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The Grasshopper

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Grasshopper is a 1970 film directed by Jerry Paris.Jacqueline Bisset stars as Christine, a 19-year-old girl who runs away from her parents, leaving British Columbia to be with her boyfriend Eddie in Los Angeles. However, Christine soon realizes that she needs more from life than to be the wife of her boring bank teller boyfriend, so she runs away from him in turn, going to the land of adventure: Las Vegas.Christine gets a job as a showgirl in a nudie review, and falls in with a scruffy-haired rock band. Later, she falls in love with Tommy Marcott, a former NFL star (played by former NFL star Jim Brown). Tragedy strikes, however, and Christine winds up as the kept woman of rich businessman Richard Morgan (Joseph Cotten). Further and worse degradations ensue.Garry Marshall co-wrote the screenplay. Marshall's sister Penny appears briefly as a band groupie.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 Bigger Is Better in Bed
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 Bigger Is Better in Bed: Obviously suggested by the groupie played by Penny Marshall, who, as the band plays onstage, suggestively toys with—a tape measure.
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 Allergic to Routine
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 Allergic to Routine: Christine's fatal flaw: she cannot abide routine and boredom and as a consequence makes bad decisions. She loses a job as a bank teller after she gets the bright idea to slip a stick-up note to a customer. She leaves her perfectly nice, handsome boyfriend Eddie because he's obviously too dull for her. Later, she says she'll be a loving Housewife to Tommy, but a shot of her looking bored as she fries bacon at home cuts to her looking even more bored as she goes grocery shopping, and she winds up abandoning her groceries. She deliberately picks a fight with Tommy to, as she says, "liven things up around here!"
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 All Gays are Promiscuous: Christine's campy friend Buck, who says "It seems I can never just be friends with a man!"
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