The He Also Guesses People's Weight at the Carnival award goes to Robert DeNiro in Hide and Seek. Upon meeting Elisabeth Shue and her daughter for the first time, he says "I have a daughter the same age".
The Kreskin award for best use of ESP goes to Ice Cube in Are We There Yet?. Nia Long agrees that he can give her a ride to work, but he doesn't ask when to pick her up.
The Kreskin award for best use of ESP (runner-up) goes to Drew Barrymore in Fever Pitch. As Lindsay, she tells Ben that she is taking him to Paris tomorrow. How did she know that he had a passport?
The Nepotism? award goes to Thomas Carter, who directed Coach Carter.
The Six Degrees of Separation award goes to Fever Pitch. After a night of severe nausea, Drew Barrymore says "I'm not about to enter any pie eating contests", an obvious reference to a scene in Stand By Me, which is based on the novel by Stephen King, who throws out the first pitch in Fever Pitch.
The Math Teachers Don't Deal With Trivial Matters award goes to Fever Pitch. Ben says "Every year during Easter vacation, me and my friends, we go down to Florida" for the Red Sox spring training. Gotcha! Some years, Easter is as late as April 25, long after spring training is over.
The And, All the English Teachers Just Cringed award goes to Fever Pitch, when Ben said "Me and my friends, we go down to Florida".
The Recycled Dialogue award goes to the Farrelly brothers. In There's Something About Mary, they had the line "Yeah, don't talk in someone's backswing", and in Fever Pitch, they took a mulligan, with "Please, don't talk in my backswing".
The Alliteration Aside award goes to Two for the Money, which starred Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo, and Armand Assante. Fittingly, "Two" is part of the title.
The Honestly, We Didn't Copy That Other Movie award goes to Are We There Yet?. Whereas Planes, Trains, and Automobiles took place at Thanksgiving, involved only 1 train, and had a plane ride scene, Are We There Yet? took place on New Year's Eve, involved 2 trains, and the characters didn't actually get on the plane. And, it had an additional mode of transportation (a horse). No chance of that being a copycat plot!
The The Only Two People in the World Who Never Heard of Google award goes to Derailed. Winston asks Charles to help him win $100 by answering a baseball trivia question, and it never occurs to them to use Google.
The Subliminal Plug award goes to Fantastic Four. Early in the movie, Victor Von Doom tosses a copy of Wired magazine onto a desk. Michael Chiklis, who plays Ben Grimm, played John Belushi in the 1989 movie Wired. As if we wouldn't notice.
The Our State Motto: There's Magic in the Air award goes to the state of Ohio for its Bewitched theme. Steve Carell (Uncle Arthur in the movie) is a graduate of Denison University in Granville, following Agnes Moorehead (Endora in the TV show), who attended Muskingum College in New Concord, and Paul Lynde (Uncle Arthur in the TV show), who was born in Mount Vernon. For the record, Ohio has a city called Salem.
The He'll Supply the Rice at the Wedding award goes to The Perfect Man, which had a character named Uncle Ben.
The Somewhere, Dick Vitale is Going Nuts award goes to goes to Coach Carter. The clock shows 1:20 left in the game when they take a time-out, but it shows 1:22 when play resumes.
The Somewhere, Dick Vitale is Going Nuts, Part II award goes to goes to Coach Carter. When one of the players fouls out, the sub enters the game without reporting to the scorer's table.
The Somewhere, Dick Vitale is Going Nuts, Part III award goes to Rebound. The tall kid holds the basketball in the lane for the last 10 seconds of the game before scoring the winning basket, and the officials do not call a 3 second violation.
The Comedy is Easy, Math is Hard award goes to goes to The Bad News Bears. One of the kids chides Billy Bob Thornton for his major league stats of an ERA of 36 in 2/3 of an inning. As we all know, that is mathematically impossible for 2/3 of an inning. If he had given up 2 runs, his ERA would be 27.00, and if he had given up 3 runs, his ERA would be 40.50.
The They Don't Know Their Right From Their Left Award goes to Rumor Has It. In the high school yearbook, Beau Burroughs appears as the first of 5 names identifying the students, but his picture appears on the far right.
The Car Wars, Part III: Revenge of the Shift award goes to Herbie Fully Loaded, the third in a trilogy of movies about a car with a mind of its own, following The Car (1977) and Christine (1983). Coincidentally, Star Wars movies also came out in 1977, 1983, and 2005.
The Thinly Veiled Remake in Disguise award goes to Guess Who?. In Meet the Parents, the couple is of different religions, the couple comes to the parents' house in a rental car, the future husband must sleep in the parents' basement, the future husband and father-in-law share an awkward moment when listening to music on the car radio, the future husband and father-in-law have a car race, and the future father-in-law comes to his senses and intercepts the future husband at the airport. In Guess Who?, the couple is of different ethnicities, the couple comes to the parents' house in a cab, the future husband must sleep in the parents' basement, the future husband and father-in-law share an awkward moment when listening to music on the car radio, the future husband and father-in-law race go-karts, and the future father-in-law comes to his senses and intercepts the future husband at the train station. As if we wouldn't notice.
The Thinly Veiled Remake in Disguise award (runner-up) goes to The 40 Year Old Virgin. Peewee's Big Adventure had its main character who rides a bike and makes elaborate breakfasts, a scene where the main character plays with a fake ear, an actor named Paul (Ruebens), and an actress named Elizabeth (Daily) who had a thing for the main character. The 40 Year Old Virgin had its main character who rides a bike and makes elaborate breakfasts, a scene where the main character plays with a fake ear, an actor named Paul (Rudd), and an actress named Elizabeth (Banks) who had a thing for the main character. As if we wouldn't notice.