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* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]].
** ''Conan the Destroyer''. The Queen asks ''Wilt Chamberlain'' to preserve a girl's virginity.
** In the letters page of [[Conan the Barbarian (Comic Bookcomics)|Conan the Barbarian]] #267, a reader asks for back issues of the title, and expresses regret that the title was cancelled. The editor points out that a) Marvel don't directly give out back issues and b) the title's clearly still going. That title was cancelled by #275.
* [[Fan Service]]: In the film adaption, Sandahl Bergman in body paint and a skimpy leather outfit.
** Fanservice has always been common in Conan narratives. One of the more blatant examples from the Robert E. Howard stories can be found in ''Shadows in Zamboula'' in which the primary female character spends most of the story stark naked, and near the end dances in the center of a ring of serpents.
* [[Ham and Cheese]]: ''Conan The Destroyer'', specifically.
* [[Ink Stain Adaptation]]: The Arnold movies, visually building upon the Marvel comics and [[Frank Frazetta]]'s art before it. Parodies like [[UHF (Film)|UHF]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHoHaAYHq8 ''Conan the Librarian''] tend to mock Arnold's distinctive accent.
* [[Just Here for Godzilla]]: Many who bought the original books had no interest in reading them at all. They bought the for the lush, power paintings that served as the book covers. Courtesy of [[Frank Frazetta]] himself.
* [[Les Yay]]:
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