History Film / PinkFlamingos

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-->'''CONNIE''': "I guess there's just two kinds of people, Miss Sandstone: MY kind of people, and assholes. It's rather obvious which category you fit into. Have a nice day."

** 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.

* ExplicitContent: All of the sex, including chicken rape, is unsimulated. [[FanDisservice It isn't exactly sexy]] [[RuleThirtyFour to most people]].
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether

* GrossUpCloseUp

* 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]].

** 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.

** 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.

* 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]].

* LadyInRed: Divine!

* 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]].

** 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.

* TabloidMelodrama: Completely subverted as both Divine and the Marbles strive to be featured in the tabloid press--Divine in fact invites three tabloid reporters to witness the trial and execution of the Marbles.

* NoodleIncident: After assassinating the Marble, Divine and group decide where to hide out next.

** 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.

* SkewedPriorities: 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.

* SlobsVersusSnobs: Divine and her family live in a trailer park while the Marbles are rich bourgeoisies.

* TwoDecadesBehind: The female characters wear tacky fifties-style dresses (that reportedly came from trash bins outside the Baltimore Salvation army).
* VillainProtagonist: Divine

-->'''Babs Johnson:''' I remember, the number 42!

* AlwaysChaoticEvil

* 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 the one with his mother. As a matter of fact, this was his only acting role, as any other appearances in films have been in {{Documentar|y}}ies.

* 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 the one with his mother.

-->I guess there's just two kinds of people, Miss Sandstone: MY kind of people, and assholes. It's rather obvious which category you fit into. Have a nice day.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Patty Hitler, a character who didn't make the final cut of the film, although she can be seen as a
party guest.

* TheDanza: Edith Massey as Edie.
** Cookie Mueller as Cookie.

* ThoseWackyNazis: Patty Hitler, a character who didn't make the final cut of the film, although she can be seen as a party guest.

* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether

* HatesBeingTouched: Cookie.

!!''PinkFlamingos'' contains examples of:

* BrokeTheRatingScale: RogerEbert refused to give the film any stars on the grounds that he wasn't sure it ''counted'' as a film.

* CloudCuckooLander: Edie. Also Channing to some extent.

** Well, they are called in by the Marbles at Divine's party, but Divine and her party guests [[ImAHumanitarian make short work of them]] in a ShoutOut to ''TwoThousandManiacs''.

--->'''Babs:''' Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! [[IAmAHumanitarian Advocate cannibalism!]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eat shit!]] Filth are my politics, filth is my life!

**** Which is just a darn shame.