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* [[Blaxploitation Parody]]: ''Cleopatra Schwartz''.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: There is an edited for TV version that shows up on [[Comedy Central]] sometimes. Of course, all the nudity in the 11:00 News sketch is edited out with pan and scan tricks, and "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" is simply excised completely, even though credits for the sketch still show up at the end.
* [[The Cameo]]:
** Not to mention [[Leave It to Beaver|Wally Cleaver]], [[The Incredible Hulk|Bruce Banner]], [[The Blues Brothers|The Head Illinois Nazi]], [[M*A*S*H (television)|Pvt. Igor Straminsky]], and [[James Bond|That Dude Who Played Bond Once]].
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]:
* [[Courtroom Antic]]
* [[Disaster Movie]]:
* [[Dojikko]]: "Carol" in the "Feel-Around" sketch, a rare western example.
* [[Every One Remembers the Stripper]]: "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" is probably the best-known skit in the film after "A Fistful of Yen".
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* [[Homage]]
* Housewife: A parody of educational films features one tortured by an omnipotent narrator because she took zinc for granted.
* [[It Got Worse]]: The "Zinc" filmstrip sketch starts out with soap disappearing and ends with a woman's child shot, her husband dead of a heart attack, her car
* [[Mega Corp]]: Argon Oil. "At Argon, we're working to keep your money."
* [[N-Word Privileges]]: Spoofed aversion: Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker shouts the word in the middle of a large group of black people and runs.
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* [[The Television Talks Back]]: TV news anchormen get distracted by the characters making out in front of the TV.
* [[They Fight Crime]]: Cleopatra Schwartz and her Hasidic Jew husband.
* [[Wall-Bang Her]]:
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: As with many ZAZ films, much of the
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=== The extended skit "A Fistful of Yen" also features the following tropes: ===
* [[All Just a Dream]]
** [[And You Were There|And Jake was there, and Slim and Ben...]]
*** [[Or Was It a Dream?]]:
** [[It Was with You All Along]]: Dorothy's ruby slippers, which Pennington falsely claims were with Loo all along.
* [[Bluff the Eavesdropper]]: While in Dr. Klahn's headquarters, Loo is about to discuss escape plans with Ada Gronick when she shows him a listening device. They make polite conversation as she shows him the rest of the devices and spies.
{{quote|'''Ada Gronick:''' [speaking quietly] The guards will have to be bribed. We'll need money.
'''Loo:''' We can raise the money, that's no problem. [Reaches up and pulls down an overhead microphone, speaks into it] [[And That Would Be Wrong|But that would be wrong.]]
* [[Dope Slap]]: Loo gives one to one of his martial arts students.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]], [[Place Worse Than Death]], [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]], [[Big No]]:
** [[Take That]], Detroit!
*** [[Take That]], Zürich! (in the German dub).
* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: Things guards can't hear include barking dogs, a broken vase, a bookshelf of broken vases...needless to say, it's lampshaded.
** When facing their [[You Have Failed Me|punishment]], they are forced to play a version of ''The Dating Game''.
* [[Happy Fun Ball]]:
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: A bowler hat throwing range is seen.
* [[Incredibly Obvious Bug]]: Several of increasing flagrancy.
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* [[Punny Name]]: Long Wang and Hung Well. Lampshaded by naming a character Enormous Genitals.
* [[Running Gag]]: "You have... our gratitude!"
* [[Swiss Army Appendage]]:
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: To [[Enter the Dragon]].
* [[Yellow Peril]]
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