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* BadBoss: Mr. Marks, Bloom's CPA boss in the 2005 remake.
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* LovesMeNot: This sets up a bilingual joke in the ShowWithinAShow:
-->'''Eva Braun''' (holding a flower): Er liebt mir, er liebt mir nicht, er liebt mir, er liebt mir nicht. (To Hitler) Du liebst mir nicht!\\
'''Adolf Hitler''': Hey, man... I lieb' ya, I lieb' ya, baby, I lieb' ya. Now lieb' me alone!
-->'''Eva Braun''' (holding a flower): Er liebt mir, er liebt mir nicht, er liebt mir, er liebt mir nicht. (To Hitler) Du liebst mir nicht!\\
'''Adolf Hitler''': Hey, man... I lieb' ya, I lieb' ya, baby, I lieb' ya. Now lieb' me alone!
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* NoSenseOfHumor: Max Bialystock, apparently. Anyone with any sense of humor could tell [[CrossesTheLineTwice "where he had gone right."]]
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** A (sadly deleted) scene from the film, fortunately on the DVD, features Max and Leo singing a duet that turns into a trio when a random stranger joins in. The actor playing said stranger is Ernie Sabella, which means that [[TheLionKing Timon, Pumbaa, and Simba]] were briefly reunited for a song.
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* {{Casanova}}: Bialystock, impressive string of successes, albeit all with women even older than he is.
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* MisplacedADecimalPoint: Invoked. When begging Leo to not report his small scale embezzlement at the beginning, Max tells him he should just misplace a few decimals.
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* ShoutOut: Going through a list of potential candidates for the worst play ever written, Bialystock comes across a synopsis for Creator/FranzKafka's ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis''. ("Nah, it's too good.") A Karmann Ghia is a model of Volkswagen. Leopold Bloom is the protagonist of JamesJoyce's novel ''{{Ulysses}}''. At one point Max refers to Leo as "Prince Myshkin"; this is the protagonist of [[RussianRelaxing Dostoyevsky's]] novel ''TheIdiot''.
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* ShoutOut: Going through a list of potential candidates for the worst play ever written, Bialystock comes across a synopsis for Creator/FranzKafka's ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis''. ("Nah, it's too good.") A Karmann Ghia is a model of Volkswagen. Leopold Bloom is the protagonist of JamesJoyce's Creator/JamesJoyce's novel ''{{Ulysses}}''. At one point Max refers to Leo as "Prince Myshkin"; this is the protagonist of [[RussianRelaxing Dostoyevsky's]] novel ''TheIdiot''.
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* ShoutOut: Going through a list of potential candidates for the worst play ever written, Bialystock comes across a synopsis for FranzKafka's ''Metamorphosis''.Creator/FranzKafka's ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis''. ("Nah, it's too good.") A Karmann Ghia is a model of Volkswagen. Leopold Bloom is the protagonist of JamesJoyce's novel ''{{Ulysses}}''. At one point Max refers to Leo as "Prince Myshkin"; this is the protagonist of [[RussianRelaxing Dostoyevsky's]] novel ''TheIdiot''.
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* BriefAccentImitation: Liebkind does a WinstonChurchill impersonation to condemn Churchill's parodic pronunciation of the word "nazis"."Nazis".
-->Noses, Noses... it wasn't Noses, it was Nazis!
-->Noses, Noses... it wasn't Noses, it was Nazis!
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: In the 2005 version, after "Springtime For Hitler" is a success, Bloom and Max fight over the bank account books. Roger and Carmen walk in when Bloom and Max have hit the floor, with one on top of the other, and are saying "Give it to me!" Roger remarks, "These two know how to celebrate!"
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GET OOOOUUUUUUUUUUT! It's over!''
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GET OOOOUUUUUUUUUUT! It's over!''over!''
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**During the song "The King of Broadway" a man says "It's good to be the king", a line from {{History of the World Part I}}
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* ItIsPronouncedTropay: In the 2005 remake, Carmen is announcing the next actor to audition for Hitler:
--> '''Carmen''': Jacques Lapideux? (no response) Jacques Lapideux? (again, no response; he's whispered to the correct pronunciation) Jack Lapidus? (Jack approaches)
--> '''Carmen''': Jacques Lapideux? (no response) Jacques Lapideux? (again, no response; he's whispered to the correct pronunciation) Jack Lapidus? (Jack approaches)
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** Bloom reminds Bialystock that actors are not animals, which Bialystock angrily disputes. Zero Mostel was critically acclaimed for his transformation sequence, without benefit of makeup, into a rhinoceros in the play of the same name. In an inversion of this trope, Wilder would join Mostel in an ill-fated comedic movie adaptation of Rhinoceros.
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* {{Irony}}: In 2011, a Dutch musical adaptation was made, running only in the largest theatres in the Netherlands. In spite of good reviews, it bombed at the box office and closed after a week. How meta is ''that''?
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* {{Irony}}: In 2011, a Dutch musical adaptation was made, running only in the largest theatres in the Netherlands. In spite of good reviews, it bombed at the box office and closed after a week. How meta is ''that''?''that''?. In another meta-example the film was banned in Germany due to the NoSwastikas law and derivatives.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Bloom and Bialystock, which tells you how much they're willing to do just to get the play produced. Both of them spit on the Nazi armbands when they throw them away.
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* CourtroomAntics: Leo tries to appeal to the judge's compassion and sympathy, "no harm done", the old ladies concur with an applause and Max shows a deep remorse. An uplifting music acompanies the scene, it looked like a convincing [[AFoolForAClient defense]], right?... cut to exterior of the jail where the duo is imprisoned.
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* CourtroomAntics: Leo tries to appeal to the judge's compassion and sympathy, "no harm done", the old ladies concur with an applause and Max shows a deep remorse. An uplifting music acompanies the scene, it looked like a convincing [[AFoolForAClient defense]], right?...[[HopeSpot right?]]... cut to exterior of the jail where the duo is imprisoned.
* MaleGaze: Half of Ulla's screentime in the original. Also, in-universe, Leo can't glance away for a second.
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-->'''Leo:''' Have you lost your mind? Actors are not animals. They're human beings.
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-->'''Leo:''' Have you lost your mind? Actors are not animals. They're human beings.
-->'''Max:'''
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** The Siegfried Oath is named for Conrad Siegfried, the BigBad of ''GetSmart'', a TV show Brooks co-created with Buck Henry in the 1960s.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: In the 2005 film, Jim Borstelman plays four roles; Scott the choreographer, Donald Dinsmore ("The Little Wooden Boy"), one of the little old ladies and a bavarian peasant during the Springtime For Hitler number.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome:
-->'''Franz:''' Hitler... ''there'' was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats!
-->'''Franz:''' Hitler... ''there'' was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats!
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->''The cast is great, the script is swell, but this we're tellin' you, sirs\\
It's just no go, you've got no show without [[TitleDrop The Producers!]]''
'''''The Producers''''' is a 1968 comedy film directed by Creator/MelBrooks; it stars Zero Mostel as failed Broadway producer Max Bialystock and GeneWilder as fearful accountant Leo Bloom. The film, now considered a comedy classic, launched Brooks' long film career; several decades later, he adapted it into a [[TheMusical Broadway musical]] starring Nathan Lane and MatthewBroderick (as Bialystock and Bloom, respectively) which won twelve Tony Awards (the most Tonys a Broadway production has ever received). The Broadway adaptation was itself adapted into a film in 2005 (featuring Lane and Broderick in the primary roles), but this adaptation wasn't as well-received as the original film or the Broadway production.
In all versions, the story depicts Bialystock and Bloom meeting for the first time and quickly falling into a get-rich-quick scheme: they'll oversell shares in a Broadway production by a wide margin, then deliberately produce a horrific flop which closes in one night, leaving them free to flee the country with massive profits without the IRS investigating the books.
The two schemers choose as their Broadway bomb ''SpringtimeForHitler'', a "love letter" to the [[AdolfHitler German dictator]] written by unrepentant Nazi Franz Liebkind. In the original film, their chosen director is Roger De Bris, who is [[GiftedlyBad wholly untalented]] and [[CampGay flamboyantly gay]], while Hitler is played by Lorenzo St. [=DuBois=] ("LSD"), a charismatic but seriously brain-damaged hippie. In the musical, Liebkind is chosen for the role of Hitler, but breaks his leg at the last minute and is replaced by De Bris. Bialystock and Bloom's plan culminates in a production which the opening night audience finds ''funny'', and since the play is announced to be a [[SoBadItsGood smash success]], things only go downhill for the protagonists from there.
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!!!''The Producers'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActorAllusion: In the 2005 film, Will Ferrell's character breaks one leg, then later breaks the other. Mustafa, who Will played in ''[[AustinPowers Austin Powers 2]]'', had the same misfortune.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "This crazy Kraut is crackers! He crashed in here and crassly tried to kill us!"
* {{Adorkable}}: Apparently there is some division about whether Gene Wilder (who played the intelligent [[DeathofaSalesman Bernard]] but the eccentrically awesome [[WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and gunslinging [[Film/BlazingSaddles Jim]]) or Matthew Broderick (who played the huggable [[WarGames David]] but the eternally cool [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris]] and the con man [[TheMusicMan Harold]]) deserve the trophy for Leo's adorkableness. Some consider Wilder's portrayal of [[YoungFrankenstein Dr. Frankenstein]] to be the decisive stroke.
* AllPartOfTheShow: Liebkind's storming onto the stage in an effort to end the production.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Bloom and Bialystock, which tells you how much they're willing to do just to get the play produced. Both of them spit on the Nazi armbands when they throw them away.
* AmusingInjuries / BandageMummy: In the original movie, what the protagonists end up suffering at the end; Franz is the mummy, still wearing his Nazi helmet.
* AscendedExtra: In the original movie, Ulla was in roughly two scenes and had only a few lines which were nothing more than a few single words. In the musical and the movie-version of the musical, she's a major character.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Ulla's Swedish. They're all actual Swedish words, but it's completely grammatically incorrect, and 'god dag min vännen' actually means something like 'good day my the friend', whereas 'god dag min vän' would mean the intended 'good day my friend'.
** Another example is from the "Good Luck" song, where Max yells "guten lachen" in his string of good luck yells. [[BilingualBonus Guten lachen roughly translates to "good laughs."]]
* BatmanGambit: Bialystock and Bloom's entire "creative accounting" scheme.
** KansasCityShuffle, specifically.
* BerserkButton:
---> "My blanket! My blue blanket! Gimme back my blue blanket! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
* BilingualBonus: Ulla answers the phone with, "God dag på dig!" (Swedish for ''good day to you'')
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Averted intentionally, as a...
* BribeBackfire: Actually done on purpose.
* BungledSuicide: Toward the end Franz Liebkind attempts to shoot himself, but the gun fails to go off. ("Boy, ven things go wrong...")
** In the Czech dub, it was "There were always problems with the munitions..." Historical Bonus?
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: ''Springtime For Hitler's'' opening, [[RefugeInAudacity complete with the dancers forming a swastika.]]
* TheCameo: In the 2005 film, Mel Brooks appears at the very end telling the audience to "get out!"
** Both film versions have Brooks' voice dubbed into the "Springtime for Hitler" number (the 2005 movie uses the same line recorded for the 1968 version).
--->"Don't be stupid/Be a smarty/Come and join/The Nazi Party!"
** The man who sings "springtime for Hitler" in the musical adaptation on screen is John Barrowman better known for his portrayal of Captian Jack Harkness.
* CampGay: De Bris, his assistant Carman Ghia, and (in the musical movie) the other members of the stage team living with them, save for one just-as-over-the-top ButchLesbian.
* CannotTellAJoke: Roger de Bris.
-->'''Roger:''' Messieurs Bialystock and Bloom, I presume? Ha! Forgive the pun!
-->'''Leo:''' ''(aside to Max)'' What pun?
-->'''Max:''' ''(aside to Leo)'' Shut up! He thinks he's witty!
* CaptainObvious:
-->'''"Adolf":''' Hey, you're German!
-->'''General:''' We're all Germans!
-->'''"Adolf":''' That's right! That means we can't invade Germany! I mean, I got all my friends here!
* {{Casanova}}: Bialystock, impressive string of successes, albeit all with women even older than he is.
* CastingCouch: Ulla benefits from it, of course, although it's only because she's attractive--no actual sex occurs.
-->'''Max:''' There is ''always a role for the producer's girlfriend!''
** This scene also lampshades his previous {{Casanova}} experiences.
--> '''Max:''' Just once I'd like to see a woman on that couch that's under 85.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Franz Liebkind. Even aside from his blatant Nazism, he's more than a little strange. We ''first'' see him on the roof hanging out with his birds, who are apparently his friends... who he talks to. Then he attends the opening night performance of "{{Springtime for Hitler}}" wearing his Nazi helmet and what's more, he goes up on stage in the middle of the show to berate the audience for laughing at his beloved Fuhrer.
* DawsonCasting: Lorenzo St. [=DuBois=] seems to be a 50 year old hippie, not recent college graduate. (Of course, that could be the ''point''.)
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "This is wine, women, and song. And women."
* DirtyOldMan: Bialystock, although one of the elderly women he romances calls him a "dirty ''young'' man."
* DontYouDarePityMe: "You have exactly ten seconds to replace that look of disgusting pity with one of enormous respect!"
* DoubleEntendre: De Bris' song ''Keep It Gay'', which only appears in the play/play-movie.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Play/play-movie: it is claimed that Hitler's middle name was "Elizabeth."
---> "Not many people know zis, but ze Fuhrer vas descended from a long line of [[DoubleEntendre English qveens.]]"
** De Bris' name is also Elizabeth, but he doesn't seem too embarassed by it. It's more there so Max and Leo can do a double take.
* EuropeansAreKinky: Ulla, in both the original movie and the musical remake.
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: averted with Bloom. He's treated as a loser for wanting to wait until marriage.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The original film was so offbeat and provocative it almost didn't get released - until Peter Sellers saw an early cut at a private gathering and pressured Avco-Embassy to support it, taking out an ad in ''Variety''. (Ironically, Brooks had initially wanted Sellers for a role in the film but he turned it down.)
** In a looser sense, this is the entire plot of the film--Bialystock and Bloom are meddling with their product, albeit to make it fail rather than succeed.
* FakeNationality: Franz Liebkind and Ulla, in all the versions (although Uma Thurman does have distant Swedish ancestry).
* FinalLoveDuet: Subverted with "Till Him," which basically resembles a Final Love Duet, except for the fact that they're HeterosexualLifePartners.
* FirstNameBasis: In Leo Bloom's "Whom Has He Hurt" speech, he says that Max Bialystock was the first to ever call him "Leo", which he finds refreshing after being called "Bloom" even when he was in kindergarten.
* FruitOfTheLoon: Watch for the banana at the end of LSD's audition.
* FunWithAcronyms: "''Lorenzo'', baby! '''L'''orenzo '''S'''t. '''D'''uBois!" He even ''says'' outright that his friends call him "LSD" as a nickname.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvct359FgVo Amusingly subverted.]]
** Played straight (with the gay couple) later on.
*** "Wow! That hurt!"
* GiftedlyBad: Roger de Bris.
* HairTriggerTemper: In a sense: Leo Bloom has numerous triggers but they cause him to fall ''non-violently'' to pieces. He gets better as the movie progresses.
* HilariousOuttakes: Good ''lord''. The reel on the DVD is a ''quarter of an hour long'' and will reduce you to tears. Apparently when Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are in the same room together they induce chronic {{corpsing}} in each other.
* IAmBecomingSong: 'I Wanna Be a Producer'
* IAmSong: 'I Wanna Be a Producer'
** 'Heil Myself' counts as well, especially with De Bris's JudyGarland monologue
* IWantSong: [[RuleOfThree 'I Wanna Be a Producer']]
** Also 'The King of Broadway,' where Max both laments his lost glory and vows to be on top again.
* IronicEcho: When playing a sex game with "Hold Me, Touch Me", Max pretended to be a naughty chauffeur named "Rudolfo". Later, when Max is rich again, his chauffeur is named Rudolfo.
* {{Irony}}: In 2011, a Dutch musical adaptation was made, running only in the largest theatres in the Netherlands. In spite of good reviews, it bombed at the box office and closed after a week. How meta is ''that''?
* LargeHam: Zero Mostel, full stop.
-->'''Max:''' Bloom, I'm drowning. Other men sail through life, Bialystock has struck a reef. Bloom, I'm going under. I'm condemned by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure. Bloom, I'm reaching out to you. Don't send me to prison... ''(screams directly in Leo's ear)'' '''HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLP!'''
** [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And Bloom without his blue blanket.]]
** Roger De Bris and his entire team, but he gets top props through his portrayal of Hitler
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: In the 2005 film, Jim Borstelman plays four roles; Scott the choreographer, Donald Dinsmore ("The Little Wooden Boy"), one of the little old ladies and a bavarian peasant during the Springtime For Hitler number.
* MadnessMantra:
-->'''Leo:''' No way out. No way out. No way out. No way out. No way out. No way out. No way out.
* MediumAwareness: One song in the play has Bialystock summarizing the events of the play up until that point, including an {{Intermission}}.
** The play - Ulla: "Why Bloom go so far stage right?"
** The second movie - "Why Bloom go so far camera right?"
** At the start of the play's second act, Ulla says she painted the office white during the intermission. Unfortunately, the joke couldn't translate to film so there she simply skips lunch.
* TheMusical: The play, since the film really wasn't. Also, the 2005 remake.
* NiceHat: Bialystock forbids Bloom to wear his spare black fedora because "that's a Broadway producer's hat, and you don't get to wear the Broadway producer's hat until you're a Broadway producer!"
** [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "And you're not a Broadway producer, until you've produced a Broadway play!"]]
* NorseByNorsewest: Ulla.
* OfficerOHara: Two of 'em.
* OldShame / MoneyDearBoy: Estelle Winwood.
-->"Oh, that dreadful picture. I can't bear to watch it, even on a small television. I must have needed the money - living in Hollywood weakens one's motives. It reminds me of the saying that [[HLMencken nobody ever went broke underestimating the American public's taste]]."
* OlderThanTheyLook: "Hold Me, Touch Me" was played by Estelle Winwood, who lied about her age (she was 85 during filming) to get herself cast, and was surprisingly agile during the physical comedy. Considering the woman died at age 101, she was one hearty dame.
* OverlyLongGag: Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss...sss!
** Estelle Winwood as "Hold Me, Touch Me".
* PerpetualTourist: Discussed. The most recent version also has Leo Bloom (temporarily) end up somewhere vaguely South American.
* PokemonSpeak: ''Hold'' me, ''touch'' me!
* PowderTrail: "Ahah! Zis is an example of smartness. I have said zat zis is ze kvick fuse, und zis is ze kvick fuse! ...''Ze kvick fuse!?!''"
* PragmaticAdaptation: The role of LSD doesn't translate well in the 21st century, and that, coupled with a society more open about homosexuality, allowed Roger De Bris to get a larger (and funnier) role in the play.
** One critic pointed out that the LSD character could still have worked in the remake, since the story is now set in 1958 and the character in retrospect seems more like a Fifties beatnik than a NewAgeRetroHippie.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Ulla
* PunnyName: Roger De Bris, Carmen Ghia.
* QueerPeopleAreFunny
* RagingStiffie:
--->'''Ula''':You like it?
--->'''Max''': L- like it? I want you to know my dear that even though we're sitting down, we're giving you a ''standing ovation''.
* RecursiveAdaptation. And ''how''.
* RefugeInAudacity: Both ''Springtime For Hitler'' and the original movie itself, especially considering when it was made. the movie was based on a joke Brooks liked to tell where he wanted to make a musical called "Springtime For Hitler." People would stare at him, and then burst into laughter.
* SecurityBlanket: Leo keeps a bit of his baby blanket on him in his jacket pocket.
* SexySecretary: Ulla. And how.
** "Oooh wah weee wah wah wow wowie!"
* ShoutOut: Going through a list of potential candidates for the worst play ever written, Bialystock comes across a synopsis for FranzKafka's ''Metamorphosis''. ("Nah, it's too good.") A Karmann Ghia is a model of Volkswagen. Leopold Bloom is the protagonist of JamesJoyce's novel ''{{Ulysses}}''. At one point Max refers to Leo as "Prince Myshkin"; this is the protagonist of [[RussianRelaxing Dostoyevsky's]] novel ''TheIdiot''.
** Leo's line "When's it going to be Bloom's day?" is another reference to ''Ulysses''; in fact, according to WordOfGod, that particular scene takes place ''on'' Bloom's Day. Tom and Mel were very surprised at how many people got the joke.
** When Jason Alexander took over as Bialystock he adlibbed in "Betrayed." Bialystock calls out {{Intermission}} and is scripted to sit down for a moment before continuing the show. Instead Jason pulls out a playbill, flipping through it and said to the audience, "He's good, but he's no Lane." (Nathan Lane of course being the original player of Bialystock for the musical.)
** Nathan Lane's understudy did something similar during the original run of the play. During "intermission," he turned to an imaginary companion and said, "I like the other guy better."
** In the 2005 movie, during "I Want To Be A Producer", Leo descends a flight of stairs lit with his name. The lettering and border are identical to the ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' logo.
** The "Yiddish" which translates as "Who do you have to fuck to get a break in this town?" comes from a speech given by CharlieChaplin in ''TheGreatDictator''.
** The Siegfried Oath is named for Conrad Siegfried, the BigBad of ''GetSmart'', a TV show Brooks co-created with Buck Henry in the 1960s.
* ShowWithinAShow: The production of "Springtime for Hitler" that is the eponym of [[SpringTimeForHitler one notable trope here on this very wiki]].
* TheSixties: Lorenzo [=StDubois=] in the original version.
** TheFifties: The remake is set in 1958, but there aren't that many blatant period markers and AnachronismStew abounds (such as when the Village People show up during the [[HaveAGayOldTime "Keep It Gay"]] number).
* A beautifully-subverted SlowClap.
* SnakeTalk: Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss...sss!
-->'''Buddy''': ''[[Film/BlazingSaddles "Sounds like steam escaping!"]]''
* SpringtimeForHitler: The TropeNamer, obviously. Unique in that ''The Producers'' has ''two'' of them, with the closing ''Prisoners Of Love''.
-->'''Max:''' We open in Leavenworth Saturday night!
* StopHelpingMe: Max to Leo at the trial (whose "defense" of Max begins with a list of all of Max's faults) in the both movies; Max then says again to the off-key chorus of old ladies at the trial in the musical remake.
* StupidCrooks: In the original, after Max and Leo pull their SpringtimeForHitler, they decide to blow up the theater with a little help from Franz. However, they're not sure if they used the short fuse or the long fuse for their bomb detonator, and their way of testing to find out which one they used is to ''light the fuse they already primed for the bomb''. And then they discuss how the fuse they lit is behaving like the short fuse, which wouldn't have given them enough time to leave the building...
** And just before that: "Don't shoot! It's the dynamite! If you shoot it, [[SarcasmMode it will get mad at us]] and blow us all up!"
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In the original film, Franz starts warbling "America the Beautiful" when denying he was a Nazi.
** In the musical:
--->'''Franz:''' I was never a member of the Nazi Party! I only followed orders! I had nothing to do with the war! I didn't even know there was a war on! We lived at the back, near Switzerland. All we heard was yodelling... yodel le he hoo! Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo, Yodelay, Yodelay, Yodelay''
* TakeThat: From all versions...
--> '''Leo:''' Actors aren't animals; they're human beings!
--> '''Max:''' They are, huh? You ever ''eat'' with one?
** The entire concept behind ''Springtime For Hitler'' is Mel Brooks' TakeThat aimed right at [[ThoseWackyNazis Hitler and the Nazis]].
* TapOnTheHead:
--> '''Stagehand:''' Hey! What can I do for you?
--> '''Franz:''' You will please be unconscious. (''*tap*'')
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: All of the rejected would-be Hitlers. Actually [[InvertedTrope an inversion]] of this trope, as they are rejected for being too ''good''.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: "I'm in pain, and I'm wet, and I'm still hysterical!"
* ThatsAllFolks
* ThoseWackyNazis: Franz Liebkind.
* ThrowItIn: Gene Wilder's "Whom Has He Hurt" speech was completely improvised.
* UnSpokenPlanGuarantee: "Now let's get out of here before they kill us!" (cue audience laughter and applause)
* VillainProtagonist: Max and Leo may be funny, but they're both trying to defraud little old ladies.
* VillainSong: The opening number of ''SFH'' is a cheerful paean to Nazi Germany attacking the rest of Europe.
** There's also Heil Myself in The Musical. It may be [[LargeHam gay and over-the-top,]] but it still counts as this trope if you consider [[AdolfHitler who's technically singing the song.]]
* WeirdnessMagnet: Max considers himself one. It seems Leo only makes the situation worse.
---> '''Max:''' They come here, they all come here. ''How do they find me.''
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome:
-->'''Franz:''' Hitler... ''there'' was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats!
* WhatIsThisFeeling: It's called "happiness," Leo.
** Or an erection.
** It's either that or Malaria.
** There's pills for everything these days, so don't worry.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Roger [=DeBris=]. When we first meet him, he's supposed to be in costume as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Depending on the version, he claims that he thinks he looks more like either "Tugboat Annie" or "the Chrysler Building."
* WorldOfHam
* ZanyScheme
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->''The cast is great, the script is swell, but this we're tellin' you, sirs\\
It's just no go, you've got no show without [[TitleDrop The Producers!]]''
'''''The Producers''''' is a 1968 comedy film directed by Creator/MelBrooks; it stars Zero Mostel as failed Broadway producer Max Bialystock and GeneWilder as fearful accountant Leo Bloom. The film, now considered a comedy classic, launched Brooks' long film career; several decades later, he adapted it into a [[TheMusical Broadway musical]] starring Nathan Lane and MatthewBroderick (as Bialystock and Bloom, respectively) which won twelve Tony Awards (the most Tonys a Broadway production has ever received). The Broadway adaptation was itself adapted into a film in 2005 (featuring Lane and Broderick in the primary roles), but this adaptation wasn't as well-received as the original film or the Broadway production.
In all versions, the story depicts Bialystock and Bloom meeting for the first time and quickly falling into a get-rich-quick scheme: they'll oversell shares in a Broadway production by a wide margin, then deliberately produce a horrific flop which closes in one night, leaving them free to flee the country with massive profits without the IRS investigating the books.
The two schemers choose as their Broadway bomb ''SpringtimeForHitler'', a "love letter" to the [[AdolfHitler German dictator]] written by unrepentant Nazi Franz Liebkind. In the original film, their chosen director is Roger De Bris, who is [[GiftedlyBad wholly untalented]] and [[CampGay flamboyantly gay]], while Hitler is played by Lorenzo St. [=DuBois=] ("LSD"), a charismatic but seriously brain-damaged hippie. In the musical, Liebkind is chosen for the role of Hitler, but breaks his leg at the last minute and is replaced by De Bris. Bialystock and Bloom's plan culminates in a production which the opening night audience finds ''funny'', and since the play is announced to be a [[SoBadItsGood smash success]], things only go downhill for the protagonists from there.
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!!!''The Producers'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActorAllusion: In the 2005 film, Will Ferrell's character breaks one leg, then later breaks the other. Mustafa, who Will played in ''[[AustinPowers Austin Powers 2]]'', had the same misfortune.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "This crazy Kraut is crackers! He crashed in here and crassly tried to kill us!"
* {{Adorkable}}: Apparently there is some division about whether Gene Wilder (who played the intelligent [[DeathofaSalesman Bernard]] but the eccentrically awesome [[WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and gunslinging [[Film/BlazingSaddles Jim]]) or Matthew Broderick (who played the huggable [[WarGames David]] but the eternally cool [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris]] and the con man [[TheMusicMan Harold]]) deserve the trophy for Leo's adorkableness. Some consider Wilder's portrayal of [[YoungFrankenstein Dr. Frankenstein]] to be the decisive stroke.
* AllPartOfTheShow: Liebkind's storming onto the stage in an effort to end the production.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Bloom and Bialystock, which tells you how much they're willing to do just to get the play produced. Both of them spit on the Nazi armbands when they throw them away.
* AmusingInjuries / BandageMummy: In the original movie, what the protagonists end up suffering at the end; Franz is the mummy, still wearing his Nazi helmet.
* AscendedExtra: In the original movie, Ulla was in roughly two scenes and had only a few lines which were nothing more than a few single words. In the musical and the movie-version of the musical, she's a major character.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Ulla's Swedish. They're all actual Swedish words, but it's completely grammatically incorrect, and 'god dag min vännen' actually means something like 'good day my the friend', whereas 'god dag min vän' would mean the intended 'good day my friend'.
** Another example is from the "Good Luck" song, where Max yells "guten lachen" in his string of good luck yells. [[BilingualBonus Guten lachen roughly translates to "good laughs."]]
* BatmanGambit: Bialystock and Bloom's entire "creative accounting" scheme.
** KansasCityShuffle, specifically.
* BerserkButton:
---> "My blanket! My blue blanket! Gimme back my blue blanket! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
* BilingualBonus: Ulla answers the phone with, "God dag på dig!" (Swedish for ''good day to you'')
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Averted intentionally, as a...
* BribeBackfire: Actually done on purpose.
* BungledSuicide: Toward the end Franz Liebkind attempts to shoot himself, but the gun fails to go off. ("Boy, ven things go wrong...")
** In the Czech dub, it was "There were always problems with the munitions..." Historical Bonus?
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: ''Springtime For Hitler's'' opening, [[RefugeInAudacity complete with the dancers forming a swastika.]]
* TheCameo: In the 2005 film, Mel Brooks appears at the very end telling the audience to "get out!"
** Both film versions have Brooks' voice dubbed into the "Springtime for Hitler" number (the 2005 movie uses the same line recorded for the 1968 version).
--->"Don't be stupid/Be a smarty/Come and join/The Nazi Party!"
** The man who sings "springtime for Hitler" in the musical adaptation on screen is John Barrowman better known for his portrayal of Captian Jack Harkness.
* CampGay: De Bris, his assistant Carman Ghia, and (in the musical movie) the other members of the stage team living with them, save for one just-as-over-the-top ButchLesbian.
* CannotTellAJoke: Roger de Bris.
-->'''Roger:''' Messieurs Bialystock and Bloom, I presume? Ha! Forgive the pun!
-->'''Leo:''' ''(aside to Max)'' What pun?
-->'''Max:''' ''(aside to Leo)'' Shut up! He thinks he's witty!
* CaptainObvious:
-->'''"Adolf":''' Hey, you're German!
-->'''General:''' We're all Germans!
-->'''"Adolf":''' That's right! That means we can't invade Germany! I mean, I got all my friends here!
* {{Casanova}}: Bialystock, impressive string of successes, albeit all with women even older than he is.
* CastingCouch: Ulla benefits from it, of course, although it's only because she's attractive--no actual sex occurs.
-->'''Max:''' There is ''always a role for the producer's girlfriend!''
** This scene also lampshades his previous {{Casanova}} experiences.
--> '''Max:''' Just once I'd like to see a woman on that couch that's under 85.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Franz Liebkind. Even aside from his blatant Nazism, he's more than a little strange. We ''first'' see him on the roof hanging out with his birds, who are apparently his friends... who he talks to. Then he attends the opening night performance of "{{Springtime for Hitler}}" wearing his Nazi helmet and what's more, he goes up on stage in the middle of the show to berate the audience for laughing at his beloved Fuhrer.
* DawsonCasting: Lorenzo St. [=DuBois=] seems to be a 50 year old hippie, not recent college graduate. (Of course, that could be the ''point''.)
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "This is wine, women, and song. And women."
* DirtyOldMan: Bialystock, although one of the elderly women he romances calls him a "dirty ''young'' man."
* DontYouDarePityMe: "You have exactly ten seconds to replace that look of disgusting pity with one of enormous respect!"
* DoubleEntendre: De Bris' song ''Keep It Gay'', which only appears in the play/play-movie.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Play/play-movie: it is claimed that Hitler's middle name was "Elizabeth."
---> "Not many people know zis, but ze Fuhrer vas descended from a long line of [[DoubleEntendre English qveens.]]"
** De Bris' name is also Elizabeth, but he doesn't seem too embarassed by it. It's more there so Max and Leo can do a double take.
* EuropeansAreKinky: Ulla, in both the original movie and the musical remake.
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: averted with Bloom. He's treated as a loser for wanting to wait until marriage.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The original film was so offbeat and provocative it almost didn't get released - until Peter Sellers saw an early cut at a private gathering and pressured Avco-Embassy to support it, taking out an ad in ''Variety''. (Ironically, Brooks had initially wanted Sellers for a role in the film but he turned it down.)
** In a looser sense, this is the entire plot of the film--Bialystock and Bloom are meddling with their product, albeit to make it fail rather than succeed.
* FakeNationality: Franz Liebkind and Ulla, in all the versions (although Uma Thurman does have distant Swedish ancestry).
* FinalLoveDuet: Subverted with "Till Him," which basically resembles a Final Love Duet, except for the fact that they're HeterosexualLifePartners.
* FirstNameBasis: In Leo Bloom's "Whom Has He Hurt" speech, he says that Max Bialystock was the first to ever call him "Leo", which he finds refreshing after being called "Bloom" even when he was in kindergarten.
* FruitOfTheLoon: Watch for the banana at the end of LSD's audition.
* FunWithAcronyms: "''Lorenzo'', baby! '''L'''orenzo '''S'''t. '''D'''uBois!" He even ''says'' outright that his friends call him "LSD" as a nickname.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvct359FgVo Amusingly subverted.]]
** Played straight (with the gay couple) later on.
*** "Wow! That hurt!"
* GiftedlyBad: Roger de Bris.
* HairTriggerTemper: In a sense: Leo Bloom has numerous triggers but they cause him to fall ''non-violently'' to pieces. He gets better as the movie progresses.
* HilariousOuttakes: Good ''lord''. The reel on the DVD is a ''quarter of an hour long'' and will reduce you to tears. Apparently when Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are in the same room together they induce chronic {{corpsing}} in each other.
* IAmBecomingSong: 'I Wanna Be a Producer'
* IAmSong: 'I Wanna Be a Producer'
** 'Heil Myself' counts as well, especially with De Bris's JudyGarland monologue
* IWantSong: [[RuleOfThree 'I Wanna Be a Producer']]
** Also 'The King of Broadway,' where Max both laments his lost glory and vows to be on top again.
* IronicEcho: When playing a sex game with "Hold Me, Touch Me", Max pretended to be a naughty chauffeur named "Rudolfo". Later, when Max is rich again, his chauffeur is named Rudolfo.
* {{Irony}}: In 2011, a Dutch musical adaptation was made, running only in the largest theatres in the Netherlands. In spite of good reviews, it bombed at the box office and closed after a week. How meta is ''that''?
* LargeHam: Zero Mostel, full stop.
-->'''Max:''' Bloom, I'm drowning. Other men sail through life, Bialystock has struck a reef. Bloom, I'm going under. I'm condemned by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure. Bloom, I'm reaching out to you. Don't send me to prison... ''(screams directly in Leo's ear)'' '''HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLP!'''
** [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And Bloom without his blue blanket.]]
** Roger De Bris and his entire team, but he gets top props through his portrayal of Hitler
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: In the 2005 film, Jim Borstelman plays four roles; Scott the choreographer, Donald Dinsmore ("The Little Wooden Boy"), one of the little old ladies and a bavarian peasant during the Springtime For Hitler number.
* MadnessMantra:
-->'''Leo:''' No way out. No way out. No way out. No way out. No way out. No way out. No way out.
* MediumAwareness: One song in the play has Bialystock summarizing the events of the play up until that point, including an {{Intermission}}.
** The play - Ulla: "Why Bloom go so far stage right?"
** The second movie - "Why Bloom go so far camera right?"
** At the start of the play's second act, Ulla says she painted the office white during the intermission. Unfortunately, the joke couldn't translate to film so there she simply skips lunch.
* TheMusical: The play, since the film really wasn't. Also, the 2005 remake.
* NiceHat: Bialystock forbids Bloom to wear his spare black fedora because "that's a Broadway producer's hat, and you don't get to wear the Broadway producer's hat until you're a Broadway producer!"
** [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "And you're not a Broadway producer, until you've produced a Broadway play!"]]
* NorseByNorsewest: Ulla.
* OfficerOHara: Two of 'em.
* OldShame / MoneyDearBoy: Estelle Winwood.
-->"Oh, that dreadful picture. I can't bear to watch it, even on a small television. I must have needed the money - living in Hollywood weakens one's motives. It reminds me of the saying that [[HLMencken nobody ever went broke underestimating the American public's taste]]."
* OlderThanTheyLook: "Hold Me, Touch Me" was played by Estelle Winwood, who lied about her age (she was 85 during filming) to get herself cast, and was surprisingly agile during the physical comedy. Considering the woman died at age 101, she was one hearty dame.
* OverlyLongGag: Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss...sss!
** Estelle Winwood as "Hold Me, Touch Me".
* PerpetualTourist: Discussed. The most recent version also has Leo Bloom (temporarily) end up somewhere vaguely South American.
* PokemonSpeak: ''Hold'' me, ''touch'' me!
* PowderTrail: "Ahah! Zis is an example of smartness. I have said zat zis is ze kvick fuse, und zis is ze kvick fuse! ...''Ze kvick fuse!?!''"
* PragmaticAdaptation: The role of LSD doesn't translate well in the 21st century, and that, coupled with a society more open about homosexuality, allowed Roger De Bris to get a larger (and funnier) role in the play.
** One critic pointed out that the LSD character could still have worked in the remake, since the story is now set in 1958 and the character in retrospect seems more like a Fifties beatnik than a NewAgeRetroHippie.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Ulla
* PunnyName: Roger De Bris, Carmen Ghia.
* QueerPeopleAreFunny
* RagingStiffie:
--->'''Ula''':You like it?
--->'''Max''': L- like it? I want you to know my dear that even though we're sitting down, we're giving you a ''standing ovation''.
* RecursiveAdaptation. And ''how''.
* RefugeInAudacity: Both ''Springtime For Hitler'' and the original movie itself, especially considering when it was made. the movie was based on a joke Brooks liked to tell where he wanted to make a musical called "Springtime For Hitler." People would stare at him, and then burst into laughter.
* SecurityBlanket: Leo keeps a bit of his baby blanket on him in his jacket pocket.
* SexySecretary: Ulla. And how.
** "Oooh wah weee wah wah wow wowie!"
* ShoutOut: Going through a list of potential candidates for the worst play ever written, Bialystock comes across a synopsis for FranzKafka's ''Metamorphosis''. ("Nah, it's too good.") A Karmann Ghia is a model of Volkswagen. Leopold Bloom is the protagonist of JamesJoyce's novel ''{{Ulysses}}''. At one point Max refers to Leo as "Prince Myshkin"; this is the protagonist of [[RussianRelaxing Dostoyevsky's]] novel ''TheIdiot''.
** Leo's line "When's it going to be Bloom's day?" is another reference to ''Ulysses''; in fact, according to WordOfGod, that particular scene takes place ''on'' Bloom's Day. Tom and Mel were very surprised at how many people got the joke.
** When Jason Alexander took over as Bialystock he adlibbed in "Betrayed." Bialystock calls out {{Intermission}} and is scripted to sit down for a moment before continuing the show. Instead Jason pulls out a playbill, flipping through it and said to the audience, "He's good, but he's no Lane." (Nathan Lane of course being the original player of Bialystock for the musical.)
** Nathan Lane's understudy did something similar during the original run of the play. During "intermission," he turned to an imaginary companion and said, "I like the other guy better."
** In the 2005 movie, during "I Want To Be A Producer", Leo descends a flight of stairs lit with his name. The lettering and border are identical to the ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' logo.
** The "Yiddish" which translates as "Who do you have to fuck to get a break in this town?" comes from a speech given by CharlieChaplin in ''TheGreatDictator''.
** The Siegfried Oath is named for Conrad Siegfried, the BigBad of ''GetSmart'', a TV show Brooks co-created with Buck Henry in the 1960s.
* ShowWithinAShow: The production of "Springtime for Hitler" that is the eponym of [[SpringTimeForHitler one notable trope here on this very wiki]].
* TheSixties: Lorenzo [=StDubois=] in the original version.
** TheFifties: The remake is set in 1958, but there aren't that many blatant period markers and AnachronismStew abounds (such as when the Village People show up during the [[HaveAGayOldTime "Keep It Gay"]] number).
* A beautifully-subverted SlowClap.
* SnakeTalk: Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss...sss!
-->'''Buddy''': ''[[Film/BlazingSaddles "Sounds like steam escaping!"]]''
* SpringtimeForHitler: The TropeNamer, obviously. Unique in that ''The Producers'' has ''two'' of them, with the closing ''Prisoners Of Love''.
-->'''Max:''' We open in Leavenworth Saturday night!
* StopHelpingMe: Max to Leo at the trial (whose "defense" of Max begins with a list of all of Max's faults) in the both movies; Max then says again to the off-key chorus of old ladies at the trial in the musical remake.
* StupidCrooks: In the original, after Max and Leo pull their SpringtimeForHitler, they decide to blow up the theater with a little help from Franz. However, they're not sure if they used the short fuse or the long fuse for their bomb detonator, and their way of testing to find out which one they used is to ''light the fuse they already primed for the bomb''. And then they discuss how the fuse they lit is behaving like the short fuse, which wouldn't have given them enough time to leave the building...
** And just before that: "Don't shoot! It's the dynamite! If you shoot it, [[SarcasmMode it will get mad at us]] and blow us all up!"
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In the original film, Franz starts warbling "America the Beautiful" when denying he was a Nazi.
** In the musical:
--->'''Franz:''' I was never a member of the Nazi Party! I only followed orders! I had nothing to do with the war! I didn't even know there was a war on! We lived at the back, near Switzerland. All we heard was yodelling... yodel le he hoo! Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo, Yodelay, Yodelay, Yodelay''
* TakeThat: From all versions...
--> '''Leo:''' Actors aren't animals; they're human beings!
--> '''Max:''' They are, huh? You ever ''eat'' with one?
** The entire concept behind ''Springtime For Hitler'' is Mel Brooks' TakeThat aimed right at [[ThoseWackyNazis Hitler and the Nazis]].
* TapOnTheHead:
--> '''Stagehand:''' Hey! What can I do for you?
--> '''Franz:''' You will please be unconscious. (''*tap*'')
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: All of the rejected would-be Hitlers. Actually [[InvertedTrope an inversion]] of this trope, as they are rejected for being too ''good''.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: "I'm in pain, and I'm wet, and I'm still hysterical!"
* ThatsAllFolks
* ThoseWackyNazis: Franz Liebkind.
* ThrowItIn: Gene Wilder's "Whom Has He Hurt" speech was completely improvised.
* UnSpokenPlanGuarantee: "Now let's get out of here before they kill us!" (cue audience laughter and applause)
* VillainProtagonist: Max and Leo may be funny, but they're both trying to defraud little old ladies.
* VillainSong: The opening number of ''SFH'' is a cheerful paean to Nazi Germany attacking the rest of Europe.
** There's also Heil Myself in The Musical. It may be [[LargeHam gay and over-the-top,]] but it still counts as this trope if you consider [[AdolfHitler who's technically singing the song.]]
* WeirdnessMagnet: Max considers himself one. It seems Leo only makes the situation worse.
---> '''Max:''' They come here, they all come here. ''How do they find me.''
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome:
-->'''Franz:''' Hitler... ''there'' was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats!
* WhatIsThisFeeling: It's called "happiness," Leo.
** Or an erection.
** It's either that or Malaria.
** There's pills for everything these days, so don't worry.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Roger [=DeBris=]. When we first meet him, he's supposed to be in costume as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Depending on the version, he claims that he thinks he looks more like either "Tugboat Annie" or "the Chrysler Building."
* WorldOfHam
* ZanyScheme
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Sad to tell ya', you've reached the end!\\
Grab your hat and head for the door!\\
In case ya' didn't notice, there ain't anymore!\\
If you like our page, tell everyone but,\\
If you think it stinks, keep your big mouth shut!\\
We're glad you came but we have to shout, Adios! Au revoir! Wiedersehen! Tatata!\\
Good-bye! Get lost!\\
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