History YMMV / AssaultOnPrecinct131976

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** "I want a vanilla twist!" *'''SHOT'''*

* MoralEventHorizon: The Street Thunder members cross it when one of them ''[[WouldHurtAChild shoots and kills a little girl point blank]] just because she was there''.

** Given Kim Richards [[Main/TheOtherMarty replaced]] [[Series/MyThreeSons Dawn]] [[Main/CousinOliver Lyn]] after the Main/Pilot in the role of the young daughter on ''Series/NannyAndTheProfessor'', there have been jokes online about Dawn, rather than Kim, playing the little lady who is shot dead in the "vanilla twist" scene.

** The French movie ''TheNest'' can be seen as tribute to this movie.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The film was a bigger hit in Britain than it was in America, largely because British audiences understood and enjoyed the film's similarities to American Westerns, whereas U.S. audiences were too familiar with the Western genre to fully appreciate the movie.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Which Carpenter [[DoItYourselfThemeTune composed himself]], as per usual with his movies. It got SampledUp by Afrika Bambaataa.

* WhatAnIdiot: Lawson makes a couple of remarkably stupid decisions:
** After the ice cream truck shooting, he could have telephoned the police from the phone box right next to his car. Instead, he goes chasing off after a car full of armed killers.
** Having chased the car full of killers until after sunset, he finally confronts them and manages to kill one. Instead of driving off in his car (which is not shown to have been damaged), he runs away.
*** Granted, those can be easily explained away by Lawson REALLY not being in the [[DespairEventHorizon best frame of mind]].
** For their part, three of the car full of armed killers run away run away from Lawson instead of gunning him down. Perhaps they could have worked out a plan in all the time they spent driving around?

* MemeticMutation: "I want a vanilla twist!" *'''SHOT'''*
** [[WebVideo/JonTron "Well, you're gettin' strawberry."]]

* DawsonCasting: Reference is made to "the juvenile gang problem", and Street Thunder is further referred to as a "youth gang", yet all its members appear to be in their 20s at least.

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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The film was a bigger hit in Britain than it was in America, largely because British audiences understood and enjoyed the film's similarities to American Westerns, whereas US audiences were too familiar with the Western genre to fully appreciate the movie.
* MemeticMutation: "I want a vanilla twist!" *'''SHOT'''*

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The film was a bigger hit in Britain than it was in America, largely because British audiences understood and enjoyed the film's similarities to American Westerns, whereas US audiences were too familiar with the Western genre to fully appreciate the movie.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Which Carpenter [[DoItYourselfThemeTune composed himself]]. It got SampledUp by Afrika Bambaataa.

* HellIsThatNoise: Two patrol cops hear a dripping noise on the roof of their cruiser, and assume it's rain. [[spoiler:It's actually the blood of a murdered telephone lineman.]]

* CompleteMonster: The "Street Thunder" members, one of whom ''[[KickTheDog shoots and kills a little girl point blank]] just because she was there''. They're depicted as being more psychopathic than ordinary street gangs, with bizarre honor codes and a willingness to shoot up random passerby just to see if their weapons work. Even a gang member who spent a night in a cell with one thinks they're way too hardcore.