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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: All about Big Jim Slade...
-->Big Jim, former tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, is outfitted with various whips, chains, and a sexual appetite that will knock your socks off! Big Jim has satisfied women throughout the world, [[WeirdAside and the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln!]]



* NonSequitur: All about Big Jim Slade...
-->Big Jim, former tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, is outfitted with various whips, chains, and a sexual appetite that will knock your socks off! Big Jim has satisfied women throughout the world, [[WeirdAside and the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln!]]



* SpiritualSuccessor: Many consider ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'', in part also directed by John Landis, and that reaches for the same style of irreverent humor, to be this.
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* {{Housewife}}: A parody of educational films (specifically, "Film/ACaseOfSpringFever") features one tortured by an omnipotent narrator because she took zinc oxide for granted, so he takes away everything made possible by zinc oxide; by the end of the skit her kitchen is on fire, everything from a fire extinguisher to a bucket of sand to deal with it no longer exist, her husband and son are dead or dying from the former's pacemaker disappearing and the latter's gun [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace no longer having a safety]], her car has knocked down one of the walls because it doesn't have brakes anymore, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking her false leg has fallen off]].

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* {{Housewife}}: A parody of educational films (specifically, "Film/ACaseOfSpringFever") features one who gets tortured by an omnipotent narrator because she took zinc oxide for granted, so he takes away everything made possible by zinc oxide; by the end of the skit her kitchen is on fire, everything from a fire extinguisher to a bucket of sand to deal with it no longer exist, her husband and son are dead or dying from the former's pacemaker disappearing and the latter's gun [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace no longer having a safety]], her car has knocked down one of the walls because it doesn't have brakes anymore, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking her false leg has fallen off]].



* ShiksaGoddess: Cleopatra Schwartz is ostensibly a gentile African American woman (though she might have converted to Judaism to marry her husband) married to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who studies the Torah religiously.

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* ShiksaGoddess: Cleopatra Schwartz is ostensibly a gentile African American woman (though she might have [[ConvertingForLove converted to Judaism to marry her husband) husband]]) married to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who studies the Torah religiously.



* TakeThat: Makeup artist and occasional gorilla portrayer Creator/RickBaker plays a grouchy, [[TheLoinsSleepTonight sexually impotent]] [[KillerGorilla gorilla]] named Dino — named for Dino De Laurentiis, whose ''Film/KingKong1976'' remake the previous year featured Baker as Kong. It was not a happy experience for Baker.

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* TakeThat: Makeup artist and occasional gorilla portrayer Creator/RickBaker plays a grouchy, [[TheLoinsSleepTonight sexually impotent]] [[KillerGorilla gorilla]] named Dino — named for Dino De Laurentiis, Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, whose ''Film/KingKong1976'' remake the previous year featured Baker as Kong. It was not a happy experience for Baker.
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* WhoShotJFK: A commercial for ''Scot Free'', a FictionalBoardGame build around this topic, is shown.

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* WhoShotJFK: A commercial for ''Scot Free'', a FictionalBoardGame build built around this topic, is shown.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: John Fitzsimmons and Sheila Hamilton in ''Count Pointer Count'', for James J. Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander ([[UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton "Alexander"="Hamilton"]]), who were the participants in the "Point[=/=]Counterpoint" segment of ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' at the time. William Tregoe, who played Fitzsimmons, also played the Kilpatrick parody in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' ("I say, let 'em crash!").
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* RunningGag: Samuel L. Broncowitz produces every movie with a trailer featured in the film... and actually shows up in the trailer for ''The Kentucky Fried Movie''.

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* RunningGag: Samuel L. Broncowitz Bronkowitz produces every movie with a trailer featured in the film... and actually shows up in the trailer for ''The Kentucky Fried Movie''.

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** The character names Rex Kramer (the subject of "Danger Seekers") and Steven [=McCroskey=] (the on-camera announcer in "Courtroom") were famously re-used in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.[[note]]Both were names of high school buddies of the ZAZ team.[[/note]]



* HappyBirthdayToYou: The use of this song in the film cost the filmmakers $10,000.

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* HappyBirthdayToYou: The use of this song in the film "Courtroom" sketch cost the filmmakers $10,000.
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* CreatorCameo: Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker all have major roles in "Courtroom"--David Zucker is Sheldon Grunwald, Jim Abrahams is the on-camera announcer, and Jerry Zucker as [[Series/LeaveItToBeaver The Beaver]] (literally). Beyond that, all three play the technicians in the final news sketch and David is the man in "His New Car", and they have a few other bit parts.
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* CreatorThumbprint: While it's soaked in the family comedic anarchy of Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker, the gorilla in "AM Today" and the film in "Feel-Around" being called ''See You Next Wednesday'' are clearly Creator/JohnLandis inserting two of his own signature motifs into the film.

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* CreatorThumbprint: While it's soaked in the family familiar comedic anarchy of Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker, the gorilla in "AM Today" and the film in "Feel-Around" being called ''See You Next Wednesday'' are clearly Creator/JohnLandis inserting two of his own signature motifs into the film.
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* CreatorThumbprint: While it's soaked in the family comedic anarchy of Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker, the gorilla in "AM Today" and the film in "Feel-Around" being called ''See You Next Wednesday'' are clearly Creator/JohnLandis inserting two of his own signature motifs into the film.
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* WhoShotJFK: A commercial for ''Scot Free'', a FictionalBoardGame build around this topic, is shown.
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* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: The nudity in "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" and "11:00 News" were specifically calculated to get the film an R rating, so it could have the selling point of being more "adult" than TV sketch comedy.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: There is an edited for TV version that aired frequently on Creator/USANetwork back in TheNineties and still shows up on Creator/ComedyCentral sometimes. Of course, all the nudity in the 11:00 News sketch is edited out with pan and scan tricks, and "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" is simply excised completely, even though credits for the sketch still show up at the end. Oddly, "The Wonderful World of Sex" was largely untouched.

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* {{Bowdlerise}}: There is an edited for TV version that aired frequently on Creator/USANetwork back in TheNineties and still shows up on Creator/ComedyCentral sometimes. Of course, all the nudity in the 11:00 News sketch is edited out with pan and scan tricks, and "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" is simply excised completely, even though credits for the sketch still show up at the end. Oddly, "The Wonderful World of Sex" was is largely untouched.
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* BlandNameProduct: In various segments there are Willer (Miller) Beer, Barker (Parker) Brothers, "Feel-a-Round" (Sensurround), Nytex P.M. (Nyquil P.M.) and Nesson Oil (Wesson Oil).

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* BlandNameProduct: In various segments there are Willer (Miller) Beer, Barker (Parker) Brothers, "Feel-a-Round" (Sensurround), Nytex P.M. (Nyquil P.M.) ), Sanhedrin (Excedrin) and Nesson Oil (Wesson Oil).
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Not to be confused with UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken.

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Not to be confused with UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken.
UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken, though obviously it was the source of the film's title (the Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker comedy troupe was originally called Kernel [''sic''] Sanders' Kentucky Fried Theater).
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Dr. Klahn was named for Dr. Richard Klahn, the principal at Shorewood High School in Wisconsin when the ZAZ team were students there.
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* * WhiteBreadAndBlackBrotha: Parodied in ''Cleopatra Schwarz'': an overly violent and sexual blaxploitation ActionGirl (a parody of Film/CleopatraJones) is married to a NiceJewishBoy who's clearly not cut out for violence at all--until it shows him helping her subdue bad guys and fire machine guns at gangbangers.

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* * WhiteBreadAndBlackBrotha: Parodied in ''Cleopatra Schwarz'': an overly violent and sexual blaxploitation ActionGirl (a parody of Film/CleopatraJones) is married to a NiceJewishBoy who's clearly not cut out for violence at all--until it shows him helping her subdue bad guys and fire machine guns at gangbangers.
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* * WhiteBreadAndBlackBrotha: Parodied in ''Cleopatra Schwarz'': an overly violent and sexual blaxploitation ActionGirl (a parody of Film/CleopatraJones) is married to a NiceJewishBoy who's clearly not cut out for violence at all--until it shows him helping her subdue bad guys and fire machine guns at gangbangers.


* SaltAndPepper: Cleopatra Schwartz is married to an ultraorthodox Jew.

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