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'''Archie''': "''Winners like... [[Vietnam War|North Vietnam]]?''" }}
''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' is a 1988 British comedy film starring [[Kevin Kline]], [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|John Cleese and Michael Palin]]. The film is the final--and best known--film of legendary British comedy director Charles Crichton and its screenplay was written by Cleese and Crichton.
The film features a gang of criminals who double-cross each other and involves the comedic use of a steamroller.
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** The film's ending title card, "[[Stealth Pun|FIN]]," also counts, as it is the French equivalent of "[[The End]]."
* [[Brief Accent Imitation]]: Archie and Otto exchange dueling examples
* [[Brown Note]]: The film is unique in cinema in that it is actually so funny as to prove a [[Real Life]] example. In 1989 a Danish audiologist named Ole Bentzen died of laughter watching it. [
* [[The Cameo]]: [[Stephen Fry]] has a 30 second part towards the climax as a man at the airport Otto mugs for his ticket.
** [[Geoffrey Palmer]] also appears, as the Judge in George's trial.
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* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: "Have mercy, O Lord, the dog is dead".
* [[One Mario Limit]]: This trope (or the reaction to its aversion) is one of the many examples of Otto's stupidity. When he hears that Archie's daughter is named Portia (a homophone of "Porsche"), he asks why on earth he would name her after a car.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted, between Wanda the fish and Wanda the woman.
* [[Ordered Apology]]
* [[Plethora of Mistakes]]: The robbery goes off without a hitch. After that...
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{{AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs}}
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