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* BrickJoke: Before leaving the zoo to start his new job, Griffin threatens to come to Shane's mother's house and punch him in the face if he finds out that he has been abusing Bernie. Sure enough, before embarking on the final chase, he makes a stop at Shane's mother's house...[[spoiler: Subverted, as Griffin settles for kicking Shane into the wall of his bedroom instead of actually punching him.]]

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* BrickJoke: Before leaving the zoo to start his new job, Griffin threatens to come to Shane's mother's house and punch him in the face if he finds out that he has been abusing Bernie. Sure enough, before embarking on the final chase, he makes a stop at Shane's mother's house...[[spoiler: Subverted, as Griffin settles for kicking giving Shane into a swift kick in the wall of his bedroom torso instead of actually punching him.]]
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* BrickJoke: Before leaving the zoo to start his new job, Griffin threatens to come to Shane's mother's house and punch him in the face if he finds out that he has been abusing Bernie. Sure enough, before embarking on the final chase, he makes a stop at Shane's mother's house...

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* BrickJoke: Before leaving the zoo to start his new job, Griffin threatens to come to Shane's mother's house and punch him in the face if he finds out that he has been abusing Bernie. Sure enough, before embarking on the final chase, he makes a stop at Shane's mother's house...[[spoiler: Subverted, as Griffin settles for kicking Shane into the wall of his bedroom instead of actually punching him.]]
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Not to be confused with 2001's ''Film/TheZookeeper''.

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* ChromaKey: A few animals (such as the ostrich) were portrayed not by people wearing a costume (such as Bernie the gorilla) or trained animals (such as Donald the monkey and the bears Jerome and Bruce), but by on-set actors wearing blue costumes that could be edited over with the CGI models of the animals.
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* HilariousOuttakes: A portion of the credits shows bloopers for the movie.
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* DerailingLoveInterests: It seems that Griffin's old romantic partner turned out to be a shallow - who wanted him to be someone "successful" and not a zookeeper before being seen with him - and was VERY far from being a FriendToAllLivingThings (she had furniture and items made of all sorts of endangered animals materials, which is pretty much something Animal Lover Griffin wouldn't just stand for.) That's where LoveEpiphany kicks in and Griffin breaks it up and races to catch up with his true (not-so-platonic) close friend before she reaches the airport.
* DeusExMachina: After Griffin realizes he can't make catch up to Kate in time, an ostrich that hasn't been seen before rushes into the scene and offers to give Griffin a ride.

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* DerailingLoveInterests: It seems that Griffin's old romantic partner turned out to be a shallow choice of a girlfriend - who wanted him to be someone "successful" and not a zookeeper before being seen with him - and was VERY far from being a FriendToAllLivingThings (she had furniture and items made of all sorts of endangered animals materials, which is pretty much something Animal Lover Griffin wouldn't just stand for.) That's where LoveEpiphany kicks in and Griffin breaks it up and races to catch up with his true (not-so-platonic) close friend before she reaches the airport.
* DeusExMachina: After Griffin realizes he can't make catch up to Kate in time, an ostrich that hasn't been seen before rushes into the scene and offers to give Griffin a ride.ride ... [[SubvertedTrope only for him to be too heavy]] to ride the bird.



* JerkAss - Gale, and Shane.

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* JerkAss - Gale, the romantic rival competing with Griffin, and Shane.Shane, who is revealed to be abusive towards the animals.



* LovingAShadow: It took Griffin changing everything about himself and loosing everything he enjoys to get Stephanie's attention for him to finally realize that she isnt the right person for him.

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* LovingAShadow: It took Griffin changing everything about himself and loosing losing everything he enjoys to get Stephanie's attention for him to finally realize that she isnt isn't the right person for him.



%%* SidekickCreatureNuisance: The monkey.

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%%* * SidekickCreatureNuisance: The monkey.monkey often behaves in a mocking nature toward the other animals.



* TalkingAnimal: Pretty much all of them.

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* TalkingAnimal: Pretty much all of them.them talk in secret.
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* UnnecessaryTimePrecision: In a bid to prevent their beloved caregiver from leaving, the zoo animals talk to him. Griffin, very out of his deep, asks them when they gained the ability to understand and communicate with humans. The monkey, a little bit of a trickster, adopts a pensive pose as if calculating, which is not necessary since they've always been able to do it.
-->'''Griffin:''' How long have you been able to talk??\\
'''Monkey:''' Let's see, today's Tuesday, so, ummm... always.
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** Griffin trying to learn the MightyRoar from the bears ends up sounding like a [[StarWars Wookiee.]]

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** Griffin trying to learn the MightyRoar from the bears ends up sounding like a [[StarWars [[Franchise/StarWars Wookiee.]]
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* PricklyPorcupine: Appears to be of the projectile-launching variety.
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* RightBehindMe: After Donald the monkey insults Joe the lion, Donald does a back flip and catches a quick glimpse of Joe. He then says this trope verbatim.

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* RightBehindMe: *RightBehindMe: After Donald the monkey insults Joe the lion, Donald does a back flip and catches a quick glimpse of Joe. He then says this trope verbatim.
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*RightBehindMe: After Donald the monkey insults Joe the lion, Donald does a back flip and catches a quick glimpse of Joe. He then says this trope verbatim.
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* VertigoEffect: When Griffin sees Stephanie for the first time in five years, the camera focuses on her using this trick.

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* VertigoEffect: When Griffin sees Stephanie for the first time in five years, the camera focuses on her using this camera trick.
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* UrineTrouble: {{Inverted|trope}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huACDdr9uGU A wolf gets peed on]].

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* UrineTrouble: {{Inverted|trope}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huACDdr9uGU A wolf gets peed on]].on]].
*VertigoEffect: When Griffin sees Stephanie for the first time in five years, the camera focuses on her using this trick.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Downplayed, but Barry the elephant is portrayed as an African Elephant on the promotional poster. In the film, he is an Asian Elephant.
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