History Film / Mannequin

* ActorAllusion: G. W. Bailey plays a hard-ass security guard who has many of the pratfalls happen to him over the course of the movie. Do we consider [[Film/PoliceAcademy Captain Harris]] a promotion or 'de'-motion from this role?

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Stuart Pankin's Mr. James for Mr. Richards from the first film, being a stuffy, overbearing supervisor, though he's still different in other ways (namely he's not secretly working for a rival store).

* AndThisIsFor: Spoofed.

* BenevolentBoss: Claire Timkin, who recently took over running Prince and Company after her husband died, fits the bill. She offers Jonathan a job immediately after he rescues her from a falling sign, lets him design whatever he likes (unlike other bosses, who all fire him for being too artistic), and gives him two promotions (one to head of visual merchandising and one to vice-president) when she sees what amazing work he's doing. Claire also fires her {{Jerkass}} employees without hesitation and, at the end of the film, announces that she has enough video evidence to see all of the bad guys put away for good (while secretly assuring Jonathan that he doesn't have to worry about any possible recordings of him with Emmy in mannequin form).

* CoolOldLady: Claire Timkin (Estelle Getty), who recently took over running Prince and Company from her deceased husband. Unlike Richards, she wants to keep Prince and Company a going concern, and gives Jonathan a job on the spot after rescuing her from a near-disaster involving an exterior sign.

* BenevolentBoss: Claire Timkin, who recently took over running Prince and Company after her husband died, fits the bill. She offers Jonathan a job immediately after he rescues her from a falling sign, gives him free reign to design whatever he likes (unlike other bosses, who all fire him for being too artistic), and gives him two promotions (one to head of visual merchandising and one to vice-president) when she sees what amazing work he's doing. Claire also fires her {{Jerkass}} employees without hesitation and, at the end of the film, announces that she has enough video evidence to see all of the bad guys put away for good (while secretly assuring Jonathan that he doesn't have to worry about any possible recordings of him with Emmy in mannequin form).

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even the Rival Has Standards: When Claire orders charges be laid against Felix and Richards, the other Illustra security guards realize they were unwitting accessories to burglary and thus have no problem putting the cuffs on their employers.

* FourEyesZeroSoul: Richards.

---> '''Felix:''' Terminator... lunch time! '''GET HIM!!'''
---> '''Jonathan''' ''(as Terminator runs right by him without stopping)'' Nice dog. ''(runs off)''

* PetHomosexual: Hollywood Montrose.

* PygmalionPlot: Almost literally.

* FashionVictimVillain: BJ Wirt, his henchmen, and his entire department store Illustra collectively represent the most heinous 1980's fashion crimes all crammed into one setting. Wirt's love of tacky metallic fabrics is a particularly notable offense.

* MeaningfulName: Johnathan 'Switcher', who's job was to rearrange (switch) the mannequins in the storefront window.

** Jessie, when Jason demonstrates a fire extinguisher to her

* SpecialEffectEvolution: This film appears to have had slightly more of a budget than the first one, and this includes actual effects to indicate the necklace's curse either taking effect or being reversed, as well as a go-kart chase around the store's perimeter, an elaborate stage show that provides the backdrop for Jason and Count Spretzle's saber duel, and finally a hot air balloon taking off over the streets of Philadelphia.