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''Yankee Zulu'' (known in South Africa as ''There's A Zulu On My Stoep'') is a 1993 South African comedy film starring popular comedian Leon Schuster. An Afrikaner named Rhino and a black man named Zulu who used to be his childhood friend, reunite only to find themselves in a kerfuffle regarding a check worth half a million rand, a fascist and Rhino's crazy ex-wife.
''Yankee Zulu'' (known in South Africa as ''There's A Zulu On My Stoep'') is a 1993 South African comedy film starring popular comedian Leon Schuster. An Afrikaner named Rhino and a black man named Zulu who used to be his childhood friend, reunite only to find themselves in a kerfuffle regarding a check worth half a million rand, a fascist and Rhino's crazy ex-wife.
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''Yankee Zulu'' (known in South Africa as ''There's A Zulu On My Stoep'') is a 1993 South African comedy film starring popular comedian Leon Schuster.
An Afrikaner named Rhino and a black man named Zulu who used to be his childhood friend, reunite only to find themselves in a kerfuffle regarding a check worth half a million rand, a fascist and Rhino's crazy
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* ButtMonkey: General Diehard suffers a lot of slapstick throughout the movie. ''Especially'' during the climax.
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* ButtMonkey: Even for a movie that borrows many of its cues from Film/HomeAlone, General Diehard suffers a lot LOT of slapstick all throughout the movie. ''Especially'' but ''especially'' during the climax.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Not even Rowena is immune to the [[HumiliationConga barrage of booby traps]] in the climax.
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''Yankee Zulu'' (known in South Africa as ''There's A Zulu On My Stoep'') is a 1993 South African comedy film starring popular comedian Leon Schuster. An Afrikaner named Rhino and a black man named Zulu [[BlackBestFriend who used to be his childhood friend]] reunite only to find themselves in a kerfuffle regarding a check worth half a million rand, a fascist and Rhino's crazy ex-wife.
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''Yankee Zulu'' (known in South Africa as ''There's A Zulu On My Stoep'') is a 1993 South African comedy film starring popular comedian Leon Schuster. An Afrikaner named Rhino and a black man named Zulu [[BlackBestFriend who used to be his childhood friend]] friend, reunite only to find themselves in a kerfuffle regarding a check worth half a million rand, a fascist and Rhino's crazy ex-wife.
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* WouldHurtAChild: After so much slapstick, Gen. Diehard prepares to shoot Tienkie. [[spoiler:Luckily, Zulu manages to save her in time by throwing mud at him]].
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* WouldHurtAChild: After so much slapstick, Gen. Diehard prepares to shoot Tienkie. [[spoiler:Luckily, Zulu manages to save her in time by throwing mud at him]].him]].
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Yankee Zulu is a 1993 South African comedy film starring popular comedian Leon Schuster. An Afrikaner named Rhino and a black man named Zulu [[BlackBestFriend who used to be his childhood friend]] reunite only to find themselves in a kerfuffle regarding a check worth half a million rand, a fascist and Rhino's crazy ex-wife.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: General Diehard is [[ANaziByAnyOtherName a fascist]] and owner of a right-wing white supremacist organization known as "Threatened Immigrants Right-wing Defence". He also sports a thick German accent [[GratuitousGerman and liberal usage of German words]].
* AngryGuardDog: Rowena has a couple of guard dogs trained to attack black people.
* {{Blackface}}: Rhino disguises himself as a black servant.
* BratsWithSlingshots: Tienkie and Prince William make use of slingshots both after they meet and as part of the villains' HumiliationConga.
* ButtMonkey: General Diehard suffers a lot of slapstick throughout the movie. ''Especially'' during the climax.
* ChekhovsSkill: As a kid, Zulu knows how to fling a glob of clay at his enemy from a reed. [[spoiler:He uses this in the climax to save Tienkie and Prince William from Diehard.]]
* EdibleAmmunition: Tienkie and Prince William launch candy apples at Diehard and Rowena using slingshots.
* FunWithAcronyms: The fascist organization run by Diehard (Threatened Immigrants Right-wing Defence) goes by the acronym T.I.R.D.
* GratuitousGerman: Diehard speaks quite a bit of German during his many scenes in the movie.
* GroinAttack: Gen. Diehard receives it from a BoobyTrap
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:After Zulu sends him falling into the water, Diehard manages to drag himself out only for the elephant he employed in his imprisonment of Rhino and Zulu to ''sit on him''.]]
* KidsAreCruel: When they were kids, Rowena and her friend saw no wrong in [[WilliamTelling shooting a can off Zulu's head]], even coaxing Rhino into doing it despite the latter two's objections.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After trying so hard to get the check from Rhino and Zulu ''and'' being established as [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racists]], Gen. Diehard and Rowena face numerous booby traps devised by Tienkie and Prince William. [[spoiler:And for trying to kill Tienkie, Diehard gets mud thrown at his face, falls into the water and, after pulling himself out, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and gets]] ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard sat on]]'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by the elephant he used to imprison Rhino and Zulu]].]]
* [[spoiler:LukeIAmYourFather]]: [[spoiler:In the end, Zulu turns out to be the father of Tienkie.]]
* MissingMom: Tienkie lives with her "father" Rhino with no sign of a mother. [[spoiler:He admits to Zulu that he adopted her from their childhood friend Thandi, who died many years earlier.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: General Diehard.
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Zulu, [[LukeIAmYourFather who is revealed to be Tienkie's father]] uses his clay-throwing to stop Diehard [[WouldHurtAChild from killing her]].]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Gen. Diehard is a bigoted fascist with his own organization and Rowena is hardly any better. Both of whom are primarily shown to have a hatred of black people.
* ProductPlacement: The Coca-Cola logo can be seen a couple times in the movie. Also, Thienkie goes to watch Film/HomeAlone at a Ster-Kinekor[[note]]South Africa's largest cinema chain for those not in the know[[/note]] cinema in Sun City while Rhino and Zulu head off for the lottery draw.
* {{Slapstick}}: ''Plenty'' of it!
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Not even Rowena is immune to the [[HumiliationConga barrage of booby traps]] in the climax.
* UnfortunateNames: The acronym for Diehard's fascist organization sounds like "turd".
* WilliamTelling: As a kid, Zulu was made to balance a tin can on his head while Rhino was forced to shoot it off. [[spoiler:Later on, Rhino has Zulu do it to him as payback while imprisoned. However, it fails and [[ButtMonkey Diehard gets hurt instead]].]]
* WomanScorned: Rowena, a vindictive and trigger-happy bigot, is the ex-husband of Rhino. She, along with Diehard, tries many times to hunt him down for the check.
* WouldHurtAChild: After so much slapstick, Gen. Diehard prepares to shoot Tienkie. [[spoiler:Luckily, Zulu manages to save her in time by throwing mud at him]].
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* AllGermansAreNazis: General Diehard is [[ANaziByAnyOtherName a fascist]] and owner of a right-wing white supremacist organization known as "Threatened Immigrants Right-wing Defence". He also sports a thick German accent [[GratuitousGerman and liberal usage of German words]].
* AngryGuardDog: Rowena has a couple of guard dogs trained to attack black people.
* {{Blackface}}: Rhino disguises himself as a black servant.
* BratsWithSlingshots: Tienkie and Prince William make use of slingshots both after they meet and as part of the villains' HumiliationConga.
* ButtMonkey: General Diehard suffers a lot of slapstick throughout the movie. ''Especially'' during the climax.
* ChekhovsSkill: As a kid, Zulu knows how to fling a glob of clay at his enemy from a reed. [[spoiler:He uses this in the climax to save Tienkie and Prince William from Diehard.]]
* EdibleAmmunition: Tienkie and Prince William launch candy apples at Diehard and Rowena using slingshots.
* FunWithAcronyms: The fascist organization run by Diehard (Threatened Immigrants Right-wing Defence) goes by the acronym T.I.R.D.
* GratuitousGerman: Diehard speaks quite a bit of German during his many scenes in the movie.
* GroinAttack: Gen. Diehard receives it from a BoobyTrap
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:After Zulu sends him falling into the water, Diehard manages to drag himself out only for the elephant he employed in his imprisonment of Rhino and Zulu to ''sit on him''.]]
* KidsAreCruel: When they were kids, Rowena and her friend saw no wrong in [[WilliamTelling shooting a can off Zulu's head]], even coaxing Rhino into doing it despite the latter two's objections.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After trying so hard to get the check from Rhino and Zulu ''and'' being established as [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racists]], Gen. Diehard and Rowena face numerous booby traps devised by Tienkie and Prince William. [[spoiler:And for trying to kill Tienkie, Diehard gets mud thrown at his face, falls into the water and, after pulling himself out, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and gets]] ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard sat on]]'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by the elephant he used to imprison Rhino and Zulu]].]]
* [[spoiler:LukeIAmYourFather]]: [[spoiler:In the end, Zulu turns out to be the father of Tienkie.]]
* MissingMom: Tienkie lives with her "father" Rhino with no sign of a mother. [[spoiler:He admits to Zulu that he adopted her from their childhood friend Thandi, who died many years earlier.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: General Diehard.
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Zulu, [[LukeIAmYourFather who is revealed to be Tienkie's father]] uses his clay-throwing to stop Diehard [[WouldHurtAChild from killing her]].]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Gen. Diehard is a bigoted fascist with his own organization and Rowena is hardly any better. Both of whom are primarily shown to have a hatred of black people.
* ProductPlacement: The Coca-Cola logo can be seen a couple times in the movie. Also, Thienkie goes to watch Film/HomeAlone at a Ster-Kinekor[[note]]South Africa's largest cinema chain for those not in the know[[/note]] cinema in Sun City while Rhino and Zulu head off for the lottery draw.
* {{Slapstick}}: ''Plenty'' of it!
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Not even Rowena is immune to the [[HumiliationConga barrage of booby traps]] in the climax.
* UnfortunateNames: The acronym for Diehard's fascist organization sounds like "turd".
* WilliamTelling: As a kid, Zulu was made to balance a tin can on his head while Rhino was forced to shoot it off. [[spoiler:Later on, Rhino has Zulu do it to him as payback while imprisoned. However, it fails and [[ButtMonkey Diehard gets hurt instead]].]]
* WomanScorned: Rowena, a vindictive and trigger-happy bigot, is the ex-husband of Rhino. She, along with Diehard, tries many times to hunt him down for the check.
* WouldHurtAChild: After so much slapstick, Gen. Diehard prepares to shoot Tienkie. [[spoiler:Luckily, Zulu manages to save her in time by throwing mud at him]].
