History YMMV / SomeLikeItHot

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: At the time, the joke with the line "Nobody talks like that" is that Creator/TonyCurtis was doing an impression of his idol Creator/CaryGrant, whose voice hadn't yet been heard on film in 1929. Grant's distinctive transatlantic accent quickly faded out of fashion and is now viewed as a relic of the 1930s and '40s, likely causing people to just take it at face value.

* TheWoobie: Sugar when she recounts and experiences tales of having her heart broken by scumbag men. As she sings "I'm Through With Love" at the end, Joe has a HeelRealization and realizes he actually cares about her, unlike the countless girls he's used in the past.

* SignatureScene: The ending: "Well, nobody's perfect!" That final line ranks #48 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes and is even paid homage to on Billy Wilder's gravestone.

** Jerry tries to get her drunk while pretending to be a girl to lure her into a false sense of security (presumably so he can have his way with her while she's too intoxicated to know what's going on [[WhatDidIDoLastNight or remember that her band mate "Daphne" is a man in the morning]]). He lampshades this by saying "This may even turn out to be a surprise party!" This is played for laughs. Today, it wouldn't be played for light-hearted comedy.

* TransAudienceInterpretation: Not only does Jerry apparently come to enjoy pretending to be a woman, one scene has him forget he's actually a man and cheerfully announce that he's going to marry the (male) millionaire Osgood, much to Joe's bewilderment. This has led many 21st-century viewers to interpret Jerry as genderfluid.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: After Creator/TheCriterionCollection announced a 2018 DVD/Blu-ray re-release, the [[https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/720ac5d0fe56d3f5e365059a7bb21b86/QsIig1CXGzvqmO7UR79mko1R3l2NoX_large.jpg cover]] they unveiled received disdain for its unflattering picture of Sugar, the out-of-scale Josephine and Daphne, and [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain the altogether rather confusing tableau]]. Before the discs hit retail, Criterion commissioned [[https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/b935a8eaff6f0e92d17b18a1cd19fdf6/5ZrsCMJikkq6bPNmWjofhZswbi544L_large.jpg a new cover]].

* HoYay:
** "Daphne" and Osgood - although Osgood thinks Jerry's a woman, when he reveals himself to be a man, Osgood doesn't seem too fazed.
** "Josephine" and Sugar have these moments. She's surprised but not horrified when "she" kisses her.

* MemeticMutation: The first time Jerry and Joe are seen in their women outfits and walking towards the train station.

* SignatureScene: The ending. "Well, nobody's perfect!"

* AuthorsSavingThrow: After Creator/TheCriterionCollection announced a 2018 DVD/Blu-ray re-release, the [[http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=15281483&postcount=1 cover]] they unveiled received distain for its unflattering picture of Sugar, and out-of-scale Josephine and Daphne. Before the discs hit retail, Criterion commissioned [[http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=15462948&postcount=99 a new cover]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Sugar's fiddle player is Creator/GraceLeeWhitney.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Sugar's fiddle player is Creator/GraceLeeWhintey.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: As a meta example, it seems amazing that the closing words went from a "dummy line" that Wilder and Diamond intended to replace before filming, to the movie's actual final words, to [[GraveHumor the last words on Wilder's epitaph]].
* RetroactiveRecognition: If Sugar's fiddle player reminds you of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Yeoman Rand]], there's a reason for that.

** "Daphne" and Osgood - although Osgood thinks Jerry's a woman, when he reveals himself to be a man, Osgood doesn't seem too fazed. In fact, his original response was simply "I know."

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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: As a meta example, it seems amazing that the closing words went from a "dummy line" that Wilder and Diamond intended to replace before filming, to the movie's actual final words, to [[GraveHumor the last words on Wilder's epitaph]].

** "Daphne" and Osgood - although Osgood thinks Jerry's a woman, when he reveals himself to be a man, Osgood doesn't seem too fazed. Though the fact that Osgood is obviously ''slightly'' senile might explain the reaction.

* ValuesResonance: While the film's comedy hinges on playing with gender roles, it's done light-heartedly, and plays more with social expectations of the genders rather than how it perceives them (especially women) to actually be. The amount of LesYay between Sugar and her "pals" Daphne and Josephine, and implied HoYay between the secretly male "Daphne" and Osgood (who seem to still have some feelings for each other even when they know the other is male) is done non-malicously, non-stereotypically, and very much taken in stride. Such portrayals continue to be well-regarded in a time when gender and sexuality norms are continually called into question.

** Jerry tries to get her drunk while pretending to be a girl to lure her into a false sense of security (presumably so he can have his way with her while she's too intoxicated to know what's going on [[WhatDidIDoLastNight or remember that her band mate "Daphne" is a man in the morning]]). This is played for laughs. Today, it wouldn't be played for light-hearted comedy.

* HoYay: "Daphne" and Osgood - although Osgood thinks Jerry's a woman, when he reveals himself to be a man, Osgood doesn't seem too fazed. Though the fact that Osgood is obviously ''slightly'' senile might explain the reaction.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: At the time, the joke with the line "Nobody talks like that" is that Tony Curtis was doing an impression of his idol Creator/CaryGrant, whose voice hadn't yet been heard on film in 1929. Grant's distinctive transatlantic accent quickly faded out of fashion and is now viewed as a relic of the 1930s and '40s, likely causing people to just take it at face value.