History Film / TheFortyYearOldVirgin

* {{Adorkable}}: Andy; he's so lovably-dorky, if you look carefully, he considers ''Anime/DragonballGT'' cool enough to own a limited Super Saiyan 4 Son Goku Action figure in his collection!

* {{Corpsing}}: Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen and even Miki Mia just couldn't hold in their laughter during the chest waxing scene.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Harry Forbes of Catholic News Service, who criticized the film for "the false premise that there's something intrinsically wrong with an unmarried man being sexually inexperienced".

* AllThereInTheManual: Andy's last name, Stitzer is never mentioned in the film, but is in the trailers and other promotional materials.

* EnforcedMethodActing[[invoked]]: Steve Carell was really being waxed in that iconic scene, with quite real screams of agony to boot.

* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Though it's more like an afterthought. It ''is'' the capstone of Andy's character development, though. Many other the trope should apply to Andy anyway.

%%* AllGirlsWantBadBoys

%%* JustKeepDriving

** It's one of the few correlations between sex and worthiness at first, but it's later clear that his childish hobbies are a healthy outlet for the spare time he has that others would dedicate to being horndogs, and a sign of commitment and passion.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: [[HollywoodNerd Andy]] is melancholic, [[NiceGuy David]] is phlegmatic, [[KavorkaMan Cal]] is sanguine, and [[JerkWithAHeartofGold Jay]] is choleric.

%%* HiddenBadass: Andy.

* AnAesop: A pretty obvious one – there's ultimately nothing wrong with virginity, no matter how old you are. You shouldn't ever be shamed into (or not into having) sex just because certain social conventions expect it. Truly mature people understand that it doesn't make you any more or any less of an "adult" or even ''human'' whether or not you actively refrain from sex. A person has never been solely defined by who or how many people they've slept with. Ever.

* AllThereInTheManual: Andy's last name, Stitzer is never mentioned in the film, but is in the trailers and other promotional materials

-->"[[Musical/{{Hair}} This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, the age of Aquariuuuuuus...]]"

* EnforcedMethodActing: Steve Carell was really being waxed in that iconic scene, with quite real screams of agony to boot.

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%%* TheBlindLeadingTheBlind

%%* CringeComedy

%%* DrunkDriver

* AManIsAlwaysEager: Inverted. Andy passes up a handful of potential partners instead of taking up with the first one who offers. He doesn't even take the first opportunity to have sex with his girlfriend. It's because he places love and romance over sex and refuses to have the latter without the former first.

%%* NatureAbhorsAVirgin

%%* PainfulBodyWaxing: EnforcedMethodActing, too.

%%* SexComedy

%%* SpeedDating

%%* SuddenMusicalEnding

%%* TheirFirstTime

%%* YouNeedToGetLaid: Duh.

* {{Angrish}}: During the chest waxing scene, Andy quickly devolves from random screaming to swearing at everyone to GratuitousSpanish to "[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Kelly Clarkson!!!]]"

* CanNotSpitItOut: Andy is afraid to tell Trish that he's a virgin. It takes him until near the end of the film that he finally confesses.

%%* CanNotSpitItOut

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Harry Forbes of Catholic News Service, who criticised the film for "the false premise that there's something intrinsically wrong with an unmarried man being sexually inexperienced".
%%* ComingOfAgeStory

* HoldingHands: "Hold my hand, man." "What?" "Just-just HOLD MY HAND!!"

** ...which inevitably ends up as one of the cruelest {{Brick Joke}}s ''ever''.

-->-- '''Andy Stitzer''' (Creator/SteveCarell)

''The 40-Year-Old Virgin'' is a 2005 [[ComedyTropes comedy]] film starring Creator/SteveCarell, and the first film to put director Creator/JuddApatow on the map (after television stints with ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' and ''Series/{{Undeclared}}''). It is the story of Andy Stitzer, a 40-year-old man who, due to a series of unfortunate mishaps all throughout his youth, never experienced sexual intercourse during his formative years and has lost interest in his adulthood. One night, while playing cards with his friends from the electronics store where they all work, Andy inadvertently reveals that he's a virgin; this initially results in the expected chummy jeers, but shortly thereafter his friends, Cal, Jay, and David, decide to help him lose his virginity. Eventually, Andy meets a nice woman named Trish with whom he shares a genuine emotional connection, and though he's nervous about telling her the truth about his virginity and the subject of sex in general, he must learn to overcome his insecurities to discover both sex and romance.

->''"Is it true that if you don’t use it, you lose it?"''
-->--'''Andy Stitzer''' (Creator/SteveCarell)

Since we all know that [[AManIsNotAVirgin no true man is a virgin]] and that {{loners are freaks}}, this movie surprised many by portraying the title character, a virginal and nerdy (he collects action figures and comics) introvert, not as some kind of loser or freak but as a likeable fellow who's simply chosen not to have sex after a short series of rejections in his youth. Since it dresses in the skin of a SexComedy, it's also refreshing to see the subject of sex summed up as "a nice thing to have, but meaningless without love," as seen in Andy's well-meaning but dim-witted friends, who all lead active sex lives but are probably less happy than Andy because their romantic relationships are unfulfilling.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: This movie [[{{Deconstruction}} takes this trope apart at the seams]] [[DeconReconSwitch and sews it back up in a cultural-commentary sort of way]].

'''''The 40-Year-Old Virgin''''' is a 2005 [[ComedyTropes comedy]] film starring Creator/SteveCarell, and the first film to put director Creator/JuddApatow on the map (after television stints with ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' and ''Series/{{Undeclared}}''). It is the story of Andy Stitzer, a 40-year-old man who, due to a series of unfortunate mishaps all throughout his youth, never experienced sexual intercourse during his formative years and has lost interest in his adulthood. One night, while playing cards with his friends from the electronics store where they all work, Andy inadvertently reveals that he's a virgin; this initially results in the expected chummy jeers, but shortly thereafter his friends, Cal, Jay, and David, decide to help him lose his virginity. Eventually, Andy meets a nice woman named Trish with whom he shares a genuine emotional connection, and though he's nervous about telling her the truth about his virginity and the subject of sex in general, he must learn to overcome his insecurities to discover both sex and romance.

-->''"Is it true that if you don’t use it, you lose it?"''
-->--'''Andy Stitzer'''(Creator/SteveCarell)

* PacManFever: Utterly savage example: Cal and David play a UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 game with UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} controllers (one of which is upside-down). At least [[VideoGame/MortalKombat what they're playing]] is portrayed correctly, if anything. Until the fatality, which the movie seems to think is interactive. (It isn't.) While the N64 controller is inexcusable, the "upside-down" controller is actually the joystick attached to the game chair Andy has. Made extra-confusing by the fact that ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'' '''did''' appear on the N64, but they chose to use footage from one of the PS2 ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' games instead.