It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Difference between revisions

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* [[Crash-Course Landing]]: Benjy and Dingy have to make one after the pilot passes out.

* [[Dope Slap]]: Dingy did this to Benjy a few times.

* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]] \ [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Most of the main characters end up in traction and they don't get any of the money, though they do get an Everybody Laughs Ending out of it. The police department, who have been working on the case for 15 years, salvage little if any money, the bulk of it being rained down onto a large crowd of onlookers. The Captain misses news of his tripled pension, and loses everything, but at least he gets a laugh too.}}

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Jonathan Winters' van-driver character. Also Sylvester.

* [[Efficient Displacement]]: Lennie Pike leaves a man shaped hole in the gas station wall during his rampage.

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* [[Product Placement]]: Lots of it for Coca-Cola, including a billboard asking to pause for a Coke, 30 seconds before the intermission.

* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: As Otto prepares to try to drive across a river that's clearly too deep for his car, he looks heavenward and screams "Why? WHY?"

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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Ernie Kovacs was scheduled to appear as Melville Crump (alongside real-life spouse Edie Adams) before being killed in a traffic accident.

* [[Reality Ensues]]: After their death defying stunt on the fire ladder, all the men end up in traction, lucky to be alive.

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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Ernie Kovacs was scheduled to appear as Melville Crump (alongside real-life spouse Edie Adams) before being killed in a traffic accident.

* [[Re Cut]]: The film ran a whopping 210 minutes in its original preview cut. This was trimmed down, in succession, to 192 minutes (for its world premiere at Hollywood's Cinerama Dome), 161 minutes (for its 70mm "roadshow" presentation in select theaters), and 154 minutes (for general theatrical release). The 154-minute cut is the standard version for home video, although a partially-restored 182-minute "special edition" was made for laserdisc and VHS in the early '90s and occasionally airs on [[Turner Classic Movies]].

* [[Rule of Funny]]: The movie runs on it.

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* [[The Voice]]: Culpepper's wife, voiced by Selma Diamond (of later ''[[Night Court]]'' fame). His daughter Billie Sue is one of these as well.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: After [[Jerry Lewis]]'s character drives his car over Culpepper's hat, Culpepper immediately starts yelling for someone to get his number.

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* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]] \ [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Most of the main characters end up in traction and they don't get any of the money, though they do get an Everybody Laughs Ending out of it. The police department, who have been working on the case for 15 years, salvage little if any money, the bulk of it being rained down onto a large crowd of onlookers. The Captain misses news of his tripled pension, and loses everything, but at least he gets a laugh too.}}