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The Waterboy

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The Waterboy	comment	The Waterboy is a 1998 comedy film directed: by Frank Coraci, starring Adam Sandler and Henry Winkler.Sandler plays Bobby Boucher (pronounced "Boo-SHAY"), a socially inept (but also intelligent), stuttering waterboy for a college football team. Bobby deals with hidden anger issues due to constant teasing and his mother's (Kathy Bates) excessive sheltering. It is discovered that Bobby's anger issues make him an extraordinary football player. This transfers to Coach Klein (Winkler) and the rest of the team.
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The Waterboy / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Waterboy / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Red shamelessly revealed Bobby's fake transcript just so he would not have to face him in the Bourbon Bowl. Which then becomes All for Nothing as Bobby still entered the game and beats Red.
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The Waterboy / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
The Waterboy / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Invoked by Mama Boucher while having lunch with Vicki Vallencourt, in an attempt to drive her away from Bobby, as she wants her son all to herself. Mama attempts to embarrass Bobby by telling Vicki that his feet stink, he wears kiddy pajamas, and that he relentlessly pisses the bed.
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The Waterboy / int_15184afb	type	This Loser Is You
The Waterboy / int_15184afb	comment	This Loser Is You: The Mud Dogs team before Bobby joined. Guy Grenouille is afraid that "everybody's gonna laugh at us," but Lyle Robideaux assures him that everybody's already laughing at them, since the Mud Dogs "ain't won a game since nineteen-ninety-fo'." Guy may have been afraid, however, that Bobby will make them even more of a laughingstock.
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The Waterboy / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
The Waterboy / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: In one game, Bobby wishes an opposing player good luck in the next play, but the player rudely tells him "I'll be playin' with yo mama tonight," making Bobby ominously mutter "62," his jersey's number. In the play, Bobby intercepts the ball, but idiotically gives it back to that player, who takes for a touchdown, beating the Mud Dogs. Though Bobby literally dropkicks him after he reaches the end zone. The logic behind Bobby's actions is that he knows that he's only allowed to tackle whichever player on the opposing team has the ball. He barely understands the concept of competition and wanting to win, so the fact that he cost his team the game meant nothing to him at the time, because he gained revenge on a player who talked bad about his mama.
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The Waterboy / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Waterboy / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Bobby tackles his biology professor over the fact that alligators get ornery because of their enlarged medulla oblongata, leading to more aggressive emotions, instead of Mama Boucher's explanation that "they got all them teeth and no toothbrush". They're both wrong, because the medulla oblongata has absolutely nothing to do with emotions, being responsible for breathing and heart rate. The amygdala is responsible for emotions. In fact, Bobby's answer is more correct than the other. Infected/damaged teeth and gums are one of the primary reasons for some predators to become more aggressive and developing man-eating behavior. Furthermore, the premise that alligators are unusually aggressive is false. In fact, among large crocodilians, alligators are comparatively docile.
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The Waterboy / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Waterboy / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The Mud Dogs football players taunt Bobby relentlessly about his love of water and his overall dorkiness in an attempt to make him angry (as all bullies do). They succeed. What they didn't realize is that this would unleash his inner "warrior" (as Klein put it), and earn Bobby a spot on the team, embarrassing and humbling the other players.
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The Waterboy / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
The Waterboy / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: When Meaney gets in as full back, he made the foolish mistake in thinking he can run over Bobby, the guy he picked on, only to be met with strong power bomb tackle by his former victim.
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The Waterboy / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
The Waterboy / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Violent tackling tendencies aside, Bobby is an innocent, wholesome Nice Guy and Vicki is attracted to him for these reasons. However, she is a bad girl, but Bobby likes her anyway. She does call him out when he hesitates to sleep with her, but she forgives him shortly after.
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The Waterboy / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Waterboy / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Director Frank Coraci plays Bobby's father. Jimmy Johnson, Bill Cowher, and Lawrence Taylor show up as themselves. The Big Show as Captain Insano
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The Waterboy / int_1c712be8	type	Yaoi Fangirl
The Waterboy / int_1c712be8	comment	Yaoi Fangirl: Rita.
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The Waterboy / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
The Waterboy / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Walter and Paco.
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The Waterboy / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
The Waterboy / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Bobby and Vicky have known each other since childhood, and continue seeing each other as adults. At the end of the film, they get married.
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The Waterboy / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Waterboy / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Lee Corso replays one of Bobby's prior tackles. We see only Bobby yelling, cutting away before the actual tackle, but apparently, it's too difficult for Lee to watch.
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The Waterboy / int_20c99f6e	type	Hidden Heart of Gold
The Waterboy / int_20c99f6e	comment	Hidden Heart of Gold: Mama Boucher isn't an Evil Matriarch; she's been pretending to be one due to the pain of her husband deserting her and Bobby, and was scared of Bobby deserting her too.
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The Waterboy / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
The Waterboy / int_21718ffc	comment	Deep South: Specifically, Louisiana.
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The Waterboy / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Waterboy / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The glacier water Bobby gives to Vicki comes in handy after Bobby is dogpilled by the Cougars.
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The Waterboy / int_2484396e	type	Know-Nothing Know-It-All
The Waterboy / int_2484396e	comment	Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Bobby's mother tells him absurd lies about the world, such as the fact that she, not Ben Franklin, invented electricity (never mind the fact that electricity wasn't invented, it was discovered), and that "happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feelin' blue." This turns out to be part of her facade: she's Obfuscating Stupidity and pretends to be a jerk.
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The Waterboy / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Waterboy / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Bobby and the Mud Dogs.
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The Waterboy / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
The Waterboy / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: If you didn't notice the professor strongly resembled Colonel Sanders, Bobby points it out.
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The Waterboy / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Waterboy / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Apparently Bobby got his anger and ability to hit like a ton of bricks from his mother.
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The Waterboy / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Waterboy / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Invoked by Mama at the Bourbon Bowl. When she realizes that she's on TV, behind Vicki (who is being interviewed by ABC), she breaks into dance, at one point doing a can-can and then performing the chicken dance.
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The Waterboy / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
The Waterboy / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Greg Meaney has a shaved head. And is just as much of an asshole as his name implies.
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The Waterboy / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Waterboy / int_28cd01ca	comment	After Mama Boucher falls ills and lies in the hospital, she overhears the town telling Bobby how much it means to them that he's part of the football team, but he refuses their gratitude. The next morning, Mama shows Bobby an album with a picture of his father, and several letters that show he ran off out on them while she was pregnant with Bobby. She explains to Bobby that she was so afraid of ending up alone that she made it her mission to make him so afraid of the world so that he wouldn't go out on his own and abandon her as well, and admits to faking an illness in order to keep him by her side.
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The Waterboy / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Waterboy / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Guy (pronounced "Gee") Grenouille's last name is French for "Frog."
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The Waterboy / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Waterboy / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Over the course of just a handful of games, Bobby Boucher's rage-fueled tackles and their subsequent devastating results have become the stuff of horror legend. Opposing players (especially quarterbacks) visibly quake in fear of facing him.
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The Waterboy / int_2c437b06	type	Violently Protective Girlfriend
The Waterboy / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Vicki towards Bobby. She holds a knife against Meaney's neck when the Cougars crash the Mud Dogs' victory party. Later, when Bobby is undertaking his high school equivalency exam, she holds up a sign asking Bobby if he wants her to kill examiners. Bobby just shakes his head.
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The Waterboy / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
The Waterboy / int_2cac89cf	comment	The Ingenue: Bobby, largely due to My Beloved Smother's constant babying.
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The Waterboy / int_2edc82a0	type	Accidental Athlete
The Waterboy / int_2edc82a0	comment	Accidental Athlete: Bobby is a meek, unassuming "water distribution engineer" who has no interest in even watching football, let alone playing it. When the quarterback for the team he works for makes fun of him, he sprints across the field and blasts him with a pretty good, fundamentally sound football tackle. Coach Klein, who was partially responsible for Bobby's newfound aggression (telling him to stand up for himself), immediately inserts Bobby into a linebacker position on the team, to brilliant and almost instant success.
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The Waterboy / int_30d1e0df	type	Full-Name Basis
The Waterboy / int_30d1e0df	comment	Full-Name Basis: Bobby tends to call everybody by their full name, and sometimes their title, too.
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The Waterboy / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
The Waterboy / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: When Bobby first displays his ability to tackle, he blasts the SCLSU starting quarterback during a practice play, and later, as an official member of the team, does the same to one of the team's receivers. Both times, he immediately apologizes to the player in question.
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The Waterboy / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Waterboy / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Vicki Vallencourt is into astrology, and at one point, Mama Boucher says to Bobby "come on inside before that little ol' witch cast a spell on you." Fairuza Balk, who plays Vicki, played a witch who'd cast spells in The Craft.
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The Waterboy / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Waterboy / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Bobby goes from being a spineless mama's boy to an independent, confident adult who stands up for what he wants and thinks is right. Said confidence also transfers to the football field: Bobby's first game as a Mud Dog ends in disaster, as he doesn't really understand the concept of trying to win— he just wants to hit people who piss him off, which costs the team the game when they had it won. Eventually, he cements himself as the team's savior on defense, and in the Bourbon Bowl, he makes the game-winning play on offense, throwing a touchdown pass to quarterback Guy Grenouille to defeat the very team and coach that has tormented him when he was their waterboy. His potential as a person and a football player seem limitless.
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The Waterboy / int_3b2014fb	type	Mad Libs Catchphrase
The Waterboy / int_3b2014fb	comment	Mad Libs Catchphrase: This trope is the devil!
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The Waterboy / int_3bfd638c	type	Warts and All
The Waterboy / int_3bfd638c	comment	Warts and All: Bobby regards Captain Insano as his all-time favorite wrestler, despite him acting "slightly discourteously" to him recently over a phone call to a live wrestling show.
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The Waterboy / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Waterboy / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Right after Bobby finishes taking his test and meets Vicki, a cop car drives up, and Vicki tells Bobby "I was with you from two to four last night, you tell them." It turns out the cop isn't looking for her in the first place, and we never learn what she was alluding to.
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The Waterboy / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
The Waterboy / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Bobby's mom as she realized how much she is hurting her son Bobby and becomes more supportive of him playing for his football team in the championship game.
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The Waterboy / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Waterboy / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Mama Boucher tells Bobby quite a few, such as that she "invented" electricity and that alligators are fierce because "they got all them teeth, but no toothbrush".
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The Waterboy / int_43eddd85	type	Door Focus
The Waterboy / int_43eddd85	comment	Door Focus: It occurs as Bobby Boucher lashes out against his overprotective mother:
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The Waterboy / int_45db8ec6	type	Cry Laughing
The Waterboy / int_45db8ec6	comment	Cry Laughing: Captain Insano does this after Bobby calls in offering to be Insano's personal waterboy and revealing that he's 31 years old.
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The Waterboy / int_45eed9a5	type	Not This One, That One
The Waterboy / int_45eed9a5	comment	Not This One, That One: While looking through Mama's scrapbook, Bobby sees a picture of a young Mama with a hunky guy. When he asks if he was his father, Mama explains he was a guy she dated prior to meeting his father— "That was lust, not love." She turns to a picture of a dopey-looking man, saying "That's your daddy."
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The Waterboy / int_46d47e5	type	Eye Poke
The Waterboy / int_46d47e5	comment	Eye Poke: When Coach Klein is trying to unleash Bobby's physical prowess, he tells him attack one of his players like Bobby's favorite wrestler, Bobby pokes the player in the eye.
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The Waterboy / int_46e53efd	type	Screams Like a Little Girl
The Waterboy / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: Coach Klein, by his own admission, "cried like a ten-year-old girl!" after Coach Red revealed that Bobby's transcripts are a forgery. Getting screwed by Red a second time.
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The Waterboy / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Waterboy / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: "Colonel Sanders" (one of Bobby's college professors, given the nickname by Bobby himself for his resemblance to the KFC icon), who's also The Chew Toy. Bobby had been constantly abused throughout his life, but eventually he got tired of it and starts fights back.
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The Waterboy / int_4a24fd45	type	Thermal Dissonance
The Waterboy / int_4a24fd45	comment	Thermal Dissonance: Bobby has a vial of glacier water that always stays cold.
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The Waterboy / int_4a84ef8d	type	Big Game
The Waterboy / int_4a84ef8d	comment	Big Game: The Bourbon Bowl, which sees the Mud Dogs facing off against the Cougars.
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The Waterboy / int_509de06e	type	Unintelligible Accent
The Waterboy / int_509de06e	comment	Unintelligible Accent: Farmer Fran, who speaks with an incredibly thick Cajun accent.
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The Waterboy / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
The Waterboy / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Coach Klein and Red Beaullieu used to be fellow assistant coaches at Louisiana State, until Red stole Klein's playbook to pass off as his own, firing him once he got the job as new head coach. Klein would end up paying Red for his "kindness" in the Bourbon Bowl.
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The Waterboy / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
The Waterboy / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Apparently, Bobby's lack of common knowledge is a result of his sheltered upbringing, rather than some learning disability. After a few false starts he is shown to have little trouble with a college curriculum and get a near-perfect result on his GED exam.
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The Waterboy / int_606bbe10	type	High-Five Left Hanging
The Waterboy / int_606bbe10	comment	High-Five Left Hanging: Bobby doesn't get any respect from the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits he plays with at first. After the Mud Dogs score a touchdown, Bobby asks them to "slap hands!", to which they just walk away, leaving him hanging. Later in the film, during the Bourbon Bowl, Bobby gets his "slap hands" as the Mud Dogs start mounting their comeback.
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The Waterboy / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
The Waterboy / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: Bobby's reputation as a ruthlessly violent tackler invokes this trope in the eyes of the NCAA quarterbacks he faces.
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The Waterboy / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Waterboy / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Red Beaulieu not only publicly reveals that Bobby's high school transcripts had been faked, he does so to the whole Mud Dog community, who immediately shun Bobby. Thing is while it is very cruel thing for Red to do, he is not actually that wrong since Bobby has never been to school or college in his whole life and is just a newly hired water boy who recently became a player for the Mud Dogs.
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The Waterboy / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Waterboy / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Bobby takes water very seriously.
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The Waterboy / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
The Waterboy / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: It's what makes Bobby such a valuable player. His anger issues make it possible for him to bulldoze guys much larger than himself.
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The Waterboy / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Waterboy / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Cougars' roughest, most ruthless defensive player, who also happens to be a borderline sociopathic bully, is aptly named "Meaney."
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The Waterboy / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
The Waterboy / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Coach Klein regrets not standing up to Coach Red when he originally stole his playbook.
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The Waterboy / int_76db0ef5	type	Slobs Versus Snobs
The Waterboy / int_76db0ef5	comment	Slobs Versus Snobs: The Mud Dogs from the small, run-down South Central Louisiana State University versus the Cougars from the large, top-tier University of Louisiana. The Mud Dogs won.
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The Waterboy / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Waterboy / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Subverted. Despite Captain Insano laughing his ass off at Bobby for asking to be his water boy, Bobby claims that Captain Insano is still his favorite wrestler. He even uses his Powerbomb move on Meaney.
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The Waterboy / int_871cff0c	type	Create Your Own Hero
The Waterboy / int_871cff0c	comment	Create Your Own Hero: Happens twice to Beaulieu. First, he fires Bobby as the official water boy of the UL Cougars. Then it's revealed that years earlier, when the head coach of the UL Cougars retired, both Klein and Beaulieu applied for the position, with Klein creating a playbook that would help secure his bid. Beaulieu bullied Klein into handing over the playbook, and claimed it as his own, making him head coach, and fired Klein on the spot. When Bobby starts working for the Mud Dogs he and coach Klein discover that Bobby's repressed anger turns him into a star athlete, which leads them facing off against Beaulieu and the Cougars, and ultimately winning the Bourbon Bowl.
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The Waterboy / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Waterboy / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In the opening, when he sees Meaney attacking Bobby, Red Beaulieu turns to an assistant coach and says "Didn't I tell you as plain as I could speak to get rid of his ass last year?". But it isn't Meaney he's upset with, it's Bobby, telling him "You're fired!".
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The Waterboy / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
The Waterboy / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Derek Wallace is the only Mud Dog player to be friendly with Bobby upon meeting him, in contrast to the other players who start out as jerkasses to Bobby. Red's assistant coach Laski seems to be this for the Cougars. When Red points out that he told Laski to fire Bobby last year, he didn't, thinking Red wasn't really serious and pointing out that he does his job well, but Red focuses his anger on the fact that Bobby "distracts" his football team.
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The Waterboy / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
The Waterboy / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: The second half of the Bourbon Bowl essentially turns into a "Crazy enough to work" contest between the two coaches, concerning their respective strategies. When Bobby shows up at halftime, he forces a fumble on his first play and Robideaux runs it in for a touchdown to make the score 24-7, with the Mud Dogs trailing. So how does opposing coach Red Beaulieu respond? He tells his quarterback to take three knees on the next possession, because they already have the lead and the Mud Dogs' offense has been so bad, they'll need to be completely dependent on Bobby Boucher generating turnovers, so until SCLSU can score on offense, he's content to just try to run out the clock playing defense.It almost works, until Coach Klein, after being motivated by Bobby, draws up a trick play that fools the Cougars, eliminating their kneel-down strategy. Red Beaulieu then counters that tactic by placing Meaney, his best defensive player, at halfback on offense (which, as pointed out by Dan Fouts, is a strategy that NFL teams have used in the past, name-dropping William "The Fridge" Perry of the Chicago Bears). The first time Meaney touches the football on offense, Bobby powerbombs him (which whirls the crowd into a frenzy and puts a "You've gotta be kidding me" smile on Coach Klein's face).After this, the Mud Dogs, down 10 with 23 seconds remaining, line up for a field goal, with Boucher in as a blocker. They fake the kick and hand it to their halfback, and Bobby leads him to the end zone, running out in front of him and blasting any would-be tacklers like they were rodeo clowns.On the ensuing onside kick, Klein places Bobby on the field to help the team recover the ball. Wallace kicks it towards a nervous-looking Cougars player (who probably pissed himself because Bobby's on the field), and Boucher, for once, is actually NOT the one who lays the big hit, but his remarkable nose for the football leads him to recover the ball after the Cougars can't hold on to it.When a Cougars player loses his cool and hits Bobby after the play, the resultant penalty moves the Mud Dogs into field goal range, but, as was the theme of the second half, Coach Klein takes a HUGE gamble... and Bobby throws the game-winning touchdown to Guy Grenouille with no time on the clock.
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The Waterboy / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Waterboy / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Coach Red Beaulieu, who is a rather unpleasant scumbag of a coach that tormented Bobby by revealing his fake transcripts and stole the playbook from Coach Klein for his own selfish purposes. Naturally, the two of them would take him down in the end together and humiliate him in the process resulting in his perfect season being ruined as well. To elaborate: Red lost the Championship game to a farm team run by the coach he screwed over, who'd never won a game until they brought on the waterboy he'd fired earlier. Meaney, who bullied Bobby throughout the movie, receives a brutal powerbomb tackle in the Championship game by the very victim he tormented and gets the shit knocked out of him. Roberto Boucher, Sr., who left Helen and a yet-to-be-born Bobby for New Orleans to find work over thirty years prior, but abandoned them weeks later for another woman and life in the big city. In the present day, he appears at Bobby's wedding after learning of his son's fame as a college football player and possibility of going pro, and tries to convince him to forego school and declare for the NFL draft in the hopes of profiting off his success. This earns the greedy deadbeat a hard and well-deserved tackle from Helen, thirty years in the making.
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The Waterboy / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Waterboy / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Coach Red starts to lose his cool and becomes frantic when Coach Klein starts making his own creative plays, all of which catches Red off-guard. As the tide of the game starts turning around in the Mud Dogs' favor because of those new plays, Coach Red eventually instructs his players to make dirty hits and cheap shots just to take Bobby out of the picture. None of it works, and the Mud Dogs still win the game, causing Coach Red to collapse on his knees and cry like a huge baby. In the censored version of the game-winning catch, Coach Red even starts strangling the mascot.
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The Waterboy / int_961c6c22	type	Cutaway Gag
The Waterboy / int_961c6c22	comment	Cutaway Gag: Klein worried that the team is messed up since Farmer Fran's involvement. Cut to Farmer Fran, the cheerleaders and the mascot in the midst of a wild, drunken party.
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The Waterboy / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
The Waterboy / int_96e5792c	comment	"(insert just about anything) is the devil!"
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The Waterboy / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Waterboy / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Mama Boucher acts like this when Bobby has Vicki over for lunch and she humiliates him in front of her by telling one embarrassing story after another. Vicki attempts to subvert each one by claiming she doesn't mind all the things Mama says about Bobby... until she shows Vicki his bedsheet. It's covered in (presumably) urine. Vicki has no comeback.
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The Waterboy / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
The Waterboy / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: Ever since Red Beaulieu stole his playbook and passed it off as his own, Coach Klein has struggled to think up new plays as inspired and innovative as those in the book until Bobby helps him face his fears. This shows Red's own inability to come up with new plays to counter Klein's as he stymied by the fact they're not in the stolen playbook.
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The Waterboy / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Waterboy / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Once Bobby joins the Mud Dogs football team, he starts becoming a great player and grows a spine to stand up to anyone especially to the ones who abused him.
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The Waterboy / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Waterboy / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Mama Boucher argues with Vicki Vallencourt after dinner, Mama says "Nobody's gonna take him away, especially not some godless Jezebel like you!". This sounds like yet another attempt to smother Bobby, but later on, she reveals that Bobby's father abandoned them to be with "a voodoo woman named Phyllis" while she was still pregnant with Bobby When he sees Bobby getting bullied by the Mud Dogs, coach Klein tells him to stand up for himself, or "they'll walk all over you the rest of the season. Believe me, I've seen it before." Later in the movie, it's revealed that having failed to stand up for himself resulted in coach Beaulieu stealing Klein's secret playbook, and then having Beaulieu take the head coaching position at the University of Louisiana, and firing Klein on the spot.
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The Waterboy / int_9d3f4777	type	My Nayme Is
The Waterboy / int_9d3f4777	comment	My Nayme Is: Bobby's love interest spells her name "Vicki" as opposed to the more standard "Vicky."
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The Waterboy / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
The Waterboy / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "The Medulla Ob-Lon-Ga-Ta!" [Beat as Bobby meekly sits back down] "Gentlemen, this brings me to my next point: Don't. Smoke. Crack."
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The Waterboy / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Waterboy / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Mama Boucher is often accompanied by, ironically enough, "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" by The Charlie Daniels Band.
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The Waterboy / int_a0c731cd	type	Ragin' Cajun
The Waterboy / int_a0c731cd	comment	Ragin' Cajun: The "Cajun" part is way off, but is what they were going for, at least.
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The Waterboy / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Waterboy / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: The opposing players who incur Bobby's wrath typically do so just by playing offense on the other team. For example, one player early in the film pushes Bobby's Berserk Button and pays for it: The championship Bourbon Bowl game is this for Bobby and Coach Klein towards Coach Red and his Cougars as the former two were wronged by Red specifically.
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The Waterboy / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Waterboy / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Bobby, after his mother is put in the hospital. He blames himself for lashing out at her and feels guilty because she was the only person to ever care about him. Turns out she was faking her illness for the sole purpose of getting him to abandon the football team and come back to her. Also Mama herself, once she finally realizes how much she's hurting Bobby by keeping him away from doing the things he loves.
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The Waterboy / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
The Waterboy / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: In one game, Bobby takes a time-out to give the referee a glass of water.
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The Waterboy / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
The Waterboy / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Every time an NFL or NCAA football personality (whether it be player, coach, or commentator) that exists in real life appears, they are played by the actual person, including (but not limited to) Lynn Swann, Dan Fouts, and Lawrence Taylor.
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The Waterboy / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
The Waterboy / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: Directly related to the above, the movie's depiction of Louisiana's Cajun culture is entirely Played for Laughs and should not be mistaken for an encyclopedia article; ignore this while visiting the region at your own risk.
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The Waterboy / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Waterboy / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Helen "Mama" Boucher.
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The Waterboy / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
The Waterboy / int_abd29ad8	comment	It would have been a lot harder for the Mud Dogs to pull off that game-winning play if the Cougars hadn't put them in field goal distance by dogpiling Bobby after the play, causing a huge mess of penalties. To be fair they didn't even know Bobby would be put in the offense, meaning that they didn't know it would potentially put a player out of the game. They just did it as payback, but too bad for them is that Bobby no-sold it anyway, thanks to "some high-quality H20."
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The Waterboy / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Waterboy / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: It would have been a lot harder for the Mud Dogs to pull off that game-winning play if the Cougars hadn't put them in field goal distance by dogpiling Bobby after the play, causing a huge mess of penalties. To be fair they didn't even know Bobby would be put in the offense, meaning that they didn't know it would potentially put a player out of the game. They just did it as payback, but too bad for them is that Bobby no-sold it anyway, thanks to "some high-quality H20." If Coach Red had never fired Bobby from being his team's water boy, he never would have been brought in by the much kinder Coach Klein and figured out how to channel his anger into being a defensive linebacker. The look of shock on Red's face when seeing how many sacks Bobby got in his first game says it all. The Mud Dogs winning the final game against Red with Bobby doing the finisher would ultimately prove this trope as his total undoing.
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The Waterboy / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Waterboy / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: It's never really explained why the Cougars mercilessly tease and torment Bobby to begin with. The Mud Dogs' teasing of him is at least a little understandable (they're frustrated for having not won a game in more than four years and need somebody on which to take out their misery). But the Cougars and their coach seemingly abuse and torment Bobby for no real reason other than... because they're jerks and they can. Never mind that Bobby is the guy who's not only keeping them hydrated but probably preventing them from dying of heat stroke during Coach Red's obviously grueling football practices. Naturally this would end up biting them in the ass.
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The Waterboy / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Waterboy / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: It may be tough to see it under the speech impediment and general timidity at first, but Bobby is definitely one.
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The Waterboy / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
The Waterboy / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Bobby towards the beginning.
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The Waterboy / int_b0ad6a1e	type	Wrestler in All of Us
The Waterboy / int_b0ad6a1e	comment	Wrestler in All of Us: Bobby mixes in wrestling moves at every available opportunity when tackling someone. The crowner has to be "Powerbomb, compliments of Captain Insano." against his tormentor Meaney.
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The Waterboy / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Waterboy / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Coach Klein forged Bobby's school transcript so that he could play football, because he needs a player like Bobby as much as Bobby needs to play.
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The Waterboy / int_b489805d	type	Hollywood Autism
The Waterboy / int_b489805d	comment	Hollywood Autism: This is presumably Bobby's condition - he seems dimwitted and socially inept, but knows everything there is to know about water. He's also smart enough to pass a high school equivalency test with minimal studying.
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The Waterboy / int_b5619979	type	Was It All a Lie?
The Waterboy / int_b5619979	comment	Was It All a Lie?: Mama Boucher revealed the truth about his father: He left for New Orleans to make some money to support his family. But after six weeks, he "deserted" them to be with his two new loves: big city-livin' and a "voodoo woman named Phyllis." And changed his name to Roberto. She lied to him about his father because she was afraid Bobby would leave her too, thus the reason why she sheltered him all his life.
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The Waterboy / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Waterboy / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Though not without good reason.
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The Waterboy / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Waterboy / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The tagline in the poster above says it all. And give insulting his mother a try. Go on.
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The Waterboy / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The Waterboy / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Bobby Boucher, Vicki Vallencourt (the third of Adam Sandler's "V-name" girlfriends), Coach Klein, Farmer Fran, Guy Grenouille.
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The Waterboy / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Waterboy / int_c145f69b	comment	Bobby, after his mother is put in the hospital. He blames himself for lashing out at her and feels guilty because she was the only person to ever care about him. Turns out she was faking her illness for the sole purpose of getting him to abandon the football team and come back to her.
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The Waterboy / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Waterboy / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": After imagining his old coach berating him, he delivers this word to Casey before tackling him.
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The Waterboy / int_c452da2f	type	Southern Gothic
The Waterboy / int_c452da2f	comment	Southern Gothic: A comedic example where the decay and depressing state of the world is used to highlight Bobby's cheerful and optimistic demeanor.
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The Waterboy / int_c55269ac	type	Dumbass No More
The Waterboy / int_c55269ac	comment	Dumbass No More: Bobby in terms of academics. When Bobby went to his first biology class, he just regurgitated the "facts" that Mama fed him through the years, earning him some public humiliation in class. However, in a Montage later in the movie, he's seen giving a very detailed presentation about how protein molecules work.
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The Waterboy / int_c5d50cb0	type	Opposing Sports Team
The Waterboy / int_c5d50cb0	comment	The state-level Opposing Sports Team, called the Cougars here, appears to be a riff on the LSU Tigers.
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The Waterboy / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Coach Klein, ever since Coach Red stole his playbook. His first reaction was calling his grandma on a disconnected phone while wearing high heels.
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The Waterboy / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Lyle Robideaux calls Bobby a retard during the first game. Robideaux is not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer himself.
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The Waterboy / int_e462893a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Sports: After interfering with a live practice play despite not being on the roster, dropkicking an opponent during a game, tackling a professor, and being directly linked to the theft of a guest's vehicle, Bobby would have been banned for life from SCLSU after one game at the most. Also, there is absolutely no way that Vicki would have been allowed to attend the Bourbon Bowl, much less watch the game from the field, after having threatened one of Louisiana University's players with a knife to the throat some days prior. After it's discovered that the coach forged Bobby Boucher's high-school transcript to get him on the team, making him an ineligible player, the NCAA allows Bobby to still play in the team's bowl game if he passes a high school equivalency exam. In reality, not only would the NCAA not allow that, the whole team would have been forbidden to play in the game, would have had to forfeit back all its wins on the season and probably would have been banned from future bowl games and lost several scholarships for a few years.
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The Waterboy / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Bobby Boucher shares a speech impediment (one which Sandler overcame himself), obsession with water, and a few personality traits with one of Sandler's Saturday Night Live characters, Canteen Boy. They could be the same character; Bobby may have done some canteen jobs on the side. Strangely, though, Bobby has no traits in common with Cajun Man, another of Sandler's characters. Bobby also shares the same voice as The Excited Southerner, a character from Sandler's album What the Hell Happened To Me?. Bobby seems to also be an extremely broad parody of Forrest Gump, a Southern mama's boy and manchild turned college football star. Mama Boucher appears to be an expy of Margaret White from Carrie, until it's explained that her behavior was only an attempt to cope with her heartbreak. The state-level Opposing Sports Team, called the Cougars here, appears to be a riff on the LSU Tigers.
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