YMMV / Good Morning, Vietnam

• Cross the Line Twice: In his opening broadcast, Adrian makes a rapid-fire joke about Vietnamese weather being incredibly hot, so hot [his character] saw some guys in orange robes catch fire.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Lt. Hauk is so confidently lame and unfunny that it crosses the line into being hysterical when he does things like demand apologies from everyone present after bombing with the idea that his material was good.
• Genius Bonus: At one point, in the middle of a riff on The Wizard of Oz, Adrian refers to "the Wicked Witch of the North, Hanoi Hannah." Veterans and historians would recognize the name Hanoi Hannah as an actual broadcaster who delivered anti-American propaganda screeds on North Vietnamese radio during the war.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "What a country: heat, humidity, terrorism. Still, it's better that New York in the summertime." This joke became much darker after 9/11.
  • Ed's line suggesting Adrian kill himself rather than deal with his roommate becomes less funny after Robin Williams committed suicide.
    • In the same scene, Adrian says while impersonating Elvis Presley, "Why don't they get a rope and hang me?!" Yikes.
  • Roger Ebert's 1988 review of this film speculates about how both Williams and his character use comedy to conceal their real selves, who seem to be extremely insecure and lacking in self-esteem underneath.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "GOOOOOOOOOOOOD Morning <wherever>!"
  • "What a Wonderful World" would soon be used in nature films every way they could.
• Moral Event Horizon: Dickerson spends most of the early movie being a hard-nosed jerk who at least tolerates Cronauer when he's not going overboard. His feud with the latter escalates up to eleven when Dickerson attempts to have Cronauer killed by routing his vehicle through Viet Cong controlled territory in what is technically attempted premeditated murder.
• Values Dissonance: The shot of three naked nine-year-old boys dancing in an outdoor shower with full-frontal nudity being included in the montage was pushing it at the time but nowadays, that sort of thing is flat-out illegal to even film and the cinematographer would more than likely be accused of pedophilia.
• Windmill Crusader: Dickerson sets Cronauer up to be killed, and finally succeeds in getting him discharged from the service and sent back to the States; part of him simply doesn't like Cronauer, but part of him may honestly believe that by getting an irreverent disc jockey off the air, the morale of the entire army will improve and the U.S. will be one step closer to winning the Vietnam War, thanks to him.

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