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In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Iowa, the Reverend Clayton Brooks (Creator/DickVanDyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. In a campaign devised by public-relations executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart), the Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25-million cash prize to any town in America that can [[GoingColdTurkey quit smoking completely]] for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when Wren shows up to undermine his efforts, and well-known TV newscasters (all played by BobAndRay) turn the spotlight of celebrity on the town and its citizens, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
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In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Iowa, the Reverend Clayton Brooks (Creator/DickVanDyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. In a campaign devised by public-relations executive expert Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart), the Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25-million cash prize to any town in America that can [[GoingColdTurkey quit smoking completely]] for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when Wren shows up to undermine his efforts, and well-known TV newscasters (all played by BobAndRay) turn the spotlight of celebrity on the town and its citizens, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Mild-mannered OnlySaneMan Bob Newhart is a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Mild-mannered OnlySaneMan Bob Newhart is a CorruptCorporateExecutive.CorruptCorporateExecutive here.
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In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Iowa, the Reverend Clayton Brooks (Creator/DickVanDyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. Acting on the advice of public-relations executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart), the Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25-million cash prize to any town in America that can [[GoingColdTurkey quit smoking completely]] for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when Wren shows up to undermine his efforts, and well-known TV newscasters (all played by BobAndRay) turn the spotlight of celebrity on the town and its citizens, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
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In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Iowa, the Reverend Clayton Brooks (Creator/DickVanDyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. Acting on the advice of In a campaign devised by public-relations executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart), the Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25-million cash prize to any town in America that can [[GoingColdTurkey quit smoking completely]] for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when Wren shows up to undermine his efforts, and well-known TV newscasters (all played by BobAndRay) turn the spotlight of celebrity on the town and its citizens, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
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In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Iowa, the Reverend Clayton Brooks (Creator/DickVanDyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. Acting on the advice of PR executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart), the Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25-million cash prize to any town in America that can [[GoingColdTurkey quit smoking completely]] for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when Wren shows up to undermine his efforts, and well-known TV newscasters (all played by BobAndRay) turn the spotlight of celebrity on the town and its citizens, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
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In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Iowa, the Reverend Clayton Brooks (Creator/DickVanDyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. Acting on the advice of PR public-relations executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart), the Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25-million cash prize to any town in America that can [[GoingColdTurkey quit smoking completely]] for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when Wren shows up to undermine his efforts, and well-known TV newscasters (all played by BobAndRay) turn the spotlight of celebrity on the town and its citizens, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
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In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Iowa Iowa, the Reverend Clayton Brooks (Creator/DickVanDyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. Acting on the advice of PR executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart), the Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25-million cash prize to any town in America that can [[GoingColdTurkey quit smoking completely]] for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when Wren shows up to undermine his efforts, and well-known TV newscasters (all played by BobAndRay) turn the spotlight of celebrity on the town and its citizens, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
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In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Iowa Reverend Brooks (Creator/DickVanDyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. The Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25-million cash prize to any town in America that can [[GoingColdTurkey quit smoking completely]] for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when ad executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart) shows up to undermine his efforts, and well-known TV newscasters (all played by BobAndRay) turn the spotlight of celebrity on the town and its citizens, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
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In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Iowa Reverend Brooks (Creator/DickVanDyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. The Acting on the advice of PR executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart), the Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25-million cash prize to any town in America that can [[GoingColdTurkey quit smoking completely]] for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when ad executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart) shows up to undermine his efforts, and well-known TV newscasters (all played by BobAndRay) turn the spotlight of celebrity on the town and its citizens, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
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* [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding / BittersweetEnding: The film ends with the town celebrating their victory, oblivious to the fact that Reverend Brooks, Dr. Proctor, and Merwin have just been shot and are calling for help. And Eagle Rock is "saved" by the arrival of a defense plant that enshrouds the entire town in the pollution belched from its giant, cigarette-shaped smokestacks.]]
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* [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding BolivianArmyEnding / BittersweetEnding: The film ends with the town celebrating their victory, oblivious to the fact that Reverend Brooks, Dr. Proctor, and Merwin have just been shot and are calling for help. And Eagle Rock is "saved" by the arrival of a defense plant that enshrouds the entire town in the pollution belched from its giant, cigarette-shaped smokestacks.]]
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* [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil Slowly Slipping Into Corruption]]: Brooks, whose motive goes from religious calling to being seen as a hero once Eagle Rock starts attracting national attention.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Famous newscasters such as [[WalterCronkite Walter Chronic]] show up to cover the town, and the Christopher Mott Society is an obvious parody of the ultra-conservative John Birch Society.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Famous newscasters such as [[WalterCronkite [[Creator/WalterCronkite Walter Chronic]] show up to cover the town, and the Christopher Mott Society is an obvious parody of the ultra-conservative John Birch Society.
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--> "My drinking is directly connected to my smoking. Now, when I say "directly", I mean there's a thing - a physical thing - that is directly connected from my liquor buds to the smoke pouch in my lungs. If you want me to quit smoking, you would have to cut - I mean, you'd have to physically cut that thing! And when you do, my head's gonna fall off!"
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--> "My drinking is directly connected to my smoking. Now, when I say "directly", 'directly', I mean there's a thing - a physical thing - that is directly connected from my liquor buds to the smoke pouch in my lungs. If you want me to quit smoking, you would have to cut - I mean, you'd have to physically cut that thing! And when you do, my head's gonna fall off!"
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In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Iowa Reverend Brooks (Dick Van Dyke) (Creator/DickVanDyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. The Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25-million cash prize to any town in America that can [[GoingColdTurkey quit smoking completely]] for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when ad executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart) shows up to undermine his efforts, and well-known TV newscasters (all played by BobAndRay) turn the spotlight of celebrity on the town and its citizens, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
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* BackgroundHalo: Parodying "the most trusted man in America", Walter Chronic is introduced this way, with one of the clinc's lights forming a halo.
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* BackgroundHalo: Parodying "the most trusted man in America", Walter Chronic is introduced this way, with one of the clinc's clinic's lights forming a halo.
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* BackgroundHalo: Parodying "the most trusted man in America", Walter Cronic is introduced this way, with one of the clinc's lights forming a halo.
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* BackgroundHalo: Parodying "the most trusted man in America", Walter Cronic Chronic is introduced this way, with one of the clinc's lights forming a halo.
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* TheFaceless: President RichardNixon supposedly arrives in Eagle Rock during the climax, but we never get a clear view of his face.
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* TheFaceless: President RichardNixon UsefulNotes/RichardNixon supposedly arrives in Eagle Rock during the climax, but we never get a clear view of his face.
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* RandyNewman: Composed the film's music score. The opening/closing theme, "He Gives Us All His Love", would appear in a re-recorded version on his ''Sail Away'' album the following year.
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* RandyNewman: Composed the film's music score.score, his first of many. The opening/closing theme, "He Gives Us All His Love", would appear in a re-recorded version on his ''Sail Away'' album the following year.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Famous newscaster [[WalterCronkite Walter Chronic]] shows up to cover the town, and the Christopher Mott Society is an obvious parody of the ultra-conservative John Birch Society.
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* OverlyLongGag: The Mayor and Reverend waiting for the news story to come on with The Mayor's wife sneezing in the background.
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* CreatorCameo: During a scene showing various Eagle Rock residents coming unglued from nicotine withdrawal, Norman Lear can briefly be glimpsed as a man sitting on a park bench and sobbing.
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* KickTheDog: Done quite literally by one withdrawal-angered Eagle Rockian.
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A 1971 satirical comedy film produced, directed, and written by Norman Lear (just prior to his creating television's ''AllInTheFamily'').
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* RandyNewman: Composed the film's music score (his first). The opening/closing theme, "He Gives Us All His Love", would appear in a re-recorded version on his ''Sail Away'' album the following year.
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* TheFaceless: President RichardNixon supposedly arrives in Eagle Rock during the climax, but we never get a clear view of his face.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted. The film was shot in and around the real-life Iowa town of Greenfield.
** There's even some Iowa Doubling: The opening scene, ostensibly set at Hiram Grayson's residence in the South, was actually filmed at the governor's mansion in Des Moines.
** There's even some Iowa Doubling: The opening scene, ostensibly set at Hiram Grayson's residence in the South, was actually filmed at the governor's mansion in Des Moines.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Newsman David Chetley repeatedly attempts to interview a rival tobacco-company executive, who keeps telling him to "leave me the (bleep) alone!"
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* SpringtimeForHitler: Merwin convinces Valiant to hold the contest in the firm belief that no town will even be able to unanimously sign the pledge, never mind last the month. In fact, Eagle Rock is the only one that does, [[OhCrap but it only takes one]]....
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* SpringtimeForHitler: Merwin convinces Valiant to hold the contest in the firm belief that no town will even be able to unanimously sign the pledge, never mind last the month. In fact, Eagle Rock is the only one that does, [[OhCrap but it only takes one]]....one]]....
* TheVoiceless: Hiram C. Grayson, the elderly, wheelchair-bound Valiant Tobacco founder (played by veteran character actor Edward Everett Horton in his final screen role).
* TheVoiceless: Hiram C. Grayson, the elderly, wheelchair-bound Valiant Tobacco founder (played by veteran character actor Edward Everett Horton in his final screen role).
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* [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding / BittersweetEnding: The film ends with the town celebrating their victory, oblivious to the fact that Reverend Brooks, Dr. Proctor, and Merwin have just been shot and are calling for help. And te town is "saved" by the arrival of a defense plant that enshrouds the entire town in the pollution belched from its giant, cigarette-shaped smokestacks.]]
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* [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding / BittersweetEnding: The film ends with the town celebrating their victory, oblivious to the fact that Reverend Brooks, Dr. Proctor, and Merwin have just been shot and are calling for help. And te town Eagle Rock is "saved" by the arrival of a defense plant that enshrouds the entire town in the pollution belched from its giant, cigarette-shaped smokestacks.]]
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* [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding / BittersweetEnding: The film ends with the town celebrating their victory, oblivious to the fact that Reverend Brooks, Dr. Proctor, and Merwin have just been shot and are calling for help]].help. And te town is "saved" by the arrival of a defense plant that enshrouds the entire town in the pollution belched from its giant, cigarette-shaped smokestacks.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: Edgar Stopworth, who claims that he needs to smoke in order to drink and thus is encouraged to leave town for the month.
--> "My drinking is directly connected to my smoking. Now, when I say "directly", I mean there's a thing - a physical thing - that is directly connected from my liquor buds to the smoke pouch in my lungs. If you want me to quit smoking, you would have to cut - I mean, you'd have to physically cut that thing! And when you do, my head's gonna fall off!"
--> "My drinking is directly connected to my smoking. Now, when I say "directly", I mean there's a thing - a physical thing - that is directly connected from my liquor buds to the smoke pouch in my lungs. If you want me to quit smoking, you would have to cut - I mean, you'd have to physically cut that thing! And when you do, my head's gonna fall off!"
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* [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding: The film ends with the town celebrating their victory, oblivious to the fact that Reverend Brooks Brooks, Dr. Proctor, and Merwin have just been shot and are calling for help]].
* ColdTurkeysEverywhere: Invoked especially when the townspeople criticize Brooks, a some-years-former smoker, for not understanding their pain. He takes it up again so that he'll be suffering in solidarity.
* DyingTown: Eagle Rock is losing many of its townsfolk after the closing of the nearby military base.
* EverytownAmerica: ''Eagle'' Rock, although as mentioned above, it's in a bad way.
* GoingColdTurkey: Well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin yeah]]. Much of the film chronicles the various ways in which the town tries to cope with the lack of cigarettes as their desperation increases.
* DyingTown: Eagle Rock is losing many of its townsfolk after the closing of the nearby military base.
* EverytownAmerica: ''Eagle'' Rock, although as mentioned above, it's in a bad way.
* GoingColdTurkey: Well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin yeah]]. Much of the film chronicles the various ways in which the town tries to cope with the lack of cigarettes as their desperation increases.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Famous newscaster Walter ''Chronic'' shows up to cover the town, and the Christopher Mott Society is an obvious parody of the ultra-conservative John Birch Society.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Famous newscaster [[WalterCronkite Walter ''Chronic'' Chronic]] shows up to cover the town, and the Christopher Mott Society is an obvious parody of the ultra-conservative John Birch Society.Society.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Odie, whenever she grabs Amos' gun. "Don't you move, now. With my palsy, you're in enough trouble just standing there."
* NeverMessWithGranny: Odie, whenever she grabs Amos' gun. "Don't you move, now. With my palsy, you're in enough trouble just standing there."
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* SpringtimeForHitler: Valiant never expected any town to actually succeed, and Eagle Rock is the only one that actually has all citizens sign the pledge. Merwin Wren is deployed in response.
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* SpringtimeForHitler: Merwin convinces Valiant to hold the contest in the firm belief that no town will even be able to unanimously sign the pledge, never expected any town to actually succeed, and mind last the month. In fact, Eagle Rock is the only one that actually has all citizens sign the pledge. Merwin Wren is deployed in response.does, [[OhCrap but it only takes one]]....
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Brooks, naturally. To his displeasure, his wife quotes a relevant passage herself when she thinks that things are getting out of hand: ''what profit it a man if he gain the world and lose his soul?''
* [[spoiler:BolivianArmyEnding: The film ends with the town celebrating their victory, oblivious to the fact that Reverend Brooks and Merwin have just been shot and are calling for help]].
* ChekhovsGun: Odie Turman constantly tries to get her hands on Amos Bush's gun. [[spoiler:She eventually does, and it ends up shooting three people.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: For Bob and Ray.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Famous newscaster Walter ''Chronic'' shows up to cover the town, and the Christopher Mott Society is an obvious parody of the ultra-conservative John Birch Society.
* PlayingAgainstType: Mild-mannered OnlySaneMan Bob Newhart is a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
* PuttingOnTheReich: PlayedForLaughs with the Christopher Mott society, who take it upon themselves to enforce the cigarette ban and set up checkpoints to stop smuggling.
* [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil Slowly Slipping Into Corruption]]: Brooks, whose motive goes from religious calling to being seen as a hero once Eagle Rock starts attracting national attention.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Amos Bush, head of the Christopher Mott Society.
* SpringtimeForHitler: Valiant never expected any town to actually succeed, and Eagle Rock is the only one that actually has all citizens sign the pledge. Merwin Wren is deployed in response.
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25,000 is rather low for the whole town
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In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Iowa Reverend Brooks (Dick Van Dyke) spearheads his community's effort to rise to the Cold Turkey challenge. The Valiant Tobacco Company has promised a $25,000 $25-million cash prize to any town in America that can [[GoingColdTurkey quit smoking completely]] for 30 days. So Brooks leads the charge in this Battle of the Butts, hoping to become the local hero in the process. However, when ad executive Merwin Wren (Bob Newhart) shows up to undermine his efforts, and well-known TV newscasters (all played by BobAndRay) turn the spotlight of celebrity on the town and its citizens, this wicked comedy kicks into high gear.
