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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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Having noted the success of Disney's 1964 Edwardian Era musical film Mary Poppins, four years later United Artists sought to generate similar success for themselves by hiring The Sherman Brothers, the same song-writing team that had scored Poppins, to adapt another period piece into a big-budget musical extravaganza. The result was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.Sometime in the 1910s, the widowed English inventor Caractacus Potts (portrayed, with an American accent, by Dick Van Dyke) rebuilds an old wreck of a racecar—which he names "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", for the noise its engine makes—and adds a few slight improvements, such as giving it the ability to sail and to fly. During an excursion in the car with his two children, Jeremy and Jemima, and an attractive woman named Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), whose father is the wealthy owner of the local candy factory, Caractacus entertains them with a story.It seems that Baron Bomburst, the tyrannical ruler of the vaguely mitteleuropäisch land of Vulgaria, has seen Chitty and covets the car for himself. After his father is kidnapped by the Baron's forces, Caractacus, his kids, and Miss Scrumptious all travel to Vulgaria,note Location shooting for the film version was done around the Bavarian castle of Neuschwanstein and in the medieval town of Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber where they get into various misadventures. Hilarity Ensues.The book it's based on was written by Ian Fleming. Yes, that Ian Fleming. The movie itself was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, of the same fame (though not produced by Eon Productions this time around). Additionally, Gert Fröbe (who'd played Auric Goldfinger) appeared as Baron Bomburst, while Desmond Llewelyn (aka Q) played Coggins. The screenwriter was Roald Dahl (who, to continue the Bond Production Posse, also wrote the screenplay to You Only Live Twice). And Benny Hill was the Toymaker.Barbara Broccoli produced a Screen-to-Stage Adaptation in 2002.The titular car was owned by one of the film's drivers, Peter Picton (aka Pierre the Clown), who died in November 2016. The vehicle is now owned by Peter Jackson. | |
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Miles Gloriosus | |
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Miles Gloriosus: The Child Catcher; he can handle a couple at once (laughing evilly as he does), but a large group of them? That makes him scream in panic and give up without a fight. | |
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Canon Foreigner | |
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Canon Foreigner: Most notably, Truly Scrumptious and everybody to do with Vulgaria were invented by Dahl for this film. | |
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Kaiserreich | |
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Kaiserreich: The opening credits shows the car partaking in a race in Imperial Germany. Vulgaria also takes a number of visual cues from that era, from the castles to the uniforms. | |
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Parenting the Husband | |
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Parenting the Husband: Baron and Baroness Bomburst. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: In addition to the above-mentioned "Chu-Chi Face", the stage version adds "The Bombie Samba". | |
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Lady Macbeth | |
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Lady Macbeth: The Baroness takes on this role in the stage adaptation (unlike in the film, where she comes across as more airheaded and is less actively antagonistic). It is she who orders the Vulgarian spies to bring the car to Vulgaria, albeit all to please her darling husband. | |
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Smuggling with Dolls | |
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Smuggling with Dolls: In a way. The Vulgarian soldiers unknowingly smuggle Caractacus and Truly, disguised as human-sized dolls, into Baron Bomburst's castle in large boxes, under the pretense of the Toymaker delivering the Baron his birthday presents. | |
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Road Runner vs. Coyote | |
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Roadrunner Vs Coyote: The agent's initial attempts to capture Chitty are straight out of Wile E. Coyote's handbook (and enjoy the same success). | |
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Homemade Inventions | |
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Homemade Inventions: Caractacus' works exhibit this, such as his automated breakfast maker. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Toward the end of the film, several characters are thrown into the lake near Neuschwanstein Castle. If you know the history of Neuschwanstein (Ludwig II of Bavaria, who built the castle, mysteriously drowned in a lake), this is a lot darker. Earlier on, the Baron repeatedly tries to kill his own wife with no success. | |
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Accidental Aiming Skills | |
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Accidental Aiming Skills: The Baron tries to shoot his own wife when she gets launched into the air and held up with a Parachute Petticoat under the pretense he's trying to help her down. But he does succeed in popping her dress and having her land safely, much to his disappointment. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: While the original film relegates the Vulgarian subplot to a story Potts tells his children while they're at the seaside, it gets expanded in the stage version; Vulgaria and all its denizens (evil or otherwise) are real, and they're introduced at the beginning of the show, as opposed to roughly halfway through. | |
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Fat and Skinny | |
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Fat and Skinny: The two spies are comprised of a fat guy and a lean guy. | |
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Ash Face | |
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Ash Face: Happens to the Vulgarian agents where their dynamite stunt backfires. | |
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Trap Door | |
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Trap Door: Baron Bomburst tries to dispose of his wife through one. She just walks back without acknowledging it. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Chitty's license plate reads GEN 11. "Genii" is Latin for "magical being." Subverted with Toot Sweets. It's a pun on tout de suite, French for "Right now," (the de is silent) but it isn't related to candy, rather it's to imply that it's new and exciting. | |
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Sickeningly Sweethearts | |
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Sickeningly Sweethearts: Played with. The lyrics and tempo of "Chu-Chi Face" make it sound like the Baron and Baroness are this trope. But throughout the song, the Baron makes repeated attempts to kill her while she seems to remain oblivious. It's played straight in the Screen-to-Stage Adaptation, where the Baron and Baroness's relationship is rewritten so that their love for one another is entirely mutual. | |
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Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat! | |
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Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: The Vulgarian admiral following behind the cavalry, when the gates close behind him. | |
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It Will Never Catch On | |
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It Will Never Catch On: Among Caractacus's not-quite-working inventions are a television antenna and a vacuum cleaner, even though the electric-powered vacuum cleaner had already been invented. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Jeremy and Jemima work very hard to get their dad Caractacus together with Truly. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Joe the Monster, his goons, Monsieur Bon-Bon, and the French setting of the later half of the book are cut altogether. | |
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Mugged for Disguise | |
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Mugged for Disguise: Happens to Lord Scrumptious and his chauffeur, courtesy of the two spies. | |
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The Edwardian Era | |
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The Edwardian Era: The entire setting of the musical is in the early 1900s with the car design and fashion also set on. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Not merely Caractacus himself (who, as his father says, is "Eccentric — definitely eccentric. Can't think where he gets it from!"), but also a collection of rather grotesque inventors (and one telephone repairman) forced by the Baron to work on a supercar for himself. | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Gratuitous German: The Vulgarians, particularly the Baron and the two spies. | |
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TheSixties | |
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The '60s: The original novel was set in early-60s Britain, with the eponymous car being a vintage barn-find Caractacus bought because neither he nor anyone else in the Potts family wanted to be the twelfth family on the block with a black Morris Minor. | |
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Never Heard That One Before | |
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Never Heard That One Before: At the breakfast table, grandpa tries to tell the old joke about bagging an elephant in his pajamas (first used by Groucho Marx) but everyone's heard that one before. | |
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Flying Car | |
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Flying Car: Chitty, obviously. | |
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Rhetorical Question Blunder | |
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Rhetorical Question Blunder: The first spy's villainous Monologuing includes the odd rhetorical question. The second spy is prone to attempting to answer them. In fact, it's the first thing he does when they are introduced: "Now then, where are we?" "I have here a map!" "I know where we are, stupid!" | |
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Punk Punk | |
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Punk Punk: the film, at least, seems to straddle the line between Steampunk and Diesel Punk | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The Vulgarian Army is very easily taken down by the escaped children, including the infamous Child Catcher. | |
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Teenage Wasteland | |
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Teenage Wasteland: Vulgaria has outlawed children of all ages, forcing the townspeople to hide them in a ghetto. Some of these exiled children are teenagers, who mostly look after the infants. | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Dick Van Dyke is in a movie set in England with English actors playing the other members of his family and he still uses his American accent. Of course, we all know what happened the last time he attempted a British accent. He actually signed on to the film on the condition that he not have to use an English accent, having learned his lesson from last time. | |
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Gadgeteer's House | |
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Gadgeteer's House: The Potts family house is littered with the Homemade Inventions of father Caractus Potts, including the automated breakfast maker in the kitchen and the music box in the children's room. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: The Baron, the Vulgarian Army and most notoriously, the Child Catcher. Why? Because of the Baroness, who is petrified of them. The Junk Man also counts, threatening the two kids to their face when they protest his decision to buy Chitty. Whether he meant it or not though is another story. | |
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Intermission | |
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Intermission: See Cliffhanger above. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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The children are told point-blank about the Child Catcher, ordered to stay put, and not to go outside no matter what... and they still go running after him with the call of sweets in hand. The worst of it is that they had seen the Child Catcher before and yet they were fooled by his Paper-Thin Disguise. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: Minsie Potts is deceased here. Truly takes up her role as the female lead. | |
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Big "WHAT?!" | |
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Big "WHAT?!": After Truly crashes her car into the lake for the second time, the following exchange happens between her and Mr. Potts: In fairness to Truly, she was wearing a very fancy, white, ankle-length dress, and Mr. Potts was suggesting she swim to shore. The pond her car was partially submerged in was also pretty dirty. Even if she were willing to soil her very expensive dress, swimming in an ankle-length dress is probably very difficult. | |
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Emergency Cargo Dump | |
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Emergency Cargo Dump: Vulgarian thieves steal Grandpa's hut (with Grandpa in it) by towing it away on a dirigible, but soon start losing altitude from the weight of the hut. They resort to throwing out cargo, and when that doesn't work throw out the two spies that caught Grandpa in the first place. Said spies are left to tread water in the middle of the ocean, and actually make it back to shore in the climax. | |
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Throw It In! | |
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Throw It In!: In-universe, the buskers go along with a random member joining their dance and learning the routine in a matter of seconds. They even have a fun call and response about what to do with bamboo sticks. At the end, one even gives a hat-full of earnings to Mr. Potts as thanks for his participation. | |
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Adaptational Ugliness | |
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Adaptational Ugliness: Just when you thought he couldn't get any scarier, both the West End and Broadway productions of the stage musical portray the Child Catcher as a much more ghoulish-looking character with a pointier nose, large goblin-like ears, and pale skin. | |
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Gorgeous Period Dress | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_4fe1aa4c | comment |
Gorgeous Period Dress: Much of Truly's wardrobe. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: All children are banned in Vulgaria because one child called the Baroness ugly. | |
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Knight's Armor Hideout | |
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Knight's Armor Hideout: During the climactic battle at Baron Bomburst's palace, Caractacus is seen putting a mace in the hands of a suit of armor and is surprised when it gladly takes it. Soon afterwards, the Vulgarian General is conked in the head with the same mace, and the knight pulls its visor open, showing that there was somebody inside the suit the whole time. | |
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Rube Goldberg Device | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_55af5099 | comment |
Rube Goldberg Device: Pretty much everything in the Potts household is set up this way, by Caractacus himself. | |
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Women Are Wiser | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_565106b3 | comment |
Women Are Wiser: At different points, Jemima comes off as slightly more sensible than her brother Jeremy. | |
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Creator Thumbprint | |
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Creator Thumbprint: Roald Dahl's hand in adapting the story is rather clear, with such aspects as not one, but two new Child Hater antagonists, one of whom is directly involved in harming them, and conversely, two adults who really care about children, and dark comedy like a couple singing a loving duet while one tries to kill the other. There's also the fact that Truly's father is a confectionery manufacturer, owing to Dahl's love of sweets. | |
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Disney Villain Death | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: The Child Catcher's ultimate fate in the 2002 stage version. After getting netted up and carried into the sky, he appears in front of the airborne Chitty during the finale and vows to capture the children again. This prompts Truly to whip out a shotgun and shoot the net, sending the Catcher on a one-way trip to the ground. | |
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Parental Love Song | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_5dcb6101 | comment |
Parental Love Song: "You Two". | |
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One-Book Author | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_5e032315 | comment |
One-Book Author: This was child actress Heather Ripley's only feature film. | |
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Not Distracted by the Sexy | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_5f4097ba | comment |
Not Distracted by the Sexy: The Baron is more disgusted than turned-on when the Baroness wears a sexy corset for his birthday. He proceeds to attempt murder. | |
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Ruritania | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_60cc14ba | comment |
Ruritania: Vulgaria is a completely fictional nation in Central Europe with references to Germany. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: C'mon now? Bomburst? Vulgaria? Child Catcher? | |
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Sinister Schnoz | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_61b132a5 | comment |
Sinister Schnoz: The Child-Catcher. | |
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Parachute Petticoat | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_61c6a7d7 | comment |
Parachute Petticoat: Happens to the Baroness when she is launched from Chitty's Ejector Seat. | |
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Ejection Seat | |
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Ejection Seat: When Baron Bomburst commands Grandpa to make the eponymous car fly, Grandpa presses a button at random that sends the Baroness shooting skyward out of her seat. (See Parachute Petticoat, below.) | |
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Missing Mom | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: Also counts as a Death by Adaptation for Mrs. Potts. | |
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Bumbling Henchmen Duo | |
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Bumbling Henchmen Duo: The two Vulgarian spies are the bumbling henchmen sent by the Baron to steal the car and kidnap its inventor. They keep messing up their mission, accidentally kidnapping Lord Scrumptious and Grandpa Potts instead of Caractacus Potts. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Caractacus Potts. Dick Van Dyke himself once said it was just a long form for "crackpot". Lampshaded in the case of Truly Scrumptious with the song that bears her name. ("By coincidence, Truly Scrumptious, you're truly, truly scrumptious.") | |
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Punny Name | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_6d7026fa | comment |
Punny Name: Truly Scrumptious. Ironically, despite Fleming's penchant for women with Punny Names in his Bond novels, Truly was invented by Roald Dahl. Lord "Skrumshus" didn't have a daughter in the novel. Also, Caractacus (say it really fast, and drop the "acus") Potts. Possibly lampshaded when Caractacus asks his children if they believe he's a crackpot. This is held over from the book. "Toot Sweet" sounds like the French phrase "tout de suite". "Vulgaria" sounds an awful lot like "Bulgaria". | |
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Swing Low, Sweet Harriet | |
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Swing Low, Sweet Harriet: Truly on her garden swing. | |
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Scarily Competent Tracker | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_6feaf27b | comment |
Scarily Competent Tracker: There's a reason he's called the Child Catcher — his nose knows. | |
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In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_73d4b01a | comment |
In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: Similar to the James Bond movies, the title card reads, "Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". | |
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_7431b974 | comment |
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: While the Bombursts are over the top and immature villains, their dragon, the Child Catcher, has been a notorious source of Nightmare Fuel to younger viewers. Exaggerated in stage productions where the Child Catcher is given a more distinctly monstrous, Gothic appearance ala Orlok or Cesare that really make him stick out like a sore thumb in an otherwise bright and cheerful story. | |
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Chroma Key | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_743437c4 | comment |
Chroma Key: Used to make Chitty fly. You can see blue matte lines in some shots, especially around Jeremy and Jemima's hair and inside the see-through trim on Truly's hat. | |
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Vanilla Edition | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_746bfee8 | comment |
Vanilla Edition: The 30th Anniversary DVD boasted no bonus features except for a trailer and sing-along subtitles, and presented the main feature in Pan and Scan to boot.note Perplexingly, the trailer, the opening and end credit sequences, and even the menus boasted widescreen picture... MGM released a Special Edition DVD five years later, with both the widescreen and pan-and-scan versions, a bonus features disc, and digibook packaging. However, the 30th Anniversary DVD strangely remained in print, and even received a number of repackaged re-releases. The most recent DVD release just consists of disc one of the Special Edition DVD in an ordinary case, with the pan-and-scan version removed. | |
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Sky Heist | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_74a08ab1 | comment |
Sky Heist: Baron Bomburst's spies kidnap Grandpa Potts after mistaking him for his son Caractacus by hooking his shed from their airship and flying off with the entire shed, with Grandpa still inside. | |
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Vehicular Kidnapping | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_77918cdf | comment |
Vehicular Kidnapping: The Child Catcher lures Jeremy and Jemima out of hiding with the promise of sweets, directs them into his trap which is a horse-drawn wagon disguised as a candy stand, locks them inside and drives away with them, and imprisons them with the rest of the children of Vulgaria, who have all been kidnapped as well. | |
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The Nose Knows | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_79c34029 | comment |
The Nose Knows: The Child Catcher's huge nose lets him track people's scent. | |
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Eagleland | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_7a265daa | comment |
Eagleland: From the musical. | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_7c4f6612 | comment |
Comic-Book Adaptation: Gold Key Comics adapted it in 1969. | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_82a64c4b | comment |
Adaptational Nice Guy: The Baron genuinely loves his wife in the stage version, and never tries to kill her during "Chu-Chi Face". | |
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Plunger Detonator | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_836a968e | comment |
Plunger Detonator: Complete with the Looney Tunes gag of the detonator exploding instead of the dynamite. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Lord Scrumptious and his chauffeur are captured by the two Vulgarian spies, who steal their clothes and impersonate them, but they themselves are just sort of forgotten about. They reappear just fine at the end since it was All Just a Dream, but one wonders what became of them in the Story Within A Story. The spies themselves are a double-subversion: They're tossed out of the airship in the middle of the North Sea and could be presumed to have drowned (or at least the one who says he can't swim), but then they're seen swimming to shore just in time to see the chaos the children have wrought spill out into the castle grounds and retreat back into the sea, this time never to be seen again. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_863fa679 | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_8a295a46 | type |
Cool Car | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Cool Car: Guess... | |
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Overly Stereotypical Disguise | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_8a5f1611 | comment |
Overly Stereotypical Disguise: The Baron's two spies attempt to blend in as Englishmen by putting on plaid coats, deerstalker caps, holding a pipe aloft, and calling each other "Basil". A nearby family sees them pass and looks at each other in confusion. | |
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Women Drivers | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_913dc5d2 | comment |
Women Drivers: Commented on by Caractacus when he sees Truly trying to start her car. | |
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Disastrous Demonstration | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_9228e13b | comment |
Disastrous Demonstration: The Toot Sweets pitch is going great... until all of the whistling attracts a horde of dogs that overrun the factory. Subverted at the end when Lord Scrumptious decides to buy them anyway... and market the way dogs love them as a feature. | |
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Hooks and Crooks | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_93f0fc43 | comment |
Hooks and Crooks: The Child Catcher carries a hook, but we don't see him use it. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_93f0fc43 | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_96144372 | comment |
Aristocrats Are Evil: Baron and Baroness Bomburst, the leaders of Vulgaria. Though averted with Truly Scrumptious, who is, well... | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_96144372 | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_96a33f11 | comment |
Riddle for the Ages: Was Vulgaria real, or was it all just a story? | |
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Screen-to-Stage Adaptation | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_99244825 | comment |
It's played straight in the Screen-to-Stage Adaptation, where the Baron and Baroness's relationship is rewritten so that their love for one another is entirely mutual. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Jeremy and Jemima object to having the future Chitty sold for scrap by saying they'd be guilty of murder. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: When introduced to a flawed batch of sweets from Caractus's sweet making machine, Truly makes an offhand comment about the sugar's temperature. Turns out she's the daughter of a famous confectionary mogul. | |
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Alto Villainess | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_9de3695d | comment |
Alto Villainess: Baroness Bomburst has an impressive alto vocal range but she's the wife of the nefarious Baron. | |
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Purple Is Powerful | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_a20b2263 | comment |
Purple Is Powerful: The Baron, Baroness and royal court are all decked out in purple and complimentary black, the noble state colors of Vulgaria. It's only "powerful" in the political sense, as all of them prove exceedingly useless against an army of children. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: The beginning. Six minutes of jaunty, comedic old-timey racing... and then a little girl's puppy suddenly runs into the racetrack and causes a fiery crash. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Lord Scrumptious in the book was a very minor character. Here he plays a larger supporting role as the father of the Love Interest | |
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Not Hyperbole | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_a6c677c4 | comment |
Not Hyperbole: When Baron Bomburst tells Grandpa to build him a flying car, he says "I will stuff your head wiz sauerkraut and feed it to the dogs." Grandpa thinks he's joking until one scientist says "The Baron never makes jokes.", describing different ways in which they've been tortured. One used to be a midget until he got stretched on the rack. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_a6c677c4 | |
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Same Language Dub | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_aac4eeae | comment |
Same Language Dub: Like his previous role in Goldfinger, because of his thick German accent, Gert Fröbe's dialogue as the baron was looped in post, only this time by Roger C. Carmel. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_aac4eeae | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: At first, the children when they realize the Child Catcher has joined the battle. But it then reverses onto the Child Catcher himself when he realizes he's greatly outnumbered. Caractacus when he encounters Truly at the Scrumptious sweets factory, and putting two and two together, realizes she's Truly Scrumptious, whose father is factory owner Lord Scrumptious. He tries to walk out before his children implore him to stay. | |
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Robot Girl | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_ad5283e1 | comment |
Robot Girl: Invoked as part of the plot to rescue the children. Truly disguises herself as a doll on a music box, a present for the villain ruler. | |
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For the Evulz | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_adfd3165 | comment |
For the Evulz: Baron and Baroness Bomburst fear and despise kids and they aren’t even given a Freudian Excuse. | |
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Driving into a Truck | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_aec88ae0 | comment |
Driving into a Truck: Lord Scrumptious is captured by being tricked, Looney Tunes-style, into driving through a painted backdrop and up into the back of a truck. | |
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Sidekick Song | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_b29cc937 | comment |
Sidekick Song: "Posh!" for Grandpa Potts. | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_b47d95be | comment |
No OSHA Compliance: The Scrumptious candy factory doesn't have handrails on its high catwalks (that many people are dancing on) and has some of the boiling vats of sugar sitting on the edges... | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_b47d95be | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: The children are told point-blank about the Child Catcher, ordered to stay put, and not to go outside no matter what... and they still go running after him with the call of sweets in hand. The worst of it is that they had seen the Child Catcher before and yet they were fooled by his Paper-Thin Disguise. The Child Catcher himself exhibits this at the climax. Really, thinking he could handle a whole army of angry children by himself? The entire Vulgarian Army seems to run on this, blindly charging into battle and never once firing their rifles as they are swiftly routed by the children and villagers. Baroness Bomburst doesn't realize her husband is trying to kill her. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_b58b4e3c | |
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Forced Transformation | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_b97a2fa7 | comment |
Forced Transformation: Taken literally, "Doll on a Music Box" claims that the doll (actually Truly in disguise) was once human and cursed to become a mechanical object of amusement, and that only love's first kiss can break the spell. However, it can also refer to Truly feeling restricted by the position and expectations associated with her social stature. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_b97a2fa7 | |
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The Bluebeard | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_b9f6cc0a | comment |
Earlier on, the Baron repeatedly tries to kill his own wife with no success. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_b9f6cc0a | |
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Cool Boat | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_bb01ad0e | comment |
Cool Boat: Chitty can float as well as fly. Incidentally, the inflated raft version of Chitty is movie-specific. In the book she's an even cooler boat. Chitty folds her wheels down and spins them to create a hovercraft-like effect. And Fleming thought this up decades before Back to the Future "hover conversions" were invented! | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_bb01ad0e | |
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Nested Story | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_bb0b2739 | comment |
Nested Story: The second half of the movie goes into Caractacus' beachside story. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_bb0b2739 | |
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Child Hater | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_bc03c871 | comment |
Child Hater: Having been invented by Roald Dahl, Vulgaria naturally has its whole culture built (very illogically) around this. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_bc03c871 | |
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Gentleman Adventurer | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_bd922dda | comment |
Gentleman Adventurer: Played with. Grandpa Potts thinks he's this trope, but he's really just insane. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_bd922dda | |
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ElevenOClockNumber | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_be554c8e | comment |
Eleven O'Clock Number: "Doll On a Music Box", for the film. "Teamwork", exclusive to the stage version, is a near-perfect example of this trope aside from the fact that it's followed up by another two numbers before the climax (including the aforementioned number from the film). | |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_bf74d357 | comment |
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The Bombursts. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_bf74d357 | |
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Of Corsets Sexy | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c0c7a82e | comment |
Of Corsets Sexy: The Baroness while singing "You're My Little Chu-Chi Face". | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c0c7a82e | |
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Kids Play Matchmaker | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c129ee65 | comment |
Kids Play Matchmaker: Mr. Potts' kids try to match him up with Lady Truly, doing so pretty unsubtly by ending his story to them with "then Daddie and Truly got married! Yeah!" | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c129ee65 | |
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Childless Dystopia | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c142c1ff | comment |
Childless Dystopia: Vulgaria has no children running around the streets thanks to a heartless Baron and his Child Catcher helping him get rid of those kids. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c142c1ff | |
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Advertising by Association | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c180f1cb | comment |
Advertising by Association: From the original trailer: | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c180f1cb | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c2288824 | comment |
A Nazi by Any Other Name: The German-accented Bombursts with their anti-child policies. And incidentally, Vulgaria is set in what is really Castle Neuschwanstein. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c2288824 | |
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Show Within a Show | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c2393191 | comment |
Show Within a Show: "Me ol' bam-boo". Caractacus ends up part of the song and dance after running away from a pissed-off customer. And the result is amazing. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c2393191 | |
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Unwanted Spouse | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c2c92862 | comment |
Unwanted Spouse: Baron Bomburst hates his wife and is constantly trying to kill her to be rid of her. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c2c92862 | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c2d04a04 | type |
Names to Trust Immediately | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c2d04a04 | comment |
Names to Trust Immediately: Truly Scrumptious. A Meaningful Name too, seeing as her father runs a candy factory. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c2d04a04 | |
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Counterpoint Duet | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c3d6c819 | comment |
Counterpoint Duet: "Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious (reprise)" at Baron Bomburst's birthday party. Exclusive to the stage version, "Act English". | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c3d6c819 | |
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Cliffhanger | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c6b8d37a | comment |
Cliffhanger: Chitty and its occupants go over the cliff, seemingly headed to certain doom — cue the Intermission! After the break, the final moments of the first half are rerun, and then the wings sprout from the car... | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c6b8d37a | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: During breakfast, Grandpa Potts tells everyone "I got up this morning, and I shot an elephant in my pajamas.", making everyone say in unison "How it ever got into my pajamas, I shall never know." "You've heard it before!" | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c75df49a | |
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Decadent Court | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c9790040 | comment |
Decadent Court: The Baron's noble courtiers spend all of their time milling around and cavorting with their wives in the throne room while no work seems to get done, and two are introduced playing a game that suggests they're a bit cracked in the head (snooker, with a tiny table only wide enough for a single ball, and no balls). | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_c9790040 | |
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"Test Your Strength" Game | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_ca4569bd | comment |
"Test Your Strength" Game: The big guy whose nerves Caractacus gets on is seen winning at one of these. He even breaks the bell off. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_ca4569bd | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_cf6d4bad | type |
Steampunk | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_cf6d4bad | comment |
Steampunk: The movie has a steampunk sensibility, but Chitty is a 20th century gasoline-powered vehicle, and the mood is the very opposite of "punk". The novel is set in the 1960s and is definitely not steampunk. (Diesel Punk, then?) | |
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Lampshaded | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_d332bf54 | comment |
Also, Caractacus (say it really fast, and drop the "acus") Potts. Possibly lampshaded when Caractacus asks his children if they believe he's a crackpot. This is held over from the book. | |
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Set Switch Song | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_d4a96a6 | comment |
Set Switch Song: "Hushabye Mountain", in the stage version, which transitions almost immediately into the funfair. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_d4a96a6 | |
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Those Magnificent Flying Machines | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_d881756c | comment |
Those Magnificent Flying Machines: Chitty and the Baron's blimp. Early in the film, Caractacus attempts to build a set of rocket wings, as well. Epic Fail. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_d881756c | |
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Villain Love Song | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_d9391535 | comment |
Villain Love Song: "You're my little chu-chi face!" Subverted since he spends the whole song trying to kill her. | |
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-0.3 | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_d9391535 | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_d99fdd5e | type |
Let X Be the Unknown | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang / int_d99fdd5e | comment |
Let X Be the Unknown: One of the spies wants to go by the Code Name "X", but his superiors misunderstand it as "Rex" or "Tex." It doesn't help when the other spy tries to clarify that it's X as in "X and Bacon." | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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The spies themselves are a double-subversion: They're tossed out of the airship in the middle of the North Sea and could be presumed to have drowned (or at least the one who says he can't swim), but then they're seen swimming to shore just in time to see the chaos the children have wrought spill out into the castle grounds and retreat back into the sea, this time never to be seen again. | |
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If It Swims, It Flies | |
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If It Swims, It Flies: The car itself. | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: Baron Bomburst, ironically. To the point that he's singlehandedly keeping the toymaker in business. | |
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Sweets of Temptation | |
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Sweets of Temptation: The Child Catcher of Vulgaria successfully captures the hero's children by luring them in with the promise of free sweets. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The episode of the two spies dressed as "English gentlemen" may be based on a World War II story in which two German spies were apprehended in the fen-country of Norfolk because (having been misled by P. G. Wodehouse and other similar English authors) they had attempted to pass as Englishmen by wearing spats and top-hats, both unsuitable to the terrain and hopelessly out of fashion by the 1940s. Caractacus is reputed to be partially based on Henry M. Leland. | |
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Percussive Maintenance | |
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Percussive Maintenance: When the giant music box that is given to the Baron as a gift for his birthday doesn't start up correctly, a swift kick from Caractacus gets it started again. | |
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Cool Airship | |
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Cool Airship: Bomburst has a dirigible. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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Lord Scrumptious and his chauffeur are captured by the two Vulgarian spies, who steal their clothes and impersonate them, but they themselves are just sort of forgotten about. They reappear just fine at the end since it was All Just a Dream, but one wonders what became of them in the Story Within A Story. | |
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Pet's Homage Name | |
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Pet's Homage Name: Inventor Caratacus Potts has a dog named Edison. | |
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Unconventional Food Usage | |
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Unconventional Food Usage: When Mr. Pott realises that when you blow through his invented candy, it makes a whistling sound, he licenses them as "toot sweets" and encourages people to play them like instruments. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: "Hushabye Mountain", the gentle lullaby sung by Potts to his children early in the film, is reprised later as he tries to reassure the captive Vulgarian children, only to remind himself in doing so that his own children are still missing. Potts is so overcome with emotion that he stops, only for Truly to take up the song in his place. | |
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The Baroness | |
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The Baroness: The Baroness. Unlike most examples, this Baroness is in fact an actual baroness. She is married to a baron and lives in the capital of a barony. | |
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Walk This Way | |
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Walk This Way: When Grandpa arrives in Vulgaria. | |
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Pushed in Front of the Audience | |
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Pushed in Front of the Audience: Mr. Potts at the fair lets this happen when he realizes it will hide him from the angry customer to whom he just gave a horrible haircut. | |
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How the Mighty Have Fallen | |
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How the Mighty Have Fallen: Chitty's backstory; she was once a prestigious racing car but a rather unfortunate incident in her final race involving a young girl and her runaway dog led to the car's untimely destruction as it veered to avoid a collision. It would sit in Mister Coggins' shop until it was bought and fully restored by Caractacus. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Truly ends up in a boggy pond whenever she's driving by the Pottses. It happens three times. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: "You'll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution, Miss Scrumptious." | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: On the way back to Vulgaria, the two spies are thrown off the zeppelin when Baron Bomburst tries to lighten it. Later, we see the spies having swum all the way back, but because the Vulgarian people are fighting at the castle, they head back into the water to swim away. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil Is Petty: Children are outlawed in Vulgaria and captured by the Child Catcher to be given an unknown (but probably better off not known) sentence because the Baroness is afraid of them. Baron Bomburst also sees how cool Chitty is and wishes to have it for himself... and instead of trying to buy it from Caractacus, he immediately goes for trying to blow the whole Potts family away with cannons and send spies to kidnap Caractacus (although they get Grandpa instead). | |
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