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** Production and art designer Mel Bourne appears as Carmichael, the wealthy owner of the "Holy Grail" who Jack finds unconscious and overdosed on pills in his chair.

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** Production and art designer Mel Bourne appears as Langdon Carmichael, the wealthy owner of the "Holy Grail" who Jack finds unconscious and overdosed on pills in his chair.

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* CreatorCameo: Screenwriter Richard [=LaGravenese=] plays a character named "[[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Strait Jacket Yuppie]]".

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* CreatorCameo: Screenwriter CreatorCameo:
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Richard [=LaGravenese=] plays a character named "[[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Strait Jacket Yuppie]]".Yuppie]]".
** Production and art designer Mel Bourne appears as Carmichael, the wealthy owner of the "Holy Grail" who Jack finds unconscious and overdosed on pills in his chair.

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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Parry, who believes that he is a knight on a quest to get the Holy Grail. Of course, it's all just a delusion.

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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Most of the homeless in the film are shown to be more than a little off:
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Parry, who believes that he is a knight on a quest to get the Holy Grail. Of course, it's all just a delusion.

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Parry clearly isn't all there, hallucinating "little people" floating around, the Red Knight coming after him, spouting out non sequiturs and believing that he himself is a knight on a special quest.

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
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Parry clearly isn't all there, hallucinating "little people" floating around, the Red Knight coming after him, spouting out non sequiturs and believing that he himself is a knight on a special quest.

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-->'''Parry:''' In the name of Blanche de Fleur, unhand that errant knight! You speak English? Let the bum go, dipshit!

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-->'''Parry:''' In the name of Blanche de Fleur, unhand that errant knight! knight!
-->'''Thug:'''
You speak English? English?
-->'''Parry:'''
Let the bum go, dipshit!
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* BadassLongcoat: Parry wears a thick leather and fur coat when he rescues Jack, although it appears to be run-down. Jack later dons the same one when he [[spoiler:breaks into Langdon Carmichael's home.]] Edwin also wears a trenchcoat to conceal his shotgun during his mass-shooting rampage at the bar.

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* BadassLongcoat: Parry wears a thick leather and fur coat when he rescues Jack, although it appears to be run-down. Jack later dons the same one when he [[spoiler:breaks into Langdon Carmichael's home.]] Edwin also wears a trenchcoat to conceal his a shotgun during his mass-shooting rampage at the bar.
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* BadassLongcoat: Parry wears a thick leather and fur coat when he rescues Jack, although it appears to be run-down. Jack later dons the same one when he [[spoiler:breaks into Langdon Carmichael's home.]]

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* BadassLongcoat: Parry wears a thick leather and fur coat when he rescues Jack, although it appears to be run-down. Jack later dons the same one when he [[spoiler:breaks into Langdon Carmichael's home.]]]] Edwin also wears a trenchcoat to conceal his shotgun during his mass-shooting rampage at the bar.
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Kick The Son Of A Bitch has been disambiguated. Replacing and adding Pay Evil Unto Evil.


* KickTheSonOfABitch: Jack's a perfectly awful, self-centered person who badly needs to learn that his actions have consequences, but as bad as he is, the consequences he suffers (losing his entire career due to a careless comedy bit that triggers a mass shooting; being assaulted and ''nearly set on fire'' when he's about to commit suicide) are so out of all proportion that they're more horrifying than satisfying.


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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Jack's a perfectly awful, self-centered person who badly needs to learn that his actions have consequences, but as bad as he is, the consequences he suffers (losing his entire career due to a careless comedy bit that triggers a mass shooting; being assaulted and ''nearly set on fire'' when he's about to commit suicide) are so out of all proportion that they're more horrifying than satisfying.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While the Red Knight is certainly in Parry's head, whether or not [[spoiler:the 'Holy Grail' really magically brings Parry out of his catatonic state or it's just the realization he's holding it that does it]] is never explained.

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While the Red Knight is certainly in Parry's head, whether or not [[spoiler:the 'Holy Grail' really magically brings Parry out of his catatonic state or it's just the realization he's holding it that does it]] is never explained. Though since the "Grail" is just a wealthy old man's grade school trophy, the mundane is strongly implied.
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** Once Jack contrives to help Parry and Lydia, he takes the former into his and Anne's apartment; Parry spends a considerable amount of time contriving reasons to stare at Anne's breasts. She's creeped out, but is subsequently quite charmed when Parry begins to compliment her while chiding Jack for not marrying her.
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* TrenchcoatWarfare: The crazy shooter who massacred the restaurant fueled by Jack's rants carried his shotgun concealed under a trench coat.
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* ActorAllusion: The panhandler who approaches Jack's limo in the opening scene is credited as "Limo Bum" and is played by Ted Ross. Ten years earlier, Ross played Bitterman, Arthur Bach's limo driver in ''Film/Arthur1981''.

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* ActorAllusion: The panhandler who approaches Jack's limo in immediately following the opening scene at the studio is credited as "Limo Bum" and is played by Ted Ross. Ten years earlier, Ross played Bitterman, Arthur Bach's limo driver in ''Film/Arthur1981''.
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*ActorAllusion: The panhandler who approaches Jack's limo in the opening scene is credited as "Limo Bum" and is played by Ted Ross. Ten years earlier, Ross played Bitterman, Arthur Bach's limo driver in ''Film/Arthur1981''.
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** Music/TomWait's character as well. He's a homeless Vietnam veteran in a wheelchair, who correctly observes that people give him money so that they don't have to look and him and be reminded of how their own lives might have turned out had they taken a slightly different path.

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** Music/TomWait's Music/TomWaits' character as well.also dispenses some sound wisdom. He's a homeless Vietnam veteran in a wheelchair, who correctly observes that people give him money so that they don't have to look and him and be reminded of how their own lives might have turned out had they taken a slightly different path.

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* WisdomFromTheGutter: Parry practically becomes Jack's mentor. It helps that he was an actual professor before snapping.

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* WisdomFromTheGutter: Parry WisdomFromTheGutter:
**Parry
practically becomes Jack's mentor. It helps that he was an actual professor before snapping.snapping.
**Music/TomWait's character as well. He's a homeless Vietnam veteran in a wheelchair, who correctly observes that people give him money so that they don't have to look and him and be reminded of how their own lives might have turned out had they taken a slightly different path.
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* BrickJoke: Before his on-air comments to his psychotic listener result in a bloodbath, he's practising lines for a sitcom, ''On The Radio''. Shortly after he loses his radio job, his role is given to another actor. Much later in the movie, we find out that ''On The Radio'' was cancelled after a few seasons.

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* BrickJoke: Before his on-air comments to his psychotic listener result in a bloodbath, he's practising practicing lines for a sitcom, ''On The Radio''. Shortly after he loses his radio job, his role is given to another actor. Much later in the movie, we find out that ''On The Radio'' was cancelled after a few seasons.

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* BadassLongcoat:
** Parry wears a thick leather and fur coat when he rescues Jack, although it appears to be run-down. Jack later dons the same one when he [[spoiler:breaks into Langdon Carmichael's home.]]
** Edwin, the deranged mass-shooter who kills Parry's wife and several other people at the upscale bar, also wore a trenchcoat, presumably to conceal his shotgun.

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* BadassLongcoat:
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BadassLongcoat: Parry wears a thick leather and fur coat when he rescues Jack, although it appears to be run-down. Jack later dons the same one when he [[spoiler:breaks into Langdon Carmichael's home.]]
** Edwin, the deranged mass-shooter who kills Parry's wife and several other people at the upscale bar, also wore a trenchcoat, presumably to conceal his shotgun.
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* BadassLongcoat: Parry wears a thick leather and fur coat when he rescues Jack, although it appears to be run-down. Jack later dons the same one when he [[spoiler:breaks into Langdon Carmichael's home.]]

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* BadassLongcoat: Parry BadassLongcoat:
**Parry
wears a thick leather and fur coat when he rescues Jack, although it appears to be run-down. Jack later dons the same one when he [[spoiler:breaks into Langdon Carmichael's home.]] ]]
**Edwin, the deranged mass-shooter who kills Parry's wife and several other people at the upscale bar, also wore a trenchcoat, presumably to conceal his shotgun.

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* StalkerWithACrush: Parry has followed Lydia around the city for a while without her knowledge enough to know her daily routine. Interestingly, when he confesses this to her, Lydia does not appear to be that put off.

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* StalkerWithACrush: Parry StalkerWithACrush:
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has followed Lydia around the city for a while without her knowledge enough to know her daily routine. Interestingly, when he confesses this to her, Lydia does not appear to be that put off.

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** A good example of Jack's general decency (not just towards Parry) was when on discovering Carmichael overdosed on pills, he tries to wake him up, in spite of the fact that had he been successful he would have probably been arrested for breaking and entering.


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** A good example of Jack's general decency (not just towards Parry) was when on discovering Carmichael overdosed on pills, he tries to wake him up, in spite of the fact that had he been successful he would have probably been arrested for breaking and entering.
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**Lampshaded by Parry:
-->'''Parry''': You know you love [Anne]. It's just that you're an asshole sometimes.

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* TheCameo: Music/TomWaits has an uncredited one as a disabled war veteran who chats with Jack in Grand Central Station.

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* TheCameo: TheCameo:
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Music/TomWaits has an uncredited one as a disabled war veteran who chats with Jack in Grand Central Station.
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* TheAtoner: Jack's primary goal throughout the rest of the film is to help Parry because he feels responsible for his condition, as it was an offhand comment of his that caused an attack which directly affected Parry.

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* TheAtoner: Jack's primary goal throughout the rest of the film is to help Parry because he feels responsible for his condition, as it was an one of Jack's offhand comment of his comments that caused inadvertently lead to the murder of Parry's wife and others by an attack which directly affected Parry.unhinged radio listener.
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* TheAlcoholic: After losing his career and hitting rock bottom, Jack drowns his sorrows with (appropriately) huge amounts of (appropriately) Jack Daniels, starting to drink very early each morning and throughout the day.

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* TheAlcoholic: After losing his career and hitting rock bottom, Jack drowns his sorrows with (appropriately) huge amounts of (appropriately) Jack Daniels, starting to drink very early each morning and throughout the day.

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Jack watches "On the Radio" three years after his audition, so the show may have aired for at least a couple of years


* BrickJoke: Before his on-air comments to his psychotic listener result in a bloodbath, he's practising lines for a sitcom, ''On The Radio''. Shortly after he loses his radio job, his role is given to another actor. Much later in the movie, we find out that ''On The Radio'' was cancelled after one season.

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* BrickJoke: Before his on-air comments to his psychotic listener result in a bloodbath, he's practising lines for a sitcom, ''On The Radio''. Shortly after he loses his radio job, his role is given to another actor. Much later in the movie, we find out that ''On The Radio'' was cancelled after one season.a few seasons.


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** A much more sinister example is Edwin, the gunman who killed several people at the bar, including Parry's wife. He was talking to Jack about being infatuated with a girl who frequented the same bar.
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Ambiguous Disorder moved to Diagnosed by Audience in YMMV


* AmbiguousDisorder: Lydia is a walking collection of neuroses, social phobias, obsessive habits, strange tics, and extreme physical clumsiness when we first meet her.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Jack, already a severe alcoholic, goes on a solo drinking binge while wandering the city following an emotional breakdown prompted by seeing the sitcom that he was originally going to star in. The liquor doesn't help much - he goes on to attempt suicide.
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* TheAlcoholic: After losing his career and hitting rock bottom, Jack drowns his sorrows with (appropriately) a bottle of Jack Daniels, from early morning through the entire day.

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* TheAlcoholic: After losing his career and hitting rock bottom, Jack drowns his sorrows with (appropriately) a bottle huge amounts of (appropriately) Jack Daniels, from starting to drink very early each morning through and throughout the entire day.

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