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** There's a lot of this in the alien's dialogue as well, such as "You think the earth people think we are strange, you think? It is strange how the ways of different people on different planets differ."
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* YouLookFamiliar: All the actors from the first movie turn up again.

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* YouLookFamiliar: All the actors from the first movie turn up again.
again. Even the ones whose character's died.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: PlayedForLaughs as a parody of the casual sexism often seen in TheFifties genre films. Betty is very much a prototypical {{Housewife}}, as well as a DamselInDistress. Even Lattis, who claims to be from an society where the genders are equal, defers to her husband Kro-Bar without question.

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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: PlayedForLaughs as a parody of the casual sexism often seen in TheFifties genre films. Betty is very much a prototypical {{Housewife}}, as well as a DamselInDistress. Even Lattis, who claims to be from an a society where the genders are equal, defers to her husband Kro-Bar without question.

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* DeadpanSnarker: The Skeleton.
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* {{Anticlimax}} / CurbStompBattle: The Skeleton vs. the Magraclop. [[spoiler: crunch]]



* CurbStompBattle: The Skeleton vs. the Magraclop. [[spoiler: crunch]]

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If it's on purpose, it's Deliberate Values Dissonance.


* DeadpanSnarker: The Skeleton.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: PlayedForLaughs as a parody of the casual sexism often seen in TheFifties genre films. Betty is very much a prototypical {{Housewife}}, as well as a DamselInDistress. Even Lattis, who claims to be from an society where the genders are equal, defers to her husband Kro-Bar without question.
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* ValuesDissonance: This movie has a very 1950s mindset. Betty is very much a prototypical {{Housewife}}, as well as a DamselInDistress. Even Lattis, who claims to be from an society where the genders are equal, defers to her husband Kro-Bar without question. Almost certainly done on purpose.
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* ValuesDissonace: This movie has a very 1950s mindset. Betty is very much a prototypical {{Housewife}}, as well as a DamselInDistress. Even Lattis, who claims to be from an society where the genders are equal, defers to her husband Kro-Bar without question. Almost certainly done on purpose.

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* ValuesDissonace: ValuesDissonance: This movie has a very 1950s mindset. Betty is very much a prototypical {{Housewife}}, as well as a DamselInDistress. Even Lattis, who claims to be from an society where the genders are equal, defers to her husband Kro-Bar without question. Almost certainly done on purpose.

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* MonochromeCasting: Just like the movies from the era it's spoofing, the entire cast is white.



* NoBudget: The movie was made on a budget of $100,000, most of which went towards securing the location. In this case, the lack of budget was a positive, since the movies it was parodying were likewise made on shoestring budgets.



* VeryFalseAdvertising: The trailer.

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* ValuesDissonace: This movie has a very 1950s mindset. Betty is very much a prototypical {{Housewife}}, as well as a DamselInDistress. Even Lattis, who claims to be from an society where the genders are equal, defers to her husband Kro-Bar without question. Almost certainly done on purpose.
* VeryFalseAdvertising: The trailer. [[InvokedTrope On purpose]].
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** Paul actually pulls his car onto the shoulder in order to explain atmosphereum and its implications (actual advances in the field of Science) to his wife, who must have already known this prior to being asked to go out to the middle of nowhere to look for some.

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* DrowningMySorrows: Armstrong after becoming disillusioned with Science.

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* DrowningMySorrows: Armstrong after becoming disillusioned with Science. The idea of him becoming a bitter drunk was actually the entire reason Larry Blamire made the movie, as he usually hates sequels but found this too good to resist.

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* CurbStompBattle: The Skeleton vs. the Magraclop. [[spoiler: crunch]]



* {{Department of Redundancy Department}}: The title.

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* {{Department of Redundancy Department}}: DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The title.
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* ChewingTheScenery: Dr. Fleming's EvilLaugh, which doubles as an OverlyLongGag.
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* AsYouKnow: Crobar is fond of pointing out to his wife that they are aliens from the planet Marva.

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* AsYouKnow: Crobar is fond of pointing out to his wife that they are aliens from the planet Marva. He also likes to explain technology that's just as familiar to her as it is to him.
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* AsYouKnow: Crobar is fond of pointing out to his wife that they are aliens from the planet Marva.
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-->'''Lattis:''' I certainly am a normal earth female. Isn't that right, my little space comet?

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** Paul Armstrong and Roger Fleming are both scientists. Paul spends a couple scenes staring into a microscope (and doing other things that could be called experimentation by someone feeling charitable), but otherwise seems more interested in discussing what a scientist's life is like that being a scientist. Roger doesn't even do that much, as the actor puts it, he spends all day laughing in a cave. In one scene he does have what appears to be a [[NoBudget child's chemistry set]] laid out on the floor of the cave, though he doesn't actually do anything with it.

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** Paul Armstrong and Roger Fleming are both scientists. Paul spends a couple scenes staring into a microscope (and doing other things that could be called experimentation by someone feeling charitable), but otherwise seems more interested in discussing what a scientist's life is like that being a scientist.than doing anything scientific. Roger doesn't even do that much, as the actor puts it, he spends all day laughing in a cave. In one scene he does have what appears to be a [[NoBudget child's chemistry set]] laid out on the floor of the cave, though he doesn't actually do anything with it.


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* {{Phlebotinum}}: Atmospherium. It can power a spaceship, resurrect skeletons, and presumably other things.
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** Paul Armstrong and Roger Fleming are both scientists. Paul spends a couple scenes staring into a microscope (and doing other things that could be called experimentation by someone feeling charitable), but otherwise seems more interested in discussing what a scientist's life is like that being a scientist. Roger doesn't even do that much, as the actor puts it, he spends all day laughing in a cave. In one scene he does have what appears to be a [[NoBudget child's chemistry set]] laid out on the floor of the cave, though he doesn't actually do anything with it.
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* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Paul Armstrong is very bitter in this movie. You know this, because he helpfully informs you that he's filled with bitterness every time he opens his mouth.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Animala first seems to be her usual ditzy self, but then [[spoiler:it's revealed to be an act when she abandons the Skeleton after it keeps insulting her, cheerfully saying "Bye bye!"]] Unsurprisingly, the commentary notes that the audience at the premiere cheered wildly.
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* HollywoodToneDeaf: "Fleeeeeming, Fleeeeeming..." According to the commentary, the only direction Blamire gave for the "song" was "Don't do what anyone else is doing."
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* MsFanservice: Animala returns. Rowr. Again.
** AuthorAppeal: Still the director's wife. Still a lucky bastard.
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* StylisticSuck: Everything about the film, from the script to the acting, was done in the style of low budget 50s genre films. Even minor gaffes and inconsistencies were deliberately added, to the point that it's [[PoesLaw impossible to tell]] if a mistake was done on purpose or not.

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* StylisticSuck: Everything about the film, from the script to the acting, was done in the style of low budget 50s genre films. Even minor gaffes gaffes, flubbed lines, and inconsistencies were deliberately added, to the point that it's [[PoesLaw impossible to tell]] if a mistake was done on purpose or not.
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning / {{Padding}}: A requirement for a film spoofing 50s B-movies. Though they make the padding amusing, rather than unintentionally funny.

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* LeaveTheCameraRunning / {{Padding}}: A requirement for a film spoofing 50s B-movies. Though they make purposely made the padding amusing, rather than unintentionally funny.funny, unlike the movies they're referencing.
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning / {{Padding}}: A requirement for a film spoofing 50s B-movies. Though they make the padding amusing, rather than unintentionally funny.
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* AffectionateParody
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AffectionateParody: The movie was clearly made in good fun.
* AliensSpeakingEnglishAliensSpeakingEnglish: And in true 50s B-movie style, they don't even try explaining it.
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* DemBones: The Skeleton is now only a skull, much to his annoyance. He can levitate however.

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* DemBones: The Skeleton is now only a skull, much to his annoyance. [[FlyingFace He can levitate however.however]].
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--> '''Kro-Bar''': Aliens? Us? Is this one of your Earth jokes?
--> '''Fleming''': See? See?
--> '''Lattis''': You should not have said "Earth jokes." Don't you see how that gave us away?
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* HypocriticalHumor: Armstrong is now disillusioned with Science after a colleague took credit for the discovery of a new metal and [[NamedLikeMyName named it after himself]] (Armstrong had planned to name it after ''himself!'')

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* HypocriticalHumor: Armstrong is now disillusioned with Science after a colleague took credit for the discovery of a new metal and [[NamedLikeMyName [[NamesakeGag named it after himself]] (Armstrong had planned to name it after ''himself!'')

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* DrowningMySorrows: Armstrong is now disillusioned with Science after a colleague took credit for the discovery of a new metal and named it after himself (Armstrong had planned to name it after ''himself!'')

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* DrowningMySorrows: Armstrong is now after becoming disillusioned with Science after a colleague took credit for the discovery of a new metal and named it after himself (Armstrong had planned to name it after ''himself!'')Science.


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* HypocriticalHumor: Armstrong is now disillusioned with Science after a colleague took credit for the discovery of a new metal and [[NamedLikeMyName named it after himself]] (Armstrong had planned to name it after ''himself!'')

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