The Alliteration Aside award goes to Lindsay Lohan, who completed a trifecta. First, her name is alliterative. Second, she had starred in an alliterative movie (Freaky Friday). And finally in 2006, she had an alliterative character name, Ashley Albright, in Just My Luck.
The Alliteration Aside (runner-up) award goes to The Lake House. As Simon and Henry leave their Visionary Vanguard office, Henry says "It's Valentine's Day, and I have a date with Vanessa". Of course, the director Alejandro Agresti adores alliteration.
The Subliminal Plug for PBS award goes to My Super Ex-Girlfriend. A dialogue goes: "How's your boyfriend, Rick?"/"Steve ... he just got back from Milan". Reading between the lines, it's obviously a plug for Rick Steves' Europe.
The He's Ready to Jump to the NBA award goes to Corbin Bleu in High School Musical. The number on his basketball jersey is 8; however, only in the NBA can jersey numbers can have a digit higher than 5.
The All the English Teachers Just Cringed award goes to John Tucker Must Die, which had the lines "Things didn't quite work out with Alex and I" and "There is only one guy out there for me, and you are not him".
The Subliminal Salute to the Bob Newhart Show award goes to Keeping up with the Steins. The cast includes Larry (Miller), Daryl (Hannah), and Daryl (Sabara).
The Not-So-Subliminal Salute to the Kill Bill movies award goes to Keeping up with the Steins. Benjamin says "His parents wouldn't go for a Kill Bill theme" for a bar mitzvah; Darryl Hannah is in the cast; and in one scene, Gerry Marshall draws a sword.
The Only The Baby Boomers Got the Inside Joke award goes to Nacho Libre. In one scene of the Jack Black movie, the background song is the 1960s hit Black is Black, in Spanish.
The It's All Greek to Me award goes to Date Movie. During the parody of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Grant says "I like pie" ... or was it "I like pi"?
The Do as I Say, Not as I Do award goes to Lucy Liu in Lucky Number Slevin. She is a stickler for details, but she comes into Josh Hartnett's apartment asking for a cup of sugar and leaves with less than a cup.
The Even the Umps are Second Rate award goes to (we have a tie!) The Benchwarmers and Employee of the Month. One of the umpires says "You're Out!", when umpires are taught to say "He's Out!".
The Shameful Use of Competitors award goes to Talladega Nights, which had scenes in both an Applebees and a Bob Evans restaurant.
The It Should be a Double Feature with Fast Food Nation award goes to Click, which has one scene with a Wendy's and another with a McDonalds visible.
The They May be Fast, but They aren't Smart award goes to Invincible. In the Philadelphia Eagles' camp, Mark Wahlberg runs a 4.5 in the 40 yard dash, but in the pickup games in his neighborhood, he is not significantly faster than his buddies. If his buddies were that fast, why didn't they all try out for the Eagles?
The Subliminal Casting award goes to Hollywoodland, the movie about George Reeves as Superman. The cast has Lois Smith and Diane Lane. As Wayne Campbell would say: "Lois .... Lane ... as if we wouldn't notice".
The Tribute to Comedy Teams award goes to Accepted. Lewis Black plays Dean Lewis as the dean of the university, 20 years after Back to School had a dean named Dean Martin. As Wayne Campbell would say: "Lewis .... Martin ... as if we wouldn't notice".
The Would You Like Some Science to go with That Fiction? award goes to Stranger Than Fiction, for injecting science and math references. Obviously, the reason for having the actor John M. Watson, Sr. in the cast, and a character named Harold Crick is to salute the DNA pioneers Watson and Crick, and the reason for having a character named Ana Pascal is to honor the mathematician Blaise Pascal.
The Is This Your First Trip to a Store? award goes to Click. Adam Sandler meets Christopher Walken, who is wearing a jacket with "Morty" above the pocket, and he asks him what his name is.
The Kreskin award for the best use of ESP goes to the call center operator in Little Children. Kate Winslet calls a catalog company and says that she is Sarah Pierce, without spelling Pierce. How would the operator know if it were Pierce or Pearce? More important, do you even care?
The He Has a Fixation on Her award goes to Robin Williams. In RV, he refers to his daughter as Sacajawea, and in Night at the Museum, his Teddy Roosevelt character flirts with the come-to-life Sacajawea.