Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Factual error: When Steve the Pirate is walking down the street in Vegas and gets hit with a drink, behind the truck you see Binions Horseshoe Casino. Binions is on Fremont street, and that is closed to traffic. (01:02:35)

Factual error: During Globo Gym's commercial at the start of the movie, White shows a picture of himself as an obese man in 1987 and indicates that was him 6 years prior. However in the same commercial, you can see a woman grab a bottle of Vitamin Water from a likewise branded fridge. Vitamin Water did not exist in 1993. In fact, its parent company Glaceau was not founded until 1996.

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Continuity mistake: When the guys are all sitting around (after the car wash) they are throwing ideas to save the gym. In one shot Gordon pulls his magazine out of his bag, but a split second later in a closer shot he pulls the magazine out again. (00:15:15)

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Patches O'Houlihan: It's like watching a bunch of ret**ds trying to fuck a doorknob out there!

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Trivia: After Peter tells Steve The Pirate he is not a pirate, Steve gets depressed and starts walking down the Las Vegas sidewalk. A truck drives by, yells something to Steve, and throws a cup. The man that threw the cup is in fact the director of "Dodgeball," Rawson Marshall Thurber. (01:05:15)

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Chosen answer: "Deus Ex Machina" means "God out of the machine." It's from Greek plays, wherein a god would appear at the end of the story to solve a problem. Nowadays it basically means that a totally new plot element appears out of nowhere and solves everything. It's an easy (and cheap) way out.

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