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* [[The Ditz]]: Scarlett, definitely.
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: This time the other way round. Before August 1961, people could cross the border between West and East Berlin quite easily - which millions of East Germans used to move to the golden west. The movie was based on this premise and suffered when the wall was built.
* [[Guile Hero]]: MacNamara.
* [[Impoverished Patrician]]: Graf von Droste-Schattenburg, who {{spoiler|is paid to adopt Otto}}.
* [[Improbably Cool Car]]: MacNamara's "Adenauer" Mercedes; a regional Coca-Cola plant manager in Germany in 1961 would likely have had a smaller, near-taxi-spec "Ponton" Mercedes if not an Opel Rekord or Ford Taunus as a company car.
* [[Misplaced Nationalism]]: Parodied when Jimmy Cagney is upset with Coca-Cola heiress Scarlet for taking part in a "Yankee, Go Home" rally: "But back home, ''everybody'' hates the Yankees!" ("Ami, Go Home" would have been a completely different thing, of course...)
* [[Product Placement]]: No wonder if the main character is a Coca-Cola exec.
* [[Richard Wagner]]: The German doctor who finds out Scarlett's pregnant is very fond of him, and sadly missed the 3rd act of ''Die Walküre / The Valkyrie''.
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Ingeborg, played by Lilo Pulver, the fräuleinwunder.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[Little Caesar]]'', ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'', ''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy]]'', ''[[The Public Enemy]]'', ''[[Ninotchka]]''.
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Otto about Communism. He even thinks it's a capitalist lie that Siberia is cold, and is happy that the Communists assigned them "a magnificent apartment, just a short walk from the bathroom!"
* [[You No Take Candle]]: The Russians.
* [[Zany Scheme]]: At one point, they need a [[Zany Scheme]] to revert the effects of another one. Which they are responsible for.
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