YMMV / The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

• Awesome Music: The gang performs "I Will Survive" for a group of Aboriginal people, with native instruments playing in the background, complete with didgeridoo.
• I Am Not Shazam: Before watching the film, a lot of people mistakenly assume that Priscilla is the name of one of the characters rather than the bus.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • The Aboriginal man, Alan, performing with the gang during "I Will Survive" is onscreen for maybe a minute, but steals the show with his fabulous disco drag.
  • Cynthia, the Filipino stripper/prostitute.
• Pop-Culture Isolation: Only Australians and Japanese will get how significant the Frilled Lizard is in Australian culture, and why they wear costumes made up like them.
• Retroactive Recognition: Part of the entertainment since 1999 is seeing Ed Exley and Agent Smith (plus General Zod) as drag queens.
• Squick: The ABBA turd.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The scene where "AIDS, fuckers, go home!" is graffitied onto the bus. As Tick puts it, "No matter how tough I think I'm getting, it still hurts."
  • Tick re-closeting himself, looking horribly awkward dressed as a stereotypical straight man.
• The Woobie: Adam, considering all the trauma we see him go through at a painfully young age; from nearly being molested by his creepy uncle, to being mugged by a bunch of cruel, homophobic thugs which he is clearly traumatized by.
• Values Resonance: Deadnaming, in which a person is still called by their birth name despite considering their chosen name for their new identity the real one, has become much better understood as a serious breach of etiquette in the trans community, making Bernadette’s issues with it very sympathetic.

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