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1	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The parody of ''Film/TheBirds''. Even for a Creator/MelBrooks film, it's weird.
2	** Brooks has said in interviews that it was Hitchcock himself who came up with the scene, when the two met to discuss the film.
3	* HilariousInHindsight: Brophy blowing up his photo negative to absurd size is even funnier now that technology advances have made it totally unnecessary.
4	* NarmCharm: The bellboy's scream is so over-the-top and manic. And that's what makes it so memorable.
5	* NightmareFuel: The doctor being killed by being trapped in his car while the radio plays so loud it bursts his eardrums is genuinely disturbing.
6	* OneSceneWonder: Future big time director Creator/BarryLevinson is cast as a high-strung bellboy who gets progressively more irritated with Brooks' requests for a newspaper until he goes in [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]]-mode. It is considered among the most memorable scenes of the film.
7	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
8	** You probably shouldn't try BavarianFireDrill-ing your way through airport security like that nowadays.
9	--->'''Thorndyke''' ''("[[Creator/MelBrooks disguised]]" as an old Jewish man)'': I beeped! I beeped! Take me away! Take me back to Russia! Put me in irons! I beeped! The [[MadBomber mad beeper]] is loose! Take away the beeper! Take me away!
10	** In the age where even the most common cell phone has some form of high-definition photography, the bellhop printing ever-enlarging exposures to prove Thorndyke's innocence seems like overkill.
11	* ValuesDissonance: When Thorndyke arrives at the airport at the beginning, a man who's supposedly a police officer approaches him and asks Thorndyke to follow him. Turns out it's a gay man trying to proposition Thorndyke, which plays into the worst FlamingDevil stereotypes.

Context YMMV / HighAnxiety