- Adaptation Displacement: The movie is arguably more well-known than the novels.
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
- Fletch's Imagine Spot in the first film where he's a star player for the Lakers.
- He has another in the sequel, where he's a Southern plantation owner, with his boss and his ex-wife's attorney as his slaves. With animated birds, no less.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Fletch's Imagine Spot in the second film parodying Song of the South, both in light of increasing dislike of the film because of Values Dissonance and Chevy Chase's increasing infamy as a complete jackass on the set of Community, even being racist to Donald Glover.
- Heartwarming Moments: Crossing with an awesome moment, Jimmy Lee Farnsworth pulling a "shoot through me" when Ham has Fletch at gunpoint on Jimmy Lee's show.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- James Avery plays one of the crooked detectives who bust Fletch on a bogus narcotics charge.
- Joe Don Baker would later find fame appearing as the villainous General Whittaker in The Living Daylights and later appearing as CIA operative in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.
- Values Dissonance: The joke about all of the doctors having a Jewish "Rosensomething" name falls a little flat these days.
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