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* CreepyMonotone: The Critic does both this and GutturalGrowler as part of his imitating Anton Chigurh in the opening.

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* CreepyMonotone: The Critic does both this and GutturalGrowler as part of his imitating Anton Chigurh in the opening.
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* DoubleStandard: Commenting on the Institute for Sexually Molested Children scene, the Critic complains that somehow Tom Green is allowed to get away with questionable directing choices that would put any other director in hot water, noting how Creator/JamesGunn had been fired two months ago from directing ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Vol. 3'' (though he was eventually reinstated in March 2019) after some of his offensive tweets in the past have resurfaced, including a reference to the aforementioned scene.

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* DoubleStandard: Commenting on the Institute for Sexually Molested Children scene, the Critic complains that somehow Tom Green is allowed to get away with questionable directing choices that would put any other director in hot water, noting how Creator/JamesGunn had been fired two months ago from directing ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy ''Franchise/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Vol. 3'' (though he was eventually reinstated in March 2019) after some of his offensive tweets in the past have resurfaced, including a reference to the aforementioned scene.
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** Jim's long scream over Gord noisily building his wooden half-pipe late at night has the Critic thinking it is the first lines to the opening song of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''.

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** Jim's long scream over Gord noisily building his wooden half-pipe late at night has the Critic thinking it is the first lines to the opening song of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''.''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: When the scene where Gord reveals he keeps his umbilcord taped to himself is shown, the Critic has nothing to say except the following...

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* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: When the scene where Gord reveals he keeps his umbilcord umbilical cord taped to himself is shown, the Critic has nothing to say except the following...

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* CreepyMonotone: The Critic does both this and GutturalGrowler as part of his imitating Anton Chigurh in the opening.



* GutturalGrowler[=/=]CreepyMonotone: The Critic does both as part of his imitating Anton Chigurh in the opening.

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* GutturalGrowler[=/=]CreepyMonotone: FingerGun: The Critic does both as part of somehow kills Rob with one on his imitating Anton Chigurh in way to the opening.video rental store.


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* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: When the scene where Gord reveals he keeps his umbilcord taped to himself is shown, the Critic has nothing to say except the following...
-->'''Critic:''' I can't think of any possible way to make that funny, so I'm just gonna continue with [[FramingDevice the story I started before]].


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** When Gord's father smacks his naked ass, a CensorBox pops up saying, "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail A Moose Once Bit My Sister]]" (this follows the prior box admitting ideas on what to write are running thin).

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: The Critic's InUniverse opinion on some of the humor of the film, especially the part where Freddy was put into Institute for Sexually Molested Children and is forced with other children to watch a filming of ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''.
* DopeSlap: At the end of the review, Tamara and Malcolm give him one each for killing them off.

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: The Critic's InUniverse opinion on some of the humor of the film, especially the part an infamous scene where Freddy was put into the Institute for Sexually Molested Children and is forced with other children to watch a filming of ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''.
* DopeSlap: At the end of the review, Tamara and Malcolm give him the Critic one each for killing "killing" them off.off.
* DoubleStandard: Commenting on the Institute for Sexually Molested Children scene, the Critic complains that somehow Tom Green is allowed to get away with questionable directing choices that would put any other director in hot water, noting how Creator/JamesGunn had been fired two months ago from directing ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Vol. 3'' (though he was eventually reinstated in March 2019) after some of his offensive tweets in the past have resurfaced, including a reference to the aforementioned scene.



* MaliciousMisnaming: The Critic introduces Creator/TomGreen (Gordon "Gord" Brody) in the film's opening credits as "Canada's Punishment".

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* MaliciousMisnaming: The Critic introduces Creator/TomGreen Tom Green (Gordon "Gord" Brody) in the film's opening credits as "Canada's Punishment".Punishment".
* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: The only character the Critic really liked in the movie is Marisa Coughlan as Betty Menger, a weelchair-bound nurse and Gord's girlfriend.



** Noting on how out-of-element Harland Williams was as StraightMan Darren, the Critic shows clips of his zany performances as a guest (imitating a leprechaun) in ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'', as a British explorer in ''Series/ThankGodYoureHere'', and as Fred Randall [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming like a little girl]] in ''[[Film/DisneysRocketMan RocketMan (1997)]]''.

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** Noting on how out-of-element Harland Williams was as StraightMan Darren, the Critic shows clips of his zany performances as a guest (imitating a leprechaun) in ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'', as a British explorer in Creator/{{NBC}}'s short-lived version of Australian improvised comedy show ''Series/ThankGodYoureHere'', and as Fred Randall [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming like a little girl]] in ''[[Film/DisneysRocketMan RocketMan (1997)]]''.


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* SkewedPriorities: The Critic claims that he was so dumbfounded at the film's cavalier attitude towards sexual abuse to minors (embodied at the infamous Institute for Sexually Molested Children scene) that he ended up largely overlooking the ''constant'' physical harm being dealt to Andy Malloy, a young neighbor of Gord.
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** Jim's long scream over Gord noisily building his wooden half-pipe late at night has the Critic thinking it is the first lines to the opening song of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''.
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** Noting on how out-of-element Harland Williams was as StraightMan Darren, the Critic shows clips of his zany performances as a guest (imitating a leprechaun) in ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'', as a British explorer in ''Series/ThankGodYoureHere'', and as Fred Randall [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming like a little girl]] ''[[Film/DisneysRocketMan RocketMan (1997)]]''.

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** Noting on how out-of-element Harland Williams was as StraightMan Darren, the Critic shows clips of his zany performances as a guest (imitating a leprechaun) in ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'', as a British explorer in ''Series/ThankGodYoureHere'', and as Fred Randall [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming like a little girl]] in ''[[Film/DisneysRocketMan RocketMan (1997)]]''.

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* CreatorKiller: InUniverse, the Critic thinks this movie basically just put a huge hole in the career of Creator/RipTorn and Creator/JulieHagerty, who plays Gord's parents Jim and Julie.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: The Critic's InUniverse opinion on some of the humor of the film, especially the part where children at the Institute for Sexually Molested Children are shown a filming of the infamous hook killing scene from ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''.

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* CreatorKiller: InUniverse, the Critic thinks this movie basically just put a huge hole in the career of Creator/RipTorn and Creator/JulieHagerty, Julie Hagerty, who plays Gord's Gord and Freddy's parents Jim and Julie.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: The Critic's InUniverse opinion on some of the humor of the film, especially the part where children at the Freddy was put into Institute for Sexually Molested Children are shown and is forced with other children to watch a filming of the infamous hook killing scene from ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''.



* MaliciousMisnaming: The Critic introduces Creator/TomGreen (Gord) in the film's opening credits as "Canada's Punishment".

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* MaliciousMisnaming: The Critic introduces Creator/TomGreen (Gord) (Gordon "Gord" Brody) in the film's opening credits as "Canada's Punishment".



* PlayingAgainstType: InUniverse, the Critic felt Harland Williams, who usually plays wiseguy characters, is being forced to play the StraightMan to Gord.

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* PlayingAgainstType: InUniverse, the Critic felt Harland Williams, who usually plays wiseguy characters, is being forced to play the Darren's StraightMan to Gord.Gord's Wiseguy.



* ShoutOut: The FramingDevice of the review is a homage to ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', with the Critic imitating Anton Chigurh.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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The FramingDevice of the review is a homage to ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', with the Critic imitating Anton Chigurh.Chigurh.
** Noting on how out-of-element Harland Williams was as StraightMan Darren, the Critic shows clips of his zany performances as a guest (imitating a leprechaun) in ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'', as a British explorer in ''Series/ThankGodYoureHere'', and as Fred Randall [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming like a little girl]] ''[[Film/DisneysRocketMan RocketMan (1997)]]''.

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* CreatorKiller: InUniverse, the Critic thinks this movie basically just put a huge hole in the career of Creator/RipTorn.

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* CreatorKiller: InUniverse, the Critic thinks this movie basically just put a huge hole in the career of Creator/RipTorn.Creator/RipTorn and Creator/JulieHagerty, who plays Gord's parents Jim and Julie.



* PlayingAgainstType: InUniverse, the Critic felt Harland Williams, who usually plays wiseguy characters, is being forced to play the StraightMan to Gord.



* WallOfText: The last CensorBox in the film, covering Gord forcing an elephant to ejaculate all over Jim, contains an excerpt from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}, because the Critic admits he's running out of ideas as to what to put in the box:

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** The Critic lists Tom Green's short-lived marriage to Creator/DrewBarrymore (who also plays the receptionist at Radioactive Studios) as among the most shocking things he has done (besides sucking on a cow's tit and dry-humping a dead moose). He also jokes that the childish manner with which the receptionist rebuffed Gord's advances is also similar to how Barrymore and Green divorced.
** Seeing that Julie's new boyfriend (after divorcing Jim) is Shaquille O'Neal, the Critic snarks that the latter somehow found a worse film to star in than ''Film/{{Kazaam}}''.
* WallOfText: The last CensorBox in the film, covering Gord forcing an elephant to ejaculate all over Jim, contains an excerpt from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}, ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', because the Critic admits he's running out of ideas as to what to put in the box:



* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: InUniverse, the Critic felt Harland Williams, who usually plays wiseguy characters, is being forced to play the StraightMan to Gord.
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* CreatorKiller: InUniverse, the Critic thinks this movie basically just put a huge hole in the career of Rip Torn (Jim), of ''Series/TheLarrySandersShow'' fame.

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* CreatorKiller: InUniverse, the Critic thinks this movie basically just put a huge hole in the career of Rip Torn (Jim), of ''Series/TheLarrySandersShow'' fame.Creator/RipTorn.



* MaliciousMisnaming: The Critic introduces Tom Green (Gord) in the film's opening credits as "Canada's Punishment".

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* MaliciousMisnaming: The Critic introduces Tom Green Creator/TomGreen (Gord) in the film's opening credits as "Canada's Punishment".



* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The Critic thinks the opening scene showing Gord skateboarding reinforces the rumor that his actor Tom Green is actually good at something, which he calls "fake news", a term popularized in the late 2010s.

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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The Critic thinks the opening scene showing Gord skateboarding reinforces the rumor that his actor Tom Green Creator/TomGreen is actually good at something, which he calls "fake news", a term popularized in the late 2010s.



** Early on when Gord is childishly playing pretend with his drawings, Critic makes a snipe that its what Creator/JohnKricfalusi does in his off time.

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** Early on when Gord is childishly playing pretend with his drawings, Critic makes a snipe that its it's what Creator/JohnKricfalusi does in his off time.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: The Critic's InUniverse opinion on some of the humor of the film, especially the part where children at the Institute for Sexually Molested Children are shown a filming of the infamous molestation scene from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: The Critic's InUniverse opinion on some of the humor of the film, especially the part where children at the Institute for Sexually Molested Children are shown a filming of the infamous molestation hook killing scene from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: The Critic's InUniverse opinion on some of the humor of the film, especially the part where children at the Institue for Sexually Molested Children are shown a filming of the infamous molestation scene from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: The Critic's InUniverse opinion on some of the humor of the film, especially the part where children at the Institue Institute for Sexually Molested Children are shown a filming of the infamous molestation scene from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.
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* WallOfText: The last CensorBox in the film, covering Gord forcing an elephant to ejaculate all over Jim, contains an excerpt from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}, because the Critic admits he's running out of ideas as to what to put in the box:
-->"How all occasions do inform against me. And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and godlike reason to fust in us unused. Now, whether it be bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on the event, a thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward, I do not know why yet I live to say 'This ting's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means to do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me; witness this army of such mass and charge led by a delicate and tender prince, whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd makes mouths at the invisible event, exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune, death and danger dare, even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great is now to stir without great argument, but greatly to find quarrel in a straw when honour's at the stake. How stand I then, that have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, excitements of my reason and my blood, and let all sleep? While, to my shame, I see the imminent death of twenty thousand men, that, for a fantasy and trick of fame, go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, which is not tomb enough and continent to hide the slain? O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!\\
Yeah, that's right, I got so tired of using these black squares to block out stupid shit that I decided to use one of them to give you some Shakespeare. I covered a giant animal schlong with Shakespeare! What the hell is my life!?! What the HELL is my life!?!?!?"

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* TakeThat: Seeing that Gord is applying for Radioactive Animation Studio, the Critic thinks in real life its actual name is Creator/SonyPicturesStudios, showing some of its most notorious works such as ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'', ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'' and ''Film/TheSmurfs''.

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** Early on when Gord is childishly playing pretend with his drawings, Critic makes a snipe that its what Creator/JohnKricfalusi does in his off time.
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Seeing that Gord is applying for Radioactive Animation Studio, the Critic thinks in real life its actual name is Creator/SonyPicturesStudios, showing some of its most notorious works such as ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'', ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'' and ''Film/TheSmurfs''.
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* DopeSlap: At the end of the review, Tamara and Malcolm give him one each for killing them off.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Critic calls out Gord claiming to aspire to be a good animator like Charles Schultz (of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' fame), pointing out that the latter is a ''cartoonist''.


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* MaliciousMisnaming: The Critic introduces Tom Green (Gord) in the film's opening credits as "Canada's Punishment".


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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The Critic thinks the opening scene showing Gord skateboarding reinforces the rumor that his actor Tom Green is actually good at something, which he calls "fake news", a term popularized in the late 2010s.


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* TakeThat: Seeing that Gord is applying for Radioactive Animation Studio, the Critic thinks in real life its actual name is Creator/SonyPicturesStudios, showing some of its most notorious works such as ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'', ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'' and ''Film/TheSmurfs''.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: The Critic's InUniverse opinion on some of the humor of the film, especially the part where children at the Institue for Sexually Molested Children are shown a filming of the infamous molestation scene from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.

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* CreatorKiller: NC states this is the movie that basically just put a huge hole in Rip Torn's career.
* GutturalGrowler / CreepyMonotone: The Critic does both as part of his imitating Anton Chigurh in the opening.

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* CreatorKiller: NC states InUniverse, the Critic thinks this is the movie that basically just put a huge hole in the career of Rip Torn's career.
Torn (Jim), of ''Series/TheLarrySandersShow'' fame.
* GutturalGrowler / CreepyMonotone: GutturalGrowler[=/=]CreepyMonotone: The Critic does both as part of his imitating Anton Chigurh in the opening.



* ShoutOut: The opening parodies ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', with the Critic imitating Anton Chigurh.
* StylisticSuck: The critic is frustrated that he can't properly berate the movie as being the worst thing he has ever seen, because that is exactly what the movie was trying to be.
* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: NC feels like it's this trope with Harland Williams, someone who's usually the Wise Guy being made to play the Straight Man to Gord.

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* RunningGag: {{Censor Box}}es abound in scenes too offensive even for such a show which rarely shies away from offensive content as ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''.
* ShoutOut: The opening parodies FramingDevice of the review is a homage to ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', with the Critic imitating Anton Chigurh.
* StylisticSuck: The critic Critic is frustrated that he can't properly berate the movie as being the worst thing he has ever seen, because that is exactly what the movie was trying to be.
* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: NC feels like it's this trope with InUniverse, the Critic felt Harland Williams, someone who's who usually the Wise Guy plays wiseguy characters, is being made forced to play the Straight Man StraightMan to Gord.
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* BileFascination: {{Invoked|Trope}} when it comes to the part where Freddy is put in the Institute for Sexually Molested Children.
-->"I wasn't here for a second, was I? That scene actually took me someplace else -- a place not of this realm. It was not a good place; in fact, it was a very, very ''bad'' place. One of the worst places I've ever been. But, it was so bad... I almost wanna go back to it. I wanna ''study'' it. I want to understand how, on every level of unpleasantness, this scene went above and beyond what I thought possible in a film. [...] I have never witnessed a scene like that in cinema, and only this story and this tone could build up to something so heinous. There is no place you can look, no area you can escape to, nothing else you can think about except every possible ugliness crammed into this one moment."
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* CreatorKiller: NC states this is the movie that basically just put a huge hole in Rip Torn's career.
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: NC feels like it's this trope with Harland Williams, someone who's usually the Wise Guy being made to play the Straight Man to Gord.
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* StylisticSuck: The critic is frustrated that he can't properly berate the movie as being the worst thing he has ever seen, because that is exactly what the movie was trying to be.
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It's a new kind of bad, one never thought possible. Has this film elevated awful to a new art form? What has been unleashed?

Release date: September 4, 2018

Review of: ''Film/FreddyGotFingered''

!!This review contains examples of:
* GutturalGrowler / CreepyMonotone: The Critic does both as part of his imitating Anton Chigurh in the opening.
* OverlyLongGag: The Critic describes the film's unique badness as follows...
-->"A 'so bad, it's bad; and that bad is so bad, it's bad; and that bad is so bad, it's bad; and that bad is so bad, it's good; and that good is so bad, it's bad'."
* ShoutOut: The opening parodies ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', with the Critic imitating Anton Chigurh.
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[[TheStinger "Listen to my hooves! Nyeh-ya! Listen to my hooves! (laughs)"]]

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