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* In the 1967 movie ''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|Bedazzled]]'', with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, the devil's petty pranks are a [[Running Gag]]. We see him at scratching new albums and putting them back on the shelf at a record store; we see him send out a pigeon to do its "doo-dahs" on a passerby. |
* In the 1967 movie ''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|Bedazzled]]'', with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, the devil's petty pranks are a [[Running Gag]]. We see him at scratching new albums and putting them back on the shelf at a record store; we see him send out a pigeon to do its "doo-dahs" on a passerby. |
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{{quote|'''Stanley:''' ''Your pranks are so miserable.''}} |
{{quote|'''Stanley:''' ''Your pranks are so miserable.''}} |
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:* In [[Bedazzled (2000 film)|the remake]] too. Elizabeth Hurley's devil liked to give people parking fines, tell high school kids not to bother with their studies because they were boring and swap medication for tic tacs. A little more severe when [[Fridge Brilliance|you think of the consequences]]. Also, cock-blocking Brendan Fraser every chance she got. |
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* In ''[[Space Cowboys]]'', NASA project director Bob Gerson is this trope. He denied the heroes their chance to go into space forty years ago by replacing them with a chimpanzee, and is hellbent on not letting them go in the present because they're old. When the team finally succeeds, [[Like a Weasel|he goes around saying to everyone that he always knew they could do it.]] |
* In ''[[Space Cowboys]]'', NASA project director Bob Gerson is this trope. He denied the heroes their chance to go into space forty years ago by replacing them with a chimpanzee, and is hellbent on not letting them go in the present because they're old. When the team finally succeeds, [[Like a Weasel|he goes around saying to everyone that he always knew they could do it.]] |
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