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• Harsher in Hindsight: Jeremiah Moss and the #SaveNYC movement are bemoaning hypergentrification, which is what is depicted in the film.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Philip Bosco plays the Lawful Stupid bus driver in this film. In Nobody's Fool, four years later, he plays a judge exasperated in dealing with a Lawful Stupid of his own.
• Magnificent Bastard: Grimm is a disgruntled city planner who decides to rob a bank while dressed as a clown to finance a new life somewhere else. Grimm, his girlfriend Phyllis, and his best friend Loomis escape the bank disguised as released hostages and take off for the airport while manipulating the cops into thinking that the clown's still holed up in the bank. When their getaway is derailed through unlucky circumstances, Grimm displays a knack for bluffing his way out of various jams as the trio race to catch a later flight which Grimm booked as a backup plan. Throughout everything, Grimm is protective of his partners, considerate towards average citizens when he thinks they deserve it, and warily respectful of the abilities of his pursuer.
• Nightmare Fuel: Loomis thinks that the grim "jousting" ritual witnessed in the poor neighborhood is creepy, but many viewers may well agree with him. If the loser's brutal fate doesn't do it, the unnerving silence (except for someone ringing a church bell at the very end and the priest pushing the loser's bike away in disgust) and the seemingly complete indifference of the crowd surely will.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • "Nude women! Nude women!...Clowns welcome! Clowns welcome!...Nude women! Clowns welcome!" (Especially funny because it happens during the opening credits and with music partially drowning it out on the soundtrack, making it almost a Funny Background Event.)
  • "FLORES PARA LOS MUERTOS!"
  • Also, Stanley Tucci and "This ain't my dick in your back!"
    Grimm: (deadpan) Well, that's a relief.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Stanley Tucci plays one of the mafia guys in the warehouse (specifically, Mr. "This Ain't My Dick In Your Back!"). The movie was one of his earliest film roles, before he became well-known.
  • Tony Shalhoub plays the taxi driver. He and Tucci would go on to work together several times.
  • Phil Hartman plays the gun-happy tenant taking over Phyllis's apartment
• Technology Marches On:
  • GPS has made the situation of being lost in a city all but obsolete.
  • There's no way they would have been able to sneak the money taped to their bodies in modern air terminal security; it would have shown up on the full body scanners. Thanks, War on Terror.

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