Movie connections for
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)

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References

"Happy Days" (1974)
 -  Character calls another Fonz
The Bad News Bears (1976)
 -  Kate comming in at the last min. to show she has skill and can play
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
 -  "Let them play chant"
Apocalypse Now (1979)
 -  "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
Airplane! (1980)
 -  The "George Zip" speech by Leslie Neilsen in Airplane is referenced by Lance Armstrong.
"Joanie Loves Chachi" (1982)
 -  Character says this title, sarcastically
Ghost Busters (1984)
 -  Gordon parodies Rick Moranis' character in Ghost Busters when describing his workout routine.
Vision Quest (1985)
 -  Kate Veatch tells Peter to kick Ben Stillers' ass in the sudden death part of the game- Linda Fiorentino says the same thing in the same way to Matthew Modine before the final wrestling match in vision quest
Rocky IV (1985)
 -  Fran's red jumpsuit like Drago's
Bull Durham (1988)
 -  duplicate quote:"..you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a boat.."
Road House (1989)
 -  White's hair style is a direct reference to Swayze's hair
"The Simpsons" (1989)
 -  quotes Nelson from the first season by saying "Nobody makes me bleed my own blood."
Boxing Helena (1993)
 -  The characters refer to Kim Basinger in a discussion of oral contracts.
Mystery Men (1999)
 -  Dodgeball repeats a joke delivered in Mystery Men, another Ben Stiller movie, where an individual cannot remember the correct plural of the noun "nemesis"
Daddy Day Care (2003)
 -  There is a poster is seen outside the video store
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
 -  Video store phone message

Referenced in

"Extras: Ben Stiller (#1.1)" (2005)
 -  Ben Stiller talks about making this.
The Benchwarmers (2006)
 -  on shelf in video store
"Robot Chicken: 1987 (#2.6)" (2006)
 -  Ben Stiller gets hit by a dodgeball...
Accepted (2006)
 -  Justin Long says "a little can-do attitude and some elbow grease" in both movies
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2006)
 -  Justin Long movie mentioned
The Making of 'The Break-Up' (2006) (V)
 -  Mentioned by name in interview.
Night at the Museum (2006)
 -  When Dr. Mcphee asks Larry what was the reason for Octavius being in the Stockade in Jed's box, Larry said, "Now I'm just spitballin here" Just like Peter said in Dodgeball.
Meet the Spartans (2008)
 -  When Leonidas is "training" his son, he says: - If you can dodge a golf ball, you can dodge a sword, paraphrasing the Average Joe's coach who says: If you can dodge wrench, you can dodge a ball.
"The Office: Night Out (#4.11)" (2008)
 -  Michael confuses Jon Favreau with "the tall guy from 'Dodgeball.'"

Features

"That's Incredible!" (1980)
 -  When they tune into ESPN: the Ocho, you can see a clip of the waterskiing squirrel.

Spoofs

Goldfinger (1964)
 -  Henchman uses ball to kill man in bar - spoof of Oddjob's deadly hat
Star Wars (1977)
 -  The scene where peter sees Patches (who is dead) while looking at his towel. Patches tells him to believe in his abilities and his training is a spoof of the scene when Luke Skywalker hears Obi-Wan tell him to trust the force enabling him to destry the death star.
Jerry Maguire (1996)
 -  "You had me at..."
The Matrix (1999)
 -  Where White throws the dodgeball at Peter he dodges it like Neo
Bring It On (2000)
 -  the whole cheerleding contest in dodgeball is a spoof, but especially the first scene with cheerleading with no panties

Spoofed in

Date Movie (2006)
 -  White Goodman hits her in the face with a dodgeball
"Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: New Grade & Dodgeball (#3.1)" (2006)
 -  The Dodgeball episode is a direct parody of the movie of the same name.
"Family Guy: Airport '07 (#5.12)" (2007)
 -  The scene where Quagmire meets his hero, Hugh Hefner, at the airport is a parody of Peter meeting Lance Armstrong
The Comebacks (2007)
 -  the wrench-dodging sequence is parodied

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