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* ShoutOut: "Lola, sweeter than a [[TheKinks cherry cola]]!"

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* ShoutOut: "Lola, sweeter than a [[TheKinks [[Music/TheKinks cherry cola]]!"

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* DisappearedDad: Tony's dad walked out on him and his mom when Tony was a kid. See: RealitySubtext below.

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* DisappearedDad: Tony's dad walked out on him and his mom when Tony was a kid. See: RealitySubtext below.on the Trivia page.



* RealitySubtext: The whole DisappearedDad subplot sounds an awful lot like Manilow's own life. His father abandoned him and his mother when Manilow was two years old. The movie's storyline perhaps takes it into WishFulfillment territory, making parts of it a bit uncomfortable to watch.
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* DawsonCasting: Manilow and O'Toole playing fresh-faced kids in their early twenties when they were actually in their forties and thirties respectively.
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* TheBigBad: Rico.

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* TheBigBad: BigBad: Rico.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback
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*BigDamnHeroes: Tony coming to the rescue during the "El Bravo" number.

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* DamselInDistress: Lola in Havana.



* DistressedDamsel: Lola in Havana.
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* RealitySubtext: The whole DisappearedDad subplot sounds an awful lot like Manilow's own life. His father abandoned him and his mother when Manilow was two years old. The movie's storyline perhaps takes it into WishFulfillment territory, making parts of it [[YourMileageMayVary a bit uncomfortable to watch]].

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* RealitySubtext: The whole DisappearedDad subplot sounds an awful lot like Manilow's own life. His father abandoned him and his mother when Manilow was two years old. The movie's storyline perhaps takes it into WishFulfillment territory, making parts of it [[YourMileageMayVary a bit uncomfortable to watch]].watch.
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* MuggedForDisguise: How Tony charges onto the scene during the "El Bravo" number to rescue Lola.
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* RealitySubtext: The whole DisappearedDad subplot sounds an awful lot like Manilow's own life. His father abandoned him and his mother when Manilow was two years old. The movie's storyline perhaps takes it into WishFulfillment territory, making parts of it a bit uncomfortable to watch for some.

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* RealitySubtext: The whole DisappearedDad subplot sounds an awful lot like Manilow's own life. His father abandoned him and his mother when Manilow was two years old. The movie's storyline perhaps takes it into WishFulfillment territory, making parts of it [[YourMileageMayVary a bit uncomfortable to watch for some.watch]].

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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: See: GunStruggle above.



* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: See: GunStruggle above.
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** Though Manilow is/was a smoker in RealLife, this is bizarrely averted by Tony Starr.

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** Though Manilow is/was was/is a smoker in RealLife, this is bizarrely averted by Tony Starr.
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** Though Manilow is/was a smoker in RealLife, this is bizarrely averted by Tony Starr.
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* IdiotBall: Lola carries it all the way to Havana with her!
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* DoomedByCanon: Tony, obviously.
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* ShoutOut: "Lola, sweeter than a [[TheKinks cherry cola]]"

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* ShoutOut: *ShoutOut: "Lola, sweeter than a [[TheKinks cherry cola]]"cola]]!"
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*ShoutOut: "Lola, sweeter than a [[TheKinks cherry cola]]"
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*ChorusGirls
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*NiceHat: Tony's hat in the "El Bravo" sequence.
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*TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: It's amazing how quickly people can make travel arrangements to foreign countries back in 1948!
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*{{Adorkable}}: Tony is this trope in spades.
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*DistressedDamsel: Lola in Havana.
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*WhiteShirtOfDeath: Tony.
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*TheMusicalMusical
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* LukeIAmYourFather: See: OhCrap below.

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* LukeIAmYourFather: See: OhCrap below.[[spoiler: Tony]] gets one of these moments.
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* DownerEnding
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* LukeIAmYourFather: See: OhCrap below.
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*TheBigBad: Rico.
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*TheIngenue: Lola.
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The plot can be summarized thusly: Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back.

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