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Undercover Blues
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Undercover Blues is a 1993 comedy directed by Herbert Ross, starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid.The film centers around Jane (Turner) and Jefferson (Quaid) Blue, a husband-and-wife team of spies who are taking some maternity leave time to vacation in New Orleans with their 11-month-old daughter. While enjoying the tourist attractions of The Big Easy, they are stalked by Muerte (Stanley Tucci), a petty thief and mugger with delusions of grandeur (and competency), tailed by a bumbling pair of New Orleans Police Department detectives who only want to help, but are way out of their depth... and they stumble upon a devious plot involving an insane female arms smuggler (Fiona Shaw) and a large quantity of high-tech explosives. | |
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Guile Hero | |
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Guile Hero: Jeff Blue | |
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Hello Again, Officer | |
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Hello Again, Officer: The reason the cops become obsessed with the Blues is because pretty much from the moment they arrived to New Orleans they become embroiled on a bunch of situations that attract police attention (starting with pummeled muggers and escalating to stopping a bank robbery, a fight in a restaurant (that was full of enemy agents), finding a corpse in a cemetery and more). | |
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Interrogation by Vandalism | |
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Interrogation by Vandalism: Jeff forces the Big Bad to surrender by threatening to set the C-12 on fire. Then again, the C-12 has been established to be an incredibly powerful explosive and Jeff is pretty much threatening a Taking You with Me. | |
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Noodle Incident: Several past missions are alluded to with few details given, but they were apparently amazing adventures. Assuming, that is, that any of them actually happened. | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess: Of course, it helps to know how to change your plans very quickly. | |
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Badass Family | |
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Badass Family: The Blues. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: Or at least waaaay out of their depth when dealing with international espionage. | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One: | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Muerte's answer to everything that annoys him is to pull out a switchblade and try to stab it. Unfortunately for him, "everything that annoys him" during the movie are the Blues, so all he gets in response is a Curb-Stomp Battle Humiliation Conga. | |
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Improbable Weapon User | |
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Improbable Weapon User: Jeff Blue beats up several muggers...using a baby stroller as his only weapon...and carrying his infant daughter in his other hand. Later, he stops a bank robbery in progress by booby-trapping their getaway minivan with the chain from the fence around the parkway. | |
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Badass and Baby | |
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Badass and Baby: The afore mentioned knife fight. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: Muerte is the patron saint of this trope. | |
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show | |
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The henchman who pretty much straight-up threatens to rape Jane Blue. | |
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Mandatory Unretirement | |
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Mandatory Unretirement: The Blues are not working for the CIA anymore... officially. They still got contacted to work on the C-12 assignment. | |
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Miranda Rights | |
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Miranda Rights: Played with a bit in the following exchange: | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Fiona Shaw and Stanley Tucci between them chew more New Orleans scenery than Hurricane Katrina did. | |
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Mud Wrestling | |
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Mud Wrestling: Jane and Novacek fight for the MacGuffin in a muddy pond. | |
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Teeth Flying | |
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Teeth Flying: Used as a Running Gag. Poor Morty's gonna need a full false denture in the epilogue... | |
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Something Blues | |
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Something Blues | |
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop | |
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: The two cops. They are very, very driven to follow the Blues around and find out what kind of CIA business they are doing (even if the Blues (especially Jeff) insist that they aren't agents), maybe help if they can... and they pretty much annoy their chief, the Blues, and are totally unable to suspect that there's a bank robbery going on right across the street even after Jeff points out the getaway car and how it's sticking out like a sore thumb. | |
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"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner | |
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"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Several goons pull guns on Jeff and tell him to not make any sudden movements. "Why not, is there a bee on me?" | |
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Action Mom | |
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Action Mom: Jane Blue. To quote her husband, "Jane's an expert in martial arts even I can't pronounce. She can kill you seven different ways without using her hands." | |
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MacGuffin | |
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MacGuffin: The C-12. An explosive so powerful that the United States military refuses to use it... probably because it's as unstable as it is powerful. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: "Not Morty! MUERTE!" And then subverted near the end of the film when Jeff and Muerte have been captured by Paulina's men; Jeff calls him "Muerte" and acts as if he's really The Man Behind the Man, at which point Muerte insists, "My name is Morty!" | |
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The Big Easy | |
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The Big Easy: Of course. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Calling Muerte anything other than Muerte. Especially calling him "Morty". | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Despite a few disagreements about, e.g., taking the baby into dangerous situations, the couple is one of the finest examples of Happily Married to be spotted in an action film. Their easy camaraderie is an enjoyable counterpart to the danger they're facing. | |
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Good Cop/Bad Cop | |
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Good Cop/Bad Cop: | |
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Xanatos Gambit | |
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Xanatos Gambit: Jeff's modus operandi. Planning for every outcome is how a spy stays alive. Xanatos Speed Chess: Of course, it helps to know how to change your plans very quickly. | |
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Battle Couple | |
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Battle Couple: The Blues, of course. | |
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain | |
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Muerte takes on an almost Wile E. Coyote level of the audience's pity by movie's end. | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Monkeywrenched the hell out of. Jane's baby crying in the next room is used to terrify a suspect into confessing before the torture even begins. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: His name is Muerte, and don't you forget it. | |
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Not My Driver | |
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Not My Driver: Jeff Blue even lampshades this by saying, "No one ever looks at the driver," after he foils a bank robbery in progress by booby-trapping their getaway minivan and taking the place of their driver. | |
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