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A 1981 military comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray. Also in the cast are Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. J. Soles, Sean Young, John Candy, and John Larroquette.John Winger (Murray) is a slacker who convinces his friend Russell Ziskey (Ramis) to join the U.S. Army with him. The two of them have a miserable time in basic training, but eventually their drill instructor, Sgt. Hulka (Oates), gets injured in a training exercise and they have to finish the training on their own. The night before graduation day they stay up all night, show up late for the parade, and put on one hell of a show for the generals. In the end, they are assigned to guard the new EM-50 urban assault vehicle in Italy.While John and Russell are guarding it, they decide to "borrow" it and go for a joyride to see their girlfriends in Germany. The rest of their squad comes after them, thinking that they're communist spies, but they take a wrong turn and get captured by the Soviets in Czechoslovakia. Winger and Russell come back to save their squad. When they come back to the states, somehow they all end up getting medals.The movie was well-liked by critics, with an 88% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was also fairly successful financially, grossing $85 million domestically on a $10 million budget. Elmer Bernstein composed the score. | |
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Fair Cop | |
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Fair Cop: Stella and Louise as a pair of female Military Policemen. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Hulka, who despite his demeanor is A Father to His Men, going as a One-Man Army to rescue his men (though he has help.) | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: Sergeant Hulka. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Sergeant Crocker, training the other platoon in Captain Stillman's company during Basic, is never seen, referred to a number of times, and in the extended cut, is given the blame by Captain Stillman for the mortar mishap that put Hulka in the hospital (which, of course, was caused by Captain Stillman himself.) | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: Stella and Louise have repeated run-ins with Winger and Zisky, often commenting on their antics before eventually joining in later in the film. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: John and Russell, which makes Russell's quip that they're not gay but willing to try if the Army wants them to even funnier. | |
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Unreveal Angle | |
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Unreveal Angle: We don't get to see exactly what John is doing to Stella with the ice cream scooper. | |
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All or Nothing | |
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All or Nothing: After spending the entire basic training screwing up, John leads the platoon in a rifle demonstration in front of the commanding general. Either they are going to jail, or impress the general so much he selects them for his "special project" in Italy. Guess which happens? | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Again, Hulka. The fact he's the only character played seriously makes his character stand out in this regard even more. | |
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Deranged Taxi Driver | |
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Deranged Taxi Driver: Winger pretends to be one when a Grande Dame customer annoys him. This begins the series of hilarious disasters that ends in... | |
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Hello Again, Officer | |
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Hello Again, Officer: John and Russell run into Stella and Louise everywhere they go, combining this with Ship Tease. | |
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Differing Priorities Breakup | |
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Differing Priorities Breakup: ... Anita wants to be an adult. Winger doesn't. | |
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Analogy Backfire | |
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Analogy Backfire: Winger talking Ziskey into helping him rescue the rest of the squad: | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Francis 'Psycho' Soyer, who threatens to kill his squadmates if they touch him or his stuff, or call him anything other than Psycho. When the drill practice session the night before graduation devolves into a fight, he holds his obviously-fake practice rifle like he intends to shoot somebody. | |
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Physical Fitness Punishment | |
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Physical Fitness Punishment: Sgt. Hulka orders the men to go on a five mile run. Winger mouths off to him in protest, so he responds by having the men go on a ten mile run instead. A Training Montage during basic keeps cutting to Winger doing push-ups in the rain. We're to assume his rampant smart-assery is what has him out doing them repeatedly. | |
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Training Montage | |
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A Training Montage during basic keeps cutting to Winger doing push-ups in the rain. We're to assume his rampant smart-assery is what has him out doing them repeatedly. | |
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The Slacker | |
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The Slacker: John Winger, full stop (it is an early Bill Murray role, after all). Ziskey also, to a much lesser extent. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Captain Stillman shows what happens when the Pointy-Haired Boss is given responsibility for a company of soldiers. | |
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Trojan Prisoner | |
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Trojan Prisoner: John gets the gang into the Soviet base by acting as a soldier that captured the EM-50. | |
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Uncle Sam Wants You | |
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Uncle Sam Wants You: See poster above. | |
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Sound Off | |
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Sound Off: A hilarious version, where the platoon uses the song "Doo Wah Diddy" as a jody callnote A term common in the U.S. military for a song sung while marching. Ironically, it works rather well; Not only the right rhythm to it, it even has a call-and-response section... (Reportedly, some armed forces units are actually using this song as a jody now, because of the use in this film and how surprisingly well it worked.) | |
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Ask a Stupid Question... | |
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Ask a Stupid Question...: After Hulka gets injured from the stray mortar round, Ox asks him "Sergeant, does this mean we're through for the day?". Hulka immediately starts strangling Ox. Made even funnier by the honking sound Hulka makes as an answer before strangling him. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sgt. Hulka. Sure, he's your average loud and rough army sergeant, but he's willing to go to great lengths to protect his men. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: The movie's loaded with them, but special mention has to go to the two Russian guards at the Czech checkpoint. They couldn't buy a break with all the vodka in Russia. Finally, completely fed up, they have this exchange: | |
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Misfit Mobilization Moment | |
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Misfit Mobilization Moment: When Winger gives his rousing speech to his platoon. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: OK, John, you hate your job and you're mad at your customer, but did you have to turn your taxi into a roadblock on a four-lane highway bridge?!? | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica | |
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Oh yeah, and a small news blurb about Stillman getting assigned to a snowbound doom. | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat: Nearly every interaction between Winger and Sgt. Hulka consists of the former being a smartass and the latter giving it right back to him. | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: In the extended cut, John and Russell talk their way into going AWOL with a platoon flying into South America by claiming that they're "double-double top secret" officers. | |
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Old Soldier | |
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Old Soldier: Sergeant Hulka; the Where Are They Now closer shows he's retired to open a Hulkaburger restaurant. | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty: Sergeant Hulka, though, befitting an Ivan Reitman comedy, he's more the dry and sarcastic type than a furiously aggressive type such as R. Lee Ermey. In fact, he's one of the few characters in the entire film who has much in the way of common sense. | |
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Don't Call Me "Sir" | |
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Don't Call Me "Sir": Sergeant Hulka: "You don't say "sir" to me, I'm a sergeant, I work for a living." | |
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Improperly Placed Firearms | |
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Improperly Placed Firearms: "Soviet" troops carry a motley collection of dressed up MAC-10s, Uzis, and Finnish Valmet assault rifles in lieu of anything that they would normally use. This is because it was filmed the height of the Cold War and Soviet equipment wasn't readily available. | |
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Two Girls to a Team | |
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Two Girls to a Team: Again, Stella and Louise, although they're also technically Heroes Of Another Story as they're not actually part of the team, just in a romance subplot with two of the guys who are. | |
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Out-of-Genre Experience | |
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Out-of-Genre Experience: Hulka's heart to heart with John (where he gives John an invitation to take a swing at him, then floors John with a single punch to the gut) is a bit out of place in a slapstick comedy. Ivan Reitman kept the scene in the movie because he felt it was important to establish Sgt Hulka's authority and physical strength over the men (as well as his considerably more old-school approach versus John's wild antics). | |
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Eagleland | |
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Eagleland: Most of the main characters are distinctly Type 2 (as Winger puts it, America got started because they got kicked out of every decent country), but still trying to be Type 1. Played for Laughs. | |
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Weapons Understudies | |
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Weapons Understudies: While in the Czech Red Army outpost, we see a "Russian" tank that is clearly a US built M48/M60 series tank with a few visual mods tacked on. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Hulka gives one to Winger during basic training. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: Sgt. Hulka can't help but let out a few guffaws at Winger's smart-assed "Big Toe" speech before promising to come back at 0500 to put that Big Toe where the sun don't shine. | |
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"Open!" Says Me | |
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"Open!" Says Me: Double Subverted. John and Russell try to rescue their captured unit from a cell by blowing up the locked door with a bomb, which fails. Then John Candy's character Ox (who's inside the cell among the prisoners) decides to run screaming at the door, and smashes it open. Actually, Ox was charging at the whining Stillman, who was blaming them for the predicament they were now in, but who had the good sense to get out of the way of a charging 300-lb avalanche. | |
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Embarrassing First Name | |
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Embarrassing First Name: "Anyone calls me Francis, and I kill you." | |
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Stating the Simple Solution | |
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Stating the Simple Solution: When John and Russell "borrow" the EM-50 to meet up with their girlfriends in Germany, Captain Stillman erroneously assumes they're attempting to steal it for the Soviets. Sergeant Hulka suggests that if that's the case, instead of sending a single squad of green troops after them, they should deploy some of the crack soldiers and air recon forces that have been stationed near the border since the start of The Cold War to find it and bring it back. Stillman vehemently declines since he doesn't want his superiors to know the EM-50 went missing on his watch. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Our plucky heroes. | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
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There Is No Kill like Overkill: Psycho during bayonet training. He knocks the dummy off the frame supporting it and stabs it over and over again while cursing furiously. | |
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Grenade Hot Potato | |
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Grenade Hot Potato: Stillman accidentally arms one, then hands it off to his long-suffering corporal to dispose of. We hear it explode, but the corporal is shown alive and in good health later. | |
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Awesome Personnel Carrier | |
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Awesome Personnel Carrier: The EM-50 "Urban Assault Vehicle". (It's basically an armed GMC Motor Home, GM's classic — but failed — attempt to compete with Winnebago.) | |
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Naughty Birdwatching | |
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Naughty Birdwatching: Cpt. Stillman does this. | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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Not So Above It All: At the end of the film, when Winger and Sgt. Hulka arrive home as heroes, Sgt. Hulka offers his hand to Winger to shake, only to do the old "pull the hand away and salute" trick, to which Winger chuckles. (After all, Sgt. Hulka did tell Winger he had a great sense of humor) | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: After the Soviets capture them, Stillman blames the platoon for the entire predicament they're in. In the extended cut, after Hulka gets injured by Stillman blindly shooting a mortar, Stillman blames it on another drill sergeant to the main platoon, with Winger not-so-subtly calling him out on it. | |
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Tanks, but No Tanks | |
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Tanks, but No Tanks: The movie presents us with a scene set behind the Iron Curtain, in which a "Russian" tank menaces some of the heroes. It is clearly an M48/M60 series tank with a few visual mods tacked on. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: "WHERE'S MY TRUCK?" The third act involves John and Russell stealing an armored, militarized GMC Motor Home. | |
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One-Man Army | |
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One-Man Army: Sergeant Hulka proves himself this, or close to it, during the rescue mission. | |
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General Failure | |
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General Failure: Captain Stillman | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Captain Stillman manages to go above and beyond by invoking this trope with a mortar, nearly wiping out a platoon when he forces enlisted men who are just learning the weapon to fire blindly — and into the obstacle course where Sergeant Hulka's men are training. | |
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Casual Car Giveaway | |
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Casual Car Giveaway: When John and Russell arrive at the Army recruiting center, they park in front of a Morguelan Walsh storefront: | |
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The Peeping Tom | |
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The Peeping Tom: Captain Stillman engages in Naughty Birdwatching from his office, peeping into the female showers. When a high-ranking officer surprises him, Stillman is so startled that he accidentally drops the telescope through the closed window. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
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Rousing Speech: Winger gathers up the platoon as they pull an all-nighter to prepare for the graduation marching presentation, and gives them an inverted "The Reason You Suck" Speech.The speech! Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell's the matter with you? Stupid! We're all very different people. We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts! (feels Bill Paxton's face) Here's proof: his nose is cold! But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more loveable than the mutt. Who saw "Old Yeller?" Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end? Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot, I'm sure. I cried my eyes out. So we're all dogfaces, we're all very, very different, but there is one thing that we all have in common: we were all stupid enough to enlist in the Army. We're mutants. There's something wrong with us, something very, very wrong with us. Something seriously wrong with us - we're soldiers. But we're American soldiers! We've been kicking ass for 200 years! We're 10 and 1! Now we don't have to worry about whether or not we practiced. We don't have to worry about whether Captain Stillman wants to have us hung. All we have to doooo is to be the great American fighting solllldier that is inside each one of us. Now do what I do, and say what I say. And make me proud! Fall in! | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Sgt Hulka, when Captain Stillman forces a soldier to fire an errantly aimed mortar: "Oh, shit... INCOMING!" Not to mention the Red in the tower, when he sees the rocket launcher come out of the top of the EM-50, pointed at him. | |
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Weaponized Car | |
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Weaponized Car: EM-50 "Urban Assault Vehicle" — essentially a cruise-missile armed camper! | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: The usual suspects in an Ivan Reitman movie, but Warren Oates' Hulka can stand toe to toe with even Bill Murray's Winger. | |
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Luck-Based Search Technique | |
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Luck-Based Search Technique: Russell discovers the EM-50's armaments this way. | |
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Glory Hound | |
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Glory Hound: Stillman. | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Standard for an Ivan Reitman film. Represented by humorous magazine covers: Hulka opens a burger chain, Stella is a Penthouse covergirl, Louise and Russell are interviewed by the fictional magazines Road Life and Guts, Ox becomes a teen heartthrob, and John graces the cover of a news magazine that asks "The New Army: Can America Survive?" Oh yeah, and a small news blurb about Stillman getting assigned to a snowbound doom. | |
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Ignored Expert | |
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Ignored Expert: Hulka during Stillman's mission to retrieve the EM-50. Hulka gets so irritated he bails out before they're captured by the Czechs. | |
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The Neidermeyer | |
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The Neidermeyer: Captain Stillman. | |
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New Meat | |
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New Meat: Most of the platoon. | |
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Re-Cut | |
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Re-Cut: The "Extended Cut" DVD offers two ways to watch the film — as it was shown in theaters, and with 18 minutes of deleted scenes added back in. | |
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Let's See YOU Do Better! | |
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Let's See YOU Do Better!: After Sgt. Hulka berates the platoon for their failure to complete the rope climb, Winger asks Hulka to do it himself. Hulka smugly takes the rope and climbs up to the platform with ease. Unfortunately, the platform is then hit by a stray mortar, causing Hulka to fall to the ground and injure himself. | |
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Letting Her Hair Down | |
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Letting Her Hair Down: Stella and Louise, the two female MPs, remove their helmets and let their hair down shortly before they end up spending the night with John and Russell in the General's house. Note that they hadn't decided on this course of action yet when they let their hair down. | |
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Sociopathic Soldier | |
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Sociopathic Soldier: Francis really wants to be one. | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe: In the extended cut, John and Russell try to desert during Basic, and somehow end up parachuting into somewhere in South America, before running into a group of rebels, accidentally dumping a bunch of LSD into their stew, almost getting killed, and sneaking off before getting put back on the plane and sent back to Basic. | |
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Written by the Winners | |
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Written by the Winners: Inverted. The Czech newspaper portrays the two border guards who'd failed to stop an American infiltration in a story titled "Local Boys Repel Yankee Horde". | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: Our heroes show up late to their graduation, but put on a performance which impresses everybody, even General Barnicke, who refers to them as "go-getters" and assigns them to the top secret EM-50 project. Winger, Russell, Stella, and Louise are able to capture the Czechoslovakian guards at the border by pretending to be a group of obnoxious American tourists who've gotten lost on their way to Austria. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Sgt. Hulka. He genuinely cares for his subordinates. | |
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Incoming! | |
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Incoming!: Sgt. Hulka when Capt. Stillman's carelessness on the range results in the platoon coming under fire. | |
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Indy Ploy | |
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Indy Ploy: John's plan to rescue the platoon. | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The Czech soldiers "speak" in vaguely Russian-sounding grunts. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Francis 'Psycho' Soyer is fairly obviously based on Travis Bickle. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Col. Glass ask LT Stillman if he (Stillman) knows what the EM-50 project is. Stillman mutters, "It's a tank, or something." Glass responds, "It's an Urban Assault Vehicle." Later, the boys find out it's a modified RV. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Captain Stillman; in addition to all his astonishing achievements listed throughout this page, he's insufferably arrogant, not nearly as bright as he thinks he is, a perv who spies on female enlisted personnel, and revealed as a panicked, gutless wonder at the end. | |
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Mildly Military | |
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Mildly Military: The whole platoon, with the sole exception of Sergeant Hulka — though Francis actually wants to be a lot more — not better, but more (see below). | |
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Grand Theft Prototype | |
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Grand Theft Prototype: Played for Laughs. The film's third act revolves around John and Russell stealing the U.S. Military's latest experimental undercover APC, the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle, for a joyride to Germany so they can see their Love Interests, then raising hell in Czechoslovakia to save their captured friends. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Stella pulls off a lot of those during the rescue mission. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Winger. Most of the platoon (initially) hates him for his failed attempts at playing smart with Hulka. | |
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"Get Out of Jail Free" Card | |
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"Get Out of Jail Free" Card: Even though John and Russell borrowed the EM-50 on their own accord, they get heralded as heroes coming home since they demonstrated its effectiveness against the Soviets. Averted with Stillman, whose rank incompetence allowed them to do it in the first place. | |
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Fanservice Extra | |
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Fanservice Extra: The women that Capt. Stillman spies on; all the girls at the topless mud wrestling bar. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Hulka making Winger do push-ups. | |
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