History Film / DoctorDetroit

* TheEighties

* OneBadMother: The ruthless drug dealer is called "Mom".

* ShoutOut: ''[[StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Dr. Detroit II: The Wrath of Mom]]''.

* TropesAreTools: Being a professor of literature, Clifford is aware enough of tropes to rely on them to play the role of the Good Doctor.

* SnobsVersusSlobs: Underplayed as Clifford has to bounce between the upper-class world of academia and the lower-class world of Doctor Detroit. Played for laughs when Clifford stages the criminal's annual bash at the same hotel as the school's annual alumni dinner.

** Subverted in the end when he lives out the better dream of being a heroic knight, saving the girls and the city of Chicago in its HourOfNeed.

* PimpDuds: Clifford raids his college's Theater department to find the most outlandish outfit he can find to pretend being the Doctor. Including a Medieval knight's glove.

* TwoTimerDate: This is the device employed for the climactic sequence. Skridlow is running back and forth between a society function and a pimps'/hookers' bash, both in the same hotel, and has to switch clothes and personae between them as well. With predictable results.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: Cliff wears some ''alarmingly'' tiny shorts while power-walking during the theme song sequence.

* BecomingTheMask: What slowly happens to Clifford as he takes on the role of the dreaded Doctor Detroit. So much that he suffers a terrible nightmare.

* DirtyCoward: Smooth Walker for dumping his problems on poor Clifford.

''Doctor Detroit'' is a 1983 FishOutOfWater Comedy starring Creator/DanAykroyd.

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-->'''Mom:''' "Doctor?"
-->'''Smooth:''' Yeah. Doctor...''(Looks around frantically, spies a travel poster for Detroit behind her head)'' Detroit."

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The ending just before the credits promised that Doctor Detroit would return in a sequel titled '''Doctor Detroit 2: The Wrath of Mom''' and the studio was seriously considering it because they expected the film to be a huge hit. Creator/DanAykroyd was even working on the screenplay himself. Unfortunately, the film did not do well at the box office and the proposed sequel was scrapped.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The ending just before the credits promised that Doctor Detroit would return in a sequel titled '''Doctor Detroit 2: The Wrath of Mom''' and the studio was seriously considering it because they expected the film to be a huge hit. Creator/DanAykroyd was even working on the screenplay himself. Unfortunately, the film did not do well at the box office and the proposed sequel was scrapped.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The ending just before the credits promised that Doctor Detroit would return in a sequel titled '''Doctor Detroit 2: The Wrath of Mom''' and the studio was seriously considering it because they expected the film to be a huge hit. DanAykroyd was even working on the screenplay himself. Unfortunately, the film did not do well at the box office and the proposed sequel was scrapped.

* KarmaHoudini: Smooth again. Not only did he get away with setting Cliff up for the fall, and he still got away with it, living happily ever after on a tropical island.

''Doctor Detroit'' is a 1983 FishOutOfWater Comedy starring Music/DanAykroyd.

''Doctor Detroit'' is an Eighties Fish out of Water Comedy starring Dan Akroyd.

Clifford Skridlow teaches at a small Chicago college run by his father. Conned into managing four prostitutes by their pimp, who skips town to escape the mob boss known as Mom, Clifford draws on his course in medieval literature in his quest to save the women from Mom.

!!''Doctor Detroit'' contains examples of:

* TwoTimerDate: This is the device employed for the climactic sequence. Dan Ackroyd is running back and forth between a society function and a pimps'/hookers' bash, both in the same hotel, and has to switch clothes and personae between them as well. With predictable results.