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* NecktieLeash: The sexually dominant Ashley has no problem dragging a random guy around by his necktie while trying to catch Harris' eye at the same time. She later does a variant of this to Harris himself (grabbing his belt instead) as she takes him away for some fun.
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* NecktieLeash: The sexually dominant Ashley has no problem dragging drags a random guy around by his necktie while trying to catch Harris' eye at the same time. She later does a variant of this to Harris himself (grabbing his belt instead) as she takes him away for some fun.
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* WeddingsForEveryone: The ending sees [[spoiler:Kelly and Harris, Petronella and Emerson, and Susan and Baxter]] getting married in a triple wedding ceremony.
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* ExtremeLibido: Ashley is a porn star, but even outside of work her foremost (maybe only) interest is having sex with whoever catches her fancy.
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* PrettyBoy: Lance is a blonde hunk with a pretty face. Z-Man gushes at length about his good looks (calling him a Greek god), and Lance takes advantage of them to make a killing as a gigolo.
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* ShipTease: Kelly and Z-Man have some interesting interactions at the first party, with him dragging her all over the place by the hand and at one point seemingly suggesting that they sleep together ("I know of a cozy little dungeon where just the two of us can curl up with the chains and a spider.") before getting distracted in his mania. When Harris finds them, they are alone in a hallway, holding each other's hands and facing each other intensely; little wonder Harris is incensed. However, this doesn't amount to anything and Kelly takes Lance as a lover instead.
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Misuse as Casey is neither stoic, cynical, aggressive or badass.
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* BrokenBird: Casey is a pretty sad and withdrawn person, implied to be from struggling with her sexuality.
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* NecktieLeash: The sexually dominant Ashley has no problem dragging a random guy around by his necktie while trying to catch Harris' eye at the same time. She later does a variant of this to Harris himself (grabbing his belt instead) as she takes him away for some fun.
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* EuropeansAreKinky: While having a conversation with Z-Man at the first party, Roxanne says she finds European women to be "more receptive and less hung-up".
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* LandlineEavesdropping: When Z-Man [[spoiler:snaps and starts killing everybody]], Casey telephones her friends for help. Z-Man picks up a phone in another room that lets him eavesdrop in their conversation and eventually interjects, startling Casey into dropping the phone and ending the call.
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* LandlineEavesdropping: When Z-Man [[spoiler:snaps and starts killing everybody]], Casey telephones her friends for help. Z-Man picks up a phone in another room that lets him eavesdrop in on their conversation and eventually interjects, startling Casey into dropping the phone and ending the call.
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* LandlineEavesdropping: When Z-Man [[spoiler:snaps and starts killing everybody]], Casey telephones her friends for help. Z-Man picks up a phone in another room that lets him eavesdrop in their conversation and eventually interjects, startling Casey into dropping the phone and ending the call.
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* GrubTub: Ashley mentions she knows a guy named Tony who invited her to see his wading pool full of mayonnaise.
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* TheSociopath: Ashley doesn't really seem to care about anyone or anything, only that she gets laid, and is rather cruel to Harris when he fails to perform. The narrator sums her up thusly:
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* TheSociopath: Ashley doesn't really seem to care about anyone or anything, only that she gets get laid, and is rather cruel to Harris when he fails to perform. The narrator sums her up thusly:
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Death By Sex has been renamed. Commented out ZCE
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* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Casey, Lance, Roxanne, Z-Man.]] Subverted with [[spoiler: Baxter, Emerson, Harris, Kelly, Susan, Pet]]. Averted with Ashley, who, despite being presented as the biggest slut in the cast, never even comes close to being in any danger.
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%% SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler: Casey, Lance, Roxanne, Z-Man.]] Subverted with [[spoiler: Baxter, Emerson, Harris, Kelly, Susan, Pet]]. Averted with Ashley, who, despite being presented as the biggest slut in the cast, never even comes close to being in any danger.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The massacre at the end[[spoiler:, in which Z-Man goes off the deep end and kills the guests at his party,]] was based on the Tate-[=LaBianca=] murders perpetrated by the Manson family. The film started production just a few months after the murders occurred.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The massacre at the end[[spoiler:, in which Z-Man goes off the deep end and kills the guests at his party,]] was based on inspired by the Tate-[=LaBianca=] murders perpetrated by [[UsefulNotes/CharlesManson the Manson family.family]]. The film started production just a few months after the murders occurred.
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** Harris having sex with Ashley in her Rolls Royce is intercut with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (who he's moping about) having sex with her new lover Lance.
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** Harris having sex with Ashley in her Rolls Royce is intercut with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (who (whom he's moping about) having sex with her new lover Lance.
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* ShoutOut: Ashley mentioning that her latest film got banned in Cincinnatti is probably a reference to Russ Meyer's ''Film/Vixen1968'' getting the exact same treatment.
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* ShoutOut: Ashley mentioning that her latest film got banned in Cincinnatti Cincinnati is probably a reference to Russ Meyer's ''Film/Vixen1968'' getting the exact same treatment.
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* BMovie: Averted. This was the first of two films (the other one was ''The Seven Minutes'') Meyer made for a major studio, which was enthusiastic about it.
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* BMovie: Averted. This was the first of two films (the other one was ''The Seven Minutes'') ''Film/TheSevenMinutes'') Meyer made for a major studio, which was enthusiastic about it.
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ZCE and the ambiguity of the character's gender makes its applicability dubious
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* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler: Z-Man]], possibly.
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* TotallyRadical: Roger Ebert's attempts at replicating late 60's youth lingo were considering a bit quaint and try-hard even back then. Oft-quoted instances of this include "Hey, don't bogart the joint, friends." and "Cool, man, that's really getting it together!"
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* TotallyRadical: Roger Ebert's attempts at replicating late 60's youth lingo were considering considered a bit quaint and try-hard even back then. Oft-quoted instances of this include "Hey, don't bogart the joint, friends." and "Cool, man, that's really getting it together!"
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* TotallyRadical: Roger Ebert's attempts at replicating late 60's youth lingo were considering a bit quaint and try-hard even back then. Oft-quoted instances of this include "Hey, don't bogart the joint, friends." and "Cool, man, that's really getting it together!"
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* KillTheCutie: Casey makes a valiant attempt at resisting the bad influences found in Los Angeles, only for an ill-conceived night with Harris to leave her pregnant. After getting an abortion, Casey becomes submissive and totally emotionally dependent on Roxanne, leading to her attending a private party of Z-Man's which she otherwise wouldn't have, [[spoiler:and there she gets murdered by him.]]
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When Ashley suggests to Harris that he might be gay. "Maybe it's not too late for you to find some nice. Tender. ''BOY''!"
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* TheThreeFacesOfEve:
** Pleasure-seeking and somewhat wily Kelly is the Seductress, shy and sweet Casey is the Child and the relatively stable and mature Petronella is the Wife.
** The three next most important female characters also fit this quite well. Susan, who sees the good in everyone, is the Child, sex-driven Ashley is the Seductress and stoic, pragmatic Roxanne is the Wife.
** Pleasure-seeking and somewhat wily Kelly is the Seductress, shy and sweet Casey is the Child and the relatively stable and mature Petronella is the Wife.
** The three next most important female characters also fit this quite well. Susan, who sees the good in everyone, is the Child, sex-driven Ashley is the Seductress and stoic, pragmatic Roxanne is the Wife.
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* BarefootLoon: Ashley is a kooky, wild hedonist who hardly wears any clothes, which includes a lack of shoes for a lot of her screen time. At Z-Man's first party, she's only wearing a pair of gold chains around her ankles.
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* IncompatibleOrientation: Lance is the object of Z-Man's affections/lust, but it doesn't go over well. Lance is willing to sleep with Z-Man for the right price, but outside of that he rebuffs his advances without any room for doubt.
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* SassyBlackWoman: Pet.
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* SassyBlackWoman: Pet.Petronella has a bit of a sarcastic streak, especially when compared to her white bandmates.
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* CurbStompBattle: The fight between Harris and Lance is completely one-sided in Lance's favor. Harris doesn't land any hits and just gets thrashed by Lance. In fairness, Harris is drunk at the time.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Harris is clearly repulsed by Ashley flirting with him, at least at first. The problem isn't that she's ugly (she isn't, at all), but rather how unsubtle and aggressive she is about wanting to get him in bed with her.
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* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Harris finds Ashley's aggressive advances on him to be off-putting. He only caves in to them once he's sufficiently depressed about Kelly no longer paying any attention to him.
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The writer felt contempt for the original, so it's questionable that the parody was affectionate.
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* AffectionateParody: Of the original ''Film/ValleyOfTheDolls''. But beyond that.
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: [[spoiler:Is Z-Man male? Female? Trans? A hermaphrodite? That's a mystery for the ages, especially as Ebert admitted the twist about Z-Man's gender is supposed to be nonsensical and shocking for its own sake.]]
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: AmbiguousGender: [[spoiler:Is Z-Man male? Female? Trans? A hermaphrodite? That's a mystery for the ages, especially as Ebert admitted the twist about Z-Man's gender is supposed to be nonsensical and shocking for its own sake.]]
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: [[spoiler:Z-Man presents himself as a man for most of the film, but in the climax he insists on being seen as "Superwoman" and reveals a pair of feminine breasts. However, he is clearly unhinged at the time, making it difficult to tell what the truth about his gender identity is.]]
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: [[spoiler:Z-Man presents himself as a man for most of the film, but in the climax he insists on being seen as "Superwoman" and reveals a pair of feminine breasts. However, he is clearly unhinged at the time, making it difficult to tell what the truth about his gender identity is.]]
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Emerson smashes a chair on Randy's back to stop him from raping Pet.
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* ForcefulKiss: After Ashley breaks up with Harris, who's very drunk and despondent, he goes up to Kelly and Lance while they're making out and tears Kelly away to forcefully kiss her. This leads to the fight between him and Lance.
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* ForcefulKiss: After Ashley breaks up with Harris, who's very A drunk and despondent, he despondent Harris, fresh from a nasty break-up with Ashley, goes up to Kelly and Lance while they're making out and tears Kelly away to forcefully kiss her. This leads to the fight between him and Lance.
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* TheSvengali: Z-Man to The Carrie Nations. Roger Ebert even used the exact word to describe him.
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* TheSvengali: Z-Man to The Carrie Nations. Roger Ebert even used the exact word term to describe him.Z-Man. He does things like changing the band's name from Kelly Affair to Carrie Nations without asking their opinion, and he completely excludes Harris, their first manager, from having any part in their success.
