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Can't Buy Me Love
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Can't Buy Me Love is a 1987 teen comedy movie starring Patrick Dempsey as Ronald Miller, a high school nerd who spends a month as the fake boyfriend of the school's top cheerleader (and his long-time crush) Cindy Mancini by paying her $1000 to replace her mother's dress. Ron quickly becomes one of the popular kids and ends up leaving his old friends and Cindy behind, but rapidly drops in status once the ruse is revealed.Can't Buy Me Love was remade in 2003 as Love Don't Cost a Thing (NOT the other way around), this time with a black cast. | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling: Ron's brother Chuckie finds all of the shenanigans Ron gets into very amusing, and has to be told to shut up regularly by their parents. But he's very suspicious when he hears that Ron is dating Cindy, and stows away in Ron's car only to get hotboxed for his troubles (see Fartillery below). | |
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Romantic Fake–Real Turn | |
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Romantic Fake–Real Turn: Ron and Cindy | |
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Give Geeks a Chance | |
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Give Geeks a Chance: Justified since Ron's paying for Cindy's company | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: An emotional example. Ron calls out to some kids to stop playing in a dangerous tree house. Later on, he teaches one of the Jerk Jocks a lesson using a childhood moment that happened at that tree house. | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Gender-Inverted. Ron has this effect on Cindy's friends. | |
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Oblivious to Love | |
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Oblivious to Love: During the final date as part of their arrangement, Ronald is completely oblivious to the fact that Cindy is developing actual feelings for him. | |
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A Party, Also Known as an Orgy | |
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A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: No apparent sex, but lots of kids in rooms making out. | |
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TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers | |
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The Last Of These Is Not Like The Others: | |
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Pac-Man Fever | |
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Pac Man Fever - Averted during a few scenes in an arcade. (It helps that it was The '80s.) | |
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Rip Tailoring | |
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Rip Tailoring: When Cindy makes Ron cool, she starts by ripping off the sleeves of his shirt. | |
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Sleeves Are for Wimps | |
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Sleeves Are for Wimps: Cindy rips off Ron's sleeves to make him appear "cooler." | |
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Be Yourself | |
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Be Yourself: Ron's speech on the movie's climax has this message. | |
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Acquired Situational Narcissism | |
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Acquired Situational Narcissism: Pretty much the entire premise of the movie. | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
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We Used to Be Friends: After Ron becomes more and more popular, he abandons his former friend Kenneth. At the climax of the film, when nobody likes Ron, he reminds the jocks and nerds that they all were friends together back in grade school. | |
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Riding into the Sunset | |
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Riding into the Sunset: On a riding lawnmower! | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: Immediately after the Slave to PR scene. | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations: She's talking about kissing, he's talking about their impending fake breakup... | |
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All Guys Want Cheerleaders | |
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All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Nearly every male teenage character shows interest on one or more cheerleaders. | |
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Gasshole | |
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Gasshole: One of the jocks that Ron befriends named Big John is notorious for his habit of passing gas. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Jerk Jock | |
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Jerk Jock: There's a whole pack of them, but they do vary in jerkiness. | |
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Sucks at Dancing | |
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Sucks at Dancing: Ron nearly falls victim to this when he copies an African ritual dance he saw on PBS (mistaking it for American Bandstand) at a school dance, but because he's popular at the time, it catches on with everyone else. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: After Cindy and Ron's arragement becomes public knowledge and he becomes a social pariah, Ron realizes just how much of a jerk he's been towards Cindy and his old nerd friends. | |
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Urban Legend Love Life | |
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Urban Legend Love Life - Ron has this due to his fake relationship with Cindy. In fact, the fake relationship is the only thing holding it together. | |
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Slow Clap | |
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Slow Clap: After Ron's big speech. | |
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Doomed New Clothes | |
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Doomed New Clothes: Cindy "borrows" her mom's very expensive suede outfit to wear to a party. Someone accidentally spills wine on it and ruins it. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Cindy's friends seem to be even more interested in Ron after he rather brutally "dumps" Cindy. | |
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Slave to PR | |
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Slave to PR: Cindy warns Ron not to become this, but it happens anyway. | |
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Fartillery | |
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Fartillery: Big John rips a bad Silent but deadly in Ron's little brother's face. Not once but twice throughout the movie. The first one knocks the kid out cold. The Second one nearly suffocates him. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Students throughout the movie drink Coke and Sprite. | |
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Titled After the Song | |
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Titled After the Song: "Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles. | |
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