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Click	comment	Click is a 2006 American comedy-drama film directed by Frank Coraci and starring Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken and David Hasselhoff. It was released in North America on June 23, 2006 by Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios.The film follows Michael Newman (Sandler), a married architect with two children. Michael loves his family, but is easily pushed around by his overbearing boss Mr. Ammer (Hasselhoff) and has little time for them. One night, after Michael loses his temper at the amount of remote controls in the house, he goes in search of a universal remote control for his appliances. At a Bed Bath & Beyond, Michael collapses onto a bed and falls asleep, before waking up and proceeding to the section marked "Beyond."There, he meets the mysterious Morty (Walken), who happens to be an eccentric inventor. Morty takes him to a room marked "Way Beyond" and gives him a universal remote control and warns that it can never be returned. To Michael's amazement, he finds out that the remote literally controls the universe, in particular allowing him to control time. The story follows Michael's experiments with the device, as well as the consequences and lessons resulting.Not to be confused with a Goosebumps short story of the same name with the same concept, albeit done in a different fashion.
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Click / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Click / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Michael's parents constantly joke about his supposedly small penis.
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Click / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Click / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: When Michael wakes up after fast-forwarding himself to 10 years, he says, "How much worse can things get?". To his surprise, he realizes that he has become horribly obese:
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Click / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Click / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: During the periods where the Remote "fast-forwards" through his life, Michael becomes one of these.
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Click / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Click / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: How Morty tells Michael how to use the remote.
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Click / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Click / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Previews focused almost entirely on the more lighthearted first half while only giving subtle passing mentions at best of the significantly more depressing second half.
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Click / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Click / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: The remote learns Michael's habits and begins skipping time-based on what he's previously skipped even when he doesn't tell it to, in order to make sure he fully understands what he's missing and make sure the lesson is driven home fully.
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Click / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Click / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: A tiny little bit with Morty noticing just how hot Donna is. (Though as he's an angel, he might be The Ageless or something.)
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Click / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Click / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: This isn't the first time a Sandler character has made reference to Barney & Friends.
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Click / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Click / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Michael, the "emotionally and mentally absent" variation.
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Click / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Click / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Played straight and parodied with Michael playing with the language feature. The first time is during the sensitivity training when Michael switches to the Spanish setting to amuse himself. The second time is during a meeting with a Japanese corporation where Michael uses the setting to find out what they're really saying about his model design.
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Click / int_2ec6e90f	type	Yet Another Christmas Carol
Click / int_2ec6e90f	comment	Yet Another Christmas Carol: It doesn't take place at Christmas, but it otherwise follows the same structure: Michael is a workaholic who's slowly alienating those around him, then he meets a supernatural being who shows him scenes of his past, present, and a Bad Future, and then returns him to the present with An Aesop.
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Click / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
Click / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: There was little indication in the ads that this film would make the switch to drama. The main trailer did slightly hint that things would get darker by showing the remote fast-forwarding to Samantha as a teenager and a horrified Michael saying "what else did I miss?", but even then it didn't completely let on how serious the second half would get. It also notably edits footage to make it appear that Michael has not yet become horribly obese by this point.
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Click / int_35e5a546	type	Digital Head Swap
Click / int_35e5a546	comment	Digital Head Swap: During the segment in which Michael was enormously fat.
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Click / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Click / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Christopher Walken plays an undercover (arch)angel. Walken has said that when he read the script, he decided that Morty and Gabriel were actually the same person, and played Morty accordingly. If you watch the two movies back-to-back, it's impossible to miss: "It's time to come home.".
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Click / int_3ab4e424	type	Slow-Motion Pass-By
Click / int_3ab4e424	comment	Slow-Motion Pass-By: Invoked by Michael. He fast forwards time to go to work, but on the way he sees a buxom jogger he wants to stare at, so he slows down time when she's passing near him.
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Click / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
Click / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: The remote.
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Click / int_3e2c9d95	type	Rock Bottom
Click / int_3e2c9d95	comment	Rock Bottom: When the remote skips ahead ten years, Michael wonders how much worse things can get... and discovers he's put on a lot of weight.
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Click / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Click / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Implied at the end: after being given a second chance, Michael discovers that Morty gave him back the remote as well. He promptly decides to throw it into a trash can; once Michael notes it didn't return to him, he walks out of the room.
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Click / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
Click / int_4d070ee3	comment	Power Perversion Potential: Michael uses the remote's slow-motion function to stare at a female jogger's big breasts.
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Click / int_4e4ea654	type	Workaholic
Click / int_4e4ea654	comment	Workaholic: Michael's Fatal Flaw is him focusing too much on building up his career or spending time with his family.
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Click / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Click / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: This exchange between Michael and Morty in the cemetery after visiting Ted's grave. At Ben's wedding, Michael (who had rather come to terms with Bill being his ex-wife's new husband) is having a friendly dance with her, while he sees his daughter Samantha and Bill dancing together, talking. Not long after Michael fast-forwards to the day of his promotion, he gets these bombshells dropped on him. After Michael skips years ahead:
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Click / int_4eb2ce94	type	Sensitivity Training
Click / int_4eb2ce94	comment	Sensitivity Training: Michael has to sit through one and uses the remote to entertain himself while he sits through it.
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Click / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Click / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Due to lack of exercise (and his junk food binge-eating while working, which is pretty much all the time), one "fast-forward" of ten years takes Michael from Adam Sandler-sized to Morbidly Obese. Even worse when he goes into a coma for 6 years and loses ONLY the fat. Michael gets one of these, of a sort, when he sees how fat Ben has become by 2017.
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Click / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Click / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: After neighborhood kid O'Doyle constantly makes fun of him, Michael decides to get back at him by not only telling O'Doyle's mother that O'Doyle had given him the cigar he was smoking, but that he thinks there's marijuana inside of it. O'Doyle may have been a jerk, but he didn't really deserve a punishment for something he didn't do involving drugs.
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Click / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Click / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: At the age of 7 it's implied that Ben is going to become one of these; he's a glutton who eats ice-creams and tries to steal Twinkies. He later eats just as unhealthily as his father before the time skipping happens. It's only regular exercise with his step-father that gets him back into shape by his twenties. Both Michael — who's had an unhealthy lifestyle for ten years along with no exercise — and Ben — who got fat due to copying his father's eating habits as a kid (stated above) and not exercising with his increasingly lazy and later absent father — become this after the time skip. Ben later calls his father on it. It's later subverted when, after being given a second chance, Michael promises to exercise everyday with Ben and "not wear a speedo".
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Click / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Click / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Christopher Walken's portrayal of Morty, the Angel of Death, certainly comes off as dark and a bit twisted at times, but ultimately he's rather kindly towards Michael, particularly following the climax when, instead of taking Michael to the afterlife, Morty gives him a second chance to turn his life around, rewinding time back to when he was in Bed, Bath and Beyond. He calmly explains that nothing bad happens to Michael because of him, but because Michael misused the remote.
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Click / int_58b42f3d	type	Trickster Mentor
Click / int_58b42f3d	comment	Trickster Mentor: Morty, portrayed by Christopher Walken in a role similar to his character in Nine Lives (2016).
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Click / int_5924454b	type	Cerebus Call-Back
Click / int_5924454b	comment	Cerebus Call-Back: Michael reacts the same way both times when he learned that Sundance, the family dog, and, later on, his father had passed away sometime during his fast forwarding. Unlike the former, where his grief is largely Played for Laughs, the latter is depicted entirely seriously with Michael teetering on the edge of a complete emotional breakdown at the revelation.
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Click / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Click / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Ben, both at the age of 7 and 18. Michael, both before and during the time skip. It has a terrible effect for both of them; Michael suffers a heart attack and Ben becomes morbidly obese.
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Click / int_67cecb5b	type	Time-Freeze Trolling Spree
Click / int_67cecb5b	comment	Time-Freeze Trolling Spree: Michael stops time when in his boss's office and farts in his face. When he unpauses time, the boss chews the odor. He also kicks Bill in the balls several times (so Bill has no idea why they hurt when time starts playing again), and later pulls down his pants (and exposes his Speedos) at Ben's wedding.
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Click / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Click / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "Will you still love me in the morning? Forever and ever, babe." Donna and Michael had this exchange before their first kiss and later he pulled out the very same napkin the words were written on and they said them as Michael lay dying.
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Click / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Click / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Morty is the Angel of Death. You know who else is named for an angel? Michael. Michael's last name is New-Man.
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Click / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Click / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: The path Michael has set for himself. It has dire consequences for Michael's life and even to his family. He becomes a jerkass that fails to make even the smallest change to his attitude over the years and his behavior influences his son to take the same path, horrifying him.
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Click / int_77e8d49d	type	Clingy MacGuffin
Click / int_77e8d49d	comment	Clingy MacGuffin: Eventually the remote keeps popping up despite Michael's attempts to get rid of it.
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Click / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
Click / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: Michael uses the slow motion controller powers in order to ogle a buxom jogger as she runs past him.
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Click / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Click / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Unintentional, but it certainly comes across that way with Michael's daughter Samantha. While he has several heart-to-heart moments with his son Ben during the time skips, he has no similar scenes with her, except for a Running Gag about her having breasts. Then again, Samantha calling Bill "dad" is what sets off the massive heart attack that lands Michael in hospital and near death. While Ben gets more focus, he clearly loves her so much that the thought of his little girl trading him off for someone else, of all the horrible things he has seen happen as a result of his choices, is the absolute worst.
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Click / int_7d791b62	type	Rewind, Replay, Repeat
Click / int_7d791b62	comment	Rewind, Replay, Repeat: Michael realizes that abusing the "skip" function too many times has caused him to miss several key events in his life, including the death of his father. When he attempts to rewind back to that moment, Morty tells him it can't be done, because Michael wasn't there at the time. Grief-stricken, Michael can only rewind back to the last time he saw his father alive. Michael has become a great success at his job, but is now a heartless businessman. When his father shows up for a friendly visit, he attempts to bond with Michael one more time. Michael gives him a careless and brusque brush off. Michael-watching-the-rewind sees what In-the-Moment-Michael missed.
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Click / int_81d88e90	type	Lost the TV Remote
Click / int_81d88e90	comment	Lost the TV Remote: This is what compels Michael to find a universal remote control; he goes through several remote controls and finds that none of them work the TV.
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Click / int_822ff0d7	type	Relative Error
Click / int_822ff0d7	comment	Relative Error: In the future, Michael notices a picture of his, now grown up, son with a pretty blonde girl and asks if she's his girlfriend. After an awkward Beat, an uncomfortable Ben breaks it to him that she's actually Samantha, aka, his own daughter.
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Click / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
Click / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: The neighbor's kid constantly goes out of his way to make Michael feel like a failure.
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Click / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
Click / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Michael is already implied not to be very good in bed (Donna frequently requests massages before sex and he seems very annoyed at the idea of doing something extra to please his wife) but once he messes with the Universal Remote Control and accidentally "fast forward" their sex, it ends up being a very quick, mechanical and unsatisfying experience for Donna. This is the first clue about how Michael is Not Himself when he skips time.
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Click / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Click / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Michael is somewhat of a dick at the start. He sees how much worse it gets through the remote, discovering that while on "auto-pilot" without making any changes to himself, he becomes a world-class asshole who yells at his dad for "barging in," much to his horror and regret.
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Click / int_97980a6e	type	First Law of Tragicomedies
Click / int_97980a6e	comment	First Law of Tragicomedies: The film fits this trope to a T. It starts out with Michael using a magical remote to see a jogger's boobs jiggle in slow-mo, and begins a little more dramatic when he accidentally jumps one year ahead, but still had plenty of comedy. When he jumps ahead, he's there corporeally, but not mentally, he's basically zoned out, on "auto-pilot", so his social life falls apart, but for some reason, he's a great architect. Then he jumps ten years into the future, where his wife left him, and he's severely overweight. It just goes straight into drama, leaving comedy in the dust when he jumps past his father's death, and then comes into his own. But then say hello to comedy after the climax. It was All Just a Dream, or it was time rewinded, take your pick.
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Click / int_99e87707	type	When You Coming Home, Dad?
Click / int_99e87707	comment	When You Coming Home, Dad?: Michael working too hard already causes him to miss some of his children’s important events. The remote’s fast forwarding makes it even worse as he ends up skipping days and even years of events while the rest of him is on “autopilot”.
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Click / int_9a0870ae	type	Screw Yourself
Click / int_9a0870ae	comment	Screw Yourself: A radio announcement in the future mentions that Michael Jackson, the first man to clone himself is suing himself for molesting himself.
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Click / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Click / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The first half of the film is basically your typically raunchy Adam Sandler comedy. The second half, however, is an absolutely heartbreaking drama rife with sad moments and existential fears.
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Click / int_aa79bac	type	Parting-Words Regret
Click / int_aa79bac	comment	Parting-Words Regret: Michael goes back to the last time he saw his father. He gave him a disproportionately angry brush off.
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Click / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Click / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Michael loves his Hostess snack Twinkies and Yodels.
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Click / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Click / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Click is "The Magic Thread", an old French tale, moved to the present-day United States. The source material was also dramatized on Adventures from the Book of Virtues.
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Click / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Click / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: To Barney & Friends.
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Click / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
Click / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Groundhog Day" Loop: The remote allows for this to be possible.
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Click / int_ba3454a7	type	Future Me Scares Me
Click / int_ba3454a7	comment	Future Me Scares Me: Michael is infuriated to see what a jerkass he's become in the future. He's initially loudly pissed off at his apathy towards his son, but the final straw seems to be when Autopilot!Michael yells at his dad (an event that took place shortly before his death). After seeing that, Michael quickly descends into Tranquil Fury and calls himself "pathetic."
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Click / int_bac9f95d	type	Sweet Tooth
Click / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Michael loves to snack on Hostess Twinkies and Ho-Hos and yodels whenever he's dealing with his stressful underpaid job. His son Benjamin also takes after his father, trying to sneak into his Twinkie stash and eating ice cream at the swimming pool party. This would come back to negatively affect both father and son as alternate futures from the remote reveal that their eating habits have contributed to their obesity down the line.
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Click / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Click / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Michael and Donna. Even Morty makes a mention on this:
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Click / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
Click / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: After Michael realizes that fast-forwarding through his life isn't so great after all, he tries several times to throw the remote away only for it to keep reappearing in different places on his body, on his other hand or on top of his head, for example. When Michael decides to get naked in order for it to stop, Morty warns him there'll be only one place left for him to pull the remote out of, which convinces Michael to stop.
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Click / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Click / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Bill who is a genuinely decent guy, infinitely nicer than Michael, but who becomes the butt of his jokes.
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Click / int_c86392ee	type	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
Click / int_c86392ee	comment	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: Though the remote was bought in Bed, Bath and Beyond. It was found in a mysterious "Beyond" section that Michael is implied not to have seen before.
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Click / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Click / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The second half gets real emotional fast, in contrast to the positive first half, where Michael enjoys using the remote to his advantage.
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Click / int_d075311d	type	ShesAllGrownUp
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Click / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Click / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Possibly one of the few times in media a character gets to directly give one to himself. When Michael uses the remote to revisit the last time he saw his father, as his past self brushes him off the present-day Michael berates him for his behavior, calling him pathetic.
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Click / int_dd1dbfb0	type	I Was Quite a Fashion Victim
Click / int_dd1dbfb0	comment	I Was Quite a Fashion Victim: Seeing himself during his first date, Michael calls himself "Wolverine's goofy cousin."
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Click / int_deb39de3	comment	Bad Future: Unsurprisingly, the cause of the main character's Heel Realization.
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Click / int_e2121aa2	type	Post–Wake-Up Realization
Click / int_e2121aa2	comment	Post–Wake-Up Realization: Michael Newman wakes up after a 10 year time skip caused by the remote. He gets out of bed oblivious to the fact that he's put on a lot of weight during those 10 years.
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Click / int_e4157ffd	type	May It Never Happen Again
Click / int_e4157ffd	comment	May It Never Happen Again: After Michael experiences what the future might be if he focuses more on his job using the universal remote, he goes home and decides to spend time with his family instead. He receives a card from Morty along with the universal remote shortly after, whereupon Michael throws the remote in the trash so he can never use it again.
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Click / int_e44c01e1	type	Paranormal Mundane Item
Click / int_e44c01e1	comment	Paranormal Mundane Item: Michael Newman, a workaholic family man, acquires a magical universal remote that enables him to control reality.
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Click / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Click / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Deliberately invoked. Michael does have a problem with throwing himself into his work and isn't the nicest guy, but does clearly love his family and his Fatal Flaw is a lot of the misguided decisions he makes are out of his love for them. As Morty explains, Michael whenever he's on "auto-pilot" only exhibits the first set of traits, which are the more common ones he displays. It plays a major part in Michael coming to terms with his flaws.
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Click / int_e8760868	type	Space Whale Aesop
Click / int_e8760868	comment	Space Whale Aesop: The aesop of "don't take your life for granted" is delivered via a magic remote that can skip your life for you and tailor itself to your choices.
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Click / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Click / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Or was it?! It wasn't. Everything happened, but Morty gave Michael a second chance.
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Click / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Click / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: In 2017, Michael pauses time to kick Donna's new husband Bill in the balls—several times. When he plays time again, Bill doubles over in pain but wouldn't know why.
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Click / int_ed4275d1	type	Universal Remote Control
Click / int_ed4275d1	comment	Universal Remote Control: Adam Sandler's character finds a universal remote at Bed, Bath, and Beyond that allows him to pause and fast-forward time, among other settings. The problem emerges when it turns out that it saves his preferences and starts acting on its own, causing him to miss out on a lot. It also cannot be returned, thrown away, or destroyed, as it will always reappear in the owner's possession in perfect condition regardless of what was done to it.
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Click / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Click / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: Thanks to the constant time skips caused by the remote "learning" to skip to promotions and other work-related successes, we see glimpses of a future where Everything Is An iPod. Of course, it's a bit confusing as to when they take place; the first time skip of any substantial amount is shown to have transported Michael to the year 2017, but the other time skips are to 2023 and 2029.
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Click / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Click / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Michael gets the remote at a Bed Bath & Beyond. Twinkies and Yodels also feature a disproportionate amount. In addition, his childrens' favorite TV show is Dragon Tales which they watch on a Trinitron television.
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Click / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Click / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Inverted; Michael chooses to be unhappy from the start, as his over-dedication to his work ends up ruining this life, and Morty points out that it would happen with or without the remote. By learning his lesson, he is finally able to enjoy the little things of life and be happy with his family.
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Click / int_f6c3d469	type	Fanservice Extra
Click / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: Michael fast forwards his trip to the office, but on the way he sees a random hot jogger (played by Ireesha) and sets time to slow motion to stare at her big breasts bouncing up and down.
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Click / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Click / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: All the dogs Michael's family get shown having their way with a plush duck.
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Click / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Click / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Early on in the movie, Michael's daughter Samantha asks him how long he's going to live and Michael says a throwaway line "I'll live for 200 years, is that long enough for you?". Near the end of the film, as he lies dying in the rain, he says to Samantha, "I didn't quite make it to 200 but I still love you."
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