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Billy Madison

637 statements
125 feature instances
56 referencing feature instances

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Billy Madison	label	Billy Madison
Billy Madison	page	BillyMadison
Billy Madison	comment	Billy Madison is a 1995 comedy film starring Adam Sandler as a dimwitted rich slacker who must go Back to School, starting with first grade, all the way through high school, in order to inherit his father's (Darren McGavin) company. He falls in love with Veronica Vaughn (Bridgette Wilson), his beautiful 3rd grade teacher, along the way. Hilarity Ensues.
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Billy Madison / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Billy Madison / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: If we may describe it as badass, the principal (formerly known as The Revolting Blob).
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Billy Madison / int_137f467a	type	Hot Teacher
Billy Madison / int_137f467a	comment	Hot Teacher: Veronica Vaughn, whom Billy develops a crush on.
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Billy Madison / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Billy Madison / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Carl. Which is why Billy decides to step aside and let him run his father's company.
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Billy Madison / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Billy Madison / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Billy spends most of the episode trying to gain his father's approval.
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Billy Madison / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Billy Madison / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: The O'Doyles are a whole family of them. Billy meets all four of the O'Doyle boys as they mess with Billy or some other kid while they give out their "O'Doyle Rules!" chant.
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Billy Madison / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Billy Madison / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Billy's two friends, Jack and Frank, who constantly party.
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Billy Madison / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Billy Madison / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Billy's terrible answer is mostly given during a duration of a Time Skip. What little we hear of it sounds like Billy giving a heart-felt, bumbling, but supposedly good answer. And then the judge gives out his rant, saying how much exactly Billy screwed up.
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Billy Madison / int_2241cc1e	type	Passing Notes in Class
Billy Madison / int_2241cc1e	comment	Passing Notes in Class: On the day where Principal Anderson substitutes for a sick Miss Vaughn, a third-grader named Michael is caught getting passed a note. Principal Anderson decides to take the note and read it out loud himself, and it's making fun of him for his size.
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Billy Madison / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Billy Madison / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: "The Puppy Who Lost His Way". Subverted, though — whatever Billy tried to make out of using that book, it resulted in an ungodly awful mess of a lecture. Also Chekhov's Banana. Early in the film, a banana is tossed out the window of a bus and we see it lying there rotting during several travel scenes. It finally triggers a Brick Joke in the third act, killing the O'Doyles.
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Billy Madison / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Billy Madison / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: How Billy's Dad got him to pass at first, which Mr. Madison came to regret. Later, Eric blackmailed a principal into claiming Billy invoked the trope as well.
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Billy Madison / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Billy Madison / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: At the climax, the principal can be seen reacting to Eric waving a gun around screaming and all the chaos that results with nothing more than condescending, mildly irritated eye-rolling.
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Billy Madison / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Billy Madison / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Veronica, although she's stern rather than genuinely mean.
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Billy Madison / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Billy Madison / int_2a090d00	comment	The moderator of the Academic Decathlon suggests that Billy has made the audience dumber for giving a blatantly incorrect answer. Billy even does a Lampshade Hanging, pointing out that the moderator's reaction was a bit excessive.
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Billy Madison / int_2a6bf668	type	Inadequate Inheritor
Billy Madison / int_2a6bf668	comment	Inadequate Inheritor: Part of the main plot. Billy has to prove he isn't one. Interestingly, while he does so in a general sense he ends up coming to the conclusion that he actually isn't cut out to run his father's company and doesn't want to anyway, and so decides he's going to become a teacher instead.
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Billy Madison / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Billy Madison / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: It turns out that Eric can play the violin expertly. Even Billy has to give him props.
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Billy Madison / int_2f52c0af	type	Accidental Pervert
Billy Madison / int_2f52c0af	comment	Accidental Pervert: Billy purposefully initiates such an experience with his teacher Veronica, blaming the accident on a bumpy bus ride in the hope that she'll think it's this. Of course, he's just being a regular pervert. Well, he originally wasn't going to do it, but then the kid double-dog dared him...
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Billy Madison / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
Billy Madison / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: Billy tries to protest to his dad against giving the company to Eric instead of him, Eric smugly asks if Billy would actually do anything besides chase invisible penguins. Billy then asks his dad if the Penguin was the one who put him up to it. Billy's dad almost ends the discussion then and there.
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Billy Madison / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Billy Madison / int_355007c3	comment	Billy's response to the puppy story. After seeing him behave like a drunken, hedonistic man-child for most of the movie, this is our first indication that he actually does have an understanding of principles like hard work, responsibility and dedication, even if he's rarely if ever applied them before.
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Billy Madison / int_376d3b4c	type	Silver Spoon Troublemaker
Billy Madison / int_376d3b4c	comment	Silver Spoon Troublemaker: Billy is introduced as such. He drunkenly drives his golf cart and ruins the gardener's hard work, and occasionally pulls childish pranks around town, like putting a Burning Bag of Poop on the front door of old man Clemen's house. Plus, he only graduated high school because his father bribed his teachers to give him good grades and ignore his misbehaviour.
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Billy Madison / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Billy Madison / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Billy does this during the Decathlon, expecting Eric to flame out on a question about Business Ethics.
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Billy Madison / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Billy Madison / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Eric increasingly reveals himself to be a selfish and petty man, blackmailing Principal Anderson into lying that Billy bribed him to pass and throwing a violent, gun-toting tantrum when he loses the decathalon.
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Billy Madison / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Billy Madison / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: On the way, Billy grows more mature, apologizing for his bad behavior and genuinely cleaning up his act. He also realizes that he's more interested in teaching than in running Madison Hotels, so he gives control of the company to Carl.
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Billy Madison / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Billy Madison / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Billy's dad imploring Billy to have one meal without him screaming gibberish — as well as Eric knowing the bizarre triggers for it — implies that the scene we see in the movie is not the first time Billy has done this.
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Billy Madison / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Billy Madison / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Billy gradually becomes a far more mature and level headed individual. He saves one of his classmates from humiliation, even becoming something of a big brother to them, and makes an apology to his former classmates.
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Billy Madison / int_3eba1249	type	"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation
Billy Madison / int_3eba1249	comment	"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation: Billy condenses the Principal's famous "The Reason You Suck" Speech to "wrong."
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Billy Madison / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Billy Madison / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: The scene where the entire O'Doyle family is driving down the road chanting "O'Doyle rules!" over and over again. The car hits the banana peel that the bus driver threw out the window of a bus earlier in the movie, inexplicably causing the car to skid out of control and fly off a cliff (all while the family continues to chant "O'Doyle Rules!"). Though it isn't shown directly, the car inexplicably explodes in a loud explosion off screen.
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Billy Madison / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Billy Madison / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Billy develops into this. He had very minor shades of it from the start. When he learns that his father bribed his teachers to pass him, he seems both upset that he didn't honestly earn his grades and that his father would do such a thing. He also objects to putting Eric in charge of the company because he knows Eric is immoral and callous (or, as he puts it, "He is a bad man!"). He doesn't seem particularly upset that his father's not passing the company to him until he learns it would go to Eric instead. If Brian had given control of the company to Carl instead of Eric, chances are there would be no movie. After passing every one of his grades, Billy always throws a huge party and invites all his classmates.
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Billy Madison / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Billy Madison / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Billy and the kids from Veronica's class. Billy is also friends with one of his father's executives, Carl, who is one of the few people who actually believes in Billy.
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Billy Madison / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Billy Madison / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: This being an Adam Sandler picture, there's heaps and heaps of it. Billy sees a clown on stilts topple over and laughs his head off, even though the actor in the clown makeup has cut open his lip and broken his leg. He later reacts with hilarity when his arch-nemesis, Eric, is burning to death (but it's an Imagine Spot, so he gets better). A story about a professional wrestler killing an opponent by sitting on his head is played for laughs, as is a secretary being violently knocked into a coma. But the best (er, worst) example has to concern the O'Doyles, a family of stereotypically Irish-American louts (milky skin, freckles, ginger hair, you know the drill...) whose sole function in the movie is to act like a Jerkass to Billy at various plot points, although the third grade O'Doyle isn't seen harassing Billy on-screen, just another kid in the class. Billy ultimately gets his revenge when a car carrying the entire O'Doyle family skids wildly after zipping over a banana peel on the highway and plunges over a cliff, still chanting "O'Doyle Rules!" all the way down! ...Every single O'Doyle is killed.
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Billy Madison / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Billy Madison / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Eric threatens to shoot Billy and Veronica while laughing crazily.
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Billy Madison / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Billy Madison / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: As is common in Happy Madison productions, Eric is a smarmy, self-impressed dickhead.
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Billy Madison / int_52abfd4b	type	Reformed Bully
Billy Madison / int_52abfd4b	comment	Reformed Bully: After his Jerkass Realization, Billy calls up some of the kids he taunted in his original school days and sincerely apologizes. This ends up being very important, as one of them shows up and saves his life in a critical moment.
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Billy Madison / int_5400ad8	type	Never Bareheaded
Billy Madison / int_5400ad8	comment	Never Bareheaded: Billy is almost always shown wearing a hat, highlighting his childish nature.
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Billy Madison / int_56f083a1	type	Likes Older Women
Billy Madison / int_56f083a1	comment	Likes Older Women: Billy, if one of the porn magazines he receives is any indication.
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Billy Madison / int_5c9ccf46	type	One of the Kids
Billy Madison / int_5c9ccf46	comment	One of the Kids: Up until he gets to high school, Billy fits in almost perfectly with the small children around him.
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Billy Madison / int_60907b2d	type	Heartfelt Apology
Billy Madison / int_60907b2d	comment	Heartfelt Apology: Billy calls an old classmate of his to apologize for picking on him in high school. The guy accepts the apology and strikes Billy's name from his "people to kill" list. He even goes so far as to save Billy from being killed by Eric.
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Billy Madison / int_60af5e4	type	Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard
Billy Madison / int_60af5e4	comment	Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: After Billy provides an answer to a question during the quiz with Eric, the judge awards Billy no points, scolds his answer as the dumbest thing he's ever heard, and ends with "may God have mercy on your soul". Billy even points out that a simple "Wrong" would have done just fine.
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Billy Madison / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Billy Madison / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Revolting Blob, anyone?
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Billy Madison / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Billy Madison / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Billy has shades of this. He comes up with the movie-defining plot off the top of his head in a matter of seconds. His father is impressed by the thoroughness and the fact that Billy actually set up a significant challenge for himself, influencing his decision to go through with it.
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Billy Madison / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Billy Madison / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Some of the events on the academic decathlon question board reveal the principal's poor relationship with his adulterous wife, including such categories as "My Spouse Is Sleeping Around", "My Wife, The Tramp" and "I Married Common Gutter Trash".
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Billy Madison / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Billy Madison / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Adam Sandler is a huge Professional Wrestling fan in Real Life.
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Billy Madison / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Billy Madison / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Billy's mom isn't seen nor mention throughout the movie.
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Billy Madison / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Billy Madison / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Billy has this kind of a relationship with his elementary school classmates, becoming something of an older brother to them. He saves one of them from humiliation, visits them. They in turn confront Principal Anderson for lying about Billy bribing his way through school.
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Billy Madison / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Billy Madison / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Eric is a Corrupt Corporate Executive and slimeball who merely wants to run Madison Hotels. However, Eric points out that the company's fifty thousand employees are not likely to have jobs for very long if the president makes his lazy son Billy president of the company, since Billy only graduated school through bribery. Before Billy strikes a deal to graduate legitimately, Eric's argument convinces Billy's father to hand the reins over to Eric instead. After some Character Development, Billy himself concludes that Eric is ultimately right, and that he's not cut out for the management of a large company. Billy decides to become a teacher instead, and turns Madison Hotels over to Carl, who is both competent and not a Jerkass.
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Billy Madison / int_6bd6c63f	type	"Shaggy Frog" Story
Billy Madison / int_6bd6c63f	comment	"Shaggy Frog" Story: Billy's comparison of the Industrial Revolution to "The Puppy Who Lost His Way" is suggested to be one. The page quote is the Principal's response to the screed.* Shot in the Ass: Eric at the end.
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Billy Madison / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Billy Madison / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: The clown at Billy's party, who comes back to life just to take part in a musical number.
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Billy Madison / int_707bb8ce	type	Pair the Spares
Billy Madison / int_707bb8ce	comment	Pair the Spares: Taken to its logical extreme at the end of the movie (including the penguin).
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Billy Madison / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Billy Madison / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Eric convinces Billy's father that he should be the one to run the Madison Hotel empire, rather than just hand it down to Billy when he steps down as CEO. One can see why Eric thought that was the best thing to do since Billy only graduated from high school because his dad bribed his teachers, didn't even go to college, and is currently more concerned with getting drunk with his two freeloading infantile buddies, looking at porno magazines, and playing video games than finding out how the hotel business works. Eventually, it becomes apparent that Eric just wants to take control of the company for himself as Billy starts taking his "education" more seriously, then again it was repeating grades one through twelve, two weeks per grade, rather than a business program from an accredited university. In the end, Billy himself realizes he isn't cut out for, nor does he even want to, run the empire. He decides to hand control over to Carl and go to college so he can become a teacher.
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Billy Madison / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
Billy Madison / int_77d826c7	comment	Stern Teacher: Veronica, at least to Billy. It doesn't help that Billy's emotional maturity is close to the same level as the grade school children's, but Billy constantly tries to hit on Veronica and disrupt her classroom. As such, Veronica treats Billy harshly in turn.
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Billy Madison / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Billy Madison / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: According to the clown, at least. When he gets up from the trip and fall he had earlier during the second musical number, he describes the severe injuries he got from it in a cheerful and enthusiastic tone.
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Billy Madison / int_7a555627	type	Honest Corporate Executive
Billy Madison / int_7a555627	comment	Honest Corporate Executive: Carl, who ends up becoming the head of Madison Hotels due to his helping Billy.
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Billy Madison / int_7be46966	type	Heroes' Frontier Step
Billy Madison / int_7be46966	comment	Heroes' Frontier Step: Billy risking his own reputation to save a younger classmate is the first sign he is more than just some immature jerk.
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Billy Madison / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Billy Madison / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Eric spends every single second on screen being a slimy little weasel, and Billy actually calls him out on it a couple of times during the film, culminating with him proving at the climax that he is so devoid of business ethics that he literally has no knowledge of them.
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Billy Madison / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Billy Madison / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Billy is on the receiving end of a legendary one after giving a stupid answer during the academic decathlon at the end.
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Billy Madison / int_7f298d3d	type	Lame Comeback
Billy Madison / int_7f298d3d	comment	Lame Comeback: After the searing criticism of Billy's analysis, Billy comes back with "a simple 'wrong' would've done just fine, but yeah".
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Billy Madison / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Billy Madison / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Billy's response to the puppy story. After seeing him behave like a drunken, hedonistic man-child for most of the movie, this is our first indication that he actually does have an understanding of principles like hard work, responsibility and dedication, even if he's rarely if ever applied them before. Eric's is his unnecessary insults toward Billy during the business dinner just to get a rise out of him.
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Billy Madison / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Billy Madison / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "First the psycho goes on TV, lies, then retracts it, and now Eric's secretary is in a coma." Granted, a person being in a coma is a big deal, but in everyone's eyes it isn't important compared to Principal Anderson's false accusations.
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Billy Madison / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Billy Madison / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Adam Sandler doesn't merely chew scenery; he eats this movie alive.
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Billy Madison / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Billy Madison / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Eric is absolutely correct that Billy is not at all suited to run the company but shows himself to be a little better, being so amoral that he literally has no grasp on what business ethics are. Billy even fully acknowledges that he isn't suited to the task halfway through and only battles to prevent Eric from getting the gig, later handing the reigns over to Carl, who is much more ethical.
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Billy Madison / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
Billy Madison / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdresser: Implied with Steve Buscemi's character, who is seen applying lipstick.
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Billy Madison / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Billy Madison / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: When Billy makes his grand speech utilizing "The Puppy Who Lost His Way" as a basis, we only see the very beginning and end, and so we are led to believe at first that it something inspirational. Cue the judge, in a deadpan fashion, giving Billy "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
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Billy Madison / int_87c7f99d	type	Sidetracked by the Analogy
Billy Madison / int_87c7f99d	comment	Sidetracked by the Analogy: Self-imposed by Billy when Veronica tells him he was framed for blackmailing.
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Billy Madison / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Billy Madison / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: The overweight, homosexual principal has a crush on Billy. So does Juanita, the Madisons' maid. And Billy himself is initially this from Veronica's perspective.
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Billy Madison / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Billy Madison / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The entire O'Doyle family. They drive off a cliff, chanting their Catchphrase all the while.
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Billy Madison / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Billy Madison / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Eric handles the final challenge very well... until he gets a surprise question about business ethics sprung on him, at which point it takes about fifteen seconds of flustered, stuttering incoherence for him to produce a gun and start screaming. The point being that a question about business ethics should not be a surprise to somebody who's aiming to run a large company, and Eric flames out on the question because he doesn't have any ethics.
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Billy Madison / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Billy Madison / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Getting bullied when he enters the high school prompts Billy to realize his own bullying tendencies when he was a kid. It prompts him to call an old classmate he used to pick on and apologize... which prompts the old classmate to drop him from his 'kill' list. And save his life at the end.
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Billy Madison / int_9aaad071	type	HA HA HAâ€”No
Billy Madison / int_9aaad071	comment	HA HA HAâ€”No: "Ahahahahahaha shut up!"
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Billy Madison / int_a31b47ae	type	Rapid-Fire "No!"
Billy Madison / int_a31b47ae	comment	Rapid-Fire "No!": Eric after seeing Principal Anderson confess that he was blackmailed.
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Billy Madison / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
Billy Madison / int_a55ab01e	comment	Jerkass Realization: When Billy enters ninth grade, he's confused as to why the kids are suddenly picking on him. He talks to Veronica about it and she mentions maybe he wasn't as nice to the kids that he thought were losers, likely remembering his comments teasing one of her students trying to read. Billy then starts to understand that he should have known better. This makes Billy take the Heroes' Frontier Step of not only risking his own reputation for a fellow student's sake, but apologize to other people he bullied when he was a high school aged kid.
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Billy Madison / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Billy Madison / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: The reason why Billy gets away with some of his shenanigans.
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Billy Madison / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Billy Madison / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The incident where Billy grabs Veronica's breast. For an adult man, that's sexual assault and she could have easily reported him to the police, as Billy himself notes ("That's assault, bruddah!"). Of course, he requires a double-dare before he'll go through with it and Veronica treats it the same way as she would with any other third-grader, but he still got away with it. Eric after trying to kill Billy and Veronica is just seen at Billy's graduation in crutches.
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Billy Madison / int_a836a9b5	type	Character Witness
Billy Madison / int_a836a9b5	comment	Character Witness: Billy apologized to an old classmate he used to bully in school. That same former classmate comes back at the end of the film to save Billy from the villain.
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Billy Madison / int_a8d644f6	type	Bizarre Beverage Use
Billy Madison / int_a8d644f6	comment	Bizarre Beverage Use: Billy puts water from the drinking fountain on the front of his pants to pretend he wet himself and that it's cool to do so, in order to cheer up a boy named Ernie, who did wet himself.
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Billy Madison / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Billy Madison / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Subverted and parodied. Billy is required to give one of these describing how a work of literature reflects the changes the Industrial Revolution had on the modern novel as part of the climactic general knowledge quiz. He elects to compare the Industrial Revolution to a children's story called "The Puppy Who Lost His Way," and the scene cuts to the ending of the seemingly inspirational and well-informed monologue he gives on the subject. Then Billy turns to the headmaster to find out how he did, and the response is the quote at the top of the page. The song Billy sings after Veronica beats the shit out of him is probably a straighter example.
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Billy Madison / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Billy Madison / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Parodied when one of the trivia categories in the final decathlon challenge is "Burning Dog Poo and the Human Response." Billy, who loves the old bag-on-the-doorstep prank, crosses his fingers and mutters "Oh please, oh please..." Naturally, Eric doesn't pick it, instead picking "Reflections Of Society In Literature," where Billy's answer leads to the quote at the top.
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Billy Madison / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Billy Madison / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Billy's Snack Pack. He gets angry when Juanita refuses to pack him one and instead gives him a banana.
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Billy Madison / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Billy Madison / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Carl sneaks one in when Eric asks how he'd feel about working under Billy. Carl simply states that it could be worse, indirectly implying that he'd rather work for Billy than Eric.
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Billy Madison / int_b00498c7	type	Casualty in the Ring
Billy Madison / int_b00498c7	comment	Casualty in the Ring: Billy's elementary school principal used to be The Revolting Blob, a professional wrestler who was forced to retire in disgrace and go into hiding after accidentally killing his opponent in the ring. Eric later digs up this uncomfortable secret and uses it to blackmail the principal into helping him screw over Billy.
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Billy Madison / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Billy Madison / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "O'Doyle rules!"
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Billy Madison / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Billy Madison / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Veronica. Especially when she tackles Billy in the fountain in a white shirt. Lampshaded when she sings the line "Don't I have a nice rack?" during the musical number.
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Billy Madison / int_b41c411e	type	Toilet Humour
Billy Madison / int_b41c411e	comment	Toilet Humour: A staple of Adam Sandler movies, most notably their burning bag of dog poo pranks.
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Billy Madison / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Billy Madison / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: The moderator of the Academic Decathlon suggests that Billy has made the audience dumber for giving a blatantly incorrect answer. Billy even does a Lampshade Hanging, pointing out that the moderator's reaction was a bit excessive. Eric is so devoid of business ethics that he literally has no knowledge of them. When given a question, he only stutters there for a few seconds before going completely psycho and pulling out a gun, yelling out how the contest was rigged.
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Billy Madison / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Billy Madison / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: The bus driver screams "NO YELLING ON THE BUS!" at the top of his lungs.
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Billy Madison / int_b871de85	type	Annoying Laugh
Billy Madison / int_b871de85	comment	Annoying Laugh: Eric's "weasel laugh."
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Billy Madison / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
Billy Madison / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: It is so obvious that Eric will be this if he becomes CEO of Madison Hotels that preventing it from happening is a major part of the plot. While Eric may have a point about Billy being too incompetent to run Madison Hotels, Billy notes that Eric isn't much better, if only because Eric will be actively malicious.
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Billy Madison / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Billy Madison / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Veronica Vaughn, the first of Adam's fictional "V-name" girlfriends.
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Billy Madison / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Billy Madison / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: Eric may be a massive Jerkass and Corrupt Corporate Executive, but he's not wrong in pointing out that Billy is unfit to run his father's company. However, Billy isn't wrong either in regards to the fact that Eric isn't fit for the job either. Both sides are eventually proven right in the end, as Billy manages to prove himself right by choosing the topic Business Ethics for Eric's question at the end. Eric fails to answer the question and suffers a Villainous Breakdown, proving he is not fit to run any company (not sanely, anyway). Eric is also proven right as by the end, Billy chooses not to take over his father's company, and decides to go to college and become a teacher instead.
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Billy Madison / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
Billy Madison / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Veronica gets Billy to come to his senses...by repeatedly punching him and holding him underwater. In the musical number he even sings, "Veronica I thank you, for beating the shit out of me". There's no way in hell that would fly if the genders were reversed.
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Billy Madison / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
Billy Madison / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: Since the movie is about Billy.
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Billy Madison / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
Billy Madison / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: Billy's attempts to be cool in High School fall very flat.
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Billy Madison / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Billy Madison / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: We're suckered into thinking we're going to see Veronica Vaughn strip herself to the waist, but instead the one performing the striptease is the disgustingly fat male bus driver. Played by Chris Farley. Ick.
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Billy Madison / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Billy Madison / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: After arranging the academic decathlon, Billy hugs Eric and tells him "I knew it was you... (kisses him) you broke my heart."
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Billy Madison / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Billy Madison / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Lampshaded in the musical scene:
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Billy Madison / int_c9c317cd	type	Last-Minute Hookup
Billy Madison / int_c9c317cd	comment	Last-Minute Hookup: Virtually all the characters at the end of the movie. All-but Lampshaded in the case of Chris Farley's character, who hooks up with the Penguin from Billy's drunken hallucinations.
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Billy Madison / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Billy Madison / int_cbe687ab	comment	Most of the teachers, but Billy's dad would count too as he was willing to give Billy another chance when he found out the guy who had claimed Billy bribed him to pass was lying and still refused to give the company to Eric.
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Billy Madison / int_cd67aad7	type	Paste Eater
Billy Madison / int_cd67aad7	comment	Paste Eater: Billy eats paste in his first-grade class.
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Billy Madison / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Billy Madison / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: Veronica barely tolerates Billy's situation to start with, but his making fun of a classmate's stuttering problem makes her livid, pulling him into the hallway by his ear to dress him down for it. Notably, it's after this and her humiliating him for his inability to do a cursive Z that he starts genuinely improving.
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Billy Madison / int_ce015a31	type	Burning Bag of Poop
Billy Madison / int_ce015a31	comment	Burning Bag of Poop: Billy plays this prank on Old Man Clemens with Jack and Frank in tow, Jack having done the dirty work of shoveling the poop into the bag. As they watch from behind a bush, Clemens charges out of the house in his tighty-whitey briefs and an undershirt to answer the doorbell.
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Billy Madison / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Billy Madison / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: "He just called the shit 'poop'!"
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Billy Madison / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
Billy Madison / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": Ahahahahahaha—SHUT UP!!!!! Eric says this to Mr. Madison after the latter says extenuating circumstances justify his giving Billy another chance to graduate from high school and earn control of Madison Hotels.
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Billy Madison / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Billy Madison / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Billy delivers one of these in-universe to the little boy in "The Puppy Who Lost His Way".
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Billy Madison / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Billy Madison / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Billy most of the time, but practically every character in the movie during the bizarre Big-Lipped Alligator Moment where they're all singing or dancing. ("Do you have any more gum, more gum, more gum, more gum?") Do you have any more gum? Billy's first grade teacher indulges in some rather odd habits when her class is outside playing dodgeball. Even odder, she puts paste all over her face while the kids are napping.
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Billy Madison / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Billy Madison / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Although Eric is right that Billy is not fit to run his father's company, in reality, neither is Eric. He is consistently shown to be a Bad Boss, sometimes being just as much of a Manchild as Billy. This is demonstrated at the end when Billy grabs the Smart Ball and chooses Eric's question to be business ethics-related. When Eric can't answer the question, he undergoes a Villainous Breakdown and tries to kill Billy, further proving that he's no better.
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Billy Madison / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Billy Madison / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: At the climax, the principal hosting the academic decathlon reacts to Eric pulling a gun on him and demanding a new question, threatening to shoot Billy, being attacked by another principal dressed as a Mexican wrestler, then threatening to shoot Veronica while laughing crazily before himself being shot in the ass by a sniper, with little more than mildly irritated, condescending eye-rolling and head-shaking.
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Billy Madison / int_da72023b	type	Back to School
Billy Madison / int_da72023b	comment	Back to School: The basic premise. Hell, he even sings a little song about it.
Billy Madison / int_da72023b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Billy Madison / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Billy Madison / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Most of the teachers, but Billy's dad would count too as he was willing to give Billy another chance when he found out the guy who had claimed Billy bribed him to pass was lying and still refused to give the company to Eric. Carl is also this, since he always believed in Billy and helped him out whenever he could. In the end, Billy decides he would be a better person to own the company.
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Billy Madison / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Billy Madison / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Aforementioned classmate, who had become a real gunman in the meantime. He's seen crossing Billy off of a hit list after they make peace.
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Billy Madison / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
Billy Madison / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Billy towards the beginning.
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Billy Madison / int_e313b4e7	type	Manchild
Billy Madison / int_e313b4e7	comment	Manchild: Billy. He is 27 years old, unemployed, and still lives with his dad. And he has to repeat every single grade to earn his father's trust.
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Billy Madison / int_e3a7d2e6	type	Karmic Jackpot
Billy Madison / int_e3a7d2e6	comment	Karmic Jackpot: Carl is fully supportive of Billy and as a result, Billy gives him ownership of Madison Hotels. Billy apologizes to a guy he bullied in high school and this directly saves his life because that guy comes back at the end of the movie to save him.
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Billy Madison / int_e7dfebe8	type	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
Billy Madison / int_e7dfebe8	comment	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Veronica's way of motivating Billy for the decathlon.
Billy Madison / int_e7dfebe8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Billy Madison / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Billy Madison / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Eric in spades. Who stoops to many lows such as blackmailing an elementary school principal to try and ruin Billy's chances of getting the company, and he really isn't nice to the people he interacts with either. The entire O'Doyle family is a group of obnoxious bullies. Billy starts off as one but later matures.
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Billy Madison / int_ebe5d89c	type	Disco Dan
Billy Madison / int_ebe5d89c	comment	Disco Dan: When Billy shows up for his first day of high school, he arrives in a 1979 Pontiac Trans Am, blaring "The Stroke" by Billy Squier loudly over the radio and wearing a denim jacket with a REO Speedwagon t-shirt. Since this movie was released in the mid-90s when alternative rock and hip-hop were the dominant genres of music, Billy's attempt to look cool backfires big time.
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Billy Madison / int_f032f3c0	type	Hippie Teacher
Billy Madison / int_f032f3c0	comment	Hippie Teacher: Miss Lippy, the 1st grade teacher.
Billy Madison / int_f032f3c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Billy Madison / int_f032f3c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Billy Madison / int_f032f3c0
Billy Madison / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
Billy Madison / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: Billy may be a Manchild, but he has some good points about the flaws from a picture book. The boy couldn't give up looking for the puppy, he should put up some posters to look for him and find the puppy in the parking lot.
Billy Madison / int_f360fc33	featureApplicability	1.0
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Billy Madison / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Billy Madison / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Despite Billy basically sexually assaulting Veronica she seems to forgive him in the very next scene, even stating that it's not the first time someone tried to grab her chest.
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Billy Madison / int_f39d7dbc	type	You Will Be Spared
Billy Madison / int_f39d7dbc	comment	You Will Be Spared: After Billy calls his former classmate (played by Steve Buscemi) and apologizes for bullying him when they were in school, the guy crosses Billy's name off his "People To Kill" list.
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Billy Madison / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Billy Madison / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Done very blatantly early on with Triscuits featuring in the first conversation between Carl and Eric; it's worth noting that Bradley Whitford seems less than enthusiastic about having to plug the "delicious Triscuit crackers".
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Billy Madison / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Billy Madison / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Exploited by Billy during the gameshow against Eric. He gets to pick the category for Eric's question and chooses "business ethics", knowing that due to what Eric's like, he will have no chance of answering it correctly.
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Billy Madison / int_f9adfcdf	type	Enemies List
Billy Madison / int_f9adfcdf	comment	Enemies List: The classmate Billy calls and apologizes to has a list of "People to Kill". Billy was on it before his apology.
Billy Madison / int_f9adfcdf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Billy Madison / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Billy Madison / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The O'Doyle family giving out their Catchphrase (usually after pulling off some prank).
Billy Madison / int_f9f2c33	featureApplicability	1.0
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Billy Madison / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Billy Madison / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: Veronica: "Who would steal thirty bag lunches?", cut to Jack, Frank, and the bus driver played by Chris Farley eating them while laughing maniacally. Billy's dad wonders rhetorically what his son is searching for, cut to Billy saying "here's a nice piece of shit" and scraping a dog turd off the ground.
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Billy Madison / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Billy Madison / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: During the bus ride to the farm, the bus driver throws a banana peel out the window and onto the highway. Much later in the film, a car driven by the Jerkass O'Doyle family veers off course after going over the peel and plunges over a cliff. "Hey, kids, it's me! I bet you thought that I was dead! But when I fell over I just broke my leg and got a hemorrhage in my head!" "Man, I'm glad I called that guy."
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Billy Madison / int_fff67ce9	type	Stacy's Mom
Billy Madison / int_fff67ce9	comment	Stacy's Mom: The mom of one of Billy's 1st grade classmates. Billy was interested in her until he saw her wipe her son's nose and wipe herself with the same tissue.
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Billy Madison / int_name	type	ItemName
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Billy Madison / int_name	itemName	Billy Madison

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Billy Madison	hasFeature	Acceptable Ethnic Targets / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Accidental Pervert / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Back to School / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Big "SHUT UP!" / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Bizarre Beverage Use / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Burning Bag of Poop / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Character Filibuster / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Cheap Heat / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Crunchtastic / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Disco Dan / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Dreadful Musician / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Dumbass Has a Point / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Ear Ache / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Enemies List / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Every Car Is a Pinto / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	F-- / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Films of 1995â€“1999 / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Flowery Insults / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Foul Cafeteria Food / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Gotta Kill Them All / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	HA HA HAâ€”No / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Heartfelt Apology / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Heroes' Frontier Step / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Hippie Teacher / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Hot Teacher / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey! / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Inadequate Inheritor / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Karmic Jackpot / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	LOL, 69 / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Last-Minute Hookup / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Major Injury Underreaction / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Man on Fire / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Pair the Spares / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Passing Notes in Class / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Paste Eater / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Playing Sick / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Potty Failure / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Reformed Bully / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	School Stories / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Sensational Staircase Sequence / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	"Shaggy Frog" Story / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Shared Universe / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Shot in the Ass / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Sidetracked by the Analogy / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Silver Spoon Troublemaker / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Upper-Class Twit / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Wicked Weasel / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Word, Schmord! / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	You Will Be Spared / int_c4f964a1
Billy Madison	hasFeature	Dodgeball Is Hell / int_c4f964a1

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