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[[File:zack-and-miri-make-a-porno.jpg|frame|Um...right.]]
2008 film written and directed by [[Kevin Smith]], and starring Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Jeff Anderson, Traci Lords, Jason Mewes and Craig Robinson. Like ''Jersey Girl'', this is not part of [[The View
The plot is pretty much [[Exactly What It Says
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Real-life porn stars Katie Morgan and Traci Lords play porn actresses Stacey and Bubbles.
* [[All the Good Men Are Gay]]: Miri's high school crush returns to their small town for a high school reunion. Well...he brought his boyfriend.
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** In the words of [[Ben Affleck]], "That's not him on the way up, that's him on the way back down!"
* [[Book Ends]]: Zack and Miri's conversation about the bathroom door happens twice, once near the start, and once near the end, almost word for word.
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'''Miri:''' It WAS closed!
'''Zack:''' It was closed OVER, it was not closed--
'''Miri:''' JUST CLOSE THE FUCKING DOOR, ZACK! }}
* [[Catch Phrase]] / [[Running Gag]]: "Let us fuck!"
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* [[Class Reunion]]
* [[Closer to Earth]]: Neither Zack or Miri are intelligent, talented or skillful, but Miri seems to display fewer screw-ups than Zack.
* [[Cluster F
* [[Cool Loser]]: The main characters.
* [[The Danza]]: Inverted, ''Brandon'' Routh plays Bobby Long and Justin ''Long'' plays Brandon.
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* [[Deleted Scene]]: 43 of them on the DVD...
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: This scene:
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'''Bubbles:''' And you two didn't have to put us in your movie either.
'''Deacon:''' Or let us shoot it!
'''Delaney:''' Or produce it.
'''[[The Ditz|Lester]]:''' Or put us in your movie neither!
'''Delaney:''' [[Invoked Trope|WE SAID THAT ALREADY!!]] }}
* [[The Ditz]]: Stacey, and Lester.
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* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: "I'm gonna [[Subverted Trope|fuck]] you with my [[Double Subversion|penis!]]"
* [[High School Rejects]]
* [[
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* [[Innocent Cohabitation]]: Zack and Miri at the start of the movie.
* [[Just Friends]]: [[Like Brother and Sister|Zack and Miri]], to the extent they are [[Platonic Life Partners]] before the porno comes along.
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* [[Moral Guardians]]: They didn't take too kindly to the film, the poster or even ''the title''.
** Which is probably why the movie was released on DVD in many places as simply "Zack And Miri."
* [[One
* [[Parallel Porn Titles]]: Zack and Miri initially set out to make ''[[Star Wars|Star Whores]]''. They [[The Stinger|eventually get around to it.]]
* [[Pittsburgh]]: The movie is set in Monroeville, PA, a large suburb about a 20-minute drive from Downtown (unless it's rush hour, in which case it's a 50-minute drive).
** Monroeville is also home to the mall where the original ''[[Dawn of the Dead (
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Of a sort; Jason Mewes gained fame by playing the foul mouthed, aggressive and abrasive Jay (of 'and Silent Bob' fame) in [[The View
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: At the beginning of the movie, Zack's [[Black Best Friend]] accuses his boss (who is Asian) of racism because he wants him to work on "Black Friday."
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Of course, if Zack and Miri could actually talk to each other like two mature adults, the last third of the movie wouldn't happen.
* [[Porn Names]]: Played with.
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'''Lester''': Lester... Lester the Molester Cockenschtuff.
'''Zack''': Wow. That's a great porn name.
'''Lester''': I get to pick a porn name?... Then I want to be called... Pete Jones. }}
* [[Reality Subtext]]: The filming of the porno is an awful lot like the way the filming of ''[[Clerks]]'' has been described.
** In particular, filming in the workplace after hours and the use of a microphone taped to a hockey stick as a boom mike are both shoutouts to the filming of ''[[Clerks]]'' (although ''[[Clerks]]'' was filmed with the knowledge and permission of Smith's then-employer).
* [[The Red Stapler]]: The [[Dawn of the Dead (
* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]: As expected, considering it's a [[Kevin Smith]] film.
* [[Secret Test of Character]]: {{spoiler|Miri sets one of these for Zach, telling him it's okay to sleep with one of the actresses (for the movie) and, essentially, punishing him when (she believes) he has. Zack calls her out for her [[Compressed Vice|newly-found]] [[Manipulative Bastard]] tendencies, [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|moves out, and abandons the production]].}}
* [[Sex Equals Love]]: Played absolutely straight.
* [[Shout
** To add to that, one of the porn titles Zack suggests is "Dawn of the Dick", and the sketchy man they rent the storage space from is played by none other than Tom Savini.
* [[The Slacker]]: Zack.
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