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Top Secret! (1984) is the third feature-length comedy written by the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker team and the follow-up to their directorial debut, Airplane!.The story involves Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer, in his first theatrical role), an Elvis-like rock idol who's sent into East Germany for a goodwill tour. Once there, he is swept up into a spy plot by Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge), whose father (Michael Gough) is held captive by the Communists. Hillary takes Nick to the French Resistance—yes, in East Germany!—whose charismatic leader, Nigel "The Torch" (Christopher Villiers), is her former lover, and who seizes on the opportunity to use Nick's knowledge of the prison to break Dr. Flammond out.That's the plot, but the movie is perhaps better appreciated for its farcical, even savage zaniness. It parodies everything, from rock idols to forced perspective shots to Professional Wrestling to goose-stepping Nazis to, well, cow disguises, with the ZAZ team's trademark Rapid-Fire Comedy.Has nothing to do with Over-the-Top Secret, or indeed any kind of classification whatever. | |
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Off-the-Shelf FX: Inverted. The "cow suit" is really an actual cow with boots on. | |
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Creator Cameo: The three directors, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, play the three guards who arrest Nick in the "prop room". | |
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Microphone Swinging: Played for Laughs in during Nick's concert performance. While singing "How Silly Can You Get?", he sings with the microphone still in the stand and inches towards the end of the stage as the stand magically stretches with him. | |
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Just the Introduction to the Opposites | |
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Just the Introduction to the Opposites: In a Funny Background Event, three human beings descend from the sky to relieve themselves on a large statue of a pigeon. | |
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Soft Glass: Parodied when a gun gets bent trying to break a window. Followed by a sledgehammer shattering against it. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: All over the place: A farmer is driving a cart led by a little horse that is coughing: During dinner between Hillary and Nick : "Hermann Goering's Workout Book". The Reichsmarshall was known to be obese. | |
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Haplessly Hiding | |
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Haplessly Hiding: In the third act, Latrine the rebel and The Mole use a cow costume to infiltrate the German hideout where their target is in order to shut down the electrified fence and allow the rest of the team to enter. Unfortunately for the mole, the costume attracts the attention of an amorous bull and just as the mole reveals himself to Latrine, the bull mounts him (he's standing in for the rear part of the cow) and penetrates him so hard that he spends the next scene walking bow-legged. | |
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Oral Fixation | |
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Oral Fixation: Du Quois is constantly chewing on a toothpick in every scene he's in. At one point, during a gunfight, he nervously throws the toothpick away — and immediately pulls another one from behind his ear. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: The pizza. The pigeon statue. The snacks at the ballet. The couple screwing in the crowd at the ballet. The headwaiter tailoring a new tuxedo for Nick. The pilot and Resistance members using the RAF roundel on the side of the plane as a dartboard. The multiple fireplaces in the room as Nick and Hillary roll around on the ground. There are at least 3 (not counting the burning house nearby). Shows up as a Running Gag when another one appears near them while they are parachuting, with its own little parachute. When the guards come for Nick and Dr. Flammond's in the doctor's room they tell them to put their hands up, the captain of the sub the mine dragged in also pops a hatch and raises his hands. As the train pulls away in East Germany, it can be seen that the platform is being pulled away, while the train itself doesn't move. While pretending to be German soldiers in order to free Dr. Flammond, Chocolate Mousse and Deja Vu goosestep so hard, their boots go flying off. | |
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Bilingual Bonus: While a lot of the German phrases are rendered in As Long as It Sounds Foreign style, a few of them are actual jokes. One particular gem should crack up German-speakers: Blinkenlights-style: "Der Pizza Haus". note "Das Pizza-Haus" would be correct German for "The Pizza Home" In the station, at the beginning of the movie : "Der Zug der jetzt auf Gleis 3 steht.... hat uns alle überrascht!". note "The train currently on Railtrack 3... surprised us all!" After the giant phone is picked up, we hear "Sind schon weg, du, du dummes Arschloch!" The translation is "They are already gone, you, you stupid a**hole!". The hotel is called the "Hotel Gey Schlüffen" which means "Go To Sleep" in Yiddish. | |
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Cast as a Mask | |
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Cast as a Mask: Taken to an extreme when two of the characters disguise themselves full-body as a cow. When wearing the suit, a real cow is used with painted-on spots and boots on her hooves, with dialogue from the characters in the suit dubbed into the scenes. | |
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Assumed Win | |
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Assumed Win: Nick turns a planned operatic performance into a rock concert by assuming that the lauding of the singer is meant for him. | |
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Binocular Shot | |
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Binocular Shot: Parodied. The herd of cows under observation walk into the "black frame". | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Chocolate Mousse is a parody of a Scary Black Man, doing such "classically" badass things as eating a cigar, drinking gasoline, and wielding a front-loader cannon as a sidearm. He's also an impossibly good shot with a machine gun. | |
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Fearsome Foot | |
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Fearsome Foot: Masterfully parodied in a scene in which Nick is trying to infiltrate a fortress by crawling on the grass. He suddenly stops at the sight of a pair of boots in front of him. Slowly looking up in fear, he then realizes... they're just boots, left alone in the grass. | |
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When the Clock Strikes Twelve | |
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When the Clock Strikes Twelve: The Resistance leader "The Torch" tells Nick Rivers that at exactly midnight a truck will arrive at the restaurant they're in and drive him to the East German border. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: The French Resistance is in East Germany. We don't know why. | |
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Hammerspace | |
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Hammerspace: As the group is escaping from the prison, a squad of German soldiers drive across the field at them. Chocolate Mousse reaches off-screen in a direction where no one is and grabs a Tommy gun that is being held out to him. | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Gratuitous German: Overlaps with Bilingual Bonus. | |
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Karmic Rape | |
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Karmic Rape: While breaking into a top-secret facility, Nigel is dressed in the rear half of a cow costume. After he reveals himself to be The Mole who has betrayed the Resistance to the East German government, he is attacked and anally raped by a bull. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: When Nick Rivers is in jail, a head shot of Cher can be clearly seen on the wall of the cell several times. Val Kilmer was dating her at the time. General Streck, played by Jeremy Kemp, is wearing a Blue Max. | |
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Time Marches On | |
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Time Marches On: Some jokes and plot points have aged rather poorly. East Germany ceased to exist in 1989. Early on Nick threatens to put Colonel von Horst on the Montgomery Ward catalog mailing list, the company went bankrupt in 2001 (another company operating as an online retailer has since taken up the name). Hillary provides the blind man with a letter that must reach New York by Tuesday, that he later burns to keep out of enemy hands - a Publisher's Clearing House letter. Publisher's Clearing House stopped sending adverts by mail in the early 2010s. Amusingly, the election of reality TV star Donald Trump in 2016 means that Hillary's comment about actors becoming President in the finale is still relevant more than a decade after the death of Ronald Reagan. | |
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Bird-Poop Gag | |
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Bird-Poop Gag: Played with. Nick and Hillary walk through a park at night. There's a very large statue of a bird in the background, and when they stop to talk, several men fly down, land on top of and pee on the statue, before zipping up and flying off again. And then when Nick and Hillary walk off camera the bird statue itself takes a large dump right before the scene ends. | |
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Acme Products | |
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Acme Products: On one of the walls of Dr. Paul Flammond's cell/laboratory in the Flurgendorf prison, there is a sensual calendar of "Acme Lab Equipment". | |
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Trojan Prisoner | |
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Trojan Prisoner: Chocolate Mousse and Déjà Vu pretend to take Nick prisoner as part of their bid to infiltrate Fleurgendorf prison. It must be mentioned that Chocolate Mousse is a black man, wearing a German soldier's uniform, in a German prison. The guards seem to notice this discrepancy, yet not one says a word, due to Chocolate Mousse being a Scary Black Man. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Time Skip | |
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Bait-and-Switch Time Skip: After Nick is captured by the East German government he's shown in a cell, where he's making the twentieth mark on the wall (indicating that he's been incarcerated for twenty days). Then his manager arrives, and he says he's been waiting for twenty minutes. | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto: Parodied, as the Pinto is the only car in the entire film to explode — with the tiniest, most gentle nudge. The military vehicle that crashes into it manages to leave the scene of the accident successfully, despite being on fire. "You've got to hand it to the Germans — they make great cars." | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The first time Chocolate Mousse throws the grapnel at the prison walls, the rope goes out and out—and then it's revealed that he missed and they have to beat a hasty retreat to avoid getting hit as it comes back down. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: Parodied. Nick is about to be executed by firing squad but they get a call that he is allowed to perform his concert that night. They make the call to stop the execution but the only one close enough to the phone is an elderly woman on a walker. Somehow she gets there. It helps that the firing squad seems to be distracted by the terrible and overly elaborate arms drilling display they seem forced to perform before actually firing. | |
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The One Thing I Don't Hate About You | |
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The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Hillary, three times. Nick first meets her when she's trying to hide from the police at the hotel restaurant and he lets her by claiming that she's his plus one. Nick fully enters the adventure when he spies her being arrested by Sergeant Kruger at the ballet and rescues her, killing Kruger by accident in the process. The final action scenes center around Hillary being captured by the mole in the Resistance, with Nick riding to the rescue. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Latrine's job in La Résistance is to be badly hurt and gasp out important messages. | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
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Funetik Aksent: There are a couple of banners at Nick's concert that read "Velcome Neek." | |
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Traintop Battle | |
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Traintop Battle: Parodied hard. The bad guy owes the transit authority a new bridge. | |
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Credits Gag | |
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Credits Gag: Lots of fake/funny credits ("HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE - THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE", "FOREEZ - A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW", etc.) and Nick and his backup singers show up in the credits to sing. | |
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Spiteful Spit | |
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Spiteful Spit: After General Streck tells Nick that his manager is dead and that no one will be coming to save him, Nick spits across the room in the general's face. In the TV version, it ricochets twice before hitting him. | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: The Salvage Pirates and Nigel. "They tormented me in ways I cannot describe." (Followed by a contented smile when Hillary falls for it.) The cow disguise is so effective that it attracts both a nursing calf and an amorous bull. | |
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Blind People Wear Sunglasses | |
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Blind People Wear Sunglasses: One of the Resistance members is a blind street vendor of novelties and souvenirs. He wears black glasses to let the audience know he's blind. Bruno, the almost totally blind torturer, also wears black glasses. | |
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Flames of Love | |
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Flames of Love: Parodied when Nick and Hillary first fall in love. As they begin kissing, the camera pans over to a romantic fireplace. They roll over in their embrace, in front of the fireplace... and the camera pans to where another fireplace is burning. They roll over again, in front of that fireplace, and the camera pans to yet another fireplace, above the last one. They stand up in front of it, and the camera pans away to a window... showing the neighboring house burning down. Later, they share a tender kiss while parachuting. The camera pans away from them... to show a fireplace also suspended by parachute. | |
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Bamboo Technology | |
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Bamboo Technology: Parodied. While stranded on a deserted island, Hillary and Nigel build a modern home out of "bamboo, dried seaweed, and snot", complete with functioning garage door (and a remote). | |
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Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping | |
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Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping: While Nick Rivers is fighting Nigel in the underwater bar, in the background the barkeeper can be seen polishing a glass with a cloth. | |
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Starbucks Skin Scale | |
Top Secret! / int_53fc6e4c | comment |
Starbucks Skin Scale: Parodied. In a group of French Resistance fighters named after French foodstuffs, the sole Black member is called "Chocolate Mousse." | |
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1.0 | |
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Luminescent Blush | |
Top Secret! / int_5586a766 | comment |
Luminescent Blush: When Nick emerges victorious from the river, Hillary is so flushed with relief her breasts light up. | |
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Top Secret! / int_56515a39 | type |
Artistic License – History | |
Top Secret! / int_56515a39 | comment |
Artistic License – History: The film portrays the East German government as Commie Nazis who are seeking dominance over the world in their own right despite the fact that East Germany was a socialist client state of the USSR (which is barely even alluded to in the film). | |
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Smoking Hot Sex | |
Top Secret! / int_57980ca0 | comment |
Smoking Hot Sex: After the calf blowjob scene, the "cow" is seen smoking a cigarette. | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
Top Secret! / int_5b19cc1b | comment |
Air-Vent Passageway: Parodied. It takes Nick a couple tries to find the right one, but there seem to be several more than strictly necessary. One of them inexplicably leads to a toilet bowl. | |
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Almost Dead Guy | |
Top Secret! / int_61356a74 | comment |
"Latrine!" | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
Top Secret! / int_61c7d589 | comment |
Bigger Is Better in Bed: Hillary literally breaks out a tape measure when she's reunited with Nigel, showing it at the 10 inch mark. | |
Top Secret! / int_61c7d589 | featureApplicability |
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Top Secret! / int_6451e544 | type |
Commie Nazis | |
Top Secret! / int_6451e544 | comment |
Commie Nazis: The East Germans are a pastiche of both World War II-era Nazis and post-war Communists. | |
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Top Secret! / int_6451e544 | |
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Last-Minute Reprieve | |
Top Secret! / int_653bb6cf | comment |
Last-Minute Reprieve: Nick is so popular that the consulate insists on him giving one last performance before his execution. | |
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Top Secret! / int_653bb6cf | |
Top Secret! / int_66cdb21b | type |
Gag Penis | |
Top Secret! / int_66cdb21b | comment |
Nigel "The Torch" — Hillary carries a torch for him. Also, there is another way to interpret "torch". | |
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Top Secret! / int_66cdb21b | |
Top Secret! / int_67dfa28 | type |
Planning with Props | |
Top Secret! / int_67dfa28 | comment |
Planning with Props: The plan to infiltrate Fleurgendorf Prison starts with simple props before graduating to Model Planning. | |
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Top Secret! / int_68f6e811 | type |
Made of Plasticine | |
Top Secret! / int_68f6e811 | comment |
Made of Plasticine: Parodied. A guard falls off a building, lands on his back, and shatters. (Also counts as a classic Railing Kill) | |
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Top Secret! / int_697b5232 | type |
Those Wacky Nazis | |
Top Secret! / int_697b5232 | comment |
Those Wacky Nazis: While the East Germans are primarily portrayed as parodic communist versions of Nazis, there are frequent direct references to them in the sight gags, such as a novelty clock in the malt shop portraying a cartoon Adolf Hitler whose arms are the clock hands, and General Von Streck passing the time by reading "Hermann Goering's Workout Book." | |
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Top Secret! / int_697b5232 | |
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Bumbling Henchmen Duo | |
Top Secret! / int_6b12fcfb | comment |
Bumbling Henchmen Duo: The blind Bruno and the moronic Klaus who only reads the New York Post. | |
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1.0 | |
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Top Secret! / int_6b12fcfb | |
Top Secret! / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Top Secret! / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Nick and Hillary discuss the meaning of their respective names over dinner. Nigel "The Torch" — Hillary carries a torch for him. Also, there is another way to interpret "torch". The Code Names of all of the members of La Résistance are meaningful in some way. | |
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Top Secret! / int_6c22a57b | type |
Jumping on a Grenade | |
Top Secret! / int_6c22a57b | comment |
Jumping on a Grenade: A Resistance member attempts a noble sacrifice in the barn fight, but alas, everyone else explodes. | |
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1.0 | |
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Top Secret! / int_6c22a57b | |
Top Secret! / int_6cac9d40 | type |
National Anthem | |
Top Secret! / int_6cac9d40 | comment |
National Anthem: The German anthem is parodied by copying a school fight song (Shorewood High School in Wisconsin) and making up fake lyrics. | |
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1.0 | |
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Top Secret! / int_6cac9d40 | |
Top Secret! / int_6d7bc0f | type |
Fake Band | |
Top Secret! / int_6d7bc0f | comment |
Fake Band: Val Kilmer did his own singing in all the musical scenes, but you can tell with a casual glance in the ones with an instrument that he isn't actually playing that guitar. This gets parodied in "Are You Lonesome Tonight," which features a finger picked intro and intricate chord changes despite Nick strumming the same chord for the entire song. | |
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Top Secret! / int_7089d02e | type |
All Germans Are Nazis | |
Top Secret! / int_7089d02e | comment |
All Germans Are Nazis: Parodied. The Germans in the movie are supposed to be East Germans, but their uniforms are Nazi-era uniforms with the swastikas removed. (East German uniforms did look closer to Nazi uniforms than West German uniforms, on account of the DDR reusing old Nazi uniforms, so there's a touch of Truth in Television in there.) | |
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Top Secret! / int_716d9138 | type |
Bar Brawl | |
Top Secret! / int_716d9138 | comment |
Bar Brawl: One of these occurs in a Western saloon (even though the film is set in East Germany) ...underwater. | |
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Top Secret! / int_716d9138 | |
Top Secret! / int_7593bcd5 | type |
Full-Body Disguise | |
Top Secret! / int_7593bcd5 | comment |
Full-Body Disguise: The cow suit. It looks very convincing albeit with human boots on the feet (done by using an actual cow with painted-on spots and boots over her hooves), so good it even fools a calf and a bull. | |
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Top Secret! / int_7593bcd5 | |
Top Secret! / int_7ae52fff | type |
Hollywood Magnetism | |
Top Secret! / int_7ae52fff | comment |
Hollywood Magnetism: Dr. Flammond develops the Polaris magnetic mine. Instead of being attracted to ships and blowing them up like a regular magnetic mine, it's so powerful it drags ships to itself from hundreds of miles away. | |
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Top Secret! / int_7d2fb440 | type |
Animal Disguise | |
Top Secret! / int_7d2fb440 | comment |
Animal Disguise: The two rebels disguise themselves as a cow. One insists on playing the rear end, causing his compatriot to gripe, "Fine, be an asshole!" Leads to Attractive Bent Species when a horny bull mistakes them for a real cow. | |
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Top Secret! / int_7d2fb440 | |
Top Secret! / int_7d34f23a | type |
Reckless Gun Usage | |
Top Secret! / int_7d34f23a | comment |
Reckless Gun Usage: Responsible gun handling and skeet surfing are mutually exclusive concepts, which the song's music video makes perfectly clear. The targets of stray shots include a palm tree, a hang-glider, and an airplane. | |
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Top Secret! / int_7d34f23a | |
Top Secret! / int_7dbfa45b | type |
Spy Speak | |
Top Secret! / int_7dbfa45b | comment |
Spy Speak: Used on multiple occasions by characters as a Sign/Countersign. | |
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1.0 | |
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Top Secret! / int_7dbfa45b | |
Top Secret! / int_7f049db8 | type |
Car Radio Dispute | |
Top Secret! / int_7f049db8 | comment |
Car Radio Dispute: Played for Laughs. While Nick Rivers and Nigel are fighting inside a truck, they also fight over which station to listen to on the radio. Watch it here. | |
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Top Secret! / int_7f9b12a6 | type |
Chairman of the Brawl | |
Top Secret! / int_7f9b12a6 | comment |
Chairman of the Brawl: During the underwater Bar Brawl, a chair is used as a weapon. It seems to be made out of balsa wood as it breaks instantly. | |
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Top Secret! / int_7f9b12a6 | |
Top Secret! / int_8344209e | type |
BFG | |
Top Secret! / int_8344209e | comment |
BFG: Parodied, sort of. Chocolate Mousse uses a muzzle-loader cannon as a handgun. | |
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Top Secret! / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
Top Secret! / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: The Resistance may have rescued the man being forced to build the Polaris Mine, but they left the nearly complete mine behind, along with whatever plans there were. What's keeping the Germans from having someone else finish it and using it at a later date? In some cuts of the film, Omar Sharif's character and Streck vanish from the film. A scene in which Sharif (still trapped in the remains of his car!) gets revenge on Streck by smashing his car in the junkyard exists in some versions, answering this question. | |
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The Big Board | |
Top Secret! / int_87504252 | comment |
The Big Board: The diorama Nigel uses to explain his plan to the other Resistance members. | |
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Top Secret! / int_898266d8 | type |
Travel Montage | |
Top Secret! / int_898266d8 | comment |
Travel Montage: A dotted line makes its way along a streetmap... and is subsequently eaten by Pac-Man. | |
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Top Secret! / int_898266d8 | |
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Meta Guy | |
Top Secret! / int_8a58bb81 | comment |
Meta Guy: Nick somehow manages to function as the Only Sane Man in this farcical endeavor by calling out the Contrived Coincidence of Hillary meeting her old lover, among other things. | |
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Top Secret! / int_8a58bb81 | |
Top Secret! / int_8b9d9672 | type |
Underdressed for the Occasion | |
Top Secret! / int_8b9d9672 | comment |
Underdressed for the Occasion: Nick shows up at the restaurant in casual attire, and is informed by the staff that a coat and tie are required. They proceed to tailor them for him on the spot. | |
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Top Secret! / int_913c0a60 | type |
Named After the Injury | |
Top Secret! / int_913c0a60 | comment |
Named After the Injury: When Hillary (a French woman) asks Nick what his name means, he replies, "Oh nothing... my dad thought of it while he was shaving." | |
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Top Secret! / int_913c0a60 | |
Top Secret! / int_93dcaaa0 | type |
Two Men, One Dress | |
Top Secret! / int_93dcaaa0 | comment |
Two Men, One Dress: The cow suit has a front and a back end. An argument ensues over who gets to be the asshole. | |
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Top Secret! / int_9600368d | type |
Behind the Black | |
Top Secret! / int_9600368d | comment |
Behind the Black: Played for laughs as they come upon a pair of boots that they should be able to tell are just a pair of boots in a field, but they don't realize that there is no enemy soldier there until the camera shows it to the audience. | |
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Top Secret! / int_985e1866 | type |
Circular Drive | |
Top Secret! / int_985e1866 | comment |
Circular Drive: A seemingly endless parade of military vehicles passes the camera...until the camera cranes back, revealing it's the same six vehicles driving in a circle. | |
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Top Secret! / int_9ad6ea63 | type |
Depth Deception | |
Top Secret! / int_9ad6ea63 | comment |
Depth Deception: A telephone looks like it's in the foreground of a close-up shot. Nope, it's really that big. Done earlier with the Swedish bookkeeper. When he pulls a magnifying glass from his eye, it's revealed that his eye is actually enormous. | |
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Dirty Communists | |
Top Secret! / int_9c47b23b | comment |
Dirty Communists: East Germany is presented as an oppressive land of Commie Nazis. | |
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Top Secret! / int_9d17b859 | type |
Made of Iron | |
Top Secret! / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: In the Traintop Battle, Kruger not only No Sells Cedric's punches, but when he falls prey to the classic "low bridge" kill, the bridge breaks. He then dies in a self-inflicted Railing Kill later on. | |
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Top Secret! / int_9d3b4703 | type |
This Is Reality | |
Top Secret! / int_9d3b4703 | comment |
This Is Reality: Played with: | |
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Top Secret! / int_9eca61c8 | type |
Production Foreshadowing | |
Top Secret! / int_9eca61c8 | comment |
Production Foreshadowing: Val Kilmer and Michael Gough would share the screen again in Batman Forever. Later that year, Lucy Gutteridge and Michael Gough also both had minor roles in the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol. | |
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Top Secret! / int_9f243a58 | type |
Gag Sub | |
Top Secret! / int_9f243a58 | comment |
Gag Sub: The East German national anthem, helpfully translated in subtitles. Double gag in that it's actually a high school fight song (Shorewood High School in Wisconsin). | |
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Top Secret! / int_a188ac4b | type |
Overly Long Gag | |
Top Secret! / int_a188ac4b | comment |
Parodied when Nick and Hillary first fall in love. As they begin kissing, the camera pans over to a romantic fireplace. They roll over in their embrace, in front of the fireplace... and the camera pans to where another fireplace is burning. They roll over again, in front of that fireplace, and the camera pans to yet another fireplace, above the last one. They stand up in front of it, and the camera pans away to a window... showing the neighboring house burning down. | |
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Top Secret! / int_a188ac4b | |
Top Secret! / int_a3912d0e | type |
Sexy Discretion Shot | |
Top Secret! / int_a3912d0e | comment |
Sexy Discretion Shot: To a fireplace. When the couple rolls into view in front of the fireplace, the camera pans again — to another fireplace. In some cuts, the camera eventually pans to a window with a view of a burning building. Further parodied some minutes later when a kiss between the two parachuting protagonists cuts to a fireplace hanging from another parachute. | |
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Top Secret! / int_a60e3252 | type |
Rule of Funny | |
Top Secret! / int_a60e3252 | comment |
Rule of Funny: Why are there French Freedom fighters in East Germany? Why does the climax take place in an underwater tavern? Where did those men peeing on the bird statue come from? The plot is a set-up for a grand farce, and nothing needs to make sense. | |
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Top Secret! / int_a6b14ee1 | type |
Hollywood Tactics | |
Top Secret! / int_a6b14ee1 | comment |
Hollywood Tactics: Combined with Missing Steps Plan, no explanation is given as to how using a wunderwaffen to destroy submarines in the Mediterranean will allow a nation that isn't on the Mediterranean to conquer another nation that isn't on the Mediterannean in a land war. | |
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Top Secret! / int_a6b14ee1 | |
Top Secret! / int_a71980f8 | type |
Surreal Theme Tune | |
Top Secret! / int_a71980f8 | comment |
Surreal Theme Tune: "Skeet Surfin'" | |
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Top Secret! / int_a7defafd | type |
Code Name | |
Top Secret! / int_a7defafd | comment |
The Code Names of all of the members of La Résistance are meaningful in some way. | |
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Top Secret! / int_a864d2d8 | type |
Commie Land | |
Top Secret! / int_a864d2d8 | comment |
Commie Land: Parodied by combining the communists with the Nazis. The East German "national anthem" even includes lyrics about trying to escape not being a bright idea if you value your life. To whit: | |
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The Loins Sleep Tonight | |
Top Secret! / int_ad3e13c5 | comment |
The Loins Sleep Tonight: Parodied. It seems that Hillary is consoling Nick for his failure to perform, but it turns out that she's reading a trashy romance novel out loud. | |
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Squirting Flower Gag | |
Top Secret! / int_af9a4c89 | comment |
Squirting Flower Gag: While Cedric is meeting with the blind Resistance agent/novelties salesman, the agent asks Cedric to sniff the flower on his lapel. When Cedric does so, the flower squirts water on his face. | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
Top Secret! / int_afc52a86 | comment |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Skeet surfing. Represented by a song spoofing both "Surfin' USA" and "California Girls". | |
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Pig Latin | |
Top Secret! / int_b4b006fb | comment |
Pig Latin: The priest: "Ooreyay oingay ootay etgay iedfray in the airchay."note "You're going to get fried in the chair." | |
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Take That! | |
Top Secret! / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: As General Streck introduces Bruno and Klaus: | |
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Moving Buildings | |
Top Secret! / int_b59bbb0c | comment |
Moving Buildings: Nick Rivers is aboard a train. It appears to pull away from the station, but as we look out the train's window we see that the station has pulled away from the train. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
Top Secret! / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: Déjà Vu consoles Nick over the possible loss of his love interest that adversity is a part of life; what is important is learning to deal with it "in a mature and adult fashion." He then promptly sneezes and overreacts in the most immature fashion imaginable to getting snot all over his hands. | |
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DramaticDownstageTurn | |
Top Secret! / int_ba7acbed | comment |
Dramatic Downstage Turn: While they are parachuting into Flurgendorf Prison, Hillary calls Nick over for a chat. Partway through, she briefly makes a Dramatic Downstage Turn before Nick pulls her back for a kiss. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
Top Secret! / int_bcd27e37 | comment |
Improbable Aiming Skills: Chocolate Mousse fires a machine gun into a melee and only hits the bad guys. He then gets a high five from a Jive Turkey. | |
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Blade Enthusiast | |
Top Secret! / int_bdbc35e7 | comment |
Blade Enthusiast: Parodied by an unnamed member of La Resistance wearing a bandoleer of expensive silverware. | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
Top Secret! / int_c007c53 | comment |
Cool and Unusual Punishment: While Nick is being tortured for information, the Germans will only go so far... | |
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Advertising by Association | |
Top Secret! / int_c180f1cb | comment |
Advertising by Association: The film is advertised as "From the makers of the original Airplane!", followed by a footnote stating "(Not the Wright Brothers)". | |
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Sic 'Em | |
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Sic 'Em: The rubber stamp of "Find Him and Kill Him." | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: The phone conversation about the man Rivers sent to the hospital. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Top Secret! / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: A whole lot. Some include: The Wizard of Oz during the farewell scene. "Skeet Surfin'" is a shoutout to The Beach Boys and similar surf music — though one song is a duet with Tammy Wynette, also about skeet. The shot of Peter Cushing with the magnifying glass (that turns out not to be one) mimics a scene from Amicus Productions' 1965 Brithorror The Skull. Hillary's backstory is a spoof of The Blue Lagoon. Nick's motorcycle ride (with jumps over a fence, and later a line of buses) heavily resembles The Great Escape. Except for the bus jumping, of course. That's more like The Fonz. Is it a coincidence that Hillary seems to be a visual expy of Ilsa Lund from Casablanca? | |
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Cigar Chomper | |
Top Secret! / int_c914e68d | comment |
Cigar Chomper: Parodied with the badass French resistance member Chocolate Mousse, who's introduced with a cigar in his mouth... which he then eats. | |
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Fake-Out Make-Out | |
Top Secret! / int_cddc61ac | comment |
Fake-Out Make-Out: Nick and Hillary manage to combine this with Lost in a Crowd, avoiding a patrol by ducking into a park crowded with couples making out and doing likewise. | |
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Fictional Sport | |
Top Secret! / int_d7d6ed9a | comment |
Fictional Sport: Skeet surfing — combining skeet shooting with surfing (complete with a parodic The Beach Boys style surf song) in the opening sequence. This is, of course, as stupidly dangerous as it sounds, with errant shots hitting palm trees, hang gliders, and even passing airplanes. It's implied that skeet shooting is, in this universe, a randomly popularized sport just as surfing was in the 1960s US. | |
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El Spanish "-o" | |
Top Secret! / int_d8e40b47 | comment |
El Spanish "-o": With pseudo-German. "DAS FENCEN SWITCHEN" | |
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Salvage Pirates | |
Top Secret! / int_d8f636b8 | comment |
Salvage Pirates: Leads to gang rape. And an aversion to capitalism. How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx, Lenin, L. Ron Hubbard and Freddie Laker. | |
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Lethal Joke Item | |
Top Secret! / int_da1c64ef | comment |
Lethal Joke Item: The "Anal Intruder" jackhammer-powered dildo. | |
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Something Else Also Rises | |
Top Secret! / int_dae0cfd5 | comment |
Something Else Also Rises: Agent Cedric is stuck inside a car crushed into a cube by a car crusher/compacter. After he gets to Hillary Flammond's room, he tells her that a ballet ticket is inside the car's glove compartment. As she leans across the cube to open it, her breasts fall across his face and the car's radio antenna extends into the air. | |
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Adolf Hitlarious | |
Top Secret! / int_db7efdaf | comment |
Adolf Hitlarious: The pizza place/malt shop has a Hitler-themed clock on the wall. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
Top Secret! / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: Hillary's tale of love lost with Nigel is called out as such. | |
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Malt Shop | |
Top Secret! / int_e0900417 | comment |
Malt Shop: The heroes visit one, in East Germany, for pizza and beer. | |
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Who Would Want to Watch Us? | |
Top Secret! / int_e236af66 | comment |
Who Would Want to Watch Us?: See This Is Reality, above. | |
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Made of Explodium | |
Top Secret! / int_e2d7b14c | comment |
Made of Explodium: The Ford Pinto in the field detonates from the slightest tap on the rear bumper. It's the only vehicle in the film that does so. | |
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Yiddish as a Second Language | |
Top Secret! / int_e2e4edb2 | comment |
The hotel is called the "Hotel Gey Schlüffen" which means "Go To Sleep" in Yiddish. | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
Top Secret! / int_e3c20140 | comment |
As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Most of the German dialogue is unrelated phrases of Yiddish; the few times it is actually German... well, see Bilingual Bonus. Most of the signs aren't in actual German either, just something that looks just German enough to be understandable while being funny to a non-bilingual audience (e.g. "KÃœSTOMS VAGON"). The "Swedish" dialogue is English running backwards. The Latin is partly random phrases and partly pig. | |
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Not so Dire | |
Top Secret! / int_e4616e62 | comment |
Not so Dire: Nick is captured and put in prison in East Germany. In the next shot, a clearly unwell Nick is scratching the twentieth mark on the cell walls. His manager arrives and Nick says "Thank God you're here. It's been 20 minutes already!." | |
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IgpayAtinlay | |
Top Secret! / int_e58c1e47 | comment |
The Latin is partly random phrases and partly pig. | |
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The Mole | |
Top Secret! / int_e70127 | comment |
The Mole: Someone in the Resistance is feeding the Germans information on their plans and targets. Latrine intercepts a message from this mole outside the pizza house. Suspicion briefly falls on Nick before he can prove his identity. It turns out to be Nigel, who was evidently "turned" during his time with the Russian salvage pirates. | |
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The Oner | |
Top Secret! / int_e7e558 | comment |
The Oner: see Rewind Gag below: Nick and Hillary's visit to the Swedish bookstore is shot in a single take | |
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Purely Aesthetic Era | |
Top Secret! / int_e8465b72 | comment |
Purely Aesthetic Era: While ostensibly set in The '80s, Nick's Elvis-style shenanigans and the East Germans Putting on the Reich (to say nothing of the French Resistance) conjure a realm that's a pastiche of the early/mid-20th Century. | |
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Aside Glance | |
Top Secret! / int_e8e3807 | comment |
Aside Glance: Several times; at one point Nick even winks at the camera. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
Top Secret! / int_ea85d6ea | comment |
All Just a Dream: Nick has a brief Nightmare Sequence about being in school and being late to an exam, not having studied, and so forth. Then we snap back to reality where he's being whipped in a German prison and he exclaims, "Thank God". Because school is worse than torture. | |
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Rewind Gag | |
Top Secret! / int_eae4abcd | comment |
Rewind Gag: There's a scene in which the characters speak Swedish, except it's actually English recorded backwards. The entire scene was filmed in reverse, which becomes more obvious as it goes along. | |
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Big Electric Switch | |
Top Secret! / int_eb716c8c | comment |
Big Electric Switch: When Nick Rivers is being taken to be executed, the electric chair is activated with an electric switch. The electric fence around the castle is turned on and off with one of these (clearly labeled Das Fencen Switchen). | |
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Aside Comment | |
Top Secret! / int_f567146c | comment |
Aside Comment: While the protagonists are in the "Der Pizza Haus", Nick pretends to be Mel Tormé to divert a pair of his fans, and Nigel promptly accuses him of lying about his identity. To prove he isn't, Nick sings and dances to the tune "Straighten Out the Rug". After he finishes, one of the Resistance members turns to the camera and says "This is not Mel Tormé!" | |
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Facepalm | |
Top Secret! / int_f945dff4 | comment |
Facepalm: The Russian opera singer does it when Nick steals his act in the restaurant sequence. | |
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Running Gag | |
Top Secret! / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: "Latrine!" The same German guards keep breaking open the doors... forcing everyone in each instance (including a submarine commander!) to raise their hands in surrender. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
Top Secret! / int_fabef10f | comment |
Don't Explain the Joke: Hillary tries to dissuade Nick from inquiring further into her personal life. | |
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Lost in a Crowd | |
Top Secret! / int_fada6ffa | comment |
Lost in a Crowd: Nick and Hillary hide from German pursuit by mixing with a crowd of lovers in a park and making out along with them. | |
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Low Clearance | |
Top Secret! / int_fbc1a68d | comment |
Low Clearance: Two men are fighting atop a train. One of them sees a bridge and ducks. The other doesn't, causing the bridge to be destroyed. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
Top Secret! / int_fbd285b7 | comment |
Comically Missing the Point: Nick, when told by Dr. Flammond about an invention that can cheaply separate salt from seawater and asked if he understands what it means for the starving nations of the world (i.e. no more water shortages), answers: "Wow, they'd have enough salt to last forever!" Latrine revealing the carrier pigeons: | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
Top Secret! / int_fc225bec | comment |
Artistic License – Physics: Skeet-surfing would be impossible as both the movement of the person aiming would cause the shooter to fall off their surfboard and the recoil from the gun firing would likely knock them off their board too. We see multiple surfers losing their balance when they shoot, implying this is happening… when their aim does not suck so bad they are accidentally shooting airplanes down. | |
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Ugly Slavic Women | |
Top Secret! / int_fcefb552 | comment |
Ugly Slavic Women: A variant on this theme, when they comically present the "East German Women's Olympic Team" (East Germany being a vassal state of the Soviet Union, i.e. Russia), looking like male bodybuilders in drag; a reference to the fact that the East German women athletes were given testosterone to make themselves better athletes (and therefore appeared manlier). | |
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Brick Joke | |
Top Secret! / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: The Anal Intruder industrial sex toy kit, which kills Nick's agent. The carrier pigeons carried by the traitor in the resistance, namely Nigel. At the beginning of the film, the German messenger ties his motorcycle to a post as if it were a horse. Later, as they escape Nick's concert, Hillary and Nick steal a couple of bikes from a group outside the concert hall. Just before fleeing, Nick chases off the rest of the bikes as if they were also horses. | |
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