Accidental Innuendo: After the song and dance routine when they help the sisters make their escape, Phil suggest they go back and take a bow, but Bob replies “We’ll be taking a bow at the jailhouse.”
Awesome Music: It's from the Irving Berlin library, and sung by folks like Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney. What more needs to be said?
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Most of the dance numbers, as they have little to no bearing on the plot. Overall, the movie has more in common with a variety show than with a traditional movie as far as the structure goes.
Harsher in Hindsight: Wallace sings of how generals face few employment prospects after they leave the service, while enlisted have many opportunities. Flash forward to the modern times, and high-ranking officers have, through their education note To be an officer, a minimum of a bachelor's degree is needed while enlistment only requires high school diploma or the equivalent and connections, much better options for employment than enlisted persons, who often face difficulty finding stable employment due to service-related health issues, minimal transferable job skills, and a lack of entry level jobs that pay a livable wage.
Heartwarming Moments: When Waverly walks into the floor room and the men who served under him in WWII stand up and start clapping. And that speech he makes. Hoo boy, that speech!
Hilarious in Hindsight: The characters make a joke about how if they brought a Democrat to the very Republican state of Vermont he'd probably be stoned to death. Today, the state is one of the bluest states in America and was even the first to legalize same-sex marriage.
Hollywood Homely: Bob and Phil make a number of comments criticizing the appearance of Benny Haynes, "Freckle-faced Haynes, the dog-faced boy." We finally get a picture of him, and he looks like a completely normal man.
The "Minstrel Number" doesn't contain any blackface or even attempt to recreate an actual Minstrel Show, but it does pine nostalgically for the days when minstrel shows were all the rage.
Bob basically wants a wife who will stay in the kitchen and bear his children, and despite being career girls, neither Betty nor Judy has a problem with that, nor does Betty object to the implication that she'll have to give up show business to marry Bob. Although both guys admit that they can postpone their careers for family as well.
Values Resonance: The plot hinges on the idea that there's no snow in Vermont. In December. Highly unusual in the 1950s, but with the advent of global warming, far more common, and it's impacting ski resorts just like it did in the movie.
Jo Young Jae: Is he a Jerk with a Heart of Gold whose rough exterior has a playful and more empathetic role? Or is he a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk whose rough exterior gives way to a seething hatred of those around him? Did his parents have a hand in either of these interpretations?
Choi Chi Hoon's refusal to move when all the others throw Kim Yo Han off the hospital building. Was it because his leg was broken and he didn't want to take the effort to do it? Was it because he didn't care who did the deed, because they were going to do it anyway? Or was it because the killer could never get into his head, and his inaction was him declaring victory over the murderer's own stated goal to corrupt them?