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''The Goonies'' was the brainchild of three well-known directors: [[Steven Spielberg]] (producer/story), [[Chris Columbus]] (screenplay -- though, at the time of this film, he wasn't quite famous yet), and [[Richard Donner]] (director).

 

This film also had [[The Goonies (video game)|two successful video games based on it]].

 

Not to be confused with ''[[The Goodies]]''.

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* [[Accidental Kiss]]: Andy accidentally kissed Mikey instead of Brand when they're under the wishing well. She doesn't know until the end, when she asks Brand where his braces went.

* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The novelization extends the story further, showing Sloth adapting to his new life as a member of Chunk's family.

* [[Adults Are Useless]]: When Mikey's mom sees Brand all tied up, instead of freeing him she asks why he can't exercise like a normal kid.

* [[Asian Speekee Engrish]]: Data.

* [[Atomic F-Bomb]]: Mouth screams a curse as he falls down the waterfall into the lagoon where the ship is.

* [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating]]: The word shit comes up several times.

* [[Berserk Button]]: First when Mouth tells Chunk he has naked pictures of his mom taking a bath, real cheap, forcing Chunk to break the door open. Second, averted, when Chunk accidentally breaks the water cooler he was drinking from when Mouth thought of putting chocolate on the floor so he can eat through.

'''Mikey''': We've got you now One-Eyed Willy, we're coming up right behind you!

'''Mikey''': I made it, I beat you

* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The Fratellis.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The gangsters are named the Fratellis. Fratelli means "brother" in Italian.

** Donner's motorhome also appears in a camera shot of Mikey and Brand on their house's patio.

* [[Crying Wolf]]: Chunk.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]:

** This being an 80s movie, pretty much all of the kids had a silver tongue at some point, from Chunk to Data.

** Hell, Mama Fratelli gets in on this as well:

{{quote|Mouth: You call that water?

* [[Dropped Glasses]]: Stef drops her glasses and Mikey accidentally steps on them.

* [[Durable Deathtrap]]: All those booby traps set by Willie so many years ago still seem to work just fine.

* [[DVD Commentary]]: All of the Goonies reunited many years later for the commentary, alongside Richard Donner. Unfortunately because the commentary recording session started late, Sean Astin had to leave in the middle to attend a function for co-star Joe Pantoliano.

* [[Dynamite Candle]]

* [[Ethnic Menial Labor]]: Rosalita.

* [[Evil Laugh]]:

* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Mama Fratelli.

* [[Eyeless Face]]: Partially applies to One-Eyed Willy.

* [[Fat Camp]]: One of the things Chunk confesses to when caught by the Fratellis was being sent to a fat camp and getting kicked out for pigging out.

* [[Framed Clue]]: The [[Treasure Map]].

* [[Gentle Giant]]: "Sloth love Chunk!"

* [[How Much Did You Hear?]]: Mikey to the other Goonies.

{{quote|'''Mikey''': How long have you guys been standing there?

* [[Huddle Shot]]

* [[Hulk Speak]]: Sloth. "Sloth love Chunk!"

** In fact, Brand is the only member of the Walsh clan that ''doesn't'' do this.

{{quote|'''Mrs. Walsh''': Brandon, don't you come home without your brother, or I'll commit Hare Krishna!

* [[Metaphor Is My Middle Name]]: Mouth invokes this.

{{quote|'''Mrs. Walsh''': You are so fluent in Spanish. That was so nice of you.

* [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]]: See [[Rousing Speech]].

* [[Mistaken Confession]]: "Okay! I'll talk!"

* [[One-Liner]]: When Andy worries that Chunk might be dead, Mike retorts with, "Goonies never say die!" and continues his [[Rousing Speech]].

* [[Only Smart People May Pass]]: The Goonies are tested by various booby traps, the most memorable a musical riddle.

* [[The Other Rainforest]]: Set and filmed in Astoria, Oregon.

* [[Pipe Maze]]: They run into one of these underground. Banging on the pipes to make noise ends up causing chaos for the country club above them. Sloth causes even more trouble when he pushes a pipe upwards, apparently leading to a traffic accident above.

* [[Slippery Skid]]: Data's "Slick Shoes" lead to some nut-crunching acrobatics by the Fratelli brothers.

* [[Songs in the Key of Lock]]: The organ.

* [[Tastes Like Friendship]]: {{spoiler|Sloth's friendship with Chunk is cemented by Baby Ruth candybars.}}

* [[Tentative Light]]

{{quote|'''Data''': Data's okay. But Data's tired of falling and Data's tired of skeletons.}}

* [[This Way to Certain Death]]: The characters run across the long-dead body of treasure hunter Chester Copperpot in their search for One-Eyed Willy's ship. Some of them want to turn back, but Mikey convinces them that this is a ''good'' sign, because it means that they're on the right track, and they have already got farther than a professional treasure hunter.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Steph and Andy.

* [[Treasure Map]]

{{quote|'''Mouth and Mikey''': Slick Shoes? Are you ''crazy?!''}}

* [[Undead Author]]: According to the legend, One-Eyed Willie killed off all of his men after making the map; when asked how the map and story got out, Mikey comments that he asked his dad this too, and his dad said one of them must have escaped. The scene of the crime seems to imply that Willie and his top officers all killed each other off fighting over the treasure at the table.

{{quote|'''Jake''': You always take his side, Mama. You always liked him better than me.

* [[Vomit Chain Reaction]]: Chunk claims he accidentally started one in a movie theater as a result of a practical joke involving fake puke.

* [[Walk the Plank]]: Mama Fratelli makes Andy walk the plank off the pirate ship.

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[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]

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