History Film / HotShots

* ThrowingTheFight: Extreme example during the boxing match in the film; one punch is thrown, it misses by a mile, and the "struck" boxer drops immediately. As setup for the joke, Wilson says "This should be a good match. Both men work for Don King".

* BiTheWay: Admiral Benson, if the comment listed in HoYay is any indication. Ramada as well, given both her comment under AmbiguousSyntax and this exchange with Kent.
-->'''Kent:''' Something's changed. It's not another woman, is it? I just couldn't compete with that.\\
'''Ramada:''' No, of course you couldn't.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kowalski and Ramada, respectively.

* WeaponsUnderstudies: The Oscar EW-5894 Fallus Tactical Fighter Bomber flown by the protagonists is really a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folland_Gnat Folland Gnat]], a British jet trainer (except in one case where it's a HAL Ajeet, a minor Indian Air Force fighter derived from the Gnat). The Iraqi Air Force jets are repainted Northrop T-38 Talon jet trainers, except for one which is the T-38's sister design the F-5 Tiger II ([[MythologyGag the same plane that played the MiG-28]] in ''Film/TopGun'').

* ImAHumanitarian: If it makes you feel any better, Washout didn't have seconds.

* EpiphanyTherapy: Played mostly straight. Topper suffers panic attacks every time he is compared to his disgraced father who was also a pilot. At the end of the movie, in the middle of one of these attacks he's told the truth, that his father was a hero. Suddenly Topper is ready to fly circles around the enemy.

* EveryoneHatesMimes: The secondary targets of Operation: Sleepy Weasel are an accordian factory and a mime school.

* DodgeByBraking: Harley leads pursuing jets into a canyon, and then ''slams on the brakes'', complete with [[BrakeAngrily brake-screeching noises]].

* DeconstructorFleet: The film doesn't just stick to parody/deconstruct ''Film/TopGun'', which is the main target at first glance, but it sinks its meathooks into any trope it can find and folds and spindles it to shreds.

* DepravedDentist: Wilson's fate at the end. He's punched down the stairs by Benson and lands in a dentist's chair. The dentist asks, [[Film/MarathonMan "Is it safe?"]] and begins drilling Wilson's teeth.

** At the end of the first flight, Washout starts losing his eyesight right as he comes in for a landing. He then receives orders from the tower that confuse him even further. He somehow manages to land safely anyway, only to discover that he's landed on the Las Vegas Strip.
** Near the end of the movie, when Topper's plane is limping back from the mission and Washout is trying to help him land safely, Topper begins reporting various system failures. First his landing gear is busted, then the radar goes, then he runs out of fuel, then a wing falls off, and then [[ExaggeratedTrope the other wing falls off]]. What's left of the plane then lands vertically on the deck, like a stone. Topper's just fine, of course.

* CaptainCrash: Admiral Benson has never landed a plane before in his life. He isn't even that bad a pilot... it's just that he got shot down on every single one of his 194 combat missions.

* CloudCuckooLander: Admiral Benson.

** The batteries for the chief's Walkman. Also, Topper asks Kent, towards the end of the film, what a "chafing dish" is. Something Kent had taken from Ramada's house roughly a half-hour of screen-time before.
** During an early training mission, Topper has a HeroicBSOD when Block mentions his father and crashes through a billboard, he's asked what happened. He replies that he thought he saw Elvis. Just before the ending credits when characters who died during the film are shown, [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Elvis is one of them]].
** "Little Sizzling Belly"

* AssuranceBackfire: Washout gets a different career as radar operator, assuring Kent that "I'll be your eyes on the ground!"He is suffering from strabismus.

* BarBrawl: Again, parodied. As soon as Topper and Kent start shoving each other the entire bar spontaneously breaks out in violence that ends the moment Ramada stops the two rivals.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The television broadcast edit of the first movie cut out almost the entirety of the ''9½ Weeks''-inspired foreplay scene.

* AssuranceBackfire: Washout gets a different career as radar operator, assuring Kent that "I'll be your eyes on the ground!"

** All the Iraqi fighter pilots names and dialogue is just the names of Middle Eastern dishes.

InAWorld full of serious action movies, filled with [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosions]], [[MsFanservice improbably hot women]], and [[TroubledButCute angsty, tortured heroes with tragic backgrounds]], one man stood up against the status quo and said, "No more! We don't have to sit here and endure the same plot over and over again! We deserve something more! Something better!" And he took the same plot we'd seen over and over again, and made us see it '''yet again''', only this time, it was different... it was ''funny''. It was... ''Hot Shots!'' (1991)

--> '''Benson:''' I love soup. I mean, I think I love soup. Son-of-a-bitch in hell. It's either soup or duck. Which one do you shoot?\\

''[Benson slams his head onto the desk]''

---> '''Topper:''' What about your landlady? ''(in reference to her being nosy)''\\

-->'''Topper Harley:''' Are too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too...\\
'''Kent Gregory:''' Not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not...\\
'''Topper Harley:''' Are too times ten.

-->'''Kent''': Something's changed. It's not another woman, is it? I just couldn't compete with that.\\
'''Ramada''': No, of course you couldn't.

-->'''Kent''': I thought that's the way you wanted it?

--> '''Kent:''' [[OwMyBodyPart My ''FACE''!]]\\

* MoralMyopia: "You risked the lives of some damn fine pilots! That's ''my job''!"
* MsFanservice: Kowalski, who appears lined up for inspection with the bunk's other pilots similarly without a shirt -- but with a bra, of course. Thing is, though, [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the other characters in the movie think she's a man]], which means that in-universe she's effectively topless. (The camp's DrillSergeantNasty tells "him", "Suck in that chest!")

--> '''Everybody in barracks:''' ''Eagle River?!''

-->'''Kowalski''': You're quite a guy!\\
'''Topper''': Ah, so are you!

-->'''Topper''': My uncle used to tell me that not playing to win is like [[IncestIsRelative sleeping with your sister]]. Sure, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies]], but it's... it's just illegal... Then you get into that whole inbred thing. Kids with no teeth [[Film/{{Deliverance}} who play the banjo]], eat applesauce through a straw, [[BestialityIsDepraved pork farm animals]]... I hope you get my point, sir.

--> "I had a little dreidel!" "I made it out of clay!" "And when it's dry and ready..." "My dreidel I will play!"\\

* TalkingAnimal: The birds that are almost hit by the jets in the beginning.
--> "Hey, you singed my tailfeathers."

--> '''Benson:''' By the way. I want to thank you for having us over for dinner the other night. Cheryl and I thought the stroganoff was marvelous.\\

-->Put those away!\\
Eh, they're just for luck.

* SoundOff: Parodied by a group shouting lines from "I Have a Little Dreidel" and ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' theme.
** Thing is, ''it works''.

Creator/CharlieSheen stars as Topper Harley, an ex-Navyman who left the armed services to [[Film/DancesWithWolves live with the Native Americans]] after the tragic death of his father. He is called back into service to help save a mission that is being sabotaged by a greedy weapons manufacturer. In the meantime, he must locate UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein's cache of nukes and (more importantly) win the heart of his therapist Ramada Thompson (Valeria Golino) away from a rival pilot.

-->'''Topper''': My uncle used to tell me that not playing to win is like [[IncestIsRelative sleeping with your sister]]. Sure, she's a great piece of tail with a blouseful of goodies, but it's... it's just illegal... Then you get into that whole inbred thing. Kids with no teeth [[Film/{{Deliverance}} who play the banjo]], eat applesauce through a straw, [[BestialityIsDepraved pork farm animals]]... I hope you get my point, sir.

* WeaponUnderstudies: The Oscar EW-5894 Fallus Tactical Fighter Bomber flown by the protagonists is really a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folland_Gnat Folland Gnat]], a British jet trainer (except in one case where it's a HAL Ajeet, a minor Indian Air Force fighter derived from the Gnat). The Iraqi Air Force jets are repainted Northrop T-38 Talon jet trainers, except for one which is the T-38's sister design the F-5 Tiger II ([[MythologyGag the same plane that played the MiG-28]] in ''Film/TopGun'').

* CatapultNightmare: The film begins with a pilot crashing their jet plane and being accidentally killed. The scene cuts to Topper Harley waking up and sitting bolt upright in bed. The entire flying sequence was Topper's nightmare about the death of his father.

* CreditsGag: The recipe for the "topping for brownies."

* VisualPun: "I've got a [[Creator/HumphreyBogart Bogey]] on my tail!"

** The batteries for the chief's Walkman. Also, Topper asks Kent, towards the end of the film, what a "chafing dish" is. Something Kent had taken from Ramada's house roughly a half-hour before in movie time.

* RunningGag: The catalogue of Tug Benson's increasingly outlandish war wounds. Other running gags include fighter jets being used like cars, people falling off an aircraft carrier's flight deck, and other people accidentally sitting on a chihuahua.