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** Jamie Lee Curtis. As RogerEbert puts it, she dresses as businesswomen would dress if careerwear was designed by Maidenform.
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* PeopleZoo: Rollo and his office are briefly an exhibit in a cage at the zoo.
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* AscendedToCarnivorism: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]], as it's what the zookeepers ''want'' Rollo to think so he'll keep their animals.
--> '''Rollo:''' It says here they eat grass.
--> '''Lotterby:''' That's for hors d'oeuvres, sir. When their blood's up--
--> '''Rollo:''' Lotterby, you are trying to deceive me into thinking some of your animals are fierce...
--> '''Rollo:''' It says here they eat grass.
--> '''Lotterby:''' That's for hors d'oeuvres, sir. When their blood's up--
--> '''Rollo:''' Lotterby, you are trying to deceive me into thinking some of your animals are fierce...
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''AFishCalledWanda''.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''AFishCalledWanda''. In Poland the movie is even called ''[[CompletelyDifferentTitle A Lemur Called Rollo]]''
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* DeepSouth: Ned about Texas, and people shooting animals there, [[ValuesDissonance charged]].
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* PandaingToTheAudience: A robot panda is imported to the zoo and presented as the real thing
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* RupertMurdoch: Parodied.
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* BadBoss : [[CaptainObvious Rod]] Mc Cain.Rod [=McCain=].
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* AccidentalPervert / NotWhatItLooksLike: Rollo Lee is constantly being being caught by Willa in embarrassing and seemingly lurid situations (such as being caught in a shower with half-dressed and nubile young lady zookeepers, and a sheep wandering out of in his bedroom, etc).bedroom). They all have perfectly innocent but very convoluted and unlikely explanations.
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** By not actually dying; he's going to [[HumanPopsicle freeze himself]] and live forever, with his property going into a trust in the interim.
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* BlatantLies: This exchange.
--> '''Rod:''' I'm all out of money.
--> '''Vince:''' You've got six billion dollars!
--> '''Rod:''' Seven, but times are tough.
--> '''Rod:''' I'm all out of money.
--> '''Vince:''' You've got six billion dollars!
--> '''Rod:''' Seven, but times are tough.
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* DeepSouth : Ned about Texas, and people shooting animals there, '''[[ValueDissonance charged]]'''.
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* DeepSouth : Ned about Texas, and people shooting animals there, [[ValueDissonance ''charged'']].
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* DeepSouth : Ned about Texas, and people shooting animals there, [[ValueDissonance ''charged'']].
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-->'''Ned:''' Beijing called. We've got the television rights to their public executions.\\
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-->'''Ned:''' Beijing called. We've got [[GoneHorriblyWrong the television rights to their public executions.executions]].\\
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* NetworkDecay : What a nice [[CyberPunk cyberpunked]] [[Greed business]] [[CardCarryingVillain discussion]]!
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* NetworkDecay : What a nice [[CyberPunk cyberpunked]] [[Greed business]] [[CardCarryingVillain discussion]]!rejoicing]]!
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'''Rod:''' Beauty! This is what [[TechnologyMarchesOn satellite television television]] was invented for. Totally cross-cultural.
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* NetworkDecay : What a nice [[Cyberpunk [[CyberPunk cyberpunked]] business !
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* BadBoss : ''Rod'' McCain.[[CaptainObvious Rod]] Mc Cain.
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-->'''Ned:''' Beijing called. We've got the television rights to their public executions.
'''Rod:''' Worldwide?\\
'''Ned:''' Five guys a week, guaranteed!\\
'''Rod:''' Beauty! This is what satellite television was invented for. Totally cross-cultural.
-->'''Ned:''' Beijing called. We've got the television rights to their public executions.
'''Rod:''' Worldwide?\\
'''Ned:''' Five guys a week, guaranteed!\\
'''Rod:''' Beauty! This is what satellite television was invented for. Totally cross-cultural.
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* ShoutOut: "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Beautiful plumage]]", "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Flesh wound]]", and, of course, calling Willa "Wanda".
** Bugsy can't stop talking until the moment where he kills someone, at which point he shuts up. In AFishCalledWanda, Ken (played by the same actor) cannot ''talk'' because of his stutter, until he kills someone, at which point he suddenly talks normally and won't shut up.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Vince. Willa described him as "pronoid"; the opposite of paranoid. Despite all evidence to the contrary, he thinks he is admired, respected, and popular. Needless to say, not a single other character can stand him.
** Bugsy can't stop talking until the moment where he kills someone, at which point he shuts up. In AFishCalledWanda, Ken (played by the same actor) cannot ''talk'' because of his stutter, until he kills someone, at which point he suddenly talks normally and won't shut up.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Vince. Willa described him as "pronoid"; the opposite of paranoid. Despite all evidence to the contrary, he thinks he is admired, respected, and popular. Needless to say, not a single other character can stand him.
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* ShoutOut: "[[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Beautiful plumage]]", "[[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Flesh wound]]", and, of course, calling Willa "Wanda".
** Bugsy can't stop talking until the moment where he kills someone, at which point he shuts up. In AFishCalledWanda, Ken (played by the same actor) cannot ''talk'' because of his stutter, until he kills someone, at which point he suddenly talks normally and won't shut up.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Vince. Willa described him as "pronoid"; the opposite of paranoid. Despite all evidence to the contrary, he thinks he is admired, respected, and popular. Needless to say, not a single other character can stand him.
** Bugsy can't stop talking until the moment where he kills someone, at which point he shuts up. In AFishCalledWanda, Ken (played by the same actor) cannot ''talk'' because of his stutter, until he kills someone, at which point he suddenly talks normally and won't shut up.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Vince. Willa described him as "pronoid"; the opposite of paranoid. Despite all evidence to the contrary, he thinks he is admired, respected, and popular. Needless to say, not a single other character can stand him.
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* JerryGoldsmith
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* ProductionPosse: AFishCalledWanda ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'' and FierceCreatures ''Fierce Creatures'' both share the same four actors: John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Michael Palin.
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''Fierce Creatures'' (1997) is a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'', starring the four main players from the earlier film: Creator/JohnCleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Creator/MichaelPalin. The movie was written by John Cleese and directed by Fred Schepisi and Robert Young.
The story concerns a British zoo recently acquired by New Zealand businessman Rod [=McCain=] (Kline) and put under the management of Rollo Lee (Cleese). In order to boost profits, Lee decides to institute a "fierce creatures" policy that means that only potentially deadly animals will be featured in the zoo.
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!! This movie contains examples of:
* AccidentalPervert / NotWhatItLooksLike: Rollo Lee is constantly being being caught by Willa in embarrassing and seemingly lurid situations (such as being caught in a shower with half-dressed and nubile young lady zookeepers, a sheep wandering out of his bedroom, etc). They all have perfectly innocent but very convoluted and unlikely explanations.
--> '''Zoo Patron''': I can see why they keep him in a cage.
* ActingForTwo: Kline as both the [=McCains=].
* ActorAllusion: Rollo briefly calls Willa "Wanda" by accident. Wanda was Curtis' previous role in ''AFishCalledWanda''.
* AllThereInTheManual: The novelisation reveals that Rollo is the brother of Archie from ''AFishCalledWanda''.
* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Rollo only pretends to shoot the cute, fuzzy animals. He is instead keeping them hidden in his room.
* BetterThanItSoundsFilm
* ChekhovsSkill: Vince's ability to mimic his father's Kiwi accent.
* CurseCutShort
* DoubleEntendre: Willa bends forward displaying an immense amount of cleavage to the camera and starts asking how you can resist the urge to reach out and fondle them. She is of course bending forward to look at some very cute animals in the zoo.
* EpicFail: Bugsy accidentally killing Rod. Not so much the fact he shot him, but the fact that by shooting him, he doomed his comrades to very swift life imprisonment. Not to mention, Rod has decided to keep the zoo open, mere seconds beforehand.
** Rollo points out how thoroughly they're all screwed in a tirade dripping with sarcasm.
-->'''Rollo:''' Oh, great. Terrific. He decides to keep the zoo open, so you kill him. Brilliant. Well done. Thank you so much, especially for shooting him right between the eyes so that it doesn't look like an accident. Because the people at Octopus will know he was coming here to close us down. So there's our motive for murdering him. Stunning. Well, Mr. Brain of Britain, what are we going to tell the police who are, of course, already on their way here? Another example of the thoroughness of your plan. Go on. I'm all ears. What do you suggest we do with the dead body of the ''incredibly'' famous man who you have just '''''ASSASSINATED'''''?
* ExecutiveMeddling: The studio disliked the cut of the film that Robert Young turned in, which led to Fred Schepisi being hired to reshoot anything between just the ending or nearly half of the film, depending on who you believe.
** It could be half, since Fierce Creatures seems a bit more watered down with the language when comparing it to A Fish Called Wanda.
* FanService: One of Vince's new marketing schemes is to have the zookeepers dress in animal costumes like at Disneyland. One female keeper is dressed rather seductively as a [[CatGirl leopard]].
** Jamie Lee Curtis. As RogerEbert puts it, she dresses as businesswomen would dress if careerwear was designed by Maidenform.
* FreudianSlipperySlope: John Cleese has a brilliant monologue about lemurs wherein he is unable to go five words without mentioning Jamie Lee Curtis' breasts.
** He even describes it as a "Freudian slit...-slut!...-slot!"
* {{Gasshole}}: Rod [=McCain=]. He farts as he ''dies''.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Vince.
-->'''Vince:''' What about a small advance on my inheritance?\\
'''Rod:''' What inheritance?\\
'''Vince:''' I'm your son, you have to leave me something.\\
'''Rod:''' Why?\\
'''Vince:''' 'Cause you screwed up my whole childhood!\\
'''Rod:''' How could I have? Wasn't even there.
* HilarityInZoos: The movie takes place mainly at the zoo
* HypocriticalHumor: After overhearing Rollo on the phone and thinking he's in the midst of a four-way with three hot young zookeepers, Vince says it's disgusting how people abuse positions of power for personal gratification. As he's saying this, he's stripping down to his underwear in order to seduce Willa.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough
-->'''Di:''' You mean Octopus is ruled by fear?
-->'''Rollo:''' No, no. Terror.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace
* InadequateInheritor: See HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood above--Rod is going to cut Vince out of the will.
* JerkAss: Rod [=McCain=]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rollo puts on the appearance of a tough, no-nonsense type with a sharp tongue, but it's mostly bluster and he's pretty nice underneath it all.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Rod [=McCain=] claims "Sheep are exactly like people, you know. Give 'em a couple of meals a day, they just stand there quietly... till you eat 'em."
* MotorMouth: Oh God, Bugsy. Even Vince threatening to shoot him if he doesn't shut up doesn't work. It makes his eventual [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone stunned silence]] all the more effective.
-->'''Vince:''' You would rather talk than ''live'', wouldn't you?!
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: "No animals were harmed in the making of this film, only humans."
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Played with, first successfully to disarm a gunman then, while explaining that the safety was on all the time it ventures into IJustShotMarvinInTheFace.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: When the father is shot in the head, a plan is quickly concocted to have his son play the father and then pretend to commit suicide. This works well since both characters are played by Kevin Kline.
* PandaingToTheAudience: A robot panda is imported to the zoo and presented as the real thing
* ProductionPosse: AFishCalledWanda and FierceCreatures both share the same four actors: John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Michael Palin.
** The same woman who played Wendy (Archie's wife) in ''Wanda'' also returns, this time playing Rollo's secretary. And John Cleese's daughter Cynthia, who played his daughter in ''Wanda'', here plays the blonde zookeeper.
* RightInFrontOfMe: Rollo Lee mouthing off to the people he doesn't know are his bosses:
-->'''Rollo:''' God, you're always so pushy, you Americans! I mean, who the hell do you think you are?!
-->'''Willa:''' Willa Weston.
-->'''Vince:''' Vince [=McCain=].
-->'''Rollo:''' Oh...Well...
* RupertMurdoch: Parodied.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''AFishCalledWanda''.
* ShoutOut: "[[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Beautiful plumage]]", "[[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Flesh wound]]", and, of course, calling Willa "Wanda".
** Bugsy can't stop talking until the moment where he kills someone, at which point he shuts up. In AFishCalledWanda, Ken (played by the same actor) cannot ''talk'' because of his stutter, until he kills someone, at which point he suddenly talks normally and won't shut up.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Vince. Willa described him as "pronoid"; the opposite of paranoid. Despite all evidence to the contrary, he thinks he is admired, respected, and popular. Needless to say, not a single other character can stand him.
* [[ThoseTwoActors Those Four Actors]]: Note: This is ''not'' a sequel to ''Wanda''.
* ThrowItIn: After Rollo has called Willa Wanda by mistake, he is seen suppressing his laughter.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Rod and Vince [=McCain=], both played by KevinKline.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: This movie demonstrates from the inside how this can happen unintentionally. It turns out the process is similar to that which makes an AccidentalPervert, but with more of a tendency towards AccidentalInnuendo.
* VerbalBackspace: Rollo loses it and gives his zoo's employees a scathing critique of their new corporate owner:
-->'''Rollo:''' I think the whole Octopus philosophy is poison. The only aim of any and every [=McCain=] business is to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire another business to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire ''another'' business to downsize, etc., etc., without ever running a single one of them really well. And if anyone ever raises the question of quality, they're immediately attacked as an elitist, because at Octopus it's considered morally offensive to talk about anything but money. All so that Mr. Rod [=McCain=] can feel a little more powerful every day. That's why, instead of running this ''wonderful'' zoo properly, we've got to spoil it in order to finance his next ''mindless'' acquisition.
-->''(notices Willa, [=McCain=]'s employee, standing behind him)''
-->'''Rollo:''' ''(without flinching)'' On the other hand, he is a remarkable man--.
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The story concerns a British zoo recently acquired by New Zealand businessman Rod [=McCain=] (Kline) and put under the management of Rollo Lee (Cleese). In order to boost profits, Lee decides to institute a "fierce creatures" policy that means that only potentially deadly animals will be featured in the zoo.
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!! This movie contains examples of:
* AccidentalPervert / NotWhatItLooksLike: Rollo Lee is constantly being being caught by Willa in embarrassing and seemingly lurid situations (such as being caught in a shower with half-dressed and nubile young lady zookeepers, a sheep wandering out of his bedroom, etc). They all have perfectly innocent but very convoluted and unlikely explanations.
--> '''Zoo Patron''': I can see why they keep him in a cage.
* ActingForTwo: Kline as both the [=McCains=].
* ActorAllusion: Rollo briefly calls Willa "Wanda" by accident. Wanda was Curtis' previous role in ''AFishCalledWanda''.
* AllThereInTheManual: The novelisation reveals that Rollo is the brother of Archie from ''AFishCalledWanda''.
* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Rollo only pretends to shoot the cute, fuzzy animals. He is instead keeping them hidden in his room.
* BetterThanItSoundsFilm
* ChekhovsSkill: Vince's ability to mimic his father's Kiwi accent.
* CurseCutShort
* DoubleEntendre: Willa bends forward displaying an immense amount of cleavage to the camera and starts asking how you can resist the urge to reach out and fondle them. She is of course bending forward to look at some very cute animals in the zoo.
* EpicFail: Bugsy accidentally killing Rod. Not so much the fact he shot him, but the fact that by shooting him, he doomed his comrades to very swift life imprisonment. Not to mention, Rod has decided to keep the zoo open, mere seconds beforehand.
** Rollo points out how thoroughly they're all screwed in a tirade dripping with sarcasm.
-->'''Rollo:''' Oh, great. Terrific. He decides to keep the zoo open, so you kill him. Brilliant. Well done. Thank you so much, especially for shooting him right between the eyes so that it doesn't look like an accident. Because the people at Octopus will know he was coming here to close us down. So there's our motive for murdering him. Stunning. Well, Mr. Brain of Britain, what are we going to tell the police who are, of course, already on their way here? Another example of the thoroughness of your plan. Go on. I'm all ears. What do you suggest we do with the dead body of the ''incredibly'' famous man who you have just '''''ASSASSINATED'''''?
* ExecutiveMeddling: The studio disliked the cut of the film that Robert Young turned in, which led to Fred Schepisi being hired to reshoot anything between just the ending or nearly half of the film, depending on who you believe.
** It could be half, since Fierce Creatures seems a bit more watered down with the language when comparing it to A Fish Called Wanda.
* FanService: One of Vince's new marketing schemes is to have the zookeepers dress in animal costumes like at Disneyland. One female keeper is dressed rather seductively as a [[CatGirl leopard]].
** Jamie Lee Curtis. As RogerEbert puts it, she dresses as businesswomen would dress if careerwear was designed by Maidenform.
* FreudianSlipperySlope: John Cleese has a brilliant monologue about lemurs wherein he is unable to go five words without mentioning Jamie Lee Curtis' breasts.
** He even describes it as a "Freudian slit...-slut!...-slot!"
* {{Gasshole}}: Rod [=McCain=]. He farts as he ''dies''.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Vince.
-->'''Vince:''' What about a small advance on my inheritance?\\
'''Rod:''' What inheritance?\\
'''Vince:''' I'm your son, you have to leave me something.\\
'''Rod:''' Why?\\
'''Vince:''' 'Cause you screwed up my whole childhood!\\
'''Rod:''' How could I have? Wasn't even there.
* HilarityInZoos: The movie takes place mainly at the zoo
* HypocriticalHumor: After overhearing Rollo on the phone and thinking he's in the midst of a four-way with three hot young zookeepers, Vince says it's disgusting how people abuse positions of power for personal gratification. As he's saying this, he's stripping down to his underwear in order to seduce Willa.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough
-->'''Di:''' You mean Octopus is ruled by fear?
-->'''Rollo:''' No, no. Terror.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace
* InadequateInheritor: See HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood above--Rod is going to cut Vince out of the will.
* JerkAss: Rod [=McCain=]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rollo puts on the appearance of a tough, no-nonsense type with a sharp tongue, but it's mostly bluster and he's pretty nice underneath it all.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Rod [=McCain=] claims "Sheep are exactly like people, you know. Give 'em a couple of meals a day, they just stand there quietly... till you eat 'em."
* MotorMouth: Oh God, Bugsy. Even Vince threatening to shoot him if he doesn't shut up doesn't work. It makes his eventual [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone stunned silence]] all the more effective.
-->'''Vince:''' You would rather talk than ''live'', wouldn't you?!
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: "No animals were harmed in the making of this film, only humans."
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Played with, first successfully to disarm a gunman then, while explaining that the safety was on all the time it ventures into IJustShotMarvinInTheFace.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: When the father is shot in the head, a plan is quickly concocted to have his son play the father and then pretend to commit suicide. This works well since both characters are played by Kevin Kline.
* PandaingToTheAudience: A robot panda is imported to the zoo and presented as the real thing
* ProductionPosse: AFishCalledWanda and FierceCreatures both share the same four actors: John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Michael Palin.
** The same woman who played Wendy (Archie's wife) in ''Wanda'' also returns, this time playing Rollo's secretary. And John Cleese's daughter Cynthia, who played his daughter in ''Wanda'', here plays the blonde zookeeper.
* RightInFrontOfMe: Rollo Lee mouthing off to the people he doesn't know are his bosses:
-->'''Rollo:''' God, you're always so pushy, you Americans! I mean, who the hell do you think you are?!
-->'''Willa:''' Willa Weston.
-->'''Vince:''' Vince [=McCain=].
-->'''Rollo:''' Oh...Well...
* RupertMurdoch: Parodied.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''AFishCalledWanda''.
* ShoutOut: "[[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Beautiful plumage]]", "[[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Flesh wound]]", and, of course, calling Willa "Wanda".
** Bugsy can't stop talking until the moment where he kills someone, at which point he shuts up. In AFishCalledWanda, Ken (played by the same actor) cannot ''talk'' because of his stutter, until he kills someone, at which point he suddenly talks normally and won't shut up.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Vince. Willa described him as "pronoid"; the opposite of paranoid. Despite all evidence to the contrary, he thinks he is admired, respected, and popular. Needless to say, not a single other character can stand him.
* [[ThoseTwoActors Those Four Actors]]: Note: This is ''not'' a sequel to ''Wanda''.
* ThrowItIn: After Rollo has called Willa Wanda by mistake, he is seen suppressing his laughter.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Rod and Vince [=McCain=], both played by KevinKline.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: This movie demonstrates from the inside how this can happen unintentionally. It turns out the process is similar to that which makes an AccidentalPervert, but with more of a tendency towards AccidentalInnuendo.
* VerbalBackspace: Rollo loses it and gives his zoo's employees a scathing critique of their new corporate owner:
-->'''Rollo:''' I think the whole Octopus philosophy is poison. The only aim of any and every [=McCain=] business is to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire another business to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire ''another'' business to downsize, etc., etc., without ever running a single one of them really well. And if anyone ever raises the question of quality, they're immediately attacked as an elitist, because at Octopus it's considered morally offensive to talk about anything but money. All so that Mr. Rod [=McCain=] can feel a little more powerful every day. That's why, instead of running this ''wonderful'' zoo properly, we've got to spoil it in order to finance his next ''mindless'' acquisition.
-->''(notices Willa, [=McCain=]'s employee, standing behind him)''
-->'''Rollo:''' ''(without flinching)'' On the other hand, he is a remarkable man--.
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