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The Big Bus

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The Big Bus	label	The Big Bus
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The Big Bus	comment	The Big Bus is a 1976 comedy film parodying the 1970s Disaster Movie genre, directed by James Frawley and featuring an All-Star Cast including Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Ned Beatty, JosÃ© Ferrer, Ruth Gordon, Harold Gould, Larry Hagman, Sally Kellerman, Richard Mulligan, Lynn Redgrave, RenÃ© Auberjonois, and Stuart Margolin.The plot revolves around the maiden journey of the Cyclops, an enormous nuclear-powered bus (equipped with a bowling alley, cocktail lounge, swimming pool, and dining room) designed to carry 110 passengers in comfort on a non-stop journey across the continental United States. The driver is haunted by past disaster, the passengers have a variety of personal problems, and shortly into the journey the bus is sabotaged by a sinister consortium of oil magnates who wish to discredit nuclear-powered vehicles.
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The Big Bus / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
The Big Bus / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: After the bus is left teetering precariously over the end of a cliff, it is saved in part by Dan using a chandelier as a grappling hook to help pull the bus back onto the road.
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The Big Bus / int_17c7c925	type	Frothy Mugs of Water
The Big Bus / int_17c7c925	comment	Frothy Mugs of Water: Parodied; when a bar fight breaks out, somebody threatens other characters with a broken milk carton.
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The Big Bus / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
The Big Bus / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: Apart from people assigned to specific amenities (lounge bartender and pianist, a pool lifeguard, etc.), the onboard bus crew seems to consist of just Dan (captain/lead driver), Shoulders (co-driver), Mary Jane Beth Sue (stewardess)... and Kitty Baxter, who does almost everything else. She's one of the principal designers, acts as hostess/tour guide to the passengers, gives the emergency spiel, briefly takes the wheel, talks Dan through the bomb defusion, and is conveniently in the kitchen when the soda dispensers flood.
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The Big Bus / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Big Bus / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: "Jeeze! You eat lousy one foot and they call you a cannibal!"
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The Big Bus / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Big Bus / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The entire reason for Cyclops to exist. It's got an incredibly dangerous and expensive nuclear reactor for power, an automatic tire replacement system that would destroy any cars passing the bus at the wrong moment, a ridiculously tiny private dining room for the captain's table, and all to pamper a mere 110 passengers.
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The Big Bus / int_301476a3	type	Car Meets House
The Big Bus / int_301476a3	comment	Truck Meets Bus: As the bus is careening towards Deadman's Curve, a nearby rockslide causes a old Chevy pickup to go careening off road and barrel uncontrollably down the side of a mountain before launching off of a rock that acts as a ramp and smashing through the plate glass window into the bus' lounge which results in the bus having the back half of a pickup truck sticking out of the side for the remainder of the film.
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The Big Bus / int_3dd9d27e	type	Disposable Vehicle Section
The Big Bus / int_3dd9d27e	comment	Disposable Vehicle Section: The Cyclops is equipped with an automatic tire changer so the bus can eject punctured tires and replace them with new ones while still rolling along.
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The Big Bus / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Big Bus / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Why does the driver go out onto the side of the bus for an incredibly dangerous bomb defusing mission instead of stopping and evacuating the passengers? Because it's a non-stop bus ride, damn it!
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The Big Bus / int_55f92df9	type	Wire Dilemma
The Big Bus / int_55f92df9	comment	Wire Dilemma: Spoofed. Driver Dan Torrance must defuse a bomb planted on the nuclear-powered bus, guided by radio from the front cabin by girlfriend Kitty Baxter (reading from Jane's Book of Bombs):
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The Big Bus / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
The Big Bus / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: Spoofed during the bar fight, where one of the fighters knocks the end off a milk carton, and everybody reacts as if to the threat of a broken bottle.
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The Big Bus / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
The Big Bus / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Dan is disgraced by his fellow bus drivers after a bus he was piloting with another driver crashed in the mountains and left them stranded. He ate the seats, the floormats and the luggage and accidentally ate the foot of a deceased passenger after his co-pilot had gone cannibal and made a stew while neglecting to tell Dan it contained people. They don't much care that it was accidental.
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The Big Bus / int_703ab38d	type	Base on Wheels
The Big Bus / int_703ab38d	comment	Base on Wheels: The nuclear-powered bus Cyclops is a 32-wheel double-decker articulated bus with 110 passengers, a bowling alley, a swimming pool, and many other luxury features for its non-stop cross-country journey.
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The Big Bus / int_7c8f9c6b	type	Road Trip Across the Street
The Big Bus / int_7c8f9c6b	comment	Road Trip Across the Street: Reporters covering the launch of the nuclear-powered bus are asked to board a minibus, driven around in a circle, then asked to get off.
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The Big Bus / int_8313a744	type	Dark Lord on Life Support
The Big Bus / int_8313a744	comment	Dark Lord on Life Support: The Big Bad lives in an iron lung.
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The Big Bus / int_9035db9f	type	The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles
The Big Bus / int_9035db9f	comment	The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles: The German title is Die haarstrÃ¤ubende Reise in einem verrÃ¼ckten Bus (The Hair-Raising Journey on a Crazy Bus).
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The Big Bus / int_97d79b7f	type	Kindly Vet
The Big Bus / int_97d79b7f	comment	Kindly Vet: Dr. Kurtz, played by Bob Dishy, is a disgraced veterinarian having a crisis of what he's supposed to do since he's been drummed out of his practice due to performing well-intended yet highly unorthodox methods on animals such as putting an IUD into a rabbit. When the husband of a divorced couple has a heart problem, he sets about treating the man as if he was an ill dog. This results in a still-living yet very confused man with a dog treat in his mouth and Kurtz having an epiphany that he should become a physician.
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The Big Bus / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
The Big Bus / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: Ironman's henchman first appears posing as a hot dog salesman, complete with a cart. Once the bomb goes off, he books it towards a nearby waiting limousine and the customer he was serving proceeds to help himself to every hot dog and all the cash in the cart's register.
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The Big Bus / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
The Big Bus / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: When the nuclear powered bus is first rolled out of the garage onto the parking lot for the press to see, the beginning of Also sprach Zarathustra plays.
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The Big Bus / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Big Bus / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: After surviving numerous near-disasters, Cyclops triumphantly starts driving down the mountain the remaining 25 miles to Denver. And breaks in half as the credits begin to roll...
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The Big Bus / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
The Big Bus / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: One passenger is a man struggling with the fact that he has only six months left to live and spends much of his screentime worrying. Once a beautiful woman taking a bath invites him in (which results in him getting in while fully clothed), he has a revelation that he should stop worrying just try to make the best out of his remaining months.
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The Big Bus / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Big Bus / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: After every other attempt to destroy the bus fails, Iron Man (no, not that one) orders the use of an earthquake-generating machine to destroy the bus. Due to the incompetence of his assistant, the earthquake machine is instead aimed at his mansion which is shook to pieces and he is presumably fatally crushed by the rubble while Alex escapes.
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The Big Bus / int_d637e778	type	Lots of Luggage
The Big Bus / int_d637e778	comment	Lots of Luggage: To stop the bus from going over the edge of the cliff, all of the passengers' luggage is ejected from the bus by way of trap doors.
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The Big Bus / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
The Big Bus / int_e7022a49	comment	Talking to the Dead: Lampooned, with so many people talking in the graveyard the protagonist has to shout in order to be heard above the din.
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The Big Bus / int_eea06f9a	type	Artistic License â€“ Cars
The Big Bus / int_eea06f9a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Cars: After the pickup truck crashes into the bus, Dan identifies it as "a '53 Chevy pickup". While it is indeed a Chevy pickup, it's actually a 1954 model due to the grille.
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The Big Bus / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
The Big Bus / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: The film is a dead on parody of the movie Airport and its sequels, a full four years before Airplane! came out and popularized that parody film subgenre.
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The Big Bus / int_fa2f60f1	type	Vehicle Title
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The Big Bus / int_fb60e9a2	type	He's Got a Weapon!
The Big Bus / int_fb60e9a2	comment	He's Got a Weapon!: Early in the film, we see the driver in a bus driver bar, and there's a fight. One guy grabs a quart carton of milk and bashes the end off, threatening someone else with it. "Look out! He's got a milk carton!" The other guy grabs a candle and breaks the end off of it. "Look out, he's got a candle!"
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The Big Bus / int_fb8b1175	type	Earthquake Machine
The Big Bus / int_fb8b1175	comment	Earthquake Machine: The saboteurs have one, which they use near the end of the film after more conventional methods have failed to halt the bus.
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