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* CurbStompBattle: The Bears are so embarrassingly terrible during their first game, that Buttermaker decides to forfeit a little over halfway into the match to save them the humiliation...it doesn't stop them from becoming the laughing stocks of their school though.
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* CurbStompBattle: The Bears are so embarrassingly terrible during their first game, that Buttermaker decides to forfeit a little before the top of the first inning is even over halfway into the match to save them the humiliation...it doesn't stop them from becoming the laughing stocks of their school though.
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* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: The TropeMaker. ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'' was the first film to {{Subvert}} "UnderdogsNeverLose". The film created this trope with the moral victory of going toe-to-toe with the juggernaut OpposingSportsTeam.
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* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: The TropeMaker. ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'' was the first film to {{Subvert}} {{Subvert|edtrope}} "UnderdogsNeverLose". The film created this trope with the moral victory of going toe-to-toe with the juggernaut OpposingSportsTeam.
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* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: The TropeMaker. ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'' was the first film to {{Subvert}} "UnderdogsNeverLose". The film created this trope with the moral victory of going toe-to-toe with the juggernaut OpposingSportsTeam.
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* DoubleEntendre: Despite being a "politically correct" remake, there were a lot more dirty stuff that the creators got away with. For one thing, they had Buttermaker alluding to prison sexuality in the beginning of the film.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: Lupus tends to say some interesting things, like how bird poop tastes like candy.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Lupus tends to say some interesting things, like how bird poop tastes like candy.
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''The Bad News Bears'' is a 1976 comedy film directed by Creator/MichaelRitchie.
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The film was followed by two sequels, ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training'' (1977) and ''The Bad News Bears Go to Japan'' (1978), and a short-lived 1979-80 CBS [[RecycledTheSeries television series]], none of which were able to duplicate the success of the original. Remade in 2005 as ''Bad News Bears'', directed by Creator/RichardLinklater and starring Creator/BillyBobThornton as Buttermaker.
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The film was followed by two sequels, ''The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training'' (1977) and ''The Bad News Bears Go to Japan'' (1978), and a short-lived 1979-80 1979–80 CBS [[RecycledTheSeries television series]], none of which were able to duplicate the success of the original. Remade in 2005 as ''Bad News Bears'', directed by Creator/RichardLinklater and starring Creator/BillyBobThornton as Buttermaker.
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* OverlyLongName: The armenian kid's name Garo Daragagabragadagian. Mr. Buttermaker struggles to pronounce the full name right.
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* {{Irony}}: The African-American kid Ahmad Abdul Rahim with a foreign name. Also, his favorite baseball player is Mark Mcguire who is white. Lampshaded by Buttermaker.
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* NoodleImplements: While flirting with a woman, Mr. Buttermaker tells her that all she'll need is "a jar of honey and a glass coffee table" and it will be more fun than a taffy pull.
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* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: Buttermaker claimed he left to do some "exterminator jobs" and never came back to Amanda and her mother.
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* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: Buttermaker claimed he left to do some "exterminator jobs" and why he never came back to Amanda and her mother.mother. Amanda doesn't believe his excuse.
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* CloudCoocoolander: Lupus tends to say some interesting things, like how bird poop tastes like candy.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Buttermaker is almost like a parental figure to Amanda and is not happy when she begins dating bad boy Kelly. He eventually warms up to the kid and the relationship though.
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* MadeOfIron: When thrown a fast ball in a game of baseball with the Bears, Kelly nonchalantly ''catches it with his bare hand'' and tosses it back to the pitcher.
* MsFanservice: Buttermaker bringing his exotic dancer friend named Paradise to the german themed restaurant and all the restaurant patrons gawk at her. Also, the gentlemen's club strippers cheering for the Bears as they sponsor the team.
* MsFanservice: Buttermaker bringing his exotic dancer friend named Paradise to the german themed restaurant and all the restaurant patrons gawk at her. Also, the gentlemen's club strippers cheering for the Bears as they sponsor the team.
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* DisappearedDad: Would-be dad in this case. Buttermaker reunited with his ex-girlfriend's daughter Amanda as a means to ask her to join his baseball team. Amanda is quick to remind him that he left her and her mother.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Amanda is understandably bitter towards Buttermaker for walking out on her and her mother years ago when Buttermaker was dating her mother and part of Amanda's life
* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: Buttermaker claimed he left to do some "exterminator jobs" and never came back to Amanda and her mother.
* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: Buttermaker claimed he left to do some "exterminator jobs" and never came back to Amanda and her mother.
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* LovingBully: Tanner towards Lupus. When two eight graders pick on Lupus by trapping him inside a port-a-potty, Tanner fires back "Nobody bullies him but me!". The eight graders bully Tanner as well for interfering but it marks the start of a friendship between Tanner and Lupus.
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* CurbStompBattle: The Bears are so embarrassingly terrible during their first game, that Buttermaker decides to forfeit a little over halfway into the match to save them the humiliation...it doesn't stop them from becoming the laughing stocks of their school though.
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''The Bad News Bears'' is a 1976 comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie.
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* PositiveDiscrimination: The whole reason the Bears exist is because one of the players' parents is an attorney, and decided to sue the league. He also paid Buttermaker to coach the team.
-->'''Cleveland:''' Goddamn [[FrivolousLawsuit class action suits]] are gonna be the ruin of this country.
** Later on in the film, after the Bears win their first game, Cleveland joked that they might sue for the right to play at Dodger Stadium.
-->'''Cleveland:''' Goddamn [[FrivolousLawsuit class action suits]] are gonna be the ruin of this country.
** Later on in the film, after the Bears win their first game, Cleveland joked that they might sue for the right to play at Dodger Stadium.
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* LighterAndSofter: Both sequels qualify.
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Creator/WalterMatthau stars as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of the Bears, a cellar-dwelling Little League baseball team with poor playing skills and little hope of ever winning. To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's former girlfriends, and Kelly Leak (Creator/JackieEarleHaley), the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
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Creator/WalterMatthau stars as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic former minor-league baseball player who becomes the coach of the Bears, a cellar-dwelling Little League baseball team with poor playing skills and little hope of ever winning. To bolster the team's abilities, he recruits Amanda Wurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), (Creator/TatumONeal), a skilled pitcher who happens to be the eleven-year-old daughter of one of Buttermaker's former girlfriends, and Kelly Leak (Creator/JackieEarleHaley), the local cigarette-smoking troublemaker. And, miraculously, the notoriously chronic underdogs start winning under Buttermaker's careful coaching. Now all that lies between them and victory is the championship game...
