Line #13 YMMV/NothingButTrouble


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQhCZear7A Bonestripper's theme]] by Damn Yankees.
3	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmFDyZ3ytg8 Same Song]]" by Music/DigitalUnderground.
4	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The inexplicable appearance of Music/DigitalUnderground halfway through the movie, who show up, charm the judge with their music, and exit without having any impact on the plot whatsoever.
5	* CultClassic: The bizarre and chaotic nature of the movie has brought fans who deem it SoBadItsGood. [[https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2020/4/14/this-looks-terrible-nothing-but-trouble-1991 As put by]] Creator/NathanRabin (who after hating it [[https://www.avclub.com/my-year-of-flops-case-file-29-nothing-but-trouble-1798211308 the first time around]] states the film somehow grew on him):
6	-->The flop has been a source of intense, morbid fascination because even people who love bad movies still can’t believe a movie as bizarre and utterly, intentionally repellent as ''Nothing But Trouble'' exists and was made and distributed by Warner Brothers, a major studio ostensibly run by sane human beings looking for a return on their forty million dollar investment and not, say, a wealthy madman who flipped a coin to determine whether he’d set tens of millions of dollars on fire as a dadaist stunt or invest that money in a movie so defiantly non-commercial that funding it is tantamount to setting cash ablaze.
7	* EvilIsCool: Judge Valkenheiser is such an over the top combination of the SmallTownTyrant and HangingJudge that he's easily the most entertaining character in the movie, ruling Valkenvania like a king and executing people on a rock & roll rollercoaster that he built himself. Plus, while he's prone to levying disproportionately harsh sentences, some of his victims really did have it coming. [[spoiler:Even the state troopers secretly love him!]]
8	* NightmareFuel: Some of it is of the [[AccidentalNightmareFuel unintentional]] variety (as it's supposed to be a wacky comedy), but the movie is so bizarre and unsettling, both conceptually and visually, that many viewers who watched it as kids admit to being surprised to later find that it was a real, Hollywood-produced film, and not some kind of weird fever dream they once had.
9	* OneSceneWonder: Music/DigitalUnderground's appearance is the most popular scene in the movie. "Same Song" reappears during the end credits, "Tied the Knot" was used during the wedding sequence, and Aykroyd directed the music video for this song, which featured clips from this film projected at a DriveInTheater.
10	* ProtectionFromEditors: Creator/DanAykroyd's previous projects had somebody to reign him in, such as Creator/JohnLandis, Creator/HaroldRamis, Creator/IvanReitman, etc. (His original script for ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' was a monstrosity the size of a phonebook and his original concept for ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' was so outlandish it would have cost the 1984 equivalent of $300 million.) This film was the result of not giving him any kind of restraint.
11	* RetroactiveRecognition: You might notice Music/TupacShakur as one of the Music/DigitalUnderground's back-up singers (Tupac actually worked with Digital Underground before going solo, so it's not that big of a surprise if you know anything about Digital Underground or early 90s rap).
12	* RootingForTheEmpire: Who cares about the dull and snooty leads? The JP has an automated fortress, kills bankers, klansmen, and hare krishnas on a rock & roll rollercoaster, loves hip hop, fought for his country in the Great War, dotes on his granddaughter, is still nimble enough to fight Chris with a sword, and [[spoiler:is a beloved friend of the state of New Jersey.]]
13	* SoBadItsGood: There are quite a few negative adjectives to apply to the film: Nonsensical, absurd, or disturbing, sure, but one you can't really use to describe it is ''boring''.

Context YMMV / NothingButTrouble