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Splash
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It is said that everyone has a soul mate, someone with whom they are destined to fall in love and be with for the rest of their lives, regardless of age, gender, geography......or, it seems, species.Splash is a 1984 fantasy romantic comedy directed by Ron Howard, surrounding the fairy-tale romance between Allen Bauer (Tom Hanks) and the mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who rescued him from drowning as a boy. Allen grew to adulthood, believing the young mermaid he saw in the water was only a hallucination, until she again saves him from drowning - but in doing so appears on the radar of Dr. Walter Kornbluth (Eugene Levy), an eccentric, disgraced scientist who wants to prove the existence of mythical creatures like mermaids.The mermaid seeks him out on land (she develops legs when her tail is dry), coming ashore on Liberty Island to track him down with information from his wallet, dropped during his latest dip in the ocean. As she has no concept of clothing, she is arrested for indecent exposure, and the cops release her into Allen's custody, based on the wallet she carries. But Kornbluth is hot on her trail, and he has scientific pursuits in mind for her...Can these Star-Crossed Lovers find romance? Can she convince Allen that his series of failed romances are just destiny knocking him on the head? What will their kids look like?The film was followed by a TV movie sequel Splash Too which recast all the lead parts.Splash was the first movie released by Disney under the Touchstone Pictures label (then known as "Touchstone Films").A remake has been announced, with a twist - the main characters have been Gender Flipped. Channing Tatum is attached to star in it. | |
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Dropped link to Fanservice: Not a Feature - IGNORE | |
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Instant Expert | |
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Instant Expert: Madison was able to learn English from a single afternoon of watching television. | |
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Godiva Hair | |
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Godiva Hair: When Madison arrives to Liberty Island, she's only covered by her hair. When the film debuted on Disney+ in 2020, viewers quickly spotted that the brief scene of Madison running into the ocean nude (which shows her bare butt) had been censored by digitally extending her already long hair down to the tops of her thighs. | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain | |
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: Kornbluth goes through no small amount of torment...but eventually exposes Madison as a mermaid. | |
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Naked on Arrival | |
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Naked on Arrival: Madison has no clothes when she transforms into human form so her first encounters on the beach with Allen and outside the Statue of Liberty have her naked. | |
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MST3K Mantra | |
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MST3K Mantra: Tom Hanks invoked it in this appearance on Entertainment Tonight back in March 1984. | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: The saleslady at “Bloomingdales�, who speaks in a Brooklyn accent and says “Dah-ling� instead of “Darling�.note The saleslady’s name in the end credits is "Ms. Stein", which is a common Jewish last name. An earlier draft of the script explicitly describes the saleslady (named "Ms. Stein") as "very New York Jewish". | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Freddy spends most of the movie as the Lovable Sex Maniac Plucky Comic Relief. Then Allen gripes that people fall in love "every day. Look at what I got." Freddy gets dead serious, gives Allen a blistering "The Reason You Suck" Speech, then says that Allen doesn't appreciate how lucky he is to have someone like Madison. "Every day?! Come on! Some people will never be that happy! I'll never be that happy!" | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity: Allen becomes this as he separates Madison from the hands of those who want to contain Madison for research and examine her biology. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Kornbluth is more of a Played for Laughs Large Ham example. His rival Dr. Ross, while more subdued and serious-sounding then Kornbluth, is an amoral Played for Drama example as he wants to vivisect Madison in spite of her being a sentient person, in contrast to Kornbluth's own morals and conscience he keeps. | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Allen and Madison have known each other for only a short time before he decides to live with her forever underwater. He was also insisting on getting married to Madison before the reveal, despite her early discomfort when he proposed. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: How do humans react to a mermaid? All but one (and his friends) try to capture her for science. All but Kornbluth don't even notice how sickly she becomes in their captivity. Worse, the scientists were planning on dissecting her. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The bitter part is Allen will never see his brother, friends, or even Kornbluth again, and his brother is likely going to be arrested. The sweet part is being with Madison always. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Allen, Freddie, and Kornbluth all work together to rescue Madison from the lab. Subverted when Allen jumps into the water to save Madison from the military helicopter hovering over her, but due to Allen’s inability to swim, he starts to drown. | |
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Elevator Going Down | |
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Elevator Going Down: Allen and Madison have sex in the elevator. | |
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True Blue Femininity | |
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True Blue Femininity: Madison wears a blue poncho when going to town with Allen, and later wears a shimmering, blue dress when attending the president's banquet- which she initially saw on a mannequin at Bloomingdale's. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Freddie. He may be lecherous, rude, and insensitive, but he has a good core. Dr. Kornbluth, as well. He goes to extreme measures to prove the existence of mermaids. However, he changes his attitude when he learns of the lengths the other scientists want to go to study her. | |
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Making Love in All the Wrong Places | |
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Making Love in All the Wrong Places: After her first day together with Allen, Madison sneaks into the bathroom at night and takes a bath, transforming herself back into a mermaid. Allen hears strange noises and wants to come in, but Madison won't let him. Eventually, he breaks the door, but by that time, she dried herself off: | |
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Kavorka Man | |
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Kavorka Man: Freddy apparently gets a lot of women despite being played by the rotund John Candy. | |
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Magical Girlfriend | |
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Magical Girlfriend: Allen is a normal guy who manages to hook up with a hot mermaid. | |
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Sarcasm-Blind | |
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Sarcasm-Blind: Madison notices that Allen’s voice sounds "funny" at the ice rink, and she doesn't realize that Allen's "funny voice" is due to him being sarcastic. Allen berates Madison for not comprehending his sarcasm, and he assumes that sarcasm doesn't exist where she comes from. | |
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Storefront Television Display | |
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Storefront Television Display: Not really in the storefront, but after losing her in the department store, Allen finds Madison transfixed by all the TVs on display. (It's also from those TVs that she learns how to speak English.) | |
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Bathtub Mermaid | |
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Bathtub Mermaid: Madison, a mermaid, comes to land and her tail becomes legs & feet when she's dry. But when she relaxes in the bathtub they revert. | |
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Innocent Fanservice Girl | |
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Innocent Fanservice Girl: Madison makes a spectacular landfall in search of Allen. | |
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Not Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Not Distracted by the Sexy: Madison is completely nude when Allen first encounters her, which doesn't bother or distract him in any obvious way. | |
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Painful Transformation | |
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Painful Transformation: Ron Howard wanted something like this for the bathtub sequence, but decided it would ruin the appeal of the character. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Dr. Kornbluth, upon learning that his colleagues plan to dissect Madison and how he would never earn the respect amongst the scientific community he deserves despite proving the existence of merfolk. Kornbluth never wanted to hurt anybody, he just wanted to prove he was right and not be a butt of their jokes. | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One: "No one here, just me and the moron twins." "We're not twins!" | |
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Your Universe or Mine? | |
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Your Universe or Mine?: When Madison must go back to the ocean, she tells Allen that he can go with her, but he will never be able to return to land. It is never explained why, perhaps it may have to do with the sea hag subplot. Still, he was reluctant at first but accepts readily after saving her from government frogmen. Fairly unusual in that the man ends up choosing to stay in the woman's world rather than vice versa. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: Besides the moments with Madison's bare ass and nude breasts, Madison's genitalia are briefly visible from behind when she first dives into the water after kissing Allen on the beach, and when she is walking around at the Statue of Liberty. | |
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Nipple and Dimed | |
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Nipple and Dimed: Despite the Godiva Hair, there are a few underwater shots where the hair doesn't cover Madison's... uh, headlights. | |
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Water-Triggered Change | |
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Water-Triggered Change: Madison turns back into a mermaid whenever her legs get wet (drying them turns them back into legs), as demonstrated in the scene where Walter sprays her with a hose. | |
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Line-of-Sight Alias | |
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Line-of-Sight Alias: Madison picks her human name from a street sign, and Allen thinks that it's a strange name. At the time of the film, Madison wasn't a woman's namenote The street is named for the last name of 4th POTUS James Madison. Its rise in popularity in real life stems from this very film, making this joke a relic. | |
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Naked First Impression | |
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Naked First Impression: Madison being nude on the beach when Allen sees her in adult human form for the first time. | |
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Cute, but Cacophonic | |
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Cute, but Cacophonic: Don't ask Madison to speak her native language above water. | |
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Our Mermaids Are Different | |
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Our Mermaids Are Different: Madison is a classic mermaid with the variation that she can turn her tail into legs by keeping them dry. If they get wet, they'll instantly turn back into a tail. | |
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Phony Veteran | |
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Phony Veteran: Invoked by Freddie who makes up a story about Allen serving in Vietnam and getting injured there in order to convince one of the investors (a former Green Beret colonel) to turn "Bauer Produce" into a food chain. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Dr. Kornbluth is very prone to shouting. | |
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Interspecies Romance | |
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Interspecies Romance: The film is about a romance between a mermaid and a human. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Freddy was last seen about to be arrested by the feds. If he goes to prison, and Allen never comes back, who's going to run the company? | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: As it turns Freddie is correct that weight affects how inebriated a person can become. | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass: Allen starts acting this way over Madison's strange behavior and her reluctance to marry him. Then he starts being sarcastic towards her, which upsets her and she runs away for a while. Allen regrets acting that way. But this gives Madison some time for consideration of whether or not to stay with him. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: Kornbluth never imagined his scientific colleagues would dissect Madison and treat her like a test subject while also sidelining him from any fame. | |
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Inhumanable Alien Rights | |
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Inhumanable Alien Rights: The scientists treat Madison like an animal, even though she's a sentient human-like being who even speaks English; they keep her confined in a lab and plan to dissect her. As time was likely running out for her to be able to return to the sea, Allen, Freddy and Kornbluth had to rescue her immediately, since any legal procedures to protect her would have taken too long. | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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Not So Above It All: Despite appearing to approach his scientific career in a more professional manner, Dr. Ross proves himself to be much worse Mad Scientist than his outwardly acting rival Kornbluth due to his amoral treatment of the sentient Madison while doing experiments on her and his plan to dissect her without battling an eye in contrast to Kornbluth's own morals. | |
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Language of Love | |
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Language of Love: Allen and Madison have a shag in an elevator before they even share a common language. | |
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Dr. Jerk | |
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Dr. Jerk: Dr. Ross, a cold-hearted scientist who is willing to dissect a sentient being For Science! and mocks and belittles his rival Kornbluth. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Played frighteningly straight. The scientists (minus Kornbluth) perform various tests on Madison and plan to dissect her. They never once consider her feelings about this despite her clearly being an intelligent, sentient creature. | |
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Mermaid Problem | |
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Mermaid Problem: Solved with the dry land = legs solution. The press points it out when they hound Allen with their ridiculous questions. | |
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Lovable Sex Maniac | |
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Lovable Sex Maniac: Freddy, who has been married countless times (even bringing a date to one of his own weddings), watches a lot of Swedish sex movies, writes letters to Penthouse and will pick up multiple women in one night. However, he's still our Plucky Comic Relief who believes in true love. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Dr. Kornbluth, when he learns they're going to kill the mermaid. All he wanted was to show people he's not crazy, which eventually turned out to be for nothing when his rival Dr. Ross expresses Kornbluth will always be a disgrace of a scientist in his eyes no matter how much he wants to prove he isn't. Too bad his mentor wasn't around to say "I hope you're happy now?" and express his disappointment. Kornbluth drops from the film's initial Big Bad to someone who hardly registers as a Mook, and immediately helps Allen and Freddie spring Madison from captivity. | |
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Award-Bait Song | |
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Award-Bait Song: The end credits song Love Came For Me sung by Rita Coolidge. note The music is essentially the movie's Love Theme for Madison and Allen. | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: What's really funny is Madison's (lack of) reaction to people seeing her naked. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Dr. Ross never gets any comeuppance for wanting to dissect Madison and railroading Kornbluth, other then losing his prized specimen. | |
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Meaningless Villain Victory | |
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Meaningless Villain Victory: Kornbluth succeeds in exposing Madison to the public. However, he's still horribly disrespected by his colleagues, sidelined from receiving the fame he craved, and is left heartbroken with the realization that he damned a sentient being to captivity and vivisection. | |
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Super-Scream | |
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Super-Scream: Madison has a healthy set of lungs... er, gills... oh, whatever... | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: Allen and Madison fall in love almost instantly. | |
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Playing with Syringes | |
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Playing with Syringes: When Allen goes to confront Kornbluth he is at the dentist. Expecting Allen to attack him, he grabs the syringe of anesthesia to defend himself. | |
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Fish out of Water | |
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Fish out of Water: A semi-literal example with Madison. She's quite ignorant of cultural norms and other things about life on land. She learns some from watching TV, but she also picks up some wildly mistaken ideas. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Madison, especially when she is first seen nude. | |
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Tail Slap | |
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Tail Slap: Madison does this to some of the military divers near the end of the movie. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Kornbluth may be somewhat egotistical, but he is appalled when his colleagues want to dissect a sapient being. Even before learning that Kornbluth showed concern for Madison's well-being by pointing out she was looking pale. | |
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Misplaced Vegetation | |
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Misplaced Vegetation: Madison is supposed to be swimming around Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The problem is that she swims past coral reefs, and there are no coral reefs near Cape Cod since the water is too cold. Those scenes were actually filmed in The Bahamas. | |
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Haven't You Seen X Before? | |
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Haven't You Seen X Before?: | |
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Big Applesauce | |
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Big Applesauce: Takes place in NYC, except for the portions at Cape Cod, Massachusetts and underwater. | |
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The Hilarity of Hats | |
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The Hilarity of Hats: Stan the Tour Guide insists, "Do not touch my hat. Do not EVER touch my hat." | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved: Once it is revealed he was sleeping with an aquatic creature, Allen gets quite a few odd looks from his employees. | |
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Armies Are Evil | |
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Armies Are Evil: As the two race back to the ocean, Allen and Madison get pursued by U.S. Coast Guard sailors ordered to capture the mermaid. The Coast Guard are the final antagonists at the end of the movie. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Allen and Freddy's secretary, who was hit in the head with lightning. | |
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Crazy Consumption | |
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Crazy Consumption: Madison is this with the lobster at the restaurant. | |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels | |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: When Dr. Kornbluth tries to pass off Allen and Freddie as visiting Swedish scientists to get them into the research facility where Madison is being held, a suspicious guard asks Allen and Freddie in Swedish, "What are two Swedish scientists doing so far from Sweden?" The guard jovially allows them entry after Freddie tentatively responds in Swedish, "Hey, babe! I got a twelve-inch penis." Freddie later explains that he picked up some Swedish phrases from watching hours of Swedish pornography. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Cerebus Syndrome: The movie starts out as a fairly light-hearted romance film. Then it gets a lot more serious when Madison's secret is exposed and she's taken prisoner by the government, endangering her life. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Had Dr. Ross not been so disrespectful to Kornbluth, it is likely wouldn't driven the guy to help Allen and Freddie rescue Madison from his dirty clutches. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Allen was mortified and angry when he finds out Madison, the one person he has come to love, is a mermaid. He starts rambling about how "people fall in love every day," and he ends up with (in his word) a "fish." However, his Plucky Comic Relief brother Freddie berates him for giving up on Madison, tells him that "people fall in love every day" is nonsense, and people can never be as happy as Allen was with Madison. | |
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Insane Proprietor | |
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Insane Proprietor: Crazy Eddie scares mermaids. | |
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The Unpronounceable | |
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The Unpronounceable: Madison's real name. | |
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Depraved Dentist | |
| Splash / int_d7d8e447 | comment |
Depraved Dentist: Played for Laughs, when a remorseful Kornbluth demands that his dentist operate on him without any anathestic. The dentist seems all too eager to cause Kornbluth pain. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
| Splash / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: It's quite an endorsement of the greatness of the Statue of Liberty that a beautiful naked woman could be walking around and nobody notices her until the tour guide brings her to their attention. | |
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You Can't Go Home Again | |
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You Can't Go Home Again: Allen decides to stay with Madison in the ocean so that their relationship can continue even though now he can't return to land due to his biology being altered to breathe underwater like Madison does. In addition, he's better off avoiding land because now he's wanted by the U.S. Coast Guard for helping Madison escape. | |
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Action Girl | |
| Splash / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: As a child and as an adult, Madison saved Allen from drowning in Cape Cod twice. Madison also saved Allen from drowning a third time, albeit this time in the East River, thanks to an Underwater Kiss Madison gives Allen, allowing him to breathe underwater. Furthermore, Madison manages to defeat the military divers by ripping off their scuba masks and using her tail to hit them in the face and crotch. | |
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Battle Couple | |
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Battle Couple: Madison and Allen become this when they have to fight off military divers by ripping off their scuba masks, presumably drowning the divers. | |
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Lightning Bruiser | |
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Lightning Bruiser: Madison as a mermaid is this. Not so much in her human form. | |
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They Would Cut You Up | |
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They Would Cut You Up: One of the impending examinations when Madison is rescued is implied to be dissection, or possibly even vivisection. | |
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain | |
| Splash / int_dfa71e43 | comment |
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Kornbluth, until he exposes Madison: his guilt and the lack of respect he gets from his fellow scientists fills him with nothing but regret. | |
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Underwater Kiss | |
| Splash / int_dfc19f42 | comment |
Underwater Kiss: How Madison gives Allen the ability to breathe underwater. | |
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The Chew Toy | |
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The Chew Toy: Kornbluth goes through quite a bit of torment trying to prove the existence of mermaids. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
| Splash / int_e52a0409 | comment |
Calling the Old Man Out: Kornbluth calls out the other scientists, especially Ross, for performing experiments on a non-consenting person, and planning to dissect her. | |
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Dirty Kid | |
| Splash / int_eb253679 | comment |
Dirty Kid: Freddie was perverted even as a child. His childhood modus operandi was dropping coins next to a lady in a dress. He continues this routine as a 30-year-old man. | |
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Prefers Going Barefoot | |
| Splash / int_ee2a3bfc | comment |
Prefers Going Barefoot: Madison prefers to go barefoot in her human form, despite acquiring shoes not long after finding Allen. | |
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A Minor Kidroduction | |
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A Minor Kidroduction: Allen and Madison meet as children, and instantly fall in love. | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect? | |
| Splash / int_f818b637 | comment |
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Despite proving the existence of mermaids, Dr. Kornbluth is still treated like a joke by his colleagues. This is a factor in his eventual Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Distressed Dude | |
| Splash / int_f9e16ef | comment |
Distressed Dude: Because Allen never learned how to swim, Allen is constantly prone to drowning, therefore Madison has to save Allen from drowning no less than three times throughout the film. Furthermore, Madison saves Allen from the military divers by grabbing Allen’s shoulder and then bolting him out of the circle of military divers. | |
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Apparently Human Merfolk | |
| Splash / int_fc0b8320 | comment |
Apparently Human Merfolk: What Allen becomes at the end of the first movie, no tail like Madison but he can now breathe underwater. | |
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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold | |
| Splash / int_ff7e9adf | comment |
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Madison. | |
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