History Film / TheNuttyProfessor

''The Nutty Professor'' is a series of comedy films.

For tropes relating to the individual films, see:

* ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1963''
* ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996''
** ''Film/NuttyProfessorIITheKlumps''

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!!These films provide examples of:

* AbsentMindedProfessor
* AscendedExtra: Sherman's parents in the remake. The original film, they only appear twice, the first time shown as a [[HenpeckedHusband henpecked guy and his mercilessly henpecking wife]], and the second at the end where [[spoiler:they come to sell the serum to all the kids in school]]. In the remake, they appear far more often, and get along quite well with each other.
** The sequel of the Eddie Murphy version was actually called ''The Klumps'', making Eddie Murphy's scenes with one actress and several of his own characters into the core of the film.
* AnAesop: BeYourself. Don't try to be somebody you're not to win others' affections.
* TheCasanova: Buddy Love.
* JekyllAndHyde
** HydePlaysJekyll
* {{Jerkass}}: Buddy Love is smooth and cool -- and an obnoxious girl-chaser, a self-centered asshole, and a domineering bully. Definitely an intentional example as it reinforces the BeYourself message of the films.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Why Buddy is left unchecked for way too long.
* MeaningfulName: Stella Purdy in the 1963 film, Carla Purty in the 1996 film -- attractive female students whose surnames sound like the Southern pronunciation of the word "pretty". Denise Gains in the 2000 sequel, as she's shown to fit into Ana's old wedding dress.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Kelp's reaction when [[spoiler: his parents have discovered, duplicated, patented and are selling his Buddy Love formula to the masses.]]
* SexierAlterEgo - In both versions, the titular professor invents a way to change him from a nerdy looking fellow in the original film (and a rather overweight guy in the remake) into a smooth ladies man.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: Buddy's plan in the late game.
* TakeThat:
** Eddie Murphy's Buddy Love sent up the negative traits of his own persona during his cold streak at the box office in the early 90s, something that did not go unnoticed by critics.
** Jerry Lewis' Buddy Love has been interpreted as a parody of Creator/DeanMartin, Lewis' old show business partner, although Lewis has repeatedly denied this.
** Dave Chapelle's character is an enormous take that to UncleTomfoolery and hacky stand up comedy in general.

** ''The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps''

** And Dave Chapelle's character is an enormous take that to UncleTomfoolery and hacky stand up comedy in general.

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''The Nutty Professor'' is a 1963 comedy written by, directed by, and starring Creator/JerryLewis.

Lewis is Julius Klump, an AbsentMindedProfessor who -- after being bullied and taunted -- invents a [[FantasticDrug serum]] that turns him into an [[TheCasanova incredibly handsome, strong, confident, and popular man]] named Buddy Love. His new personality gives him the confidence to pursue one of his students, Stella [[PunnyName Purdy]] (Stella Stevens), but things go awry when Buddy begins to take over completely.

The film was remade in 1996, starring Creator/EddieMurphy, Creator/JadaPinkettSmith, [[RuleOfThree and Eddie Murphy,]] and co-starring [[UncannyFamilyResemblance Eddie Murphy,]] [[ActingForTwo Eddie Murphy,]] [[OverlyLongGag and Eddie Murphy.]] The success of the remake led to a sequel, with Music/JanetJackson amid the various Eddie Murphys.

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[[folder:''The Nutty Professor'' (1963)]]
* BadassBookworm: As Buddy Love, Kelp uses his knowledge of chemistry to mix up an Alaskan Polar Bear heater, which in this movie is so strong it caused the Bartender to freeze in one sip.
* DoNotSpoilThisEnding: Played with. Trailers for the movie were fine with audiences spoiling the beginning ''and'' ending, but the middle of the movie, which revealed the transformation, was ordered to not be revealed.
* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: Abused gloriously at the beginning with some truly SceneryPorn of what appear to be experiments in progress, but are really just there to look cool over the opening credits as various colorful chemicals flow through tubes and bubble in flasks (before they explode). Kelp's laboratory throughout the film is chock full of more of the same, none of which is used (he drinks his concoction from a graduated cylinder). While transforming into Buddy Love, Kelp staggers over to the table containing his eyecatching but functionally useless equipment and smashes it to pieces.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Buddy's voice reverts to Julius's while with Stella, what does he do? ''Up and bails.''
* VideoCredits: Ending with Kelp [[CameraAbuse crashing into the camera]].
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[[folder:''The Nutty Professor'' (1996)]]
* {{Acrofatic}}: During his exercising montage, Sherman gains a [[TruthInTelevision realistic degree of agility]].
* AdaptationExpansion: The first half of the film is relatively faithful to the original, but the second half is largely it's own work with more or less the same ending.
* AdaptationalNameChange: Julius Kelp becomes Sherman Klump, and ''Stella'' Purdy becomes ''Carla'' Purdy.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original Buddy was pretty obnoxious and conceited but doesn't do anything villainous. In this film, Buddy starts out this way, but starts to become truly evil as the film progresses, eventually attempting to make the transformation stable and permanent which would cause Sherman's identity to be entirely consumed and replaced by that of Buddy ([[Main/FateWorseThanDeath as opposed to Sherman's being killed outright]]).
* AlliterativeName: Harlan Hartley.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: The Klumps when Sherman brings Carla over. They talk openly about sex, bodily functions, marriage, and other embarrassing topics, so much so that Sherman tries to slit his wrists with a butter knife.
* AsHimself: Montell Jordan.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Sherman has a nightmare where he gets [[WeightTaller fatter and fatter and bigger and bigger]] and goes on a rampage through the city.
* ArtisticLicense: Somatotypes. There are three main somatotypes which people can be classified in, and Sherman quite accurately describes one (Endomorph) while explaining why he was dieting to his parents in the first film. The formula he was working on was supposed to alter or deactivate endomorphic genes, allowing one to naturally lose more weight, and in the first scene with Shelly the hamster it is implied to do just that. However, when Sherman takes the serum, over half of his body fat mysteriously vanishes in about 30 seconds, and his skin shrinks to fit.
* BaitAndSwitch: During Sherman's King Kong nightmare, he spots Carla in a hotel room, smashes through the window... and reaches past her for a turkey drumstick. [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe The look on her face seems to show she's thoroughly insulted by this.]]
* BatmanGambit: Buddy knew Sherman would destroy the serum samples to prevent him from turning into Buddy anymore. As such, he poured some of it into one of Sherman's diet shake cans.
* BattleCry: After his first transformation in the remake. He proudly stands up on on top of the college he works in shouting this.
-->'''Buddy Love:''' I'm THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!!!!!
* BigDamnHeroes: Jason shows up at the ball just in time to stop [[spoiler:Buddy]] from [[spoiler:attempting to kill Sherman]] and exposes his true identity.
* BigNo: Jason when he tries to [[spoiler:stop Buddy from killing Sherman]].
* BluntYes:
--> '''Carla''': Professor, are you asking me out on a date? \\
'''Sherman''': *Bashful* Yes. Yes I am. \\
'''Carla''': I'd love to!
* BodyHorror: A completely tame example of this occurs whenever Buddy Love reverts back to Sherman Klump. Body parts become swollen as he regains all that excess body weight, and at one point he ends up with a grotesquely oversized lower lip.
* ButtMonkey: Dean Richmond whenever there's a hamster around.
* CatchPhrase: [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Lance Perkins]] has two: "Let's get busy!" and "Yes, I can!"
* ClusterFBomb: This film put television censors through their paces.
* ComeBackToBedHoney: A variant, in that the line itself isn't said; the morning after Buddy throws his wild party in Sherman's house, Buddy retroforms into Sherman, and one of Buddy's call girls asks Sherman where Buddy is in front of Carla.
* CompartmentShot: There is a shot on Sherman from inside his microwave.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Sherman seems to have a history of being this.
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Klumps.
* FanDisservice: During his workout montage, Sherman is in desparate need of a powerful sports bra.
* FantasticDrug: The formula, naturally.
* FatComicRelief: ''IN SPADES''.
* FatherlyScientist: Sherman, in regards to Shelley, an obese hamster he has great empathy and affection for.
* FartsOnFire: In Sherman's nightmare, some homeless bum lights a cigarette at the worst time and blows the city sky high from Sherman's fart.
* FightingFromTheInside: When Buddy attempts to take a life of his own, Sherman decides to fight back for control of his body. [[spoiler: In the climax, it becomes a literal case and he succeeds]].
* {{Gasshole}}: Cletus Klump.
** Sherman himself is a couple of times but only in dreams he has, when they are power oriented and are essential for his survival even in which his father encourages.
** Ernie Jr. is several times.
* GentleGiant: Sherman.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Sherman gets fired once a film, and before then, the dean seems to always be looking for an excuse to get rid of him.
* GoldDigger: Dean Richmond is a shameless sycophant when it comes to any donor who shows interest in giving the school money for Sherman's research.
* TheHeckler: On his second encounter with the InsultComic, Buddy so thoroughly dismantles the guy that it becomes a CurbStompBattle both comedically ''and'' physically.
* HeavyVoice: Played straight; the whole Klump family, Sherman Klump included, has a lower voice than Buddy Love, who inhabits the same body as Sherman but with less weight. In fact, of all the multiple characters he plays in both movies (being the Klumps besides Buddy Love), Buddy Love (even being the all-time antagonist) is the only character Eddie Murphy plays using his real voice and appearance.
* HilariousOuttakes: About five minutes' worth during the credits.
* TheHyena: Buddy plays with it at times. It goes into full force when he encounters Reggie Warrington in person, ''especially'' during the "YourMom is so fat" scene. Jason attributes it to high testosterone levels.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Mama Klump tries to call for Sherman as he fights Buddy Love.
* ImagineSpot: Sherman has two of them, one where he buries Stella into the sand with his body weight, and one where he becomes so fat that he becomes a {{Kaiju}} terrorizing the city.
* InsultComic: Reggie Warrington.
* {{Jerkass}}: The insult comic Reggie Warrington.
** Buddy Love. He started out as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold before becoming an utter Jerkass.
** Also Granny Klump could be considered one because of how she not only talks the most cross of all the Klumps, but also because she is the least classy and is most crude and vulgar of them all. Even with the way she always insults Cletus and making them verbally always at each other's throats trading back and forth personal insults which always bothers Anna (Sherman's mother.) Not to mention how vulgar she is by going as far as the stunt she pulls on Buddy Love thinking that he is a male stripper which actually is bad enough to gross out a vulgarly perverted man like him to the point of making him vomit. These along with all the examples with her show you that she has the least moral conduct of all the Klumps.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cletus Klump, Sherman's father.
** Ernie Klump in some extent. He gives Sherman practical advice on him losing weight, by telling him to exercise. Sherman later takes his advice and actually succeeds in getting in shape during the TrainingMontage. [[spoiler: Of course Reggie had to ruin his self-confidence later on.]]
* MamaBear / PapaWolf: There is no doubt about it, that Cletus and Mama Klump love Sherman, so when his best friend and colleague accuses Buddy Love of murdering him this line cements it:
--> '''Buddy Love:''' ''(demonstrating his weight formula)'' I am about to make a 400 pound fat man disappear forever!
--> '''Jason:''' ''(arriving in time)'' [[BigNo NOOOOOOOO!]] [[BigDamnHeroes WAIT! I can not let you do this anymore!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis THIS- HAS GOT- TO STOP!]] ''(arrives onto the stage)'' Ladies and gentlemen... ''(points to Buddy)'' this man is trying to kill Professor Sherman Klump!
--> ''(audience gasps)''
--> '''Cletus''' [[PapaWolf That's it.]] [[TranquilFury I'm glad]] [[LetsGetDangerous I brought my knife.]]
--> '''Mama:''' [[MamaBear Mmm-hmm, and I got my razor.]]
* MeanBoss / DeanBitterman: Richmond, the dean of the university that Sherman Klump works at, frequently insults Sherman Klump's obesity and makes no secret of his contempt of Klump.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite this, he did ally with Sherman Klump to stop Buddy Love from stealing the patent for the fountain of youth formula in the climax of The Klumps.
* MeaningfulEcho: Buddy to Dean Richmond: "Who you think you talkin' to, Sherman Klump? Man, if you ever talk to me like that again, I'll kill you. And I don't mean it as euphemism, I'm gonna literally kill you. I'm gonna ''strangle'' you and cut off ''your'' air supply until ''you'' pass away."
* MeaningfulName: The fact that the last name of the universally overweight Klumps sounds like "plump" is obvious. More so is that the slender love interest in the second Eddie Murphy film is named Denise Gains, especially when we're shown that Mrs. Klump's old wedding dress fits her.
** The word "clump" can mean a lump of something.
* NightmareSequence: Sherman has a nightmare after he falls asleep while watchin TV, in which he grows into a rampaging giant and wrecks the city with a single fart that is ignited to cause an explosion.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Lance Perkins is a clear {{Expy}} of Richard Simmons.
* NoIndoorVoice: Buddy speaks with a loud voice.
* NotHyperbole: Dean Richmond gives a memorable example.
-->''If anything goes wrong, for any reason... I'm going to kill you. And I don't mean that as a euphemism, I am going to literally kill you. I'm going to strangle you and choke off your air supply until you pass away.''
* NWordPrivileges: The Klumps and Buddy.
* OhCrap: Sherman when he wakes up next to three hookers after a night of partying (as Buddy), especially when Carla shows up.
* PainfulTransformation: Sherman is in terrible pain every time he transforms into Buddy Love.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Buddy's putdown of Reggie Warrington.
-->'''Buddy:''' I've heard of dreadlocks, but shitlocks?
* PreemptiveDeclaration: Right after Buddy explains to Jason how he plans to permantly take over:
-->'''Buddy''': If you don't mind, I have a date at the alumni ball, and you have a date with linoleum.
-->'''Jason''': Who?
-->(cue Buddy punching Jason out)
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Before the climactic fight, Buddy decks Jason towards the instrument set to prevent the magical vial from being confiscated, calling it a "short musical interlude".
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: The climactic scene where Sherman Klump and Buddy Love battle for control of the same body.
-->'''Buddy Love:''' "You can't beat me!"
--> ''(Sherman's side beats up Buddy)''
-->'''Sherman Klump:''' "YES! I! CAAAAAAAN!"
* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: Jason analyzes the data from the transformation and finds that Buddy's testosterone levels are dangerously high.
* ShowingOffTheNewBody: Sherman after getting slim.
* SirSwearsALot: All of the Klumps, except for Sherman. Mostly, Cletus. Buddy Love definitely becomes one. The insult comic Reggie Warrington is definitely by far.
* SquirrelsInMyPants: Variation: During a demonstration test on the fountain of youth serum on a hamster, it initially works, but thanks to Buddy Love sabotaging the serum earlier, the hamster ends up basically turning Godzilla on them, forcing the audience to evacuate and the guards to fire on "hamsterzilla" before it dispatched them with turds. It then sees Dean Richmond (wearing a fur rug over himself in a failed attempt to hide) and, mistaking Richmond for a potential mate, gets very interested in him and is also strongly implied to have raped him. As the cameras were still rolling, this was also shown on TV across the state, if not the nation or the world, as the scene in the Klumps' living room revealed.
** It happened even earlier in the first film. Klump had accidentally let loose all the hamsters on the campus. one climbed into a student's pant legs. The girl he was talking to [[BiggerIsBetterInBed clearly mistook it as something else.]]
* StealthPun: The theater scene in the sequel. The original Nutty Professor was made a year after ''Film/CapeFear'', whilst in the remake's sequel, Buddy is laughing mad while watching the original in the style of [=DeNiro=]'s Max Cady's Iconic scene in the remake of ''Cape Fear''.
* StraightMan: Professor Sherman Klump. Debatably and most surely. Even though he's just as fat and kind of rugged looking as the rest of them, unlike how his enemy, Buddy Love looks, Sherman is the only one of all the Klumps who behaves most decent and most respectfully and is always good intentioned in all of his blunders.
* TechnicolorScience: Sherman's lab features beakers with multi-colored liquids.
* ThatCameOutWrong: "Pardon me ladies and gentlemen, but I cannot go on living unless I have this man inside me right now!"
* ThatManIsDead: When Carla confronts Buddy about [[spoiler:Sherman]], he simply disavows his other identity
-->'''Buddy Love:''' Sherman is gone, disappeared!
* TheTriple: Dean Richmond being a jerk to Sherman at the start of the movie.
--> '''Dean Richmond''': Can I get you anything? Juice? Coffee? Rack of lamb?
* ToiletHumor: The 1990s movie has a lot of fart jokes, as well as implied soiled pants. In both of them, the whole Klump family except for Sherman (including Buddy Love and some others) use foul language, and do socially revolting things.
** These scenes are actually parodying people who act exactly like this in real life. It's actually scary how accurately it portrays the Klumps.
* UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain: Sherman and Buddy.
* UncleTomFoolery: Sherman's family, especially his father Cletus. Buddy Love also indulges in it a bit.
* UndyingLoyalty: Jason to Professor Klump, he even goes as far as punching Buddy in the face when trying to stop him from eliminating Sherman for good.
* VillainProtagonist: Buddy at first, until it becomes clear that he's a completely separate persona and plans to take over Sherman's life.
* VirginInAWhiteDress: When Sherman brings Carla over for dinner, Grandma Klump notes that he can wear a white tuxedo, because "Sherman's never had relations."
* YourMom: Reggie cracks a "Your Mother Is Fat" joke to rile up Buddy[[note]] and the irony here is that he's indirectly referring to Sherman's mother, who really is fat. Buddy is actually Sherman's [[JekyllAndHyde literal alter ego]][[/note]] after [[LaserGuidedKarma he gets a taste of his own medicine from him]], but it only made Buddy feel unfazed and one-up him without any chance of allowing him a proper comeback. This results in Reggie breaking down and attempt to do a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on him. However, he [[IKnowKarate fails at his "street karate"]] and Buddy [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomps]] him.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Grandma Klump to Buddy.
** Also, the hamster to Dean Richmond.
* AscendedExtra: Ever wonder why it's subtitled "The Klumps"?
* AttractiveBentSpecies: During the [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Attack of the 50-Foot Hamster]] in the second film, the dean tries to hide under a fur coat, making him resemble a giant hamster himself. This works out for him [[BlackComedyRape just as you'd expect]].
* CaptainObvious "The University of Maine? But, Denise...that's in Maine!"
* ChekhovsGag: When Buddy regenerated, he accidentally absorbed dog DNA, meaning he keeps acting like a dog. [[spoiler: Sherman uses this to his advantage, by throwing a serum-laced rubber ball at him, knowing he would catch it in his mouth]].
* ContinuityNod: Buddy mentions Carla from the first film.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The Klumps had a few moments of that range from dark humor to horror. Buddy Love in the second movie is more evil than he ever was in the first nor its predecessor. Going from trying to take Sherman's place to downright trying to stalk and destroy Sherman and anyone else that got in the way. Even before his DNA was separated from Sherman's, Buddy even found many ways to attack him on the inside, especially by hijacking his mind randomly. From giving him a terrible nightmare to saying and doing rude and embarrassing stuff at delicate times that alienates him from his father and love interest. That aside there were TearJerker moments too, from relationship problems between Sherman's parents mirroring Sherman's relationship with Denise, as well as breaking off the marriage under the belief that he can't be a good husband after his intellect is deteriorating from what he went and did to get rid of Buddy, especially due to an incident where Buddy Love sabotaged the fountain of youth formula and stole the actual sample, causing a test gone awry. The audience was also almost fooled with a [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding, when we including Denise and Cletus thought Sherman's mental impairment had been rendered permanent]].
* DirtyOldWoman: The oversexed Grandma Klump.
* [[spoiler:EarthShatteringKaboom: Sherman dreams that an asteroid hits Earth, and because he's losing his intelligence he's unable to prevent it.]]
* FanDisservice: Granny leaping through a field of daisies in a see-through nightgown.
* FanserviceExtra: The remake sequel provides the current trope image.
* FountainOfYouth: Sherman's formula.
* GagBoobs: Granny has them, as evidenced by the FanDisservice scene and when she thought she was having a heart attack, but she was actually standing on one of them.
* ItsNotYouItsMe: [[spoiler:Sherman Klump ends up breaking off the marriage because he believes that he can't be a good husband while his intellect was deteriorating after removing Buddy Love from his system.]]
* MythologyGag: Kathleen Freeman, one of the actors from the 1963 Nutty Professor movie, makes a cameo.
* OhCrap:
** Sherman when he saw Buddy Love somehow became a separate person.
** [[spoiler:When Buddy runs off after Sherman turns him back into a jello-like substance, and he disintegrates. Luckily, it happens by a fountain, so when a tear from Denise drops on to his DNA structure and it lands in the water of it, Sherman is able to be revived by her and Clesius forcing him to drink it.]]
* OldShame: In-Universe, Buddy Love was this for Sherman, and he didn't tell Denise about him before.
* PowerWalk: The Klumps as they're headed to an all-you-can-eat buffet, where they eat every last piece of food in the place ''except'' the salad.
* RandomEventsPlot
* RememberTheNewGuy: Denise. She and Sherman appear to have been seeing each for some time between films.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Buddy replaces Sherman's youth formula with Miracle-Gro, which is then fed to a lab hamster. HilarityEnsues.
* SexualKarma: The JerkAss dean gets more than his share of this, courtesy of "Jumbo the Horny Hamster".
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Denis appears to be this to Carla from the first film.
* SynchronizedSwarming: The professor proposes to his girlfriend by attracting fireflies into the words "Marry me?" using a synthesized firefly pheromone.
* ThisAintRocketSurgery: Sherman, whose mind is decaying rapidly and is just about to meet Denise's parents, assures himself that he won't make a fool of himself because Denise's parents are probably not rocket scientists. Turns out that's exactly what they are.
* ToiletHumour: When Jumbo becomes well, jumbo, he starts shooting hamster pellets the size of footballs. They spin like footballs and can hit a man with enough force to send him flying. And yes they show all of this in its "glory".
* TookALevelInDumbass: PlayedForDrama: By removing Love from his DNA [[spoiler: triggered a deterioration of Sherman's brain. He can't teach his class, articulate his words, and is a bit of a bumbler. Towards the end of the movie, he loses his memory, and breaks up with Denise, not wanting to burden Denise by being dumb. He his able to recover his brilliance by reabsorbing Buddy]].
* TookALevelInKindness: Dean Richmond by the end of the film.
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* MeaningfulName: Stella Purdy in the 1963 film, Carla Purty in the 1996 film -- attractive female students whose surnames sound like the Southern pronunciation of the word "pretty".

* ThatManIsDead
-->'''Buddy Love:''' SHERMAN IS GONE!

* HeavyVoice: Played straight; the whole Klump family, Sherman Klump included, has a lower voice than Buddy Love, who inhabits the same body as Sherman but with less weight. In fact, of all the multiple characters he plays in both movies (being the Klumps besides Buddy Love), Buddy Love (even being the all time antagonist) is the only character Eddie Murphy plays using his real voice and appearance.

* NoIndoorVoice: Buddy.

The film was remade in 1996, starring Creator/EddieMurphy, Creator/JadaPinkettSmith, [[RuleOfThree and Eddie Murphy,]] and co-starring [[UncannyFamilyResemblance Eddie Murphy,]] [[ActingForTwo Eddie Murphy,]] [[OverlyLongGag and Eddie Murphy.]] The success of the remake led to a sequel, with JanetJackson amid the various Eddie Murphys.

* StraightMan: Professor Sherman Klump. Debatably and most surely. Even though he's just as fat and kind of rugged looking as the rest of them, unlike how his enemy, Buddy Love looks, Sherman is the only one of all the Klumps who behaves most decent and most respectfully and is always good intentioned in all of his blunders. The only exception to his straightness might be when during the wedding dream scene that turns into a nightmare in the beginning of the second film, it appears that before the reverend says "I now pronounce you husband and wife", it appears that Sherman is staring at Carla's big breasts which have some cleavage in the wedding dress. It is followed by an erection scene following that which he is innocent from being because of being Buddy Love trying to come out of his trousers rather than being an erection caused by his lust for the assumingly noticed breast staring.

''The Nutty Professor'' is a 1963 comedy written by, directed by, and starring Creator/Jerry Lewis.

Lewis is Julius Klump, an AbsentMindedProfessor who -- after being bullied and taunted -- invents a [[FantasticDrug serum]] that turns him into an [[TheCasanova incredibly handsome, strong, confident, and popular man]] named Buddy Love. His new personality gives him the confidence to pursue one of his students, Stella [[PunnyName Purdy]] (Stella Stevens), but things go awry when Buddy starts to take over.

''The Nutty Professor'' is a 1963 comedy, starring JerryLewis as an AbsentMindedProfessor who, after being bullied and taunted, invents a [[FantasticDrug serum]] that turns him into an [[TheCasanova incredibly handsome, strong and popular]] man named Buddy Love, his new personality gives him the confidence to pursue one of his students, Stella [[PunnyName Purdy]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Klumps had a few moments of that range from dark humor to horror. Buddy Love in the second movie is more evil than he ever was in the first nor its predecessor. Going from trying to take Sherman's place to downright trying to stalk and destroy Sherman and anyone else that got in the way. Even before his DNA was separated from Sherman's, Buddy even found many ways to attack him on the inside, especially by hijacking his mind randomly. From giving him a terrible nightmare to saying and doing rude and embarrassing stuff at delicate times that alienates him from his father and love interest. That aside there were TearJerker moments too, from relationship problems between Sherman's parents mirroring Sherman's relationship with Denise, as well as breaking off the marriage under the belief that he can't be a good husband after his intellect is deteriorating from what he went and did to get rid of Buddy, especially due to an incident where Buddy Love sabotaged the fountain of youth formula and stole the actual sample, causing a test gone awry. The audience was also almost fooled with a [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding, when we including Denise and Cletus thought Sherman was brain dead for good.]]

* TheHyena: Buddy plays with it at times. It goes into full force when he encounters Reggie Warrington in person, ''especially'' during the "YourMom is fat" joke. Jason attributes it to high testosterone levels.

* AnAesop: BeYourself. Don't try to be someone else to win others' affections.

* BowtiesAreCool: Julius in the original, Sherman in the remake.

* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: Abused gloriously at the beginning with some truly SceneryPorn of what appear to be experiments in progress, but are really just there to look cool over the opening credits as various colorful chemicals flow through tubes and bubble in flasks (before they explode). Kelp's laboratory throughout the film is chock full of more of the same, none of which is used (he drinks his concoction from a graduated cylinder).

*** The sequel of the Eddie Murphy version was actually called ''The Klumps'', making Eddie Murphy's scenes with one actress and several of his own characters into the core of the film.

* TheHeckler: On his second encounter with the InsultComic, Buddy so thoroughly dismantles the guy it became a CurbStompBattle both comedically ''and'' physically.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original Buddy was pretty obnoxious and conceited but doesn't do anything villainous. In this film, Buddy starts out this way, but starts to become truly evil as the film progresses, eventually attempting to make the transformation stable and permanent which would cause Kelp to vanish forever ([[Main/FateWorseThanDeath and ''not'' go to an afterlife]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Buddy's voice reverts to Sharman's while with Stella, what does he do? ''Up and bails.''