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Back to School
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Thornton Melon's got it good: he has an extremely successful line of "Tall & Fat" men's clothing stores that he built up from a small New York clothier shop, and a beloved son who's off making grades, making friends and earning victories for his diving team at college. Thornton's also married to a shrewish, unfaithful wife who- *Whirrp!* wait, nevermind that last part.Newly separated from his shrewish, unfaithful wife, Thornton decides to head off to the university to visit his son, Jason (Keith Gordon). Once he gets there, Jason has to spill the beans on how college life is working out: he lied about the grades, the friends and the diving team and he's about to drop out. Thornton can't quite convince him not to, seeing how he never went to school and things turned out fine.With that, Thornton decides -what the hell- he's enrolling too! He gets in good with the Dean by addressing all of his concerns with a big, fat donation, and before long becomes the #1 party animal on campus. Just a few things stand to ruin Thornton's fun, though: a stuffy economics professor who doesn't appreciate Thornton buying his way through school, and a son who's beginning to develop the same gripe. Fortunately, Thornton also falls for a beautiful and very intelligent Poetry professor who sees that he can excel in his studies if he makes a real effort at it, but will he?While perhaps not as well-known as Caddyshack, Back to School is one of Rodney Dangerfield's funniest films and is definitely worth checking out for any fan of 80s comedy or the man himself. The other most notable thing about this film is that Derek Savage (yes, that Derek Savage) appears as an extra. | |
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http://data.linkedmdb.org/resource/film/26278 | |
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Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony | |
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Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony: Thornton Melon has a ground-breaking ceremony for the new school building that the university would open up in exchange for giving him admission to take courses. At the ceremony, Thornton flings some dirt and it lands on the head of a member of the university's faculty, particularly the one who criticized Thornton buying his way into the university. | |
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Villains Never Lie | |
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Villains Never Lie: Chas tells Jason that his dad bribed the coach to get him on the diving team, and Jason believes it immediately. To Jason, it sounds enough like something his dad might do, but you'd think hearing it from the one guy in school that you know hates your guts might send up a red flag or two. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Kurt Vonnegut appears as himself to write chicago style format essay on Kurt Vonnegut. It gets Thornton an F. | |
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Dagwood Sandwich | |
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Dagwood Sandwich: In one memorable scene, Thornton makes himself an enormous sandwich out of various Hors D'oeuvres, consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of Italian bread and a big dish each of Cocktail Meatballs, Spanakopita and Devilled Eggs. He even has someone nearby help him cut it afterward! | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Thornton and Lou. They've been friends since childhood, always have each other's back, and nothing comes between them. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: "Why don't you call me some time when you have no class?" | |
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Nouveau Riche | |
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Nouveau Riche: The Self-Made Man Thornton blows through money being a party animal on campus and frequently shows that he's willing to simply buy whatever he desires rather than earn it. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Thornton gets into school by buying the campus a new building, and his attitude towards his academic workload is to just hire someone else to do it. | |
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Divorce Assets Conflict | |
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Divorce Assets Conflict: When Vanessa tells Thornton she wants a divorce, he gleefully serves her the papers right out of his coat pocket. She sneers at him that it won't be that easy and that it'll cost him, intending to take a good chunk of his fortune. This is averted when Thornton proceeds to pull out a series of Polaroids displaying her rampant infidelity which renders her unable to collect even a penny of his wealth. Knowing that she's been beat, she angrily storms off. | |
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Dean Bitterman | |
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Dean Bitterman: The Dean of the University, "Dean Martin" is an aversion of this trope, as he's an ineffectual money grubber who allows Thornton to bribe his way through school. Phillip makes a good stand-in, though. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: One of the last shots in the opening montage is of Rodney Dangerfield golfing. This was taken directly from Caddyshack. In fact, Thornton Melon is a variation of Al Czervik himself. | |
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And Then I Said | |
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And Then I Said: "And she said, 'Let's do it! The room's already paid for!'" | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: "Is the work you turned in your own?" "I can't lie to ya, Dean Martin. *Beat* ...Yes it is." Thornton walks in on a woman taking a shower and claims that he didn't see anything. He then peeks back, staring bug-eyed at her. At the dorm party, Diane walks in on him cavorting with several young women in a hot tub. Thorn's immediate cover? "Say hello to my nieces!" Points for quick thinking, but Diane obviously isn't fooled by his excuse. | |
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Death of the Author | |
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Death of the Author: An In-Universe reference when Diane and Kurt Vonnegut disagree on the meaning of Vonnegut's work. | |
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules! | |
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Jason doesn't subscribe to his dad's approach to higher learning, and becomes very upset when Thorn gets his underlings to do his homework, too: | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Lou is not a particularly tall man; Burt Young is 5'8. He's still capable of delivering a hefty beatdown. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Thornton's best friend/chauffeur/bodyguard Lou is an easygoing version of this. He's a genuinely nice guy but can kick serious ass when Thornton needs asses kicked. | |
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Your Costume Needs Work | |
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Your Costume Needs Work: Thornton commissions Kurt Vonnegut to write an interpretation of Slaughterhouse-Five for a literature class. When Dangerfield turns it in as his own work, the professor gives it an F, saying "I don't know who wrote this essay, but he obviously doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut." Real Life Writes the Plot: Based on a real instance where Vonnegut helped his nephew on an essay which earned the kid a D. | |
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Uncle Pennybags | |
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Uncle Pennybags: Thorn is a fine example. Even though he's buying his way through school, he's really cool about it. At one point, he gives a campus officer a couple of thousand bucks to help put his kids through school; when the officer tells him he doesn't have children, Thorn shrugs and gives him more money to get himself some kids. | |
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Head-Tiltingly Kinky | |
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Head-Tiltingly Kinky: | |
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Honest Advisor | |
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Honest Advisor: Lou is this to Thornton. He doesn't mince words about his dislike for Thornton's new wife, or if he "looks fat" in his new commercial. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Professor Phillip may be a snobbish, stuck up jerk but he's not wrong to point out that Thornton bribed his way into the college. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: The Dean's last name is Martin; Thornton cracks up every time he hears it. | |
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Soapbox Sadie | |
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Soapbox Sadie: Subverted by Derek. The few times he starts ranting on social issues it becomes clear a few words in that he's just bullshitting for laughs. | |
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But Not Too Foreign | |
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But Not Too Foreign: Nothing is really made of it, but the flashback at the beginning reveals that Thornton's given surname was Meloni and he came from an Italian background, but he changed it somewhere along the way. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Without an education, a man's got nothing." | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Based on a real instance where Vonnegut helped his nephew on an essay which earned the kid a D. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: History teacher Prof. Turguson, played by Sam Kinison. Watch as he informs his students on the reason for ending The Vietnam War. Then gets Thornton to state what he thinks is the reason the US pulled out from The Korean War. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: Jason generally disapproves of his father's antics, but even he is cracking up at Thornton's secretary taking notes next to him. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: In true Rodney Dangerfield fashion Thornton is this to a T. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: See the entry in Your Costume Needs Work. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: Thornton's Lincoln limo, complete with a TV! Philip's vintage 1945 MG convertible counts too. It's on the poster! | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Jason is quite a few inches shorter than his squeeze, Valerie. | |
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Good Parents | |
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Good Parents: Thornton's father in 1940 is none too happy about Thornton's bad grades, but rather than use corporal punishment as was standard at the time, he instead gives Thornton a pep-talk about how important having an education is. However, it does take Thornton 46 years to get the hint. | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: Kurt Vonnegut and Oingo Boingo. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Chas is never punished for his douchebaggery. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: The jocks threatening Thornton have this reaction when Lou crushes a metal napkin dispenser with one hand. | |
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Plagiarism in Fiction | |
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Plagiarism in Fiction: Thornton Melon turns in an essay about a book by Kurt Vonnegut, written by Kurt Vonnegut himself, which he passes off as his own. The English professor gives him an F, telling him that whoever wrote the essay "doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut." Later on, Thornton gets called in by the dean of the college, with accusations that Thornton has committed academic fraud by turning in homework done by someone else. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Watching Rodney Dangerfield and Robert Downey Jr. on the same screen is like watching Master and Protege. | |
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Informed Flaw | |
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Informed Flaw: It's never made clear why Jason did so poorly in the swim tryouts the prior semester given how impeccable his diving is during the movie. Maybe it was just nerves. | |
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Epic Fail | |
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Epic Fail: Thornton hadn't done his homework, leading to this exchange in class the next day: | |
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The Film of the Book | |
| Back to School / int_b9af5ef3 | comment |
The Film of the Book: Discussed when Diane has a tutoring session with Thornton: | |
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Naturalized Name | |
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Naturalized Name: Thornton's birth name was the Italian "Meloni." He changed it to "Melon." | |
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It's All About Me | |
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It's All About Me: Thorn humorously remarks that his ex Vanessa was so self-absorbed that she would scream her own name during sex. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Thornton tells Kurt Vonnegut on the phone to go fuck himself after the plagiarized essay on Kurt's own book gets Thornton a failing grade and he responds by putting a stop payment on a check he wrote to Kurt (Vonnegut evidently said it to him first). | |
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When All You Have Is a Hammer… | |
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When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Thornton has very little formal education, just a lifetime of business experience at his "Tall & Fat" stores. When Diane names some literature she hopes he has read, he can only relate it all to movies made from that literature starring portly actors. | |
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| Back to School / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The opening montage shows Rodney playing golf in his Al Czervik getup. At the end of his phone call to Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Thornton says "Next time, I'll call Robert Ludlum!" The best-selling spy novelist was Rodney's neighbor and a close friend in real life. | |
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| Back to School / int_c8c00dc9 | type |
Obvious Stunt Double | |
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Obvious Stunt Double: Rodney Dangerfield starts a dive on top of a high board, but when the camera cuts to the stunt man actually doing the dive, his toupee flops up to reveal it's not Rodney. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: Mostly averted, believe it or not. Rodney Dangerfield actually avoids using his signature shtick throughout the movie. There is one notable instance of it, though: | |
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| Back to School / int_cf231d54 | type |
Cool Teacher | |
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Cool Teacher: Diane, especially in comparison to Phillip. As just one example, she joined the students at the mid-term party. | |
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| Back to School / int_cff53786 | type |
Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: "Twist and Shout" plays in the film, and it's sung by someone other than The Beatles (while they didn't create the song, their rendition was arguably the most famous). Rodney Dangerfield, who sang part of the song in the movie, also performed an entire cover version of it for a music video with scenes from the movie. | |
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British Stuffiness | |
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British Stuffiness: The only member of staff who turns his nose to Thornton's antics is the snooty British professor who teaches economics, rightfully finding Thornton's method of getting into college to be a slap in the face to the hard working students who got in properly and thinking of Thornton himself to be crude and boorish. | |
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| Back to School / int_d6c074b | type |
Shower of Awkward | |
| Back to School / int_d6c074b | comment |
Shower of Awkward: Thornton unknowingly walks into a female sorority house when he's looking for Jason's dorm room and accidentally walks in on a student showering. He quickly shuts the curtain on her, claiming he didn't see anything, but briefly opens it back up and says, "You're perfect." | |
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| Back to School / int_da72023b | type |
Back to School | |
| Back to School / int_da72023b | comment |
Back to School: Thornton goes back to college as a successful, middle-aged man to lead his son by example. | |
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Artistic License | |
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Artistic License: Shining a light in a student diver's face would get you immediately expelled and arrested. It's lethally dangerous. The college is shown as having only one fraternity. All US universities have several. | |
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| Back to School / int_e6f2f710 | type |
But Liquor Is Quicker | |
| Back to School / int_e6f2f710 | comment |
But Liquor Is Quicker: "Say when!" "Right after this drink!" "If we finish this bottle of wine, you won't have to beg." | |
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| Back to School / int_e7cd994c | type |
Anti-Role Model | |
| Back to School / int_e7cd994c | comment |
Anti-Role Model: Thornton's decidedly anti-inspirational graduation speech. | |
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Self-Made Man | |
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Self-Made Man: Melon, the son of a poor Italian tailor, created a successful clothing line. | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot | |
| Back to School / int_edaedf90 | comment |
Vomit Discretion Shot: The drunk student. | |
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A Minor Kidroduction | |
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A Minor Kidroduction: A young Thornton in 1940 comes home from school to show his dad his lousy report card, setting up both Thorn's poor academic track record and his rather fraught relationship with higher learning (he succeeded in spite of being poorly educated, but comes to realize that his father was warning him how disappointed he'll feel to see his son make the same mistake).note Jason Hervey's performance, wisely, goes for an evocation over a direct imitation, though he does get the signature Rodney collar-tug in at one point. | |
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Technician Versus Performer | |
| Back to School / int_ef3d1b57 | comment |
Technician Versus Performer: This is the core of the conflict between Thornton and Professor Phillip, as it reflects on academic teaching vs. real world experience. As a professor, Phillip's class is based mainly on theoretical principles of business. Thornton, a self-made retailer, explains the more creative business practices and the shady backroom deals that happen in the real world. | |
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Product Placement | |
| Back to School / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: Due to Rodney Dangerfield's contractual obligations with the Miller Brewing Company and his appearances in Miller Lite beer commercials at the time, only Miller beer was allowed to be shown in certain scenes (when Dangerfield goes to get a beer out of the refrigerator during the party at his house and during the large party at the college when the police arrive with extra beer). | |
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| Back to School / int_f6c3d469 | type |
Fanservice Extra | |
| Back to School / int_f6c3d469 | comment |
Fanservice Extra: When Rodney accidentally walks in on actress Leslie Huntly in the middle of her Shower Scene. Dangerfield and "Coed #1" have a brief Shower of Awkward played purely for Fanservice. There's also Bubbles, which Thornton says is the only thing missing from the hot tub. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
| Back to School / int_f6f2ff1 | comment |
Insult Backfire: Chas tries to get a burn in on Jason by calling him a Nouveau Riche fleeb who'll turn out just like his father. Jason doesn't miss a beat with his retort: | |
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Artistic License – Economics | |
| Back to School / int_fd76df83 | comment |
Artistic License – Economics: Generally entry-level economics classes tend to treat econ as a pure social science and don't work towards the practical implications for business so cleanly as portrayed in this film. | |
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