According to the second movie, she 'collects' cocks (as a metaphor), has 'quite an impressive trophy room', and lost her virginity at age eleven. Fortunately, Kurt's car recorded Harken's confession as the killer. Police Brutality Gambit: Harken tried to frame Nick Kevin and Dale for Pellit's murder by shooting himself in the leg and plays the victim as the police arrives.(Then again, he also has the buried rage common in said common working girls.) He's not exactly effeminate, and he's definitely not camp, but he's still an unusual example of a straight male character carrying traditionally feminine virtues and flaws being portrayed quite positively high. Nice Guy: Dale is what happens when you take the standard sweet, innocent working girl who gets sexually harassed in movies like 9 to 5, flip her gender, and change absolutely nothing else.Fanservice: Despite acting like a total creep, Jennifer Aniston is still very nice to look at. Kurt's out-of-control libido and fondness for vulgar jokes doesn't help, either. The Millstone: Dale is more or less to these films what Alan is to The Hangover.

Dale rejects Julia's advances because he's engaged (and later married) and because it's unethical to sleep with one's employer, whereas Kurt is a horndog who hits on every pretty woman he meets.

A Man Is Always Eager: Averted with Dale and played straight with Kurt.

Knight of Cerebus: Near the end of the first movie, Harken becomes this, as does Rex near the end of the second.

Karma Houdini: Really, considering all the problems they cause in both movies (as both of the character deaths across the two films, especially Pellitt's in the first, were indirectly caused by their actions), the three protagonists get off remarkably easily at the ends of both films.

Jones spent 10 years in prison for pirating Snow Falling on Cedars.

Truth in Television, as the legislation enhancing penalties for certain activities near playgrounds, schools, and such is based on the location, rather than whether or not there are any children present. It was night, and there were no kids there, but he's still a registered sex offender, which is why he's stuck working for Julia.

Dale got drunk at a bar and went to the bathroom (publicly) that was next to a playground.

It's All About Me: Bobby's and Rex's attitudes are basically this.

Heterosexual Life-Partners: The first film implies that the three main characters have been best friends since high school (with their high school friend Kenny calling them The Three Musketeers), and now, in adulthood, they regularly share drinks together and confide in each other, start a business together, clearly know each other quite well, and, despite their frequent bickering, have ultimately stuck together and remained good friends by the end of the second movie.

Kurt once refers to him as 'our little Kevin Costner you're our bodyguard.' to drop many of the bigger charges and keeps the guys from getting into irreparable trouble. Most prominently: in the first movie, when Nick and Kurt are on the verge of turning on each other, Dale uses his 'Law and Order' knowledge to force the cops to let them all go, and in the second, he bravely but recklessly charges at the bad guy and gets shot, which ultimately causes the the D.A. Even though he makes numerous dumb mistakes that exasperate Nick and Kurt, we see several examples in both movies that, when the chips are down, he is the one who holds the group together. Kurt even calls him this, verbatim, at the start of the second movie. Freudian Trio: Kurt is the Id, Dale is the Ego, and Nick is the Superego.Four-Temperament Ensemble: The three bosses and Burt are choleric (especially Harken), Nick is phlegmatic or perhaps leukine, Dale is melancholic and Kurt is sanguine.The protagonists themselves eventually realize, in both films, that they are not cut out to be criminals. Evil Feels Good: Not who you'd think it's actually Harken in the first film and Rex in the second who start to like killing.

Dope Slap: The three protagonists frequently inflict these on each other.

Justified as this is helped by the fact that their bosses are significantly worse.

Designated Heroes: The three protagonists frequently act like criminals and commit minor actions that envelope into a huge disaster, but the audience still cheers them on.

Depraved Dentist: Julia, on a scale never seen since Steve Martin wore a gas mask in Little Shop of Horrors.

Comic Trio: Kurt, Nick, and Dale, complete with frequently slapping each other.

'Let me tell you something, you stupid little runt.

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