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''Now three, act like wherever you are, that's the place to be. "Isn't this great?"''
''Four, when ordering food, you find out what she wants, then order for the both of you. It's a classy move. "Now, the lady will have the linguini and white clam sauce, and a Coke with no ice."''
''And five, now this is the most important, Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of [[Led Zeppelin|Led Zeppelin IV]].''
|'''Mike Damone''', on his "five-point" plan}}
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The film narrows its focus from the novel, dropping some peripheral characters completely, [[Composite Character|combining some]] (Damone and the ticket scalper character, for example) and simplifying some plot threads (Brad's journey down the fast-food prestige chain starts when he gets buffaloed into quitting his much-desired position at Carl's Jr., for instance, which was dropped from the film).
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* [["Mister Sandman" Sequence]]: Time has turned the opening scenes of kids in the mall to the tune of "We Got The Beat" into one of these.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The scenes dealing with Stacy tend to invoke this trope.
* [[Name's the Same]]: A minor character from the novel (and unseen in the movie as it's only being mentioned before the end credits as being saved from drowning by Jeff Spicoli) is named Brooke Shields, who, coincidentially, has the same name as [[Brooke Shields|the actress, socialite and one-time supermodel]]. This Brooke Shields, however, was actually named after one of Cameron Crowe's childhood classmates.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailer makes Forest Whitaker's character out to be much bigger than it is.
* [[Pool Scene]]: leading to [[Erotic Dream]], [[A Date with Rosie Palms]], and [[Caught with Your Pants Down]].
* [[The Precious, Precious Car]]: Jefferson gets a slick sports car as a gift for returning to play football for Ridgemont. Spicoli takes it for a spin with Jefferson's little brother and trashes it, activating Jefferson's [[Berserk Button]]. Luckily he was able to frame their rival high school. Later, we see Jefferson leading the football team to a major lopsided victory and reversing the school's poor athletic performance in the process.
* [[Sensei for Scoundrels]]: Damone gives Rat plenty of sleazy advice on how to appear cool and pick up the girl he likes, then uses Rat's awkwardness to make himself look better in her eyes. Rat eventually calls him out on it and gets the girl.
* [[Sex as Rite-
* [[Spin-Off]]: The short lived CBS series "Fast Times".
* [[Star-Making Role]]: Spicoli, for [[Sean Penn]]. Before this film no one knew who he was. After it...
* [[Stern Teacher]]: Mr. Hand is pretty unforgiving to his students, and especially Spicoli, who arguably deserves it. In the end he gives him a chance at redemption. Some of his comments lean towards [[Sadist Teacher]] territory but he seems to be a genuinely decent guy, just very strict.
** The novel says that "even some of the hardcore truants" respected his approach.
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{{AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs}}
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