Line #6 YMMV/SaturdayNightFever


1	* AwardSnub:
2	** The film received one UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination (Best Actor), but not Best Picture.
3	** Despite having one of the biggest selling soundtracks of all time, ''none'' of the songs that Music/TheBeeGees contributed were nominated for Best Song. Not "Stayin' Alive", not "Night Fever", not "How Deep Is Your Love?", not "More Than a Woman", not "If I Can't Have You".
4	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: There is a reason that the soundtrack album was certified 15x platinum. How awesome was the soundtrack? Music/AliceCooper remembers panning the album to fans and the public, but privately, thought it was (and still ''is'') the [[WhatYouAreInTheDark best album he's ever listened to]].
5	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Annette's rape scene. It is weirdly out of place even for a 70's disco film, and it is never talked about again.
6	* CommonKnowledge: Because of [[DiscoSucks disco's general reputation]] in pop culture (at least until the 21st century), most people know this movie only as, "that goofy comedy where John Travolta dances." If you actually ''watch'' the movie, you'd know that [[UnbuiltTrope nothing could possibly be further from the truth]].
7	* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Despite portraying Tony Manero's life as violent, shallow and ultimately pointless, the movie won Disco millions of new fans.
8	* JerkassWoobie: Even Tony deserves a little sympathy for all the crap he has to put up with.
9	* JustHereForGodzilla: Most of the people who saw the film in TheSeventies cared only for The Bee Gees songs and Travolta's dance numbers.
10	* MemeticMutation:
11	** In possibly one of the strangest crossbred memes in Internet history, this film plays a major part in a ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' meme: Travolta's pose from the poster is extremely similar to the pose taken by Nagae Iku when she declares a spellcard, and fans did the rest. The meme is so prolific that [[ImageBooru Danbooru]], usually dedicated to anime, manga, and video games, has tags for ''Saturday Night Fever'' and John Travolta.
12	** "Staying Alive" is popularly used in CPR training due to having the perfect beat for chest compressions, and even today most people at least ''know'' the song and it's beat, whether they like the song or not. Check out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILxjxfB4zNk this educational video]] featuring Creator/VinnieJones.
13	** Tony strutting down the street to "Staying Alive".
14	* MoralEventHorizon: Many viewers cannot forgive Tony for attempting to rape Stephanie, and then just giving up on helping save Annette from being raped by Double J and Joey (which also qualifies as their Moral Event Horizon).
15	* NarmCharm: A lot of Travolta's moves, which have been endlessly parodied, come off as ridiculous and are hard to take with a straight face, but they are really cool anyway and Tony Manero exudes an engaging charisma.
16	* NightmareFuel:
17	** The massive gang fight breaking out between Tony and his gang and and the Barracudas.
18	** Tony attempting to force himself on Stephanie.
19	** Annette being gang-raped by Joey and Double J while drunk and high on ecstasy. Her audible protests against the acts forced upon her and Tony doing nothing to stop it from happening doesn't help either. What if they weren't using protection? Considering she wasn't "fixed", what if she had gotten pregnant from the rapes? And considering the film's time period, what if she or the guys had gotten AIDS or some other type of diseases?
20	** Bobby C.'s death falling from a great height off the bridge onto the cold waters below. Consider how many people in real life have fallen to their deaths like that. Whether it was suicide or accidental from being under the influence at the time.
21	* RetroactiveRecognition:
22	** Creator/FranDrescher has a minor role; she often commented about being in the film as a strange route to stardom.
23	** [[Series/DreamOn Denny Dillon]] also has a minor role.
24	** The soundtrack includes the disco remix of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, "A Fifth Of Beethoven," by one Walter Murphy, who'd later go on to be the regular composer for ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
25	* {{Sequelitis}}: ''Stayin' Alive'', the original film's much maligned 1983 sequel, has gotten this reaction in spades. Quite a bit of fans think of it as at least being SoBadItsGood (olden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book ''The Official Razzie Movie Guide'' put it in the "100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made" list). Plenty of viewers, however, can't stand it in the slightest (the sequel has a whopping ''0%'' approval rating on Website/RottenTomatoes).
26	* SignatureScene: Tony [[SupermodelStrut confidently strutting]] down the street in the opening credits, set to The Bee Gees' "Staying Alive", has become one of the most oft-parodied scenes in movies.
27	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: When people think of TheSeventies, they think of this movie. When they think of this movie, they think of the 70s.
28	** Except that the styles, fashions, and vehicles in the film are actually very much mid-to-'''''late'''''-70s. Early-70s style, fashion, and vehicles still held the ghosts of the late-60s. And disco didn't start until the mid-70s, gaining traction around 1975-1976, just a year or two before ''Saturday Night Fever'' was released.
29	* TheWoobie:
30	%%** Poor, poor Annette.
31	** Bobby C.. Tony is the only one who treats him vaguely like a human being.
32	** Tony's brother comes across as ''really'' sympathetic after leaving the priesthood.

Context YMMV / SaturdayNightFever