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** Atop all this, the secondary message is that unattractive people are still people and they deserve respect, too. Commendable, but it rings a little hollow when at least half the jokes are basically the movie pointing and yelling "Haw haw, look at what a fatass she is!", including not one, but '''two''' "flattened furniture" gags.
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** Atop all this, the secondary message is that unattractive people are still people and they deserve respect, too. Commendable, but it rings a little hollow when at least half the jokes are basically the movie pointing at poor Rosemary and yelling "Haw haw, look at what a fatass she is!", including not one, but '''two''' "flattened furniture" gags.
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** Atop all this, the secondary message is that unattractive people are still people and they deserve respect, too. Commendable, but it rings a little hollow when at least half the jokes are basically the movie pointing and yelling "Haw haw, look at what a fatass she is!", including not one, but '''two''' "flattened furniture" gags.
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** FridgeBrilliance: Hal, who is still seeing people for their inner beauty (or lack thereof), sees this very kind transgendered person as a very cute, and even pretty, young woman, despite most people usually seeing her as a, well, freak, as Hal seemed to think after the curse was broken. Made even more brilliant when you think about how he's viewing a biological male as a female on the inside.
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** FridgeBrilliance: Hal, who is still seeing people for their inner beauty (or lack thereof), sees this very kind transgendered transgender person as a very cute, and even pretty, young woman, despite most people usually seeing her as a, well, freak, as Hal seemed to think after the curse was broken. Made even more brilliant when you think about how he's viewing a biological male as a female on the inside.
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* ActorAllusion: The SeinfeldianConversation mentioned below is likely a reference to Creator/JasonAlexander's role as [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} George Costanza]].
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* SeinfeldianConversation: Hal and Mauricio have one, in a likely ShoutOut to Creator/JasonAlexander's role on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.
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* SeinfeldianConversation: Hal and Mauricio have one, in a likely ShoutOut to Creator/JasonAlexander's role on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.one.
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* AsHimself: Tony Robbins, Joshua "Li'iBoy" Shintani
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]].
** In this movie it's not so much Beauty equals goodness than 'Goodness equals beauty', where the better a person you are the more attractive Hal perceives you as.
* BeautyInversion: A number of beautiful actresses wore makeup to make them appear ugly outside of Hal's "Inner Beauty Vision". The director especially took flack for casting a skinny actress like Paltrow as a fat woman, but he explained that it was easier for Paltrow to fat up (with makeup and a fatsuit) than it was for a heavy actress to slim down.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]].
** In this movie it's not so much Beauty equals goodness than 'Goodness equals beauty', where the better a person you are the more attractive Hal perceives you as.
* BeautyInversion: A number of beautiful actresses wore makeup to make them appear ugly outside of Hal's "Inner Beauty Vision". The director especially took flack for casting a skinny actress like Paltrow as a fat woman, but he explained that it was easier for Paltrow to fat up (with makeup and a fatsuit) than it was for a heavy actress to slim down.
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* AsHimself: Tony Robbins, Joshua "Li'iBoy" Shintani
Shintani.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness:[[PlayingWithATrope Played with]].
** In this movie it's not so much Beauty equals goodness than 'Goodness equals beauty', where theThe movie's premise [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this. The better a person you are are, the more attractive Hal perceives you as.
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* BeautyInversion: A number of beautiful actresses wore makeup tomake them appear ugly outside of Hal's "Inner Beauty Vision". The director directors especially took flack for casting a skinny actress like Paltrow as a fat woman, but he explained that it was easier for Paltrow to fat up (with makeup and a fatsuit) than it was for a heavy actress to slim down.
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* BrawnHilda: After Hal loses his Inner Beauty Vision, the robust housemaid that he initially confuses for Rosemary is named Helga.
* BrokenAesop: TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside? Kind of undermined by Rosemary being morbidly obese. Her eating habits are incredibly unhealthy and she's likely going to have a heart attack. There's a difference between not conforming to Hollywood's vision of beauty and doing what's best for your own health
* BrokenAesop: TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside? Kind of undermined by Rosemary being morbidly obese. Her eating habits are incredibly unhealthy and she's likely going to have a heart attack. There's a difference between not conforming to Hollywood's vision of beauty and doing what's best for your own health
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* BrawnHilda: After Hal loses his Inner Beauty Vision, the robust rotund housemaid that whom he initially confuses mistakes for Rosemary is named Helga.
* BrokenAesop: TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside? Kind of undermined by Rosemary being morbidly obese. Her eating habits are incredibly unhealthy and she's likely going to have a heart attack. There's a difference between not conforming to Hollywood's vision of beauty and doing what's best for your ownhealthhealth.
* BrokenAesop: TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside? Kind of undermined by Rosemary being morbidly obese. Her eating habits are incredibly unhealthy and she's likely going to have a heart attack. There's a difference between not conforming to Hollywood's vision of beauty and doing what's best for your own
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* ComplimentBackfire: When Hal meets Rosemary's mother he says "I see where Rosemary gets her figure from". He intends it as a compliment because he sees both of them as slim women, not realising they're both quite overweight.
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* CutASliceTakeTheRest: Rosemary cuts off a "sliver" of a cake that's about 1/3 as big as the whole cake itself, and walks off munching on it like a Pringles chip.
* FreakinessShame: Turns out Mauricio has a tail.
* FreakinessShame: Turns out Mauricio has a tail.
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* CutASliceTakeTheRest: Rosemary cuts off a "sliver" of a cake that's about 1/3 as big as the whole cake itself, cake, and walks off munching on it like a Pringles chip.
* FreakinessShame:Turns [[spoiler:Turns out Mauricio has a tail.]]
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* FreakinessShame: Turns out Maurice has a tail.
* FreudianExcuse: Hal is shallow because of his father's dying last words about appearance, his friend has [[spoiler: a dog-like tail]].
* FreudianExcuse: Hal is shallow because of his father's dying last words about appearance, his friend has [[spoiler: a dog-like tail]].
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* FreakinessShame: Turns out Maurice Mauricio has a tail.
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** Hal is shallow because of his father's dyinglast words about appearance, appearance.
** Mauricio is shallow because of hisfriend has [[spoiler: a dog-like tail]].[[spoiler:vestigial tail]], which shames him into avoiding meaningful relationships.
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* {{Hypocrisy}}: It's obvious in both Hal and his friend's characters that they really shouldn't have high expectations from women, looking the way they do.
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* {{Jerk with a Heart of Gold}}: Hal.
** Maurice could almost count too, given that he develops some depth as the film goes on.
** Maurice could almost count too, given that he develops some depth as the film goes on.
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* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Hal's friend gives a [[Film/MaryPoppins practically perfect]] girl the cold shoulder, passing up an opportunity to see a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] reunion while George Harrison was still alive, ostensibly because one of her second toes is slightly longer than normal. Turns out however that it's because [[spoiler:he's ashamed of his own elongated tailbone.]]
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* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Hal's friend Mauricio gives a [[Film/MaryPoppins practically perfect]] girl the cold shoulder, passing up an opportunity to see a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] reunion while George Harrison was still alive, ostensibly because one of her second toes is slightly longer than normal. Turns out however that it's because [[spoiler:he's ashamed of his own elongated tailbone.]]
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* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: quite notably scores pretty evenly around the scale. The nastier girls (and Rosemary in Hal's eyes) are very pretty, while some of the characters are just average or flawed average, perhaps flawed pretty, and some of the nice girls are honestly ugly.
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* SeinfeldianConversation: Hal and Mauricio have one, in a likely ShoutOut to Creator/JasonAlexander's role on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.
-->'''Mauricio:''' I'm probably more immature than you, but at least I have a bigger willie.\\
''*pause*''\\
'''Hal:''' Yeah, bigger than a mouse's.\\
'''Mauricio:''' What the hell was that?\\
'''Hal:''' I said your willie's--\\
'''Mauricio:''' I heard what you said, but it took you, like, eight seconds. You can't come back with a comeback after eight seconds. You got three. Five, tops. That's why they call it a "quip," not a "slooowwwwwp."
* SlidingScaleOfBeauty:quite Quite notably scores pretty evenly around the scale. The nastier girls (and Rosemary in Hal's eyes) are very pretty, while some of the characters are just average or flawed average, perhaps flawed pretty, and some of the nice girls are honestly ugly.
-->'''Mauricio:''' I'm probably more immature than you, but at least I have a bigger willie.\\
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'''Hal:''' Yeah, bigger than a mouse's.\\
'''Mauricio:''' What the hell was that?\\
'''Hal:''' I said your willie's--\\
'''Mauricio:''' I heard what you said, but it took you, like, eight seconds. You can't come back with a comeback after eight seconds. You got three. Five, tops. That's why they call it a "quip," not a "slooowwwwwp."
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* TitleDrop: "Shallow Hal wants a gal", the incantation Hal's friend uses to break the hypnosis.
* UglyGuyHotWife: The Shanahans. Mrs Shanahan is actually quite overweight too but still prettier than her husband.
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* TitleDrop: "Shallow Hal wants a gal", the incantation Hal's friend Mauricio uses to break the hypnosis.
* UglyGuyHotWife:The Shanahans. Mrs Shanahan Mrs. Shanahan, though overweight, is actually quite overweight too but still prettier than her husband.
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* ComplimentBackfire: When Hal meets Rosemary's mother he says "I see where Rosemary gets her figure from". He intends it as a compliment because he sees both of them as slim women, not realising they're both quite overweight.
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* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Subverted. Hal sees Rosemary as a slim attractive woman but she resembles her father's figure very much.
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* LittlestCancerPatient: [[spoiler:A whole Pediatric Burn Unit of them.]]
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** RogerEbert puts forth a partial justification for this in his review, pointing out that movies, being a primarily visual storytelling medium, would ''use'' a visual method of showing us how Hal perceives people now.
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** FridgeBrilliance: Hal, who is still seeing people for their inner beauty (or lack thereof), sees this very kind transgendered person as a very cute, and even pretty, young woman, despite most people usually seeing her as a, well, freak, as Hal seemed to think after the curse was broken.
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** FridgeBrilliance: Hal, who is still seeing people for their inner beauty (or lack thereof), sees this very kind transgendered person as a very cute, and even pretty, young woman, despite most people usually seeing her as a, well, freak, as Hal seemed to think after the curse was broken. Made even more brilliant when you think about how he's viewing a biological male as a female on the inside.
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* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Hal's friend gives a [[Film/MaryPoppins practically perfect]] girl the cold shoulder, passing up an opportunity to see a {{Beatles}} reunion while George Harrison was still alive, ostensibly because one of her second toes is slightly longer than normal. Turns out however that it's because [[spoiler:he's ashamed of his own elongated tailbone.]]
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* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Hal's friend gives a [[Film/MaryPoppins practically perfect]] girl the cold shoulder, passing up an opportunity to see a {{Beatles}} [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] reunion while George Harrison was still alive, ostensibly because one of her second toes is slightly longer than normal. Turns out however that it's because [[spoiler:he's ashamed of his own elongated tailbone.]]
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* BrokenAesop: TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside? Kind of undermined by Rosemary being morbidly obese. Her eating habits are incredibly unhealthy and she's likely going to have a heart attack. There's a difference between not conforming to Hollywood's vision of beauty and doing what's best for your own health
** FridgeBrilliance: Like many who've struggled with their weight and dieting, Rosemary just gave up as she stated that "no matter what I eat I'm always the same weight".
** The entire premise of the movie is that Hal is seeing a person's inner beauty, thus ugly women appear incredibly attractive to him and beautiful women appear incredibly ugly. Unfortunate Implications aside, it still comes across as making judgements based on physical appearances.
** Not precisely true. GOOD people appear beautiful and BAD people appear ugly. It's not a case of let's just switch up people's looks. Katrina, for example, actually isn't very bad looking at all, just a little nerdy, but due to being a sweet and caring girl Hal initially sees her as classically beautiful. However, Hal still does base his initial opinion of women on their looks and is continually surprised that these attractive women are also good people.
** RogerEbert puts forth a partial justification for this in his review, pointing out that movies, being a primarily visual storytelling medium, would ''use'' a visual method of showing us how Hal perceives people now.
** FridgeBrilliance: Like many who've struggled with their weight and dieting, Rosemary just gave up as she stated that "no matter what I eat I'm always the same weight".
** The entire premise of the movie is that Hal is seeing a person's inner beauty, thus ugly women appear incredibly attractive to him and beautiful women appear incredibly ugly. Unfortunate Implications aside, it still comes across as making judgements based on physical appearances.
** Not precisely true. GOOD people appear beautiful and BAD people appear ugly. It's not a case of let's just switch up people's looks. Katrina, for example, actually isn't very bad looking at all, just a little nerdy, but due to being a sweet and caring girl Hal initially sees her as classically beautiful. However, Hal still does base his initial opinion of women on their looks and is continually surprised that these attractive women are also good people.
** RogerEbert puts forth a partial justification for this in his review, pointing out that movies, being a primarily visual storytelling medium, would ''use'' a visual method of showing us how Hal perceives people now.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: The hostess at the restaurant turns out to be a transgendered person.
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** It isn't limited to females: Rosemary's two guy friends from the Peace Corps are overweight and/or unattractive yet are seen as intimidatingly handsome to a hypnotized Hal.
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* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Hal's friend gives a [[Film/MaryPoppins practically perfect]] girl the cold shoulder, ostensibly because one of her second toes is slightly longer than normal. Turns out however that it's because [[spoiler:he's ashamed of his own elongated tailbone.]]
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* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Hal's friend gives a [[Film/MaryPoppins practically perfect]] girl the cold shoulder, passing up an opportunity to see a {{Beatles}} reunion while George Harrison was still alive, ostensibly because one of her second toes is slightly longer than normal. Turns out however that it's because [[spoiler:he's ashamed of his own elongated tailbone.]]
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* EarWorm: "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes" by Edison Lighthouse.
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* BeautyInversion: A number of beautiful actresses wore makeup to make them appear ugly outside of Hal's "Inner Beauty Vision". The director especially took flack for casting a skinny actress like Paltrow as a fat woman, but he explained that it was easier for Paltrow to fat up (with makeup and a fatsuit) than it was for a heavy actress to slim down.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: The Shanahans. Mrs Shanahan is actually quite overweight too but still prettier than her husband.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: The hostess at the restaurant turns out to be a transgendered person.
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* HasAType: Initially Hal constructs his ideal image of a woman from bits and pieces of celebrities.
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* CursedWithAwesome: Basically, all the nicest and kindest people are identifiable on sight. Oh, and if you ever date one, they'll also be smoking hot.
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* AsHimself: Tony Robbins.
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* AsHimself: Tony Robbins.Robbins, Joshua "Li'iBoy" Shintani
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* RunningOnAllFoursRunningOnAllFours: The character of Walt, played by Rene Kirby who has spina bifida and really does walk on all fours in real life.
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* BrawnHilda: After Hal loses his Inner Beauty Vision, the robust housemaid that he initially confuses for Rosemary is named Helga.
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JackBlack plays Hal Larson, who, unconsciously traumatized by his father's death at age nine, is one of the shallowest men in the world. Until one day when, trapped in an elevator with Tony Robbins, he is unknowingly hypnotized so that, every time he meets someone new from that point onward, he will see their "inner beauty" instead of their real appearance.
HilarityEnsues.
Most notably, he meets a woman named Rosemary, played by Gwyneth Paltrow who, to him, looks like the most beautiful woman in the world because of her great inner beauty. In reality, however, she's extremely fat. It's not the only cognitive dissonance -- far from it -- but it's the one that made the trailers.
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!!''Shallow Hal'' provides examples of:
* AsHimself: Tony Robbins.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]].
** In this movie it's not so much Beauty equals goodness than 'Goodness equals beauty', where the better a person you are the more attractive Hal perceives you as.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Hal eventually sees Rosemary as this.
* BigEater
-->'''Rosemary''': I'll have a double pizza burger, chili fries, and a vanilla milkshake.
-->'''Hal''': Nicely done! I'll have the exact same thing.
* BitterSweetEnding
* {{Cameo}}
* CutASliceTakeTheRest: Rosemary cuts off a "sliver" of a cake that's about 1/3 as big as the whole cake itself, and walks off munching on it like a Pringles chip.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: The hostess at the restaurant turns out to be a transgendered person.
* FreudianExcuse: Hal is shallow because of his father's dying last words about appearance, his friend has [[spoiler: a dog-like tail]].
* HairOfGold: Rosemary is kind and generous with attractive inner beauty.
* {{Hypocrisy}}: It's obvious in both Hal and his friend's characters that they really shouldn't have high expectations from women, looking the way they do.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness
* {{Jerk with a Heart of Gold}}: Hal.
** Maurice could almost count too, given that he develops some depth as the film goes on.
* MeaningfulEcho: "Cuckoo!"
* MindRape: ''Unknowingly hypnotized?!''
** All Hal thought was that Tony Robbins did something to help him "score better with the ladies." He had no idea that it literally changed his vision.
* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Hal's friend gives a [[Film/MaryPoppins practically perfect]] girl the cold shoulder, ostensibly because one of her second toes is slightly longer than normal. Turns out however that it's because [[spoiler:he's ashamed of his own elongated tailbone.]]
* MoneyDearBoy: Gwyneth Paltrow was quoted saying that this was the only reason she did the movie.
* {{Oireland}}: Rosemary's father
* RunningOnAllFours
* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: quite notably scores pretty evenly around the scale. The nastier girls (and Rosemary in Hal's eyes) are very pretty, while some of the characters are just average or flawed average, perhaps flawed pretty, and some of the nice girls are honestly ugly.
* TitleDrop: "Shallow Hal wants a gal", the incantation Hal's friend uses to break the hypnosis.
* UglyGuyHotWife: The Shanahans. Mrs Shanahan is actually quite overweight too but still prettier than her husband.
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HilarityEnsues.
Most notably, he meets a woman named Rosemary, played by Gwyneth Paltrow who, to him, looks like the most beautiful woman in the world because of her great inner beauty. In reality, however, she's extremely fat. It's not the only cognitive dissonance -- far from it -- but it's the one that made the trailers.
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!!''Shallow Hal'' provides examples of:
* AsHimself: Tony Robbins.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]].
** In this movie it's not so much Beauty equals goodness than 'Goodness equals beauty', where the better a person you are the more attractive Hal perceives you as.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Hal eventually sees Rosemary as this.
* BigEater
-->'''Rosemary''': I'll have a double pizza burger, chili fries, and a vanilla milkshake.
-->'''Hal''': Nicely done! I'll have the exact same thing.
* BitterSweetEnding
* {{Cameo}}
* CutASliceTakeTheRest: Rosemary cuts off a "sliver" of a cake that's about 1/3 as big as the whole cake itself, and walks off munching on it like a Pringles chip.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: The hostess at the restaurant turns out to be a transgendered person.
* FreudianExcuse: Hal is shallow because of his father's dying last words about appearance, his friend has [[spoiler: a dog-like tail]].
* HairOfGold: Rosemary is kind and generous with attractive inner beauty.
* {{Hypocrisy}}: It's obvious in both Hal and his friend's characters that they really shouldn't have high expectations from women, looking the way they do.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness
* {{Jerk with a Heart of Gold}}: Hal.
** Maurice could almost count too, given that he develops some depth as the film goes on.
* MeaningfulEcho: "Cuckoo!"
* MindRape: ''Unknowingly hypnotized?!''
** All Hal thought was that Tony Robbins did something to help him "score better with the ladies." He had no idea that it literally changed his vision.
* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Hal's friend gives a [[Film/MaryPoppins practically perfect]] girl the cold shoulder, ostensibly because one of her second toes is slightly longer than normal. Turns out however that it's because [[spoiler:he's ashamed of his own elongated tailbone.]]
* MoneyDearBoy: Gwyneth Paltrow was quoted saying that this was the only reason she did the movie.
* {{Oireland}}: Rosemary's father
* RunningOnAllFours
* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: quite notably scores pretty evenly around the scale. The nastier girls (and Rosemary in Hal's eyes) are very pretty, while some of the characters are just average or flawed average, perhaps flawed pretty, and some of the nice girls are honestly ugly.
* TitleDrop: "Shallow Hal wants a gal", the incantation Hal's friend uses to break the hypnosis.
* UglyGuyHotWife: The Shanahans. Mrs Shanahan is actually quite overweight too but still prettier than her husband.
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