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The plot revolves around truck driver Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds), who is offered $80,000 to bootleg four hundred cases of Coors beer[[note]]At the time the movie was made, it was illegal to ship Coors in bulk to the southeastern US because Coors hadn't gotten around to acquiring the relevant business licenses yet[[/note]] from Texarkana, UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}, to the Southern Classic truck rodeo in UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}} within 28 hours. The Bandit recruits fellow trucker Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed) to make the journey with him, with the Bandit's [[CoolCar Pontiac Firebird Trans Am]] acting as a blocker for Snowman's rig. On the journey back, the Bandit picks up a RunawayBride named Carrie (Field), making him the target of the jilted groom's father, [[InspectorJavert Sheriff Buford T. Justice]] (Gleason). {{Hilarity|Ensues}} and a chase across the South ensue.
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The plot revolves around truck driver Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds), who is offered $80,000 to bootleg four hundred cases of Coors beer[[note]]At the time the movie was made, it was illegal to ship Coors in bulk to the southeastern US because Coors hadn't gotten around to acquiring the relevant business licenses yet[[/note]] yet. Also, eighty grand then would be worth a little shy of half a million today. Call it two big houses or one really, really big house.[[/note]] from Texarkana, UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}, to the Southern Classic truck rodeo in UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}} within 28 hours. The Bandit recruits fellow trucker Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed) to make the journey with him, with the Bandit's [[CoolCar Pontiac Firebird Trans Am]] acting as a blocker for Snowman's rig. On the journey back, the Bandit picks up a RunawayBride named Carrie (Field), making him the target of the jilted groom's father, [[InspectorJavert Sheriff Buford T. Justice]] (Gleason). {{Hilarity|Ensues}} and a chase across the South ensue.
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* SmallTownTyrant: Buford T. Justice has no idea that The Bandit is hauling illegal beer, which would have justified the pursuit at least within his jurisdiction -- if not for the fact that he leaves said jurisdiction almost immediately. His pursuit is entirely [[ItsPersonal for personal reasons]] and thus qualifies as being corrupt. Of course, the titular Bandit ''is'' breaking the law left and right, so [[GreyAndGrayMorality neither party comes to the plot with clean hands.]]
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* PlotHole: Buford never learns about the illegal cargo of beer; The Bandit never learns that the man that Frog left at the altar is Buford's son.
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* SmallTownTyrant: Buford T. Justice has no idea that The Bandit is hauling illegal beer, which would have justified the pursuit at least within his jurisdiction — if not for the fact that he leaves said jurisdiction almost immediately. His pursuit is entirely for personal reasons and thus qualifies as being corrupt. Of course, the titular Bandit is breaking the law left and right, so neither party comes to the plot with clean hands.
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* BackseatChangingRoom: Subverted: Frog does change out of her wedding dress in the Trans Am but does it while still in the front passenger seat.
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* BackseatChangingRoom: The hitchhiker Snowman picks up decides to change in the backseat, but questions him if he's going to perv on her. He swears he won't, but it is [[DistractedByTheSexy obvious that he does]]. This is different from the first movie, when the future Frog does change out of her wedding dress in the Trans Am but does it while in the front passenger seat.
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''Smokey'' was the second highest-grossing movie of 1977, beaten to the #1 spot by a small indie sci-fi picture called [[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]], and established Burt Reynolds as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood in the late '70s and early '80s. Two sequels were made, ''Smokey and the Bandit II'' in 1980 and ''Smokey and the Bandit Part 3'' in 1983, the latter with Gleason and Reed but sans Reynolds and Field (Reed's Snowman becoming a "new" Bandit), though Reynolds makes a cameo near the end. They did not end up doing as well in competition with the respective ''Franchise/StarWars'' films at the box office. In 1994, a grand total of four made-for-TV ''Bandit'' movies based upon the original trilogy were produced. They were subsequently released in a box set along with the original three, likely surprising many fans unaware of their existence.
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''Smokey'' was the second highest-grossing movie of 1977, beaten to the #1 spot by a small indie sci-fi picture called [[Film/ANewHope ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]], Wars]]'', and established Burt Reynolds as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood in the late '70s and early '80s. Two sequels were made, ''Smokey and the Bandit II'' in 1980 and ''Smokey and the Bandit Part 3'' in 1983, the latter with Gleason and Reed but sans Reynolds and Field (Reed's Snowman becoming a "new" Bandit), though Reynolds makes a cameo near the end. They did not end up doing as well in competition with the respective ''Franchise/StarWars'' films at the box office. In 1994, a grand total of four made-for-TV ''Bandit'' movies based upon the original trilogy were produced. They were subsequently released in a box set along with the original three, likely surprising many fans unaware of their existence.
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* DisguisedInDrag: Big Enos and Little Enos in an adult hotel. They didn't even bother in removing their moustaches, but [[AnythingThatMoves that didn't stop the group of men]], with [[AmbiguouslyGay Little Enos]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim trying to remember one of the men's numbers]].
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* DisguisedInDrag: Big Enos and Little Enos in an adult hotel. They didn't even bother in removing their moustaches, but [[AnythingThatMoves that didn't stop the group of men]], men, with [[AmbiguouslyGay Little Enos]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim trying to remember one of the men's numbers]].
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The plot revolves around truck driver Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds), who is offered $80,000 to bootleg four hundred cases of Coors beer[[note]]At the time the movie was made, it was illegal to ship Coors in bulk to the southeastern US because Coors hadn't gotten around to acquiring the relevant business licenses yet[[/note]] from Texarkana, UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}, to the Southern Classic truck rodeo in UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}} within 28 hours. The Bandit recruits fellow trucker Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed) to make the journey with him, with the Bandit's [[CoolCar Pontiac Firebird Trans Am]] acting as a blocker for Snowman's rig. On the journey back, the Bandit picks up a RunawayBride named Carrie (Field), making him the target of the jilted groom's father, [[SmallTownTyrant Sheriff Buford T. Justice]] (Gleason). {{Hilarity|Ensues}} and a chase across the South ensue.
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The plot revolves around truck driver Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds), who is offered $80,000 to bootleg four hundred cases of Coors beer[[note]]At the time the movie was made, it was illegal to ship Coors in bulk to the southeastern US because Coors hadn't gotten around to acquiring the relevant business licenses yet[[/note]] from Texarkana, UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}, to the Southern Classic truck rodeo in UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}} within 28 hours. The Bandit recruits fellow trucker Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed) to make the journey with him, with the Bandit's [[CoolCar Pontiac Firebird Trans Am]] acting as a blocker for Snowman's rig. On the journey back, the Bandit picks up a RunawayBride named Carrie (Field), making him the target of the jilted groom's father, [[SmallTownTyrant [[InspectorJavert Sheriff Buford T. Justice]] (Gleason). {{Hilarity|Ensues}} and a chase across the South ensue.
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* PercussiveMaintenance: Buford's car horn jams at one point and he's unable to fix it, but an irate state trooper giving the car a good kick shuts it up.
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* BrickJoke: The first time Buford's watch goes off, he explains that it uses an algorithm developed by a pair of monks to detect stress. When it goes off while he's chewing out Junior over ruining his attempt to arrest The Bandit, he looks at it and snaps "Shut your face! And that goes for the two monks too!"
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* BrickJoke: The first time Buford's watch goes off, he explains that it uses an algorithm developed by a pair of monks to detect stress. When it goes off while he's chewing out Junior over ruining his attempt to arrest The Bandit, he looks at it and snaps "Shut your face! ass! And that goes for the two monks too!"
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* GreasySpoon: A rest-stop burger joint is referred to as the "Choke-and-puke" over the CB radio.
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* GreasySpoon: A rest-stop burger joint is referred to as the a "Choke-and-puke" over the CB radio.radio; in CB slang, the term is used to refer to truck stop restaurants in general due to the less-than-ideal quality of the food served in such places.
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* {{Malaproper}}: Buford has entered Desha County, Arkansas in his pursuit of the Bandit. When Sheriff Branford tells him he's out of jurisdiction and the fact that Buford being a sheriff isn't germane to the situation, Buford splutters "The Goddam Germans got nothin' to do with it!"
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* {{Malaproper}}: Buford has entered Desha County, Arkansas in his pursuit of the Bandit. When Sheriff Branford tells him he's out of jurisdiction and the fact that Buford being a sheriff isn't germane to the situation, Buford splutters "The Goddam Goddamn Germans got nothin' to do with it!"
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* {{Malaproper}}: Buford has entered Desha County, Arkansas in his pursuit of the Bandit. When Sheriff Branford tells him he's out of jurisdiction and the fact that Buford being a sheriff isn't germane to the situation, Buford splutters "The Goddam Germans got nothin' to do with it!"
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* ProductDeliveryOrdeal: The story concerns the delivery of a truckload of Coors beer to Georgia. Two problems: 1) at [[TheSeventies the time]], it was illegal to ship Coors to the eastern United States, and 2) to make the delivery in time, they'll have to break the speed limit the entire way, getting them chased by the police (or, in 70's trucker parlance, "Smokey"). The movie's first sequel, ''Smokey and the Bandit II'', uses the same plot, but the cargo is a live elephant.
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* SmokescreenCrime: The Bandit leads law enforcement on a wild goose chase in his Trans Am in order to divert attention from his partner's truck full of illegally imported beer.
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** In 1977, it was indeed illegal to ship large amounts of Coors beer east of UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} due to state alcohol laws at the time. Since, at the time, the company still produced all of its beer in UsefulNotes/{{Colorado}}, it didn't bother to seek state licenses for parts of the country outside of a comfortable shipping range.
** There really was a Pontiac police package in the '70s. One was offered on the Catalina, another on the [=LeMans=], the latter being nicknamed the "[=LeMans=] Enforcer"
** In 1977, it was indeed illegal to ship large amounts of Coors beer east of UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} due to state alcohol laws at the time. Since, at the time, the company still produced all of its beer in UsefulNotes/{{Colorado}}, it didn't bother to seek state licenses for parts of the country outside of a comfortable shipping range.
** There really was a Pontiac police package in the '70s. One was offered on the Catalina, another on the [=LeMans=], the latter being nicknamed the "[=LeMans=] Enforcer"
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* BrickJoke: The first time Buford's watch goes off, he explains that it uses an algorithm developed by a pair of monks to detect stress. When it goes off while he's chewing out Junior over ruining his attempt to arrest The Bandit, he looks at it and snaps "Shut your face! And that goes for the two monks too!"
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* RunningGag: During his introduction, Buford reveals that his watch detects stress in the wearer and sounds an alarm when it gets too high. It goes off several times through the movie.
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''Smokey'' was the second highest-grossing movie of 1977, beaten to the #1 spot by ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope'', and established Burt Reynolds as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood in the late '70s and early '80s. Two sequels were made, ''Smokey and the Bandit II'' in 1980 and ''Smokey and the Bandit Part 3'' in 1983, the latter with Gleason and Reed but sans Reynolds and Field (Reed's Snowman becoming a "new" Bandit), though Reynolds makes a cameo near the end. They did not end up doing as well in competition with the respective ''Star Wars'' films at the box office. In 1994, a grand total of four made-for-TV ''Bandit'' movies based upon the original trilogy were produced. They were subsequently released in a box set along with the original three, likely surprising many fans unaware of their existence.
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''Smokey'' was the second highest-grossing movie of 1977, beaten to the #1 spot by ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope'', a small indie sci-fi picture called [[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]], and established Burt Reynolds as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood in the late '70s and early '80s. Two sequels were made, ''Smokey and the Bandit II'' in 1980 and ''Smokey and the Bandit Part 3'' in 1983, the latter with Gleason and Reed but sans Reynolds and Field (Reed's Snowman becoming a "new" Bandit), though Reynolds makes a cameo near the end. They did not end up doing as well in competition with the respective ''Star Wars'' ''Franchise/StarWars'' films at the box office. In 1994, a grand total of four made-for-TV ''Bandit'' movies based upon the original trilogy were produced. They were subsequently released in a box set along with the original three, likely surprising many fans unaware of their existence.