History Film / StirCrazy

%% * SaltAndPepper: Skip and Harry.

* CorruptHick: The warden and the head guard. The warden of the competing prison is apparently just as bad, and it's heavily implied that the entire justice system is blatantly corrupt and many of the inmates have been railroaded.

* MarijuanaIsLSD: In the beginning when Harry is working as a waiter at a fancy dinner party, his stash of grass is mistaken for oregano and put it into the food. We next get a scene of rich white people tripping.

* VocalDissonance: Grossberger is a big mean looking giant but sings like an angel.

Fed up with living in New York City, struggling playwright Skip Donahue (Wilder) and his best friend, out-of-work actor Harry Monroe (Pryor), decide to drive to sunnier, friendlier Los Angeles. They end up getting framed for a bank robbery in Arizona and are [[DisproportionateRetribution sentenced to state prison for 125 years!]] While waiting for their appeal, Skip and Harry must get through mean guards, an overly friendly gay convict (Georg Stanford Brown), and a scary, bald behemoth named Grossberger (Erland Van Lidth). When the corrupt warden Beatty (Creator/BarryCorbin) sees that Skip is the only prisoner that can ride his mechanical bull at full power, he tries to force him to participate in the annual rodeo competition.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"That's right! That's right! We bad! Uh huh!"]]

->'''Skip:''' What are you doing?
->'''Harry:''' I'm gettin' ''bad''. You better get ''bad'', Jack, 'cause you ain't ''bad'', [[PrisonRape you gonna get fucked]]!

!!Tropes include:

* BlackBestFriend: Harry is this to Skip.

* GentleGiant: Grossberger becomes this after making friends with Skip and Harry.

* GreatEscape: Skip, Harry and a few fellow inmates plan an escape during the prison rodeo. [[spoiler: ironically Skip and Harry learn they've been found innocent once they manage to get away]]

** Of course, his intervention likely saved Alex from having his nether-regions crushed, so he did still help out a fair bit.

* SaltAndPepper: Skip and Harry.
* ScaryBlackMan: The prisoner wearing a cowboy hat who asks Skip and Harry for a light when they're first incarcerated.
* WorkingOnTheChainGang
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: the audience learns very little about the plan to escape from the rodeo until after it happens. We don't even learn the identity of the Latino man who assists them until [[spoiler: they've already escaped. Turns out he's Jesus' brother]]

Fed up with living in New York City, struggling playwright Skip Donahue (Wilder) and his best friend, out-of-work actor Harry Monroe (Pryor), decide to drive to sunnier, friendlier Los Angeles. They end up getting framed for a bank robbery in Arizona and are [[DisproportionateRetribution sentenced to state prison for 125 years!]] While waiting for their appeal, Skip and Harry must get through mean guards, an overly friendly gay convict, and a scary, bald behemoth named Grossberger. When the corrupt warden sees that Skip is the only prisoner that can ride his mechanical bull at full power, he tries to force him to participate in the annual rodeo competition.

* CampGay: Rory (George Sanford Brown) who keeps calling Harry "My dear" and making passes at him.

->'''Harry:''' I'm gettin' ''bad''. You better get ''bad'' Jack, cuz you ain't ''bad'', [[PrisonRape you gonna get fucked]]!

* NakedUnderFur: An early scene has Skip, moonlighting as a department store detective, accusing a female customer -- who's also an actress he recognizes -- of pretending to [[FiveFingerDiscount shoplift]] a dress, discarding said dress in the trash, and trying to leave the store with nothing on beneath her overcoat. We subsequently learn he was fired from the store without finding out if any of his accusations were true.

Fed up with living in New York City, struggling playwright Skip Donahue (Wilder) and his best friend Harry Monroe (Pryor) an out of work actor, decide to drive to sunnier, friendlier Los Angeles. They end up getting framed for a bank robbery in Arizona and are [[DisproportionateRetribution sentenced to state prison for 125 years!]] While waiting for their appeal, Skip and Harry must get through mean guards, an overly friendly gay convict, and a scary, bald behemoth named Grossberger. When the corrupt warden sees that Skip is the only prisoner that can ride his mechanical bull at full power, he tries to force him to participate in the annual rodeo competition.

Fed up with living in New York City, struggling playwright Skip Donahue (Wilder) and his best friend Harry Monroe(Pryor) an out of work actor, decide to drive to sunnier, friendlier Los Angeles. They end up getting framed for a bank robbery in Arizona and are [[DisproportionateRetribution sentenced to state prison for 125 years!]] While waiting for their appeal, Skip and Harry must get through mean guards, an overly friendly gay convict, and a scary, bald behemoth named Grossberger. When the corrupt warden sees that Skip is the only prisoner that can ride his mechanical bull at full power, he tries to force him to participate in the annual rodeo competition.

* CorruptHick: The warden and the head guard. The warden of the competing prison is apparently just as bad.

* GreatEscape: Skip, Harry and a few fellow inmates plan an escape during the prison rodeo.

* CorruptHick: The warden and the head guard.

* HelloAttorney: Meredith ([=JoBeth=] Williams), the surprisingly hot cousin of Skip and Harry's lawyer who's working with him to prove their innocence. Skip is immediately attracted to her.

''Stir Crazy'' is a 1980 comedy directed by Creator/SidneyPoitier re-teaming Creator/RichardPryor and Creator/GeneWilder four years after their hit ''Film/SilverStreak''.

* GroinAttack: Skip and Harry are in a restaurant when a tall man and short taxi driver burst in arguing because the man refuses to pay the driver. Skip decides to be a good samaritan and walks over to diffuse the situation. Just before he gets there, the taxi driver grabs the man 'down there' with a pair pliers and twists, which Skip fails to notice. Of course, the man is now far more co-operative and pays the taxi driver, all while Skip is talking calmly to them both. When the driver releases the pliers and both men leave, Skip walks away thinking it was all his doing.

Fed up with living in New York City, struggling playwright Skip Donahue (Wilder) and his best friend Harry Monroe(Pryor) an out of work actor, decide to drive to sunnier, friendlier Los Angeles. They end up getting framed for a bank robbery in Arizona and are sentenced to state prison for 125 years! While waiting for their appeal, Skip and Harry must get through mean guards, an overly friendly gay convict, and a scary, bald behemoth named Grossberger. When the corrupt warden sees that Skip is the only prisoner that can ride his mechanical bull at full power, he tries to force him to participate in the annual rodeo competition.

* ThoseTwoActors: This is the second of four films Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor made together.

* ThoseTwoGuys: This is the second of four films Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor made together.

* {{Prison}}: The movie was filmed in a real maximum security penitentiary in Arizona. Richard Pryor talks about it in his concert film "Live At the Sunset Strip".

* HelloAttorney: Meredith(JoBeth Williams), the surprisingly hot cousin of Skip and Harry's lawyer who's working with him to prove their innocence. Skip is immediately attracted to her.

->'''Harry:''' I'm gettin' ''bad''. You better get ''bad'' Jack, cuz you ain't ''bad'', you gonna get fucked!

* CampGay: Rory(George Sanford Brown) who keeps calling Harry "My dear" and making passes at him.

''Stir Crazy'' is a 1980 comedy directed by SidneyPoitier re-teaming Creator/RichardPryor and Creator/GeneWilder four years after their hit ''Film/SilverStreak''.

''Stir Crazy'' is a 1980 comedy directed by SidneyPoitier re-teaming RichardPryor and GeneWilder four years after their hit ''SilverStreak''.