- Adaptation Displacement: The movie is arguably more well-known than the novels.
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
- Fletch's Imagine Spot in the first film where he's a star player for the Lakers.
- He has another in the sequel, where he's a Southern plantation owner, with his boss and his ex-wife's attorney as his slaves. With animated birds, no less.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Fletch's Imagine Spot in the second film parodying Song of the South, both in light of increasing dislike of the film because of Values Dissonance and Chevy Chase's increasing infamy as a complete jackass on the set of Community, even being racist to Donald Glover.
- Heartwarming Moments: Crossing with an awesome moment, Jimmy Lee Farnsworth pulling a "shoot through me" when Ham has Fletch at gunpoint on Jimmy Lee's show.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- James Avery plays one of the crooked detectives who bust Fletch on a bogus narcotics charge.
- Joe Don Baker would later find fame appearing as the villainous General Whittaker in The Living Daylights and later appearing as CIA operative Jack Wade in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.
- Values Dissonance: The joke about all of the doctors having a Jewish "Rosensomething" name falls a little flat these days.
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