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After The Mask steals The Eiffel Tower following with the Phoney Frenchman and Mrs. Peenman uses the apartment as a tourist attraction, Stanley and Charlie go on a river rafting trip where the two become the unwilling grooms to two hillbilly brides.

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  • Asshole Victim: In the ending, Charlie puts all the lost camping equipment on Stanley's credit card and readies himself to go to a party for bankers he's been invited to. The Mask gets back at him by showing up dressed like the hillbilly bride he almost married, making him Faint in Shock before stealing his party invitation.
  • Bully Bulldog: The hillbillies' dog, which antagonizes with Milo as he tries to help Stanley and Charlie.
  • Butt Biter: Milo bites into The Mask's inflated behind to deflate it when he requests "Somebody pop me!"
  • Cloudcuckoolander: The Mask decided to steal the Eiffel Tower and place it in Edge City so that he can see it from the apartment.
  • Covered in Gunge: The Mask ends the final Humiliation Conga on the hillbillies by dumping a truckload of pig feed on them.
  • Deep South: Stanley and The Mask along with Charlie, Milo and his masked self end up dealing with a hillbilly family including Stanley and Charlie being forced to marry two hillbilly women to their horror.
  • Half-Witted Hillbilly: The hillbillies aren't the sharpest tools in the shed to put it mildly, as they barely know how a wedding is supposed to go, and when Stanley shouts Milo's name one of the hags believes that he's speaking Gratuitous Italian to be romantic.
  • Horrible Camping Trip: Because Mrs. Peenman wants Stanley out of his apartment so that tourists can have a good view of the Eiffel Tower from his window, Charlie invites him to a rafting trip/double date with two women he organized himself with. However the girls leave earlier due to the unexpected raining and when Stanley quips that things can't get any better, a lightning strikes the branch keeping up the raft (which he and Charlie set up like an improvised tent) making it fall on them. And then the hillbillies show up...
  • I'm a Humanitarian: Hillbilly Clemen implies to be this when Pa claims that Stanley and Charlie are "good for husbandin'" and Clemen disagrees remarking "better for eatin'..." causing Pa to give him a "Be Quiet!" Nudge.
  • Inflating Body Gag: The Mask pumps up his buttcheeks into a pair of improvised floating balloons to save Charlie and Milo's lives when they go down a waterfall.
  • I Was Quite a Looker: Stanley and Charlie are shown a picture of Bessie and Beulah, who appear to be pretty attractive women but then are informed that picture was taken 70 years ago which leads both of them to be horrified by the thought of marrying women who are very old.
  • Lady Looks Like a Dude: Taken to a comical extreme with Zeke, who's a cartoonishly ugly caricature of a bald hillbilly but Pa informs us that it's actually a girl.
  • Lampshade Hanging: When the hillbillies celebrate the capture of their victims by yelling a lot of "Yee-haaw!" and "Yippieee!" an annoyed Charlie asks if they can say anything else, leading to this response:
    Mudhead: Why sure, we can say... (with a clear, gentleman-y voice) "How completely splendiferous that we have apprehended such unpleasant urban dwellers" (back to normal) But it ain't got nearly dah same tone, do it?! (laughs)
  • Little Stowaway: Stanley invokes that trope to explain Milo's presence to Charlie, when in truth the dog followed his master all the way there after putting on the Mask.
  • Out of the Frying Pan: Initially the rival hillbillies seem to want Stanley and Charlie freed, but then Pa suggests offering them as husbands for two women of theirs in order to end the 70-years long feud, which is accepted.
  • Pet the Dog: Despite being a Bad Boss Charlie offers Stanley to go on rafting trip with him which he does.
  • Polyamory: One of the hillbillies working for Pa is said to have three wives.
  • Serial Escalation: Beautifully played with. When the hillbillies open fire on The Mask with their shotguns, he decides to fire back and tires to find a weapon use, pulling out guns that get progressively bigger and deadlier, a bazooka... and then a little blowgun. The hillbillies chuckle at this pathetic display until The Mask blows a pellet into thier cabin destroying it in a HUGE explosion.
  • Shotgun Wedding: Stanley and Charlie are captured by hillbillies who force them to get married to a pair of women from a rival family of hillbillies, as a peace offer to end the feud. Shotguns pointed at the two to make them say "I do" against their will are included.
  • Southern Gentleman: Jake Jackson Jedediah, the patriarch of the rival hillbilly family, is a parody of this, looking more dignified than the other hillbillies even if his cream colored suit looks a bit worn down.
  • Threatening Shark: Masked Milo turns himself into a shark to frighten Charlie when he reaches the raft.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The first two hillbillies The Mask meets are unfazed by his Reality Warper antics.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Mask as always changes his appearance which he turns into a railroad engineer, the Hulk, a hawaiian dancer, Carny, a fisher with a cap on, a talk show host, a surgeon, a artist, a rock musician and a farmer.
  • Wedgie: Subverted when The Mask attempts to pull his signature move on the first two hillbillies he encounters but is unable to do so as they have no underwear (one of them asks "Underwear? What's underwear?"). Played straight in the finale when The Mask does this to several hillbillies while subjecting them to a Humiliation Conga.

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