History Film / TopSecret

* SexyDiscretionShot: [[FlamesOfLoveo To a fireplace]]. When the couple rolls into view in front of the fireplace, the camera pans again -- to ''another'' fireplace. In some cuts, the camera eventually pans to a window with a view of a burning building. Further parodied some minutes later when a kiss between the two parachuting protagonists cuts to a fireplace hanging from another parachute.

'''Du Quois:''' Over there, Croissant, Soufflé, Escargot, and [[ScaryBlackMan Chocolate Mousse]]. [[note]] ''Chocolate Mousse'' is the only non-French word in the list, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers of course]]. It is ''mousse au chocolat''.[[/note]]

** Most of the signs aren't in actual German either, just something that [[ElSpanishO looks just German to be understandable]] but funny to a non-bilingual audience (e.g. "KÜSTOMS VAGON").

** Hillary's backstory is a spoof of ''Film/TheBlueLagoon''.

* DirtyCommunists: East Germany is presented as an oppresive land of CommieNazis.

* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: In a FunnyBackgroundEvent, three human beings descend from the sky to relive themselves on a large statue of a pigeon.

* AllGermansAreNazis: Parodied. The Germans in the movie are supposed to be East Germans, but their uniforms are Nazi-era uniforms with the swastikas removed. (DDR (East German) uniforms did look closer to Nazi uniforms than West German uniforms, on account of the DDR reusing old Nazi uniforms, so there's a touch of TruthInTelevision in there.)

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Skeet-surfing would be impossible as both the movement of the person aiming would cause the shooter to fall off their surfboard and the recoil from the gun firing would likely knock them off their board too. [[PlayedForLaughs We see multiple surfers losing their balance when they shoot, implying this is happening…]] when their aim does not sucks so bad they are accidentally shooting airplanes down.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The film portrays the East German government as CommieNazis who are seeking dominance over the world in their own right despite the fact that East Germany was a socialist client state of the USSR (which isn't even alluded to in the film).

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Most of the German dialogue is unrelated phrases of Yiddish; the few times it ''is'' actually German... well, see BilingualBonus. Other scenes have English running backwards, and Latin ([[IgpayAtinlay Pig]] or otherwise). Most of the signs aren't in actual German either, just something that looks vaguely German to be understandable but funny to a non-bilingual audience (e.g. "KÜSTOMS VAGON").

** The cow disguise is so effective that it attracts both a nursing calf and an amorous bull...

** The carrier pigeons carried by the traitor in the resistance [[spoiler:Nigel]].

** Done again with the Swedish bookkeeper. When he pulls a magnifying glass from his eye, it's revealed that his eye is actually enormous.
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* FictionalSport: ''Skeet surfing'' -- combining skeet shooting with surfing (complete with a parodic Music/TheBeachBoys style surf song) in the opening sequence. This is, of course, [[DontTryThisAtHome as stupidly dangerous as it sounds]], with errant shots hitting palm trees, hang gliders, and even passing airplanes.

* KarmicRape: While breaking into a top-secret facility, Nigel is dressed in the rear half of a cow costume. After he reveals himself to be TheMole who has betrayed the Resistance to the East German government, he is attacked and anally raped by a bull.

* LookBehindYou: The second variant.

* SexyDiscretionShot: To a fireplace. When the couple rolls into view in front of the fireplace, the camera pans again -- to ''another'' fireplace. In some cuts, the camera eventually pans to a window with a view of a burning building. Further parodied some minutes later when a kiss between the two parachuting protagonists cuts to a fireplace hanging from another parachute.

* TrojanPrisoner: Chocolate Mousse and Déjà Vu pretends to take Nick prisoner as part of their bid to infiltrate Fleurgendorf prison. It must be mentioned that Chocolate Mousse is a ''black man'', wearing a German soldier's uniform, in a German prison. The guards seem to notice this discrepancy, yet not one says a word, due to Chocolate Mousse being a ScaryBlackMan.

* UglySlavicWomen: A variant on this theme, when they comically present the "East German Women's Olympic Team" (East Germany being a vassal state of the Soviet Union, i.e. Russia), looking like male bodybuilders in drag; a reference to the fact that the East German women athletes were given testosterone to make themselves better athletes (and therefore appeared manlier).

* TheMole: Someone in the Resistance is feeding the Germans information on their plans and targets. Latrine intercepts a message from this mole outside the pizza house. [[WhackAMole Suspicion briefly falls on Nick]] before he can prove his identity. It turns out to be [[spoiler:Nigel, who was evidently "turned" during his time with the salvage pirates]].

-->"Klaus is a moron, who knows only what he reads in the New York Post."
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* ThoseWackyNazis: While the East Germans are primarily portrayed as [[CommieNazi parodic communist versions of Nazis]], there are frequent direct references to them in the sight gags, such as a novelty clock in the malt shop portraying a cartoon Adolf Hitler whose arms are the clock hands, and General Von Streck passing the time by reading "Hermann Goering's Workout Book."

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Skeet-surfing would be impossible as both the movement of the person aiming would cause the shooter to fall off their surfboard and the recoil from the gun firing would likely knock them off their board too.