History YMMV / Mitchell

* DesignatedHero: The title character is an alcoholic slob of a cop who behaves like a complete Jerkass most of the time, to the point that the main villain tells him he needs to be nicer. Sure, he's a little more on the ball than his colleagues (only he suspects that Deaney may not have acted in self defense), but other than that he's a damn lousy cop. When a criminal tries to bribe him by sending him a prostitute, he actually sleeps with her.[[note]]He doesn't know she's being paid, however.[[/note]]

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Aside from TheSeventies fashions, the very presence of Merlin Olson tips off the period. Olson was one of a few NFL players who were trying their hand at acting; at the time, he was best known . Olson would finally find his acting chops playing Jonathan Garvey in ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie''.

%%* {{Squick}}: '''Baby oil!?'''

** The fight with Cummings at the end (where Mitchell and some cops are in a helicopter and Cummings and his mook are in a boat) instead of shooting at him (to be fair, they do try but [[ATeamFiring don't hit anything]]) they use a buoy dangling from the helicopter to ram his boat. As the ''Website/AgonyBooth'' review puts it, it looks like they are attacking him with a giant yellow highlighter. Though [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel and the Bots]] don't think a bad idea.

** The fight with Cummings at the end (where Mitchell and some cops are in a helicopter and Cummings and his mook are in a boat) instead of shooting at him (to be fair, they do try but [[ATeamFiring don't hit anything]]) they use a buoy dangling from the helicopter to ram his boat. As the ''Website/AgonyBooth'' review puts it, it looks like they are attacking him with a giant yellow highlighter.

* {{Narm}}: In the uncut version (not the version used by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'') the fight with Deaney is this. He and a mook try to run over Mitchell using dune buggies, which is pretty goofy to begin with. The way Mitchell kills the mook is downright hilarious: the mook's buggy gets stuck on a rock, so Mitchell grabs a boulder, and starts bashing him to death while letting out an ''extremely'' silly wailing noise (he's probably meant to come across as a ScreamingWarrior, but just seems like a doofus instead.)

* {{Narm}}: In the uncut version (not the version used by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'') the fight with Deaney is this. He and a mook try to run over Mitchell using dune buggies, which is pretty goofy to begin with. The way Mitchell actually kills Deaney is downright hilarious: Deaney's buggy gets stuck on a rock, so Mitchell grabs a boulder, and starts bashing Deaney to death while letting out an ''extremely'' silly wailing noise (he's probably meant to come across as a ScreamingWarrior, but just seems like a doofus instead.)

* {{Narm}}: In the uncut version (not the version used by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'') the fight with Deaney is this. He and a mook try to run over Mitchell using dune buggies, which is pretty goofy to begin with. The way Mitchell actually kills Deaney is downright hilarious: Deaney's buggy gets stuck on a rock, so Mitchell gets out of his buggy, grabs a boulder, and starts bashing Deaney to death while letting out an ''extremely'' silly wailing noise (he's probably meant to come across as a ScreamingWarrior, but just seems like a doofus instead.)

* {{Narm}}: In the uncut version (not the version used by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'') the fight with Deaney is this. He and Mitchell fight/race using dune buggies, which is pretty goofy to begin with. The way Mitchell actually kills Deaney is downright hilarious: Deaney's buggy gets stuck on a rock, so Mitchell gets out of his buggy, grabs a boulder, and starts bashing Deaney to death while letting out an ''extremely'' silly wailing noise (he's probably meant to come across as a ScreamingWarrior, but just seems like a doofus instead.)

%%* {{Squick}}: '''Baby oil!?'''

* EarWorm: The theme song.

* {{Squick}}: '''Baby oil!?'''

* {{Squick}}: '''''BABY OIL!?'''''

* DesignatedHero: The title character is an alcoholic slob of a cop who behaves like a complete Jerkass most of the time. Sure, he's a little more on the ball than his colleagues (only he suspects that Deaney may not have acted in self defense), but other than that he's a damn lousy cop. When a criminal tries to bribe him by sending him a prostitute, he actually sleeps with her.[[note]]He doesn't know she's being paid, however.[[/note]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: For all his crassness and boozing, the fact Mitchell spends much of the movie pursuing Deaney to avenge the death of a nameless, non-white burglar no one else cares about should count for something.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The visible boom mike during the dinner scene; [[{{MST3K}} Joel]] helpfully points it out.

* {{Squick}}: '''''BABY OIL!?'''''
* StrangledByTheRedString: Unless Mitchell is hung like a horse, there's no reason why Greta should find him attractive in ''any'' way.

* BadassBoast: Mitchell ''seems'' to try and invoke this when talking to Deaney after finding out he was the one who paid Greta. Deaney seems unconvinced. [[spoiler:Though Mitchell ends up being right.]]
-->'''Mitchell:''' "She'll lie in ''my'' bed for ''[[{{Squick}} free]]''."

* {{Squick}}: '''''BABY OIL!?'''''

* DesignatedHero: The title character is an alcoholic slob of a cop who behaves like a complete Jerkass most of the time. Sure, he's a little more on the ball than his colleagues (only he suspects that Deaney may not have acted in self defense), but other than that he's a damn lousy cop. When a criminal tries to bribe him by sending him a prostitute, he actually sleeps with her.[[note]]He doesn't know she's being paid, however.[[/note]] And then arrests her for possessing marijuana. Nice.

* BadassBoast: Mitchell ''seems'' to try and invoke this when talking to Deaney after finding out he was the one who paid Greta. Deaney seems... ''Unconvinced''.

** The last item is PlayedForLaughs.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In one ''{{MST3K}}'' segment, Joel remarks about professional golf player Frank Urban "Fuzzy" Zoeller: "What a great guy!" A few years later there was a controversy when Fuzzy Zoeller made a racially insensitive joke about Tiger Woods.

* DesignatedHero: The title character is an alcoholic slob of a cop who behaves like a complete Jerkass most of the time. Sure, he's a little more on the ball than his colleagues (only he suspects that Deaney may not have acted in self defense), but other than that he's a damn lousy cop. When a criminal tries to bribe him by sending him a prostitute, he actually sleeps with her. And then arrests her for possessing marijuana. Nice.