History Funny / OnceUponATimeInHollywood

-->'''Gypsy:''' Thank you for bringing our Pussycat home. We love Pussy.\\
'''Cliff:''' Yes, we do.

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* Cliff reflects on the fact that no one will hire him to be a stuntman, then remembers the reason for this is because he got into a fight with Bruce Lee on the set of ''Series/TheGreenHornet'', the show Lee was starring in and Cliff was allowed to work on only after Rick argued for his involvement. He then laughs to himself, saying "Fair enough."

* Anytime we see a clip from Rick's cancelled show ''Bounty Law,'' a faithful spoof on western serials. The most notable example being one where his character, Jake Cahill, brings a recently slain bounty into the nearest town to collect a reward, only to be informed by the local lawman that the man he killed happens to be the son of the man who runs the town, complete with an ominous close-up on the protagonist's face as the show fades to commercial.

* [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] finds himself acting as a fly on the wall in regards to the love triangle between Creator/SharonTate, Creator/RomanPolanski and Jay Sebring. [[GracefulLoser As well as making fun of Polanski and Sebring while simultaneously admitting that Sharon chose them over someone like him.]]
* Cliff's firing from the set of the Green Hornet, following an '[[UnreliableNarrator even]]' fight with Bruce Lee.
-->'''Janet:''' Get the wardrobe off, get your shit and [[PrecisionFStrike GET FUCKED!!]] \\
'''Randy:''' [hoarse] Janet, I will ''handle'' this!\\
'''Janet:''' Well you fuckin' handle it, Randy!\\
'''Randy:''' [composed] Cliff. [[ByNoIMeanYes Take off the wardrobe, get your shit and get off the lot.]]

* When she finally allows him to see George Spahn, Squeaky Fromme warns Cliff that George might be hard to wake up since she "[[SexGoddess fucked his brains out]]" earlier.
* When Cliff meets George Spahn and finds him alive and well, if blind, Cliff asks if Squeaky is the redhead in the next room.

** What's especially funny is how he came into possession of the acid cigarette. He was evidently just sitting in his car on the streets of L.A. when some hippie girl came up to him and offered the cigarette apropos to nothing. And he bought it off her for fifty cents.
* Rick's drunkenly confronting and ranting at the Manson Family when he hears them outside in their car playing music loud and a busted exhaust make noise, insulting them in between taking large gulps from his margarita mixer.

** To elaborate, Tex gets [[GroinAttack bitten in the groin]] by Cliff's dog Brandy before Cliff [[FinishingStomp stomps his face in]], Katie/Patricia Krenwinkel gets her head smashed all across the room by Cliff, and Sadie/Susan Atkins gets a full can of dog food smashed against her face before Brandy chomps into her as well. She is still alive as she stumbles into the yard covered in blood, heads toward Rick flailing and screaming... and falls straight into the pool. Then Rick gets the flamethrower from the shed and torches her.
** After managing to free his groin from Brandy's jaws, Tex actually recovers fairly quick and whips out a knife. Only for Cliff to simply grab his arm in its stabbing motion and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard force Tex to stab himself in the leg]].

** The shot of Tex pointing his gun at Cliff and Cliff mirroring him perfectly with a finger gun, then they both laugh about it.

--->'''Cliff:''' ''[to "Katie]'' I don't know your name, but I do remember that hair. ''[to "Sadie"]'' And you, I remember your white little face. ''[to "Tex"]'' And you were on a horsey! Yeah... you are?\\

* After the above, the police are taking statements. Cliff paraphrases Tex's line about doing the "Devil's business" and mangles it so badly the cops are audibly amused ("'I'm the Devil, and I'm here to do some devil shit.' Now that might not be verbatim") . Meanwhile, Francesca is [[ForeignLanguageTirade ranting in high-speed Italian]] while a put-upon-looking cop is obviously wondering how to explain that he can't understand a word she's been saying.

** A funny moment comes from Jay as he immediately guesses that it was Rick's flamethrower from ''14 Fists of [=McCluskey=]'' and geeks out over the fact Rick actually torched someone in real life.
* During the credits we see Rick during his ''Bounty Law'' days filming an ad for Red Apple cigarettes. As soon as the filming stops he starts complaining about how shitty the cigarettes taste and how his cardboard cutout has a double chin.
* During Rick's Italian career, one of the films made is a knockoff Film/JamesBond flick that features Rick's character jumping a bridge in a car. Except that for no reason whatsoever, the screen pauses mid-jump and an arrow pointing to the car reading "Cliff" appears with a little *ding!*.

** When she and Rick first meet, she's reading a massive book. Rick politely asks if it would be disturbing for him to sit next to her and read as well. She replies that as long as he doesn't bother her, he can. Soon after, she gets bored reading her book and proceeds to badger him with questions about the western he's trying to read.
** Rick also asks if she's had lunch. Trudy replies that she has a scene immediately after lunch so is abstaining from eating, and proceeds to deliver a lengthy monologue about the importance of striving for excellence in her art that suggests she's thought more about the craft of acting as a child than Rick Dalton has in his entire decades-long career. Rick is appropriately bemused at this.

** After their scene together, Rick makes a point of making sure that Trudy wasn't hurt when he threw her to the floor as part of the scene. In response, Trudy excitedly points out the padding she's wearing under her dress. She also claims that she practices throwing herself onto the ground at home, even when she doesn't have roles that call for it, apparently just [[CrazyPrepared on the chance that it'll come in useful]].
* Sharon trying to get into ''Film/TheWreckingCrew'' for free, because she stars in it. The girl at the counter responds to a photo with "that's the girl from ''Literature/ValleyOfTheDolls''" - and Sharon looks quite put-out before admitting that's her (in real life she felt the movie was terrible and only did it because she knew it would be a hit).

* Creator/SteveMcQueenActor finds himself acting as a fly on the wall in regards to the love triangle between Creator/SharonTate, Creator/RomanPolanski and Jay Sebring. [[GracefulLoser As well as making fun of Polanski and Sebring while simultaneously admitting that Sharon chose them over someone like him.]]

'''Cliff:''' ...Nah, it was dumber than that. Something like Rex.\\

* There's a short scene where Sharon and her friends go out for dinner on That Night, but the potential ominousness of the moment is slightly undercut when they see a movie premiere down the street, realise it's for a porn movie, and spend a few minutes marvelling about how even pornos get movie premieres.

-->'''Janet:''' Get off the wardrobe, get your shit and [[PrecisionFStrike GET FUCKED!!]] \\

'''Janet:''' Well you better fuckin' handle it, Randy!\\
'''Randy:''' [composed] Cliff. [[ByNoIMeanYes Take off the wardrobe, get your stuff and get off the lot.]]

* The flamethrower instructor is quite nonplussed at Rick asking if there's any way to make it less hot. [[ThrowItIn This isn't too far off from how Leonardo DiCaprio actually reacted to it.]]

* When she finally allows him to see George Spahn, Squeaky Fromme warns Cliff that George might be hard to wake up since she "fucked his brains out" earlier.

* Flowerchild (Linda Kasabian) ditches her fellow cultists and drives away with the car without a second thought after managing to get the keys, leaving them to their fate.

** To elaborate, Tex gets bitten in the groin by Cliff's dog Brandy before Cliff stomps his face in, Katie/Patricia Krenwinkel gets her head smashed all across the room by Cliff, and Sadie/Susan Atkins gets a full can of dog food smashed against her face before Brandy chomps into her as well. She is still alive as she stumbles into the yard covered in blood, heads toward Rick flailing and screaming... and falls straight into the pool. Then Rick gets the flamethrower from the shed and torches her.
** After managing to free his groin from Brandy's jaws, Tex actually recovers fairly quick and whips out a knife. Only for Cliff to simply grab his arm in its stabbing motion and force Tex to stab himself in the leg.
** A completely drunk and stoned Cliff [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction calmly, almost quizzically tapping the end of the knife Katie just drove into the side of his leg.]] [[TranquilFury Then proceeding to methodically smash her skull in]].

--->'''Cliff:''' ''(to "Katie")'' I don't know your name, but I do remember that hair. ''(to "Sadie")'' And you, I remember your white little face. ''(to "Tex")'' And you were on a horsey! Yeah... you are?\\

* After the above, the police are taking statements. Cliff paraphrases Tex's line about doing the "Devil's business" and mangles it so badly the cops are audibly amused ("'I'm the Devil, and I'm here to do some devil shit.' Now that might not be verbatim") . Meanwhile, Francesca is ranting in high-speed Italian while a put-upon looking cop is obviously wondering how to explain that he can't understand a word she's been saying.

-->'''Jay Sebring:''' Is everyone okay?
-->'''Rick Dalton:''' Well, the fuckin' hippies aren't. That's for goddamn sure.

** When the owner needs clarification on ''which'' girl from ''Valley of the Dolls'', Sharon reminds him "the one who ends up doing dirty movies". She wasn't in the dark about her status as BestKnownForTheFanservice.

** A funny moment comes from Jay as he immediately guesses that it was Rick's flamethrower from "14 Fists of [=McCluskey=] and geeks out over the fact Rick actually torched someone in real life.

** To elaborate, Tex gets bitten in the groin by Cliff’s dog Brandy before Cliff stomps his face in, Katie/Patricia Krenwinkel gets her head smashed all across the room by Cliff, and Sadie/Susan Atkins gets a full can of dog food smashed against her face before Brandy chomps into her as well. She is still alive, flailing and screaming as she runs out to the pool to kill Rick, only for him to come out and torch her with the flamethrower.

* The flamethrower instructor is quite nonplussed at Rick asking if there's any way to make it less hot. [[ThrowItIn This isn't too far off from how Leonardo DiCaprio]] actually reacted to it.

* Pussycat abruptly halting her little dance for Cliff after seeing an approaching cop car, then immediately shouting "FUCK YOU, PIGS!" after the car has driven by. Cliff can't hide his amusement.

-->'''George Spahn:''' I'm BLIND! How the fuck do I know what colour her hair is?!

* The flamethrower instructor is quite nonplussed at Rick asking if there's any way to make it less hot.

-->'''Martin Schwarz:''' So Rick, who's gonna beat the shit out of you next week? ''Series/{{Mannix}}? ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE''? Series/TheGirlFromUNCLE? [[Series/Batman1966 Batman and Robin]]? Ping! Pow! Choom! Zoom! Down goes you, down goes your career as a leading man.