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:''This article is about the film. For the film genre, see [[romance film]].''

'''AbleNET''' is an [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] network. It was founded, May 2001, by [[AfterNET]] Co-Founder and long-time Admin Anthony Sanchez and several others from that network. The network was set up primarily as a chat network for friends, and as a response to growing disillusionment with the policies of some of the [[AfterNET]] administrators. Several users from AbleNET were involved in the creation of [[AfterNET]]; some even tracing their usage back to [[TheNET]] and [[InnerNET]].

{{Infobox Film

| name=Date Movie

| image=Date movie.jpg

| caption=Promotional poster for ''Date Movie''

| director=[[Jason Friedberg]]<br>Aaron Seltzer

| writer=Jason Friedberg<br>Aaron Seltzer

| producer=Jason Friedberg<br>Jack L. Murray<br>Paul Schiff<br>Aaron Seltzer

| starring=[[Alyson Hannigan]]<br>[[Sophie Monk]]<br>[[Adam Campbell (actor)|Adam Campbell]]<br>[[Eddie Griffin]]<br>[[Fred Willard]]<br>[[Jennifer Coolidge]]

| music=

| cinematography=Shawn Maurer

| editing=[[Paul Hirsch]]

| distributor=[[20th Century Fox]]

| runtime= 83 min.

| language= [[English language|English]]

| budget= $20 million

| released=[[February 17]], [[2006 in film|2006]]

| amg_id = 1:335978|

| imdb_id=0466342|

}}

'''''Date Movie''''' is a [[2006 in film|2006]] [[Parody|spoof]] of [[romantic comedies]] [[film director|directed]] and [[screenwriter|written]] by [[Jason Friedberg]] and Aaron Seltzer, two of the writers of the first ''[[Scary Movie]]''. It stars [[Sophie Monk]], [[Alyson Hannigan]], [[Adam Campbell (actor)|Adam Campbell]], [[Eddie Griffin]] and [[Fred Willard]]. The film was released on DVD on May 30, 2006.

AbleNET is a small network with an average of 150-300 users online at any given time. The [[Undernet]]-compatible [[IRCu]] [[Daemon (computer software)|daemon]] software is used on the servers. [[IRC_Services|Channel services]] are provided using [[srvx]]; the user authentication service is named AuthServ and the channel service is named X.

==Parodies==

{{spoilers}}

===Movies===

*''[[Say Anything]]''

*''[[Never Been Kissed]]''

*''[[Moulin Rouge!]]''

*''[[Bridget Jones's Diary (film)|Bridget Jones' Diary]]''

*''[[Meet the Parents]]''

*''[[Meet the Fockers]]''

*''[[Mickey Blue Eyes]]''

*''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding]]''

*''[[Kill Bill]]''

*''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]''

*''[[Hitch (film)|Hitch]]''

*''[[Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story]]''

*''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''

*''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]''

*''[[Fight Club (movie)|Fight Club]]''

*''[[Along Came Polly]]''

*''[[Shallow Hal]]''

*''[[Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)|Mr. & Mrs. Smith]]''

[[Image:movie_date_movie_hitch.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Dr. Hitch ([[Tony Cox]]), parodying [[Will Smith]]'s character in ''[[Hitch (film)|Hitch]]''.]]

*''[[When Harry Met Sally]]''

*''[[Pretty Woman]]''

*''[[How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days]]''

*''[[Legally Blonde]]''

*''[[Jerry Maguire]]''

*''[[Notting Hill (film)|Notting Hill]]''

*''[[Sweet Home Alabama (film)|Sweet Home Alabama]]''

*''[[Monster In Law]]''

*''[[Mean Girls]]''

*''[[Spider-Man 2]]''

*''[[Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]''

*''[[Rent (film)|Rent]]''

[[Image:movie_date_movie_hannigan_large.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Hannigan as Julia; overweight at the start of the movie.]]

*''[[What Women Want]]''

*''[[Kevin and Perry Go Large]]''

*''[[White Chicks]]''

*''[[The Matrix]]''

*''[[Austin Powers]]''

*''[[The Princess Diaries (film)|The Princess Diaries]]''

*''[[The Birdcage]]''

*''[[The Notebook]]''

*''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''

*''[[Freaky Friday]]''

*''[[Bend It Like Beckham]]''

*''[[The Wedding Planner]]''

*''[[My Best Friend's Wedding]]''

*''[[Wedding Crashers]]''

AbleNET is noted for its distinct lack of [[IRCOp]]s, instead using various services to control the flow of network stability and activity. Additionally, the Network is noted for its high standards of access, regarding the limit of multiple connections and unverifiable "bots".

===Television Shows===

*''[[Pimp My Ride]]''

*''[[The Bachelorette]]'' (Nina Avetisova appears in this particular parody)

*''[[Britney and Kevin: Chaotic]]''

*''[[Desperate Housewives]]''

*''[[Grey's Anatomy]]''

*''[[The Price Is Right]]''

The network can be reached using irc.ablenet.org.

===Other References===

[[Image:SophieMonkDateMovie.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Andy ([[Sophie Monk]]), parodying [[Paris Hilton]]'s [[Carl's Jr.]] advertisement''.]]

*[[Paris Hilton]]'s [[Carl's Jr.]] / [[Hardee's]] advertisement

*[[Michael Jackson]]

*The ''[[Girls Gone Wild]]'' videos ads

*The [[internet phenomenon]] ''[[Bumfights]]''

*''[[Candy Shop]]'' by [[50 Cent]]

*[[iPod]]

== Historical Timeline ==

==Plot==

* May 2001, AbleNET is born and has served as a meeting place for chatters ever since.

{{spoiler}}

* May 2003, with the looming threat of the [http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[e-mail] Fizzer Worm] AbleNET joins with a vast collection of [[IRC]] networks and news communities to form [http://www.irc-unity.org/ IRC-Unity]<ref>http://www.irc-unity.org/</ref>.

The Movie begins with Julia Jones, an overweight waitress who works at her family's [[greek food]] diner, flirting with men on the street to [[Milkshake (song)|Milkshake]], by [[Kelis]], resulting in every man on the street fleeing in terror (sometimes killing themselves with weird items such as nailguns). Next we see her working at the diner, where she serves Grant Fockyerdoder a cup of coffee, and knocks him out. Her father then makes a comment on not wanting her to get married.

* December 2005, AbleNET becomes the first IRC Network to offer "blogging" to their community.

Depressed, Julia goes to see a date doctor, [[Hitch]]. Hitch takes her to [[West Coast Customs]] from MTV's [[Pimp My Ride]], where they "pimp her out". The now beautiful Julia then goes on a reality show, "Extreme Bachelor: Desperate Edition" where she sees Grant again. After a date, Grant, who was in love with Julia even before she was "Pimped", proposes to her. After a few scenes paroding [[Meet the Parents]] and [[Meet the Fockers]], Grant informs Julia that Andy, who grants wishes to be the best man, will be arriving in town soon. Andy, as it turns out, is a [[Paris Hilton]] like woman, who broke up with Grant only 3 weeks before. It is later revealed that Andy wishes to ruin the wedding, and succeeds, causing a depressed Julia to return home. Julia decides to go ahead with her father's arranged marrage, until he calls it off at the last minute, showing Julia a issue of [[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]] which has a strangely specific article by Grant in it. Julia then rushes to her apartment to meet up with Grant, who is just about to leave, and falls off the roof and into his arms. They then get married, and have a honeymoon on [[Skull Island]], (called Kong Island in the film) where they see Carmen Electra get her clothes ripped off by [[King Kong]].

== Founder ==

Anthony Sanchez has been using and administering IRC Networks since 1995, starting as an IRCop with InnerNET subsequently [[NewNET]] during it's founding year. Later he went on to Admin servers for [[TheNET]], [[AfterNET]] and finally AbleNET.

Anthony was, coincidentally, the first to publish the story of the raid on and subsequent shutdown of the popular [[Lineage II]] private server, L2Extreme, on the AbleNET website.<ref>http://anthony.blogs.ablenet.org/l2extreme_fbi_shutdown</ref>

== External links ==

==Response==

* [http://www.ablenet.org/ AbleNET IRC Website]

===Reviews===

* [http://wiki.ablenet.org/wiki/SRVX SRVX Help Files & Command List]

Audience response has been generally negative (though some considered it in the vein of films "so bad, they're good"); it was voted into the Bottom 100 on the [[IMDb]] within days of its release. In addition, it performed moderately well at the box office, but received nearly unanimously bad reviews, with a 7% "rotten" rating at [[Rotten Tomatoes]]. It's been snidely referred to as "Yet another [[Not Another Teen Movie]]".

* [http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/A/ Google Directory]

* [http://searchirc.com/network/AbleNET Search Irc]

* [http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=AbleNET NetSplit.de]

* [http://www.srvx.net/ SRVX IRC Services]

* [http://irc-unity.org/]

===Box office=References ==

{{Reflist}}

In its first week of release, the film grossed a total of 21.8 million dollars at the [[United States]] [[Box office]].

[[Category:IRC networks]]

The movie grossed $84.6 million dollars worldwide. 57.4% came from the U.S.

{{IRC networks}}

==[[MPAA]]==

Rated PG-13 for continuous crude and sexual humor, including language.

==DVD==

The DVD has been released on May 30, 2006. The DVD is unrated though there aren't really that many scenes that are unrated, and those that are mostly just contain foul language.

The DVD comes with a English, French, 2 commentaries, an anti-commentary and an audience track from a test screening.

==Trivia==

*The scene where [[Carmen Electra]]'s character gets her clothes ripped was based on censored (but subsequently reinstated) footage from the original ''[[King Kong]]''. Also, Electra gets her clothes ripped in the beginning ''[[Scary Movie]]'', in which Friedberg and Seltzer also wrote the beginning.

*Many stores/restaurants are spoofed such as [[Taco Bell]] (Taco Butt) and [[Best Buy]] (Best Bride). Though [[Louis Vuitton]], [[Versace]] and other real clothing brand names appears too.

*Many ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]'' fans thought [[Jon Heder]] reprised his role, but it was played by comedian [[Josh Meyers]]. Also, Meyers mocked Owen Wilson in one line which is, "Is it too late to crash the Fockyerdoder Wedding?".

*Chris Harrison plays himself in ''[[The Bachelor (movie)|The Bachelor]]'' parody.

*Frank has eight nipples, a reference to a deleted scene from ''Scary Movie''.

*Sophie Monk's [[Carl's Jr.]] / [[Hardee's]] spoof is shorter than the one shown on advertisements with [[Paris Hilton]].

*The name Fockyerdoder is a joke on the last name Focker from ''[[Meet The Parents]]'', though ''Meet The Parent''s was also spoofed in several different parts of the movie.

*The old cat woman that lived in the apartment across from Julia is the same actress who played the old lady who was undercover in ''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]''.

*"Extreme Bachelor: Desperate Edition" is a combination of the titles of ''[[The Bachelor]]'', ''[[Extreme Makeover]]'', ''[[Extreme Makeover: Home Edition]]'', and ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''.

*The scene involving Owen Wilson getting crushed by a cameraman is cut. He only appears in one scene with one line.

*When the RV is driven in, it spoofs ''[[Meet the Fockers]]'' and ''[[Dukes of Hazzard]]'', by changing the horn tune from "[[Puff, the Magic Dragon]]" (''Meet the Fockers'') to the first 12 notes of "[[Dixie (song)|Dixie]]" (''Dukes of Hazzard'')

*The scenes involving Napoleon running away and Owen Wilson getting crushed are cut.

*[[Lil Jon]] comes in during dinner to say "What","Yeah", "Okay" ,"Get [[Crunk]]" which are his common catchphrases in his songs.

*The name Julia Jones is actually a combination of Bridget Jones from [[Bridget Jones's Diary]] and [[Julia Roberts]], the actress.

*Grant's name is actually derived from [[Hugh Grant]], who is a very famous British actor known for his roles in romance movies. The directors implemented the word "Very British Grant" in their synopsis as a form of clue to which actor they are parodying.

*In the [[Pretty Woman]] scene where Grant crossdresses as a woman, the set of clothes he wore is actually the same original set worn by [[Julia Roberts]] back in the original movie.

*In some versions of the DVD, the word "Fockyerdoder" has been changed to "Funkyerdoder". Details are still unknown at present.

*In the rehearsal dinner scene, the characters sing a song that is a spoof of "I Say A Little Prayer". An obvious spoof of My Best Friend's Wedding.

*A deleted scene shows Julia writing in a diary, from the perspective of [[Bridget Jones]], until the real Bridget comes and takes her diary back, slapping Julia.

==Cast==

[[Image:Julia Jones.jpg|thumb|right|120px|Julia Jones played by [[Alyson Hannigan]], after being "pimped out".]]

*[[Alyson Hannigan]] as Julia Jones

*[[Adam Campbell (actor)|Adam Campbell]] as Grant Fockyerdoder

*[[Sophie Monk]] as Andy

*[[Jennifer Coolidge]] as Roz Fockyerdoder

*[[Fred Willard]] as Bernie Fockyerdoder

*[[Eddie Griffin]] as Frank Jones

*[[Tony Cox]] as Hitch

*Nina Avetisova as Bachelorgirl

*Bridget Ann Brno as Bridget Jones

*[[Carmen Electra]] as Herself (The natives chant her name)

*[[Valery Ortiz]] as Jell-O

*[[Andrea Ferrell]] as Deaf Woman

*[[Tom Fitzpatrick]] as Gandalf

*[[Judah Friedlander]] as Nicky

*[[Gianfranco L'Amore]] as Native King Kong

*[[Marie Matiko]] as Betty

*[[Josh Meyers]] as Napoleon and Owen Wilson from ''[[Wedding Crashers]]''

*[[Edward Moss (impersonator)|Edward Moss]] as Michael Jackson

*[[Mauricio Sanchez]] as Eduardo

*[[Meera Simhan]] as Linda

*[[Nadia Dina Ariqat]] as Britney

*[[Matt Austin]] as Fireman

*Nick Steele as Kevin

*[[Lil Jon]] as himself

*[[Beverly Polcyn]] as Old Cat Woman

==External links==

*[http://www.datemoviedvd.com/ Official site]

*{{imdb title|id=0466342|title=Date Movie}}

*{{rotten-tomatoes|id=10005744-date_movie|title=Date Movie}}

*{{metacritic film|id=datemovie|title=Date Movie}}

*{{mojo title|id=datemovie|title=Date Movie}}

*{{ymovies title|1808725759}}

*[http://movieweb.com/movies/film/59/3359/video.php Clips from ''Date Movie'']

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