film is FULL of these moments.
*SatisfiedStreetRat: Willard encounters two after getting the suitcase with the ransom money.
*ToiletHumor: "Sweet Jesus, we kidnapped a turd!"

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