Line #7 Film/GoingOverboard


1	->''"This is a NoBudget flick. [[LampshadeHanging Not a low budget, but a]]'' [[InsistentTerminology no]] ''[[LampshadeHanging budget!]]"''
2	-->-- '''Shecky Moskowitz'''
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4	[[quoteright:315:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/going_overboard.jpg]]
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6	''Going Overboard'' (also known as ''Babes Ahoy'') is a 1989 NoBudget comedy film starring Creator/AdamSandler in his first ever movie role, two years before he became popular on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. In this movie, Sandler stars as Shecky Moskowitz, an IdiotHero who dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian on a UsefulNotes/NewOrleans cruise ship. Unfortunately, he discovers the ship's comedian is actually a notorious {{jerkass}} named Dickie Diamond, who always gets the girls and is so jealous of Shecky. So Shecky struggles to become the ship's top comedian instead of Dickie.
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8	!!''Going Overboard'' provides examples of:
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10	* AnimatedCreditsOpening: It features a cartoon version of Shecky, who stands at his microphone and spews out SpeechBubbles that consist of names of people who worked on the movie.
11	* AttentionWhore: Shecky.
12	* BigBad: Dickie.
13	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Miss Australia, who makes an attempt to seem somewhat nice during her interview segments when she's not accusing General Noriega of smelling like a pizza, but otherwise has quite the sharp-tongued personality.
14	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Shecky always does this by addressing the camera, talking about his events.
15	** Also done when terrorists start raiding the ship and several residents flee in panic. The residents and even the terrorists holler at the camera during this scene.
16	--> '''Terrorist:''' (''to the audience'') ''This is no joke!''
17	* TheCameo: Creator/MiltonBerle himself, who shows up in one scene and helps Shecky learn the power of laughter.
18	* CampStraight: Bob. Despite wearing so much makeup that he almost qualifies as a drag queen,[[note]]And that's disregarding the fact that the actor who plays him ''actually does'' appear in drag as Shecky's mother[[/note]] he seems to have far more luck with the ladies than Shecky does, and even gets to hook up with Miss Australia.
19	* CoversAlwaysLie: [[http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/TW92aWVzL0NvbWVkeQ==/going_overboard_frontcover_large_VEpRh4Rd2UI18dp.jpg Happens]] [[http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo51/Jobeykobra/2ijj0ci.jpg twice.]]
20	* DerangedAnimation: During Shecky's nightmare, when Dickie [[spoiler:tears off his eyes]].
21	* DopeSlap: Bob does this to Shecky during the scene where panic ensues on the ship, because Shecky is ComicallyMissingThePoint.
22	* DreamSequence: At one point, Shecky had a [[NightmareSequence nightmare]] in which [[spoiler: he's in a white room tied up in a straight jacket with an apple in his mouth a la Michael Richards while Dickie insults him.]] Afterward, Shecky wakes up and tells the audience he's going to have another dream. He sleeps and tries a much brighter dream in which he's on a beach and has sex with some ladies but it was disrupted by Shecky's mother, who [[spoiler: turns out to be Shecky's best friend Bob waking him up]].
23	* EveryoneHasStandards: Miss Australia is kind of a bitch, but she's still critical of Noriega's human rights abuses, especially him killing people who vote against his candidates.
24	* FunnyForeigner: Miss Australia.
25	* GeneralRipper: There's General Noriega, a lazy general who stays at his house and blames anyone for their lame opinions.
26	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Shecky and Bob.
27	* IdiotHero: Shecky himself.
28	* IndulgentFantasySegue: At one point, Shecky daydreams about shooting Diamond.
29	* InformedAbility: We're told that Shecky has what it takes to be a good comedian, he just needs to work on his delivery. But even when he's supposed to have improved, his jokes are ''still'' horrendously unfunny.
30	* IResembleThatRemark: Miss Australia criticizes Manuel Noriega's murderous regime. His response? Send assassins after her.
31	* {{Jerkass}}: Dickie Diamond
32	* LastMinuteHookUp: [[spoiler:Shecky and Neptune's daughter Slimey.]]
33	* LimitedAnimation: The animated sequences.
34	* LockedInTheBathroom: Dickie Diamond locks himself in a bathroom because he felt like he's going to puke. After that, he just stays there locked, but later on, the door opens and Dickie is so happy to reclaim his job as a comedian.
35	* ManChild: Shecky.
36	* MediumBlending / ArtShift: At the end of Shecky's bad dream, Dickie suddenly [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment becomes an animated version of himself when]] [[spoiler: [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment he rips his eyes out.]]]]
37	* MediumShiftGag
38	* UsefulNotes/NewOrleans
39	* NoBudget:[[invoked]] Shecky [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this at the beginning (see quote at the top of the page), and then [[CameraAbuse illustrates it by making the camera]] [[ScreenShake shake excessively]].
40	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Dickie Diamond is a pretty obvious knock-off of Andrew Dice Clay.
41	* NoFourthWall
42	* NonActorVehicle: At this point in his career, before ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', Sandler was mainly known as a stand-up comic and as a recurring face on Creator/{{MTV}} (doing fill-in VJ work and appearing on ''Series/RemoteControl'').
43	* ThePigPen: Croaker
44	** Noriega as well, if Miss Australia is to be believed.
45	* PinkIsForSissies:
46	** In one scene, Shecky is determined to wear a green shirt and not a pink shirt, but then he was forced to wear pink instead of green. However, he later wears green at his stand-up.
47	** At the climax, when Shecky, Bob and Miss Australia were running away with the terrorists chasing them, [[spoiler: Shecky's shirt changes to pink, then back to green, and this goes on and on. Shecky then lampshades it by realizing he's now wearing a pink shirt, saying that it's due to the film's budget.]]
48	* PublicDomainCharacter: King Neptune.
49	* RightHandCat: Noriega has a CuteKitten.
50	* ShootTheTelevision: Noriega near the end, when he gets fed up with what was going on in the ending of the videotape he's watching. Cue SmashToBlack.
51	* ShoutOut: Noriega's video tape ''The Unsinkable Shecky Moskowitz'' is probably a nod to the musical ''The Unsinkable Molly Brown''.
52	* ShowWithinAShow: Most of the movie turns out to be one of Noriega's video tapes entitled ''The Unsinkable Shecky Moskowitz''.
53	* SirSwearsALot: Dickie Diamond
54	* SlapSlapKiss: Shecky and Miss Australia.
55	* TheStinger: Noriega picking up his kitten and throwing a grenade at something offscreen in a suicidal manner causing the movie to explode, followed by a cheesy EvilLaugh accompanying the last remaining credits on a blue background.
56	* TearOffYourFace: [[spoiler:Dickie Diamond does this to himself at the end of Shecky's nightmare, when he [[MediumBlending becomes animated]] in a BigLippedAlligatorMoment.]]
57	* ToiletHumor: During the scene where Shecky is serving drinks to the ship's residents, he just stands there and looks at the sky. He then sees the seagulls fly and one of them drops diarrhea on the drinks.
58	* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: During her interview, Miss Australia accuses Noriega of smelling like a pizza.
59	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Shecky.
60	* VillainousLament: "It's a Sad, Sad World When Your Head Looks Like a Pizza".
61	* VillainSong: At one point, General Noriega calmly sings [[spoiler: "It’s a Sad, Sad World When Your Head Looks Like a Pizza"]] after he called Miss Australia a "leftover kangaroo vomit".
62	* VitriolicBestBuds: Shecky and Bob.
63	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Bob.

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