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* LaserGuidedKarma: Immediately after getting smacked by his father on the mound, Joey fields a soft grounder from Engelberg, and holds the ball, permitting Engelberg to score an inside-the-park home run. He then walks off the mound, drops the ball at Roy's feet, and leaves with his mother. [[spoiler:Although the Yankees won in the end, there was little for Roy personally to be proud of.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Roy's wife after he smacked their son, Joey, on the mound for throwing at Engelberg.
-->'''Mrs. Turner:''' [[PrecisionFStrike You son of a bitch]]!\\
'''Roy:''' [[JerkassHasAPoint Tried to bean him, could've killed that kid]].\\
'''Mrs. Turner:''' Well you know [[FlippingTheBird why he threw it]].\\
'''Roy:''' I told him to throw it low and outside.
-->'''Mrs. Turner:''' [[PrecisionFStrike You son of a bitch]]!\\
'''Roy:''' [[JerkassHasAPoint Tried to bean him, could've killed that kid]].\\
'''Mrs. Turner:''' Well you know [[FlippingTheBird why he threw it]].\\
'''Roy:''' I told him to throw it low and outside.
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** Tanner may be a foul-mouthed, ill-tempered, racist, and sexist little shit, but he'll be he won't let anyone [else] pick on his teammates, and is very quick to defend his teammates.them. Especially when Lupus gets bullied by members of a rival team.
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* YouGoGirl: Amanda. Downplayed in that she has to be talked into playing, her acceptance on the team is a very minor source of conflict at most, and one of her conditions for joining the team is that Buttermaker pays for her ballet classes.
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* YouGoGirl: Amanda. Downplayed in that she has to be talked into playing, her acceptance on the team is a very minor source of conflict at most, and one of her conditions for joining the team is that Buttermaker pays for her designer clothes and ballet classes.
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** Coach Buttermaker is a grouchy, alcoholic slob, but he really does care for the kids more than he lets on, and part of why the team loses in the end was because he chose to bench his best players so the other kids have a chance to play. When he very harshly rejects Amanda's offer to help him patch things up with her mom, he's ''also'' left crying afterward, because [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he understands how badly he just screwed up]].
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** Coach Buttermaker is a grouchy, alcoholic slob, but he really does care for the kids more than he lets on, and part of why the team loses in the end was because he chose to bench his best players in the final inning so the other kids have could get a chance to play. When he very harshly rejects Amanda's offer to help him patch things up with her mom, he's ''also'' left crying afterward, because [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he understands how badly he just screwed up]].
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* BittersweetEnding: The Bears wind up losing the championship game on the last play. However, Buttermaker is still proud of them for improving so much during the season, they earned some grudging respect from the Yankees, and the team is ready to come back and win it all next season.
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* BittersweetEnding: The Bears wind up losing the championship game on the last play. However, Buttermaker is still proud of them for improving so much during the season, they earned some grudging respect from the Yankees, and the team is ready to come back and win it all next season. Buttermaker also seems to have warmed up to his role as a father figure to Amanda, and the two are seen proudly holding hands in the team photo over the credits.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Coach Buttermaker is a grouchy, alcoholic slob, but he really does care for the kids more than he lets on, and part of why the team loses in the end was because he chose to bench his best players so the other kids have a chance to play. When he very harshly rejects Amanda's offer to help him patch things up with her mom, he's ''also'' left crying afterward, because [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he understands how badly he just screwed up]].
** Tanner may be a foul-mouthed, ill-tempered, racist, and sexist littlekid shit, but he'll be quick to defend his teammates. Especially when Lupus gets bullied by members of a rival team.
** Coach Buttermaker is a grouchy, alcoholic slob, but he really does care for the kids more than he lets on, and part of why the team loses in the end was because he chose to bench his best players so the other kids have a chance to play. When he very harshly rejects Amanda's offer to help him patch things up with her mom, he's ''also'' left crying afterward, because [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he understands how badly he just screwed up]].
** Tanner may be a foul-mouthed, ill-tempered, racist, and sexist little
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* MaliciousMisnaming: Buttermaker is variously referred to with derisive nicknames as "Butterworth", "Buttercrud", and, perhaps [[TheAlcoholic most accurately]], "Boilermaker".
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* MaliciousMisnaming: Buttermaker is variously referred to with such derisive nicknames as "Butterworth", "Buttercrud", and, perhaps [[TheAlcoholic perhaps most accurately]], "Boilermaker".
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Buttermaker is variously referred to as "Boilermaker", "Butterworth", "Buttercrud", etc.
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* YouGoGirl: Amanda.
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* Two Decades Behind: The other teams all wear polyester uniforms with an elastic waist band and pullover jerseys while the bears are wearing loosefitting flannel button downs with the belt. However this becomes more of a hilarious in hindsight as the new style was gone by the 90s and teams have again returned to a fashion much more similar to what the Bears were wearing.
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** It might not even count as Bittersweet as the Bears players are all defiant about their losing, knowing they did so for all the ''right'' reasons.
-->'''Tanner''': Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and [[PrecisionFStrike shove 'em straight up your ass!]]\\
'''Timmy''': And another thing, [[DefiantToTheEnd just wait till next year]]!
-->'''Tanner''': Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and [[PrecisionFStrike shove 'em straight up your ass!]]\\
'''Timmy''': And another thing, [[DefiantToTheEnd just wait till next year]]!
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* BittersweetEnding: See DownerEnding below.The Bears wind up losing the championship game on the last play. However, Buttermaker is still proud of them for improving so much during the season, they earned some grudging respect from the Yankees, and the team is ready to come back and win it all next season.
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* DownToTheLastPlay: This was perhaps the first underdog movie to have the protagonist team NOT win.
* DownerEnding: Subverted, big time and beautifully so, [[DefiantToTheEnd despite the Bears losing]].
* DownerEnding: Subverted, big time and beautifully so, [[DefiantToTheEnd despite the Bears losing]].
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* DownToTheLastPlay: This was perhaps the first underdog movie to have the protagonist team NOT '''not''' win.
* DownerEnding: Subverted,big time and beautifully so, [[DefiantToTheEnd despite the Bears losing]].
* DownerEnding: Subverted,
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Roy Turner might have gone too far by hitting his son however he was right to be mad at his son for intentionally trying to hit Engelberg in the head with a baseball which could have seriously hurt him had the ball actually struck him in the head.
** There is also the legal ramifications Roy could have faced.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Roy Turner might have gone too far by hitting his son however Joey; however, he was right to be mad at his son Joey for intentionally trying to hit Engelberg in the head with a baseball baseball, which could have seriously hurt him had the ball actually struck him in the head.
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* PetTheDog: Quinn Smith, who played [[TheWoobie Timmy Lupus]] in the first film, couldn't take part in the second. They were able to get him for a brief scene at the beginning where they show him getting visited by some of his teammates while recovering from a broken leg, with the insinuation that he was a huge part of their second season.
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* PetTheDog: Quinn Smith, who played [[TheWoobie Timmy Lupus]] in the first film, couldn't take part in the second.second film. They were able to get him for a brief scene at the beginning where they show him getting visited by some of his teammates while recovering from a broken leg, with the insinuation that he was a huge part of their second season.
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* SaveOurTeamSaveOurTeam: While this is the basic premise, the movie Averts all the usual trappings. The coach is a disinterested drunk, the players don't really get along with each other, they only finally start winning because of [[TheAce Amanda and Kelly]], and they lose the championship to the juggernaut Yankees.
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‘’’Amanda:’’’ Grab a bat, punk!
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfitsRagtagBunchOfMisfits: One of the poster childs of this trope.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This movie was made in TheSeventies, and boy, does it showcase that decade.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The studio originally wanted Creator/BurtLancaster to play Buttermaker. The screenwriter (Lancaster's son) vetoed that idea as he didn't want people to think he was playing off his father's fame.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The studio originally wanted Creator/BurtLancaster to play Buttermaker. The screenwriter (Lancaster's son) vetoed that idea as he didn't want people to think he was playing off his father's fame.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tanner may be a foul-mouthed, racist, and sexist little kid but he'll be quick to defend his teammates. Especially when Lupus gets bullied by members of a rival Little League team.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tanner may be a foul-mouthed, racist, and sexist little kid but he'll be quick to defend his teammates. Especially when Lupus gets bullied by members of a rival Little League team.
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* JerkAssHasAPoint: Roy Turner might have gone too far by hitting his son however he was right to be mad at his son for intentionally trying to hit Engelberg in the head with a baseball which could have seriously hurt him had the ball actually struck him in the head.
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* JerkAssHasAPoint: JerkassHasAPoint: Roy Turner might have gone too far by hitting his son however he was right to be mad at his son for intentionally trying to hit Engelberg in the head with a baseball which could have seriously hurt him had the ball actually struck him in the head.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tanner may be a foul mouth, racist, and even sexist little kid but he'll be quick to defend his teammates. Especially when Lupus gets bullied by rival members of the little league team.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tanner may be a foul mouth, foul-mouthed, racist, and even sexist little kid but he'll be quick to defend his teammates. Especially when Lupus gets bullied by rival members of the little league a rival Little League team.
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->''"First base, second base, third base, home!\\
Around them bases we shall roam!"''
Around them bases we shall roam!"''
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Creator/WalterMatthau stars as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of the Bears, a cellar-dwelling Little League baseball team with poor playing skills and little hope of ever winning. To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, and Kelly Leak (Creator/JackieEarleHaley), the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
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Creator/WalterMatthau stars as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of the Bears, a cellar-dwelling Little League baseball team with poor playing skills and little hope of ever winning. To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, former girlfriends, and Kelly Leak (Creator/JackieEarleHaley), the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
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Creator/WalterMatthau stars as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of the Bears, a cellar-dwelling Little League baseball team with poor playing skills and little hope of ever winning.
To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, and Kelly Leak (Creator/JackieEarleHaley), the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, and Kelly Leak (Creator/JackieEarleHaley), the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
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Creator/WalterMatthau stars as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of the Bears, a cellar-dwelling Little League baseball team with poor playing skills and little hope of ever winning.
winning. To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, and Kelly Leak (Creator/JackieEarleHaley), the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
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The film was followed by two sequels, ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training'' (1977) and ''The Bad News Bears Go to Japan'' (1978), and a short-lived 1979-80 CBS [[RecycledTheSeries television series]], none of which were able to duplicate the success of the original. A remake of the original film, directed by Creator/RichardLinklater and starring Creator/BillyBobThornton as Buttermaker, was released in 2005.
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The film was followed by two sequels, ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training'' (1977) and ''The Bad News Bears Go to Japan'' (1978), and a short-lived 1979-80 CBS [[RecycledTheSeries television series]], none of which were able to duplicate the success of the original. A remake of the original film, Remade in 2005 as ''Bad News Bears'', directed by Creator/RichardLinklater and starring Creator/BillyBobThornton as Buttermaker, was released in 2005.
Buttermaker.
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The film was followed by two sequels, ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training'' (1977) and ''The Bad News Bears Go to Japan'' (1978), and a short-lived 1979-80 CBS [[RecycledTheSeries television series]], none of which were able to duplicate the success of the original. A remake was made in 2005, starring Creator/BillyBobThornton as Buttermaker.
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The film was followed by two sequels, ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training'' (1977) and ''The Bad News Bears Go to Japan'' (1978), and a short-lived 1979-80 CBS [[RecycledTheSeries television series]], none of which were able to duplicate the success of the original. A remake was made in 2005, of the original film, directed by Creator/RichardLinklater and starring Creator/BillyBobThornton as Buttermaker.
Buttermaker, was released in 2005.
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''The Bad News Bears'' is a 1976 comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Creator/WalterMatthau as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of the Bears, a cellar-dwelling Little League baseball team with poor playing skills and little hope of ever winning.
To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, and Kelly Leak (Jackie Earle Haley), the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, and Kelly Leak (Jackie Earle Haley), the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
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''The Bad News Bears'' is a 1976 comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars
Creator/WalterMatthau stars as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of the Bears, a cellar-dwelling Little League baseball team with poor playing skills and little hope of ever winning.
To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, and Kelly Leak(Jackie Earle Haley), (Creator/JackieEarleHaley), the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
Creator/WalterMatthau stars as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of the Bears, a cellar-dwelling Little League baseball team with poor playing skills and little hope of ever winning.
To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, and Kelly Leak
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''The Bad News Bears'' is a 1976 film directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Creator/WalterMatthau as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of the Bears, a cellar-dwelling Little League baseball team with poor playing skills and little hope of ever winning.
To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Whurlitzer, a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, and Kelly Leak, the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
The film was followed by two sequels, ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training'' in 1977 and ''The Bad News Bears Go to Japan'' in 1978, and a short-lived 1979-80 CBS [[RecycledTheSeries television series]], none of which were able to duplicate the success of the original. A remake was made in 2005, starring Creator/BillyBobThornton as Buttermaker.
To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Whurlitzer, a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, and Kelly Leak, the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
The film was followed by two sequels, ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training'' in 1977 and ''The Bad News Bears Go to Japan'' in 1978, and a short-lived 1979-80 CBS [[RecycledTheSeries television series]], none of which were able to duplicate the success of the original. A remake was made in 2005, starring Creator/BillyBobThornton as Buttermaker.
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''The Bad News Bears'' is a 1976 comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Creator/WalterMatthau as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of the Bears, a cellar-dwelling Little League baseball team with poor playing skills and little hope of ever winning.
To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits AmandaWhurlitzer, Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends, and Kelly Leak, Leak (Jackie Earle Haley), the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
The film was followed by two sequels, ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training''in 1977 (1977) and ''The Bad News Bears Go to Japan'' in 1978, (1978), and a short-lived 1979-80 CBS [[RecycledTheSeries television series]], none of which were able to duplicate the success of the original. A remake was made in 2005, starring Creator/BillyBobThornton as Buttermaker.
To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda
The film was followed by two sequels, ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training''
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* MilesGlorious: MilesGloriosus: Carmen in the second film. He got better, though.
