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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: In the film, after at least. After all the training and the problems and tensions resulting from it it, the war ends with not one of them the main characters seeing active service, since the atomic bombs are dropped on Japan one week before they're due to be shipped out to the Pacific Theatre.]]
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* FromACertainPointOfView: Hennessey tells Wykowski he's part black to expose Wykowski's bigotry. He later clarifies he meant he's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people#Black_Irish Black Irish]].
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A 1988 film directed by Creator/MikeNichols and adapted from the second play in Neil Simon's "Eugene trilogy", ''Biloxi Blues'' is set during the later half of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and follows the story of Eugene Jerome (Creator/MatthewBroderick) as he heads to the film's eponymous town for basic army training. There, he comes face-to-face with the kooky [[DrillSergeantNasty drill sergeant]] by the name of Merwin J. Toomey (Creator/ChristopherWalken), and tries to get along with other soldiers in his platoon.
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A 1988 film directed by Creator/MikeNichols and adapted from the second play in Neil Simon's Creator/NeilSimon's "Eugene trilogy", ''Biloxi Blues'' is set during the later half of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and follows the story of Eugene Jerome (Creator/MatthewBroderick) as he heads to the film's eponymous town for basic army training. There, he comes face-to-face with the kooky [[DrillSergeantNasty drill sergeant]] by the name of Merwin J. Toomey (Creator/ChristopherWalken), and tries to get along with other soldiers in his platoon.
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A 1988 film based on directed by Creator/MikeNichols and adapted from the second play in Neil Simon's "Eugene trilogy," trilogy", ''Biloxi Blues'' is set during the later half of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and follows the story of Eugene Jerome (Creator/MatthewBroderick) as he heads to the film's eponymous town for basic army training. There, he comes face-to-face with the kooky [[DrillSergeantNasty drill sergeant]] by the name of Merwin J. Toomey (Creator/ChristopherWalken), and tries to get along with other soldiers in his platoon.platoon.
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A 1988 film based on the second play in Neil Simon's "Eugene trilogy," ''Biloxi Blues'' is set during the later half of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and follows the story of Eugene Jerome (MatthewBroderick) (Creator/MatthewBroderick) as he heads to the film's eponymous town for basic army training. There, he comes face-to-face with the kooky [[DrillSergeantNasty drill sergeant]] by the name of Merwin J. Toomey (Creator/ChristopherWalken), and tries to get along with other soldiers in his platoon.
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* WhatAnIdiot: For all his supposed intelligence, Epstein intentionally mouths off to Sgt. Toomey when they first meet, for no reason other than pure rebelliousness. He continues to not really grasp his situation and fights battles with his superiors he can't possibly win.
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A 1988 film based on the second play in Neil Simon's "Eugene trilogy," ''Biloxi Blues'' is set during the later half of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and follows the story of Eugene Jerome (MatthewBroderick) as he heads to the film's eponymous town for basic army training. There, he comes face-to-face with the kooky [[DrillSergeantNasty drill sergeant]] by the name of Merwin J. Toomey (ChristopherWalken), (Creator/ChristopherWalken), and tries to get along with other soldiers in his platoon.
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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Eugene makes losing his virginity one of the goals of his Army tenure.
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* FutureBadass: In the film's WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, [[spoiler:Eugene narrates that Epstein became a lawyer whom TheMob called "The most feared man in Manhattan."]]
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* FutureBadass: In the film's WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, [[spoiler:Eugene narrates that Epstein became a lawyer whom TheMob The Mob called "The most feared man in Manhattan."]]
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A 1988 film based on the second play in Neil Simon's "Eugene trilogy," ''Biloxi Blues'' is set during the later half of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and follows the story of Eugene Jerome (MatthewBroderick) as he heads to the film's eponymous town for basic army training. There, he comes face-to-face with the kooky [[DrillSergeantNasty drill sergeant]] by the name of Merwin J. Toomey (ChristopherWalken), and tries to get along with other soldiers in his platoon.
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* MistakenForGay: Epstein, when it turns out to be [[spoiler:Hennessey]] who's gay.
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* PottyEmergency: Epstein is forced to do the two hundred pushups while having to pee the entire time.
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* MistakenForGay: Epstein, when it turns out to be [[spoiler:Hennessey]] [[spoiler:Hennessy]] who's gay.
* PhysicalFitnessPunishment: The entire platoon is made to do two hundredpushups push-ups for some soldier's impertinent comment.
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A film based on the second play in NeilSimon's "Eugene trilogy," ''Biloxi Blues'' is set during the later half of WorldWarII, and follows the story of Eugene Jerome (MatthewBroderick) as he heads to the film's eponymous town for basic army training. There, he comes face-to-face with the kooky [[DrillSergeantNasty drill sergeant]] by the name of Merwin J. Toomey (ChristopherWalken), and tries to get along with other soldiers in his platoon.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Eugene makes losing his virginity one of the goals of his Army tenure.
* CharacterDevelopment
* DawsonCasting
* DeadpanSnarker: It's a Neil Simon play, so pretty much everyone really.
* DrillSergeantNasty
* EnforcedMethodActing
* FutureBadass: In the film's WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, [[spoiler:Eugene states in the narration that Epstein became a lawyer whom the mob called "The most feared man in Manhattan."]]
* GallowsHumor: Toomey talks about the steel plate in his head.
* InformedJudaism
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis
* JustJokingJustification
* LargeHam
* MistakenForGay: Epstein, when it turnes out to be [[spoiler: Hennessey]] who's gay.
* PhysicalFitnessPunishment: The entire platoon is made to do two hundred pushups for some soldier's impertinent comment.
** Inverted in the end when [[spoiler: Toomey]] is forced by the other men to undergo the same punishment.
* PottyEmergency: Epstein is forced to do the two hundred pushups while having to pee the entire time.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* SexAsRiteOfPassage
* SomethingBlues
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
* WorldWarII
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A film based on the second play in NeilSimon's "Eugene trilogy," ''Biloxi Blues'' is set during the later half of WorldWarII, and follows the story of Eugene Jerome (MatthewBroderick) as he heads to the film's eponymous town for basic army training. There, he comes face-to-face with the kooky [[DrillSergeantNasty drill sergeant]] by the name of Merwin J. Toomey (ChristopherWalken), and tries to get along with other soldiers in his platoon.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Eugene makes losing his virginity one of the goals of his Army tenure.
* CharacterDevelopment
* DawsonCasting
* DeadpanSnarker: It's a Neil Simon play, so pretty much everyone really.
* DrillSergeantNasty
* EnforcedMethodActing
* FutureBadass: In the film's WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, [[spoiler:Eugene states in the narration that Epstein became a lawyer whom the mob called "The most feared man in Manhattan."]]
* GallowsHumor: Toomey talks about the steel plate in his head.
* InformedJudaism
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis
* JustJokingJustification
* LargeHam
* MistakenForGay: Epstein, when it turnes out to be [[spoiler: Hennessey]] who's gay.
* PhysicalFitnessPunishment: The entire platoon is made to do two hundred pushups for some soldier's impertinent comment.
** Inverted in the end when [[spoiler: Toomey]] is forced by the other men to undergo the same punishment.
* PottyEmergency: Epstein is forced to do the two hundred pushups while having to pee the entire time.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* SexAsRiteOfPassage
* SomethingBlues
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
* WorldWarII
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