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• Acceptable Targets: Male models, clothing executives, and the fashion industry as a whole.
• Cult Classic
• Fashion Victim Villain: Mugatu looks like an unholy mixture of Satan, Cruella DeVille, and a poodle. He also inexplicably dresses up as a young German boy during the brainwashing scene.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Zoolander's breathless accent probably sounds strangely familiar. It is: Ben Stiller is impersonating Marilyn Monroe.
  • Derek is from New Jersey and can't turn left. Anyone who has driven in New Jersey would find this alternately funny and infuriating - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughandle
• Fountain of Memes: Let's just say this movie is "very quotable" and leave it at that.
  • "Blue Steel" has probably gotten more pop-culture nods than any other joke in the movie.
  • "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"
  • "What is this, a center for ANTS!?!"
  • "Well you can dere-LICT my balls!"
  • "You think I don't know what a eugoogoly is?"
  • "Hansel is so hot right now!"
• Hollywood Homely: Matilda. (Probably a deliberate joke.)
• Vindicated by History: The film flopped in theaters, having the misfortune to come out a few weekends after 9/11. Over the years, however, it became a hit on home video.
• Serial Numbers Filed Off: Zoolander is basically The Manchurian Candidate and/or Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama on laughing gas. Whether this is intentional or a coincidence is unconfirmed.