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Hot Shots!
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In a World… full of serious action movies, filled with huge explosions, improbably hot women, and angsty, tortured heroes with tragic backgrounds, one man stood up against the status quo and said, "No more! We don't have to sit here and endure the same plot over and over again! We deserve something more! Something better!" And he took the same plot we had seen over and over again, and made us see it yet again, only this time, it was different... it was funny. It was... Hot Shots!That man... was Jim Abrahams. And he is insane.As one-third of the team that forever spoiled the airline disaster movie with Airplane!, Abrahams takes the fighter pilot action movie and turns it into something a couple degrees off center, just enough to catch us off-guard. At first blush, it appears to be a serious action movie, but then the whole thing spirals off into chaos.Charlie Sheen stars as Topper Harley, an ex-Navyman who left the armed services to live with the Native Americans after the tragic death of his father. He is called back into service by Admiral Benson (Lloyd Bridges) to help save a mission that is being sabotaged by a greedy weapons manufacturer. In the meantime, he must locate Saddam Hussein's cache of nukes and, more importantly, win the heart of his therapist, Ramada Thompson (Valeria Golino), away from a rival pilot, Kent Gregory (Cary Elwes).Hot Shots! was followed by a sequel, Hot Shots! Part Deux. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_1171ed72 | type |
Sexy Shirt Switch | |
Hot Shots! / int_1171ed72 | comment |
Sexy Shirt Switch: Played relatively straight here, but see the sequel... | |
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Hot Shots! / int_1439161f | type |
Heroic BSoD | |
Hot Shots! / int_1439161f | comment |
During an early training mission, Topper has a Heroic BSoD when Block mentions his father and crashes through a billboard. He is then asked what happened. He replies that he thought he saw Elvis. Just before the ending credits when characters who died during the film are shown, Elvis is one of them. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_15b2cab3 | type |
Tempting Fate | |
Hot Shots! / int_15b2cab3 | comment |
Tempting Fate: Mocked with Dead Meat, who meets his beautiful wife on the tarmac and has a black cat cross his path as she informs him that they've just closed on their dream home. Additionally, he strolls under a ladder as they're talking, his wife's compact mirror fell down and broke, his lucky chewing gum is missing, he's carrying the critical evidence about JFK in his pocket, came up with a solution for global warming, and tries to sign a life insurance policy before climbing in the cockpit... but his pen is out of ink. Oh, well, there'll be plenty of time for that later... | |
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Hot Shots! / int_19d06ef7 | type |
A Father to His Men | |
Hot Shots! / int_19d06ef7 | comment |
A Father to His Men: Spoofed: Admiral Benson is furious that the bad guy risked his men's lives in battle, because "That's my job!". | |
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Hot Shots! / int_1ba8eb64 | type |
Visual Pun | |
Hot Shots! / int_1ba8eb64 | comment |
Visual Pun: "I've got a Bogie on my tail!" | |
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Hot Shots! / int_1f14978d | type |
Talking Animal | |
Hot Shots! / int_1f14978d | comment |
Talking Animal: The birds that are almost hit by the jets in the beginning. The duck that Washout accidentally sets his sights on during the training exercise audibly exclaims "Uh oh!" when it notices it has a jet fighter bearing down on it. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_21e5b9c7 | type |
Failed a Spot Check | |
Hot Shots! / int_21e5b9c7 | comment |
Failed a Spot Check: Apparently a trademark of the ZAZ team. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_21e5b9c7 | |
Hot Shots! / int_22071825 | type |
I'm a Humanitarian | |
Hot Shots! / int_22071825 | comment |
I'm a Humanitarian: Pilot Dominic "Mailman" Farnham was accidentally killed by a hunter, and used as a meal for the hunter's family. (If it makes you feel any better, Washout didn't have seconds.) | |
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Hot Shots! / int_22725d56 | type |
Nom de Guerre | |
Hot Shots! / int_22725d56 | comment |
Nom de Guerre: All the pilots, as befitting a (parody of a) military action movie. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_22cf536c | type |
Chekhov's Gun | |
Hot Shots! / int_22cf536c | comment |
Chekhov's Gun: The web used to catch landing planes before they fall into the sea. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_259d5879 | type |
Anachronism Stew | |
Hot Shots! / int_259d5879 | comment |
Anachronism Stew: Played for Laughs. Admiral Benson has apparently fought in every major battle of the past century or two, including being wounded by a bazooka at Little Bighorn... or was it Okinawa? | |
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Hot Shots! / int_26eb6287 | type |
Funny Background Event | |
Hot Shots! / int_26eb6287 | comment |
Funny Background Event: Another ZAZ trademark. These include: Troop drills involving can-can dancing. A man serving as the blood donor for another character slowly deflating. A funny verbal background event... it's easy to miss Benson's voiceover informing us that the EW-5894 plane is called the Phallus. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_26eb6287 | |
Hot Shots! / int_2b68b7fa | type |
Sickeningly Sweethearts | |
Hot Shots! / int_2b68b7fa | comment |
Sickeningly Sweethearts: Dead Meat and his wife. | |
Hot Shots! / int_2b68b7fa | featureApplicability |
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Hot Shots! / int_2c9e262 | type |
Catapult Nightmare | |
Hot Shots! / int_2c9e262 | comment |
Catapult Nightmare: The film begins with a pilot crashing their jet plane and being accidentally killed. The scene cuts to Topper Harley waking up and sitting bolt upright in bed. The entire flying sequence was Topper having a nightmare about the death of his father's navigator during a training mission where his father lost control of the plane. | |
Hot Shots! / int_2c9e262 | featureApplicability |
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Hot Shots! / int_2d364c81 | type |
Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
Hot Shots! / int_2d364c81 | comment |
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Kowalski and Ramada, respectively. Kowalski is a fighter pilot who is treated as one of the guys. Ramada is a military psychiatrist and always dresses in revealing clothes. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_2d6c0bce | type |
Talking in Your Sleep | |
Hot Shots! / int_2d6c0bce | comment |
Talking in Your Sleep: Mailman, after his plane crashes and he just woke up from being passed out: "You're French, aren't ya?" | |
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Hot Shots! / int_30c40e9a | type |
Deconstructor Fleet | |
Hot Shots! / int_30c40e9a | comment |
Deconstructor Fleet: The film doesn't just stick to parody/deconstruct Top Gun, which is the main target at first glance, but it sinks its meathooks into any trope it can find and folds and spindles it to shreds. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_30d4f2a | type |
Narcissist | |
Hot Shots! / int_30d4f2a | comment |
Narcissist: Kent, who is fine with losing Ramada because "as long as I have me, I'll be all right". He's also laughably oblivious about how much (or rather, how little) trouble Ramada will have getting over him. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_35ae7226 | type |
Everyone Hates Mimes | |
Hot Shots! / int_35ae7226 | comment |
Everyone Hates Mimes: The secondary targets of Operation: Sleepy Weasel are an accordian factory and a mime school. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_35ae7226 | |
Hot Shots! / int_3e0c789e | type |
Thoroughly Mistaken Identity | |
Hot Shots! / int_3e0c789e | comment |
Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: At the end of one scene: | |
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Hot Shots! / int_3ed23024 | type |
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
Hot Shots! / int_3ed23024 | comment |
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Especially for a parody film. Topper punches Kent and both of them immediately start yelping about their injured hand and face, respectively, rather than the countless times people have been unaffected by this. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_4143f84f | type |
Leg Focus | |
Hot Shots! / int_4143f84f | comment |
Leg Focus: Ramada, of course. Topper clearly mistakes her for a Sexy Secretary on their first official meeting. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_41feb209 | type |
Non Sequitur, *Thud* | |
Hot Shots! / int_41feb209 | comment |
Non Sequitur, *Thud*: After Washout slams head first into an ambulance door, he has this to say when he is congratulated for showing up: | |
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Hot Shots! / int_437cbac5 | type |
Sound Off | |
Hot Shots! / int_437cbac5 | comment |
Sound Off: Parodied by a group shouting lines from "I Have a Little Dreidel" and The Brady Bunch theme. Thing is, it works. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_4af55b78 | type |
Credits Gag | |
Hot Shots! / int_4af55b78 | comment |
Credits Gag: Recipes for desserts are scattered throughout, as well as a list of things to do after the movie, the briefly-spoofed characters getting their own credits (e.g. "Rhett Butler - Charlie Sheen"), and finally... "If you left this theater when these credits started, you'd be home by now." | |
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Hot Shots! / int_51640e80 | type |
Bond One-Liner | |
Hot Shots! / int_51640e80 | comment |
Bond One-Liner: When Topper takes out two Iraqi fighters by striking their wings with his, he quips "Fell for that one." | |
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Hot Shots! / int_51640e80 | |
Hot Shots! / int_54243cf7 | type |
Parrot Exposition | |
Hot Shots! / int_54243cf7 | comment |
Parrot Exposition: Lampshaded. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_5aa4ec8a | type |
Ambiguous Syntax | |
Hot Shots! / int_5aa4ec8a | comment |
Ambiguous Syntax: Admiral Benson is easily confused: When Ramada invites Topper into her apartment: Ramada tells a joke using this - "What do you do with an elephant with three balls? You walk him and pitch to the rhino." | |
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Hot Shots! / int_5aa4ec8a | |
Hot Shots! / int_5b9b6f01 | type |
Sitting Sexy on a Piano | |
Hot Shots! / int_5b9b6f01 | comment |
Sitting Sexy on a Piano: Ramada's musical number. Followed immediately by "Falling Sexy Right Off A Piano", and including, somehow, "Walking Sexy On The Upright Piano Cover". | |
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Hot Shots! / int_5b9b6f01 | |
Hot Shots! / int_5be08bdf | type |
Dodge by Braking | |
Hot Shots! / int_5be08bdf | comment |
Dodge by Braking: Harley leads pursuing jets into a canyon, and then slams on the brakes, complete with screeching noises. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_5c98d100 | type |
One of the Boys | |
Hot Shots! / int_5c98d100 | comment |
One of the Boys: For a fun game, try to figure out if Kowalski (played by Ms. Fanservice Kristy Swanson) is treated as if she was a man at every turn because somehow everyone thinks she is one or because there's some mad gender equality policy at work in the service. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_5deb34da | type |
Ace Pilot | |
Hot Shots! / int_5deb34da | comment |
Ace Pilot: A given, what with the movie they're parodying most, but exemplified when Topper is shown flying along Third and Main in the city. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_5deb34da | |
Hot Shots! / int_5e01640d | type |
X-Ray Sparks | |
Hot Shots! / int_5e01640d | comment |
X-Ray Sparks: Topper Harley walks out of an office into a hallway filled with electrical wires that are giving off sparks. He closes the door, and through the door's translucent window pane the audience sees Harley's skeleton as he's electrocuted. The skeleton then falls to the ground bone by bone. When the office's door is opened, Harley is whole again but has frazzled hair. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_5e01640d | |
Hot Shots! / int_60fb097 | type |
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat | |
Hot Shots! / int_60fb097 | comment |
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: The goal of the villains was to make sure their model of jet was selected to replace the current model the Navy uses. Block managed to accomplish that with Harley freezing up in combat, but the contractors also sabotaged the jets, leading to Block getting injured and giving Topper some Epiphany Therapy. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_61996785 | type |
Sacrificial Lamb | |
Hot Shots! / int_61996785 | comment |
Sacrificial Lamb: Again, Dead Meat. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_6375f746 | type |
Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
Hot Shots! / int_6375f746 | comment |
Drill Sergeant Nasty : "Your ego is writing checks your body can't cash" | |
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Hot Shots! / int_6375f746 | |
Hot Shots! / int_680f950 | type |
Gilligan Cut | |
Hot Shots! / int_680f950 | comment |
Gilligan Cut: "I'm in a hospital! What could go wrong?" Cut to Dead Meat's funeral. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_680f950 | |
Hot Shots! / int_6861146e | type |
Epiphany Therapy | |
Hot Shots! / int_6861146e | comment |
Epiphany Therapy: Played mostly straight. Topper suffers debilitating panic attacks every time he is compared to his disgraced father, who was also a pilot. At the end of the movie, he learns the truth, that his father was a hero. Suddenly Topper is ready to fly circles around the enemy. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_6861146e | |
Hot Shots! / int_689b05f2 | type |
I'm Going to Disney World! | |
Hot Shots! / int_689b05f2 | comment |
I'm Going to Disney World!: Because Harley's been a good little fighter pilot. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_6bbaf649 | type |
Loud Gulp | |
Hot Shots! / int_6bbaf649 | comment |
And Ramada, who is not only gorgeous but so sexually open that even Topper is a bit intimidated, stumbling over his own feet or letting out a Loud Gulp at one of her flirtatious remarks. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_6bbaf649 | |
Hot Shots! / int_6bd7b49a | type |
Spicy Latina | |
Hot Shots! / int_6bd7b49a | comment |
Spicy Latina: Ramada. Not Spanish (the actress playing her is half-Italian and half-Greek), but damn close. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_6bd7b49a | |
Hot Shots! / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Hot Shots! / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: "Dead Meat" and "Washout". "Topper" Harley is the most outrageously skilled pilot alive, and drives a Harley. Also, Commander Block's call sign is "Eyewitness", as lampshaded in his flashback. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_6bda9a30 | |
Hot Shots! / int_6eb4e408 | type |
Artistic License – Military | |
Hot Shots! / int_6eb4e408 | comment |
Artistic License – Military: Military justice version. After being kicked out of the unit, impersonating another officer, hijacking a military aircraft, and directly causing the death of a second fellow officer during a training exercise, Washout would most likely be ruthlessly Court-martialed, not granted a transfer to a new occupation (let's forget about all the new training he would require to go from pilot to radar op) on the very same mission he was just thrown off of. But that's not as funny. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_6eb4e408 | |
Hot Shots! / int_6fb4d332 | type |
Invulnerable Knuckles | |
Hot Shots! / int_6fb4d332 | comment |
Invulnerable Knuckles: Averted; when Topper and Kent fight each other, Topper punches Kent in the face, and both immediately cower in pain. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_6fd1837b | type |
Argument of Contradictions | |
Hot Shots! / int_6fd1837b | comment |
Argument of Contradictions: A bickering match between Topper Harley and Kent Gregory: | |
Hot Shots! / int_6fd1837b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_6fd1837b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_6fd1837b | |
Hot Shots! / int_716d9138 | type |
Bar Brawl | |
Hot Shots! / int_716d9138 | comment |
Bar Brawl: Again, parodied. As soon as Topper and Kent start shoving each other, the entire bar spontaneously breaks out in violence. The brawl ends the moment Ramada stops the two rivals. | |
Hot Shots! / int_716d9138 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_716d9138 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_716d9138 | |
Hot Shots! / int_740f0e9e | type |
Wronski Feint | |
Hot Shots! / int_740f0e9e | comment |
Wronski Feint: Topper leads a couple of heat-seeking missiles to Saddam's base to use as extra ordnance. | |
Hot Shots! / int_740f0e9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_740f0e9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_740f0e9e | |
Hot Shots! / int_74dec4b3 | type |
In One Ear, Out The Other | |
Hot Shots! / int_74dec4b3 | comment |
In One Ear, Out The Other: Tug Benson, using a handkerchief to demonstrate the side effects of one of his many war wounds. Used on the movie poster — see the page image. | |
Hot Shots! / int_74dec4b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_74dec4b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_74dec4b3 | |
Hot Shots! / int_763ac306 | type |
Mandatory Unretirement | |
Hot Shots! / int_763ac306 | comment |
Mandatory Unretirement: Topper Harley left the armed services due to his family's shame but is called back into service to help save a mission. | |
Hot Shots! / int_763ac306 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_763ac306 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_763ac306 | |
Hot Shots! / int_76b4b7dd | type |
The Comically Serious | |
Hot Shots! / int_76b4b7dd | comment |
The Comically Serious: Like with Airplane! and The Naked Gun, everyone says the most ridiculous lines in a deadpan manner. | |
Hot Shots! / int_76b4b7dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_76b4b7dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_76b4b7dd | |
Hot Shots! / int_7a143509 | type |
Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
Hot Shots! / int_7a143509 | comment |
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Spoofed with Tug Benson. At a soldier's funeral he hears the 21-gun salute and returns fire. | |
Hot Shots! / int_7a143509 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_7a143509 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_7a143509 | |
Hot Shots! / int_7c1207c1 | type |
Weapons Understudies | |
Hot Shots! / int_7c1207c1 | comment |
Weapons Understudies: The Oscar EW-5894 Fallus Tactical Fighter Bomber flown by the protagonists is really a Folland Gnat, a British jet trainer (except in one case where it is a HAL Ajeet, a minor Indian Air Force fighter derived from the Gnat). The Iraqi Air Force jets are repainted Northrop T-38 Talon jet trainers, except for one which is the T-38's sister design the F-5 Tiger II (the same plane that played the MiG-28 in Top Gun). | |
Hot Shots! / int_7c1207c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_7c1207c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_7c1207c1 | |
Hot Shots! / int_7d218606 | type |
Rapid-Fire Comedy | |
Hot Shots! / int_7d218606 | comment |
Rapid-Fire Comedy: In traditional Abrahams fashion. | |
Hot Shots! / int_7d218606 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_7d218606 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_7d218606 | |
Hot Shots! / int_8560c16f | type |
Fatal Family Photo | |
Hot Shots! / int_8560c16f | comment |
Fatal Family Photo: Just in case you weren't 100% convinced Dead Meat is doomed, he meets his pretty wife on the tarmac just before the fatal mission. | |
Hot Shots! / int_8560c16f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_8560c16f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_8560c16f | |
Hot Shots! / int_8707260c | type |
Misguided Missile | |
Hot Shots! / int_8707260c | comment |
Misguided Missile: Pulled off by Harley in the finale. | |
Hot Shots! / int_8707260c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_8707260c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_8707260c | |
Hot Shots! / int_87c7f99d | type |
Sidetracked by the Analogy | |
Hot Shots! / int_87c7f99d | comment |
Sidetracked by the Analogy: When Topper insinuates that Lt. Cmdr. Block might be trying to sabotage the mission, we get this gem. | |
Hot Shots! / int_87c7f99d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_87c7f99d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_87c7f99d | |
Hot Shots! / int_89469a56 | type |
Three-Volley Flinch | |
Hot Shots! / int_89469a56 | comment |
Three-Volley Flinch: Parodied at Dead Meat's funeral. While his widow does the (understandable) flinching from hearing the salute, Admiral Benson all of a sudden thinks that the funeral is under attack and retaliates in kind with his sidearm and some grenades he carried just in case... while "protecting" the tearful, freaking-out widow. | |
Hot Shots! / int_89469a56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_89469a56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_89469a56 | |
Hot Shots! / int_8cf6aa | type |
Literal Metaphor | |
Hot Shots! / int_8cf6aa | comment |
Literal Metaphor: Topper has his father's eyes... in a small case he carries with him. | |
Hot Shots! / int_8cf6aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_8cf6aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_8cf6aa | |
Hot Shots! / int_8e76ea52 | type |
Fish-Eye Lens | |
Hot Shots! / int_8e76ea52 | comment |
Fish-Eye Lens: Washout is afflicted with "Wall Eye Vision" that makes the world appear this way. He's a pilot. Later on he gets corrective glasses... which when he starts crying towards the end of the movie, become tiny aquariums with live fish in them, making them a literal example of this trope. | |
Hot Shots! / int_8e76ea52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_8e76ea52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_8e76ea52 | |
Hot Shots! / int_8faea0c5 | type |
Comically Cross-Eyed | |
Hot Shots! / int_8faea0c5 | comment |
Comically Cross-Eyed: Washout has both crossed and Fish Eyes. When he becomes an air traffic controller he wears glasses note His fish-eye-correcting glasses are little aquariums, with live fish in them. | |
Hot Shots! / int_8faea0c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_8faea0c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_8faea0c5 | |
Hot Shots! / int_91cecc1e | type |
Exaggerated Trope | |
Hot Shots! / int_91cecc1e | comment |
Near the end of the movie, when Topper's plane is limping back from the mission and Washout is trying to help him land safely, he narrates a litany of system failures. First his landing gear is busted, then the radar goes, then he runs out of fuel, then a wing falls off, and then the other wing falls off. What is left of the plane then drops to the deck like a stone. Topper hops right out, unscathed. | |
Hot Shots! / int_91cecc1e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_91cecc1e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_91cecc1e | |
Hot Shots! / int_959cb9aa | type |
One Degree of Separation | |
Hot Shots! / int_959cb9aa | comment |
One Degree of Separation: Parodied. When Kent reveals that his father died with Topper's in a crash, it sets off a series of revelations interconnecting everyone in the barracks. | |
Hot Shots! / int_959cb9aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_959cb9aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_959cb9aa | |
Hot Shots! / int_95db314b | type |
Casual Kink | |
Hot Shots! / int_95db314b | comment |
Casual Kink: Dropped in a casual way, when Ramada tells Kent they just hurt each other in a relationship. | |
Hot Shots! / int_95db314b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_95db314b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_95db314b | |
Hot Shots! / int_97d54bb0 | type |
Tragic Keepsake | |
Hot Shots! / int_97d54bb0 | comment |
Tragic Keepsake: Topper has his father's eyes... literally. | |
Hot Shots! / int_97d54bb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_97d54bb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_97d54bb0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_9beeb7d6 | type |
Death by Ambulance | |
Hot Shots! / int_9beeb7d6 | comment |
Death by Ambulance: Dead Meat survives the plane crash only to be hit by the ambulance. He's somehow still alive through more abuse and humiliation until he's taken in for surgery ("I'm in a hospital; what could go wrong?") — the next scene is his funeral. | |
Hot Shots! / int_9beeb7d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_9beeb7d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_9beeb7d6 | |
Hot Shots! / int_9d17b859 | type |
Made of Iron | |
Hot Shots! / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: Admiral Benson. Most of his body parts have been replaced with prosthetics or transplants due to war wounds or general accidents. | |
Hot Shots! / int_9d17b859 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_9d17b859 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_9d17b859 | |
Hot Shots! / int_9dd2cbc2 | type |
CloudCuckooLander | |
Hot Shots! / int_9dd2cbc2 | comment |
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Admiral Benson. Always confused about his surroundings, the identities of the people who talk to him, and even his own past. | |
Hot Shots! / int_9dd2cbc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_9dd2cbc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_9dd2cbc2 | |
Hot Shots! / int_a084f0e0 | type |
Never Speak Ill of the Dead | |
Hot Shots! / int_a084f0e0 | comment |
Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Subverted. Poor Dead Meat goes from a hero to a sad sack who is better off dead over the course of one conversation when Block needs to get Benson to put Topper back into a plane. | |
Hot Shots! / int_a084f0e0 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Hot Shots! / int_a084f0e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_a084f0e0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_a220d528 | type |
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
Hot Shots! / int_a220d528 | comment |
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Several of Dead Meat's lines end with "What could go wrong?" — including his last one. | |
Hot Shots! / int_a220d528 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_a220d528 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_a220d528 | |
Hot Shots! / int_a4a91366 | type |
It's All Junk | |
Hot Shots! / int_a4a91366 | comment |
It's All Junk: Parodying a similar scene in Top Gun, Harley chucks his father's eyes into the ocean. | |
Hot Shots! / int_a4a91366 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_a4a91366 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_a4a91366 | |
Hot Shots! / int_a681bfc6 | type |
Amicable Exes | |
Hot Shots! / int_a681bfc6 | comment |
Kent and Ramada, who are less-than-Amicable Exes, get into an argument in front of Topper over a borrowed chafing dish. Towards the end of the film, when it seems like neither guy will get the girl, Topper walks off with Kent asking what a chafing dish is. | |
Hot Shots! / int_a681bfc6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_a681bfc6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_a681bfc6 | |
Hot Shots! / int_a7850fbf | type |
Only Known by Their Nickname | |
Hot Shots! / int_a7850fbf | comment |
Only Known by Their Nickname: Topper's actual first name is Sean, but you won't know that unless you pay attention to his uniform's name tag because absolutely no-one ever uses itnote This is probably because that's how the film's most direct inspiration, which was (ostensibly) a serious military drama, plays it; even the wife of one of the pilots refers to her husband by his call sign there. | |
Hot Shots! / int_a7850fbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_a7850fbf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_a7850fbf | |
Hot Shots! / int_ac2094ca | type |
Red Shirt | |
Hot Shots! / int_ac2094ca | comment |
Red Shirt: Dead Meat. The film telegraphs his upcoming death so hard that it would be more shocking if he didn't die. | |
Hot Shots! / int_ac2094ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_ac2094ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_ac2094ca | |
Hot Shots! / int_af44da04 | type |
Publicly Discussing the Secret | |
Hot Shots! / int_af44da04 | comment |
Publicly Discussing the Secret: The two conspirators have their Overt Rendezvous at a noisy boxing match. | |
Hot Shots! / int_af44da04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_af44da04 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_af44da04 | |
Hot Shots! / int_af616e40 | type |
Accidental Misnaming | |
Hot Shots! / int_af616e40 | comment |
Accidental Misnaming: Admiral Tug Benson can never seem to remember Lt. Cmr. James Block's first name. Or last name. Or rank. Frequently, he calls him by three or four completely random names in the same conversation. | |
Hot Shots! / int_af616e40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_af616e40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_af616e40 | |
Hot Shots! / int_b032e4ed | type |
Ms. Fanservice | |
Hot Shots! / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Kowalski, who appears lined up for inspection with the bunk's other pilots similarly without a shirt — but with a bra, of course. Thing is, though, the other characters in the movie think she's a man, which means that in-universe she's effectively topless. (The camp's Drill Sergeant Nasty tells "him", "Suck in that chest!") And Ramada, who is not only gorgeous but so sexually open that even Topper is a bit intimidated, stumbling over his own feet or letting out a Loud Gulp at one of her flirtatious remarks. | |
Hot Shots! / int_b032e4ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_b032e4ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_b032e4ed | |
Hot Shots! / int_b23a7eee | type |
Celebrity Casualty | |
Hot Shots! / int_b23a7eee | comment |
Celebrity Casualty: Saddam Hussein is apparently blown up at the end but this did not stop him from returning for the sequel. | |
Hot Shots! / int_b23a7eee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_b23a7eee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_b23a7eee | |
Hot Shots! / int_b2adf5ad | type |
Destructo-Nookie | |
Hot Shots! / int_b2adf5ad | comment |
Destructo-Nookie: Ramada ends up in a Ramada-shaped imprint on her mattress the morning after she and Topper do the deed. | |
Hot Shots! / int_b2adf5ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_b2adf5ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_b2adf5ad | |
Hot Shots! / int_b42b7e7b | type |
Moral Myopia | |
Hot Shots! / int_b42b7e7b | comment |
Moral Myopia: Admiral Benson gives a dressing down to the man responsible for the airplane sabotage. | |
Hot Shots! / int_b42b7e7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_b42b7e7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_b42b7e7b | |
Hot Shots! / int_b5a47148 | type |
Captain Crash | |
Hot Shots! / int_b5a47148 | comment |
Captain Crash: Admiral Benson has never landed a plane before in his life. He isn't even that bad a pilot... it's just that he got shot down on every single one of his 194 combat missions. | |
Hot Shots! / int_b5a47148 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_b5a47148 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_b5a47148 | |
Hot Shots! / int_b5b4b077 | type |
The Ace | |
Hot Shots! / int_b5b4b077 | comment |
The Ace: Played for laughs with Ramada Thompson. She's a psychologist, but in her spare time she does trick horseback riding... or works as a lounge singer... or does some welding... | |
Hot Shots! / int_b5b4b077 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_b5b4b077 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_b5b4b077 | |
Hot Shots! / int_ba112560 | type |
Throwing the Fight | |
Hot Shots! / int_ba112560 | comment |
Throwing the Fight: Extreme example during the boxing match in the film; one punch is thrown, it misses by a mile, and the "struck" boxer waits a full second before he drops. As setup for the joke, Wilson says "This should be a good match. Both men work for Don King". | |
Hot Shots! / int_ba112560 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_ba112560 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_ba112560 | |
Hot Shots! / int_bc00493f | type |
Precision F-Strike | |
Hot Shots! / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: "Fuck" is said twice in the film: "I don't have a clue what you're talkin' about, Phil. Don't have a fuckin' clue." When Topper gives the batteries to Owatonna at the end, Owatonna replies in subtitles, "It's about fucking time." | |
Hot Shots! / int_bc00493f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_bc00493f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_bc00493f | |
Hot Shots! / int_bd0230fb | type |
Ambiguously Bi | |
Hot Shots! / int_bd0230fb | comment |
Ambiguously Bi: Kent asks Ramada if she's involved with another woman, saying he couldn't compete with that. She agrees that he couldn't. Benson is, as the sequel confirms, married, but he remarks that the (mostly male and quite good looking) pilots make him wish he were "twenty years younger... and a woman". During Dead Meat's funeral, he includes a remark about being in bed with "a girl, or a guy", though in that case, he might be speaking in generalities, not his personal experience, to say nothing of the fact that pretty much everything Benson says should be taken with a grain of salt. | |
Hot Shots! / int_bd0230fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_bd0230fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_bd0230fb | |
Hot Shots! / int_bf4fb49b | type |
Aerial Canyon Chase | |
Hot Shots! / int_bf4fb49b | comment |
Aerial Canyon Chase: Topper lures enemies into a canyon and evades them by stepping on the brakes, complete with brake pedal. | |
Hot Shots! / int_bf4fb49b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_bf4fb49b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_bf4fb49b | |
Hot Shots! / int_c25c7890 | type |
Fun with Acronyms | |
Hot Shots! / int_c25c7890 | comment |
Fun with Acronyms: "Ladies and gentlemen! Twelve rounds of boxing for the WBA WBC WPA RSVP Heavyweight Championship of the World!" | |
Hot Shots! / int_c25c7890 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_c25c7890 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_c25c7890 | |
Hot Shots! / int_c5f0119c | type |
Insane Troll Logic | |
Hot Shots! / int_c5f0119c | comment |
Insane Troll Logic: No explanation is given as to why the villains think that a mission failing because of a pilot cracking under pressure will convince the Navy that they need new planes. | |
Hot Shots! / int_c5f0119c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_c5f0119c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_c5f0119c | |
Hot Shots! / int_c6fdd74f | type |
Having a Heart | |
Hot Shots! / int_c6fdd74f | comment |
Having a Heart: "I have my father's eyes." | |
Hot Shots! / int_c6fdd74f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_c6fdd74f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_c6fdd74f | |
Hot Shots! / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Hot Shots! / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out/Reference Overdosed: While the film primarily spoofs Top Gun, it also draws material from films like Dances with Wolves, Rocky, Superman, The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, and many more. During an early training scene, one of the platoons starts chanting the lyrics to The Brady Bunch theme song. | |
Hot Shots! / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_c75df49a | |
Hot Shots! / int_c868a42a | type |
Freudian Excuse | |
Hot Shots! / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: Ramada diagnoses Topper with Paternal Conflict Syndrome. Every time Block mentions Buzz to Topper, Topper shuts down. Edwards notes that they're years away from a vaccine for the condition. | |
Hot Shots! / int_c868a42a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_c868a42a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_c868a42a | |
Hot Shots! / int_c8a8c595 | type |
Retirony | |
Hot Shots! / int_c8a8c595 | comment |
Retirony: Okay, we get it, Dead Meat won't survive the movie... yeesh. | |
Hot Shots! / int_c8a8c595 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_c8a8c595 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_c8a8c595 | |
Hot Shots! / int_c9868780 | type |
Playing Possum | |
Hot Shots! / int_c9868780 | comment |
Playing Possum: Spoofed. | |
Hot Shots! / int_c9868780 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_c9868780 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_c9868780 | |
Hot Shots! / int_cebc6ed0 | type |
Funeral Cut | |
Hot Shots! / int_cebc6ed0 | comment |
Funeral Cut: The film cuts to Dead Meat's funeral after his dismissive and reassuring question of what could possibly go wrong now that he's in a hospital. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_d074c3a2 | type |
Coming in Hot | |
Hot Shots! / int_d074c3a2 | comment |
Coming in Hot: Parodied. At the end of the first flight, Washout starts losing his eyesight right as he comes in for a landing. He then receives orders from the tower that confuse him even further. He somehow manages to land safely anyway, only to discover that he has landed on the Las Vegas Strip. Near the end of the movie, when Topper's plane is limping back from the mission and Washout is trying to help him land safely, he narrates a litany of system failures. First his landing gear is busted, then the radar goes, then he runs out of fuel, then a wing falls off, and then the other wing falls off. What is left of the plane then drops to the deck like a stone. Topper hops right out, unscathed. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_d3422f70 | type |
Overt Rendezvous | |
Hot Shots! / int_d3422f70 | comment |
Overt Rendezvous: Lampshaded; a conspirator mentions that he finds public places to be the best place to have secret meetings. While they're at a boxing match. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_d46ddfa2 | type |
CloudCuckooLander | |
Hot Shots! / int_d46ddfa2 | comment |
Benson is, as the sequel confirms, married, but he remarks that the (mostly male and quite good looking) pilots make him wish he were "twenty years younger... and a woman". During Dead Meat's funeral, he includes a remark about being in bed with "a girl, or a guy", though in that case, he might be speaking in generalities, not his personal experience, to say nothing of the fact that pretty much everything Benson says should be taken with a grain of salt. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_d57dfae4 | type |
Eyes Do Not Belong There | |
Hot Shots! / int_d57dfae4 | comment |
Eyes Do Not Belong There: Harley has his father's eyes (in a nice little velvet case). | |
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Hot Shots! / int_d57dfae4 | |
Hot Shots! / int_d7d8e447 | type |
Depraved Dentist | |
Hot Shots! / int_d7d8e447 | comment |
Depraved Dentist: Wilson's fate at the end. He is punched down the stairs by Benson and lands in a dentist's chair. The dentist asks, "Is it safe?" and begins drilling Wilson's teeth. | |
Hot Shots! / int_d7d8e447 | featureApplicability |
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Hot Shots! / int_d7d8e447 | featureConfidence |
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Hot Shots! / int_d7d8e447 | |
Hot Shots! / int_dd75c238 | type |
Deadly Deferred Conversation | |
Hot Shots! / int_dd75c238 | comment |
Deadly Deferred Conversation: Parodied. Dead Meat tells his wife he can save talking about his life insurance, his solution to global warming, and his JFK assassination evidence until after he returns from his mission. | |
Hot Shots! / int_dd75c238 | featureApplicability |
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Hot Shots! / int_dd75c238 | |
Hot Shots! / int_e3c20140 | type |
As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
Hot Shots! / int_e3c20140 | comment |
As Long as It Sounds Foreign: All the Iraqi fighter pilots' names and dialogue are just the names of Middle Eastern dishes. The dialogue between Topper and his Native American friend is a bunch of gibberish (Minnesota towns and cities with Indian names, and the names of Jackson siblings) with some occasional English parsed in. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_e3c20140 | |
Hot Shots! / int_e41a9801 | type |
All Women Are Lustful | |
Hot Shots! / int_e41a9801 | comment |
All Women Are Lustful: Ramada is very sexually open, even by the standards of The '90s. | |
Hot Shots! / int_e41a9801 | featureApplicability |
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Hot Shots! / int_e41a9801 | featureConfidence |
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Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_e41a9801 | |
Hot Shots! / int_e4f48a7f | type |
The "Fun" in "Funeral" | |
Hot Shots! / int_e4f48a7f | comment |
The "Fun" in "Funeral": Ties in with Shell-Shocked Veteran (see below). Also, while delivering Dead Meat's eulogy, Benson starts to list off characters from The Godfather among good people who died young. | |
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Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_e4f48a7f | |
Hot Shots! / int_e8e3807 | type |
Aside Glance | |
Hot Shots! / int_e8e3807 | comment |
Aside Glance: After the bar, when Ramada tells Topper that she "can go all night like a lumberjack". | |
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Hot Shots! / int_e8e3807 | featureConfidence |
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Hot Shots! / int_e8e3807 | |
Hot Shots! / int_ef269207 | type |
I Can See My House from Here | |
Hot Shots! / int_ef269207 | comment |
I Can See My House from Here: Topper raises a catch-net to stop a man trying to flee. He runs into it and is promptly sling-shotted off deck, screaming this line. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_ef269207 | |
Hot Shots! / int_f5a6baa5 | type |
Assurance Backfire | |
Hot Shots! / int_f5a6baa5 | comment |
Assurance Backfire: Washout gets a different career as radar operator, assuring Kent that "I'll be your eyes on the ground!" He is suffering from wall-eye vision and can barely see. Kent's facial reaction says it all! | |
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Hot Shots! / int_f5a6baa5 | featureConfidence |
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Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_f5a6baa5 | |
Hot Shots! / int_f7e540ee | type |
Ow, My Body Part! | |
Hot Shots! / int_f7e540ee | comment |
Ow, My Body Part!: When Kent meets Ramada at the bar, he picks her up and spins her around. Her handbag hits a waitress, causing a seeming chain of collisions leading to somebody yelling, "Ow, my eye!" The above mentioned fight between Kent and Topper. | |
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Hot Shots! / int_f7e540ee | |
Hot Shots! / int_f9f2c33 | type |
Running Gag | |
Hot Shots! / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: The catalogue of Tug Benson's increasingly outlandish war wounds. Other running gags include fighter jets being used like cars, people falling off an aircraft carrier's flight deck, and other people accidentally sitting on the chihuahua (five times, and always the same dog). | |
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Hot Shots! / int_f9f2c33 | |
Hot Shots! / int_fdb355db | type |
Fun with Subtitles | |
Hot Shots! / int_fdb355db | comment |
Fun with Subtitles: The faux Native language is rife with these. When Topper tells his chief that he met a beautiful woman, but "she threw [him] a curve," the spoken word is "Hershiser". When the subtitles say the characters are saying the word "English", the word they're actually saying is "Americanese". "Batteries" apparently translates to "Latoya Tito Jermaine." | |
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Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_fdb355db | |
Hot Shots! / int_fdf7d23d | type |
Lady in Red | |
Hot Shots! / int_fdf7d23d | comment |
Lady in Red: Ramada wears a slinky red dress for her musical number. | |
Hot Shots! / int_fdf7d23d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Hot Shots! / int_fdf7d23d | featureConfidence |
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Hot Shots! | hasFeature |
Hot Shots! / int_fdf7d23d | |
Hot Shots! / int_fe0330fb | type |
Brick Joke | |
Hot Shots! / int_fe0330fb | comment |
When Topper gives the batteries to Owatonna at the end, Owatonna replies in subtitles, "It's about fucking time." | |
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Hot Shots! / int_fe0330fb | |
Hot Shots! / int_ff54b9ac | type |
Eject... Eject... Eject... | |
Hot Shots! / int_ff54b9ac | comment |
Eject... Eject... Eject...: Parodied. When a plane is going down, the pilot screams "Eject! EJECT!" Then a videotape pops out. | |
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