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• Awesome Moments: Out-of-retirement Sir James wins a game of catch with stone cannonballs against a group of much bigger Highlanders.
• Awesome Music: Burt Bacharach's bouncy theme is a marvelous piece of '60s kitsch, and is probably better known than the film itself.
• Bizarro Episode: If there was but one film that could be called a Big Lipped Alligator Movie, this is it.
• Ending Fatigue: Arguably starts when Evelyn Tremble and Le Chiffre are killed. The remainder of the film has to bring all the other characters together to unmask and confront the Big Bad. The resultant climax degenerates into a gigantic free-for-all fight in the casino with a Kill Em All ending played for LAUGHS, followed by a Fluffy Cloud Heaven ending.
• Ham and Cheese: Orson Welles and Woody Allen make the most of what they have. Some of the other actors seem to be going for this but come up short.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Six Bonds, in Heaven, at the end. Guess how many "official" Bonds there have been as of Daniel Craig...
  • It's mentioned in the film that there have already been multiple new James Bond 007s after the original since none had the original's survival skills. It was already quite clear that Sean Connery would not play James Bond 007 anymore after the same year's You Only Live Twice, but nobody could have known the main series would go through five Bond actors altogether.
• So Bad, It's Good
• Took The Bad Film Seriously: Peter Sellers, because he was cast when it wasn't going to be a spoof. His performance is funny in a mostly-deadpan way, but he's not on the wavelength of most of the rest of the cast.
• What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: "The best I can say is that the film makes no sense on any rational, conscious level. But on a deeper level, it's perfectly clear. The whole thing operates according to dream logic, is the best way I can put it. The movie may be loopy, but it still almost makes sense in a way that defies my ability to put down in words."