Tremors: Difference between revisions

** Case in point, wiping over two dozen Shriekers singlehandly, his words implying he ''killed some with his barehands!''

* [[Badass Mustache]]: Burt, of course.

* [[Attack of the Town Festival]]: Happens in the TV series.

* [[Big Bulky Bomb]]: 2.5 tons of high explosives.

** Later on, Burt goes on a rant about how the oil company that brought them in didn't brief them about the Shriekers, something they couldn't have ''possibly'' known about. Twice in the movie, once before this point and once afterward, Burt's actions [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|put the group in further danger]] due to [[Contrived Coincidence|something he couldn't have known about]].

** In the series, one episode has the team go out to a town filled solely with UFO-revering conspiracy theorists. Burt finds them all utterly ridiculous, at one point verbally proclaiming they are "all nuts". Then again, they actually accused Burt of being a government cover-up agent, so he kind of had a point.

** Crowning example? He gives an idiot a revolver to get him to cooperate - an ''unloaded'' revolver. After he takes it back, he pops the cylinder just to make sure it's unloaded. '''This is what you are supposed to do anytime you pick up a firearm, just so you do not Shoot Someone In The Face'''.

** Unfortunately, they get a little lax regarding this in the third movie. One example would be when Burt finds out that Jack's gun is fake, and hands him a pistol. Jack sticks the thing ''down his pants'', which is a great idea if you plan on [[Groin Attack|blowing your own nuts off]], but generally something you want to avoid; Burt doesn't even bat an eyelid at this.

* [[Roof Hopping]]: Well, Rock Hopping actually; averted in town, where the rooftops in Perfection are too far apart for the trapped residents to do this.

* [[Sand Worm]]: The Graboids are probably the best known example next to ''[[Dune]]''.

** The series was also filmed at the same time as ''Tremors 4'', which meant that Burt had to be left out of the show at times.

* [[Sequel Goes Foreign]]: [[Tremors]] 2 takes place in Mexico.

'''Burt:''' ''Not enou...'' Never mind, just run! ''Run!'' }}

* [[Swallow the Key]]: Not done intentionally, but El Blanco the Graboid ate a gangster in an early episode of ''Tremors: The Series'', who happened to have the key to a mob safety-deposit box around his neck at the time. In a later episode, the gangster's surviving associate returns to try to kill El Blanco and retrieve the key, hoping to empty the deposit box of its millions.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: "Now there's nothing, and I mean nothing, between us and Bixby!"

* [[That Poor Car]]: Vibrations from burrowing Graboids set off the car alarm in the Gummers' SUV, inciting them to destroy the vehicle.