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* HilariousInHindsight: The name of the BurgerFool joint in the film? ''WebAnimation/BigtopBurger''. Creator Ian "Worthikids" Worthington [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/882/913/cd8.png has sworn]] that it was coincidental since he didn't watch ''Killer Klowns from Outer Space'' before releasing his animation.

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* HilariousInHindsight: The name of the BurgerFool joint in the film? ''WebAnimation/BigtopBurger''. Creator Ian "Worthikids" "Creator/{{Worthikids}}" Worthington [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/882/913/cd8.png has sworn]] that it was coincidental since he didn't watch ''Killer Klowns from Outer Space'' before releasing his animation.
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** Debbie is a resourceful DamselOutOfDistress towards those hideously horrifying popcorn Klown hatchlings attacking her in the bathroom.
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** The two female Klowns just leave the Terenzi Brothers covered in kisses instead of killing them. Were they trying to rape the men so they could become pregnant and produce more Klowns, or were they just really [[IncrediblyLamePun horny]]?

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** The two female Klowns just leave the Terenzi Brothers covered in kisses instead of killing them. Were they trying to rape the men so they could become pregnant and produce more Klowns, or were they just really [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} horny]]?
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** Jumbo attempting to lure a little girl out of the fast food, due to it being a [[NightmareFuel genuinely unnerving]] scene.

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** Jumbo attempting to lure charming and luring a little girl out of the fast food, due to it being a [[NightmareFuel genuinely unnerving]] scene.
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* SignatureScene: Plenty, it's considered a CultClassic for having many memorable scenes, some stands-outs include...
** Slim snatching up a whole group of people with his ImpossibleShadowPuppets.
** Shorty confronting and killing the bully biker after his iconic TemptingFate line: "What are you gonna do, knock my block off?!"
** The Klowns visiting a young woman with a stack of pizza boxes only for Shorty to pop out and web her up.
** The CarChase with Slim riding on an invisible car, which was the Chiodo Brothers' starting idea before it snowballed into becoming this movie.
** Jumbo attempting to lure a little girl out of the fast food, due to it being a [[NightmareFuel genuinely unnerving]] scene.






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** "[[https://youtu.be/9lusYUOrSNY?feature=shared Escape the Klown Cathedral]]", which plays during TheChase of the climax has absolutely no business being as adventurous, panicking, suspenseful and creepy as it is, even listening it on its own it's a great piece of music that clearly tells a story with its slower parts and raising crescendo.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments:
** Dave bravely taking on Jumbo, and in doing so, finds the Klowns weakness.
** Dave passing up the chance to escape to take out Klownzilla and killing him with his badge.
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* EvilIsCool: Freakish and diabolical they may be, the titular Klowns are widely praised by audiences due to their gruesome and bizarre appearances and personalities.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: While he takes his denial to comical extremes, Officer Mooney isn't wrong that Mike's affiliation with known troublemakers, the Terenzi brothers, make his already dubious claims more suspect.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** Slim killing the driver with his invisible car falls more into the comedic spectrum of this Horror-Comedy given how absurd it looks, like [[https://youtu.be/t2eUUHkpvQA?t=227 something straight out]] of ''WebAnimation/TheGmodIdiotBox''.
** The scene where Rudy and Shorty examine some items in a pharmacy. It almost verges in being [[CreepyCute oddly adorable]] because it shows a curious animal side in the Klowns' personality instead of being one-note monsters.
** When Debbie hears knocking at her door and Mike calling her only to find out it's Slim [[VoiceChangeling imitating his voice]] and slams the door shut, the Klown knocks again ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill much faster]]'' to the point it sounds like a jackhammer.
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* HesJustHiding: WordOfGod confirms that several Klowns actually survived the explosion of their ship, suggesting that the fan-favorites may show up again if a continuation will ever come along.

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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The scene where Rudy and Shorty examine some items in a pharmacy. It almost verges in being [[CreepyCute oddly adorable]] because it shows a curious animal side in the Klowns' personality instead of being one-note monsters.

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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** Slim killing the driver with his invisible car falls more into the comedic spectrum of this Horror-Comedy given how absurd it looks, like [[https://youtu.be/t2eUUHkpvQA?t=227 something straight out]] of ''WebAnimation/TheGmodIdiotBox''.
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The scene where Rudy and Shorty examine some items in a pharmacy. It almost verges in being [[CreepyCute oddly adorable]] because it shows a curious animal side in the Klowns' personality instead of being one-note monsters.monsters.
** When Debbie hears knocking at her door and Mike calling her only to find out it's Slim [[VoiceChangeling imitating his voice]] and slams the door shut, the Klown knocks again ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill much faster]]'' to the point it sounds like a jackhammer.
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* TooDumbToLive: The uncocooned citizen during the Klown parade scene who could've survived had he just waited until they were gone. Admittedly the Klowns themselves to an extent; they have figured out advanced space travel, but can't be bothered to protect their only AchillesHeel.
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Gag Boobs has been renamed to Boob Based Gag. Changing to the proper trope where appropriate and cutting misuse.


* FetishRetardant: At one point the Terenzi brothers find themselves in a ball pit on the alien ship and are accosted by [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe two female klowns]] with [[BreastExpansion expanding]] GagBoobs. However, while poking fun at the BoldlyComing trope (when the brothers return, they are covered in kisses), the female klowns are depicted using the same unsettling [[UncannyValley human-but-not-quite]] prosthetics as the male klowns, and of course, clown make-up which distorts their features even further.

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* FetishRetardant: At one point the Terenzi brothers find themselves in a ball pit on the alien ship and are accosted by [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe two female klowns]] with [[BreastExpansion expanding]] GagBoobs.boobs. However, while poking fun at the BoldlyComing trope (when the brothers return, they are covered in kisses), the female klowns are depicted using the same unsettling [[UncannyValley human-but-not-quite]] prosthetics as the male klowns, and of course, clown make-up which distorts their features even further.
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** The Klowns' [[https://youtu.be/eyl6YOR48QI March]] music. Composer John Massari later made a new [[https://youtu.be/Zw4L5PKtlDA expanded version]]!

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** The Klowns' [[https://youtu.be/eyl6YOR48QI March]] music. Composer John Massari later made a new [[https://youtu.be/Zw4L5PKtlDA expanded version]]!version]]! The updated version that serves as the video game's main theme, "[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=9WPhBXVd-Qs&feature=share The Darkkest Karnival]]", remains impressive.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The name of the BurgerFool joint in the film? ''WebAnimation/BigtopBurger''. Creator Ian "Worthikids" Worthington [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/882/913/cd8.png has swore]] that it was coincidental since he didn't watch ''Killer Klowns from Outer Space'' before releasing his animation.
* InferredHolocaust: It's never spelled out just how many people were killed by the Klowns, but they were scooping people up all over town (to the point that they needed a giant vacuum cleaner for the job) and there were a ''lot'' of cotton candy cocoons in the tent ship. The number's probably in the hundreds, and Mike even thinks that the Klowns captured the whole town. The movie ends on a lighthearted PieInTheFace gag however.

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* HilariousInHindsight: The name of the BurgerFool joint in the film? ''WebAnimation/BigtopBurger''. Creator Ian "Worthikids" Worthington [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/882/913/cd8.png has swore]] sworn]] that it was coincidental since he didn't watch ''Killer Klowns from Outer Space'' before releasing his animation.
* InferredHolocaust: It's never spelled out just how many people were killed by the Klowns, but they were scooping people up all over town (to the point that they needed a giant vacuum cleaner for the job) and there were a ''lot'' of cotton candy cocoons in the tent ship. The number's probably in the hundreds, and Mike even thinks that the Klowns captured the whole town. The movie ends on a lighthearted PieInTheFace gag gag, however.



* NarmCharm: ''The entire point of the film!'' The movie is an Eighties-fused take on 50s B-Movies with a campy premise and lots of laughs as well as horror. It's why the film has cultivated a loyal and dedicated cult following.

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* NarmCharm: ''The entire point of the film!'' The movie is an Eighties-fused take on 50s B-Movies with a campy premise and premise, lots of laughs as well as laughs, and horror. It's why the film has cultivated a loyal and dedicated cult following.



* SoBadItsGood: Notably averted. The movie is often mistaken for this because of its premise, but it's actually an intentionally funny movie with imaginative set design and monster effects.

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* SoBadItsGood: Notably averted. The movie is often mistaken for this because of its premise, but it's actually an intentionally funny movie with an imaginative set design and monster effects.



** In a meta sense- The car that fell the way it did in the chase scene wasn't supposed to do that but instead fall all the way down. However the crew forgot to remove the stoppers.
** In a less meta sense. Debbie's arm disappears into a matte painting, Mike ''almost'' trips on top of the Terenzi brothers[[note]]who were supposed to be down a trap door at this point[[/note]], and a zipper can be seen on the back of a Klown's head at one point. Some of the optical effects, like the shadow puppet are also suspect.

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** In a meta sense- The car that fell the way it did in the chase scene wasn't supposed to do that but instead fall all the way down. However However, the crew forgot to remove the stoppers.
** In a less meta sense. Debbie's arm disappears into a matte painting, Mike ''almost'' trips on top of the Terenzi brothers[[note]]who were supposed to be down a trap door at this point[[/note]], and a zipper can be seen on the back of a Klown's head at one point. Some of the optical effects, like the shadow puppet puppet, are also suspect.



* TooDumbToLive: The un-cocooned citizen during the Klown parade scene who could've survived had he just waited until they were gone. Admittedly the Klowns themselves to an extent; they have figured out advanced space travel, but can't be bothered to protect their only AchillesHeel.

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* TooDumbToLive: The un-cocooned uncocooned citizen during the Klown parade scene who could've survived had he just waited until they were gone. Admittedly the Klowns themselves to an extent; they have figured out advanced space travel, but can't be bothered to protect their only AchillesHeel.
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* FetishRetardant: At one point the Terenzi brothers find themselves in a ball pit on the alien ship and are accosted by [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe two female klowns]] with [[BreastExpansion expanding]] GagBoobs. However, while poking fun at the BoldlyComing trope (when the brothers return, they are covered in kisses), the female klowns are depicted using the same unsettling [[UncannyValley human-but-not-quite]] prosphetics as the male klowns, and of course, clown make-up which distorts their features even further.

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* FetishRetardant: At one point the Terenzi brothers find themselves in a ball pit on the alien ship and are accosted by [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe two female klowns]] with [[BreastExpansion expanding]] GagBoobs. However, while poking fun at the BoldlyComing trope (when the brothers return, they are covered in kisses), the female klowns are depicted using the same unsettling [[UncannyValley human-but-not-quite]] prosphetics prosthetics as the male klowns, and of course, clown make-up which distorts their features even further.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmqpTXVbYO8&list=PLGlpnTAUzW9vmGT0DlVAgnQWBrXN-VAFK&index=14 The collection machine theme]], a.k.a. "Tanks rolling into Poland", has the perfect "Well, we're ''fucked''" vibe to it.

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