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* NonIndicativeName: The misleading movie title. Who would have thought Baby is a leopard. And the story has little to do with any ''bringing up''.
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* NonIndicativeName: The misleading movie title. Who would have thought that Baby is was a leopard. And the story has little to do with any ''bringing up''.
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* NonIndicativeName: The misleading movie title. Who would have thought Baby is a leopard. And ''bringing up'' probably refers to the lead couple's business of bringing the leopard from New York to Connecticut.
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* NonIndicativeName: The misleading movie title. Who would have thought Baby is a leopard. And the story has little to do with any ''bringing up'' probably refers to the lead couple's business of bringing the leopard from New York to Connecticut.up''.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: David tells Susan she has to leave her apartment after he finds out there's a leopard in it. She says she can't, because she has a lease.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Baby is tame, but he's still a leopard.
* HangingOurClothesToDry: Susan accidentally drops one of David's socks into the fire while trying to dry it, and then tosses the other one in to match.
* MistakenForGay: "Because I just went GAY all of a sudden!"
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* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: To calm Baby the leopard down, you have to sing "I Can't Give You Anythng But Love, Baby".
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* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: To calm Baby the leopard down, you have to sing "I Can't Give You Anythng Anything But Love, Baby".
* NoSparks: David being engaged to his coworker who basically says that she [[CantHaveSexEver will not have sex with him when they are married]] and their marriage's purpose is to solidify their working relationship.
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* RealAfterAll: A running theme. First it is David who doesn't believe that Susan is harboring a leopard in her bathroom and later it is the Sheriff who doens't fall for the "leopard story". Cue this trope.
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* RealAfterAll: A running theme. First it is David who doesn't believe that Susan is harboring a leopard in her bathroom and later it is the Sheriff who doens't doesn't fall for the "leopard story". Cue this trope.
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->''"There is a leopard on your roof and it’s my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing."''
->''"There is a leopard on your roof and it’s my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing."''
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: David is one ofthesethese.
* AlmostKiss: David and Susan in the forest mud, reminiscent of [[Film/ItHappenedOneNight another]] Screwball Comedy.
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* AlmostKiss: David and Susan in the forest mud, reminiscent of [[Film/ItHappenedOneNight another]] Screwball Comedy.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: It's not clear what causes the ladder to swng back upright after Susan and the latter tilt over sideways.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: It's not clear what causes the ladder to swng swing back upright after Susan and the latter tilt over sideways.
* CantHaveSexEver: David's DisposableFiance mentions that their marriage must entail no domestic entanglements of any kind: "Yes, David, I see our marriage purely as a dedication to your work."
* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: The sheriff falling for David's lame "Mickey the Mouse and Donald the Duck" story.
* DramaticDrop: First, the gardener drops his bottle when noticing Baby next to him, later the Sheriff does the same with his jail keys.
* DramaticDrop: First, the gardener drops his bottle when noticing Baby next to him, later the Sheriff does the same with his jail keys.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Averted. Cary Grant's improvised line "I just went GAY all of a sudden!" may have been the first ''intentional'' use of the word to mean "homosexual" in mainstream film.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Averted. Cary Grant's improvised [[[[Improv}} improvised]] line "I just went GAY all of a sudden!" may have been the first ''intentional'' use of the word to mean "homosexual" in mainstream film.
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* HerrDoktor: The psychiatrist, who after meeting Susan is convinced that she's nuts.
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* HerrDoktor: The psychiatrist, psychiatrist with his German accent, who after meeting Susan is convinced that she's nuts.
* HollywoodDriving: Susan hits the chicken-loaded truck because of this trope.
* HotScientist: David, even with NerdGlasses on.
* HotScientist: David, even with NerdGlasses on.
* TheKlutz: David, around Susan.
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* NoMoreForMe: Played with. The drunken gardener seems to have had enough after his encounter with the leopard.
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Somewhere A Palaeontologist Is Crying is now Artistic License Paleontology. Bad examples and ZCE are being removed.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: There is no such thing as an intercostal clavicle. There ''can be'' no such thing as an intercostal clavicle. "Intercostal" means "Between the ribs", and the clavicle connects the rib cage to the shoulder girdle.
** ScienceMarchesOn: The clavicle in question comes from a brontosaurus, which, even at the time, was recognized by the scientific community as ''Apatosaurus''.
** ScienceMarchesOn: The clavicle in question comes from a brontosaurus, which, even at the time, was recognized by the scientific community as ''Apatosaurus''.
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* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: There is no such thing as an intercostal clavicle. There ''can be'' no such thing as an intercostal clavicle. "Intercostal" means "Between the ribs", and the clavicle connects the rib cage to the shoulder girdle.
** ScienceMarchesOn: The clavicle in question comes from a brontosaurus, which, even at the time, was recognized by the scientific community as ''Apatosaurus''.
** ScienceMarchesOn: The clavicle in question comes from a brontosaurus, which, even at the time, was recognized by the scientific community as ''Apatosaurus''.
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''Bringing Up Baby'' is a classic 1938 ScrewballComedy directed by Creator/HowardHawks, and starring Creator/KatharineHepburn, CaryGrant, and a leopard.
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''Bringing Up Baby'' is a classic 1938 ScrewballComedy directed by Creator/HowardHawks, and starring Creator/KatharineHepburn, CaryGrant, Creator/CaryGrant, and a leopard.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Cary Grant, known for playing cool and charming guys, plays a mild-mannered, dorky scientist.
** Likewise, Katharine Hepburn, typically cast as a hyper-intelligent, on-the-ball, DefrostingIceQueen sort, as the scatterbrained Susan.
** Likewise, Katharine Hepburn, typically cast as a hyper-intelligent, on-the-ball, DefrostingIceQueen sort, as the scatterbrained Susan.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Susan is one of the earliest examples of this character type in film. (Nathan Rabin, creator of the term, calls her the [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]], although Carole Lombard in ''MyManGodfrey'' is actually an earlier example).
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Susan is one of the earliest examples of this character type in film. (Nathan Rabin, creator of the term, calls her the [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]], although Carole Lombard in ''MyManGodfrey'' ''Film/MyManGodfrey'' is actually an earlier example).
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** ScienceMarchesOn: The clavicle in question comes from a brontosaurus, which is now recognized by the scientific community as ''Apatosaurus''.
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''Bringing Up Baby'' is a classic 1938 ScrewballComedy directed by HowardHawks, and starring Creator/KatharineHepburn, CaryGrant, and a leopard.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: This is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Susan after David says something unspeakably rude about her to her face. She stops, gives that beautiful smile that only Katherine Hepburn could give, and launches herself into his arms, shouting, "Oh David! You really do love me!" David tries to play it cool, but finally admits it.
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* RunningGag: "I'll be with you in a minute, Mr. Peabody!"
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** Susan also tells the police that David is really 'Jerry the Nipper'; this was the nickname of [[ActorAllusion Cary Grant's character character]] in his previous film ''Film/TheAwfulTruth''. David lampshades this by protesting that Susan is making everything up out of movies she's seen.
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** Hilariously, he's also ''played'' by a jaguar. Why they didn't just say it was a jaguar the whole time is a mystery.
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You wouldn\'t wear something like that out of the shower
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* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: Susan rams a chicken truck. Baby winds up having chicken for lunch.
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* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: [[CluckingFunny Everything's Better With Chickens]]: Susan rams a chicken truck. Baby winds up having chicken for lunch.
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* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: Susan rams a chicken truck. Baby winds up having chicken for lunch.
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* GreatWhiteHunter: Maj. Applewhite is one, which leads to some hilarity when Susan describes David as one and Applewhite starts firing questions at him.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Tell me you wouldn't love to have seen Cary Grant wrestling a leopard in a pond.
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* ShoutOut: When asked whom he pulled a criminal job with, David says "[[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey the Mouse]] and [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Donald the Duck]]."
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* ShoutOut: When asked whom he pulled a criminal job with, David says "[[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse "[[MickeyMouse Mickey the Mouse]] and [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Donald the Duck]]."
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Susan is one of the earliest examples of this character type in film. (Nathan Rabin, creator of the term, calls her the TropeMaker, [[TropeMakers Trope Maker]], although Carole Lombard in ''MyManGodfrey'' is actually an earlier example).
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* ShoutOut: When asked whom he pulled a criminal job with, David says "[[MickeyMouse Mickey the Mouse]] and [[DonaldDuck Donald the Duck]]."
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* ShoutOut: When asked whom he pulled a criminal job with, David says "[[MickeyMouse "[[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey the Mouse]] and [[DonaldDuck [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Donald the Duck]]."
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It really was a leopard. Not a jaguar. Google Jaguar and compare with pics of Nissa the leopard if you don\'t be lieve me.
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->''"There is a leopard on your roof and it’s my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing."''
-->--'''Susan Vance'''
''Bringing Up Baby'' is a classic 1938 ScrewballComedy directed by HowardHawks, and starring KatharineHepburn, CaryGrant, and a leopard.
Milquetoast paleontologist David Huxley (Grant) is about to be married and is only missing one piece of his Brontosaurus skeleton (the "intercostal clavicle"). The night before his wedding, he's supposed to butter up a rich widow's lawyer so she'll donate a million dollars to the museum. Things take a rapid turn for the worse, though, when he meets scatterbrained heiress [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Susan Vance]] (Hepburn), who accidentally steals his golf ball, and then his car, preventing him from finishing the meeting. After the evening ends with Susan braining the lawyer with a rock, David vows that he never wants to see her again.
The next morning, Susan calls David on the telephone. Her brother in South America has mailed her a tame leopard called Baby, and she enlists David to help her transport it to her aunt's farm. Then, having made up her mind that David is the man she's going to marry--though he doesn't know it yet--she does whatever comes to mind to keep him there. It turns out that Susan's aunt is the potential museum donor, so they have to conceal David's identity ''and'' the presence of Baby, while also hunting for the intercostal clavicle, snatched up and buried by the dog.
Then Baby escapes, and so does a man-eating leopard from the circus, leading to several cases of mistaken identity as multiple groups of people go leopard-hunting in the forests of Connecticut. Everyone ends up in jail (briefly), David's fiancee rejects him, and the dinosaur skeleton is destroyed, but David confesses his love for Susan at last, and the movie ends with their happy, if still scatterbrained, embrace.
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!This work provides examples of:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: David is one of these
* AnnoyingLaugh: Susan, though some might consider it cute.
* CardboardPrison: David casually exits his jail cell when he gets exasperated listening to Susan babble at the constable. He even briefly gets the constable to join him back in his cell, before the cop realizes what has happened and has the cell locked up for real this time.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Doesn't even begin to describe Susan. She spends most of the movie perpendicular to reality.
* DinosaurDoggieBone: Possibly the TropeMaker.
* DisposableFiance: Alice, who isn't even present for most of the film.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: Susan's bathrobe, that David is forced to wear after his clothes are ruined.
* GrandeDame: Elizabeth Random, Susan Vance's aunt who displays little tolerance for David Huxley, but who is eccentric enough to want her own leopard.
* HaveAGayOldTime: Averted. Cary Grant's improvised line "I just went GAY all of a sudden!" may have been the first ''intentional'' use of the word to mean "homosexual" in mainstream film.
** Doubles as HilariousInHindsight, as Cary Grant is rumored to have been bisexual. We're pretty sure he had a thing with Randolph Scott.
* HenpeckedHusband: David manages to be this even before he is married. After Alice, even Susan must come as something of a relief.
* HerrDoktor: The psychiatrist
* HighClassGlass: the psychiatrist
* HumiliationConga: David for most of the film.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Susan is one of the earliest examples of this character type in film. (Nathan Rabin, creator of the term, calls her the TropeMaker, although Carole Lombard in ''MyManGodfrey'' is actually an earlier example).
* MeetCute
* MisplacedWildlife: Baby is from South America, which is jaguar territory, and is played by a jaguar despite the dialogue.
* MistakenIdentity: Mistaken ''leopard'' identity.
* MotorMouth: Susan, to the end.
* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast
* PlayingAgainstType: Cary Grant, known for playing cool and charming guys, plays a mild-mannered, dorky scientist.
** Likewise, Katharine Hepburn, typically cast as a hyper-intelligent, on-the-ball, DefrostingIceQueen sort, as the scatterbrained Susan.
** And finally, a jaguar as a leopard.
* ThePratfall: David slips on an olive Susan dropped and falls really hard on his butt.
* RomanticComedy
* ShoutOut: When asked whom he pulled a criminal job with, David says "[[MickeyMouse Mickey the Mouse]] and [[DonaldDuck Donald the Duck]]."
** Susan also tells the police that David is really 'Jerry the Nipper'; this was the nickname of Cary Grant's character in his previous film ''Film/TheAwfulTruth''. David lampshades this by protesting that Susan is making everything up out of movies she's seen.
* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: There is no such thing as an intercostal clavicle. There ''can be'' no such thing as an intercostal clavicle. "Intercostal" means "Between the ribs", and the clavicle connects the rib cage to the shoulder girdle.
** ScienceMarchesOn: The clavicle in question comes from a brontosaurus, which is now recognized by the scientific community as ''Apatosaurus''.
* StalkerWithACrush: Susan.
* UnplannedCrossdressing: After David Huxley ends up wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he returns to Susan Vance's home where she loans him her very girly robe while his clothes dry out. Susan's aunt, Elizabeth, is less than impressed with his wardrobe choices.
* UptightLovesWild
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->''"There is a leopard on your roof and it’s my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing."''
-->--'''Susan Vance'''
''Bringing Up Baby'' is a classic 1938 ScrewballComedy directed by HowardHawks, and starring KatharineHepburn, CaryGrant, and a leopard.
Milquetoast paleontologist David Huxley (Grant) is about to be married and is only missing one piece of his Brontosaurus skeleton (the "intercostal clavicle"). The night before his wedding, he's supposed to butter up a rich widow's lawyer so she'll donate a million dollars to the museum. Things take a rapid turn for the worse, though, when he meets scatterbrained heiress [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Susan Vance]] (Hepburn), who accidentally steals his golf ball, and then his car, preventing him from finishing the meeting. After the evening ends with Susan braining the lawyer with a rock, David vows that he never wants to see her again.
The next morning, Susan calls David on the telephone. Her brother in South America has mailed her a tame leopard called Baby, and she enlists David to help her transport it to her aunt's farm. Then, having made up her mind that David is the man she's going to marry--though he doesn't know it yet--she does whatever comes to mind to keep him there. It turns out that Susan's aunt is the potential museum donor, so they have to conceal David's identity ''and'' the presence of Baby, while also hunting for the intercostal clavicle, snatched up and buried by the dog.
Then Baby escapes, and so does a man-eating leopard from the circus, leading to several cases of mistaken identity as multiple groups of people go leopard-hunting in the forests of Connecticut. Everyone ends up in jail (briefly), David's fiancee rejects him, and the dinosaur skeleton is destroyed, but David confesses his love for Susan at last, and the movie ends with their happy, if still scatterbrained, embrace.
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!This work provides examples of:
* AbsentMindedProfessor: David is one of these
* AnnoyingLaugh: Susan, though some might consider it cute.
* CardboardPrison: David casually exits his jail cell when he gets exasperated listening to Susan babble at the constable. He even briefly gets the constable to join him back in his cell, before the cop realizes what has happened and has the cell locked up for real this time.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Doesn't even begin to describe Susan. She spends most of the movie perpendicular to reality.
* DinosaurDoggieBone: Possibly the TropeMaker.
* DisposableFiance: Alice, who isn't even present for most of the film.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: Susan's bathrobe, that David is forced to wear after his clothes are ruined.
* GrandeDame: Elizabeth Random, Susan Vance's aunt who displays little tolerance for David Huxley, but who is eccentric enough to want her own leopard.
* HaveAGayOldTime: Averted. Cary Grant's improvised line "I just went GAY all of a sudden!" may have been the first ''intentional'' use of the word to mean "homosexual" in mainstream film.
** Doubles as HilariousInHindsight, as Cary Grant is rumored to have been bisexual. We're pretty sure he had a thing with Randolph Scott.
* HenpeckedHusband: David manages to be this even before he is married. After Alice, even Susan must come as something of a relief.
* HerrDoktor: The psychiatrist
* HighClassGlass: the psychiatrist
* HumiliationConga: David for most of the film.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Susan is one of the earliest examples of this character type in film. (Nathan Rabin, creator of the term, calls her the TropeMaker, although Carole Lombard in ''MyManGodfrey'' is actually an earlier example).
* MeetCute
* MisplacedWildlife: Baby is from South America, which is jaguar territory, and is played by a jaguar despite the dialogue.
* MistakenIdentity: Mistaken ''leopard'' identity.
* MotorMouth: Susan, to the end.
* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast
* PlayingAgainstType: Cary Grant, known for playing cool and charming guys, plays a mild-mannered, dorky scientist.
** Likewise, Katharine Hepburn, typically cast as a hyper-intelligent, on-the-ball, DefrostingIceQueen sort, as the scatterbrained Susan.
** And finally, a jaguar as a leopard.
* ThePratfall: David slips on an olive Susan dropped and falls really hard on his butt.
* RomanticComedy
* ShoutOut: When asked whom he pulled a criminal job with, David says "[[MickeyMouse Mickey the Mouse]] and [[DonaldDuck Donald the Duck]]."
** Susan also tells the police that David is really 'Jerry the Nipper'; this was the nickname of Cary Grant's character in his previous film ''Film/TheAwfulTruth''. David lampshades this by protesting that Susan is making everything up out of movies she's seen.
* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: There is no such thing as an intercostal clavicle. There ''can be'' no such thing as an intercostal clavicle. "Intercostal" means "Between the ribs", and the clavicle connects the rib cage to the shoulder girdle.
** ScienceMarchesOn: The clavicle in question comes from a brontosaurus, which is now recognized by the scientific community as ''Apatosaurus''.
* StalkerWithACrush: Susan.
* UnplannedCrossdressing: After David Huxley ends up wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he returns to Susan Vance's home where she loans him her very girly robe while his clothes dry out. Susan's aunt, Elizabeth, is less than impressed with his wardrobe choices.
* UptightLovesWild
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