YMMV / Hercules in New York

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: When Professor Camden invites Pretzie and Herc to his house for tea, Pretzie urgently tells him to pipe down, fearing some "narcotics cop" may be around, hinting that Pretzie in addition to selling pretzels, is also a drug dealer. This information is never brought up again.
• Bile Fascination: It's Arnold Schwarzenegger making his acting debut in a movie with No Budget (well, $300,000, but that didn't go very far even in the late '60s) and a pitiful script, which was written in a language he hadn't yet mastered, no less.
• Designated Hero: Hercules' actions are not especially heroic, even allowing for his ignorance of twentieth-century America. He behaves like a boor to everybody he meets on Earth except Pretzie and Helen, he learns nothing, and he almost always acts very self-impressed.
• Just Here for Godzilla: This movie is Arnold Schwarzenegger's acting debut. If you're not watching it to make fun of the movie, you're probably here to see how this famous actor got started.
• Memetic Mutation: The "Running Arnold Schwarzenegger" meme originated from this film.
• Narm:
  • Though the film is a comedy, its production values tend to elicit bigger laughs than its jokes. Highlights include the bear scene, Zeus' rebar "thunderbolt" and one goddess completely forgetting her line.
  • The actor who dubbed over Arnold's dialogue sounds NOTHING like Arnold. The voice sounds quite nerdy at times. Arnie's original audio track may be even more amusing: "Yoo heff strucked Heuhcyulees!" Thankfully, the DVD includes both audio tracks on disc, allowing viewers to decide which is sillier for themselves.
• Signature Scene: "You have strucked Hercules!" is the most quoted scene from the movie.
• So Bad, It's Good: Expect to laugh the hardest at the parts that weren't meant to be funny.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • Mount Olympus is clearly a garden in an urban park.
  • The "bear" is obviously a guy in costume.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Hercules doesn't express much of a reason to go to Earth and is incredibly wangsty about Zeus' refusal to let him, and he doesn't learn his lessons until the very end of the film.

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