Finding Nemo: Difference between revisions

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* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]:

{{quote| '''Dory''': Hey, look. "Esc-a-pay". I wonder what that means? That's funny, it's spelled just like the word "escape." }}

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Peach, played by [[Allison Janney]] (more famous for playing C.J. Cregg on ''[[~~The West Wing (TV)|~~The West Wing]])'' announces that the dentist is about to do a root canal, bringing to mind the hilarious ''West Wing'' episode "Celestial Navigation".

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Peach, played by [[Allison Janney]] (more famous for playing C.J. Cregg on ''[[The West Wing]])'' announces that the dentist is about to do a root canal, bringing to mind the hilarious ''West Wing'' episode "Celestial Navigation".

** There are a couple of allusions (the song "Beyond the Sea" and the line "That's my boy.") to Albert Brooks in ''My First Mister''

* [[Adult Fear]]: The Pixar Film. "Adults have nightmares about what would happen when they lose their only surviving son? Let's make a cartoon about it!"

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* [[Affably Evil]]: Subverted. Bruce appears to be this towards the beginning of the movie, but it's revealed that he's actually a [[Nice Guy]]. {{spoiler|Unless he smells blood.}}

* [[All-Star Cast]]

* [[All There in ~~The~~ Script]]: Gurgle's never referred to by name. He's the purple and yellow one.

* [[All There in the Script]]: Gurgle's never referred to by name. He's the purple and yellow one.

* [[Alluring Anglerfish]]

* [[And Call Him George|And I Shall Call Him Squishy]]: Darla, possibly. Dory came pretty close until she learned that jellyfish sting.

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* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: "Hello, I'm Dory. What, you want to look for your child? Ummm... [[wikipedia:Anterograde amnesia|Hello, my name is Dory ...]]"

** [[Invoked Trope|Deliberately invoked]] by Marlin when he gets Dory to follow him above the trench rather than through it.

* [[Badass On Paper]]: Marlin gets through most of his adventures by gumption, desperation, and sheer dumb luck, but as his exploits are recounted over and over he starts to sound more and more badass. By the time the stories get to Nemo, his father is a [[Papa Wolf]] who has battled sharks and fought off jellyfish.

* [[Badass on Paper]]: Marlin gets through most of his adventures by gumption, desperation, and sheer dumb luck, but as his exploits are recounted over and over he starts to sound more and more badass. By the time the stories get to Nemo, his father is a [[Papa Wolf]] who has battled sharks and fought off jellyfish.

* [[Badass Unintentional]]: Dory. She just wants to hang out with Marlin.

** Thanks to [[Papa Wolf|his hijinks]], Marlin gets this reputation throughout the entire ocean area surrounding Sydney.

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* [[Braces of Orthodontic Overkill]]: Darla dons a set of truly scary-looking headgear.

* [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]: Marlin at the start of the movie.

* [[Can't Get Away ~~With~~ Nuthin']]: It seems like every time Marlin loosens up even a ''bit'', something terrible happens.

* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]: It seems like every time Marlin loosens up even a ''bit'', something terrible happens.

* [[Carnivore Confusion]]: "Fish are friends, not food!"

** [[Playing ~~With~~ a Trope|Played with]] in the case of the pelicans: they eat fish -- but not if they know the specific fish personally.

** [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in the case of the pelicans: they eat fish -- but not if they know the specific fish personally.

* [[Censorship By Spelling]]:

* [[Censorship by Spelling]]:

{{quote| '''Gurgle''': Whatever you do, don't mention D-A-R...<br />

'''Nemo''': It's okay, I know who you're talking about. }}

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** Deb/Flo and Bubbles also count.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander's Minder]]: Poor Marlin.

* [[Come ~~With~~ Me If You Want to Live]]: "Hop inside my mouth if you want to live."

* [[Come with Me If You Want to Live]]: "Hop inside my mouth if you want to live."

* [[Cool Teacher]]: Mr. Ray.

* [[Continuity Cameo]]: In P. Sherman's waiting room, there is a [[Toy Story|Buzz Lightyear]] on the floor next to the chest of toys.

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** [[Team Pet]]: Jacques

* [[Foreign Exchange Student]]: Squirt the baby sea turtle becomes one at the end of the movie.

* [[Fun ~~With~~ Flushing]]: Nemo's escape plan is to play dead and get flushed, because "all drains lead to the ocean". Many have pointed out that in reality, a fish would not survive the trip, as it would be ground up during the sewage treatment process, leading some to joke that the title should have been "Grinding Nemo".

* [[Fun with Flushing]]: Nemo's escape plan is to play dead and get flushed, because "all drains lead to the ocean". Many have pointed out that in reality, a fish would not survive the trip, as it would be ground up during the sewage treatment process, leading some to joke that the title should have been "Grinding Nemo".

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Dory, who knows how to read humans writing and understands whale language and knows about whales in general. "Don't worry, whales don't eat clown fish, they eat krill."

** "Oh look, krill!"

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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Before and after the opening titles.

** "Good feelings gone."

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: The absent-minded Dory keeps misremembering <s>[[Marx Brothers|Harpo Chico]]</s> <s>[[Sesame Street ~~(TV)~~|Elmo]]</s> <s>Fabio</s> <s>Bingo</s> Nemo's name.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: The absent-minded Dory keeps misremembering <s>[[Marx Brothers|Harpo Chico]]</s> <s>[[Sesame Street|Elmo]]</s> <s>Fabio</s> <s>Bingo</s> Nemo's name.

* [[Never Heard That One Before]]: Jokes about Marlin being a clown fish.

* [[No Cartoon Fish]]: Aversion.

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* [[Shout-Out]]: "[[The Shining|Heeeeeeere's Brucie!]]"

** [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail|"Swiiim awaaay!"]]. Also ''several'' others.

** Bruce was [[Fan Nickname|the nickname]] Spielberg gave [[Jaws (~~Film~~)|the animatronic shark]], [[I Am Not Shazam|though not the name of the shark itself]].

** Bruce was [[Fan Nickname|the nickname]] Spielberg gave [[Jaws (film)|the animatronic shark]], [[I Am Not Shazam|though not the name of the shark itself]].

*** And the torpedo sliding into his mouth is reminiscent of {{spoiler|the shark in Jaws with the air tank in his mouth}}

*** Speaking of [[Monty Python]], there's an added joke about a character named Bruce having an Australian accent.

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** There's also P. Sherman's address, [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|42]] [[Wallace and Gromit|Wallaby Way]].

** Doubling as an [[Actor Allusion]], [http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/finding-nemo-gil/657184-1-eng-US/finding-nemo-gil.jpg Gill's scars] are almost identical to the ones [http://www.cinemovies.fr/images/data/photos/G38072144681843.jpg Tom Berenger] sported in [[Platoon]].

** Pearl, Nemo's little octopus schoolmate ("You guys made me ink!") bears strong resemblance to the pink Ghost in the original [[~~Pacman~~]] video game. Ditto for her dad.

** Pearl, Nemo's little octopus schoolmate ("You guys made me ink!") bears strong resemblance to the pink Ghost in the original [[Pac-Man]] video game. Ditto for her dad.

** While excaping from Bruce, Dory sees a sign labeled "escape" [[A Christmas Story|and pronunces it as "es-ca-pay."]]

* [[Short Cuts Make Long Delays]]

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* [[Something That Begins With Boring]]: Dory and Marlin.

* [[Speech Impediment]]: Darla has trouble speaking with those terrible braces.

* [[Spell My Name ~~With~~ an "S"]]: Is Gill's name spelled with one or two L's?

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Is Gill's name spelled with one or two L's?

* [[Staring Kid]]: The kid in the dentist's waiting room who reacts with horror at the commotion.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: Nemo attends a school of fish.

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'''Marlin''': No, and I don't plan to. }}

** "If I ever meet a [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|turtle]] I'll ask him... [[Foreshadowing|after I'm done talking to the shark.]]"

* [[This Is Your Brain On Evil|This Is Your Brain On Fish Meat]]: The sharks.

* [[This Is Your Brain on Evil|This Is Your Brain On Fish Meat]]: The sharks.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Anchor and Chum

* [[The Tooth Hurts]]: The scene where the dentist is trying to remove the prime minister's tooth. When Nigel the pelican runs into the window, the noise startles the dentist so much that he forcefully pulls out the bad tooth, putting the prime minister in a lot of pain.

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* [[Where It All Began]]: It ends in the reef, with the characters doing the same things they did in the first scene, only differently, to reflect how the moral changed them.

* [[White and Gray Morality]]: All the villains (Bruce and the humans) are trying to reform or misguided. There's also the jellyfish and seagulls, which are apparently too stupid to be evil. The barracuda and the anglerfish, although both vicious killers, are really just hungry by nature. Overall, this movie's villains are much milder than those of other Pixar movies.

* [[The Window or ~~The~~ Stairs]]: Dory and Marlin come across a chasm; Dory was told that they had to go through it, and she tries to tell Marlin, who ignores her and then tricks her into swimming over it, since it seems much safer. They end up in a huge swarm of jellyfish, and they both almost die from the stings.

* [[The Window or the Stairs]]: Dory and Marlin come across a chasm; Dory was told that they had to go through it, and she tries to tell Marlin, who ignores her and then tricks her into swimming over it, since it seems much safer. They end up in a huge swarm of jellyfish, and they both almost die from the stings.

* [[You Had Us Worried There]]: When Nemo jams the filter, {{spoiler|the second time}}.

* [[You Say Tomato]]: According to [[The Ghost|Sandy Plankton]] a boat is called a "butt."