History Film / Stripes

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: It was Winger's idea to enlist, and he talked Ziskey into signing up by promising him that military life was going to be a total blast. As you might reckon, Ziskey gets ''pissed off'' later on when he catches Winger trying to go AWOL.

* ReCut: The Director's Cut DVD adds 18 minutes to the film.

* GrandTheftPrototype: PlayedForLaughs. The film's third act revolves around John and Russell stealing the U.S. Military's latest experimental undercover [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier APC]], the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle, for a joyride to German so they can see their {{Love Interest}}s, then [[BigDamnHeroes raising hell in Czechoslovakia to save their captured friends]].

* GrandTheftPrototype: PlayedForLaughs. The film's third act revolves around John and Russell stealing the U.S. Military's latest experimental undercover [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier APC]], the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle, to joyride around europe with their {{Love Interest}}s and then [[BigDamnHeroes raising hell in Czechoslovakia to save their captured friends]].

While John and Russell are guarding it, they decide to "borrow" it and go for a joyride to Austria. The rest of their squad comes after them, thinking that they're communist spies, but they take a wrong turn and get captured by the Soviets in Czechoslovakia. Winger and Russell come back to save their squad. When they come back to the states, somehow they all end up getting medals.

A 1981 military comedy directed by Creator/IvanReitman and starring Creator/BillMurray. Also in the cast are Creator/HaroldRamis, Creator/WarrenOates, P. J. Soles, Creator/SeanYoung, Creator/JohnCandy, and Creator/JohnLarroquette.

* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: After Sgt. Hulka berates the platoon for their failure to complete the rope climb, Wringer asks Hulka to do it himself. Hulka smugly takes the rope and climbs up to the platform with ease. Unfortunately, the platform is then hit by a stray mortar, causing Hulka to fall to the ground and injure himself.

** Wringer, Russell, Stella, and Louise are able to capture the Czechoslovakian guards at the border by pretending to be a group of obnoxious American tourists who've gotten lost on their way to Austria.

* RousingSpeech: Winger gathers up the platoon as they pull an all-nighter to prepare for the graduation marching presentation, and gives them an inverted TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.[[labelnote:The speech!]]Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell's the matter with you? Stupid! We're all very different people. We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're ''Americans'', with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts! ''(feels Bill Paxton's face)'' Here's proof: his nose is cold! But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more loveable than the mutt. Who saw "Old Yeller?" Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end? [[SarcasmMode Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot, I'm sure.]] I cried my eyes out. So we're all dogfaces, we're all very, very different, but there is one thing that we all have in common: we were all stupid enough to enlist in the Army. We're mutants. There's something wrong with us, something '''very, very wrong''' with us. Something seriously wrong with us - we're soldiers. But we're ''American'' soldiers! We've been kicking ass for 200 years! We're 10 and 1! Now we don't have to worry about whether or not we practiced. We don't have to worry about whether Captain Stillman wants to have us hung. All we have to ''doooo'' is to be the great American fighting ''solllldier'' that is inside each one of us. Now do what I do, and say what I say. And make me proud! '''Fall in!'''[[/labelnote]]

* TheNeidermeyer: Captain Stillman.