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* BegoneBribe: Kramer and Douglas are having a conversation in the former's home and his grandson wants to play. Douglas hands the boy a five dollar bill and gleefully says "Here look. Money!" and the boy takes the bribe. Kramer looks on disapprovingly with Douglas snarking "What, I was just showing him how you got elected."
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* BegoneBribe: Kramer and Douglas are having a conversation in the former's home and his grandson wants to play. Douglas hands the boy a five dollar bill and gleefully says "Here look. Money!" and the boy takes the bribe. Kramer looks on disapprovingly with Douglas snarking "What, I was just showing him your grandson how you got elected."
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-->'''INS Pilot''': [[DangerDeadpan Authorization received. Have a nice day.]]
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-->'''INS Pilot''': [[DangerDeadpan Authorization received. Have Verification acknowledged, have a nice day.night.]]
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Crosswicking a number of examples.
* ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster: Two former Presidents battle a conspiracy which leads all the way up to the current President. After they expose the conspiracy and force the President to resign, they find out the real ringleader has been the apparently incompetent Vice-President, who has used this as an opportunity to get the top job.
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: The film comes to a climax after [[spoiler:the two ex-Presidents make it to the White House and are racing to a press conference to expose the scandal. An evil NSA agent by the name of Colonel Tanner pulls his car onto the White House lawn, cutting the two off, all while screaming orders to shoot the presidents at two Secret Service snipers on the roof, claiming they are imposters. He raises his gun after the snipers hesitate. A shot rings out. Cue DisturbedDoves. Tanner falls dead by one of the snipers, who reveals he knew they were the real presidents, as he had met them while dressed as Dorothy Gale during a gay pride parade. He had given them a bracelet which was sticking out of Kramer's pocket.]]
* BatmanGambit: It turns out that [[spoiler:the events were all orchestrated by the vice-president to get the current president impeached so he could become president.]]
* BegoneBribe: Kramer and Douglas are having a conversation in the former's home and his grandson wants to play. Douglas hands the boy a five dollar bill and gleefully says "Here look. Money!" and the boy takes the bribe. Kramer looks on disapprovingly with Douglas snarking "What, I was just showing him how you got elected."
* BilingualBackfire: The two main characters run into some Mexicans. One strikes up a conversation, insulting the other man, but after the Mexicans leave the scene the other comes back with: "By the way, ''yo hablo español muy bien''. Dickhead."
* BatmanGambit: It turns out that [[spoiler:the events were all orchestrated by the vice-president to get the current president impeached so he could become president.]]
* BegoneBribe: Kramer and Douglas are having a conversation in the former's home and his grandson wants to play. Douglas hands the boy a five dollar bill and gleefully says "Here look. Money!" and the boy takes the bribe. Kramer looks on disapprovingly with Douglas snarking "What, I was just showing him how you got elected."
* BilingualBackfire: The two main characters run into some Mexicans. One strikes up a conversation, insulting the other man, but after the Mexicans leave the scene the other comes back with: "By the way, ''yo hablo español muy bien''. Dickhead."
* CatchPhrase: Kramer's line that "dreams are like our children" which, by the time of Haney's term, everyone is sick of.
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* CatchPhrase: Kramer's line that "dreams are like our children" which, by the time of Haney's term, everyone is sick of.
* DisposablePilot: The two former Presidents are traveling in a government-issue helicopter but end up arguing. They force the pilot to land the plane and walk away to argue some more. The pilot lifts off, and the chopper blows up seconds later. This is the first clue to the Presidents that someone wants them dead.
* EvilChancellor: John Heard's [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed secretly-competent version of Dan Quayle]] is an Evil Vice President variation.
* FireForgedFriends: Douglas and Kramer, despite being from opposing parties, end up friends after everything they've been through in their efforts to avoid assassination and expose the corruption in the White House.
* FriendlySniper: Lieutenant Ralph Fleming, an ''[[StraightGay extremely]]'' [[WholesomeCrossdresser friendly]] sniper who ends up [[TheCavalry saving the day]].
* FriendlySniper: Lieutenant Ralph Fleming, an ''[[StraightGay extremely]]'' [[WholesomeCrossdresser friendly]] sniper who ends up [[TheCavalry saving the day]].
* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: When Kramer and Douglas are on the run from assassins and hiding in a truck full of illegal immigrants (ItMakesSenseInContext, sorta), Douglas strikes up a conversation with one of the immigrants in Spanish, finally making some insulting remarks about Kramer. As the punchline, after the two part company with the immigrants, Kramer responds in flawless Spanish, "I can speak Spanish too, dickhead!"
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* InterruptedByTheEnd: Though it also appears in an earlier scene, the film ends with a verbal cutoff. One character distracts the other and seizes a microphone in front of a large audience. As the latter begins "My fellow Americans," the former sees he's been deceived and mutters "[[CurseCutShort you son of a--]]"
* {{Japandering}}: As an ex-American President, Kramer is reduced to doing this -- he does object to dancing with giant stuffed animals, though.
* {{Japandering}}: As an ex-American President, Kramer is reduced to doing this -- he does object to dancing with giant stuffed animals, though.
* LyingToThePerp: A variation occurs when a character, tied and blindfolded, is made to think that his interrogators are going to torture him, beginning with truth serum. One of them gets a needle from a sewing kit, goes through the motions of preparing a shot, and just barely touches the crook's arm with the needle when he shouts "I'll talk!"
* NakedFreakOut: Former presidents Kramer and Douglas are cornering an evil White House henchman while he's in bed with his beautiful blond girlfriend -- and she storms off into the bathroom whimpering while trying to cover herself with the sheets.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Jack Lemmon and James Garner portray two bickering ex-US Presidents from different parties who end up on the run as the result of the machinations of a President Corrupt who frames them for his own dirty dealings. For their part, both Lemmon and Garner are President Personable, despite their ideological and personal differences, and Garner has a touch of President Playboy to him as well.
* PrideParade: Kramer and Douglas are trying to escape being killed under the orders of the current president (ItMakesSenseInContext) taking cover in a Gay Pride parade. They aren't trying to get LostInACrowd in this case, but rather are trying to be as visible as possible -- not even the bad guy in the film would try to have them killed on live television. [[spoiler: Becomes a BrickJoke by the end of the film when one of the government agents later refuses to shoot because he's been told these are 'imposters' but sees the gay-pride rings one still happens to be carrying and realizes "Those ''are'' the Presidents!"]] The audience doesn't recognize him at first because at the parade, he was cross-dressing as a member of a marching [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]] band. He tells the Presidents they met "Somewhere over the rainbow."
* {{Squee}}: Former presidents Douglas and Kramer show up unannounced in a car rental store, easily sending the two girls running the place into a rather strong expression of this trope.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Used as a one-off joke[=/=]TakeThat at the end of the film. [[spoiler:Because they were corrupt and caught,]] The President and Vice President both resign. Former Presidents Kramer and Douglas (the protagonists) realize that that means the Speaker of the House is next in line, and Douglas remarks "Oh no, not '''him!'''". At the time of filming, the speaker was Newt Gingrich.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: By the end of the film.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: By Kramer and Douglas have become this by the end of the film. film.
* WiperStart: Done to emphasize that neither of the two former presidents has driven ''themselves'' anywhere in years.
* WiperStart: Done to emphasize that neither of the two former presidents has driven ''themselves'' anywhere in years.
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* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Douglas and Kramer pretend to be celebrity look-alikes of themselves. While some people are impressed by their resemblance the "real" ex-presidents, one man says that one of them has too big a nose to be convincing.
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--> '''Kramer''': You know, after that bike ride, I think I'm changing my position on an important issue. T think the military can definitely use some of those gals.
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--> '''Kramer''': You know, after that bike ride, I think I'm changing my position on an important issue. T I think the military can definitely use some of those gals.
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--> '''Kramer''': You know, after that bike ride, I think I'm changing my position on an important issue. T think the military could can definitely use some of those gals.
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--> '''Kramer''': After that ride, I'm changing my position on an important issue. The military could definitely use some of those gals.
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--> '''Kramer''': After You know, after that bike ride, I think I'm changing my position on an important issue. The T think the military could definitely use some of those gals.
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* HollywoodSilencer: Matthews doesn't hear the suppressed gunshot that kills Charlie Reynolds, even though it happens only a few feet from him.
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* HollywoodSilencer: Matthews Douglas doesn't hear the suppressed gunshot that kills Charlie Reynolds, even though it happens only a few feet from him.
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* HollywoodSilencer: Matthews doesn't hear the suppressed gunshot that kills Charlie Reynolds, even though it happens only a few feet from him.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Kramer and Douglas are disturbed when they are confronted by a family whose lives have been ruined by the policies they enacted while in the White House.
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* ResignedInDisgrace: Haney resigns from the presidency at the end of the movie as punishment for his taking bribes and the attempts to assassinate Kramer and Douglas. [[spoiler:Except he's innocent of the latter.]]
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* TruthInTelevision: Kramer explains his poor driving skills as not having driven since he was in Congress. Presidents are forbidden by law to be behind the wheel on public roads for the rest of their lives. G.W.Bush being the only exception as long as he's driving on his ranch.
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A 1996 comedy film directed by Creator/PeterSegal, starring Creator/JackLemmon and Creator/JamesGarner. Also in the cast are Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/JohnHeard, Creator/WilfordBrimley, and Creator/LaurenBacall.
A 1996 comedy film directed by Creator/PeterSegal, starring Creator/JackLemmon and Creator/JamesGarner. Also in the cast are Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/JohnHeard, Creator/WilfordBrimley, and Creator/LaurenBacall.
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A 1996 American comedy film directed by Creator/PeterSegal, starring Creator/JackLemmon and Creator/JamesGarner. Also in the cast are Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/JohnHeard, Creator/WilfordBrimley, and Creator/LaurenBacall.
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved
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* NotSoDifferent: The point of the movie is that if Douglas and Kramer hadn't spent so much time trying to politically destroy each other, they might have been friends.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: By the end of the film. See NotSoDifferent.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: By the end of the film. See NotSoDifferent.
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--> "Funny thing is everybody thinks I'm this big idiot, and its all a big facade." (While mispronouncing facade as "fəh-kade".)
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--> "Funny thing is everybody thinks I'm this big idiot, and its all a big facade." (While ''(While mispronouncing facade as "fəh-kade".))''
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* WithLyrics: Kramer and Douglas both came up with personal lyrics for "Hail To the Chief" just to deal with having to hear it so many times.
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* WithLyrics: Kramer and Douglas both came up with personal lyrics for "Hail To to the Chief" just to deal with having to hear it so many times.
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* CampGay: [[spoiler: Secret Service Sniper Ralph Flemming]] manages to be this AND StraightGay. Basically he plays it up in a pride parade.
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* CampGay: [[spoiler: Secret Service Sniper Ralph Flemming]] manages to be this AND ''and'' StraightGay. Basically he plays it up in a pride parade.
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* CatchPhrase: Kramer's line that "Dreams are like our children" which, by the time of Haney's term, everyone is sick of.
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* CatchPhrase: Kramer's line that "Dreams "dreams are like our children" which, by the time of Haney's term, everyone is sick of.
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* BadassGay: [[spoiler: Flemming.]]
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A 1996 comedy film directed by Peter Segal, starring Creator/JackLemmon and Creator/JamesGarner. Also in the cast are Creator/DanAykroyd, John Heard, Creator/WilfordBrimley, and Creator/LaurenBacall.
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A 1996 comedy film directed by Peter Segal, Creator/PeterSegal, starring Creator/JackLemmon and Creator/JamesGarner. Also in the cast are Creator/DanAykroyd, John Heard, Creator/JohnHeard, Creator/WilfordBrimley, and Creator/LaurenBacall.
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* ArtisticLicensePolitics: At the end of the movie, after President Haney resigns and former President Douglas reveals he recorded an incriminating conversation that will get Vice President Matthews thrown out of office Douglas states that under the 25th Amendment the Speaker of the House will become President. The 25th Amendment doesn't address that - it only addresses how the VP becomes President, how a President can appoint a new VP should there be a vacancy, and when the President is incapacitated or unable to discharge his duties. The Presidential Succession Act describes who becomes President if the President ''and'' Vice President die, resign or are removed.
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* IndyPloy: "What am I, [[PrecisionFStrike fuckin]] Series/MacGyver? I'm makin this up as I go." [[note]]A bit of a {{Dissimile}} when one considers that [=MacGyver=] more often than not makes things up as he goes.[[/note]]
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* IndyPloy: "What am I, [[PrecisionFStrike fuckin]] Series/MacGyver? Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}? I'm makin this up as I go." [[note]]A bit of a {{Dissimile}} when one considers that [=MacGyver=] more often than not makes things up as he goes.[[/note]]
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* KingIncognito: Kramer and Douglas do this both intentionally and unintentionally while on the run from the NSA. They're former Presidents of the United States, but very people recognize them. One of the saddest moments in the movie is when Kramer can't afford a piece of pie he wants only for the diner's cook to give it to him out of pity because he thinks Kramer is just a run of the mill down on his luck old guy.
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* KingIncognito: Kramer and Douglas do this both intentionally and unintentionally while on the run from the NSA. They're former Presidents of the United States, but very few people recognize them. One of the saddest moments in the movie is when Kramer can't afford a piece of pie he wants only for the diner's cook to give it to him out of pity because he thinks Kramer is just a run of the mill down on his luck old guy.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The ending scene. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution The 22nd Amendment]], enacted after the death of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt Franklin D Roosevelt]] (who served 4 terms), states that if a president has spent more than two years in the office (either via [[YouAreInCommandNow a vice-president taking up the position after the death of the incumbent]], or via a fair election followed by a resignation) and/or served two consecutive terms, they cannot run again.
-->Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
-->Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The ending scene. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution The 22nd Amendment]], enacted after the death of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt Franklin D Roosevelt]] (who served 4 terms), states that if a president has spent more than two years in the office (either via [[YouAreInCommandNow a vice-president taking up the position after the death of the incumbent]], or via a fair election followed by a resignation) and/or served two consecutive terms, they cannot run again.
-->Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
-->Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
