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The Toy
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The Toy is the 1982 American remake of the French comedy Le Jouet by Francis Veber with Pierre Richard. It was directed by Richard Donner and starred Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason.Unemployed journalist Jack Brown (Pryor) is having a hard time fixing that problem. The job market in his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana just isn't looking too good lately, forcing him to find employment as a maid for local tycoon U.S. Bates (Gleason), but his refusing to shave his mustache and the fact that he was a man cost him the job permanently. This did not stop him from managing to join the night cleaning crew at one of U.S.'s retail outlets, though.After murdering an innocent Wonder Wheel while comically fooling around with the store's wares, Jack catches the attention of Eric (Scott Schwartz), Bates' spoiled rotten son. Eric is there after hours with some of his daddy's men to pick out any toy in the store, and he's just made his selection; he wants Jack. Everyone but Eric thinks this is a bad idea, but what he says goes, and he knows enough about spoiled rottenness to know that everyone has a price. So Eric's chaperons stuff a bunch of money in Jack's hands, promise to give Wonder Wheel a decent burial, and then box him up in a crate to bring home with Eric.Once there, Jack quickly tires of Eric's horrid behavior and humiliating pranks and he storms out, still decked out in too-tight Spider-Man pajamas, to return home. Problem is, Eric is lonely enough to beg his dad get him back by any means. U.S. offers Jack enough money to pay off his mortgage, which he all-too eagerly accepts. But Eric's brattyness has got to go, so Jack cuts through the boy's facade and begins befriending the Lonely Rich Kid underneath.Its premise was controversial even for its day, but The Toy is still a pretty funny film with some surprisingly sweet moments, and it offers a rare chance to see two legendary comedians playing off each other. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: In-Universe Jack (black man) and some others point out the messed up situation of Eric (white kid) having him (and treating him) as a "toy" (with that exact term flung around by Eric constantly). Thankfully 1) Eric and U.S. undergo Character Development and 2) U.S. has enough money to pay them all off. | |
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Angrish | |
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Angrish: Jack gets into this after Eric pulls the second bucket prank on him. This also applies after Fancy humiliates Jack in front of all of their friends and he curses up a storm | |
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Deep South | |
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Deep South: Averted. The movie was filmed on location in Baton Rouge, a major metropolitan area and state capitol of Louisiana, so Donner couldn't have pulled it off even if he wanted to. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: U.S. wants his son to know that being wealthy means never having to say you're sorry. Jack pointedly observes that it's about the only thing Eric does understand. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: "Is it really that bad out there?" "It's worse." | |
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Undercrank | |
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Undercranking: Used at a couple of points, most notably when Jack wades into a piranha-infested creek and then leaps out, running across the surface of the water back to shore. Also when Eric threw fire crackers at Jack and it scared him so much he jumped on the door really fast. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Eric has nannies, au pairs and butlers around to take care of him, but he really wants his dad to do the job. | |
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You Didn't Ask | |
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You Didn't Ask: Eric's explanation to Jack as to why they are breaking into U.S.' printing press when Eric has the key. Jack doesn't find this especially amusing. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: U.S.'s affection towards his son might be one of the few redeeming factors that puts him in this category. By the end, he's showing signs of mellowing out a little. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Aside from Jack's torment at Eric's whims, poor Mr. Morehouse also becomes one, after U.S. orders him to fire an associate just for having sweaty hands, and later forces him to pull down his pants in front of Jack just to make a point about how much power U.S. really has. | |
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Lost Him in a Card Game | |
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Lost Him in a Card Game: According to Barkley the valet, he was once servant for a Lord Cavendish in England until his master bet him in a game of billiards and lost to U.S. (also an Actor Allusion, since Jackie Gleason was a damn good pool player, both on the silver screen and in Real Life). | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Eric exploits this when he and Jack are detained for breaking and entering. He makes up a story about Jack kidnapping him at gunpoint to get the cops riled up, but it's really to get their attention off of him so he can create a distraction to sneak them both out of the police station. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The Fraulein's real name (Hilda Hans) is only shown for about half a second when several articles from Jack and Eric's newspaper The Toy flash onscreen. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: According to Word of God: U.S. Bates — United States (Master) Bates. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
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Here We Go Again!: The film ends with one of Fancy's friends offering Jack a job being her son's toy. Jack responds by snapping and hauling ass down the road. | |
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George Jetson Job Security | |
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George Jetson Job Security: As an act of Offscreen Villainy, U.S. ordered an employee to be fired just because he had sweaty palms when he decided to shake U.S.'s hand. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: We never do find out whether U.S. is still facing a federal indictment after his plan to blackmail the senator was foiled by Jack and Eric. He doesn't seem too worried about it in the end, if his future promises to Eric are any indication. | |
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Brand X | |
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Brand X: While plenty of recognizable properties like Barbie and Intellivision are seen out of focus in the background of Bates' department store, every toy that appears in the opening music sequence or is given a prominent foreground shot happens to be a generic stuffed animal or some other toy without any obvious brand association. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Immediately following the hilarious slapstick moment with Jack and the piranhas, they're shushed by Mr. Morehouse, who's fishing nearby and Drowning His Sorrows because U.S. forced him to fire a good man for the incredibly petty reason of shaking U.S.'s hand while having sweaty palms. | |
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Personal Arcade | |
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Personal Arcade: Eric has Centipede and Space Duel cabinets in his bedroom, along with a Haunted House pinball machine. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: When Jack arrived in the wooden crate as Eric’s "toy", Eric throws firecrackers at him as a prank. In a later scene when they were arrested by police while printing their newspaper, the kid pulls the same stunt on the cops by throwing more firecrackers at them in order to allow Jack and himself to escape. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: Everyone tends to pronounce U.S. as "You Ass," and he's not too thrilled about it. By the end, he only allows Jack to get away with it. Not that he's going to stop Fancy from doing it. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Fancy, U.S. newest wife. | |
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And Starring | |
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And Starring: Got the "And Introducing" credit for Scott Schwartz. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Jack thought Eric was only kidding about the piranha his father released into their private creek to keep trespassers out. | |
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That Came Out Wrong | |
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That Came Out Wrong: "Eric, this is Jack. Jack, Master Bates!" | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Invoked, when Eric tries to call Jack on selling out by accepting a job with U.S.' newspaper, to which Jack has no choice but to respond with: | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: This. Entire. Film. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Eric smugly reminds his father's surprised employees that his father said he could choose anything inside the store when he asks for Jack. While discussing his pay for pulling toy duty, U.S. angrily balks when Jack says that he needs $10,000. Jack points out that U.S. asked him how much he needed, not how much he'd settle for. | |
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Brainless Beauty | |
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Brainless Beauty: Fancy is nice enough, but not particularly bright. The few times she says or does something untoward, it's out of thoughtlessness rather than malice (and you can't really blame her for being irritated to hear that Eric was back home for the week). | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: You'd think U.S. would learn to either move his dominoes or just glue the damn things in place. | |
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