They say if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. But apparently, 18 years is enough time to make that reference outdated.
Your mileage may vary on whether or not 2004’s Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is a modern comedy classic, but it was popular enough in its time to gross over $168 million domestically. That didn’t stop a different reference from an iconic scene to go over the heads of plenty of Twitter users when applied to the recent PED suspension of Cardinals wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins.
First, a primer for those unfamiliar with the tale of Average Joe’s gym: Dodgeball follows a fledgling local gym owned by Vince Vaughn’s Peter La Fleur, who rounds up his co-workers into a dodgeball team to enter a high-stakes tournament in Las Vegas in order to secure prize money and save the gym from economic ruin.