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{{quote|''"Remember kid, crime... doesn't... pay."''
''"[[Broken Aesop|...Well, it paid a little.]]"''
|'''Mr. Kelly - a.k.a. "Johnny Dangerously"'''}}
'''''Johnny Dangerously''''' is a comedic film produced by [[Twentieth Century Fox]] in 1984, and is primarily an [[Affectionate Parody]] of gangster movies set in [[The Roaring Twenties|Prohibition-Era]] [[Big Applesauce|New York City]]. The title character is played by [[Michael Keaton]], portraying a youth who joins an organized crime gang in order to raise money in order to pay for medical
The movie begins its light-natured path with an [[Animated Credits Opening]] featuring images of Manhattan locales set to [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song "This Is The Life".▼
▲Johnny Dangerously is a comedic film produced by [[Twentieth Century Fox]] in 1984, and is primarily an [[Affectionate Parody]] of gangster movies set in [[The Roaring Twenties|Prohibition-Era]] [[Big Applesauce|New York City]]. The title character is played by [[Michael Keaton]], portraying a youth who joins an organized crime gang in order to raise money in order to pay for medical proceedures for his ailing mother.
▲The movie begins its light-natured path with an [[Animated Credits Opening]] featuring images of Manhattan locales set to [[Weird Al Yankovic]]'s song "This Is The Life".
We are introduced to the owner "Kelly's Pet Shop," Mr. Kelly, who apprehends a would-be thief and, after being treated to a tough-guy attitude, begins to [[How We Got Here|tell the tale of his own past]]... the criminal known as "Johnny Dangerously."
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* [[Amoral Attorney]] - the D.A.
* [[Baby Carriage]] - One of the would-be assassins of Johnny is hiding in a baby carriage.
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* [[Cain and Abel]] - the "brother versus brother" story line.
* [[Catch Phrase]] - Vermin, used multiple times in the form "You shouldn't ''do something bad to me''. My ''family member did that to me'' once." (long pause with index finger extended for emphasis) "Once."
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'''Danny Vermin:''' You shouldn't hang me on a hook, Johnny. My father hung me on a hook once. ''Once''.
'''Danny Vermin:''' *while in clear pain* You shouldn't kick me in the balls, Mrs. Kelly. My sister kicked me in the balls...once...
'''Danny Vermin:''' *while being dragged away* You shouldn't have shot me Johnny. My grandmother shot me once... }}
* [[The Chanteuse]]: Lil.
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** Also, Dundee's cigarette case with the bullet dent (see [[Pocket Protector]] below).
* [[Clark Kenting]] - everybody knows that Johnny Kelly is Johnny Dangerously except his mother and brother.
* [[Cluster F
* [[Cut His Heart Out
* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be
* [[Deadly Prank]] - Young Danny Vermin , while selling newspapers on a street corner produces a pair of large scissors from his paper bag to cut the leash from between a seeing-eye dog and a blind man, who is hit be a car off camera, then returns to work.
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]] - the beginning of the flashback is B/W documentary footage with narration. When the movie's new action begins the film remains in B/W, then transitions into color to indicate the film will be remaining in the past for some time.
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* [[Don't Tell Mama]] - parodied, since to everyone but Johnny's mother it's painfully clear that he's a mob boss.
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]] - averted. Tommy's car has its brakes cut and tumbles down a hill dramatically, but does not explode.
* [[Extra! Extra! Read All About It!]]
* [[Fan Service]] - When Tommy visits Johnny's apartment.
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* [[Flashback Effects]] - the entire movie takes place during a flashback, illustrating the story Mr. Kelly is telling the would-be thief he caught trying to steal a puppy from his pet store.
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'''Mr. Kelly:''' Oh, it always does this when I talk about the past. }}
* [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers]] - Lil's nightgown.
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** Averted here in that he really is trying to swear, but his accent is so thick that the words come out a mess.
* [[Gossip Evolution]] - Word goes around -- but doesn't necessarily stay the same.
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'''[[Johnny Dangerously]]''': No, but I know this grapevine. }}
* [[Grammar Nazi]]
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* [[Hand Cannon]] - Danny Vermin's .88 Magnum. "It shoots through ''schools''."
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]
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* [[Instant Messenger Pigeon]] - Polly
* [[Johnny McCoolname]] - It's right there.
* [[Last Rites (trope)|Last Rites]]: The beginning of the escape sequence has one of his [[Mooks]] pretending to be a priest giving him [[Last Rites (trope)|the last rites]] in mangled [[Dog Latin]]:
{{quote|'''Charley:''' ''Dominus vobiscum nabisco. Espiritu sanctum. De gustibus. Me gustibus. You gustibus. We missed the bus. They missed the bus. When's the next bus? Summa cum laude. Magna cum laude. The radio's too laude. Adeste fidelis. Centra fidelis. High fidelis. Post meridian. Ante meridian. Uncle meridian. All of the little meridians. Magna carta. Master charga. Dum procellas. Lotsa Vitalis.'' }}
* [[Luxury Prison Suite]] - Johnny's prison-striped three-piece suit.
* [[MacGuffin]] - "Whoever has my cigarette case bumped-off the Commissioner."
* [[Malaproper]] - Roman Moronie. He'd have given the movie a hard R rating for language if the miserable corksoaker could pronounce a word of it correctly, that fargin icehole.
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]] - played with. Johnny has to scare his little brother Tommy away from the free-wheelin' life of sex - complete with an Army VD film - so that Tommy will stay in law school. Meanwhile, Johnny is surrounded by beautiful dames and has no problem scoring on first dates:
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* [[Meaningful Name]]
** Vermin
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* [[Medium Awareness]] - 1935
* [[Mr. Exposition]] - The Pope, and the neighborhood, explain how Johnny's family doesn't know he's a gangster.
* [[Non
* [[Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters]]
* [[Oblivious Younger Sibling]] - Both Johnny's Brother and Mother.
* [[Pie
* [[Pocket Protector]] - Dundee's cigarette case once saved him from an assassination attempt, and it has the bullet dent to prove it. It ends up saving {{spoiler|Tommy}}'s life in the end.
* [[Polly Wants a Microphone]] - Polly
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* [[The Roaring Twenties]]: When the movie is set.
* [[Robot Me]] - Moronie's murdering gift sent to Dundee's office, with postage due.
* [[Scare
* [[Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up]] - Danny Vermin (minus the schoolyard). Although his .88 Magnum shoots through them.
* [[Shout
* [[Sitting Sexy
* [[Something Else Also Rises]] - "Sounds like Johnny's gettin' laid."
* [[Spinning Paper]] - the activities of the police and D.A.'s office are indicated with front-page newspaper headlines.
** The paper simply slides up to view when revealing the outcome of Moronie's trial.
* [[Thematic Theme Tune]] - [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s "This is the Life" over the opening credits explains how it feels to be filthy rich. The song "Dangerously" sung by Lil' later in the movie could be this, but it is less about Johnny Dangerously than it is about Lil's lust for him.
* [[Train Problem]] - during Roman Moronie's trial.
* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]] - When Lil arrives with Johnny's bail money.
* [[Walk and Talk]]: Parodied and lampshaded when Johnny and Lil go on a walk... and talk. After a very long time, they stop, look around and realize they must have left the city hours ago and are now out in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere.
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