- First Installment Wins: Of Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy, in terms of both Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score (95% compared to William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet's 72% and Moulin Rouge!'s 76%) and Metacritic metascore (72 compared to Romeo + Juilet's 60 and Moulin Rouge!'s 66. However, this comes with the caveat of this film getting fewer certified professional reviews between both sites; 41 RT reviews for this film compared to 64 RT reviews Romeo + Juilet and 198 RT reviews for Moulin Rouge!, and 16 Metacritic reviews for this film compared to 20 Metacritic reviews for Romeo + Juilet and 35 Metacritic reviews for Moulin Rouge!.
- Ham and Cheese: Barry Fife is made of this trope.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Paul Mercurio has gone on to become a Victorian State MP
representing the seat of Hastings — which is the surname of his character in the film (Scott Hastings). - Hollywood Homely: Arguably a rare subversion. While Fran cleans up nicely she doesn't become conventionally beautiful.
- Moral Event Horizon: Barry is just a conservative authority figure until the revelation that he lied to Scott about his father and fixed the competition beforehand to destroy Scott's credibility like he had done to Shirley.
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