| 1 | * ActorInspiredElement: It was Creator/ClorisLeachman's idea for her to have a moustache. |
| 2 | * ApprovalOfGod: Creator/MelBrooks consulted with Creator/AlfredHitchcock repeatedly during production and screened the film for him. He liked it enough that he sent him a very expensive case (six bottles) of wine as a thank-you gift and even invited Mel out to dinner afterwards. Brooks has revealed in a recent interview that in several moments of weakness he had consumed all but one bottle. |
| 3 | * BillingDisplacement: Even though she is billed second, Creator/MadelineKahn does not appear until more than halfway through the film. |
| 4 | * CastIncest: Creator/MelBrooks cast his wife Creator/AnneBancroft as his mother in flashback. |
| 5 | * CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Creator/MelBrooks played the lead role, directed, produced, co-wrote the screenplay and for the title song was both composer and lyricist. |
| 6 | * CreatorBacklash: Creator/MelBrooks hated his performance in this film, having only taken the role because Creator/GeneWilder was forced to turn it down. Not only does Brooks feel that Wilder would have been funnier, but that this was the one movie where he felt more of an obligation to direct than act (despite his claim that directing is his least favorite job as a filmmaker). |
| 7 | * CreatorCouple: Creator/MelBrooks' wife Creator/AnneBancroft plays Thorndyke's mother in flashback. |
| 8 | * EnforcedMethodActing: Hilariously enough, ''the pigeons''! The hurricane of bird shit that Thorndyke is pelted with was actually scoops of potato chip dip, shot off-screen as the flock of trained pigeons chased after him, but the pigeons became so frightened that more than a few of those splatters became real. |
| 9 | * NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: During ''Film/TheBirds'' parody, some of the birds really defecated on Creator/MelBrooks. |
| 10 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 11 | ** As mentioned above, the part of Thorndyke was originally intended to go to Creator/GeneWilder which would have reunited Brooks and Wilder for a fourth time (or fifth if you count Mel's voice cameo in ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother''). However, Wilder was busy with ''The World's Greatest Lover'' and couldn't take the part. |
| 12 | ** Creator/AlfredHitchcock pitched a scene where the hero is running from an assassin and leaps onto a ferry, only to discover that it's arriving rather than departing. Brooks didn't use the scene partly because he couldn't find a place for it and partly because it would have been too expensive to film. |
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