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=== [[Little Shop of Horrors]] ===
 
* [[Complete Monster]]: Audrey II, all the [[Black Comedy|humor]] and [[Evil Is Cool|coolness]] of the character notwithstanding.
** Orin also counts.
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: To much of the fandom, Audrey II.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Audrey II eating Audrey. Some blame for it rests on Seymour as well.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Audrey. Her dying words make humanity's salvation impossible.}}
* [[X Meets Y]]: Little Shop is best summed up as Edgar Allen Poe meets a Disney musical. Which makes sense, considering Alan Menken and Howard Ashman did the score.
 
 
==== The movie ====
 
* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Fans of this movie are not aware of the Roger Corman movie it was based on, and are disappointed when they rent or download the original, and find out which one they're watching. To an arguably lesser extent, it has displaced the stage musical.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Seymour Krelbourn. Is his letting Orin suffocate from laughing gas revenge, or is it due to him being in shock? Is him letting Mushnik being eaten by the plant because Seymour forced him to walk into the plant, or was Mushnik's backing up into the plant's mouth an action on his own accord?
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: Just shy of twenty-five years after the film's release, Frank Oz revealed in an interview in late October 2011 that [[Word of God|a Blu-Ray version of Little Shop of Horrors (which would contain a Blu-Ray and DVD version) was in the works]]. Contained in this BD-DVD would be [[Re CutRecut|the original version of the film with the original ending intact]] and presumably colorized in some way (whether it be through the Ted Turner method or it be the color ending Producer David Geffen supposedly owns). This version of the film, tentatively titled Little Shop of Horrors: The Intended Cut by the MPAA [[Up to Eleven|(implying more than just the ending will be changed to fit Oz's original vision)]], is scheduled for release in late October of 2012. And it will be awesome.
* [[Broken Base]]: The [[Focus Group Ending]] has practically split the fandom into two separate ones.
* [[Ear Worm]]: The musical contains among the most memorable songs inspired by 1950's gospel and Motown movement in Broadway history, and nearly all of them are catchy.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Levi Stubbs as Audrey II ''and'' Steve Martin as Orin the dentist.
** Well, everyone becomes this at some point during the outtakes. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUnh62onITY See for yourself].
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: When you see the original ending, it can be hard for some to believe they were going to brand this movie as a comedy- The ending seems so much darker than the rest of the film that it's almost ridiculous. After Audrey dies in his arms, a distraught and pessimistic Seymour dashes out of the shop and is about to ''commit suicide off of the roof of Audrey's apartment complex'' when Patrick Martin finds him and tells him about taking cuttings from Audrey II. Poor Seymour then confronts the plant, but is instead trapped inside the shop as he tries to get away, helplessly tries to stop the plant with various non-working weapons, and [[Black Comedy|has his goddamn pants pulled down before getting slowly and gruesomely swallowed whole by the plant all to the tune of an upbeat villain song]]. The movie then ends on a not-so-happy note with various shots of humongous Audrey II plants attacking the earth.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Bill Murray as the masochistic patient.
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Two members of the film's [[Greek Chorus]] went on to play the main female characters on ''[[Martin]]''. Then one went on to play Damon Wayans' wife on ''[[My Wife and Kids]]'', and the other went on to play young Chris Rock's mom on ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]''. Also, one of them was in ''[[Zack and Miri Make a Porno]]'' as Delaney's [[Jerkass]] wife.
** The Muses from ''[[Hercules (Disney1997 film)|Hercules]]'' (the Disney version, for which Alan Menken also did the music) are remarkably similar to the chorus from this movie.
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: The ending.
** Some may get this feeling whenever Audrey opens her mouth due the extremely high pitch of her voice
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