History Film / JumpinJackFlash

* TheMole: Talbott.
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: [[spoiler: "Marty" starts at First National Bank shortly after Terry starts communicating with Jack. Marty befriends Terry, and is also present in a lot of cases where Terry is in trouble. It's not a coincidence; he's a CIA spy and is trying to figure out what's going on with Terry and Jack.]]
* ToThePain: The bad guys demonstrate on some storefront dummies what they intend doing to Terry.

* SpySpeak: "Dogs barking. Can't fly without umbrella."
* TheGlassesComeOff: Marty. [[spoiler:On being revealed to be another secret agent.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Terry gives a scathing one to Lady Sarah, albeit while under the influence of truth serum. It works, as Lady Sarah relents and gets Lord Malcolm to provide a new exit contact for Jack.

* PercussiveMaintenance On the malfunctioning monitor.

* UnseenPenPal: Terry Doolittle strikes up an online friendship with Jack, an MI5 operative who accidentally contacts her work computer, and they fall for each other as she attempts to help him escape from KGB agents. They don't meet face to face (and Jack remains completely unseen) until the last few minutes. Notably, this was the first movie to depict online chatting before it became commonplace a decade or so later.

''Jumpin' Jack Flash'' is a 1986 UsefulNotes/ColdWar suspense comedy starring Creator/WhoopiGoldberg as Terry Doolittle, a data entry worker in the processing department of a downtown New York City bank. One of her guilty pleasures at work is to drop notes to the operators at the receiving ends of the transfers she processes, who are often in another country, which generates a number of international friendships and trading of recipes, mixtapes, etc. Right after her boss (Peter Michael Goetz) tells her to stop wasting company resources ("Computers are not friendly, Ms. Doolittle." "I'm not a computer, Mr. Page."), she receives a message from "Jumpin Jack Flash", which she tries to dismiss, but becomes intrigued with his mysterious statements. She arranges a time to chat later that night (in the office), but first has to deduce Jack's "code key", which (though it is not stated) will encrypt their communications. The answer is in Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} song ''Jumpin' Jack Flash'' ("Sing with me and find the key,") and while she comes up with many seemingly good guesses, she realizes that the "key" is, literally, the ''key'' of the music: "B-Flat".

* UnseenPenPal: Terry Doolittle strikes up an online friendship with Jack, a CIA operative who accidentally contacts her work computer, and they fall for each other as she attempts to help him escape from KGB agents. They don't meet face to face (and Jack remains completely unseen) until the last few minutes. Notably, this was the first movie to depict online chatting before it became commonplace a decade or so later.

''Jumpin' Jack Flash'' is a 1986 UsefulNotes/ColdWar suspense comedy starring Creator/WhoopiGoldberg as Terry Doolittle, a data entry worker in the processing department of a downtown New York City bank. One of her guilty pleasures at work is to drop notes to the operators at the receiving ends of the transfers she processes, who are often in another country, which generates a number of international friendships and trading of recipes, mixtapes, etc. Right after her boss (Peter Michael Goetz) tells her to stop wasting company resources ("Computers are not friendly, Ms. Doolittle." "I'm not a computer, Mr. Page."), she receives a message from "Jumpin Jack Flash", which she tries to dismiss, but becomes intrigued with his mysterious statements. She arranges a time to chat later that night (in the office), but first has to deduce Jack's "code key", which (though it is not stated) will encrypt their communications. The answer is in Music/TheRollingStones song ''Jumpin' Jack Flash'' ("Sing with me and find the key,") and while she comes up with many seemingly good guesses, she realizes that the "key" is, literally, the ''key'' of the music: "B-Flat".

-->"I was raised by [[MondegreenGag two lesbians]]? ''[clip]'' Mick, Mick, Mick...speak English!"

-->"I was raised by two lesbians? ''[clip]'' Mick, Mick, Mick...speak English!"

Unfortunately, it turns out that one of the Consulate staff, Talbott (John Wood) is a KGB mole, who ultimately provided the (bad) contact to the consul. Terry bluffs that she sent Jack different information, and escapes, running to her office to get on the computer and warn Jack about the bad information just as he is about to head out to his certain death. The KGB moles are in tow, and follow her into the office, preventing her from sending the message. A firefight ensues, where it is discovered that HollywoodNerd coworker Marty (Creator/StephenCollins) is actually an undercover CIA agent, who takes out most of the KGB goons, and Terry manages to [[GroinAttack disable Talbott]], much to his shock, and send off the message. Marty (real name Peter and the last of Jack's secret contacts) gets onto the chat session with Jack and gives him a good contact.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: A preemptive SamusIsAGirl, which is partially averted.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Terry has to write down the lyrics for "Jumpin' Jack Flash" in the days before you could look them up on the internet, and has some difficulty working out what Music/MickJagger is singing. (She finally buys the sheet music for the song, which actually gives her the password -- the key of the song.)

* RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear: {{Justified}} because Terry has a habit of talking to herself (given that she's socially isolated) and most of the time she's reading out loud what Jack is typing on her screen.

** Archer Lincoln does tell Terri that 'Harry Carlson is dead.' but we have no know of confirming if that is the truth.

%%* FryingPanOfDoom

* HatPull: How Terry escapes the cop car.

%%* NotMyDriver
* ObviousWrappedGift: Cynthia's baby shower present of a stroller. An inversion on LampshadeHanging occurs when Cynthia calls Terry to get off the computer (with Jack) and come to the party:
--->TERRY! HURRY UP, SHE'S ABOUT TO OPEN THE STROLLER!

* SecretIdentity: Marty.

* ShownTheirWork: The network Terry does her work on is referred to as a "transponder," which means it is a satellite-based network; Jack says he is using a "clamshell terminal," which is basically a simple crude laptop with a satellite transmitter, for communicating in the field. A similar one is used in Film/SpiesLikeUs. It also (sort of, not really) explains why the computers in the bank sometimes pick up Russian television: it's picking up the wrong satellite.

* TheGlassesComeOff: Marty.

* ThereAreNoCoincidences: "Marty" starts at First National Bank shortly after Terry starts communicating with Jack. Marty befriends Terry, and is also present in a lot of cases where Terry is in trouble. It's not a coincidence; [[spoiler: he's a CIA spy and is trying to figure out what's going on with Terry and Jack.]]