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* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: The cop who busts Louis for PCP possession is [[Sesame Street|Bert and Grover]] and [[Star Wars|Yoda]] and [[The Muppet Show|Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy]].
* [[History Marches On]]: Modern commodities markets have "breakers" that prevent prices from changing as rapidly as depicted in the film, precisely to avoid the sort of mess the Dukes tried to cause and profit from, as well as the kind of mess they ended up getting themselves into. These limits were added a few years after the film was made. The law that changed this is even informally known as the "Eddie Murphy Rule", though it may have had more to do with the real-life events that inspired end of the film (see [[Ripped from the Headlines]] in the main section).
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Don Ameche was nothing but a gentleman in [[Real Life]], and apologized constantly for his use of the N-word, and for his [[Precision F-Strike]].
** Likewise Paul Gleason, who played Clarence Beeks. He could make Eddie Murphy ''and'' Dan Akroyd laugh.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Before this Jamie Lee Curtis mostly played the [[Final Girl]] in slasher movies and therefore the good wholesome character. She deliberately took the role to break away from this type casting.
* [[Technology Marches On]]:
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