Line #14 Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka


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7	Creator/KeenenIvoryWayans's ''Film/TheNakedGun''-style BlaxploitationParody stars himself as Jack Spade who, when he returns home, finds that his brother Junebug was killed off by a case of OG (Over Gold), which happens to involve wearing too many gold chains. Jack then seeks revenge for his brother's death by declaring war on Mr. Big (Creator/JohnVernon), the one responsible for causing the massive gold chain boom in the neighborhood.
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9	He requests the help of his childhood idol John Slade (Creator/BernieCasey), and later enlists an army consisting of Hammer (Music/IsaacHayes), Slammer (Creator/JimBrown), Flyguy (Creator/AntonioFargas), and Kung Fu Joe (Steve James). Together, they seek to rid the neighborhood of both the gold chains and Mr. Big. Plenty of {{Lampshade Hanging}}s and NoFourthWall moments, as well as several folks involved with the {{Blaxploitation}} phenomenon.
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11	''Film/DontBeAMenaceToSouthCentralWhileDrinkingYourJuiceInTheHood'', also produced by and starring {{Creator/Shawn\|Wayans}} and Creator/MarlonWayans, is a SpiritualSequel.
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14	!!These tropes are gonna get you, sucka!:
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16	* ActorAllusion:
17	** At one point, Slammer asks Jack Spade what qualifies him to be a black hero, and Spade retorts, "I'm an ex-football player." In real life, Jim Brown was, of course, one of the leading running backs in NFL history.
18	** Kalinga's wife and two children are blonde and white. When they come out the TV in the other room is playing the theme to ''Series/TheBradyBunch''. Kalinga's wife is played by Eve Plumb, Jan Brady.
19	* ApronMatron: Ma Bell, who is also a MamaBear. On two occasions she singlehandedly takes on several evil henchman at once to protect her (grown) son.
20	* ArchEnemy: Jack Spade has Mr. Big, the crime boss responsible for his brother's gold chain overdose.
21	* BarSlide: Actually more of a [=Counter Slide=] in a coffee shop.
22	* BigBad: Mr. Big is in charge of all crime in the city and he '''doesn't''' like people asking questions about him. When they do, he sends his thugs around to shut them up.
23	* BlaxploitationParody: This film hits pretty much all the classic {{Blaxploitation}} roadmarks, adds a few standard action-comedy tropes, and mixes it in with clever writing and some great acting.
24	* BottomlessMagazines: {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d:
25	-->'''Willie:''' Wait a second! Wait a second! You got a .45 revolver that holds six bullets! Now, I counted at least twenty shots and you never reloaded!
26	-->'''Hammer:''' That's right.
27	* BulletproofHumanShield: After an innocent bystander is killed by machine gun fire, John Slade grabs his body and uses it as a shield against the incoming fire.
28	* ButtMonkey: Willie and Lenny. Every scene featuring them involves the two being humiliated and/or beaten before being thrown down a flight of stairs.
29	* BumblingHenchmenDuo: Leonard and Willie (Creator/DamonWayans and Creator/KadeemHardison) are two bad guys who work for Mr. Big and spend the movie trying to kidnap and murder, but they are mainly idiots. One is dumber than the other... but only slightly. They always end up getting beat up and having to decide between going out the window or down the stairs.
30	* TheCameo:
31	** Music/{{Fishbone}} standing near a door Flyguy comes out of.
32	** Rap group Boogie Down Productions appear in a fourth-wall-breaking cameo playing Jack Spade's theme music.
33	* CartoonThrobbing: A rare live-action variant with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHLD4LvnPTI this scene]] in which a character's big toe is swollen and throbbing after being shot. However, it is only seen swelling through the shoe, as the toe itself is never shown bare or red.
34	* TheCavalryArrivesLate: The police arrive after our heroes have killed Mr. Big (and most of his {{Mooks}}).
35	* CompensatingForSomething: Brutally parodied and lampshaded during a gunfight later.
36	* DamselInDistress: Cheryl after she's captured by Mr. Big.
37	* DinerBrawl: Jack would've gotten into one if it wasn't for his mother getting into it instead.
38	* DiscoDan: Fly Guy, a pimp who gets out of prison in the 1980s (after being a big shot in the 1970s), decides to hit his old stomping grounds in [[PimpDuds full pimp regalia]]: a white tiger-striped suit, a giant hat with a pink feather, six inch platform shoes with goldfish inside, and a jeweled cane. He gets laughed off the street in a second. He ditches his outdated pimp gear by the end of the film.
39	* DragonTheirFeet: Lanny outlasts Mr. Big. The heroes tell him again that there's two ways out, and before they even finish their sentence, he throws himself out the window rather than take the option he's always been taking. "Didn't he know about the elevator?"
40	%%* TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay: "TheWindowOrTheStairs?"
41	%%* TheEighties
42	* FanserviceExtra: While the protagonists are raiding a brothel, Jack Spade becomes interested in a well-endowed topless hooker who comes running out of a room. This trope is {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d somewhat by another hooker who is wearing a T-shirt that reads "Another Model Turned Actress".
43	* FastRoping: During the assault on Mr. Big's hideout, John Slade rappels down the side of a building from the roof with the intent of throwing a stick of dynamite through a window. Unfortunately, he misjudges the length of the fuse.
44	%%* Five Man Band:
45	%%** TheHero: Both Jack and Slade.
46	%%** TheLancer: Slade to Jack. Also TheSmartGuy.
47	%%** {{The Big Guy}}s: Hammer and Slammer.
48	%%** TheHeart: Kung-Fu Joe.
49	%%** SixthRanger: Flyguy.
50	%%* GRatedDrug: The gold chains.
51	* HandSignals: As Jack and friends enter one of Mr. Big's brothels, Slade signals to Jack and Kung Fu Joe to break into specific doors.
52	* HesDeadJim: After a man is shot multiple times, sad music starts to play. When the heroes ask his girlfriend how he is, she says "He's dead! [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn Can't you hear the music?]]"
53	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Hammer is done in by the multitude of guns he shoved into his person after they go off after he slips on some fallen bullets.
54	* HollywoodToneDeaf: Hammer, played by legendary musician Isaac Hayes.
55	* IKnowKarate
56	** Subverted when Kung Fu Joe squares off against the cops. He's ready to show off his martial arts skills but he gets blown away by massed gunfire.
57	** And again later, when Hammer and one of the bad guys square off against one another minus their guns, the bad guy hesitates and says, "I don't know any of that karate shit." "Neither do I," says Hammer. "Want to fake it?" They then do just that.
58	%%* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Jack does this to a couple of {{mooks}}.
59	%%* LampshadeHanging: Of BottomlessMagazines, during a shoot-out.
60	* LargeHam
61	** The singer in the bar, who is revealed to be [[NoFourthWall the director's sister]].
62	** Kalinga. Clarence Williams III was probably picking scenery out of his teeth for days after filming his scene.
63	** John Vernon also owns every minute during his brief role as Mr. Big. The ham was lovingly prepared and thoroughly devoured.
64	-->'''Mr. Big:''' I'm sorry, boys, but THERE AIN'T GONNA BE A SEQUEL TO THIS ONE!
65	* LintValue: Chris Rock appears at Hammer & Slammer's BBQ joint. Since an order of ribs costs $2.50 and you get 5 ribs, he orders 1 rib for 50 cents. They reluctantly agree, then Rock asks for change for a $100 bill.
66	* LockAndLoadMontage: A parody version occurs as the team prepares to attack Mr. Big's hideout. Isaac Hayes' character preps for the final battle by holstering more than a dozen guns under his long coat. He then trips and falls while leaving the building, causing all the guns inside his coat to go off.
67	* LonelyFuneral: Parodied. A crowd of people show up for Junebug's funeral. When they realize they're at the wrong funeral, they all leave, taking all of the funeral decorations as they go. The only people left are Junebug's immediate family.
68	%%* MalcolmXerox
69	* MediumAwareness: "Who are these guys?" "They're my [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn theme music]]. Every good hero should have some."
70	* MenstrualMenace: Cheryl takes off work early one night because of her period. Lenny tries to kidnap her on her way home. When her pleas for mercy go unheeded, she goes ''[[Film/TheExorcist Exorcist]]'' and almost kills him. Only Willie's timely intervention saves his ass.
71	--> '''Lenny''': You must got the Devil in you!
72	--> '''Cheryl''': No! ''Cramps''! I asked you nicely, now I'm gonna rip your balls off!
73	* MinorInjuryOverreaction: While Jack Spade is fighting Mr. Big's men, he gets a splinter in his finger. He goes though a prolonged bout of self-applied first aid, including crying out in agony as he removes it.
74	* MouthingTheProfanity: During the First Annual Youth Gang Competition, one of the events is a gang of teenagers stripping a car down to its parts. A referee uses a stopwatch to time the event and when they're finished, he mouths the word "fuck" and then says "It's a record!"
75	* MyBelovedSmother: Ma Bell, Jack Spade's mother, who insists that he put on a sweater before he goes out and fights against men twice her size to protect him. When he goes up against Mr. Big, she shows up with a shotgun to join in. Her son eventually breaks free by locking her in a closet until the fight's over — which pisses her off no end.
76	* ObviousStuntDouble: {{Played for laughs}}. When Jack's mother fights Mr. Big's toughs in the diner, she's replaced by a blatantly obvious stunt double - a guy in a wig, ''with a mustache''. You can watch the scene [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuXYfjv3q0#t=0m55s here]].
77	* PhallicWeapon: Bad guy to partner:
78	-->'''Willie:''' How come their guns are so much bigger than ours?\
79	'''Thug:''' It's a phallic thing, I don't know.
80	* PimpDuds: Flyguy after getting out of prison. But having been in prison for so long, his [[TheSeventies outlandish outfit]] gets openly mocked by the[[TheEighties people on the street]]. Towards the end of the movie, he shows up again with a more modern style.
81	* ProstheticLimbReveal: Jack meets a beautiful woman named Cherry in a bar and goes back to her place to have sex with her. Once there, she reveals that most of her is artificial, including her hair, breasts, behind and lower left leg.
82	* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: John Slade reassembles the team of black heroes who once took down Mr. Big.
83	* RapidFireComedy: The film features a long string of gags, usually several per scene and a quick change to the next scene and more gags.
84	* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: Heavily lampshaded with [[spoiler: Hammer]] when he slips, falls and end every single revolver he is packing discharges 'all' the ammo loaded.
85	* {{Retirony}}: Two extras (a man and a woman) are talking, with the man holding the woman's hands. A minor villain opens fire with a machine gun, killing the man. Later the woman pulls a box (with a ring inside) out of his pocket and puts the ring on her finger, saying "I waited 12 years for this!". He had been proposing marriage to her: the ring was an engagement ring.
86	* ReturningWarVet: Jack. {{Subverted\|Trope}}, as he never actually saw any combat.
87	* RunningGag
88	** How DID Junebug go to the bathroom with all those gold chains on?
89	** "You can go out the window, or you can take the stairs."
90	* SequelSnark: During the climax, Mr. Big acknowledges that his character is an exploitation villain in a movie.
91	-->'''Mr. Big:''' I'm sorry, boys, but there ain't gonna be a sequel to this one.
92	* StillWearingTheOldColors: Jack wears his Army uniform.
93	* TheStinger: [[spoiler: An injured Kung Fu Joe ''finally'' makes it to the scene of the final battle long after everyone's gone. When a bystander tells him this little fact, a shocked Kung Fu Joe says "Yo, brother, you got a Band-Aid?"]]
94	* SuicideByCop: Subverted. When Kung Fu Joe is surrounded by police, he cockily challenges these extreme odds as if he has the advantage, but the police promptly fire away with everything they have and predictably shoot him full of holes. He does get away barely alive.
95	* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: When Kung Fu Joe calls Slade, Slade's answering machine lets him talk for a while before revealing that it was the answering machine talking and not Slade himself.
96	* ThoseTwoGuys: Hammer and Slammer.
97	* TokenEvilTeammate: Arguably Flyguy. He's not exactly evil but he is a notorious pimp, he has a friendly relationship with Slade and helps them out at the end due to his own ax to grind against Mr Big.
98	* TapOnTheHead: Willie to Cheryl with a wrist cast and Slade to one of Mr. Big's guards with a punch to the jaw.
99	* TitleDrop: Several times, although some instances are slightly modified to fit the context.
100	* WalkingArmory: Which unfortunately all go off when [[spoiler:Hammer]] falls over.
101	* WalkingInRhythm: Flyguy.
102	* WimpFight: A bad guy and a protagonist square off sans weapons, but the bad guy immediately confesses he doesn't know martial arts. The good guy admits neither does he. "Want to fake it?" "I don't care." Cue hilarious movements that look like involuntary muscle spasms.
103	* TheWindowOrTheStairs: Willie and Lanny are always being told by other characters that they can leave the building via "[[DestinationDefenestration the window]] or the stairs". Each time, they choose the stairs and each time they get thrown painfully down a long flight of stairs. The trope is subverted at the end of the film when the protagonist says "There's two ways outta here..." at which point Lanny screams and jumps out the window. This prompts one of the heroes to say, "Didn't he know about the elevator?"

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