The Prior Experience Required award goes to the husband and wife team of Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor for Dodgeball. Since the plot called for flying balls that strike people on the head, the producers chose Ben Stiller, who was over-zealous playing water volleyball in Meet the Parents, and Christine Taylor, who was struck by a football in The Brady Bunch.
The He Also Served as Mentor award goes to Rip Torn for Dodgeball. He played the pirate wannabe Scully in Summer Rental, and Dodgeball had Steve the Pirate.
The It Runs in the Family award goes to Kurt Russell in Miracle. In Miracle, he played a coach who drilled his players to exhaustion to make a point, and won the gold. In real life, he won the Goldie (Hawn), who played a coach in Wildcats and ran her players to exhaustion to make a point.
The She Has a Thing for Guys Who Climb Walls award goes to Kirsten Dunst. She "hangs out" with Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 2, and with Paul Bettany, who scales the wall of her house to visit her in Wimbledon.
The Deja Vu award goes to Nicolas Cage for National Treasure. He had starred in Con Air, which had the line "But this is no way to treat a national treasure."
The All the Football Coaches Just Cringed award goes to Friday Night Lights. On 4th down and inches, a coach calls for the tailback dive play and loses yardage, when everyone else in America would have called a quarterback sneak.
The All the Math Teachers Just Cringed award goes to Mean Girls. Aaron says to Cady "sometimes the product of two negative integers is a positive number". Sometimes??
The Kiss a Little Longer, Sponsored by Big Red Chewing Gum award goes to The Prince and Me. The library scene starts at night time, then Julia Stiles and Luke Mably head to the stacks to smooch while daylight streams through the windows, and ends with the couple running outside in a daytime shower.
The Don't Know Much about History award goes to Princess Diaries 2. Hector Elizondo, whose parents are from Puerto Rico, says "I have diplomatic immunity in 46 countries, including Puerto Rico". As we all know, Puerto Rico is a commonwealth, not an independent country.
The I'll Take Cities and Governing Locations with the Same Name for $200, Alex award goes to The Terminal. We learn that Tom Hanks' character is from the country of Krakozia, but late in the movie, we see on the flight monitor that Krakozia is the name of the city, too. So, he flew from Krakozia, Krakozia to New York, New York. Where else in the world do these duplicate names exist? More important, do you even care??
The Surely, You Can't Be Serious award goes to The Terminal. Stanley Tucci says to Catherine Zeta-Jones "He has a Planters Peanuts can, what do you make of it?", and she says "peanut butter". If Steven Spielberg really wanted to pay tribute to the Airplane movies, she would have said "oh, I can make a hat, or a broach, or a pterodactyl".
The Thinly Veiled Remake in Disguise award goes to Just Married. In Meet the Parents, Ben Stiller has a blonde girlfriend, meets her disapproving father and her ex-boyfriend, the father calls his daughter "shortstop", and he lets the family cat run away from the house. In Just Married, Ashton Kutcher has a blonde girlfriend, meets her disapproving father and her ex-boyfriend, the father calls his daughter PeeWee (as in shortstop PeeWee Reese), and he lets her dog jump out the window to an untimely death. As if we wouldn't notice.
The He's Still the King (not Don King) award goes to Million Dollar Baby. Director Clint Eastwood subliminally pays tribute to Elvis twice -- in one scene, he and Morgan Freeman talk about Tupelo, Mississippi, and in another, he receives letters bearing the "Return to Sender" stamp.
The Thinly-Veiled Remake in Disguise award goes to Big Fish. In Forrest Gump, the lead character is Forrest Gump (first name 2 syllables, second name one syllable), who lived in Alabama, wore leg braces, ran the ball playing football, and had a romance with Jenny, played by an actress who goes by 3 names (Robin Wright Penn). In Big Fish, the lead character is Edward Bloom (first name 2 syllables, second name one syllable), who lived in Alabama, was bedridden in braces, ran the ball playing football, and had a near-romance with Jenny, played by an actress who goes by 3 names (Helena Bonham Carter). In Big Fish, Jenny and Edward made a point about their 10 year age difference; Big Fish had its main release 10 years after Forrest Gump. As if we wouldn't notice.