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** The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YVRu09nAo Filth Politics]]" speech .
--->'''Reporter:''' Divine, are you a lesbian?
--->'''Babs:''' Yes, I have done everything!
--->'''Reporter:''' Does blood turn you on?
--->'''Babs:''' It does more than turn me on, Mr. Vader, it makes me come! And more than the sight of it, I love the taste of it, the taste of hot freshly killed blood!
--->'''Reporter:''' Could you give us some of your political beliefs?
--->'''Babs:''' Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! [[IAmAHumanitarian Advocate cannibalism!]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eat shit!]] Filth are my politics, filth is my life!
** The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YVRu09nAo Filth Politics]]" speech .
--->'''Reporter:''' Divine, are you a lesbian?
--->'''Babs:''' Yes, I have done everything!
--->'''Reporter:''' Does blood turn you on?
--->'''Babs:''' It does more than turn me on, Mr. Vader, it makes me come! And more than the sight of it, I love the taste of it, the taste of hot freshly killed blood!
--->'''Reporter:''' Could you give us some of your political beliefs?
--->'''Babs:''' Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! [[IAmAHumanitarian Advocate cannibalism!]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eat shit!]] Filth are my politics, filth is my life!
* VulgarHumor: The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YVRu09nAo Filth Politics]]" speech .
--->'''Reporter:''' Divine, are you a lesbian?
--->'''Babs:''' Yes, I have done everything!
--->'''Reporter:''' Does blood turn you on?
--->'''Babs:''' It does more than turn me on, Mr. Vader, it makes me come! And more than the sight of it, I love the taste of it, the taste of hot freshly killed blood!
--->'''Reporter:''' Could you give us some of your political beliefs?
--->'''Babs:''' Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! [[IAmAHumanitarian Advocate cannibalism!]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eat shit!]] Filth are my politics, filth is my life!
--->'''Reporter:''' Divine, are you a lesbian?
--->'''Babs:''' Yes, I have done everything!
--->'''Reporter:''' Does blood turn you on?
--->'''Babs:''' It does more than turn me on, Mr. Vader, it makes me come! And more than the sight of it, I love the taste of it, the taste of hot freshly killed blood!
--->'''Reporter:''' Could you give us some of your political beliefs?
--->'''Babs:''' Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! [[IAmAHumanitarian Advocate cannibalism!]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eat shit!]] Filth are my politics, filth is my life!
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* ValuesDissonance: The Marbles do much evil deeds, but many modern viewers probably aren't bothered that they adopt out babies to lesbian couples. (Anyway the one featured in the film seem far more decent and grounded than anyone else in the film....)
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* TwoDecadesBehind: The female characters wear tacky fifties-style dresses (that reputedly came from trash bins outside the Baltimore Salvation army.
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* SlobsVersusSnobs: Divine and her family live in a trailer park while the Marbles are rich bourgeoisies.
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* SkewedPriorites: Despite kidnapping and forcefully impregnating girls, illegal baby ring operators Connie and Raymond Marble are horrified by the drinking, drug using and lewd but harmless behaviour of the guests at Divine's birthday party.
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** The narrator is upset that Raymond not only exposes himself to women but ''makes his wife wait in the car'' while doing so.
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* RichBitch: Connie Marble.
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* OldShame: Danny Mills allegedly regrets playing Crackers and has tried to disassociate himself from the film. It's unclear if he most regrets the sex scene with the chickens or his mother.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: As Waters explained, "I was high when I ''wrote'' it. I was not high when I ''made'' it."
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The film that launched JohnWaters as the world's leading authority on bad taste, ''Pink Flamingos'' is a 1972 transgressive comedy starring Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Danny Mills, and Mary Vivian Pearce. It follows the adventures of [[TheDanza Divine]] (living under the alias of Babs Johnson), a [[FatBastard fat]], style-obsessed criminal who lives in a trailer with her mentally ill mother Edie, her delinquent son Crackers, and her traveling companion Cotton. Divine, however, is furious when a pair of perverts, Raymond and Connie Marble, try to steal her title of "filthiest person alive." HilarityEnsues.
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The film that launched JohnWaters Creator/JohnWaters as the world's leading authority on bad taste, ''Pink Flamingos'' is a 1972 transgressive comedy starring Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Danny Mills, and Mary Vivian Pearce. It follows the adventures of [[TheDanza Divine]] (living under the alias of Babs Johnson), a [[FatBastard fat]], style-obsessed criminal who lives in a trailer with her mentally ill mother Edie, her delinquent son Crackers, and her traveling companion Cotton. Divine, however, is furious when a pair of perverts, Raymond and Connie Marble, try to steal her title of "filthiest person alive." HilarityEnsues.
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** The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YVRu09nAo Filth Politics]]" speech is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for many.
-->'''Reporter:''' Divine, are you a lesbian?
-->'''Babs:''' Yes, I have done everything!
-->'''Reporter:''' Does blood turn you on?
-->'''Babs:''' It does more than turn me on, Mr. Vader, it makes me come! And more than the sight of it, I love the taste of it, the taste of hot freshly killed blood!
-->'''Reporter:''' Could you give us some of your political beliefs?
-->'''Babs:''' Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! [[IAmAHumanitarian Advocate cannibalism!]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eat shit!]] Filth are my politics, filth is my life!
-->'''Reporter:''' Divine, are you a lesbian?
-->'''Babs:''' Yes, I have done everything!
-->'''Reporter:''' Does blood turn you on?
-->'''Babs:''' It does more than turn me on, Mr. Vader, it makes me come! And more than the sight of it, I love the taste of it, the taste of hot freshly killed blood!
-->'''Reporter:''' Could you give us some of your political beliefs?
-->'''Babs:''' Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! [[IAmAHumanitarian Advocate cannibalism!]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eat shit!]] Filth are my politics, filth is my life!
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** The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YVRu09nAo Filth Politics]]" speech is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for many.
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-->'''Babs:''' --->'''Babs:''' Yes, I have done everything!
-->'''Reporter:''' --->'''Reporter:''' Does blood turn you on?
-->'''Babs:''' --->'''Babs:''' It does more than turn me on, Mr. Vader, it makes me come! And more than the sight of it, I love the taste of it, the taste of hot freshly killed blood!
-->'''Reporter:''' --->'''Reporter:''' Could you give us some of your political beliefs?
-->'''Babs:''' --->'''Babs:''' Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! [[IAmAHumanitarian Advocate cannibalism!]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eat shit!]] Filth are my politics, filth is my life!
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->''"Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit! Filth are my politics! Filth is my life!"''
-->-- '''Divine'''
The film that launched JohnWaters as the world's leading authority on bad taste, ''Pink Flamingos'' is a 1972 transgressive comedy starring Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Danny Mills, and Mary Vivian Pearce. It follows the adventures of [[TheDanza Divine]] (living under the alias of Babs Johnson), a [[FatBastard fat]], style-obsessed criminal who lives in a trailer with her mentally ill mother Edie, her delinquent son Crackers, and her traveling companion Cotton. Divine, however, is furious when a pair of perverts, Raymond and Connie Marble, try to steal her title of "filthiest person alive." HilarityEnsues.
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!!''PinkFlamingos'' contains examples of:
* AlwaysChaoticEvil
* BlackComedyRape
* BloodyHilarious
* BrokeTheRatingScale: RogerEbert refused to give the film any stars on the grounds that he wasn't sure it ''counted'' as a film.
* ButYouScrewOneGoat: "Hold it! Hold these goddamn chickens!"
* {{Camp}}
* CardCarryingVillain: Divine is EXTREMELY proud of being called "The Filthiest Person Alive".
* ChewbaccaDefense: "Is there any cross-examination? No? A very strange defense, I must say. Gentlemen, the verdict is guilty on all ten counts of first-degree stupidity."
* CloudCuckooLander: Edie.
* TheDanza: Edith Massey as Edie.
* DeadBabyComedy
* DragQueen: Channing. Also the actor, but not the character, Divine.
* EverythingsBetterWithChickens
* EvilVsEvil
* EvillyAffable: Both [[VillainProtagonist Divine]] and [[{{Jerkass}} Connie & Raymond]]
* ExploitationFilm
* FanDisservice
* FatBastard: Divine
* {{Fetish}}: Cotton is a voyeur, Crackers [[ButYouScrewOneGoat loves]] chickens, and let's not get started on Raymond and Connie.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several allusions to eating shit before someone actually does it.
* AGodAmI:
-->'''Mr. Vader''': Do you believe in God?
-->'''Divine''': I AM GOD!
* ExplicitContent: All of the sex, including chicken rape, is unsimulated. [[FanDisservice It isn't exactly sexy]] [[RuleThirtyFour to most people]].
* {{Gorn}}
* GroinAttack: "He's been...CASTRATED. His penis is GONE."
* GrossUpCloseUp
* ImAHumanitarian
* KangarooCourt: [[LampshadeHanging Described as such]].
* MasochistsMeal: [[RoadApples Dog feces.]] [[NauseaFuel They fed the poodle on steak for three days beforehand]].
* {{Narrator}}: John Waters himself.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Before the final scene, the narrator exclaims, "What you are about to see is a real thing." [[FridgeLogic Even though everything that preceeded it (except for the murders) was, too]].
* ParentalIncest: "Do my balls, mama!"
* PlotHole: The Marbles sending the [[RoadApples gift]] to Babs is "Phase one" of their plan. The attack on the trailer is "Phase three". There is no phase two.
** There is a plan two; the Marbles go to Divine's home and torment her mother, dressing her like a baby and breaking all of her eggs. The scene was cut due to a continuity error, as they forgot part of Edie's baby outfit when they filmed Divine finding her mom.
** Another plot hole is how they find out the home and identity of the Marbles; while they are tormenting Divine's mother, Divine and Crackers visits Patty Hitler and get the intel. The scene with Patty Hitler was filmed but cut from the final version of the film, replaced with a vague naration bit.
** Despite the fact that the Johnson family does not have an address and are sufficiently isolated to consider the arrival of a postal carrier suspicious, They are on the route of an egg delivery person.
* RedOniBlueOni: Connie and Raymond.
* RefugeInAudacity
* RefugeInVulgarity
** The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YVRu09nAo Filth Politics]]" speech is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for many.
-->'''Reporter:''' Divine, are you a lesbian?
-->'''Babs:''' Yes, I have done everything!
-->'''Reporter:''' Does blood turn you on?
-->'''Babs:''' It does more than turn me on, Mr. Vader, it makes me come! And more than the sight of it, I love the taste of it, the taste of hot freshly killed blood!
-->'''Reporter:''' Could you give us some of your political beliefs?
-->'''Babs:''' Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! [[IAmAHumanitarian Advocate cannibalism!]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eat shit!]] Filth are my politics, filth is my life!
* RoadApples: "Someone has sent me a bowel movement."
* SceneryGorn: Many, many scenes of the trailer burning.
* SerialEscalation: To say that it pushes the limits of bad taste is an understatement.
** The actual production of the film counts, as well, as ''everything you see in the movie actually happened''. '''''Unsimulated.'''''
*** Except for the deaths, of course.
**** Which is just a darn shame.
** In his Stand-up Comedy routine, This Filthy World, he claims that he showed the film to a group of prisoners , when he was teaching a class in prison (emphasizing that many of them were murderers), and they all declared it one of the sickest things they'd ever been exposed to.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Patti Page's "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window" plays while Divine eats dog shit. Yeah, the song is about a dog, but it's a cutesy '50s pop hit.
* {{Tagline}}: "An exercise in poor taste."
* TarAndFeathers
* ThereAreNoPolice
* ThoseWackyNazis: Patty Hitler, a character who didn't make the final cut of the film, although she can be seen as a party guest.
* TortureCellar: The Marbles kidnap young women, lock them up in their basement, have Channing impregnate them, and sell the babies to lesbian couples.
* TorturePorn: [[PlayedForLaughs Supposed to be a disturbingly funny parody]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Edie and eggs.
* {{Transsexual}}: One of the women that Raymond exposes his penis to flashes hers back.
* VillainProtagonist: Divine
** Of course, with their sex slave ring, which they use to sell babies to lesbian couples, and the fact that the money they get is used on illicit drugs to sell to inner-city grade schoolers, the Marbles (the main antagonists) are MUCH worse as villains, which is why Divine feels justified in [[AssholeVictim killing them for first-degree stupidity and assholism]].
* VillainsOutShopping: The trip to the butcher shop.
* WorldOfHam
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->''"Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit! Filth are my politics! Filth is my life!"''
-->-- '''Divine'''
The film that launched JohnWaters as the world's leading authority on bad taste, ''Pink Flamingos'' is a 1972 transgressive comedy starring Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Danny Mills, and Mary Vivian Pearce. It follows the adventures of [[TheDanza Divine]] (living under the alias of Babs Johnson), a [[FatBastard fat]], style-obsessed criminal who lives in a trailer with her mentally ill mother Edie, her delinquent son Crackers, and her traveling companion Cotton. Divine, however, is furious when a pair of perverts, Raymond and Connie Marble, try to steal her title of "filthiest person alive." HilarityEnsues.
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!!''PinkFlamingos'' contains examples of:
* AlwaysChaoticEvil
* BlackComedyRape
* BloodyHilarious
* BrokeTheRatingScale: RogerEbert refused to give the film any stars on the grounds that he wasn't sure it ''counted'' as a film.
* ButYouScrewOneGoat: "Hold it! Hold these goddamn chickens!"
* {{Camp}}
* CardCarryingVillain: Divine is EXTREMELY proud of being called "The Filthiest Person Alive".
* ChewbaccaDefense: "Is there any cross-examination? No? A very strange defense, I must say. Gentlemen, the verdict is guilty on all ten counts of first-degree stupidity."
* CloudCuckooLander: Edie.
* TheDanza: Edith Massey as Edie.
* DeadBabyComedy
* DragQueen: Channing. Also the actor, but not the character, Divine.
* EverythingsBetterWithChickens
* EvilVsEvil
* EvillyAffable: Both [[VillainProtagonist Divine]] and [[{{Jerkass}} Connie & Raymond]]
* ExploitationFilm
* FanDisservice
* FatBastard: Divine
* {{Fetish}}: Cotton is a voyeur, Crackers [[ButYouScrewOneGoat loves]] chickens, and let's not get started on Raymond and Connie.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several allusions to eating shit before someone actually does it.
* AGodAmI:
-->'''Mr. Vader''': Do you believe in God?
-->'''Divine''': I AM GOD!
* ExplicitContent: All of the sex, including chicken rape, is unsimulated. [[FanDisservice It isn't exactly sexy]] [[RuleThirtyFour to most people]].
* {{Gorn}}
* GroinAttack: "He's been...CASTRATED. His penis is GONE."
* GrossUpCloseUp
* ImAHumanitarian
* KangarooCourt: [[LampshadeHanging Described as such]].
* MasochistsMeal: [[RoadApples Dog feces.]] [[NauseaFuel They fed the poodle on steak for three days beforehand]].
* {{Narrator}}: John Waters himself.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Before the final scene, the narrator exclaims, "What you are about to see is a real thing." [[FridgeLogic Even though everything that preceeded it (except for the murders) was, too]].
* ParentalIncest: "Do my balls, mama!"
* PlotHole: The Marbles sending the [[RoadApples gift]] to Babs is "Phase one" of their plan. The attack on the trailer is "Phase three". There is no phase two.
** There is a plan two; the Marbles go to Divine's home and torment her mother, dressing her like a baby and breaking all of her eggs. The scene was cut due to a continuity error, as they forgot part of Edie's baby outfit when they filmed Divine finding her mom.
** Another plot hole is how they find out the home and identity of the Marbles; while they are tormenting Divine's mother, Divine and Crackers visits Patty Hitler and get the intel. The scene with Patty Hitler was filmed but cut from the final version of the film, replaced with a vague naration bit.
** Despite the fact that the Johnson family does not have an address and are sufficiently isolated to consider the arrival of a postal carrier suspicious, They are on the route of an egg delivery person.
* RedOniBlueOni: Connie and Raymond.
* RefugeInAudacity
* RefugeInVulgarity
** The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YVRu09nAo Filth Politics]]" speech is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for many.
-->'''Reporter:''' Divine, are you a lesbian?
-->'''Babs:''' Yes, I have done everything!
-->'''Reporter:''' Does blood turn you on?
-->'''Babs:''' It does more than turn me on, Mr. Vader, it makes me come! And more than the sight of it, I love the taste of it, the taste of hot freshly killed blood!
-->'''Reporter:''' Could you give us some of your political beliefs?
-->'''Babs:''' Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! [[IAmAHumanitarian Advocate cannibalism!]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eat shit!]] Filth are my politics, filth is my life!
* RoadApples: "Someone has sent me a bowel movement."
* SceneryGorn: Many, many scenes of the trailer burning.
* SerialEscalation: To say that it pushes the limits of bad taste is an understatement.
** The actual production of the film counts, as well, as ''everything you see in the movie actually happened''. '''''Unsimulated.'''''
*** Except for the deaths, of course.
**** Which is just a darn shame.
** In his Stand-up Comedy routine, This Filthy World, he claims that he showed the film to a group of prisoners , when he was teaching a class in prison (emphasizing that many of them were murderers), and they all declared it one of the sickest things they'd ever been exposed to.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Patti Page's "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window" plays while Divine eats dog shit. Yeah, the song is about a dog, but it's a cutesy '50s pop hit.
* {{Tagline}}: "An exercise in poor taste."
* TarAndFeathers
* ThereAreNoPolice
* ThoseWackyNazis: Patty Hitler, a character who didn't make the final cut of the film, although she can be seen as a party guest.
* TortureCellar: The Marbles kidnap young women, lock them up in their basement, have Channing impregnate them, and sell the babies to lesbian couples.
* TorturePorn: [[PlayedForLaughs Supposed to be a disturbingly funny parody]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Edie and eggs.
* {{Transsexual}}: One of the women that Raymond exposes his penis to flashes hers back.
* VillainProtagonist: Divine
** Of course, with their sex slave ring, which they use to sell babies to lesbian couples, and the fact that the money they get is used on illicit drugs to sell to inner-city grade schoolers, the Marbles (the main antagonists) are MUCH worse as villains, which is why Divine feels justified in [[AssholeVictim killing them for first-degree stupidity and assholism]].
* VillainsOutShopping: The trip to the butcher shop.
* WorldOfHam
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