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Before [[Crocodile Hunter]], there was... ''Crocodile Dundee'', a 1986 film, directed by Peter Faiman.
[[Intrepid Reporter|Sue Charlton]] (Linda Kozlowski) travels to [[Land Down Under|Australia]] to do some research on a story she'd heard about a man who survived a vicious crocodile attack in the bush. Who she finds is Mick "Crocodile" Dundee (Paul Hogan's first film role), a quick-witted bushman who, it turns out, did ''not'' lose his leg to the vicious croc - but who seems to have an uncanny symbiosis with the Australian Outback.
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When Sue must return to New York, she invites Mick to accompany her, and [[Hilarity Ensues]] when she sees that he is [[Fish Out of Water|not so accustomed to the city as to the bush]]. Ultimately, she falls in love with the charismatic Australian, but must decide whether to go with him back to Australia or remain with her current boyfriend.
A sequel followed in 1988. The second film has Mick, now living in New York, running afoul of a gang of vengeful drug dealers. After humiliating them on their home turf, he's told by the police to go into witness protection, but instead leads them back to Australia where his superior knowledge of the Outback will prove to be advantageous. A third film appeared in 2001, ''Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles''. Mick and Sue are married and have a son: Mikey Dundee (Devon Fitzgerald). They live in the Australian Outback, where Mick is wrestling crocodiles for a living. When Sue is offered a major position in a Los Angeles newspaper, she jumps at the opportunity. But all is not right. Her predecessor was murdered, and the case remains unsolved. The Dundees have to perform their own investigation.
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''[Dundee slashes the teen mugger's jacket. He and his friends run away]''}}
* [[Badass]]: Michael J. Dundee.
* [[Bait and Switch]]: When Mick is working as an animal tamer in Hollywood. One of his coworkers comes by with a coffee ordered black with no sugar and a banana. We the audience along with the coworker, assume that the Banana is for the Chimpanzee Mick was spending time with and the coffee being for Mick. However Mick gives the coffee to the Chimp and eats the Banana much to the shock of the Coworker.
* [[Broken Heel]]: Inverted when Sue is running to catch Dundee in the subway, but slowed by her high heels. She kicks them off and starts ''sprinting''.
* [[Cyclic National Fascination]]: In the 1980s, we were obsessed with crazy Australians. Thank goodness we came to our senses in the 1990s, when... [[Crocodile Hunter|wait, what?]]
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Sue in the Australian bush. She tried filling her canteen in a swamp with it still slung on her neck and a crocodile grabbed the canteen, forcing Dundee to stab the crocodile in the head to save her. In the second movie though she [[Took a Level
* [[Daytime Drama Queen]]: It becomes obvious in the second movie that Mick needs to get out more when he starts caring about what happens on ''[[Days of Our Lives]]''.
* [[Dead Hat Shot]]: Staged by Dundee (complete with a bite taken out of the brim) to stage a [[Mook]]'s apparent death by crocodile.
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* [[Fan Service]]: Linda Kozlowski's swimsuit scene in the first movie. Caused quite a stir at the time, as one-piece thong swimsuits were rather uncommon in 1986 America, particularly in a movie you might take the kids to see.
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: All scenes with Dundee in New York, and most scenes with Sue in the Outback. From the second movie on, Mick intentionally plays this up in order to fool people into thinking he's dumber than he actually is.
* [[Foreign Queasine]]:
** Subverted:
{{quote|'''"Crocodile" Dundee:''' [a goanna is sizzling over a fire. Sue looks ill] How do you like your goanna? Medium? Well done?
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'''Sue:''' What did he say?
'''Charlie:''' [winking] He wants to know if we're allowed to eat these men.}}
* [[Insult Backfire]]:
{{quote|Jeez, Mick, were you born in a cave?
Yeah! How did you know that?
... Never mind.}}
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Sue Charlton.
* [[Japanese Tourist]]: Two camera-toting salarymen on holiday help Mick take down a thug in the sequel. Afterwards, they mistake Mick for [[Clint Eastwood]].
* [[Knife Nut]]: Mick is rarely without his gigantic bowie knife.
* [[Land Down Under]]: The likeliest originator. Note that this movie was made by Australians (and gave their tourism industry one ''hell'' of a boost). They played up the bush culture on purpose.
* [[Magical Camera]]: [[Subverted]].
{{quote|'''Neville Bell:''' "Oh no, you can't take my photograph."
'''Sue Charlton:''' "Oh, I'm sorry, [[Innocent Bigot|you believe it will take your spirit away]]."
'''Neville Bell:''' "[[Anticlimax|No, you got lens-cap on it]]."}}
* [[Mighty Whitey]]: Dundee tries to play himself up as a [[Mighty Whitey]], with all of the survival skills of the bushmen and all the cosmopolitan skills of the white world. In reality, the bushmen are just as modern as he is, and he's pretty out of touch with actual big city culture.
* [[Mobstacle Course]]: Ultimately, Mick takes the high road.
* [[Modern Minstrelsy]]: The series plays up a lot of stereotypes of Australian culture, but just as often to subvert them as to play them straight.
* [[Mugging the Monster]]:
** The "''That's'' a knife" scene is perhaps the best-remembered scene of the series.
** Brought to new levels in the third movie, where Dundee and a friend get accosted by a gang of thugs who drive up to them and threaten them at gunpoint.
{{quote|'''Dundee:''' "Son, you have any idea how quick you have to be to catch a tigersnake?"
[Dundee ''grabs'' their guns, then he and his friend ''jump on top of their car and break the roof down on top of them''. Finally, [[Humiliation Conga|they toss a huge garbage can on top of the car.]]]
'''Dundee:''' "Who's getting mugged?"}}
* [[National Stereotypes]]: They were ''kidding''. Mostly.
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