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Meet the Parents

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Meet the Parents	comment	Meet The Parents is a 2000 Kafka Komedy that is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, based on a 1992 independent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Greg Glienna, which was not widely distributed and so is not well known in general public circles. Universal Pictures bought the rights from Glienna to adapt his indie comedy into this feature directed by Jay Roach.In the 2000 film, Nurse Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) attempts to propose to his schoolteacher girlfriend Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo), but before he can, Pam gets invited to her sister's wedding. Greg agrees to go along, seeing it as an opportunity to impress her family. However, Pam's Knight Templar Father Jack (Robert De Niro), an ex-CIA operative, is immediately suspicious of Greg and spends the weekend grilling him on any undesirable elements in his background.Greg's situation is further complicated by a series of attempts to impress Pam's family backfiring on him, mostly involving little lies that lead to bigger ones, plus improbable accidents from flooding the backyard with sewage to setting the wedding altar on fire, until he looks like a complete jackass. It escalates to the point where he gets kicked out of the Byrnes' home. Ultimately, Pam manages to convince her father that she loves Greg and despite the bad first impression it was all because he loves her. After another grilling session, Jack's contempt for Greg dissipates... for the most part.The film led to two sequels: Meet The Fockers in 2004, and Little Fockers in 2010.Meet The Fockers — In a reversal of the first film, Pam and her parents join Greg in meeting his parents, Bernie and Roz (Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand respectively), before Greg and Pam get married. Hilarity Ensues and while Greg is thoroughly embarrassed by his parents' behavior, Jack once again is suspicious of him after learning certain elements of Greg's past and goes to even more extreme lengths to prove what he suspects of Greg. Ultimately, everything works out, as Greg and Pam get married and the Fockers even help to bring back some passion into the Byrnes' marriage.The first film of the trilogy was a sociopathic-based comedy with a fairly predictable premise, and the second movie is still funny with the premise moving in a bit of a different direction.Little Fockers - Set a few years after the second film, this movie goes around the planning of the birthday party for the Focker twins, a new heart condition found of Jack, and Greg getting a new job in order to get money for his children's education.Jack is afraid that Greg plans to leave Pam, so he studies him. Meanwhile, Greg's new job associate (played by Jessica Alba) seems to be interested in him; and Pam's old boyfriend seems obsessed with her again.Note: For the trope about introducing a partner to the other partner's parents, see Meet the In-Laws.
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Meet the Parents / int_11ad560b	type	Control Freak
Meet the Parents / int_11ad560b	comment	Jack also gets this from Pam and Dina after they realise he's just been looking for excuses to kick Greg out, and from Greg himself when he shows up at the airport. In all cases, he's basically being called out on being an overbearing Control Freak Boyfriend-Blocking Dad.
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Meet the Parents / int_125f3ee4	type	Cannot Keep a Secret
Meet the Parents / int_125f3ee4	comment	Cannot Keep a Secret: When Pam reveals to Greg that she's pregnant (and the Fockers figure it out on their own), he's afraid Jack will find out because his parents are so open about everything and refuse to keep secrets. Ironically, Greg ends up being the one who spills the beans to Jack, under the influence of truth serum.
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Meet the Parents / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Meet the Parents / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: The free-spirited Fockers. They Cannot Keep a Secret and have no boundaries whatsoever, especially when it comes to sexuality. Jack Byrnes to a slightly lesser degree - it's clear that Pam has grown very tired of his overprotectiveness and the lengths he is willing to go to nitpick any potential suitor of hers. Not to mention, he wears a fake boob for much of the second movie.
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Meet the Parents / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Meet the Parents / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The reveal of Jack being ex-CIA would've been funnier if it wasn't stated outright in trailers for the movie. They also played up Jack watching Greg doing silly kung fu moves to his hidden camera, which is the film's last scene. There isn't much the theatrical trailer doesn't give away.
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Meet the Parents / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Meet the Parents / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: The second movie begins with Greg catching an extraordinary number of lucky breaks. He should've known it was too good to last...
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Meet the Parents / int_16b734e7	type	Hippie Parents
Meet the Parents / int_16b734e7	comment	Hippie Parents: Roz and Bernie to Greg.
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Meet the Parents / int_183b52	type	Kafka Komedy
Meet the Parents / int_183b52	comment	Kafka Komedy: All 3 movies revel in being this.
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Meet the Parents / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Meet the Parents / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Pam, being Jack's oldest daughter. Debbie to a slightly lesser extent.
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Meet the Parents / int_1a51c6ca	type	Toros y Flamenco
Meet the Parents / int_1a51c6ca	comment	Toros y Flamenco: Spain in the third movie.
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Meet the Parents / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Meet the Parents / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: According to a YouTube video, Ben Stiller shows off his very muscular physique in a speedo.
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Meet the Parents / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Meet the Parents / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: In the third movie, Greg's daughter tells Jack that Andi "gives him his boners" (she actually works for a company that makes male enhancement pills), causing Greg to be Mistaken for Cheating by Jack.
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Meet the Parents / int_1cdada2a	type	Censored Title
Meet the Parents / int_1cdada2a	comment	Censored Title: Some movie reviews called the second movie Meet the F*ers (which, oddly enough, made the title seem worse than it actually was).
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Meet the Parents / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Meet the Parents / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Jack to a disturbing degree. Bernie Focker when he finds out that Jack drugged Greg with truth serum.
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Meet the Parents / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Meet the Parents / int_1e12b5b7	comment	Lawful Stupid: The airline employees, particularly the one who makes Greg wait until his row gets called for boarding... even though he's the only person waiting to be called. The redneck cop in the second film. He is following the standard list of what to do if an officer pulls someone over and the driver turns hostile—the problem being that this means he won't listen to what Jack, Greg or Bernie have to say when they try to explain themselves and pretty much brutalizes them when they turn "uncooperative" (which is when they try to insist and raise their voices, otherwise remaining peaceful).
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Meet the Parents / int_1eeb8a61	type	Disposable Love Interest
Meet the Parents / int_1eeb8a61	comment	Disposable Love Interest: The third film introduces Andi Garcia, Greg's attractive co-worker who is clearly interested in him. While the trope is downplayed in that Greg doesn't reciprocate her feelings, Andi's sole purpose in the film is to tempt him, which ultimately worsens the already-brewing tensions between Greg and Jack. She completely disappears from the film after her drunken attempt to seduce Greg.
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Meet the Parents / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Meet the Parents / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: The ultra paranoid and suspicious Jack is unaware that his own son Denny smokes pot.
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Meet the Parents / int_23568a2a	type	Adaptational Job Change
Meet the Parents / int_23568a2a	comment	Adaptational Job Change: 1992's Greg (no last name) is an advertising agent. 2000's Greg Focker, on the other hand, is a male nurse. Pam's job is never explicitly stated in Greg Glienna's film, but in the Hollywood version, she's a 2nd grade teacher. Also in the indie flick, patriarch Irv Burns was a gas station owner who eventually sold his business to Japanese investors and retired on the income. Here, Jack Byrnes is a Vietnam War veteran and retired CIA operative whose cover story is that he's a retired florist.
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Meet the Parents / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Meet the Parents / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Dina's the only member of Pam's family who is remotely nice to Greg.
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Meet the Parents / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Meet the Parents / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: In the third film Jack uses MySpace to find pictures of Andy and Greg at the meeting, in 2010. Nobody was using MySpace anymore in 2010. This is likely due to Little Fockers having been on The Shelf of Movie Languishment for a year.
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Meet the Parents / int_2b12851f	type	Plot-Sensitive Snooping Skills
Meet the Parents / int_2b12851f	comment	Plot-Sensitive Snooping Skills: From the first film, Jack finds out all kinds of unsavory things about Greg (that aren't even true), but is oblivious to the fact that his own son smokes pot. Lampshaded by Greg in the last scene.
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Meet the Parents / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Meet the Parents / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: One of the plot points of the third film.
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Meet the Parents / int_2fb1096b	type	Meeting-the-Parents Sequel
Meet the Parents / int_2fb1096b	comment	Meeting-the-Parents Sequel: Inverted. The first one is about meeting the parents. The premise is recycled in Meet the Fockers and has the girl meeting the guy's parents, but the plot drifts in a slightly different direction, with slightly less focus on the parents. Little Fockers throws out the meeting the parents thing altogether (mostly because we've already met both sets of parents) and is about the main couple's kids being little Bratty Half-Pints and Greg's problems at work.
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Meet the Parents / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
Meet the Parents / int_34e15b76	comment	Kindhearted Cat Lover: Jack, who dotes on Jinx like crazy. The "kindhearted" part is extremely debatable to say the least, though.
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Meet the Parents / int_384b5fd8	type	Empathy Pet
Meet the Parents / int_384b5fd8	comment	Empathy Pet: Jack's beloved Mr. Jinx is equally intelligent, standoffish and mean to Greg. Bernie's dog Moses humps everything that moves.
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Meet the Parents / int_389f6c7b	type	Sugary Malice
Meet the Parents / int_389f6c7b	comment	Sugary Malice: The flight attendant near the end of the first film.
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Meet the Parents / int_39a8fc83	type	The Can Kicked Him
Meet the Parents / int_39a8fc83	comment	The Can Kicked Him: In Meet The Fockers, the Byrnes' cat Jinx (who knows how to use a toilet) flushes the Fockers' dog, Moses, forcing Bernie to destroy the RV toilet with a fire extinguisher to save him. Moses is later seen okay, but with his fur turned blue from the incident.
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Meet the Parents / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
Meet the Parents / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector: Jack places his thumbs on Greg's wrists as an impromptu lie detector in their last major scene. Which may border on to research failure as using your thumbs to take a person's pulse is not correct; your thumb has its own pulse and thus may give a false reading. Some have speculated that Jack was counting on Greg not knowing that, and getting distracted from hiding other signs that he's lying. Though he'd already learned that Greg aced the MCATs.
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Meet the Parents / int_3c598f56	type	Conflict Ball
Meet the Parents / int_3c598f56	comment	Conflict Ball: And how! The entire trilogy's biggest conflicts all revolve around Jack thinking Greg is out to do no good when it's all misunderstandings and not waiting until he has all evidence before confronting Greg.
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Meet the Parents / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Meet the Parents / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: In the sequel, the more time Dina spends around the Fockers, the more open and flamboyant she becomes. By the climax, she's wearing Roz's loose clothes and calling Jack out on his crap.
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Meet the Parents / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Meet the Parents / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Greg finally snapping and telling off the annoying flight attendant ends with a hard cut to him getting dragged off the plane back through the airport by security guards, and only Jack showing up and pulling rank is able to save him from getting hit with a slew of criminal charges. Even before The War on Terror and the creation of The TSA, aggressive and threatening behavior on an airplane was not taken lightly.
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Meet the Parents / int_3fa4ef91	type	Baby's First Words
Meet the Parents / int_3fa4ef91	comment	Baby's First Words: In Meet the Fockers, Greg's in-laws try to make their son Jack an Adorably Precocious Child before he's out of diapers, but his first word becomes "asshole" after hearing Greg say it.
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Meet the Parents / int_402028bb	type	Rental Car Abuse
Meet the Parents / int_402028bb	comment	Rental Car Abuse: At the beginning of the second movie, Greg gets a rental agent to admit the insurance was mostly a cashgrab. When he arrives at Jack's house, Jack, showing off his new RV, gets Greg to throw a cinder block at the windshield to demonstrate its durability. The block bounces off and smashes the windshield of Greg's rental car. Jack offhandedly tells him not to worry because the rental insurance he presumably took out would cover it.
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Meet the Parents / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Meet the Parents / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Pam telling Greg that her dad is "the sweetest man in the world". Also, later, when Jack claims to be a very accepting person. Greg himself is guilty of a few, especially invokedthe one about the time he milked a cat.
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Meet the Parents / int_44c8891c	type	Safe Word
Meet the Parents / int_44c8891c	comment	Safe Word: In Meet the Fockers, Dina has "Muskrat," as a message for Jack to ease up.
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Meet the Parents / int_4756a7f	type	Bourgeois Bohemian
Meet the Parents / int_4756a7f	comment	Bourgeois Bohemian: The Fockers. They're portrayed as well-meaning and friendly (certainly much moreso than Jack's family) if a little loopy and too open.
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Meet the Parents / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Meet the Parents / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jack; he clearly loves his daughter and wants only the best for her, but his extreme Papa Wolf personality makes it difficult for her to have any successful relationships. Though he does push it with how much he tortures and refuses to reason with Greg and his family. The "Circle Of Trust" and control-freak tendencies make it clear he's pretty difficult to live with, which even his own wife and daughters admit.
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Meet the Parents / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Meet the Parents / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: These films are all about making poor Greg Focker actually, Gaylord as miserable as possible, having everything that could possibly go wrong, go wrong when he's meeting his girlfriend's parents.
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Meet the Parents / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
Meet the Parents / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Different types: the Fockers are of the "so embarrassing to be around that they feel like a plague" type, while the Byrnes are of the "make your life hell via constantly point out any little flaws you have" type, with Jack being the exaggerated version of that, that being "Personal version of Big Brother Is Watching You".
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Meet the Parents / int_4b5817c1	type	Truth Serums
Meet the Parents / int_4b5817c1	comment	Truth Serums: Jack injects Greg with one of these in Meet The Fockers to get him to admit that Greg is the father of the Fockers' old housekeeper's son. It causes Greg to make an ass of himself in front of both families, but he wasn't actually the father.
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Meet the Parents / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Meet the Parents / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: A subtle one... During the What the Hell, Hero? scene with Jack, Pam and Dina, after Pam walks out says a lot, including the fact that even the adored Kevin had difficulties while dating Pam.
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Meet the Parents / int_50251308	type	Luke, I Might Be Your Father
Meet the Parents / int_50251308	comment	Luke, I Might Be Your Father: See Ethnic Menial Labor above.
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Meet the Parents / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
Meet the Parents / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": For obvious reasons, Greg Focker does not like using his actual first name: Gaylord.
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Meet the Parents / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Meet the Parents / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Many of Greg's problems with Jack come from Jack jumping to erroneous conclusions based on limited information; he assumes Greg is giving Pam fetish clothes when he examined a suitcase that was sent to Greg by mistake, he believes Greg didn't take the MCATs but in reality Jack's contacts didn't find Greg's marks because Greg took the tests under his legal name of Gaylord, etc. In the third film, Andi gets drunk and tries to force herself on Greg, but he rejects her. Jack arrives, planning to apologize to Greg for their earlier falling out, but gets the wrong idea when he sees them from afar.
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Meet the Parents / int_53d302c	type	Vertigo Effect
Meet the Parents / int_53d302c	comment	Vertigo Effect: When Jack is swimming after Greg in the ball pit. This is a Shout-Out to Jaws, which helped make the Vertigo Effect famous.
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Meet the Parents / int_54428f7b	type	Ashes to Crashes
Meet the Parents / int_54428f7b	comment	Ashes to Crashes: Greg breaks the urn containing the ashes of Jack's beloved mother trying to open a champagne bottle. To make it much worse, Mr. Jinx mistakes the resulting pile for a litter box.
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Meet the Parents / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Meet the Parents / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: The headmistress of the elite preschool in the third film assumes Greg and Jack are a couple.
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Meet the Parents / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Meet the Parents / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Andi Garcia, Jessica Alba's character from Little Fockers is permanently perky, peppers her speech with Valley Girl like expressions and would come across as just an immature party-girl airhead if it wasn't for her demonstrating that she is also a highly skilled nurse in a couple of early scenes.
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Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_58626d87
Meet the Parents / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Meet the Parents / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Even Mr. Jinx seems to have it in for Greg.
Meet the Parents / int_58e43f17	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_58e43f17	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_58e43f17
Meet the Parents / int_59204dfb	type	Greeting Gesture Confusion
Meet the Parents / int_59204dfb	comment	Greeting Gesture Confusion: When Greg first meets Dina, she holds out her hand for a handshake while he goes for a hug.
Meet the Parents / int_59204dfb	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_59204dfb	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_59204dfb
Meet the Parents / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Meet the Parents / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: It is implied that after all the crap Denny pulled in the first movie and didnâ€™t get in trouble for that he eventually got caught as he was sent to military school between the first and second movies.
Meet the Parents / int_599f943f	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_599f943f	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_599f943f
Meet the Parents / int_5a5b7e42	type	Improperly Paranoid
Meet the Parents / int_5a5b7e42	comment	Improperly Paranoid: Jack's Fatal Flaw â€“ he would rather believe Greg (and his parents, and everybody else who so much as saw his girls) is actively and maliciously trying to do something (and put him through utter hell to force him to tell the truth) than accept that his son-in-law is just a Butt-Monkey. The "circle of trust" system is also supposed to allow for an open inter-family relationship, but it becomes apparent long before Pam and Dina call B.S. that Jack is the only one allowed to have secrets.
Meet the Parents / int_5a5b7e42	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_5a5b7e42	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_5a5b7e42
Meet the Parents / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Meet the Parents / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: After Jack learns that his daughter Deb has broken up with her husband at the start of the third movie, he blames himself for not seeing the signs that Bob was cheating, claiming that he was so focused on Greg that he didn't pay attention to Bob.
Meet the Parents / int_5ad80bf8	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_5ad80bf8	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_5ad80bf8
Meet the Parents / int_5ae357c1	type	Knight Templar Parent
Meet the Parents / int_5ae357c1	comment	Knight Templar Parent: This describes Jack Byrnes to a T.
Meet the Parents / int_5ae357c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_5ae357c1	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_5ae357c1
Meet the Parents / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Meet the Parents / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: In the third film, no less. Both Greg and Pam's parents announce at a Christmas gathering that they plan on moving next door.
Meet the Parents / int_6293c185	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_6293c185	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_6293c185
Meet the Parents / int_68a171b6	type	Sadist Show
Meet the Parents / int_68a171b6	comment	Sadist Show: The basis of the humor in the movies is that the universe seems to hate Greg Focker. Also, his new father-in-law is a sadist who refuses to let Greg ever come out of something looking good, and most of his in-laws are sardonic snobs who ridicule Greg at every opportunity. Even the cat seems to delight in making Greg look bad.
Meet the Parents / int_68a171b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_68a171b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_68a171b6
Meet the Parents / int_69323c44	type	Old People are Nonsexual
Meet the Parents / int_69323c44	comment	Old People are Nonsexual: Jack and Dina are implied to be this in the first, while Bernie and Roz are definitely not. By the end of the sequel, Jack and Dina pick up a few tips from the latter and proceed to do it in the RV.
Meet the Parents / int_69323c44	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_69323c44	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_69323c44
Meet the Parents / int_6a8c409f	type	You're Drinking Breast Milk
Meet the Parents / int_6a8c409f	comment	You're Drinking Breast Milk: Happens to Greg in Meet the Fockers.
Meet the Parents / int_6a8c409f	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_6a8c409f	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_6a8c409f
Meet the Parents / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Meet the Parents / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While Jack clearly disliked, bullied, and had many unfounded suspicions about Greg, not all of it was unjustified. Greg did unwittingly cause a lot of property damage, and a lot of trouble for the family, and always lied about it, or made excuses, rather then simply fess up, apologize, and try to make amends. Even Dina and Pam couldn't argue with Jack that this was disgraceful, and sided with Jack, when he finally threw Greg out. On the other side of the coin, Jack claimed if Greg had simply been honest about everything, he would've been completely accepting of him.
Meet the Parents / int_6b05b601	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_6b05b601	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_6b05b601
Meet the Parents / int_6c6d32a0	type	The Maiden Name Debate
Meet the Parents / int_6c6d32a0	comment	The Maiden Name Debate: At the end of the first movie, Pam's parents note that taking Greg's name would result in Pamela Martha Focker (it sounds like "motherfucker"). In the second movie, Pam confirms that she will indeed take Greg's name, she doesn't care how embarrassing it may sound.
Meet the Parents / int_6c6d32a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_6c6d32a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_6c6d32a0
Meet the Parents / int_6ca72c26	type	All Take and No Give
Meet the Parents / int_6ca72c26	comment	All Take and No Give: Jack's Circle of Trust, despite its intentions, is unfortunately this. Jack expects the select few in the circle to be utterly honest, but he cannot keep his suspicions in check.
Meet the Parents / int_6ca72c26	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_6ca72c26	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_6ca72c26
Meet the Parents / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Meet the Parents / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Mo Focker, an unseen relative. A conversation between Jack and Greg reveals that's not the extent of it, either:
Meet the Parents / int_6d7026fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_6d7026fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_6d7026fa
Meet the Parents / int_6da1d9ae	type	Parental Marriage Veto
Meet the Parents / int_6da1d9ae	comment	Parental Marriage Veto
Meet the Parents / int_6da1d9ae	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_6da1d9ae	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_6da1d9ae
Meet the Parents / int_6f0966ad	type	Real Joke Name
Meet the Parents / int_6f0966ad	comment	Real Joke Name: In Little Fockers, we are treated to the female character "Andi Garcia." The censors reportedly told the producers they couldn't use the name of the second movie unless they actually found a family with that name; and they did. In Canada.
Meet the Parents / int_6f0966ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_6f0966ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_6f0966ad
Meet the Parents / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Meet the Parents / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Given that the 2000 film is much lighter than the original 1992 story, Pam and her mom are not accidentally killed by her dad, nor does said dad die of a heart attack.
Meet the Parents / int_7453bc5b	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_7453bc5b	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_7453bc5b
Meet the Parents / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Meet the Parents / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: The first scene we see of Bernie Focker is him taking dance classes... in Spain. It seems this will be his only appearance in the film... until he makes a surprise return home in the second half of the movie. Originally, Dustin Hoffman could not agree to work on the film due to disagreements with the production studio on the scope of his role... but this changed, thanks to negotiations that included a bigger paycheck. He ended up being added via reshoots
Meet the Parents / int_754df088	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_754df088	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_754df088
Meet the Parents / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Meet the Parents / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: With Grandkids. Jack picks the bright (and slightly psychotic) Samantha as his favorite to the lonely and somewhat dim Henry. He claims this is because Samantha likely has more of Pam's genes than Greg's, and is therefore "less of a Focker."
Meet the Parents / int_7c9dcc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_7c9dcc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_7c9dcc1
Meet the Parents / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Meet the Parents / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: After spending most of the movie being dumped on by his prospective in-laws, Greg finally loses it and gets thrown off an airplane for giving this to a flight attendant. Jack also gets this from Pam and Dina after they realise he's just been looking for excuses to kick Greg out, and from Greg himself when he shows up at the airport. In all cases, he's basically being called out on being an overbearing Control Freak Boyfriend-Blocking Dad.
Meet the Parents / int_7d89315b	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_7d89315b	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_7d89315b
Meet the Parents / int_7df2b942	type	Moving the Goalposts
Meet the Parents / int_7df2b942	comment	Moving the Goalposts: Jack is exposed as this in the climax of the first movie when, after being presented with evidence that Greg wasn't lying about his grades and ability to become a doctor, he immediately latches on to another reason for why he's not suitable. Pam and Dina immediately call bullshit, as it's clear by that point that Jack is just searching for any reason not to accept him. This is what ultimately gets him to realize he was wrong.
Meet the Parents / int_7df2b942	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_7df2b942	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_7df2b942
Meet the Parents / int_805b13e	type	Wacky Marriage Proposal
Meet the Parents / int_805b13e	comment	Wacky Marriage Proposal: Greg plans one at the start of the movie. He intends to have her students spell out "MARRY ME PAM" with letter cards, only for him to learn how important it is to get her father's blessing first and call it off at the last second.
Meet the Parents / int_805b13e	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_805b13e	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_805b13e
Meet the Parents / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Meet the Parents / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Hams: The Koshers - er, Fockers, oh damn.
Meet the Parents / int_823c6e3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_823c6e3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_823c6e3e
Meet the Parents / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Meet the Parents / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Greg's real first name is Gaylord. His parents also call him "Gay". What sort of parents call their son Gaylord Focker? Hippies, of course. It is also implied with the airport security officer Norm, considering Greg's sarcastic "Bye, Norm." after Jack shows up to interrogate Greg instead.
Meet the Parents / int_829b958e	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_829b958e	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_829b958e
Meet the Parents / int_836b1ec2	type	Suddenly Ethnicity
Meet the Parents / int_836b1ec2	comment	Suddenly Ethnicity: Amusingly played with in the third film. Jack has been studying the Byrnes family genealogy and while they seem to be mostly of Irish descent, Bernie and Roz do a little research of their own and discover that Jack is "one twenty third" Jewish. They proudly present him with a yarmulke for Christmas.
Meet the Parents / int_836b1ec2	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_836b1ec2	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_836b1ec2
Meet the Parents / int_8593b49	type	Twerp Sweating
Meet the Parents / int_8593b49	comment	Twerp Sweating: A good part of the premise of Meet The Parents was Robert De Niro blurring the line between Twerp Sweating and Perp Sweating.
Meet the Parents / int_8593b49	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_8593b49	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_8593b49
Meet the Parents / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Meet the Parents / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The fake "Mr. Jinx" cat with the grey tip on its tail. When Jack confronts Greg about it, Greg sets the cat down, and the cat walks off, down the hallway. It's never seen again after that. Not that we even need to know about it after that. Andi Garcia in the third film; she disappears from the plot after she and Greg wake up in the dirt pit.
Meet the Parents / int_863fa679	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_863fa679	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_863fa679
Meet the Parents / int_8864056	type	Plague of Good Fortune
Meet the Parents / int_8864056	comment	Plague of Good Fortune: Meet the Fockers begins with Greg having a smooth and happy experience going through the airport and flying to the Byrnes' house, in a perfect inversion of the hell he endured in the previous film (he even interacts with the same people and they give him no crap). He really should have figured out that his life was going to become an even bigger nightmare the moment he got within arm's reach of Jack.
Meet the Parents / int_8864056	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_8864056	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_8864056
Meet the Parents / int_88d1a9d1	type	Lactating Male
Meet the Parents / int_88d1a9d1	comment	Lactating Male: Discussed in the first film. Greg thinks any non-human animal can be milked regardless of sex, as long as it has nipples. Jack Brynes sarcastically asks Greg if he can milk him, since male humans have nipples too.
Meet the Parents / int_88d1a9d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_88d1a9d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_88d1a9d1
Meet the Parents / int_8ab145f5	type	Profound by Pop Song
Meet the Parents / int_8ab145f5	comment	Profound by Pop Song: Greg is asked to say grace at dinner. He tries to improvise a prayer, which ends up as the lyrics to "Day by Day" from Godspell.
Meet the Parents / int_8ab145f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_8ab145f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_8ab145f5
Meet the Parents / int_8b9c057e	type	Ethnic Menial Labor
Meet the Parents / int_8b9c057e	comment	Ethnic Menial Labor: Meet The Fockers has Isabel, the Fockers' former housekeeper who runs a catering business. When she was working for the titular family, main character Greg lost his virginity to her. She also has a son, which leads to Jack trying to find out if Greg is the father of said son. He isn't.
Meet the Parents / int_8b9c057e	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_8b9c057e	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_8b9c057e
Meet the Parents / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Meet the Parents / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Let's just say that by the third film, Jack has in a way completely lost several redeemable and justifiable traits he's had from the first film and easily could be considered the villain of the film series.
Meet the Parents / int_8cb1a369	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_8cb1a369	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_8cb1a369
Meet the Parents / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Meet the Parents / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Jack has one near the end of the first two films, yet continues to give Greg hell despite them. In the first film, Dina calls him out for finding any excuse to diminish Greg from the instant they met and how his impossibly rigid standards make it likely that Pam will never have a lasting romance. Seeing a saddened, lonely Pam alone in her bedroom moves him enough to give Greg a chance. In the second, Dina and Pam criticize him judging everyone for keeping secrets while dismissing keeping his own as necessary for the family. Although that only makes him sad enough to take Little Jack and drive away in the RV, hearing Little Jack call him an "asshole" makes him change his mind.
Meet the Parents / int_9591377d	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_9591377d	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_9591377d
Meet the Parents / int_98a19d7f	type	Money, Dear Boy
Meet the Parents / int_98a19d7f	comment	Originally, Dustin Hoffman could not agree to work on the film due to disagreements with the production studio on the scope of his role... but this changed, thanks to negotiations that included a bigger paycheck. He ended up being added via reshoots
Meet the Parents / int_98a19d7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_98a19d7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_98a19d7f
Meet the Parents / int_997ce6ad	type	Boyfriend-Blocking Dad
Meet the Parents / int_997ce6ad	comment	Pam telling Greg that her dad is "the sweetest man in the world". Also, later, when Jack claims to be a very accepting person.
Meet the Parents / int_997ce6ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_997ce6ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_997ce6ad
Meet the Parents / int_9cdef1ef	type	Lovable Sex Maniac
Meet the Parents / int_9cdef1ef	comment	Lovable Sex Maniac: Greg's parents.
Meet the Parents / int_9cdef1ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_9cdef1ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_9cdef1ef
Meet the Parents / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Meet the Parents / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag - see Punny Name below. "Are you prepared to be... the Godfocker?" "The Godfocker." "Yes. The Godfocker." "I'm not sure I like the name 'The Godfocker'".
Meet the Parents / int_a188ac4b	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_a188ac4b	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_a188ac4b
Meet the Parents / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Meet the Parents / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Towards the end of the third film. Greg tries to present a peace offering to Jack, who looks like he's about ready to accept, until he punches Greg in the face.
Meet the Parents / int_a4c37cbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_a4c37cbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_a4c37cbe
Meet the Parents / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Meet the Parents / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: In the third movie, Andi Garcia drunkenly forces herself onto Greg while at his house, despite knowing that he's married and he objects. She never gets her comeuppance for it; she doesn't even get fired, despite acting unprofessional for the entire movie. Jack in the first film never faces any real consequence for bullying Greg. The second film is better about this, though he gets off pretty damn light for drugging Greg with sodium pentothal, a barbiturate used in lethal injections. You could say the two heart attacks in the third film are Jack's karma. He would at least have to learn to keep his composure and temper under control from that point onward, or risk a third, and likely fatal, heart attack. Denny, Pam's pothead brother, never gets any comeuppance for framing Greg for smoking marijuana in the first film. But in the sequel, Dina mentions that he was sent to military school; so it seems that karma caught up with him off-screen.
Meet the Parents / int_a70223	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_a70223	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_a70223
Meet the Parents / int_a79722c2	type	Parent-Preferred Suitor
Meet the Parents / int_a79722c2	comment	Parent-Preferred Suitor: Deconstructed in the first movie; Jack constantly compares Greg to Pam's ex, Kevin, treating Kevin like a close friend and The Ace. He is later called out on this by the others, as Jack apparently only remotely started liking Kevin after he and Pam split, outing him as merely an Boyfriend-Blocking Dad who doesn't think anyone is good enough for his daughter.
Meet the Parents / int_a79722c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_a79722c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_a79722c2
Meet the Parents / int_a7b99568	type	M.D. Envy
Meet the Parents / int_a7b99568	comment	M.D. Envy: Inverted; although Greg scored top marks in medical school, he chose to be a nurse so he could spend more time with patients. Jack and the rest of the Byrnes family (which include several doctors themselves) grill him on why he just didn't become a doctor and even refuse to believe he passed his MCAT with top marks.
Meet the Parents / int_a7b99568	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_a7b99568	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_a7b99568
Meet the Parents / int_aa9fcfed	type	Embarrassing Middle Name
Meet the Parents / int_aa9fcfed	comment	Embarrassing Middle Name: Female married name variant - in Meet The Parents, Jack and his wife Dina realize if/when Pam marries Greg, their daughter would be Pamela Martha Focker. Once again, this gets called back in Meet The Fockers: Also doubles as a The Maiden Name Debate
Meet the Parents / int_aa9fcfed	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_aa9fcfed	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_aa9fcfed
Meet the Parents / int_ab9311f0	type	Closer to Earth
Meet the Parents / int_ab9311f0	comment	Closer to Earth: Played straight with the Byrneses; Dina is far more sane and rational than Jack. Averted elsewhere, though. Greg, despite being a klutz, is otherwise a fairly level-headed guy and on par with Pam in terms of overall intelligence and sanity. As for Bernie and Roz Focker, they're both pretty loopy.
Meet the Parents / int_ab9311f0	featureApplicability	-1.0
Meet the Parents / int_ab9311f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_ab9311f0
Meet the Parents / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Meet the Parents / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Jack's hyper-paranoid humorless Control Freak tendencies and how because of them he's constantly stressed. The fact that this almost becomes a literal fatal flaw is an important plot point of the third film.
Meet the Parents / int_aba8065b	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_aba8065b	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_aba8065b
Meet the Parents / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Meet the Parents / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: In one scene in Little Fockers Stephen Trask's score turns surprisingly twinkly and airy, as if it's accompanying a fantasy movie rather than Andi giving a male patient an anal insertion. Then again, Andi is played by Jessica Alba...
Meet the Parents / int_abad35b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_abad35b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_abad35b4
Meet the Parents / int_adc34767	type	Serial Homewrecker
Meet the Parents / int_adc34767	comment	Serial Homewrecker: Little Fockers has Greg's co-worker Andi. She's fully aware that Greg is married with children, yet constantly tries to discreetly tempt him without any regard for this. When Greg falls out with Jack and the others, Andi jumps at the opportunity to seduce him, though Greg turns her down.
Meet the Parents / int_adc34767	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_adc34767	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_adc34767
Meet the Parents / int_add9026	type	Older and Wiser
Meet the Parents / int_add9026	comment	Older and Wiser: Greg by the third movie, able to stand up for himself against Jack's usual misunderstandings.
Meet the Parents / int_add9026	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_add9026	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_add9026
Meet the Parents / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Meet the Parents / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Jessica Alba shows a lot in Little Fockers.
Meet the Parents / int_b032e4ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_b032e4ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_b032e4ed
Meet the Parents / int_b2441a13	type	Static Stun Gun
Meet the Parents / int_b2441a13	comment	Static Stun Gun: Subverted in Meet the Fockers. Greg is tased by a sheriff and falls to the ground, but it turns out he is still conscious and the sheriff needs to tase him repeatedly.
Meet the Parents / int_b2441a13	featureApplicability	-0.3
Meet the Parents / int_b2441a13	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_b2441a13
Meet the Parents / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Meet the Parents / int_b486877f	comment	Greg himself is guilty of a few, especially invokedthe one about the time he milked a cat.
Meet the Parents / int_b486877f	featureApplicability	1.0
Meet the Parents / int_b486877f	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the Parents / int_b486877f
Meet the Parents / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Meet the Parents / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: While Jack has all but delighted in giving Greg a hard time from the moment they met, he cannot abide by Denny's mean-spirited mockery of Greg's legal name. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it background moment, you can see Jack soberly gesturing to Denny that his joking isn't appropriate and he needs to stop. Despite being Greg's biggest critic, Jack's even one of the few who doesn't find it amusing. In Meet the Fockers Roz causes Greg much embarrassment when she talks about Greg's circumcision, and shows the Byrneses his saved foreskin. Even Bernie, who's notorious for being TMI and causing embarrassment by it, thinks that Roz is taking things too far.
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Meet the Parents / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Meet the Parents / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: In the sequel, Jack tries to stop the police officer from arresting Greg and Bernie and only succeeds in getting himself tased and arrested as well.
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Meet the Parents / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Meet the Parents / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Even though the film takes place in the pre-9/11 era (barely) and Greg was at the end of his rope, saying "bomb" on an airplane was pretty stupid on his part.
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Meet the Parents / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Meet the Parents / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Kevin. He is everything Greg isn't - namely rich, successful, a homeowner, on good terms with Jack, and a devout born-again Christian. In the third film, his girlfriend dumps him after a botched proposal, and he becomes a Broken Ace.
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Meet the Parents / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Meet the Parents / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Roz and Bernie, in Little Fockers. Justified with Bernie, as Dustin Hoffman didnâ€™t return initially. A deal was later worked out to bring him back, and new scenes were filmed to fit him into the story well after shooting had wrapped. Roz has slightly more screen time than Bernie does, and even has influence on the subplot involving Jack and Dinaâ€™s deteriorating sex life. Other than providing comic relief, Bernieâ€™s appearance is more or less a glorified cameo.
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Meet the Parents / int_b8e8fa85	type	Military Alphabet
Meet the Parents / int_b8e8fa85	comment	Military Alphabet: Jack uses this when talking to his CIA contacts.
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Meet the Parents / int_ba0d2796	type	Not Under the Parents' Roof
Meet the Parents / int_ba0d2796	comment	Not Under the Parents' Roof: Greg and his fiancee Pam are staying with her parents, Jack and Dina. After a disastrous first day, they are just about to have sex in her room, only to be interrupted when Jack and Dina knock at the door. They're there to say not to worry about the events of the day... and to inform Greg that he will be sleeping downstairs in the den. As Dina is leaving, Jack casually informs Greg that while he realizes the two of them have probably had "premarital relations", while they're under his roof it's his way or the Long Island Expressway.
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Meet the Parents / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Meet the Parents / int_ba236071	comment	Jack Byrnes to a slightly lesser degree - it's clear that Pam has grown very tired of his overprotectiveness and the lengths he is willing to go to nitpick any potential suitor of hers. Not to mention, he wears a fake boob for much of the second movie.
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Meet the Parents / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Meet the Parents / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: "Ass...oooole..."
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Meet the Parents / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Meet the Parents / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Bernie and Roz Focker, to the point that the level-headed Dina is secretly jealous that they have such a successful sex life at their advanced age.
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Meet the Parents / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
Meet the Parents / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Gaylord"?: Only hippies. Pam's brother has a good laugh when he asks the trope; "Wait a minute! So your name is gay focker? (laughs) It's an unusual name."
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Meet the Parents / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Meet the Parents / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: In Little Fockers. Though Andi is knocked unconscious before anything serious happens, she still tries to force herself on Greg with no regard for his marriage or his consent. He's clearly uncomfortable, and her aggression makes it clear she isn't taking no for an answer. This is Played for Laughs.
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Meet the Parents / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Meet the Parents / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Even though Jack is one of the best examples of a Knight Templar Parent, his favorite song is the one that exemplifies childlike innocence: "Puff, the Magic Dragon."
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Meet the Parents / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Meet the Parents / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: In both Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, Jack has to learn to trust, let alone like, Greg all over again.
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Meet the Parents / int_c464ef34	type	Plot-Sensitive Latch
Meet the Parents / int_c464ef34	comment	Plot-Sensitive Latch: Greg's suitcase gets lost in-flight. A suitcase is found matching the description and delivered to him (at the parents of his girlfriend). He attempts to open it but can't and leaves for the day, leaving his prospective father-in-law alone at the house. Being former CIA he opens it easily and finds it full of fetish and bondage gear and sex toys. It doesn't help that earlier on, Greg mentioned having "something in his suitcase that he wouldn't feel right asking Pam to wear without her father's approval".
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Meet the Parents / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Meet the Parents / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: For someone who claims to be an expert in reading people, Jack is astoundingly bad at it. His laser-focus on Greg makes him completely miss Bob's character flaws and he only realizes it when Bob cheats on Debbie. He also thinks that Kevin, who, while wealthy, is a flighty In Love with Love airhead who believes in "alternative medicine" and is bold enough to make advances on an already-married woman, is a better match for Pam than Greg, a skilled nurse who rose through the ranks to become department chair and is clearly dedicated to his wife and children. Dina, in fact points out how he treated Kevin similarly to Greg when he and Pam were dating, and only developed this idealized view after they had broken up.
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Meet the Parents / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
Meet the Parents / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: Any lesser man would have pummeled Jack Byrnes to a pulp (or would have died trying), hollered his feeling fed-up with the crap he's been through, and gone back home. Which goes to show how determined Greg is to make things right.
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Meet the Parents / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Meet the Parents / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Averted with Isabel's son, Jorge and Greg as it turns out he's not the real father. Its still uncanny though.
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Meet the Parents / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Meet the Parents / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Greg and Jack fall into the ballpit, the Jaws theme starts playing. When Greg notices a Worm Sign circling him, a dolly zoom occurs and he starts screaming for the kids to get out of the ball pit. Greg and Jack listen to "Puff the Magic Dragon", and Greg brings up the common reading of it as a weed metaphor. Jack is unimpressed.
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Meet the Parents / int_cef6a167	type	Second Place Is for Losers
Meet the Parents / int_cef6a167	comment	Second Place Is for Losers: The attitude expressed by Jack and (to a lesser extent) Dina after they see the "Wall of Gaylord" put together by Bernie and Roz.
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Meet the Parents / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Meet the Parents / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: In Meet the Parents, Jack is called out on his vindictive over-protectiveness at the same time by Pam and Dina, and a few scenes later Greg also has a chance to put him in his place.
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Meet the Parents / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Meet the Parents / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Greg's parents to a T. Kevin evolves into this by the third film. And Jack, in his own paranoid and overprotective way.
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Meet the Parents / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Meet the Parents / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Jack and Greg seem to have settled into this by the third film. There are even signs by the second one, as it's mentioned that he and Greg went hunting together. Also Greg is the only person that he believes needs to know he had a heart attack.
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Meet the Parents / int_db54633f	type	Can't Take Criticism
Meet the Parents / int_db54633f	comment	Pam's 1992 sister Fay is a creepy, obsessive lunatic who can't stand anyone criticizing her singing, and her interactions with Greg lead to the whole family's downfall. Her 2000 sister Debbie, though, is happily engaged to a man named Bob and isn't given much characterization beyond that, as the bulk of the film focuses on the Greg vs. Jack dynamic.
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Meet the Parents / int_dc316a1f	type	Let Her Grow Up, Dear
Meet the Parents / int_dc316a1f	comment	Let Her Grow Up, Dear: Pam's mom is definitely more supportive of her relationship with Gaylord than Jack ever will be.
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Meet the Parents / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Meet the Parents / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The "bingo bango bongo" guy in the second film who turns out to be the county judge.
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Meet the Parents / int_de89c0a1	type	Dating What Daddy Hates
Meet the Parents / int_de89c0a1	comment	Dating What Daddy Hates: Not just Greg, but most of Pam's exes as well. There's nothing really wrong with the guys, Jack is just that overprotective
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Meet the Parents / int_e0140e6c	type	From the Mouths of Babes
Meet the Parents / int_e0140e6c	comment	From the Mouths of Babes: During Meet The Fockers, Little Jack (Jack's grandson and Pam's nephew) ends up learning the word "asshole" after Greg accidentally mentions the word in front of him.
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Meet the Parents / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
Meet the Parents / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: In the first film, the cat gets loose and starts walking around on the roof. When Greg tries to chase him down, one wrong step leads to another, eventually setting Pam's sister's wedding gazebo on fire.
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Meet the Parents / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Meet the Parents / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Jack always says that Greg's job is "male nurse" rather than just "nurse".
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Meet the Parents / int_e5a9f2b9	type	While You Were in Diapers
Meet the Parents / int_e5a9f2b9	comment	While You Were in Diapers, Jack was bugging Ho Chi Minh's sock drawer (Little Fockers).
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Meet the Parents / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Meet the Parents / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Jack is a domineering Papa Wolf / Knight Templar Parent in the first film and gets even worse in the sequels. Greg/Gaylord, meanwhile, gradually becomes marginally more self-sufficient and assertive and by the third film, is almost Jack's equal in terms of being a hardass.
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Meet the Parents / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
Meet the Parents / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: When the family finds out that Greg got a cat to be a fake Jinx which trashed the family room and lied about it, Pam rhetorically asks him this:
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Meet the Parents / int_e8497e34	type	Adaptation Species Change
Meet the Parents / int_e8497e34	comment	Adaptation Species Change: Bingo the dog from the 1992 film is replaced by Jinx the cat.
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Meet the Parents / int_e8b49369	type	Lie Detector
Meet the Parents / int_e8b49369	comment	Lie Detector: In Meet The Parents, Jack hooks Greg up to one in order to find out about his past. This scene was heavily used to promote the film.
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Meet the Parents / int_e99cc683	type	Innocent Swearing
Meet the Parents / int_e99cc683	comment	Innocent Swearing: Little Jack repeating the word "asshole".
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Meet the Parents / int_ea2c8da6	type	Watch the Paint Job
Meet the Parents / int_ea2c8da6	comment	Watch the Paint Job: Subverted in Little Fockers. As construction is taking place in Greg's back yard, Kevin shows up in a Tesla and parks curbside. As Greg backs a dump truck full of sand out of the driveway, he doesn't hit the Tesla, but instead empties the sand onto Jack.
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Meet the Parents / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
Meet the Parents / int_ea8ba51d	comment	1992's Greg (no last name) is an advertising agent. 2000's Greg Focker, on the other hand, is a male nurse.
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Meet the Parents / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Meet the Parents / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Officer LeFlore in the first sequel. He pulls over Greg's car for speeding, and places both Greg and Bernie under arrest when they tried to reason with him; he even tasers Greg when the latter tries to call in Jack (who was riding in an RV with Little Jack). When Jack tries to defend both Greg and Bernie by revealing his past career in the CIA, LeFlore refuses to back down by claiming that he's not obliged to listen to an ex-CIA officer. Even when Jack angrily threatens to report LeFlore for his behavior, LeFlore retaliates by tasering Jack and having him arrested as well while having Little Jack taken away by Child Social Services. Fortunately, Judge Ira was able to have Jack, Bernie and Greg released from prison and for Little Jack to be returned to them.
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Meet the Parents / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Meet the Parents / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Jack. Pam's entire family, in fact, except Dina and Pam herself. Even his cat is a Jerkass. The redneck cop in the second movie. The Lawful Stupid airline employees that Greg had to put up with in the first film.
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Meet the Parents / int_ee77d3e2	type	Dead Pet Sketch
Meet the Parents / int_ee77d3e2	comment	Dead Pet Sketch: With a cat.
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Meet the Parents / int_efb8f982	type	Mistaken for Terrorist
Meet the Parents / int_efb8f982	comment	Mistaken for Terrorist: Happens to Greg when he gets kicked off an airplane in the first movie.
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Meet the Parents / int_f09afb0	type	Digging Yourself Deeper
Meet the Parents / int_f09afb0	comment	Digging Yourself Deeper: Greg just can't help himself.
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Meet the Parents / int_f332d990	type	Too Much Information
Meet the Parents / int_f332d990	comment	Too Much Information: Practically everything Greg's parents say.
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Meet the Parents / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Meet the Parents / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: At the end of each film. At the end of the first two Jack views a video of Greg ragging on him via "hidden" camera. At the end of the third film Jack views a Youtube video of Greg talking about Jack at a seminar and Reiterating the crazy antics Jack pulled in the films. People (usually Jack) taking pot shots at Greg for being a male nurse. Even Kevin gets in on it in a backhanded way when he equates nursing with volunteer work.
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Meet the Parents / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Meet the Parents / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The human lie detector was debunked, due to info on the pulse. However another aspect of lie detecting was still in play. When Jack administers the test, he looks at Greg in the eyes. While Greg looks away a few moments, Jack still keeps his eyes focused on Greg's. This is based off of a popular fact that if you look to the left while answering a question, you are lying. The left side of the brain has been known as the thinking side while the right side is the creative side, but they each control the opposite side of the body. Looking to the left means you are coming up with some BS story.
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Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Insistent Terminology / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Intentionally Awkward Title / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Irishman and a Jew / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Kafka Komedy / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Karma Houdini Warranty / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Knight Templar Parent / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Lactating Male / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Last-Minute Baby Naming / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Let Her Grow Up, Dear / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Lie Detector / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Living Lie Detector / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	M.D. Envy / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meet the In-Laws / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Meeting-the-Parents Sequel / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Minor Injury Overreaction / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Mistaken for Terrorist / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Moving the Goalposts / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Nice Jewish Boy / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Not Under the Parents' Roof / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Overreacting Airport Security / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Parent-Preferred Suitor / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Parental Marriage Veto / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Pinocchio Nose / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Planes, Trains, and Imbeciles / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Plot-Sensitive Latch / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Plot-Sensitive Snooping Skills / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Priceless Ming Vase / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Profound by Pop Song / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Raging Stiffie / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Rapid-Fire Typing / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Real Joke Name / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Recycled Script / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Rental Car Abuse / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Rom Com Job / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Sadist Show / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Secondary Character Title / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Silly Prayer / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Suddenly Ethnicity / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	The Can Kicked Him / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Truth Serums / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Twerp Sweating / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Unfortunate Names / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Wacky Marriage Proposal / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? / int_9c6174f9
Meet the Parents	hasFeature	Why Can't I Hate You? / int_9c6174f9

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