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'''Flakfizer:''' Then I'm your man! }}

 

 

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.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] / [[Genius Ditz]]: Jacques.

* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: In the best [[Marx Brothers]] tradition, none of the three protagonists buy into the significance of ''anything'' that happens in the movie. Rocco and Jacques are sometimes allied with Flakfizer, sometimes antagonists ... and it doesn't matter in the least.

{{quote| '''Volare:''' "Do you realize what I was doing at the age of seven?"<br />

'''Flakfizer:''' "I can imagine and you must be thankful you didn't go blind."<br />

'''Flakfizer:''' "Whatever you call it. Flogging the carrot, polishing the cuestick, choking the chicken, clearing the snorkel..." }}

* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Jacques dresses up as a ballerina during Volare's premiere.

{{quote| '''Rocco:''' "We'll have to perform a full rectum-ology."<br />

'''Roland:''' "Fondue, an epidemic! drop those pants... Not you, the patient."<br />

'''Rocco:''' "Uh, well, they're all connected, we enter the rectum and head north."<br />

'''Roland:''' "Why do you think we have such long instruments?" }}

* [[Extended Disarming]] / [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Done in montage when the heroes have been arrested. During jail processing, Jacques empties the pockets of his pants and longcoat, revealing an ever-growing pile of odd items including a baby bottle, fire extinguisher, rubber alligator, bicycle pump, a feather duster, and what might be ''his own foot''.

* [[Foreign Queasine]]: Referenced in passing.

* [[Hyperspace Mallet]]: When the trio decide to "take care of" egotistical ballet star Volare, Jacques pulls a huge wooden sledgehammer out of nowhere. He is, unfortunately, restrained from actually ''using'' it.

* [[Jerkass]]: Roberto Volare has an impressively inflated ego due to his status in the ballet world, and is unrestrained about using it to woo Lisa away from Alan.

* [[Karmic Trickster]]: Flakfizer's group is this to Volare, especially during the premiere.

* [[Mobile Kiosk]]: At one point, Jacques produces and expands a collapsible office desk, complete with collapsible computer, collapsible printer, and inflatable secretary.