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The Meatballs franchise is a series of comedy films revolving around teenagers attending summer camp, and getting into all sorts of crazy shenanigans at the behest of rebellious authority figures.The series originated as a 1979 film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray. Rudy Gerner (Chris Makepeace) is sent to a summer camp, North Star, by his overbearing father, where he meets a motley crew of other teenagers being led by head counselor Tripper Harrison (Murray). Harrison is the head of a group of councillors-in-training at the camp, and takes every opportunity to make practical jokes at the expense of the other employees.Over the course of the summer, Rudy and Tripper bond, while several of the other teens get into hilarious situations and relationships. The summer culminates in a competition against a rival camp, Mohawk, who are trying to defend their undefeated record in various sports. Tripper subsequently leads the teens to victory by inspiring them... even if it doesn't matter in the end.The film was followed by several sequels (most In Name Only), none of which featured Murray or any of the rest of the original cast: Meatballs II (1984): Two competing camps, Sasquatch and Patton, are drawn into an end-of-summer boxing match to see who will "own" the nearby lake both camps are situated near. At the same time, an alien is left on Earth by his parents and is adopted by the kids, who help him understand the planet's culture. Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986): Several years after the events of the first film, Rudy is now a young man, and goes to work at a river resort for the summer. At the same time, an adult film star is killed in a freak accident, but is denied entrance into the afterlife until she can help someone on Earth. The star, Roxy, elects to help Rudy lose his virginity, while he has to deal with an assortment of colourful characters during the summer. Meatballs 4: To The Rescue (1992): A summer camp, facing serious financial difficulties, rehires one of their former waterskiing instructors (played by Corey Feldman) to drum up attendance for the upcoming season. The camp also has to deal with a rival (representing a nearby camp) who is trying to buy them out, which leads to a showdown between the two camps. | |
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The Voice | |
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The Voice: Tripper does double-duty as the P.A. announcer for the camp. Thank God Tripper is played by Bill Murray. | |
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Pom-Pom Girl: They don't have any uniforms, but during the basketball game, several female counselors get pom-poms and loyally dance and cheer for their team no matter how far behind they get. Several Camp Mohawk counselors wear actual cheerleading uniforms in that scene while cheering for their own camp, but they show a nastier side when they cheat at the following activities. | |
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Failed a Spot Check: At the end, Tripper moves Morty's bed with Morty in it to a raft on the lake. Morty doesn't notice until he falls into the water. Morty just waking up might explain some grogginess, but waking up to the sky should have been an eye opener. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Rudy and Tripper bonding as early morning joggers. Rudy's marathon win against the Camp Mohawk ringer gives Camp North Star its victory over the hated rich-kid's camp. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: If the basketball game between their counselors is anything to go by, the Mohawk campers and staff are far more athletically gifted than their North Star counterparts. They still wind up cheating during most of the events in the Olympiad. | |
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Heavy Sleeper | |
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Heavy Sleeper: Morty sleeps so soundly that one of the running gags of the movie was to move him and his bed into strange places. | |
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Strictly Formula | |
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Strictly Formula: All three sequels fall into the same formula of following an outsider who goes to a summer camp, meets a cast of wild characters, and gets roped into a competition between two rival camps to see who will dominate a summer-end sports competition. | |
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Same Story, Different Names | |
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Same Story, Different Names: Both the second and fourth films deal with a summer camp that is besieged by a rival that is trying to buy them out, and the climax of both films centering around a tournament (a boxing match in II, a waterskiing competition in 4) that will decide the fate of the camp, just like the Olympiad competition in the original film. | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: The main crux of the third film is that Roxy is trying to help Rudy get laid. However, the first time Roxy helps him meet a hot blonde who is practically throwing herself at him, Rudy refuses on the grounds that "I want someone who likes me for me." Roxy calls him out on this. | |
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Intergenerational Friendship | |
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Intergenerational Friendship: Tripper takes pity on Rudy after seeing how much he's struggling to fit in at camp and takes him under his wing. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Morty and Spaz. Really, all of the male counselors-in-training from the first film have aspects of this, although Crockett and Wheels to a lesser extent than the other three. Rudy is mostly treated as this off-camera. He gets better. | |
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Mystery Meat | |
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Mystery Meat: | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: Both Fink and "the Stomach" in the hot dog eating contest. | |
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Burping Contest | |
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Burping Contest: Tripper has a friendly belching contest with Rudy. | |
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Understatement | |
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Understatement: During the basketball game between the North Star campers versus the Mohawk guys: "Our guys don't look so good." Also: "Well, the zone is not working..." | |
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Cheaters Never Prosper | |
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Cheaters Never Prosper: Averted. Once we get to the Olympiad, it becomes clear that Camp Mohawk has won every previous competition by cheating whenever they could. The kids of Camp North Star eventually get wise to it, sabotaging one attempt to throw the stackers race and —since there's obviously nobody checking for this sort of thing— even doing some cheating of their own in the swim race by dropping a fish down the Mohawk competitor's swimsuit. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Tripper, as of the third film. When Rudy goes to the marina to work for him, he learns (via a voiceover from a soundalike and a letter) that Tripper sold the marina in order to fulfill his dream... of managing an all-female wrestling team. | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs: The slobs from Camp North Star versus the snobs from Camp Mohawk. Tripper gives an iconic speech just before the climactic showdown admitting that beating the snobs won't matter, since even in defeat they'd still be rich. | |
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Ghost Story | |
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Ghost Story: Tripper tells a ghost story (the urban legend "The Hook") to the children around a campfire. At the end, he reveals that he is wearing a hook, causing the kids to run off screaming. | |
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Fat Best Friend | |
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Fat Best Friend: Fink is this to Spaz, of the Type A variety. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Tripper, Spaz, Wheels, and Hardware. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
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Rousing Speech: Tripper's terrific "it just doesn't matter" rant rouses the entire camp to victory, even while emphasizing the superiority of their opponents and underscoring the pointlessness of the game. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Tripper, who takes every opportunity to snark at his fellow councillors and the campers. | |
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Summer Campy | |
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Summer Campy: The first one is arguably the funniest Summer Camp movie yet made. | |
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First Girl Wins | |
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First Girl Wins: In III, Rudy eventually realizes he loves Wendy, and they decide to begin a relationship at the end of the film. | |
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Eating Contest | |
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Eating Contest: There's a hot-dog eating contest as part of the competition between the two camps. | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: A lot of that going on between the guys and girls' counselors, but the movie focuses on the crazy relationship between Tripper and Roxanne. | |
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Athletically Challenged | |
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Athletically Challenged: Crockett, Fink, Spaz, Hardware, and Wheels are absolutely horrible at basketball. When they face off against Camp Mohawk, their only points come when Fink gets startled by an opposing player, tosses the ball in the air, and accidentally scores. Seeing that the guys are completely incapable of winning the game, Tripper decides that North Star is going to "lose with some self-respect" (which means pantsing the players on the Mohawk team and then running away). | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: One of the woman Rudy tries to seduce in the third film knees him in the groin to get him to stop his advances. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: Spaz, whenever he's around busty Wendy. During a canoeing trip, Spaz drops his paddle while he's distracted by Wendy sunbathing. | |
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Food Slap | |
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Food Slap: Some bullying Camp Mohawk counselors take Spaz's milkshake and pour it on his head. | |
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Battle Chant | |
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Battle Chant: A non-military version of this. The Camp North Star summer camp is losing badly to their rivals Camp Mohawk. Head Counsellor Tripper Harrison gives the Camp North Star members a rousing speech including the slogan "It just doesn't matter", and by the end they're all chanting it. | |
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Gadgeteer Genius: "Hardware" Renzetti from the first film certainly thinks he's one. Subverted as his attempt to wire up an air conditioner sees the entire camp lose power. | |
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