History Film / AdeleHasntHadHerDinnerYet

* BadDreams: Baron Kratzmar keeps having nightmares about a plant's stigma. He keeps hearing "Where is the stigma? Where is the stigma?" They keep reminding him of his greatest humiliation which lead to him becoming evil.

* FallingIntoJail: The Gardener's air balloon, that Ledvina shoots down with his slingshot, conveniently lands in a prison courtyard.

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''Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet'' (1977) is a Czechoslovakian film written by Oldrich Lipsky and Jiri Brdecka and directed by Oldrich Lipsky.

[[Literature/NickCarter Nick Carter]], the greatest American detective comes to Prague to solve a mysterious case of a missing person which turns out to be much more. A {{Troperiffic}} AffectionateParody of the pulp detective genre and Mystery Stories.

* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Afer Adele has Nick SwallowedWhole, Ledvina throws a vial with some unpleasant substance into her mouth which makes her spit out Nick at once.

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: Just static pictures, but they are fun.

** Countess Thun's favourite literature? Creator/{{Dante}}, Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe, and [[LivingLegend Nick Carter's stories]].

* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Afer Adele has Nick SwallowedWhole, Ledvina throws a vial with some unpleasant ingredient into her mouth which makes her spit out Nick at once.

** The Gardener rubs his hands with gusto when his revenge is about to be fulfilled.

* ReedSnorkel: The Gardener's cigarette holder functions as this. First it helped him survive in the swamp. TheStinger then shows him breathing through his cigarette holder while hiding under a heap of coals.

** Baron von Kratzmar plays a philanthropic scientist who is a friend to widows and orphans, and a close personal friend to Countess Thun. [[spoiler: He's in fact the Gardener, the most mysterious criminal mastermind of the century. One layer deeper, he's Matěj Kráčmera, a former unfortunate student who failed biology in grammar school and was humiliated in class. He swore revenge to his professor, and he also swore he would use botanic, the very thing that got him failed.]]

* ShoutOut: In bucketloads, to real-life historical characters, to literature and film.

** There is Franchise/SherlockHolmes' picture in Nick's office that says: ''If I were not Holmes, I should wish to be Carter.'' Which itself is a Shout Out to Alexander the Great's quote about him and Diogenes.

* InSeriesNickname: The Gardener, Nick's arc nemesis who is the most mysterious criminal of the century. [[spoiler:His origins were unclear, and this case revealed them: Baron von Kratzmar was the Gardener. However, this is also an alter ego. He's in fact a common person named Matěj Kráčmera.]]

** Gert's mysterious disappearance was a case of revenge. [[spoiler:He peed on Baron Kratzmar's leg, and he was therefore chosen to be Adele' first victim. You pee on the Gardener, you get eaten by the carnivorous plant.]]

* AngryFistShake: The dwarf and police commissioner Ledvina shake their fists at each other when the final confrontation started. When the dwarf gets arrested and is being carried away, he's still seen shaking his fist.

* TheButlerDidIt: In Czech, this trope is known as a phrase "The garderner is the murderer!" -- a clichéd solution to pulp detective stories. What a surprise when the actual culprit of the original curious disappearance is a guy who is known as "The Garderner", the most mysterious criminal mastermind of the century. And his close, most loyal minion is his butler/chamberlain.

* MasterOfDisguise: Nick Carter's disguises are "proverbially perfect", however, his intention to blend in with the crowd fails epically in Bohemia. First, his books had perfect information about people and their life in the countryside, but not so much not about towns. And also "everything gets noised abroad here", as police commissioner Ledvina kindly informs him. His Egyptian disguise was indeed quite impressive.

* MsFanservice: Irma Chatte, a dancer and artist incognito with a cat mask performing at a night club. Men are crazy about her in-universe as well. She likes Nick best. [[spoiler:She really fancies him, but it's also a trick -- she secretly works for the Gardener.]]

** Baron von Kratzmar plays a philanthropic scientist who is a friend to widows and orphans, and a close personal friend to Countess Thun. [[spoiler: He's in fact the Gardener, the most mysterious criminal master mind of the century. One layer deeper, he's Matěj Kráčmera, a former unfortunate student who failed biology in grammar school and was humiliated in class. He swore revenge to his professor, and he also swore he would use botanic, the very thing that got him failed.]]

* ShoutOut: In bucketloads, to real life historical characters, to literature and film.

Nick Carter, the greatest American detective comes to Prague to solve a mysterious case of a missing person which turns out to be much more. A {{Troperiffic}} AffectionateParody of the pulp detective genre and Mystery Stories.

** Countess Thun's favourite literature? Creator/{{Dante}}, Creator/{{Goethe}}, and [[LivingLegend Nick Carter's stories]].

* ButlerDidIt: In Czech, this trope is known as a phrase "The garderner is murderer!" -- a clichéd solution to pulp detective stories. What a surprise when the actual culprit of the original curious disappearance is a guy who is known as "The Garderner", the most mysterious criminal mastermind of the century. And his close, most loyal minion is his butler/chamberlain.

* SlipperySkid: In the climatic chase scene, when one of Nick's bullets hit the Baron's car, it starts to leak oil or fuel. Ledvina's bicylce then slips on the smeary road.

* BilingualBonus: Commissar Ledvina. Ledvina means "Kidney" in Czech. Given the plump Commissar's eating and drinking habits, his kidneys might not be faring that well...

* BadassBookworm: Nick has books about just everything -- about the countries he travels to, their culture and languages. He is able to learn a language just from a book. One is titled ''Czech -- quick and easy''. During one moment, he is saved by remembering a physics lesson about electricity.

** You could say that he was... stigmatized.