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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })"The Further Adventures of Nick Danger" is a long track from The Firesign Theatre's 1969 album How Can You Be in Two Places at Once, When You're Not Anywhere at All?, which took up the entire second side of the original vinyl release. A parody of the Hardboiled Detective and Film Noir, as well as old-timey Radio shows, it remains one of their most popular works.Compared to other Firesign Theatre pieces, the story is relatively straightforward—but relatively is the operative term here. Private Detective Nick Danger, Third Eye (voiced by Phil Austin) is sitting in his office, listening to "the monotonous staccato of rain on my desktop", when he is approached by a suspicious little man, Rocky Roccoco (a Peter Lorre expy, voiced by Phil Proctor), who wants to sell him what Nick describes as "a two-bit ring from a Cracker Back Jox", and mentions a woman with many names, including Betty Jo Bialosky.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Nick recognizes that last name as an old college sweetheart (but "everyone knew her as Nancy"), and, after time out for a brief flashback, decides to look her up. When he does, she asks for his help. ("You called just in the nick of time!" "You haven't lost your delicate sense of humor, have you, Nancy?" "What?"). Along the way, Nick's footsteps are dogged by the obstructive police detective, Sergeant ("Lieutenant!") Bradshaw (Peter Bergman). Eventually, a time machine gets involved, and things become even more complex and confusing than they already were.Nick Danger would reappear on subsequent Firesign Theatre albums, including Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe, and The Three Faces of Al, as well as on one of their videos, Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Yolk.All of Danger's appearances later appeared on Shout! Factory's The Firesign Theatre's Box of Danger: The Complete Nick Danger Casebook.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: At one point, Nick begins whistling the theme tune as he "walks the streets by night". |
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Hurricane of Puns |
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Hurricane of Puns: Like most of the Firesign's works, the piece is full of puns. |
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Bland-Name Product: "Looseners," a castor-oil breakfast cereal designed to "clean out your whole system" {by presumably giving you loose bowels). |
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Number of the Beast: "Here's the case I call number 666" |
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Flat "What": Done by several characters, but mainly done by Nancy. |
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Parody Commercial |
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Parody Commercial: Lieutenant Bradshaw gives a commercial for Loosener's Castor Oil Flakes "with real glycerin vibrafoam! It doesn't just wash your mouth out—it cleans the whole system, right on down the line." The program is also sponsored by Fantastic Cigarettes: "long in the leaf and short in the can." |
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Painting the Medium |
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Painting the Medium: All throughout. Not only do the characters routinely make references to the fact that they're in a radio show (see Medium Awareness), but at the end, Nick also knows that they're on a record album, and has them listen to part of the other side. Backwards. |
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The Case of... |
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The Case Of: Used in various sequels, like Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe and Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Yolk. |
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Hardboiled Detective: Nick Danger is a surrealist take on the classic version. |
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Police Are Useless |
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Police Are Useless: A standard trope of the genre; Sergeant ("Lieutenant!")note "District Attorney!" Bradshaw is not at all interested in the disappearance of "Nancy's" husband, and just wants to get Nick. He also expresses annoyance that Nick helped catch a criminal he immediately let go. |
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The Un-Reveal |
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The Unreveal: Nick is about to announce his plan to solve the time-travel crisis, but he only gets as far as "All right, everyone, take off your—" before he's cut off by President Franklin Roosevelt, announcing the attack on Pearl Harbor—and the United States' immediate and unconditional surrender to Japan. |
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Gayngster |
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Gayngster: Rocky Roccoco (appropriately, as he's an expy of Peter Lorre's character Cairo from The Maltese Falcon) |
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Other Me Annoys Me |
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This eventually devolves into a fist fight with himself. |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When we first meet Sergeant (Lieutenant!) Bradshaw. |
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Inherently Funny Words: Burnous and Pickle. |
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Medium Awareness |
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Medium Awareness: The work is full of this, with characters seemingly equally aware that they're in a radio show and fully invested in the story of it. Nick is aware of his own filtered narration, and asks "how do I make my voice do this?", and when the characters get stuck in a flashback, the butler explains that to escape, he just has to fade his voice out and cue the organist. At one point, a character explains that he got back into a scene by bribing the sound effects guy (who thanks him from off stage). One character goes on a monologue about the radio show he'll get once Nick is in jail. People repeatedly get confused and stumble over each other's lines. There are even references to foley effects, like the cellophane used to create the sound of a crackling fire: |
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Sdrawkcab Alias |
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Sdrawkcab Alias: At one point Nick Danger reads the name on his office door as "Regnad Kcin" note The text on the glass is on the outside the right way, so that's why it's reversed on the side that Nick sees. |
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Femme Fatale |
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Femme Fatale: Betty Jo Bialosky ("Nancy"); at one point she drugs Nick and frames him for the murder of Rocky Roccoco. |
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Detective Patsy |
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Detective Patsy: "Nancy" asks for Nick's help, but really she just wants to frame him for the murder of Roccoco, who is blackmailing her. |
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I Hate Past Me |
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I Hate Past Me: Nancy from the flashback gets into a fight with Nancy from the present time. |
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Which Me? |
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Which Me?: During a flashback, Nick and his flashback self get confused about who's the current narrator. This eventually devolves into a fist fight with himself. |
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Alternate History |
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Alternate History: The presidential interruption at the end of the piece makes it clear that the show itself is taking place in an alternate universe where the US surrendered to Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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Private Eye Monologue |
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Private Eye Monologue: Nick does this throughout. Lampshaded when he comments, "how do I make my voice do this?" (Later, "Nancy" asks the same question.) |
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Tap on the Head |
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Tap on the Head: Nick gets hit on the head by Nancy/Betty Jo. As he slowly fades into unconsciousness, he begins to hear voices, one of which is the announcer saying, "we'll be back to Nick Danger after these commercial messages". |
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Gender-Inverted Trope |
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Gender-Inverted Trope: A verbal example. |
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Opening Monologue |
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Opening Monologue: Parodying the standards of the genre: Also delivers a Brick Joke in that the "pizza from Nick's" routine started on Don't Crush That Dwarf..., with George LeRoy Tirebiter playing the role of "Caller". |
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Show Within a Show |
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Show Within a Show: The whole thing is implied to be one during a Parody Commercial, when Lt. Bradshaw (voiced by Peter Bergman) says "Now, here in the studio it's all knuckles and know how. But when that red light goes off, I'm just plain Harry Ames: citizen, weekend father." |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: The show contains many references from The Maltese Falcon, but there's an explicit shout-out when Roccoco says, "You may have seen me loitering around the drugstore, drinking Chocolate Malted Falcons and giving away free high schools." Also a reference to Peter Lorre's Star-Making Role: "Oh no! I've been killed! This hasn't happened to me since M!" The character Rocky Roccoco and "everyone knew her as Nancy" are both references to The Beatles song "Rocky Raccoon". Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" gets referenced as the show returns from commercial: |
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Gesundheit |
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Gesundheit: At one point, the butler, Catherwood, blurts out "Goo goo ga joob" and Nick responds "Gesundheit." And again, when things have spiraled completely out of control and Nancy is fighting herself from the past, we get this one: |
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Serial Escalation |
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Serial Escalation: After several instances of Sgt. Bradshaw (LIEUTENANT!) asserting his rank, and in the middle of his Hostile Show Takeover, we get this gem: |
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Hostile Show Takeover |
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Hostile Show Takeover: Sergeant ("Lieutenant!") Bradshaw attempts this when he thinks he's got the goods on Nick. He has grandiose plans of turning the show into a more action-oriented thriller. And no Jewish writers, either! (As a bonus, this line comes after he says the show will be all about fighting Nazis and fifth columnists.) |
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Badass Longcoat |
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Badass Longcoat: In video versions, Phil Austin would wear the classic trenchcoat and fedora typical of the Hardboiled Detective. |
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Mundane Made Awesome |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Rocky Roccoco's dramatically proffered...pickle. note An actual pickle, get your mind out of the gutter. |
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Evil Debt Collector |
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Evil Debt Collector: Rocky Rococco is one of these initially, trying to collect on a debt "Nancy" owes on an engagement ring. He even tries tearing her ring finger off when she can't pay her debt...the day after getting the ring. As a bonus, she's in debt because Nick Danger forced her into it. |
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I Have Many Names |
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I Have Many Names: When Roccoco is quizzing Nick about the woman, he has to go through several of her names ("Melanie Haber?" "Audrey Farber?" "Susan Underhill?"). It isn't until he says "Betty Jo Bialosky" that Nick remembers: "everyone knew her as Nancy." Then Nick goes through the same routine with Catherwood: "Oh, you mean Nancy!" |
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Not Big Enough for the Two of Us |
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Not Big Enough for the Two of Us: When time travel leads to a Nancy's past and future selves fighting, they both exclaim, "There ain't room enough in this dress for both of us!" |
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Old Flame |
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Old Flame: Betty Jo Bialosky ("Nancy") went to college with Nick, and they even dated, but when he proposed, she turned him down, and couldn't tell him why. He hadn't seen her since. |
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Flashback... Back... Back... |
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Flashback... Back... Back...: "No, no, no, no, no, no! You don't understand how radio works. Now, this is my flashback—all I have to do to return us to the present is fade my voice out like this and cue the organist!" |
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Inspector Javert |
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Inspector Javert: Lt. Bradshaw is determined to get Nick, with an eye towards taking over the show. "You're lucky we didn't burn you on the Anselmo pederasty case!" |
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Emergency Presidential Address |
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Emergency Presidential Address: The moment of climax is cut off by an announcement from the president, declaring that the US has been attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor and unconditionally surrenders. |
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Star-Making Role |
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Also a reference to Peter Lorre's Star-Making Role: "Oh no! I've been killed! This hasn't happened to me since M!" |
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Running Gag |
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Running Gag: Nick and others keep referring to police detective Bradshaw as "Sergeant Bradshaw", to which he angrily replies "Lieutenant!" This even happens when he attempts his Hostile Show Takeover, and begins imagining the new opening of his show. |
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Brick Joke |
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Also delivers a Brick Joke in that the "pizza from Nick's" routine started on Don't Crush That Dwarf..., with George LeRoy Tirebiter playing the role of "Caller". |
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Larynx Dissonance |
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Larynx Dissonance: Since the Firesigns are all men, the voice of "Nancy" is a sort of half-falsetto. |
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