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Troop Beverly Hills
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Troop Beverly Hills is a 1989 film starring Shelley Long as Phyllis Neffler, a ditzy but good-hearted Beverly Hills socialite with a marriage on the rocks, her husband seeking divorce over her profligate spending habits and inability to follow through with anything.Phyllis' most recent project is to take over as troop leader of the Girl Scout-ish "Wilderness Girls" of the Beverly Hills chapter, which is a paltry eight-girl ensemble including Phyllis' own daughter Hannah and other girls of wealthy Beverly Hills backgrounds. Her contributions include taking the troop out "roughing it" in a hotel suite rather than a campground (to avoid all the bugs and a lack of electrical outlets), taking the traditional uniform to a fashion designer for improvements, and awarding her charges patches for skills such as "jewelery appraisal" and "Gardening with glamour".All of this earns her the ire of Wilderness Girls district leader Velda Plendor, who takes the "wilderness" aspect very seriously and sees Phyllis as a threat to everything the group stands for. Velda pulls out all the stops to get Phyllis discredited and fired, but even in situations her money can't buy her out of, Phyllis perseveres through a little ingenuity and sheer pluck. It all leads to a showdown at the annual jamboree, where Troop Beverly Hills will compete against Velda's Culver City Red Feathers, trekking through actual wilderness in a race to the finish where the winners will be the Wilderness Girls' poster troop for the year... | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Lily's parents, Dictator Bong-Bong and Karina, are obvious stand-ins for Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. Jasmine's dad could be one of several big-name boxers of The '80s, looking most like Sugar Ray Leonard. | |
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Frothy Mugs of Water | |
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Frothy Mugs of Water: Done deliberately and played for laughs in the scene where Phyllis is apparently "drunk" on Evian water. | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: Well, Phyllis is A Mother To Her Girls and becomes a Parental Substitute to some of them while inspiring all of them to feel good about themselves. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: By a bunch of Real Life people who lived in Beverly Hills at the time. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Velda herself is pretty much the main Alpha Bitch of the entire organization even though she's a grown woman. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo / Humiliation Conga: Velda threatens Annie over her having to go back working at K-Mart if she doesn't cooperate. Then Velda is forced to work there after she gets fired from the Wilderness Girls, including saying the very line she threatened Annie with. | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Brutal Honesty: Following their disastrous "fashion show", Phyllis invites her charges to share thoughts and feelings about whatever comes to mind. Lily answers point blank: "This troop sucks!" None of the other girls argue about that. | |
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Boomerang Comeback | |
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Boomerang Comeback | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Annie swaps out her frumpy clothes for a fancy mini dress at one of Phyllis' parties.note even with Fashion Dissonance making the look outdated today | |
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Road-Sign Reversal | |
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Road-Sign Reversal: The Red Feathers pull this one at the jamboree. Due to the above mentioned skunk, this still wasn't enough to win the competition. | |
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Stage Mom | |
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Stage Mom: Averted with Vicki. Clair may be a child star, but Vicki avoids being overbearing and manipulative in regards to Clair's acting career and allows Clair to be part of Wilderness Girls out of Clair's wishes to experience a part of being a normal kid. The two even arrange a dual autograph session so they can sell cookies as a duo, and they clearly enjoy spending time together. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Chica in particular is a victim of this. Her parents are almost always off on trips, missing a badge ceremony, and even her birthday. Later in the film, her parents express regret about this to Phyllis. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: The Wilderness Girls is a common fiction stand in for the Girl Scouts. | |
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Disqualification-Induced Victory | |
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Disqualification-Induced Victory: The "Red Feathers" finish first, but since they abandoned Velda, they are disqualified for finishing without their adult leader. Beverly Hills finishes second (with Velda in tow), and is declared the winner. | |
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Custom Uniform | |
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Custom Uniform: Phyllis' troop leader uniform definitely stands out comparing to the other troop leaders, as she has it altered by a high-end designer because she hated the original uniform. | |
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Anticipatory Breath Spray | |
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Anticipatory Breath Spray: The officer who demonstrates CPR on Phyllis. | |
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Heart Is an Awesome Power | |
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Heart Is an Awesome Power: Phyllis and her girls make use of their own talents and skills to sell those cookies. | |
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StopHavingFunGuy | |
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"Stop Having Fun" Guy: Velda sees the Wilderness Girls and everything they do as a competition that she intends to win at all costs. And if not her, her daughter. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: Velda continues to mock Phyllis and the girls even when they have the decency to help her after injuring herself. Of course, this just adds fuel to Velda's continuing hatred towards Troop Beverly Hills and the reminder that her own daughter abandoned her to win. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Phyllis denies spying on her husband. | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
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Becoming the Mask: Annie, who does a Heel–Face Turn from being The Mole into a genuine friend of the troop. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: Phyllis wears a white mink coat to her troop's first outing. It does get dirtied by rain and mud.note though she likely could afford to have it cleaned, even if we don't see that Later that night she wears a sheer pink nightgown with pink fox trimming the sleeves. | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: Velda working at K-Mart at the end. See Ironic Echo. | |
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Animated Credits Opening | |
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Animated Credits Opening: The film's opening sequence was animated by Spumco, John K's independent animation studio. It also features a theme song by The Beach Boys, "Make It Big". | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: Velda thinks she can always get her way, and will use her manipulating skills at the drop of a hat. | |
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Merit Badges for Everything | |
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Merit Badges for Everything: Shown in a montage. Phyllis does come up with many merit badges for her troop to earn, such as "grooming" and "community service", but they're actually stripped of them for being "illicit" and having "nothing to do with wilderness ways as [Velda] knows them or anyone else in their right mind knows them". | |
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Faux Horrific | |
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Faux Horrific: Phyllis' story about getting an awful perm. | |
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I Resemble That Remark! | |
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I Resemble That Remark!: | |
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Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat | |
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Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: In a move of desperation, the Red Feathers cut down a bridge across a ravine in an attempt to stop Phyllis's troop from winning the final race. This leads to a Despair Event Horizon until Hannah notices a nearby log that might be wide enough for them to cross and possibly re-fasten the bridge. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Annie. | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty: Velda. | |
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Divorce Is Temporary | |
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Divorce Is Temporary: Fred sees Phyllis' dedication to the scout troop, and realizes she isn't so "flighty" after all. Initially Phyllis felt that way, having a change of heart about the divorce, until Fred told her he was seeking joint custody of Hannah. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: Fashion! Cookies! SHOPPING! Velda takes the entire concept of the Wilderness Girls far too seriously in terms of carrying out their rules to the letter and not the spirit. During her Villainous Breakdown after Troop Beverly Hills have won the jamboree, she screams she's the only "Real" Wilderness Girl. | |
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Forgotten Birthday | |
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Forgotten Birthday: Chica’s parents take a last minute trip to Monaco leaving her alone on her birthday, so Phyllis’ maid Rosa makes her a Mexican food dish decorated with candles and the household sings “Happy Birthday” to her. | |
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Straw Feminist | |
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Straw Feminist: Velda. Seems to despise every dang thing that could be remotely considered "feminine". | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs: An inversion of the common trope. The rich girls are the underdogs, while the middle-class ones are the militant snobs. | |
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Sore Loser | |
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Sore Loser: Velda takes the Red Feathers' disqualification from the race (they crossed the finish line first without a troop leader), Troop Beverly Hills being the actual winners (even though they did stop to help her) and her own termination from the Wilderness Girls very, very badly (see also: Villainous Breakdown). | |
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Smelly Skunk | |
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Smelly Skunk: In one scene, during the Jamboree, the Red Feathers trick Troop Beverly Hills during the competition by misdirecting them into a snake-infested swamp. Luckily, a skunk scares them into running through a shortcut | |
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Plucky Girl | |
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Plucky Girl: In spades. | |
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Vanity Is Feminine | |
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Vanity Is Feminine: Generally used in a "positive" sense, such as Annie's Heel–Face Turn being accompanied by a new, more flattering wardrobe. Phyllis and her girls are vain and sympathetic, while Velda is masculine and has her unattractiveness made fun of. Although this becomes subverted when Velda is seen wearing an actual, albeit frumpy, dress to the dinner party Phyllis hosted to present the check from the cookie money. So it's not that Velda is totally lacking in femininity, it's just that she feels vanity and such other qualities don't belong in Wilderness Girls territory. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Despite their relatively well-off backgrounds, this trope (especially the variant of the "three-game arc") is the backbone of the eponymous troop's journey. | |
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Cruella to Animals | |
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Cruella to Animals: Velda actually kills a wild skunk, and then wears it as a coonskin hat, for indirectly making her troop lose the first competition. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: The drive to win at all costs which Velda instilled in her daughter and the Red Feathers comes back to bite her when they abandon her in the woods after getting injured because she was slowing them down. This also ends up backfiring on the Red Feathers as they end up getting disqualified for crossing the finish line without all of their members. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Velda's sanity is sorely tested during the big race. When she loses the race and her own team is disqualified from it, she ravingly makes it clear to everyone that she is a Sore Loser and throws insults at the councilwomen for recognizing Troop Beverly Hills. This gets her fired from the Wilderness Girls, which breaks her down even further (see Start My Own above). | |
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Chick Magnet | |
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Chick Magnet: The super-handsome cop who shows up to teach the girls first aid, if their response to his asking for a volunteer is any indication.... Cutely enough, when the girls all yell "ME!", he points at Phyllis without missing a beat: "You." | |
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Good Parents | |
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Good Parents: Phyllis and Fred are devoted to Hannah's well being and, despite a couple of hiccups from their divorce, are completely loving. Vicki clearly tries to take an active interest in Claire's place in Troop Beverly Hills, proposing the parents buy the cookies themselves and later scheduling an autograph session for her AND Claire so the two can sell cookies together. | |
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Parental Neglect | |
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Parental Neglect: Averted on Phyllis and Fred's account regarding Hannah, whose only real problem is that she doesn't want her parents splitting up when she knows they still love each other. Phyllis somehow manages to be a mother figure to the girls in the Troop while still devoting enough attention to Hannah. | |
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Doomed New Clothes | |
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Doomed New Clothes: Bringing a mink coat to wear while out on camping? Hope it doesn't rain... | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: "The parents in this neighborhood are so self-involved... oh shit, I Broke a Nail!" | |
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Girl Scouts Are Evil | |
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Girl Scouts Are Evil: Not all of them; just the Red Feathers. | |
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The Neidermeyer | |
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The Neidermeyer: Velda. | |
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Blunt "Yes" | |
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Blunt "Yes": When Chica's mom is thanking Phyllis for the birthday party she held for her daughter she also bemoans how stupid she and her husband were. Phyllis agrees with her on that part. | |
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Scout-Out | |
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Scout-Out: Naturally, Wilderness Girls are this to the Girl Scouts of the USA. Oddly enough, the movie does have Boy Scouts. | |
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Real Women Don't Wear Dresses | |
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Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Played with. Velda loathes Phyllis and Troop Beverly Hills because she doesn't believe they can be actual Wilderness Girls because of how vain, spoiled, and overall stereotypically "girly" they are, which also makes them an insult to the organization in general. Of course, Phyllis proves her wrong when the Troop shows they can be both girly and "actual" Wilderness Girls. | |
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The '80s | |
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Jasmine's dad could be one of several big-name boxers of The '80s, looking most like Sugar Ray Leonard. | |
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Cutting the Knot | |
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Cutting the Knot: Discussed. Vicki, Claire's mom, asks why the parents of Troop Beverly Hills don't just buy all the cookies so the girls can make it to the jamboree. Phyllis explains it misses the point in that it's more important that the girls gain a feeling of pride from accomplishing their goal by selling the cookies themselves and to get to know their community better by being involved with them. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Initially Phyllis felt that way, having a change of heart about the divorce, until Fred told her he was seeking joint custody of Hannah. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Patches... we don't need no stinking patches!" Velda: "I love the smell of cookies in the morning." | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Velda's spying on Troop Beverly Hills and all the information she gathered on why they should be disbanded just convinced Mrs. Temple that Phyllis is a devoted troop leader and is actively supporting the group the way a real Wilderness Girl would do. Also overlaps with the Laser-Guided Karma described downward. | |
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Indecisive Parody | |
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Indecisive Parody: Roger Ebert's review paints it as such with regards to Beverly Hills sensibilities. It could be seen as an Affectionate Parody, though. | |
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Start My Own | |
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Start My Own: Velda's angry rant at the end. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Velda's superior is this trope through and through, in stark contrast to Velda herself. | |
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Worst Aid | |
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Worst Aid: Phyllis grabs the first aid instructor when he uses her to demonstrate mouth-to-mouth. Textbook straight play of "romantic CPR". | |
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Avoid the Dreaded G Rating | |
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Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Uses of the word "bitches" and "shit". | |
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Idle Rich | |
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Idle Rich: Phyllis (the page image) and most of the girls in her troop are idle to varying degrees, but work to overcome it. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: The parents of the other girls in the titular troop include a retired boxer, two out-of-work actors and an exiled dictator. You can probably make some guesses as to exactly whom each one represents. | |
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Red/Green Contrast | |
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Red/Green Contrast: The scheming but hardworking Culver City Red Feathers, against the more civil community-minded — if somewhat spoiled — Beverly Hills girls with their green hats and accents. In the "grooming" part of the Merit Badges for Everything montage, TBH makes use of both colors. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Annie starts as one, but her sympathies shift to the side she's "spying" on when it becomes clear to her that Velda's dislike for Phyllis is rooted in spiteful, petty competitiveness. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When even Phyllis doesn't want to go shopping, you know something's wrong. | |
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Shrinking Violet | |
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Shrinking Violet: Annie is so timid that Velda is able to get her to do anything, at least until Annie gets fed up. Then she turns more extroverted. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Starscream: Velda to Mrs. Temple, who continually orders her to stop trying to get Troop Beverly Hills disbanded. | |
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like | |
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Velda was none to happy that she was found, treated, and brought to the finish by TBH after being abandoned by the Red Feathers following a sprained/broken ankle. | |
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Dartboard of Hate | |
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Dartboard of Hate: Velda gets one for Phyllis. | |
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Obi-Wan Moment | |
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Obi-Wan Moment: Velda tries to fire Annie from Phyllis' troop before the final competition, but she continues to guide the troop by radio. | |
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