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'''Flakfizer:''' Then I'm your man! }}
'''''Brain Donors''''' is a 1992 comedy film produced by [[Airplane!|David and Jerry Zucker]] and released by Paramount Pictures. It is a
The plot begins when Lillian Oglethorpe uses the fortunes of her recently-deceased tycoon husband to start a ballet company in his name. Through some fast-talking shenanagins, [[Ambulance Chaser]] Roland T. Flakfizer (Turturro) is appointed director of the company, over Mr. Oglethorpe's attorney Edmund Lazlo. With the help of taxi driver Rocco Melonchek (Smith) and handyman Jacques (Nelson), Flakfizer tries to build up the company while pairing up star-crossed dancers Alan Grant and Lisa Le Baron. They are opposed by Lazlo's efforts to discredit Flakfizer and take control of the company for himself, while the egotistical international ballet star Roberto Volare has his own eyes on Lisa.
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* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]
{{quote|'''Volare:''' "Do you realize what I was doing at the age of seven?"
'''Flakfizer:'''
'''Volare:'''
'''Flakfizer:'''
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Jacques dresses up as a ballerina during Volare's premiere.
* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: Flakfizer ''et al'' dress up as doctors to infiltrate a hospital and recover an incriminating letter from Lazlo.
{{quote|'''Rocco:'''
'''Roland:'''
'''Doctor:'''
'''Rocco:'''
'''Roland:'''
* [[Executive Meddling]]
* [[Extended Disarming]]
* [[Foreign Queasine]]: Referenced in passing.
{{quote|'''Rocco:''' [as a dog rips his trouser leg]
'''Lillian:'''
'''Rocco:'''
* [[Grande Dame]]: Lillian Oglethorpe, in true Margaret Dumont fashion.
* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: As noted in the ''Extended Disarming'' entry above, Jacques' disarming montage ends when he pulls out a human foot. However, it's not until he looks down to confirm that it is, in fact, his that he falls over for lack of it.
* [[Hammerspace]]: See the entry for Extended Disarming, above.
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: The hot nurse that appears in the stop-motion [[Book Ends]]
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* [[Pillow Pregnancy]]: Done as part of Flakfizer's introduction. When he arrives at the scene of a minor car accident and sees a woman passenger, he immediately sticks an instant-inflating pillow under her dress and yells loudly about the liability due to her condition.
* [[Porn Stash]]: Jacques sets one up for Lazlo during the reading of the Oglethorpe will.
{{quote|'''Rocco:''' [grabbing magazines]
* [[Rapid-Fire Comedy]]: Very much so.
* [[Ring Ring CRUNCH]]: Part of Jacques' morning routine. He even has a dresser drawer full of broken alarm clock parts and a closet full of new clocks for this purpose.
* [[Rule of Funny]]: The ''only'' thing that drives the plot.
* [[The
* [[Stop Motion]]: The opening title and end credit sequences are done in Claymation.
* [[Totally Eighteen]]: At one point the trio is awakened suddenly, and the first thing out of Roland T. Flakfizer's mouth is "She looked eighteen, officer, I swear!"
* [[Totem Pole Trench]]: See poster in the page image. And only the poster in the page image -- it doesn't appear in the movie.
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: Roland T. Flakfizer, fitting as an [[Expy]] of Groucho Marx.
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Rocco is not only a cab driver, but also cleans swimming pools and runs his own toupee business. In fact, he's only driving the cab as a sideline -- as soon as he gets his driver's license, he's out of there.
* [[With a Capital T]]
{{quote|'''Flakfizer:'''
'''Jacques:'''
'''Flakfizer:'''
'''Jacques:'''
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