History Film / ThePresidentsAnalyst

* CIAEvilFBIGood: Inverted. The names were changed because the FBI didn't like how they were portrayed in the film.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: FBR agents display a little bit of this.

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A satirical 1967 film written and directed by Theodore J. Flicker (who later co-created TV's ''Series/BarneyMiller'') and starring Creator/JamesCoburn as Dr. Sidney Schaefer, who is recruited to be the eponymous individual; the stress of the job soon sends him on the run, with the knowledge gained from his sessions making him the target of every intelligence agency on the planet. Then there's the most sinister and feared entity of all: '''T.P.C.'''

* MilkmanConspiracy: The ultimate villains and greatest threat? TPC: [[spoiler: The Phone Company.]] Schaefer gets kidnapped by them while trying to use a phone boot. They [[spoiler: load the whole booth with him in it onto one of their trucks.]]

A satirical 1967 film written and directed by Theodore J. Flicker (who later co-created TV's ''Series/BarneyMiller'') and starring Creator/JamesCoburn as Dr. Sidney Schaefer, who is recruited to be the eponymous individual; the stress of the job soon sends him on the run, with the knowledge gained from his sessions making him the target of every intelligence agency on the planet. Not to mention the most sinister and feared entity of all: '''T.P.C.'''

* MilkmanConspiracy: The ultimate villains and greatest threat? TPC: [[spoiler: The Phone Company.]]

* PhoneBooth: Schaefer gets kidnapped by [[spoiler: The Phone Company]] while trying to use one. They [[spoiler: load the whole booth with him in it onto one of their trucks.]]

* DidIMentionItsChristmas: The final scene.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The fake Beatles in one sequence.

%%* CreditsGag

%%* EtherealChoir

A satirical 1967 film starring Creator/JamesCoburn as Dr. Sidney Schaefer, who is recruited to be the eponymous individual; the stress of the job soon sends him on the run, with the knowledge gained from his sessions making him the target of every intelligence agency on the planet. Not to mention the most sinister and feared entity of all: '''T.P.C.'''

A satirical 1967 film starring Creator/JamesCoburn as the man recruited to be the eponymous individual; the stress of the job soon sends him on the run, with the knowledge gained from his sessions making him the target of every intelligence agency on the planet. Not to mention the most sinister entity of all: [[spoiler: The Phone Company.]]

* InvisiblePresident: The analyst leaves the President's office or room, but is never seen inside with the President.

* MilkmanConspiracy: The ultimate villains and greatest threat? [[spoiler: TPC: The Phone Company.]]

%%* OnlySaneMan: Take a guess.
%%* OrWasItADream
* PhoneBooth: Coburn's character's gets kidnapped by [[spoiler: The Phone Company]] while trying to use one. They [[spoiler: load the whole booth with him in it onto one of their trucks.]]

%%* SingleIssuePsychology
* SinisterSurveillance: Played straight [[spoiler:but then subverted by the AmbiguousEnding where the analyst and all the other major characters seem happily oblivious that they're still being watched by the Phone Company.]]

%%* StrappedToAnOperatingTable

* CreepyMonotone: Arlington Hewes [[spoiler: of The Phone Company]] speaks in a measured, friendly, even-tempered tone that gets increasingly disturbing. [[spoiler: Then we find out he's an animatronic robot]]

%%* SlippingAMickey

%%* YouAreNumberSix

* HypocriticalHumor: William Daniels as the "liberal" Everyman.

%%* TheMenInBlack
%%* MilkmanConspiracy

%%* TheSixties

%%* AffablyEvil

%%* HypocriticalHumor

%%* {{Lzherusskie}}

%%* PhoneBooth: And it's a major plot point!

%%* FunWithAcronyms

%%* InvisiblePresident

A satirical 1967 film starring James Coburn as the man recruited to be the eponymous individual; the stress of the job soon sends him on the run, with the knowledge gained from his sessions making him the target of every intelligence agency on the planet. Not to mention the most sinister entity of all: [[spoiler: The Phone Company.]]

* AffablyEvil

* CIAEvilFBIGood: Inverted.
** Names were changed because the FBI didn't like how they were portrayed in the film.
* CreditsGag
* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure

* EtherealChoir

* FunWithAcronyms
* HypocriticalHumor
* InvisiblePresident
* {{Lzherusskie}}
* TheMenInBlack
* MilkmanConspiracy
* OnlySaneMan: Take a guess.
* OrWasItADream
* PhoneBooth: And it's a major plot point!

* PunchClockVillain: The main CIA and KGB agents are good pals.
** They also [[spoiler:figure out they have a common enemy. The Phone Company.]]
* RogueAgent: Kropotkin. He's supposed to capture Sidney but ends up rescuing him.
* SingleIssuePsychology

* TheSixties
* SlippingAMickey
* SoundEffectBleep
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable
* YouAreNumberSix

* SinisterSurveillance: Played straight [[spoiler:but then subverted when the analyst and all the other major characters seem happily oblivious that they're still being watched by the Phone Company.]]

* FictionalCounterpart: The US Government spy-agencies are renamed. The head of the "FBR" is named Lux, after a then-popular brand of vacuum cleaner.

* StealthPun: The FBR chief's last name is Lux, which is also brand of vacuum cleaner. In 1967 the real-life FBI chief's last name was Hoover.

* {{MIB}}

A satirical 1967 film starring James Coburn as the man recruited to be the titular individual; the stress of the job soon sends him on the run, with the knowledge gained from his sessions making him the target of every intelligence agency on the planet. Not to mention the most sinister entity of all: [[spoiler: The Phone Company.]]