Tropic Thunder/YMMV

• Comedy Ghetto: SMASHED. Robert Downey Jr. got an Oscar Nomination for his performance!
• Crosses the Line Twice: Well... okay. While there are a few instances of this, most of the time it's more crossing the line and going on for about seventeen more miles, never looking back. See also Refuge in Audacity below.
• Ear Worm: SHAWTY GOT DEM APPLE BOTTOM JEANS
  • GET BACK, MUTHAFUCKA, YOU DON'T KNOW ME LIKE THAT!
  • ALPA CHINO GOT DAT PUSSY CONTROL!
    • ALPA CHINO'S BOOTY SWEAT: POP AN ASSSSS OPEN!!!
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Tom Cruise's character surprisingly steals the entire movie as the most Badass producer ever filmed. He's even getting his own movie.
  • It's pretty damn hard to top a rant like the "Fuck Your Own Face" speech. Even more hilarious is the guy's expression on the other side of the telephone.
  • "Big-Ass Titties" Cody.
• Fountain of Memes: Les Grossman and Kirk Lazarus.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: The Mockumetaries include footage of Kirk Lazarus' mental breakdown during filming. It's... a little uncomfortable to watch.
  • To explain: originally Heath Ledger was cast as Kirk Lazarus, but he pulled out as a result of his commitments to The Dark Knight and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, and Downey Jr. stepped in. For a while a lot of people were thinking that Heath Ledger killed himself because of depression.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Less than two years after Tropic Thunder was released, the very white Gerad Depardieu was cast to play the author Alexandre Dumas (who had an African grandparent and was known to his friends as "Le Negre") in a biopic. Guess what happened.
  • The full retard speech is hilarous for the fact that Penn won a Oscar (albeit not for a handicapped person, but still) the same year the film was released. And also that Robert Downey Jr. himself got a nomination for his role in this film.
    • RDJ also immediately went on to make a movie where he played a character trying to nurture an Inspirationally Disadvantaged cellist.
• Memetic Mutation: Just about any line that comes out of Kirk Lazarus and Les Grossman's mouths.
  • I'M A LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKER!
  • You just went full retard, man. You never go full retard.
  • I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!
  • What do you mean, "you people?"
    • What do you mean, "you people?"
• Nausea Fuel: Speedman playing with Cockburn's head. Literally.

Tugg: "It's CORN SYRUP!! ...Warm... blood-flavored... corn syrup... BUT STILL CORN SYRUP!"

• Tom Hanks Syndrome: Portnoy.
• What the Hell, Casting Agency?: This is more for the movie within the movie. Having a blond haired blue eyed Australian playing a black man?