George of the Jungle (film): Difference between revisions

* [[Bilingual Backfire]]: One of the guides makes it very clear that the other guides only speak Swahili. Until it eventually comes to light that they're all completely fluent in English.

* [[Borrowed Catchphrase]]:

* [[Bride and Switch]]: At the climax, Lyle tries to forcibly marry Ursula when they enter a dark tunnel. Upon exiting the tunnel he learns that he actually married an amorous gorilla instead.

* [[Bullet Seed]]: Shep the elephant + [[Abnormal Ammo|Coconuts]] = most unusual artillery cannon ever.

* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: When Ursula's mother accidentally sees her and George walking down the street, the narrator lampshades it: "Every story gets to have a really big coincidence and here's ours..."

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: When Thor picks a fight with the narrator:

'''Max''': Thor! Were you arguing with the narrator? }}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Ape named Ape.

* [[Dirty Coward]]: Lyle; when a lion attacks him and Ursula, he runs away. Ursula calls him out on this, but he just waves it off.

* [[Disney Death]]: The film plays the trope straight, [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on it, and takes it to a blatantly over-the-top extreme bordering on [[Nigh Invulnerability]]. In one of the first scenes, for example, one of the guides falls at least 400 meters from a [[Rope Bridge]] over a cliff, at which point the [[Narrator]] reassures the audience:

'''Narrator''': What did I tell you? }}

* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Inverted with George. He tends to go barefoot in the jungle, but for a cross-country running montage, he pulls out a pair of Nikes.

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjjVUUO5NAI Perhaps the ONLY time] where this is actually funny:

'''Other guides''': Ready!<br />

'''All''': AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! }}

* [[Fish Out of Water]]: The movie's second act follows George back to Ursula's urban home and depicts his awkward and oftentime [[Tear Jerker|heartbreaking]] isolation and attemps to fit in.

* [[Fun with Foreign Languages]]:

'''Second guide''' Let's think of something evil to do to him. }}

** When Lyle tries to explain why he didn't save Ursula:

'''Lyle''': Absolutely! }}

* [[Fun with Subtitles]]: When George is speaking "gorilla" to his ape friends. George [[I Sound Like a Retard In English|sounds like a retard in English]], but apparently he speaks Gorilla like a [[Shakespeare|Shakespearean]] scholar, complete with an ornamental calligraphy-style font for the subtitles.

* [[Hand or Object Underwear]]: [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|Innocent Fanservice Boy]] George has this scene with Ursula grabbing things for him to cover up with. It does spur an amusing comment from Ursula's friend Betsy: "...[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|see why they made him King of the Jungle]]..."

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely|He Cleans Up Nicely]]: in the first movie;

'''George''': Pretty darn good! }}

* [[Hulk Speak]]: George.

* [[Human Mail]]: George ships himself from San Francisco to the jungle via UPS.

* [[Imagine Spot]]: Done by - who else? - the narrator:

'''Ursula's mother:''' [[Big No|AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!]] ''(drops wine glass)'' }}

* [[Immortal Hero]]: Lampshaded by the narrator:

* [[Inflationary Dialogue]]:

'''Lyle''': Hey, the important thing, Kwame, is that I was outnumbered. }}

* [[Innocent Fanservice Boy]]: George complains about the shower, saying that the "waterfall" is too warm and he slipped on a "strange slippery rock"... while nude, in front of the heroine and her best friend.

* [[The Klutz]]: George.

* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]:

* [[Lemony Narrator]]

* [[Live Action Adaptation]]

* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: George goes crazy for [[Product Placement|Chock Full o'Nuts]] coffee while in Ursula's apartment.

* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: Lyle uses a phrasebook to attempt to communicate with his native porters in the African jungle: "Pardon me, girls. I know you're feeling pretty hey sailor up here about now. But if you would just let me order a bowl of fried clams, we can all have smallpox tomorrow."

* [[Narration Echo]]:

'''Narrator''': That's better. }}

** A more straight example:

'''Ursula''': Here I am, lost in the wilderness with a jungle man. }}

* [[Nobody Can Die]]: They just get really big boo-boos.

** Followed immediately by the Narrator saying, in regards to Ape in captivity, "Meanwhile, halfway across the world, another ass was feeling pain..."

* [[Pretender Diss]]: Parodying Lloyd Bentsen's famous comment:

'''Ape''': Madam, I knew Jane Goodall and you are no Jane Goodall. }}

* [[Rage Against the Author]]: Thor (one of the bad guys) gets into a fight with a narrator: "Why don't you say something constructive for a change, like what we should do now?"

* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: "This biggest swing in jungle history. Will hurt very much... But George have to do it." The swing is so long that he builds up enough velocity to actually knock [[Efficient Displacement|a George-shaped section of bark]] off the ''other side of the tree''. Ow.

* [[This Is My Boomstick]]: Parodied. Lyle Van de Groot, rich snob white guy, attempts to impress his native guides by offering them lighters and showing off his camera... even though his guides are clearly familiar with such things. The guides play along for a bit, and then burst out laughing at him, whereupon their translator makes it clear they're not only unimpressed, they know more about cameras than ''he'' does.

** Going the other direction, Lyle later attempts to scare George off with a lighter shaped like a handgun. George, having never seen any kind of gun before, keeps charging. Then it turns out the gun is real.

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Max and Thor.