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Life Stinks
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A 1991 comedy by Mel Brooks, starring Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Howard Morris, Teddy Wilson, Stuart Pankin, Billy Barty, and Rudy DeLuca.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Heartless CEO and real-estate mogul Goddard Bolt (Brooks) buys half a slum to demolish it, but his rival, Vance Crasswell (Tambor), has bought the other half, with similar plans. After discussing their backgrounds, how Bolt was born into money while Crasswell is a self-made man, they decide to settle ownership of the slum with a bet. Bolt says he can survive anywhere, so will be dropped off inside the slums with no cash, no credit cards, and an ankle-tracker that will sound an alarm if he leaves the area for more than thirty seconds. If Bolt can endure a month as a homeless person, he takes all, if he leaves, the land belongs to Crasswell. As a third condition, he can't reveal his identity to anyone in the slum.On the streets, Bolt, now going by 'Pepto' because he spent his first night sheltering in a box labeled Pepto-Bismol, makes new friends and learns deep meaningful lessons about the human experience, while Crasswell shamelessly cheats at the bet.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Bolt repeatedly moans this when he's in the hospital and his lawyers have sold out to throw the wager to Crasswell. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: When Bolt's crane takes a bite out of Crasswell's proposed development, the sign reads "Crass City". | |
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Chekhov's Gag | |
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Chekhov's Gag: After Bolt is taken to the hospital, the Getty bum rants: Later on, after Bolt has exposed Crasswell's fraudulent methods, he builds a park, no rent housing and clinics to help treat the homeless people. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Vance Crasswell speaks a lot of being a self-made man and coming from poverty, but is ultimately shown to be even more heartless and callous than the born-into-wealth Bolt. | |
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Took a Level in Kindness | |
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Took a Level in Kindness: Part of Bolt’s Character Development. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While Bolt is originally in it for the money, he soon has a change of heart and decides to help the homeless people, and even marries Molly, whom he befriended while on the streets. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: After Crasswell rigs the outcome so that Bolt loses the bet, Bolt finds himself moaning his losses and gets taken to the hospital, where the doctors keep injecting him with sedatives. | |
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Evil Lawyer Joke | |
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Evil Lawyer Joke: Early on, when Bolt refuses to go back on the bet because he already gave his word and asks the lawyers if they'd go back on their word, Pritchard says "Certainly. We're lawyers." And after Bolt finds that his lawyers have betrayed him to help Crasswell, Pritchard justifies it by reminding him "we're lawyers". | |
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Behemoth Battle | |
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Behemoth Battle: In the film's climax, Bolt and Crasswell control cranes to battle one another. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: The scene where Sailor's cremated ashes ended up on Fumes, Molly, and Pepto, was, according to Mel Brooks, based on a real-life incident that happened to Howard Morris (who played Sailor), when scattering his father's ashes. | |
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Cardboard Box Home | |
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Cardboard Box Home: Bolt gets his street name, Pepto, for the box he first sleeps in. | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil: Neither Bolt nor Crasswell is terribly bothered by what will happen to the people living in the slum, until Bolt lives among them. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: The encounter between Bolt when he's rambling after Crasswell cheated to make Bolt the loser and the J. Paul Getty bum: After Dr. Kahahn has just given Bolt at least three sedative injections and he goes into a coma: | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Goddard Bolt loses it when the J. Paul Getty bum claims to be richer than him. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: In the crowded emergency room, the doctors have Bolt sedated several times: | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: At Sailor's funeral. | |
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There Is a God! | |
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There Is a God!: Parodied. Bolt thanks God for giving him strength after he survives thirty days impoverished, then adds "And I'm sorry I didn't believe in you when I was rich!" | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: After Bolt has been taken off to the hospital: Later on, when Bolt gets Crasswell to confess that he cheated, he builds a park, no-cost housing, medical and counseling clinics for the homeless people. | |
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Ashes to Crashes / int_80211444 | |
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Behemoth Battle / int_80211444 | |
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Married to the Job / int_80211444 | |
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Slumming It / int_80211444 | |
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There Is Only One Bed / int_80211444 | |
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Three Stooges Shout-Out / int_80211444 |
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