* {{Anvilicious}}: Johnny's [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth wall-breaking]] speech about the dangers of smoking ends with one of the smoking gangsters falling over dead. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that the gangster in question was actually suffering a DelayedReaction to accidentally getting shot. So, does that mean the real moral is "Unload your guns before cleaning them"?
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/WeirdAlYankovic himself provided the movie's theme "This is the Life!"
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Richard Dmitri as Roman Moronie, and Creator/JoePiscopo as Danny Vermin each are the most memorable part of the film to some.
* HarsherInHindsight: The line "It shoots through schools" in the years since UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} and the increases in the numbers and frequencies of school shootings.
* MemeticMutation:
** You shouldn't inspire a meme. This film inspired a meme once... ONCE.
** Moronie's speech in court is a veritable FountainOfMemes, you farging iceholes.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Hey, that's [[Film/BatmanReturns Batman and the Penguin]] sitting together in the restaurant scene! And, just as he'll do a few years later, [[ProductionForeshadowing Batman causes the Penguin's death]].
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