7/22/2023 0 Comments Hot rod andy sambergAlso doubles as a Major Injury Underreaction. Eye Scream: When Dave drops Acid, he gets into a welding accident where a piece of metal flies into his eye.Evil Is Petty: Frank would happily die just to spite Rod and make sure he'll never get his approval.Drowning My Sorrows: Rod, during his Heroic BSoD he fills an entire shopping cart with nothing but booze.Years later his mother admits to him that she had just let Rod believe his fantasies of his dad being a stuntman, and in reality, his dad had choked on a pie. Did Not Die That Way: Rod's hero was his deceased dad, who he believed was a former stuntman for Evel Knievel, dying when he broke away to do his own stunts but the trick went wrong.Defeat Means Friendship: Pretty much the whole reason why Rod and Frank fight each other.The reality was far less gruesome he choked to death on some pie in a pie-eating contest. Cruel and Unusual Death: Rod's story of how his stuntman father died includes his teeth being ground to dust, handlebars going through his head, and his face exploding out the back of his skull, ending with Rod's father dying "instantly.Creator Cameo: Akiva Schaffer shows up for a moment as Dave's acid-dealing friend Derek.Circle of Shame: When Rod's movie is shown at the theater and he realizes everyone's laughing at how incompetent he looks.He doesn't react at all when he ends up getting a piece of metal lodged into his eye. He's totally okay with taking someone else's acid during work and then decides that it would be a good idea to use his bench grinder while tripping. Cloudcuckoolander: While a sizable chunk of the cast could arguably qualify, Dave takes the cake.Rod then uses it on his stepdad in the film's climax. He then goads her into displaying it on him.
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