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6	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barefoot_in_the_park_1967.jpeg]]
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8	A popular RomanticComedy by Creator/NeilSimon, which premiered on Broadway in 1963.
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10	Newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter return from their honeymoon ready to start their exciting new life together in a minuscule fifth-floor walkup apartment in a [[BigApplesauce Greenwich Village]] brownstone, but things aren't exactly going as planned. The impulsive Corie's apartment choice doesn't meet Paul's -- or any sane person's -- standards. Six exhausting flights of stairs lead to a one-room apartment which lacks bathtub, furniture, heat, and room for a double bed. What highlights does the apartment supply? Eccentric neighbors, including the attic-dwelling Victor Velasco, and a giant hole in the skylight. Still, Corie is determined to make things work, even playing matchmaker between Velasco and her widowed mother, Ethel Banks.
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12	Creator/MikeNichols directed the original Broadway production, which starred Creator/RobertRedford as Paul, Creator/ElizabethAshley as Corie, Mildred Natwick as Ethel, and Kurt Kasznar as Velasco. A feature film adaptation, directed by Gene Saks, was released in 1967; Redford and Natwick reprised their stage roles, with Creator/JaneFonda appearing as Corie and Creator/CharlesBoyer as Velasco. The play has also received two TV adaptations: a short-lived Creator/{{ABC}} {{sitcom}} in 1970 and a 1980 special on {{Creator/HBO}}.
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17	* TheAllegedHouse: There are multiple quirks in the apartment, one which sees a lot of use for laughs (and drama) being that it doesn't have a good insulation, which allows the New York winter cold to seep in. It's also five floors up in a building with no elevator and almost everybody that arrives is winded.
18	* AlliterativeName: Victor Velasco the landlord.
19	* BetaCouple: Victor Velasco and Corie's mom, Ethel, get a romance Arc of their own while everything else is happening.
20	* CallBack: To the TitleDrop and Paul's observation that Corie likes to go barefoot in the park. Towards the end Corie finds a very drunk Paul in Central Park. Paul, who has in fact lost his shoes, walks away and laughs that now he's going barefoot in the park.
21	* DeadpanSnarker: Paul and Mr Velasco. The former more deadpan and latter definetly more snarky.
22	* ExiledToTheCouch: When Corie is on the verge of divorcing Paul, she shuts herself in the bedroom and throws out a pillow, blanket, and sheet so Paul can go to sleep on the sofa. He tries to...and then snow starts falling on his head through the broken skylight, leaving him with a cold the next day.
23	* FunnyForeigner: Victor Velasco. He plays vaguely Asian music on his stereo, he lives in an attic, he cooks his guests a weird dish made out of eels...
24	* InsatiableNewlyweds: In the film, Paul and Corie don't leave their honeymoon suite for days.
25	* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Corie. Explored both for laughs and for drama -- sure, UptightLovesWild, but once Paul reaches his limit of how much he can tolerate of said manic attitude, hurt ensues.
26	* NonSpecificallyForeign: Velasco. Most tellingly, he takes great pride in his ''knichi,'' an exotic dish of unknown origin and one that is non-existent in real life. He was also portrayed by an Austrian and a Frenchman in the original Broadway production and film adaptation, respectively.
27	* RomanticComedy: A romantic comedy about an UptightLovesWild couple that apparently married impulsively, then have to get used to living life together.
28	* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Paul is a straight-laced attorney, Corie a far more spontaneous free spirit.
29	* SexyShirtSwitch: Corie is shown wearing Paul's shirt after he leaves their honeymoon suite for the first time. The scene currently provides the trope's page image.
30	* TitleDrop: Corie and Paul have a fight where she says they have nothing in common, and he says "Why? Because I won't go barefoot in the park?"
31	* ToiletSeatDivorce: Paul and Corie have a blow-up after the uncomfortable evening out with Victor Velasco and Corie's mom, which starts with them arguing about his fuddy-duddy ways and her rather extreme ManicPixieDreamGirl ways, which eventually blows up into Corie demanding a divorce.
32	* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Deliberately engineered by Corie, when she apparently reaches for her husband's crotch in a crowded elevator. He chortles and says "Stop it!"
33	* UptightLovesWild: The relationship of Paul and Corie, in a nutshell. Played for drama eventually, though, with Paul starting to doubt he actually loves Corie's wildness ''that'' much.

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