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** At the end of Catcher’s date with Barbara in Peter’s apartment, she decides to walk out on him. Catcher asks her for another chance, which she denies, only to change her mind when he kisses her. [[spoiler:These same events foreshadow the last act of the film.]]
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* The Banner House editors, when told to say “Cheers” by Theodore Banner, are all calm but plainly livid because of the success of the titular book, as Vikki gleefully notes in the next scene.
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* MissedHimByThatMuch: Catcher leaves the Mahogany Room with Gwendolyn to go a matinee just as Barbara and Vikki arrive there.
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* MissedHimByThatMuch: Catcher leaves the Mahogany Room with Gwendolyn to go a matinee just as Barbara and Vikki arrive there. Also happens later, as Catcher is led to the bedroom by the beatnik chick just moments before Barbara arrives.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Catcher gets called one by the dry cleaner because of all the things he left in the pockets of his (actually Peter’s) dry cleaning.
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* The Banner House editors, when told to say “Cheers” by Theodore Banner, are all calm but plainly livid because of the success of the titular book, as Vikki gleefully notes in the next scene.
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* UnlimitedWardrobe: Barbara, who wears a different outfit in almost every other scene and never wears the same outfit more than twice. Vikki is a close second.
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Subverted. Barbara eventually ends up BecomingTheMask and admits she doesn’t want to be with Catcher despite her plan to get with him, leaving him depressed. However, despite her seeming reluctance towards him at the job interview she lured him to, she changes her mind and and decides she does want him after all, much to his delight.]]
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* FanserviceExtra: The Astronette dancers and the beatnik girl.
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* FanserviceExtra: The Astronette dancers and the beatnik girl. Technically the bossa nova triplets too.
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* SameSexTriplets: Catcher's first scene is him, saying goodbye to three triplet brunettes who just can't bear to see him leave.
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* SameSexTriplets: Catcher's first scene is him, him descending out of a helicopter and saying goodbye to three triplet brunettes who just can't bear to see him leave.leave. Said triplets provide the trope image.
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* MissedHimByThatMuch: Catcher leaves the Mahogany Room with Gwendolyn to go a matinee just as Barbara and Vikki arrive there.
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** Also happened earlier, as when Barbara got fed up of Catcher standing her up, when she hangs up on him the final time, thunder can be heard in the background.
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** Also happened earlier, as when Barbara got fed up of Catcher standing her up, when she hangs up on him the final time, thunder can be heard in the background. It can also be heard at the start of the conversation when the screen splits.
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** Barbara when she overhears Gwendolyn and Yvette say that Catcher had been with each of them the day before at the time he was supposed to be meeting her, and realising he must be with Elke, and thus isn't coming to meet her (again). She insults him over the phone but barely raises her voice.
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** Barbara when she overhears Gwendolyn and Yvette say that Catcher had been with each of them the day before at the time he was supposed to be meeting her, and realising he must be with Elke, and thus isn't coming to meet her (again). She insults him over the phone but barely only raises her voice.voice once.
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** Gwendolyn, Yvette and Elke too, with Gwendolyn as the blonde, Yvette as the brunette and Elke as the redhead.
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** Gwendolyn, Yvette and Elke too, with Gwendolyn as the blonde, Yvette as the brunette and Elke as the redhead.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* LogoJoke: The Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox logo of the film's era begins the movie, complete with credits to [=CinemaScope=]. The "A News Corporation Company" byline is ungainly added in. The Creator/RegencyEnterprises logo is pink tinted, and a jazzy saxophone version of the usual Rgenecy fanfare plays.
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* LogoJoke: The Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox logo of the film's era begins the movie, complete with credits to [=CinemaScope=]. The "A News Corporation Company" byline is ungainly added in. The Creator/RegencyEnterprises logo is pink tinted, and a jazzy saxophone version of the usual Rgenecy Regency fanfare plays.
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* LogoJoke: The Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox logo of the film's era begins the movie, complete with credits to [=CinemaScope=]. The "A News Corporation Company" byline is ungainly added in.
** Barbara Novak deliberately seeks this out as part of her {{plan}}.
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* LogoJoke: The Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox logo of the film's era begins the movie, complete with credits to [=CinemaScope=]. The "A News Corporation Company" byline is ungainly added in.
** Barbara Novak deliberately seeks this out as partin. The Creator/RegencyEnterprises logo is pink tinted, and a jazzy saxophone version of her {{plan}}.the usual Rgenecy fanfare plays.
** Barbara Novak deliberately seeks this out as part
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* ClarkKenting: Catcher, who is nationally famous, goes undercover as Zip Martin by popping on a pair of Peter's glasses.
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* ClarkKenting: Catcher, who is nationally famous, goes undercover as Zip Martin by popping on a pair of Peter's glasses. Subverted in that he's so well known that he has to pay people off to refer to him as "Zip Martin" and [[spoiler:Barbara knows what's going on]].
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* SplashOfColor: Barbara is always dressed in brighter colors than everyone else, making her stand out even more.
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* ClarkKenting: Catcher, who is nationally famous, goes undercover as Zip Martin by popping on a pair of Peter's glasses.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Peter is in love with Vikki but has trouble expressing his feelings.
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* ExactWords: In the Banner House boardroom, C.W. says that the human race would end if women stopped falling in love. Barbara refutes this by saying that she said that women should refrain from love, not sex. Immediately followed on the part of C.W. with an OpenMouthInsertFoot moment.
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* ExactWords: ExactWords:
** In the Banner House boardroom, C.W. says that the human race would end if women stopped falling in love. Barbara refutes this by saying that she said that women should refrain from love, not sex. Immediately followed on the part of C.W. with an OpenMouthInsertFoot moment.
** While seducing Barbara as Zip Martin, Catcher carefully structures what he says to obfuscate the fact he's using his go-to moves on her.
** In the Banner House boardroom, C.W. says that the human race would end if women stopped falling in love. Barbara refutes this by saying that she said that women should refrain from love, not sex. Immediately followed on the part of C.W. with an OpenMouthInsertFoot moment.
** While seducing Barbara as Zip Martin, Catcher carefully structures what he says to obfuscate the fact he's using his go-to moves on her.
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* FriendsRentControl : Another parody. Barbara lives in a gorgeous, expansive apartment with a terrace. While this might be Justified if she had already been a best-seller, she moves in the day she arrives.
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* FriendsRentControl : Another parody. Barbara lives in a gorgeous, expansive apartment with a terrace. While this might be Justified if she had already been a best-seller, she moves in terrace even before her book hits the day she arrives. shelves.
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* MistakenForGay: Peter, [[CastingGag played by gay actor]] David Hyde Pierce.
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* MickeyMousing: The orchestral soundtrack punctuates the action on screen.
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* TheOner: See OverlyLongGag.
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* TheOner: See OverlyLongGag.Barbara's climactic speech goes on for minutes and is shot in a single take.
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* SexyStewardess: Catcher Block seems to attract these like flies.
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* SexyStewardess: Catcher Block seems to attract these like flies.flies and hooks up with ''three'' in the course of a single day.
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* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: Peter has difficulty navigating the controls and switches in Catcher's apartment, to put it mildly.
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* AccentSlipUp: Catcher's fake Southern accent as Zip Martin briefly slips into his own when he remarks Barbara has an eyelash, and she points it out. Followed by a minor OhCrap on his part.
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** Catcher has a minor one after the OohMeAccentsSlipping moment below, but he recovers fairly fast. [[spoiler:He then gets another one when Gwendolyn appears and ruins his plan by using his name.]]
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** Catcher has a minor one after the OohMeAccentsSlipping moment below, AccentSlipUp, but he recovers fairly fast. [[spoiler:He then gets another one when Gwendolyn appears and ruins his plan by using his name.]]
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In-story. Catcher's Southern accent as Zip Martin briefly slips into his own when he remarks Barbara has an eyelash, and she points it out. Followed by a minor OhCrap on his part.
** Out-of-universe, Ewan [=McGregor=] plays Catcher Block with an English accent, but occasionally slips into his natural Scottish on certain vowels.
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In-story. Catcher's Southern accent as Zip Martin briefly slips into his own when he remarks Barbara has an eyelash, and she points it out. Followed by a minor OhCrap on his part.
** Out-of-universe,Ewan [=McGregor=] plays Catcher Block with an English accent, but occasionally slips into his natural Scottish on certain vowels.
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** Out-of-universe, Ewan McGregor plays Catcher Block with an English accent, but occasionally slips into his natural Scottish on certain vowels.
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: [[spoiler:Barbara is all three. She was originally a brunette, dyed her hair blonde once she decided to write her book and at the end of the movie dyes her hair red to be "someone between the blonde and the brunette".]]
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* OnlyOneName: Gladys, Gwendolyn, Yvette, Elke, the bossa nova triplets (Lola, Rosa and Nina), Mrs Litzer and McNulty.
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* OnlyOneName: Gladys, Gwendolyn, Yvette, Elke, the bossa nova triplets (Lola, Rosa and Nina), Mrs Litzer and McNulty.[=McNulty=].
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* OldMaid: Vicki's secretary Gladys is a parody of the old maid trope, presented as DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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* OldMaid: Vicki's Vikki's secretary Gladys is a parody of the old maid trope, presented as DeliberateValuesDissonance.
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* OnlyOneName: Gladys, Gwendolyn, Yvette, Elke, the bossa nova triplets (Lola, Rosa and Nina) and Mrs Litzer.
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* OnlyOneName: Gladys, Gwendolyn, Yvette, Elke, the bossa nova triplets (Lola, Rosa and Nina) Nina), Mrs Litzer and Mrs Litzer.McNulty.
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* EpicFail: Peter's first date with Vikki in Catcher's apartment is this. Because he doesn't know how any of the switches work and he's clearly out of his element, he ends up causing the couch to flatten Vikki when he tries to activate the all for the built-in bar, confuses her by making her think he's gay (she doesn't reveal this part until later, though), scares them both by playing music which turns out to be much louder than expected, and in trying to turn the music down, causes the record player to spit records across the room.
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* EpicFail: Peter's first date with Vikki in Catcher's apartment is this. Because he doesn't know how any of the switches work and he's clearly out of his element, he ends up causing the couch to flatten Vikki when he tries to activate the all wall for the built-in bar, confuses her by making her think he's gay (she doesn't reveal this part until later, though), scares them both by playing music which turns out to be much louder than expected, and in trying to turn the music down, causes the record player to spit records across the room.room. Luckily for him, he decides to take Vikki downtown for coffee.
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* EpicFail: Peter's first date with Vikki in Catcher's apartment is this. Because he doesn't know how any of the switches work and he's clearly out of his element, he ends up causing the couch to flatten Vikki when he tries to activate the all for the built-in bar, confuses her by making her think he's gay (she doesn't reveal this part until later, though), scares them both by playing music which turns out to be much louder than expected, and in trying to turn the music down, causes the record player to spit records across the room.
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* HellYesMoment: [[spoiler:Catcher has one at the end when, as he is leaving Barbara's office, she appears in the elevator and reveals that yes, she still wants to be with him. Cue a big smile and a BigDamnKiss.]]
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* CallBack: The latter half of Catcher and Barbara's date at Peter's apartment shows Barbara looking at the moon through Peter's telescope. [[spoiler:Towards the end, Peter reveals that Barbara threw away everything Catcher sent her to try and win her back, including the telescope.]]
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** The MeaningfulEcho of Catcher counting to five at the end, expecting Barbara to react to him walking away, harks back to when he first did it outside the dry cleaners.
** The latter half of Catcher and Barbara's date at Peter's apartment shows Barbara looking at the moon through Peter's telescope. [[spoiler:Towards the end, Peter reveals that Barbara threw away everything Catcher sent her to try and win her back, including the telescope.]]
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** Outside the dry cleaner's, Catcher (as Zip Martin) asks Barbara if she can keep a secret, and she says yes. This seems like a throwaway ice breaker, [[spoiler:but it actually hints at the later reveal that Barbara isn't exactly who she says she is.]]
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* CharacterFilibuster: Barbara's {{Infodump}}. It lasts three minutes and, save for one line, occurs in one take.
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* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Barbara]]. It turns out that she [[spoiler: arranged the entire thing just to get Catcher to fall in love with her, manipulating and anticipating everything exactly for that moment]], and later [[spoiler: lured him in to applying for a job as her secretary to ask for another chance, in order to test his sincerity and maintain her dignity, while making it look like she's reluctant the whole time, and having even dyed her hair in participation of symbolic renewal]]. * CreatorCameo: Composer Marc Shaiman appears during the end credits as the pianist during Catcher and Barbara's performance of "Here's to Love".
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* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Barbara]]. It turns out that she [[spoiler: arranged the entire thing just to get Catcher to fall in love with her, manipulating and anticipating everything exactly for that moment]], and later [[spoiler: lured him in to applying for a job as her secretary to ask for another chance, in order to test his sincerity and maintain her dignity, while making it look like she's reluctant the whole time, and having even dyed her hair in participation of symbolic renewal]].
* CreatorCameo: Composer Marc Shaiman appears during the end credits as the pianist during Catcher and Barbara's performance of "Here's to Love".
* CreatorCameo: Composer Marc Shaiman appears during the end credits as the pianist during Catcher and Barbara's performance of "Here's to Love".
* DistractedByTheSexy: Catcher reveals this is how he managed to get hold of the NASA security clearance badge, by using the bossa nova triplets to distract the person it belonged to.
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** When Catcher devises his plan to write his expose about Barbara, he says that even Barbara wants love and marriage and he will prove it. [[spoiler:He has no idea how right he is, as she reveals she arranged the entire scenario to get him to fall in love with her.]]
** When Catcher arranges his big night with Barbara, he tells Peter he doesn't have to say anything, but Peter feels the pressure of the guilt he feels would be too much.[[spoiler: This causes him to blurt out to Vikki the truth of the plan during their Japanese dinner.]]
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* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Sally, Catcher's new secretary, eavesdrops on the latter half of Catcher's conversation with Peter over the intercom, and to her it sounds like they're measuring their penises. Had she heard the first part, she would have known they were talking about the length of their socks.
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* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Sally, Catcher's new secretary, eavesdrops on the latter half of Catcher's conversation with Peter over the intercom, and to her it sounds like they're measuring their penises. Had she heard the first part, she would have known they were talking about the length of their socks. The misunderstanding eventually causes her to pass out after she hears Catcher say, "Don't forget, I've got two of them!"