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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7sN2g-9RGk HOGARTH SAID FUCK]] [[explanation:There are fans of The Iron Giant that know Stifler's brother as Hogarth Hughes, so they can't tell the difference.]]

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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7sN2g-9RGk HOGARTH SAID FUCK]] [[explanation:There [[labelnote:Explanation]]There are fans of The Iron Giant WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant that know Stifler's brother as Hogarth Hughes, so they can't tell the difference.]]difference. [[/labelnote]]
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7sN2g-9RGk HOGARTH SAID FUCK]] [[explanation:There are fans of The Iron Giant that know Stifler's brother as Hogarth Hughes, so they can't tell the difference.]]

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* AngstWhatAngst: Nadia was subjected to voyeurism without her knowledge and when her sponsors found out, it's implied they blamed her for it, since she was sent back home the very next day. The movie ends with Nadia and Jim staying pen-pals and in the second movie Nadia is even more attracted to Jim.



** Relating to the above, the second film's fanservice moment wasn't a premeditated action that all the guys agreed was a good idea, but a spur of the moment incident that everyone but Stifler was reluctant to take part in. Having the incident broadcast over the radio instead of the internet also means that the two women could maintain a degree of anonymity. ''Wedding'' and ''Reunion'' take this even further by giving the female characters autonomy during their fanservice moments so they're not unintentionally victimised.



** Sherman really did act like a jerk to the guys when he made it appear he slept with a girl before they did, but you have to feel sympathy for him in the sequel when he's still a virgin and discovers his Sherminator act doesn't work. [[spoiler:It's fixed at the end of the movie when he hooks up with Nadia.]]

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** Sherman really did act like a jerk to the guys when he made it appear he slept with a girl before they did, but you have to feel sympathy for him in the sequel when he's still a virgin and discovers his Sherminator act doesn't work. [[spoiler:It's fixed at the end of the movie when he hooks up with Nadia.]]]] By the time of the reunion, his life has once again hid the skids as he's divorced, AloneAmongTheCouples and didn't get custody of his son. By this point even Stifler feels sorry for him.



** There's also Stifler taking a dump in a cooler.



* RonTheDeathEater: Jeanine Stiffler is often misconstrued as some sort of sexual predator in videos and articles talking about the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale society has. In reality, their relationship is wholly consensual, and the main reason people seem to think this is because she is [[MrsRobinson a lot older than him]], so people tend to assume she took advantage of him.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The DirectToVideo sequels.

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Jeanine Stiffler is often misconstrued as some sort of sexual predator in videos and articles talking about the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale society has. In reality, their relationship is wholly consensual, and the main reason people seem to think this is because she is [[MrsRobinson a lot older than him]], so people tend to assume she took advantage of him.him.
** Vicki in the first movie makes it clear she won't sleep with Kevin until he says he loves her. The very next morning, she breaks up with him. While her reasons for doing so were made clear in the moment, to some it can seem like she's taking Kevin for granted.

* {{Sequelitis}}: The DirectToVideo sequels. News of a fifth installment that features an all-female cast elicited a lot of groans from people sick of studios remaking movies with the protagonists' genders being the only noticeable difference.
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* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Oddly enough, Stifler. He's TheFriendNobodyLikes, barely tolerated by Jim and the gang, and in ''Band Camp'' it's revealed he was hated by pretty much everyone in high school because of his {{Jerkass}} attitude. But it goes without saying that he's loved by fans, being one of the main reasons why the franchise was popular.

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* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Oddly enough, Stifler. He's TheFriendNobodyLikes, barely tolerated by Jim and the gang, and in ''Band Camp'' it's revealed he was hated by pretty much everyone in high school because of his {{Jerkass}} attitude. But it goes without saying that he's loved by fans, being one of the main reasons why the franchise was popular.
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* RonTheDeathEater: Jeanine Stiffler is often misconstrued as some sort of sexual predator in videos and articles talking about the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale society has. In reality, their relationship is wholly consensual, and the main reason people seem to think this is because she is [[MrsRobinson a lot older than him]], so people tend to assume she took advantage of him.
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** While Reunion does retcon a few plot points, most notably from Band Camp, your mileage may vary if the rest of it is canon or not, such as Jim’s Dad being the original writer of “The Bible”
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: In the late 90s and early 2000's, many teens and children, '''some of whom were elementary-school age''', [[https://nypost.com/2001/08/10/sleazy-as-pie-in-its-own-vulgar-way-this-sequel-is-a-side-splitter/ went with their parents or brought a ticket to another movie to sneak in to see it]], mistaken that this was just a silly high school teen comedy, when the franchise itself revolves around scenes of a sexual nature.
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* ValuesDissonance: As noted above, the HomePornMovie scene is one that makes Jim and Stifler look terrible in hindsight, especially with the growing controversy surrounding 'revenge porn'. Nowadays, both of them probably would've faced legal reprimand and possibly even jail time. Creator/ShannonElizabeth made note of this in [[https://pagesix.com/2019/07/09/shannon-elizabeth-reflects-on-life-changing-american-pie-role-20-years-later/ an interview]] twenty years later.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Heather gets a moment of this in the first movie where she gets mad at Oz for making fun of her with his lacrosse buddies...only, he ''wasn't''. Stifler and the others were, Oz just stood there looking mildly uncomfortable, which makes Heather look like kind of a drama queen. Sure, it sucks to have idiots making gross comments about you, but it seems unfair of her to go off on Oz when he didn't do anything.

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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The scene where Nadia was filmed undressing and broadcast over the internet was naturally going to face some backlash and the passage of time hasn't made it any more endearing. The sequels addressed this by showing that the incident had ultimately backfired on Jim [[NeverLiveItDown for years to come]]. There's even a scene where Stifler goes through the motions of consent [[EveryoneHasStandards after getting a girl drunk]].

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The scene where Nadia was filmed undressing and broadcast over the internet was naturally going to face some backlash and the passage of time hasn't made it any more endearing. The sequels addressed this by showing that the incident had ultimately backfired on Jim [[NeverLiveItDown for years to come]]. There's even a scene where Stifler goes through the motions of consent [[EveryoneHasStandards after getting a girl drunk]].drunk]].
** Oz didn't have much of a character arc in the sequel and didn't even appear for the third. In ''Reunion'' he's given plenty of focus and development.
** Likewise, Kevin's obsession with Vicky left him with no characterisation when the third movie came out, but the fourth showed that he did eventually marry someone else and his meeting up with Vicky doesn't trigger any lingering feelings in him.


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* NauseaFuel: In ''Reunion'' Jim slams his laptop shut and catches his penis, which immediately starts bleeding. Later on he tries to preserve his modesty with the lid of a crock-pot...that's made of glass.

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** Everybody really ''does'' remember the stripper(s) when it comes to ''American Wedding''.

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** Everybody really ''does'' remember the stripper(s) strippers when it comes to ''American Wedding''.



** Nadia as well.



* JerkassWoobie: Stifler in ''Reunion'' when the guys give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech by telling him he's trapped in the past because things will never be the way they were in high school, and that they didn't bother to catch up with him about the reunion because they knew Stifler would find a way to ruin it. Bonus points because Stifler was aware they were intentionally avoiding him the entire time, but acted like his normal self not to show it.
** Sherman really did act like a jerk to the guys when he made it appear he slept with a girl before they did, but you have to feel sympathy for him in the sequel when he's still a virgin and discovers his Sherminator act doesn't work. [[spoiler:It's fixed at the end of the movie when he hooks up with Nadia.]]



** [[Series/MadMen January Jones]] as Michelle's sister in the third film.



** Sherman really did act like a jerk to the guys when he made it appear he slept with a girl before they did, but you have to feel sympathy for him in the sequel when he's still a virgin and discovers his Sherminator act doesn't work. [[spoiler:It's fixed at the end of the movie when he hooks up with Nadia.]]
** JerkassWoobie: Stifler in ''Reunion'' when the guys give him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech by telling him he's trapped in the past because things will never be the way they were in high school, and that they didn't bother to catch up with him about the reunion because they knew Stifler would find a way to ruin it. Bonus points because Stifler was aware they were intentionally avoiding him the entire time, but acted like his normal self not to show it.
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** Creator/JohnCho, now best known for the ''Film/{{Harold and Kumar|GoToWhiteCastle}}'' films and the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[Film/StarTrek reboot films]], played one of the MILF guys.

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** Creator/JohnCho, now best known for the ''Film/{{Harold and Kumar|GoToWhiteCastle}}'' films and the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[Film/StarTrek [[Film/StarTrek2009 reboot films]], played one of the MILF guys.

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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The scene where Nadia was filmed undressing and broadcast over the internet was naturally going to face some backlash and the passage of time hasn't made it any more endearing. The sequels addressed this by showing that the incident had ultimately backfired on Jim [[NeverLiveItDown for years to come]]. There's even a scene where Stifler goes through the motions of consent [[EveryoneHasStandards after getting a girl drunk]].



* FetishRetardant: For some, Nadia's extremely fake-looking breasts.

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* FetishRetardant: For some, Nadia's extremely fake-looking breasts.FairForItsDay: The video of Nadia has made the first film come across as having an unenlightened view of sexual harassment as typical of most coming of age comedies like ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'' and ''Film/{{Porkys}}''. At the time, ''American Pie'' was considered a big step away from films which depicted girls as little more than prizes to be won, as Jim fails to get with Nadia, Kevin and Oz have to put in considerable effort to show their respective girlfriends that they genuinely care for them (with Kevin ultimately having to let go of Vicky anyway) and Finch's attempt to score through lying backfires spectacularly.



* FetishRetardant: For some, Nadia's extremely fake-looking breasts.



* HoYay: The MILF guys in ''Reunion''.



* SignatureScene:
** For the first film: Jim's cringe-worthy striptease.
** The sequel: Jim awkwardly playing the trombone in front of an entire audience.
** ''Wedding'': Stifler's dance-off with Bear.
** ''Reunion'': Stifler destroying some jerk's jet-skis.



* TastesLikeDiabetes: Stifler's over-the-top sugary sweet nice guy act in the third movie.

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* TastesLikeDiabetes: Stifler's over-the-top sugary sweet nice guy act in the third movie. It briefly comes back in the fourth.

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** One of the "MILF!" guys is Creator/JohnCho of later ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'' and ''Film/StarTrek'' fame.

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** One Creator/JohnCho, now best known for the ''Film/{{Harold and Kumar|GoToWhiteCastle}}'' films and the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[Film/StarTrek reboot films]], played one of the "MILF!" guys MILF guys.
** Creator/JanuaryJones, who played Michelle's hot sister Cadence in ''American Wedding'',
is Creator/JohnCho of later ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'' now more famous for playing [[Series/MadMen Betty Draper]] and ''Film/StarTrek'' fame.[[Film/XMenFirstClass Emma Frost]].
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* FanDisservice: For some, Nadia's extremely fake-looking breasts.

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* FanDisservice: FetishRetardant: For some, Nadia's extremely fake-looking breasts.
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* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Oddly enough, Stifler. He's TheFriendNobodyLikes, barely tolerated by Jim and the gang, and in ''Band Camp'' it's revealed he was hated by pretty much everyone in high school because of his {{Jerkass}} attitude. But it goes without saying that he's loved by fans, being the main reason why the franchise was popular.

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* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Oddly enough, Stifler. He's TheFriendNobodyLikes, barely tolerated by Jim and the gang, and in ''Band Camp'' it's revealed he was hated by pretty much everyone in high school because of his {{Jerkass}} attitude. But it goes without saying that he's loved by fans, being one of the main reason reasons why the franchise was popular.
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** [[BreakoutCharacter Stifler]] went from being a minor antagonist in the first movie to one of the protagonists in the third.

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** [[BreakoutCharacter Stifler]] went from being a minor antagonist in the first movie to one of the protagonists in main protagonist of the third.
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* FridgeLogic: Some of the scenes where the guys cheer at the naked Nadia on the webcam don't really make sense when you consider the limited resolution and framerate on the feed. It only makes more sense when you remember that back then, people had a lot more tolerance for dialup speeds. And a lot more imagination.
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** Jim's mother kissing him on the cheek when he's trying to watch porn and sporting an erection.
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** Stifler went from being a minor antagonist in the first movie to one of the protagonists in the third.

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* FanonDiscontinuity: The DirectToVideo sequels, even before the fourth theatrical film (released after the DTV sequels) [[CanonDiscontinuity officially erased them from continuity]].
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* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Oddly enough, Stifler. He's TheFriendNobodyLikes, barely tolerated by Jim and the gang, and in ''Band Camp'' it's revealed he was hated by pretty much everyone in high school because of his {{Jerkass}} attitude. But it goes without saying that he's loved by fans, being the main reason why the franchise was popular.
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** Jim's Dad, one of the definitive [[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Guys]] in cinema.

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** Jim's Dad, one of the definitive [[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Guys]] in cinema.Jim's Dad.]]
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** Stifler's Mom, to the point where the term "MILF" entered everyone's vocabulary, despite her having less than five minutes of screentime.

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** Stifler's Mom, to the point where the term "MILF" entered everyone's vocabulary, despite her having less than five minutes of screentime.screen time.
** Jill, the red-headed {{dominatrix}} from ''Naked Mile'', was popular enough that her actress returned in a non-speaking cameo in ''Beta House''. Possibly because she got some of the raciest {{fanservice}} in the whole movie...

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* CrazyAwesome: The Stifmeister!

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Stifler went from being a minor antagonist in the first movie to one of the protagonists in the third.

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* FanPreferredCouple: Oz and Heather [[spoiler:who do in fact get back together at the end of Reunion]].
* FridgeLogic: Some of the scenes where guys cheer at naked Nadia on webcam don't really make sense when you consider the limited resolution and framerate on the feed.
** Makes more sense when you remember that back then, people had a lot more tolerance for dialup speeds. And a lot more imagination.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The webcam scene is a lot less humorous in light of what happened to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Clementi Tyler Clementi]] in 2010.

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* FanPreferredCouple: Oz and Heather Heather, [[spoiler:who do in fact get back together at the end of Reunion]].
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* FridgeLogic: Some of the scenes where the guys cheer at the naked Nadia on the webcam don't really make sense when you consider the limited resolution and framerate on the feed.
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feed. It only makes more sense when you remember that back then, people had a lot more tolerance for dialup speeds. And a lot more imagination.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The webcam scene is a lot less humorous in light of what happened to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Clementi org/wiki/Suicide_of_Tyler_Clementi Tyler Clementi]] in 2010.



* HilariousInHindsight: In ''Wedding'', Stifler (pretending to be a super-polite guy) says "I love old people". [[spoiler:This becomes literally true when he accidentally has sex with Jim's grandmother]].

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* HilariousInHindsight: In ''Wedding'', Stifler (pretending to be a super-polite guy) says "I love old people". [[spoiler:This becomes literally true when he accidentally has sex with Jim's grandmother]].grandmother.]]



** One of the "MILF!" guys is JohnCho of later ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'' and ''Film/StarTrek'' fame.
** [[MadMen January Jones]] as Michelle's sister in the third film.

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** One of the "MILF!" guys is JohnCho Creator/JohnCho of later ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'' and ''Film/StarTrek'' fame.
** [[MadMen [[Series/MadMen January Jones]] as Michelle's sister in the third film.



* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: A version of the theme from ''Film/TheTerminator'' plays as Sherman's about to perform "Shermination". [[spoiler: In the second with Nadia, in the fourth with Loni Lipstein]].
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Stifler's over-the-top sugary sweet nice guy act in the 3rd movie.
* TheWoobie: Jim and Finch have their moments in the original: Jim for the webcam incident, and Finch for the LaxativePrank. Jim's prom night manages to be saved when he [[spoiler:loses his virginity to Michelle, who just happens to be his future wife]], and Finch [[spoiler:gets revenge on Stifler by banging his mother, and then going on to do it two more times in the sequels.]]

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: A version of the theme from ''Film/TheTerminator'' plays as Sherman's about to perform "Shermination". [[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In the second with Nadia, in the fourth with Loni Lipstein]].
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Stifler's over-the-top sugary sweet nice guy act in the 3rd third movie.
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Jim and Finch have their moments in the original: Jim for the webcam incident, and Finch for the LaxativePrank. Jim's prom night manages to be saved when he [[spoiler:loses his virginity to Michelle, who just happens to be his future wife]], and Finch [[spoiler:gets revenge on Stifler by banging his mother, and then going on to do it two more times in the sequels.]]



** JerkassWoobie: Stifler in ''Reunion'' when the guys give him a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]] by telling him he's trapped in the past because things will never be the way they were in high school, and that they didn't bother to catch up with him about the reunion because they knew Stifler would find a way to ruin it. Bonus points because Stifler was aware they were intentionally avoiding him the entire time, but acted like his normal self not to show it.

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** JerkassWoobie: Stifler in ''Reunion'' when the guys give him a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]] TheReasonYouSuckSpeech by telling him he's trapped in the past because things will never be the way they were in high school, and that they didn't bother to catch up with him about the reunion because they knew Stifler would find a way to ruin it. Bonus points because Stifler was aware they were intentionally avoiding him the entire time, but acted like his normal self not to show it.
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* NeverLiveItDown: Jim will forever be known as the guy who blew his load prematurely with Nadia on cam. The incident is referenced in almost every single film in the series and in ''Reunion'', it has even gone viral on YouTube.

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* NeverLiveItDown: Jim will forever be known as the guy who blew his load prematurely with Nadia on cam. The incident is referenced in almost every single film in the series and in ''Reunion'', it has even gone viral on YouTube.Website/YouTube.
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* FanDisservice: For some, Nadia's extremely fake-looking breasts.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: After two naffy cover versions in Wedding and two of the spinoffs, the series theme song "Laid" finally appears in the original James form for Reunion's end credits.



* NeverLiveItDown:
** Jim's ahem, premature performance on webcam, which the entire school witnesses.
** Oz's run on Celebrity Dance-Off, where he lost to Creator/GilbertGottfried, and almost everyone that recognizes him in ''Reunion'' mentions.
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** Oz's run on Celebrity Dance-Off, where he lost to GilbertGottfried, and almost everyone that recognizes him in ''Reunion'' mentions.

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** Oz's run on Celebrity Dance-Off, where he lost to GilbertGottfried, Creator/GilbertGottfried, and almost everyone that recognizes him in ''Reunion'' mentions.

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