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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: At the time of its release, it was most notorious for "Catholic High School Girls In Trouble", especially the buxom, nude woman in the shower, though it's now celebrated as "that sketch movie that ZAZ did before ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: At the time of its release, it was most notorious for "Catholic High School Girls In Trouble", especially the buxom, nude woman in the shower, though it's now celebrated as "that sketch movie that ZAZ did before ''Film/{{Airplane}}''."
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: At the time of its release, it was most notorious for "Catholic High School Girls In Trouble", especially the buxom, nude woman in the shower, though it's now celebrated as "that sketch movie that ZAZ did before ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.
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** The classic "Take him to Detroit" punishment Dr. Klahn gives to an American spy. Interestingly, as of 2022, the city of Detroit is doing better than it did in 1977, when this movie came out. However, scars still remain within the city (such as its crime, poverty, and depopulation).
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** The classic "Take him to Detroit" punishment Dr. Klahn gives to an American spy. Interestingly, as of 2022, 2023, the city of Detroit is doing significantly better than it did in 1977, when this movie came out. However, scars still remain within the city (such as its crime, poverty, and depopulation).
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* SignatureScene: The movie will be highly remembered for this: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny4a-oxOndo "Take him to Detroit!"]]
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* SignatureScene: The movie will be highly remembered for this: Chances are, you've heard of this film because of one thing: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny4a-oxOndo "Take him to Detroit!"]]
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** In a parody commercial, an oil company describes using recycled fast-food grease for auto fuel. Biofuels now make the idea of using vegetal oil usually used for cooking as auto fuel sound less outrageous.
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** In a parody commercial, an oil company describes using recycled fast-food grease for auto fuel. Biofuels now make the idea of using vegetal vegetable oil usually used for cooking as auto fuel sound less outrageous.
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** John Anthony Bailey, who played the boy in the "Sex Record" skit, actually went on to become a successful porn actor. Even more amusingly, later in his career he became one of the most famous porn actors to ''not'' actually participate in any on-screen sex.
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** John Anthony Bailey, who played the boy man in the "Sex Record" skit, actually went on to become a successful porn actor. Even more amusingly, later in his career he became one of the most famous porn actors to ''not'' actually participate in any on-screen sex.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The song used in the opening and closing credits, "Carioca", is an actual recording from Jo Stafford and Paul Weston performing as "Jonathan and Darlene Edwards", who did a lot of intentionally off-key comedy records in the '50s and '60s. It wasn't written for the movie.
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** The classic "Take him to Detroit" punishment Dr. Klahn gives to an American spy. The movie may be over 30 years old, but considering Detroit's current situation this joke is still very accurate; it originally referred to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot the Detroit riots]] and its aftermath -- which is still being felt today.
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** The classic "Take him to Detroit" punishment Dr. Klahn gives to an American spy. The movie may be over 30 years old, but considering Detroit's current situation this joke is still very accurate; it originally referred to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot Interestingly, as of 2022, the city of Detroit riots]] and its aftermath -- which is doing better than it did in 1977, when this movie came out. However, scars still being felt today.remain within the city (such as its crime, poverty, and depopulation).
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* SignatureScene: The movie will be highly remembered for this: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny4a-oxOndo "Take him to Detroit!"]]
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*** The name is likely inspired by low-budget legend Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures.
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Samuel Z. Arkoff of A.I.P. might have green-lit any of those movies.
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*** The name is likely inspired by low-budget legend Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Klahn's sentencing of a racist CIA agent to ''[[PlaceWorseThanDeath Detroit]]''
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Klahn's sentencing of a racist CIA agent to ''[[PlaceWorseThanDeath Detroit]]''Detroit]].'' The previously defiant agent is reduced to pleading for AnythingButThat
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Klahn's sentencing of a racist CIA agent to ''[[PlaceWorthThanDeath Detroit]]''
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Klahn's sentencing of a racist CIA agent to ''[[PlaceWorthThanDeath ''[[PlaceWorseThanDeath Detroit]]''
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* WeirdAlEffect: While Creator/BruceLee maintains his place as a cultural icon, not much is really remembered about his actual films. But A Fistful of Yen is certainly well remembered.
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*WeirdAlEffect: While Creator/BruceLee maintains his place as a cultural icon, not much is really remembered about his actual films. But A Fistful of Yen is certainly well remembered.
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** "Take him to Detroit!"
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** "Take "[[FateWorseThanDeath Take him to Detroit!"Detroit!]]"
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* DirectorDisplacement: The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team only wrote the film, they didn't direct it. They wouldn't make their directorial debut until ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' three years later.
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* DirectorDisplacement: The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team only wrote the film, they didn't direct but Creator/JohnLandis directed it. They wouldn't make their directorial debut until ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' three years later.
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* RefugeInAudacity: The only reason Rex Kramer: Danger Seeker! is able to get a head-start - his stunt left them all in StunnedSilence for a few seconds.
* RetroactiveRecognition: The announcer in a few skits (including the parody of ''Series/TheDatingGame'' during ''A Fistful of Yen'') was Shadoe Stevens, who would later announce the Davidson run and most of the Bergeron run of ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'', as well as doing some acting and replacing Casey Kasem as the host of ''Radio/AmericanTop40''.
* RetroactiveRecognition: The announcer in a few skits (including the parody of ''Series/TheDatingGame'' during ''A Fistful of Yen'') was Shadoe Stevens, who would later announce the Davidson run and most of the Bergeron run of ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'', as well as doing some acting and replacing Casey Kasem as the host of ''Radio/AmericanTop40''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The announcer in a few skits (including the parody of ''Series/TheDatingGame'' during ''A Fistful of Yen'') was Shadoe Stevens, who would later announce the Davidson run and most of the Bergeron run of ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'', as well as doing some acting and replacing
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* HilariousInHindsight: In a parody commercial, an oil company describes using recycled fast-food grease for auto fuel.
** Rex Kramer's idea of a thrill is more-or-less how [[Creator/MichaelRichards the other]] [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kramer]] torpedoed his own stand-up career decades later.
** Rex Kramer's idea of a thrill is more-or-less how [[Creator/MichaelRichards the other]] [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kramer]] torpedoed his own stand-up career decades later.
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* HilariousInHindsight: HilariousInHindsight:
** In a parody commercial, an oil company describes using recycled fast-food grease for autofuel.
fuel. Biofuels now make the idea of using vegetal oil usually used for cooking as auto fuel sound less outrageous.
** Rex Kramer's idea of a thrill being using the N-word in front of a group of black men is more-or-less how [[Creator/MichaelRichards the other]] [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kramer]] torpedoed his own stand-up career decades later.
** In a parody commercial, an oil company describes using recycled fast-food grease for auto
** Rex Kramer's idea of a thrill being using the N-word in front of a group of black men is more-or-less how [[Creator/MichaelRichards the other]] [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kramer]] torpedoed his own stand-up career decades later.
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* MemeticMutation: BIG JIM SLADE! Hevenu shalom aleichem...
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** BIG JIM SLADE! Hevenu shalom aleichem...
** BIG JIM SLADE! Hevenu shalom aleichem...
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* OneSceneWonder: Stephen Bishop as the "show me you're nuts" guy.
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** Stephen Bishop as the "show me you're nuts" guy.
** Stephen Bishop as the "show me you're nuts" guy.