History Film / CrocodileDundee

** The quotes were only added to the US release and for the US audiences. All other countries received the movie under its correct title.

* HypocriticalHumor: Mick attacks the man in the Walkabout Creek bar who accuses him of poaching crocodiles because he "won't have anyone using bad language in front of a lady"--yet he has absolutely no qualms with saying "bastard" and "shit" when it's just Sue and himself.

Before CrocodileHunter, there was... ''Crocodile Dundee'', a 1986 film, directed by Peter Faiman.

[[IntrepidReporter Sue Charlton]] (Linda Kozlowski) travels to [[LandDownunder Australia]] to do some research on a story she'd heard about a man who survived a vicious crocodile attack in the bush. Who she finds is Mick "Crocodile" Dundee (Paul Hogan's first film role), a quick-witted bushman who, it turns out, did ''not'' lose his leg to the vicious croc - but who seems to have an uncanny symbiosis with the Australian Outback. When Sue must return to New York, she invites Mick to accompany her, and HilarityEnsues when she sees that he is [[FishOutOfWater not so accustomed to the city as to the bush]]. Ultimately, she falls in love with the charismatic Australian, but must decide whether to go with him back to Australia or remain with her current boyfriend.

A sequel followed in 1988. It has Mick, now living in New York, running afoul of a gang of vengeful Colombian drug dealers. After humiliating them on their home turf, he's told by the police to go into witness protection, but instead leads them back to Australia where his superior knowledge of the Outback will prove to be advantageous.

A third film appeared in 2001, ''Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles''. Mick and Sue are married and have a son: Mikey Dundee (Devon Fitzgerald). They live in the Australian Outback, where Mick is wrestling crocodiles for a living. When Sue is offered a major position in a Los Angeles newspaper, she jumps at the opportunity. But all is not right. Her predecessor was murdered, and the case remains unsolved. The Dundees have to perform their own investigation.

-->''[Dundee slashes the teen mugger's jacket. He and his friends run away]''
* BadAss: Michael J. Dundee. Something of a subversion, since his famous claims turn out to have been substantially exaggerated, and he's a bit clueless when out of his element. Still decidedly tough, though.

* DisneyDeath: Featured in ''CrocodileDundee 2''.

* FanService: Linda Kozlowski's swimsuit scene in the first movie. Caused quite a stir at the time, as one-piece thong swimsuits were rather uncommon in 1986 America, particularly in a movie you might take the kids to see.

* ForeignQueasine:

-->'''"Crocodile" Dundee:''' [a goanna is sizzling over a fire. Sue looks ill] How do you like your goanna? Medium? Well done? \\
'''Sue Charlton:''' You don't really expect me to eat that? \\
'''"Crocodile" Dundee:''' Yeah, its great. Yeah, try some of these yams, try the grubs and the sugar ants. Just bite the end off, they're really sweet. Black fellas love 'em. \\
'''Sue Charlton:''' [tentatively tries a yam] What about you, aren't you having any? \\
'''"Crocodile" Dundee:''' Me? \\
''[Mick starts working on a tin with his knife]'' \\
'''"Crocodile" Dundee:''' ...Well, you can live on it, but it tastes like shit.

* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: In a high-class restaurant, Richard orders "two vodka martinis" for himself and Sue. Dundee cheerfully adds, "Yeah, I'll have * ImAtwo o' those, and a beer, thanks!"

* BadAss: Michael J. Dundee

-->'''Punk:''' [about Mick breaking into Rico's mansion/fortress] What's your chances? \\
'''Mick''': Fair.\\
'''Punk:''' What's your chances of getting out of here with that jacket on?\\
'''Mick:''' [throws his knife across the room into the punk's mohawk] ''Better than average.''

-->'''Punk:''' [about Mick breaking into Rico's mansion/fortress] What's your chances?\\

* MightyWhitey: Dundee tries to play himself up as a MightyWhitey, with all of the surival skills of the bushmen and all the cosmopolitan skills of the white world. In reality, the bushmen are just as modern as he is, and he's pretty out of touch with actual big city culture.

** The first movie was rated R and had high levels of profanity in the New York scenes. It was not a movie that was meant for children.

A sequel followed in 1988. It has Mick, now living in New York, running afoul of a gang of vengeful drug dealers. After humiliating them on their home turf, he's told by the police to go into witness protection, but instead leads them back to Australia where his superior knowledge of the Outback will prove to be advantageous.

[[IntrepidReporter Sue Charlton]] (Linda Kozlowski) travels to [[LandDownunder Australia]] to do some research on a story she'd heard about a man who survived a vicious crocodile attack in the bush. Who she finds is Mick "Crocodile" Dundee (Paul Hogan's first film role), a quick-witted bushman who, it turns out, did ''not'' lose his leg to the vicious croc - but who seems to have an uncanny symbiosis with the Australian Outback.

When Sue must return to New York, she invites Mick to accompany her, and HilarityEnsues when she sees that he is [[FishOutOfWater not so accustomed to the city as to the bush]]. Ultimately, she falls in love with the charismatic Australian, but must decide whether to go with him back to Australia or remain with her current boyfriend.

When Sue must return to New York, she invites Mick to accompany her, and HilarityEnsues when she sees that he is [[FishOutOfWater not so accustomed to the city as to the bush]]. Ultimately, she falls in love with the charismatic Australian, but must decide whether to go with him back to Australia or remain with her current boyfriend.

[[IntrepidReporter Sue Charlton]] (Linda Kozlowski) travels to [[LandDownunder Australia]] to do some research on a story she'd heard about a man who survived a vicious crocodile attack in the bush. Who she finds is Mick "Crocodile" Dundee (Paul Hogan's first film role), a quick-witted bushman who, it turns out, did ''not'' lose his leg to the vicious croc - but who seems to have an uncanny symbiosis with the Australian Outback.

A sequel followed in 1988. The second film has Mick, now living in New York, running afoul of a gang of vengeful drug dealers. After humiliating them on their home turf, he's told by the police to go into witness protection, but instead leads them back to Australia where his superior knowledge of the Outback will prove to be advantageous. A third film appeared in 2001, ''Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles''. Mick and Sue are married and have a son: Mikey Dundee (Devon Fitzgerald). They live in the Australian Outback, where Mick is wrestling crocodiles for a living. When Sue is offered a major position in a Los Angeles newspaper, she jumps at the opportunity. But all is not right. Her predecessor was murdered, and the case remains unsolved. The Dundees have to perform their own investigation.

* DistressedDamsel: Sue in the Australian bush. She tried filling her canteen in a swamp with it still slung on her neck and a crocodile grabbed the canteen, forcing Dundee to stab the crocodile in the head to save her.
** In the second movie though she TookALevelInBadass and seems quite at home in the bush.
* EvilPoacher: Inverted.
** Also played straight with the kangaroo poachers in the first movie.

* FishOutOfWater: All scenes with Dundee in New York, and most scenes with Sue in the Outback.
** From the second movie on Mick intentionally plays this up in order to fool people into thinking he's dumber than he actually is.
* ForeignQueasine: Subverted, Lampshaded, and reversed:

* JapaneseTourist: In the second movie.
-->'''Fuji:''' [speaking about 'Crocodile' Dundee] Do you know who that was? \\
'''Cato:''' No. \\
'''Fuji:''' ClintEastwood!
* KnifeNut: You know the scene.

* MightyWhitey: Dundee himself, although he isn't portrayed as being better than the Aborigines at survival--just better than whites and Colombian drug lords... and Nev.
-->'''Nev:''' (crashing sound) Ow! Ooh, I hate the bush!

* ModernMinstrelsy: ''CrocodileDundee'' plays with this, both straight up and subverted. A relatively [[JustifiedTrope innocuous]] case, unless you use the movies as a reference work about Australia. The late [[CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]] played a similar schtick.
* MuggingTheMonster: The "''That's'' a knife" scene is perhaps the most iconic incarnation of this trope.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Crocodile Dundee Learns About {{Drag Queen}}s...
** Although the "drag queen" Gwendolyn that Mick almost spends the night with is actually played by ''actress'' [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137592/ Anne Carlisle]].