History YMMV / TheGuyFromHarlem

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The leisure suits with wide collars, the afros, the JiveTurkey dialogue...this movie is so [[TheSeventies 70s]] it hurts.

* HilariousInHindsight: When Harry knocks out a man in drag and his charge exclaims, "Al, have you lost your mind? That's a woman!", you half-expect Al to say, "[[Film/AustinPowersInternationalManOfMystery It's a]] ''[[Film/AustinPowersInternationalManOfMystery man]]'', [[Film/AustinPowersInternationalManOfMystery baby!]]"

* CriticalResearchFailure: The CIA hires him to protect an African VIP from potential assassins. The CIA doesn't have legal operations in the United States: that's the FBI's jurisdiction. Even then, protecting foreign diplomats and their immediate families while on U.S. soil is the job of the State Department.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Big Daddy is played (under a pseudonym) by Wayne Crawford, who’d be known more for his activity behind the camera as a producer/writer, co/writing and co-producing ''[[Film/ValleyGirl Valley Girl]]'' and co-writing, co-producing and starring in ''[[Film/JakeSpeed Jake Speed]]''. He would have a regular role in ''Series/AmericanHeart'' as Neil Stahl.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Big Daddy is played (under a pseudonym) by Wayne Crawford, who’d be known more for his activity behind the camera as a producer/writer, co/writing and co-producing ''[[Film/ValleyGirl Valley Girl]]'' and co-writing, co-producing and starring in ''[[Film/JakeSpeed Jake Speed]]''.

* {{Padding}}: A distressingly large amount of this film's runtime is taken up with repetitive dialogue, one-sided phone conversations, repetitive dialogue, overly long shots of people performing mundane tasks, and [[RuleOfThree repetitive dialogue]].

* HilariousInHindsight: When Harry knocks out a man in drag and his charge exclaims, "Al, have you lost your mind? That's a woman!", you half-expect Al to say, "[[Film/Austin PowersInternationalManOfMystery It's a]] ''[[Film/Austin PowersInternationalManOfMystery man]]'', [[Film/Austin PowersInternationalManOfMystery baby!]]"

* FightSceneFailure: The fight scenes are so badly choreographed and shot, it looks like the characters main tactics are to lightly snuggle and wildly miss their open hand slaps, with an overall strategy of remaining mostly in a frame the size of Nebraska.

* FightSceneFailure: The fight scenes are so badly choreographed and shot, it looks like the characters main tactics are to lightly snuggle and wildly miss their open hand slaps.

-->'''Mike Nelson''': I would kill a man to hear Harry's side of the conversation.

-->'''Mike Nelson''': I would kill a man to hear Harry's side of the conversation.
* TheyJustDidntCare:
** Most of the actors seem to be reading their lines ''for the first time'', and bad line flubs were kept in.
** The fight scenes are so badly choreographed and shot, it looks like the characters main tactics are to lightly snuggle and wildly miss their open hand slaps.

* TheyJustDidntCare: Most of the actors seem to be reading their lines ''for the first time'', and bad line flubs were kept in.

-->'''Mike Nelson''': I would kill a man to hear Harry's side of the conversation.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Harry De Bauld, especially for the Podcast/RiffTrax team. Made very evident by a scene where [[NewhartPhonecall Al talks to Harry on the phone]]:

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Harry De Bauld, especially for the Podcast/RiffTrax team. Made very evident by a scene where Al talks to Harry on the phone:

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Harry De Bauld, especially for the RiffTrax team. Made very evident by a scene where Al talks to Harry on the phone: