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* RetroactiveRecognition: In the airport at the end, a young Creator/StephenFry appears as the man Otto robs.
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*RetroactiveRecognition: In the airport at the end, a young Creator/StephenFry appears as the man Otto robs.
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* ActorInspiredElement: The dogs seen with Patricia Hayes were her own.

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* ActorInspiredElement: The dogs seen with Patricia Hayes Creator/PatriciaHayes were her own.
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Creator Chosen Casting is when the casting of an adaptation is influenced by the creator of the work being adapted; this isn't an example


* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/JohnCleese wrote the role of Wanda Gershwitz for Creator/JamieLeeCurtis after seeing her in ''Film/TradingPlaces'' and realising that she could be sexy, duplicitous and funny.
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** Most of Creator/JohnCleese's more well-known characters tend to be highly-strung {{Jerkass}}es prone to bombastic rants at the drop of a pin. Archie, for the most part, is a rather pleasant, mild-mannered and quiet type. He called it "as close as I'll ever get to being Cary Grant."

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** Most of Creator/JohnCleese's more well-known characters tend to be highly-strung {{Jerkass}}es prone to bombastic rants at the drop of a pin. Archie, for the most part, is a rather pleasant, mild-mannered and quiet type. He called it "as close as I'll ever get to being Cary Grant."Grant" (whose real name was Archie Leach).
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* ReferencedBy: a celebrated IKEA commercial in which an adult daughter catches [[ParentalSexualitySquick her aging parents romping around the house in farmer fetish gear]] ("Time to move out?") features a ShoutOut to the "languages" scene: as Archie does, the dad grabs a photo to hide his shame, only for the choice of photo to cause further embarrassment as it depicts the interrupter (in this case the daughter) herself.
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* DirectedByCastMember: An unusual and very complicated example. While Charles Crichton is the solely-credited director on the finished product, Creator/JohnCleese was officially the movie's co-director during production. However, Cleese has gone on record saying that he actually did very little work as director and just agreed to act as co-director because the film's backers had concerns about letting the 77-year-old Crichton direct unsupervised. Cleese ''did'' direct a couple of scenes with Creator/MichaelPalin (most likely Ken's attempts to snuff out the witness) by himself, but more to allow Crichton time to get a head-start on the editing. On the set, Crichton wore a T-shirt presented to him by Cleese and inscribed "Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill".

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* DirectedByCastMember: An unusual and very complicated example. While Charles Crichton is the solely-credited director on the finished product, Creator/JohnCleese was officially the movie's co-director during production. However, Cleese has gone on record saying that he actually did very little work as director and just agreed to act as co-director because the film's backers had concerns about letting the 77-year-old 78-year-old Crichton direct unsupervised. Cleese ''did'' direct a couple of scenes with Creator/MichaelPalin (most likely Ken's attempts to snuff out the witness) by himself, but more to allow Crichton time to get a head-start on the editing. On the set, Crichton wore a T-shirt presented to him by Cleese and inscribed "Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill".
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* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Creator/JohnCleese was the star, co-writer, unofficial director and executive producer.

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* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Creator/JohnCleese was the star, co-writer, unofficial director director, and executive producer.



* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/JohnCleese ranks this project among his favorites because the cast gelled together so perfectly. He enjoyed working with Creator/MichaelPalin, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis and Creator/KevinKline so much he brought them back together for ''Film/FierceCreatures''.

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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/JohnCleese ranks this project among his favorites because the cast gelled together so perfectly. He enjoyed working with Creator/MichaelPalin, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, and Creator/KevinKline so much he brought them back together for ''Film/FierceCreatures''.



** Most of Creator/JohnCleese's more well-known characters tend to be highly-strung {{Jerkass}}es prome to bombastic rants at the drop of a pin. Archie, for the most part, is a rather pleasant, mild-mannered and quiet type. He called it "as close as I'll ever get to being Cary Grant."

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** Most of Creator/JohnCleese's more well-known characters tend to be highly-strung {{Jerkass}}es prome prone to bombastic rants at the drop of a pin. Archie, for the most part, is a rather pleasant, mild-mannered and quiet type. He called it "as close as I'll ever get to being Cary Grant."



* ThrowItIn: Kevin Kline starred singing "Volare" during the sex scene after he ran out of Italian phrases and names of cheeses that he was able to ad lib.

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* ThrowItIn: Kevin Kline starred started singing "Volare" during the sex scene after he ran out of Italian phrases and names of cheeses that he was able to ad lib.
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* ThrowItIn: Kevin Kline starred singing "Volare" during the sex scene after he ran out of Italian phrases and names of cheeses that he was able to ad lib.
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* {{Corpsing}}: During Otto and Wanda's sex scene, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis reportedly had to put a pillow over her face to keep from corpsing.

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* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Creator/JohnCleese was the star, co-writer, unoffical director and executive producer.

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* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Creator/JohnCleese was the star, co-writer, unoffical unofficial director and executive producer.



* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/JohnCleese wrote the role of Wanda Gershwitz for Creator/JamieLeeCurtis after seeing her in ''Film/TradingPlaces'' and realised that she could be sexy, duplicitous and funny.

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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/JohnCleese wrote the role of Wanda Gershwitz for Creator/JamieLeeCurtis after seeing her in ''Film/TradingPlaces'' and realised realising that she could be sexy, duplicitous and funny.



* DirectedByCastmember: An unusual and very complicated example. While Charles Crichton is the solely-credited director on the finished product, Creator/JohnCleese was officially the movie's co-director during production. However, Cleese has gone on record saying that he actually did very little work as director and just agreed to act as co-director because the film's backers had concerns about letting the 77-year-old Crichton direct unsupervised. Cleese ''did'' direct a couple of scenes with Creator/MichaelPalin (most likely Ken's attempts to snuff out the witness) by himself, but more to allow Crichton time to get a head-start on the editing. On the set, Crichton wore a T-shirt presented to him by Cleese and inscribed "Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill"

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* DirectedByCastmember: DirectedByCastMember: An unusual and very complicated example. While Charles Crichton is the solely-credited director on the finished product, Creator/JohnCleese was officially the movie's co-director during production. However, Cleese has gone on record saying that he actually did very little work as director and just agreed to act as co-director because the film's backers had concerns about letting the 77-year-old Crichton direct unsupervised. Cleese ''did'' direct a couple of scenes with Creator/MichaelPalin (most likely Ken's attempts to snuff out the witness) by himself, but more to allow Crichton time to get a head-start on the editing. On the set, Crichton wore a T-shirt presented to him by Cleese and inscribed "Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill"skill".



*** To be fair, Palin did play Jack in the movie ''Film/{{Brazil}}''.



* WagTheDirector: Creator/JamieLeeCurtis was originally going to have a nude scene until Creator/JamieLeeCurtis pointed out that men being nude is much funnier, so Creator/JohnCleese did it instead.

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* WagTheDirector: Creator/JamieLeeCurtis was originally going to have a nude scene until Creator/JamieLeeCurtis she pointed out that men being nude is much funnier, so Creator/JohnCleese did it instead.
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* WagTheDirector: Creator/JamieLeeCurtis was originally going to have a nude scene until Creator/JamieLeeCurtis pointed out that men being nude is much funnier, so Creator/JohnCleese did it instead.

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* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Creator/JohnCleese was the star, co-writer, unoffical director and executive producer.



* WrittenByCastmember: Co-written by Creator/JohnCleese.

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* ActorInspiredElement: The dogs seen with Patricia Hayes were her own.



* DirectedByCastmember: An unusual and very complicated example. While Charles Crichton is the solely-credited director on the finished product, Creator/JohnCleese was officially the movie's co-director during production. However, Cleese has gone on record saying that he actually did very little work as director and just agreed to act as co-director because the film's backers had concerns about letting the 77-year-old Crichton direct unsupervised. Cleese ''did'' direct a couple of scenes with Michael Palin (most likely Ken's attempts to snuff out the witness) by himself, but more to allow Crichton time to get a head-start on the editing. On the set, Crichton wore a T-shirt presented to him by Cleese and inscribed "Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill"

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* DeletedRole: James Cossin's role as a bank teller was cut from the film.
* DirectedByCastmember: An unusual and very complicated example. While Charles Crichton is the solely-credited director on the finished product, Creator/JohnCleese was officially the movie's co-director during production. However, Cleese has gone on record saying that he actually did very little work as director and just agreed to act as co-director because the film's backers had concerns about letting the 77-year-old Crichton direct unsupervised. Cleese ''did'' direct a couple of scenes with Michael Palin Creator/MichaelPalin (most likely Ken's attempts to snuff out the witness) by himself, but more to allow Crichton time to get a head-start on the editing. On the set, Crichton wore a T-shirt presented to him by Cleese and inscribed "Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill"


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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Creator/JohnCleese entered Cambridge University as a law student, although he never became a member of the British bar.
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/JohnCleese wrote the role of Wanda Gershwitz after seeing her in ''Film/TradingPlaces'' and realised that she could be sexy, duplicitous and funny.

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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/JohnCleese wrote the role of Wanda Gershwitz for Creator/JamieLeeCurtis after seeing her in ''Film/TradingPlaces'' and realised that she could be sexy, duplicitous and funny.
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* CreatorsFavoritEpisode: Creator/JohnCleese ranks this project among his favorites because the cast gelled together so perfectly. He enjoyed working with Creator/MichaelPalin, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis and Creator/KevinKline so much he brought them back together for ''Film/FierceCreatures''.

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* CreatorsFavoritEpisode: CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/JohnCleese ranks this project among his favorites because the cast gelled together so perfectly. He enjoyed working with Creator/MichaelPalin, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis and Creator/KevinKline so much he brought them back together for ''Film/FierceCreatures''.

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