Line #2 Trivia/AFishCalledWanda


1	* ActorInspiredElement: The dogs seen with Creator/PatriciaHayes were her own.
2	* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Creator/JohnCleese was the star, co-writer, unofficial director, and executive producer.
3	* {{Corpsing}}: During Otto and Wanda's sex scene, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis reportedly had to put a pillow over her face to keep from corpsing.
4	* CreatorBacklash: Creator/MichaelPalin wrote in his autobiography that he could have given Ken more depth.
5	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/JohnCleese ranks this project among his favorites because the cast gelled together so perfectly. He enjoyed working with Creator/MichaelPalin, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, and Creator/KevinKline so much he brought them back together for ''Film/FierceCreatures''.
6	* TheDanza: [[IronicName George Thomason is played by Tom Georgeson.]]
7	* DeletedRole: James Cossin's role as a bank teller was cut from the film.
8	* DirectedByCastMember: An unusual and very complicated example. While Charles Crichton is the solely-credited director on the finished product, Creator/JohnCleese was officially the movie's co-director during production. However, Cleese has gone on record saying that he actually did very little work as director and just agreed to act as co-director because the film's backers had concerns about letting the 78-year-old Crichton direct unsupervised. Cleese ''did'' direct a couple of scenes with Creator/MichaelPalin (most likely Ken's attempts to snuff out the witness) by himself, but more to allow Crichton time to get a head-start on the editing. On the set, Crichton wore a T-shirt presented to him by Cleese and inscribed "Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill".
9	* PlayingAgainstType:
10	** Most of Creator/JohnCleese's more well-known characters tend to be highly-strung {{Jerkass}}es prone to bombastic rants at the drop of a pin. Archie, for the most part, is a rather pleasant, mild-mannered and quiet type. He called it "as close as I'll ever get to being Cary Grant" (whose real name was Archie Leach).
11	** Creator/MichaelPalin, also. In Creator/MontyPython, he was best known for being either quiet, goofy, or smarmy, but never the sort that would kill little old ladies.
12	* RealLifeRelative: Portia is played by Cynthia Cleese, Creator/JohnCleese's daughter in real life.
13	* ReferencedBy: a celebrated IKEA commercial in which an adult daughter catches [[ParentalSexualitySquick her aging parents romping around the house in farmer fetish gear]] ("Time to move out?") features a ShoutOut to the "languages" scene: as Archie does, the dad grabs a photo to hide his shame, only for the choice of photo to cause further embarrassment as it depicts the interrupter (in this case the daughter) herself.
14	* ThrowItIn: Kevin Kline started singing "Volare" during the sex scene after he ran out of Italian phrases and names of cheeses that he was able to ad lib.
15	* WagTheDirector: Creator/JamieLeeCurtis was originally going to have a nude scene until she pointed out that men being nude is much funnier, so Creator/JohnCleese did it instead.
16	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Numerous alternate endings were produced for the film - the most well-known two include one that ended on a close-up of Wanda's shark slippers, implying that there wouldn't be a happy ending for her and Archie, and the other was like the final ending but a bit more "realistic" and featured Otto just dying horribly when Ken ran him over with the steamroller, and Ken's stutter turning out not to have been cured at all by his act of violence.
17	* WriteWhatYouKnow: Creator/JohnCleese entered Cambridge University as a law student, although he never became a member of the British bar.

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