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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: [=SanDeE*=]. Not Sandy, "Big S, small A, small N, big D, small E, big E and a star".
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* OpenRelationshipFailure: Harris starts a casual relationship with [=SanDeE*=], a ditzy clerk at a clothing store, who tells him her boyfriend doesn't want to be exclusive so they can keep dating other people--before pointing him out to Harris during their date at the Hard Rock Cafe and saying [[OriginalPositionFallacy "it backfires on him sometimes."]] Late in the film, she says the boyfriend wants to go exclusive, she suspects because he wasn't able to get any other dates.
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** Harris amuses himself by getting his friend to film him rollerskating through an art museum. He calls it performance art; she apparently calls it "wasting time".
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** Harris amuses himself by getting his friend Ariel to film him rollerskating through an art museum. He calls it performance art; she apparently calls it "wasting time".
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* AffablyEvil: "Hi, my name's Bob, and I'll be your robber."[[note]]In context, line of muggers are literally lined up on the other side of the ATM from the side where people are lining up to withdraw cash.[[/note]]
-->'''Harris:''' Hi. ''(gives him the cash he just took from the ATM)''
-->'''Harris:''' Hi. ''(gives him the cash he just took from the ATM)''
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* ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe, Harris' boss (Woody Harrelson), wants a "more wacky, less egghead" weathercaster. Keep in mind, Harris is already loopier than a roller coaster in his weather reports.
--> '''Boss''': You're doing some sort of intellectual thing.
--> '''Harris''': Intellectual? It may seem intellectual to you, because you were educated with with a banana and an inner tube! This is an intellectual-free zone!
--> '''Boss''': More wacky, less egghead.
--> '''Boss''': You're doing some sort of intellectual thing.
--> '''Harris''': Intellectual? It may seem intellectual to you, because you were educated with with a banana and an inner tube! This is an intellectual-free zone!
--> '''Boss''': More wacky, less egghead.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe, Harris' boss (Woody Harrelson), wants a "more wacky, less egghead" weathercaster. Keep in mind, Harris is already loopier than a roller coaster rollercoaster in his weather reports.
--> '''Boss''': You're doing some sort of intellectualthing.
-->thing.\\
'''Harris''': Intellectual? It may seem intellectual to you, because you were educated with with a banana and an inner tube! This is an intellectual-freezone!
-->zone!\\
'''Boss''': More wacky, less egghead.
--> '''Boss''': You're doing some sort of intellectual
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'''Harris''': Intellectual? It may seem intellectual to you, because you were educated with with a banana and an inner tube! This is an intellectual-free
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'''Boss''': More wacky, less egghead.
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--->'''[[Creator/ChevyChase Carlo]]:''' Is this part of the New Cruelty?
--->'''[[Creator/PatrickStewart M'aitre D]]:''' I'm afraid so.
--->'''[[Creator/PatrickStewart M'aitre D]]:''' I'm afraid so.
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--->'''[[Creator/ChevyChase Carlo]]:''' Is this part of the New Cruelty?
--->'''[[Creator/PatrickStewartCruelty?\\
'''[[Creator/PatrickStewart M'aitre D]]:''' I'm afraid so.
--->'''[[Creator/PatrickStewart
'''[[Creator/PatrickStewart M'aitre D]]:''' I'm afraid so.
* OriginalPositionFallacy: Played for laughs with [=SanDeE*=] and her unnamed boyfriend. When Harris takes her on a date to the Hard Rock Cafe, she explains that her boyfriend pushed for them to be in an open relationship so that even though they're together, they can still date other people. "But it backfires on him sometimes," she adds, and points him out by the bar; he gives them a rather nonplussed look. Late in the film, she tells Harris that said boyfriend now wants to go exclusive, she suspects because he couldn't get any other dates.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Two, [=SanDeE*=] , who is something of a rebound girl for Harris, who he splits up with fairly amicably at the end (especially since she freely admitted she was dating Harris to make her boyfriend jealous), and Roland, Sara's ex-husband, who's only real flaw is his arrogance, which he seems unaware of.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Two, [=SanDeE*=] , who is something of a rebound girl for Harris, who he splits up with fairly amicably at the end (especially since she freely admitted she was dating Harris to make her boyfriend jealous), jealous); and Roland, Sara's ex-husband, who's only real flaw is his arrogance, which he seems unaware of.
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* ShutUpKiss: Twice in a row.
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* ShutUpKiss: Twice in {{Parodied}}. The road sign makes Harris and Sara's car break down and then travel to it, and Sara starts trying to rationalize it away with some kind of technobabble. The sign flashes "KISS HER", and Harris does. After breaking contact, she picks up her monologue right where she left off; it takes a row.second ShutUpKiss from Harris to make it stick.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: The art critique [[InUniverse scene]]-see below. [[invoked]]
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: The {{Parodied}}.
** Harris amuses himself by getting his friend to film him rollerskating through an art museum. He calls it performance art; she apparently calls it "wasting time".
--->"History will decide."
** While touring the same art museum later with Sara and Roland (after [[BrickJoke colliding with them while filming another rollerskate video]]), Harris gives a long, rambling art critique[[InUniverse scene]]-see below. [[invoked]]about what, after the camera cuts to actually show it, turns out to be a canvas consisting entirely of a red rectangle.
** Harris amuses himself by getting his friend to film him rollerskating through an art museum. He calls it performance art; she apparently calls it "wasting time".
--->"History will decide."
** While touring the same art museum later with Sara and Roland (after [[BrickJoke colliding with them while filming another rollerskate video]]), Harris gives a long, rambling art critique
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic: The hilarious, rambling, erotic critique Harris gives about... a painting of a large, red rectangle.[[invoked]]
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic: The {{Parodied}} with the hilarious, rambling, erotic critique Harris gives about... a painting of a large, red rectangle.[[invoked]]
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** Steve Martin is actually an [[RealitySubtext avid collector of modern art]] in real life.
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''L.A. Story'' is a romantic comedy starring (and written by) Creator/SteveMartin. Harris K. Telemacher (Martin) is a weatherman in L.A. whose love life is assisted by a mysterious, magical talking freeway sign. The city of Los Angeles is a star as well, one of the themes of the movie being the often bizarre attributes of the city itself, from the weather to earthquakes to the "fake" citizenry. Creator/MariluHenner, Victoria Tennant and a pre-''Series/SexAndTheCity'' Creator/SarahJessicaParker play the love interests of Harris. The movie is peppered with humorous cameo appearances, from Creator/PatrickStewart's scene-stealing maître d'hôtel to Creator/RickMoranis' gravedigger. (And yes, that ''is'' Music/PaulaAbdul as the rollerskater.)
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''L.A. Story'' is a romantic comedy starring (and written by) Creator/SteveMartin. Harris K. Telemacher (Martin) is a weatherman in L.A. whose love life is assisted by a mysterious, magical talking freeway sign. The city of Los Angeles is a star as well, one of the themes of the movie being the often bizarre attributes of the city itself, from the weather to earthquakes to the "fake" citizenry. Creator/MariluHenner, Victoria Tennant Creator/VictoriaTennant and a pre-''Series/SexAndTheCity'' Creator/SarahJessicaParker play the love interests of Harris. The movie is peppered with humorous cameo appearances, from Creator/PatrickStewart's scene-stealing maître d'hôtel to Creator/RickMoranis' gravedigger. (And yes, that ''is'' Music/PaulaAbdul as the rollerskater.)
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* OutlandishDeviceSetting: Harris' shower, in addition to Hot and Cold, also possesses a ''Slo-Mo'' setting, which does indeed cause the action to go into slow motion.
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* WannabeLine:
** Harris has to go through The FourthReich Bank to get a reservation at the latest trendy restaurant.
** Meanwhile, Roland gets immediate reservations.
** Harris has to go through The FourthReich Bank to get a reservation at the latest trendy restaurant.
** Meanwhile, Roland gets immediate reservations.
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* WannabeLine:
**WannabeLine: Harris has to go through The FourthReich Bank to can only get a reservation at to the latest new trendy restaurant.
** Meanwhile, Rolandrestaurant by being approved by [[ThoseWackyNazis The Fourth Reich Bank]]. Roland, meanwhile, gets immediate reservations.reservations.
-->'''Mr. Perdue:''' You think with a financial statement like this you can have the duck?!
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** Meanwhile, Roland
-->'''Mr. Perdue:''' You think with a financial statement like this you can have the duck?!
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Harris takes Sara on a tour around L.A., with one of the stops being the Museum of Musicology. The exhibits feature [[Music/GiuseppeVerdi Verdi's baton]], [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart's quill]], and [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven's balls]], as in Beethoven's testicles kept in a jar.
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The "damn testicles" line was said right outside the hotel room, prior to the beach
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* BrassBalls: There's a great scene where Harris (Creator/SteveMartin) is walking on the beach with arrogant bastard Roland (Creator/RichardEGrant), and there's this metallic clanging noise. Harris asks what it was and Roland says [[LiteralMetaphor "It's a nuisance. It's my damn testicles."]]
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* BrassBalls: There's a great scene where Harris (Creator/SteveMartin) is walking on down the beach stairs with arrogant bastard Roland (Creator/RichardEGrant), and there's this metallic clanging noise. Harris asks what it was and Roland says [[LiteralMetaphor "It's a nuisance. It's my damn testicles."]]
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''L.A. Story'' is a romantic comedy starring (and written by) Creator/SteveMartin. Harris K. Telemacher (Martin) is a weatherman in L.A. whose love life is assisted by a mysterious, magical talking freeway sign. The city of Los Angeles is a star as well, one of the themes of the movie being the often bizarre attributes of the city itself, from the weather to earthquakes to the "fake" citizenry. Marilu Henner, Victoria Tennant and a pre-''Series/SexAndTheCity'' Sarah Jessica Parker play the love interests of Harris. The movie is peppered with humorous cameo appearances, from Creator/PatrickStewart's scene-stealing maître d'hôtel to Creator/RickMoranis' gravedigger. (And yes, that ''is'' Music/PaulaAbdul as the rollerskater.)
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''L.A. Story'' is a romantic comedy starring (and written by) Creator/SteveMartin. Harris K. Telemacher (Martin) is a weatherman in L.A. whose love life is assisted by a mysterious, magical talking freeway sign. The city of Los Angeles is a star as well, one of the themes of the movie being the often bizarre attributes of the city itself, from the weather to earthquakes to the "fake" citizenry. Marilu Henner, Creator/MariluHenner, Victoria Tennant and a pre-''Series/SexAndTheCity'' Sarah Jessica Parker Creator/SarahJessicaParker play the love interests of Harris. The movie is peppered with humorous cameo appearances, from Creator/PatrickStewart's scene-stealing maître d'hôtel to Creator/RickMoranis' gravedigger. (And yes, that ''is'' Music/PaulaAbdul as the rollerskater.)
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Roland thinks of Pierce Brosnan after having sex with Sara.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Roland thinks of Pierce Brosnan Creator/MelGibson after having sex with Sara.
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* MistakenForQuake: {{Inverted}} in the cafe scene, which has the ground begin to shake about halfway into the meal. Sara, just in from the UK, worriedly asks what's going on and the others tell her it's just an earthquake.
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* MistakenForQuake: {{Inverted}} in the cafe café scene, which has the ground begin to shake about halfway into the meal. Sara, just in from the UK, worriedly asks what's going on and the others tell her it's just an earthquake.
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* ShoutOut: To Shakespeare, and especially ''Hamlet'''s gravedigger scene.
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* ShoutOut: To Shakespeare, and especially ShoutOutToShakespeare: Especially ''Hamlet'''s gravedigger scene.
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Harris and his friends agree to meet at a trendy new restaurant whose name is pronounced "leed-YO", but when the scene shifts there, we see that it's actually spelled "L'Idiot", and that ''is'' the correct pronunciation in French.
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Society Marches On has been renamed; cleaning out misuse and moving examples
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* SocietyMarchesOn: In the late 80's, early 90's, highway shootings were a major issue in L.A.
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Crosswicking.
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* BigDoor: Lampshaded. Harris takes Sara on a car tour of the good parts of Los Angeles, including through a neighborhood of [=McMansions=]. One of them has a front door that goes up about a floor and a half.
--> '''Harris:''' You know, you're really nobody in this town unless you've got a really big door.
--> '''Harris:''' You know, you're really nobody in this town unless you've got a really big door.
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* VirtualAssistantBlunder: Harris K. Telemacher is trying to program his voice operated answering machine to make calls. When he says "Dial Mom", it calls Domino's Pizza.
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* OnTheRebound: Both Harris and [=SanDeE*=] are dealing with a breakup and a separation. Sara calls Harris out on it, asking him why he didn't tell her he'd just broken up with someone.
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* OnTheRebound: Both Harris and [=SanDeE*=] are dealing with a breakup and a separation.separation respectively. Sara calls Harris out on it, asking him why he didn't tell her he'd just broken up with someone.
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* OnTheRebound: Both Harris and [=SanDeE*=] are dealing with a breakup and a separation. Sara calls Harris out on it, asking him why he didn't tell her he'd just broken up with someone.
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** Subverted with [=SanDeE*=]. Although she comes off as this at first, and certainly makes a try at it; she doesn't really make any significant change to Harris's life. Eventually, the relationship is treated as just a bad rebound thing which temporarily got in the way of a real relationship with Sara.
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** Subverted with [=SanDeE*=]. Although she comes off as this at first, and certainly makes a try at it; she doesn't really make any significant change to Harris's life. Eventually, the relationship is treated as just a bad rebound thing which temporarily got in the way of a real relationship with Sara.Sara -- and [=SanDeE*=] was just dating Harris to make her boyfriend jealous (because he said they should try dating other people.)
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-->'''Waiter:''' We got hot bread, milk-fed veal and new potatoes//
And a hundred different ways to cook a couple of tomatoes//
If the service is a problem 'cause the place is packed//
And a hundred different ways to cook a couple of tomatoes//
If the service is a problem 'cause the place is packed//
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-->'''Waiter:''' We got hot bread, milk-fed veal and new potatoes//
potatoes\\
And a hundred different ways to cook a couple oftomatoes//
tomatoes\\
If the service is a problem 'cause the place ispacked//packed\\
And a hundred different ways to cook a couple of
If the service is a problem 'cause the place is
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* PissTakeRap: ''L'Idiot'' apparently hires rapping waiters.
-->'''Waiter:''' We got hot bread, milk-fed veal and new potatoes//
And a hundred different ways to cook a couple of tomatoes//
If the service is a problem 'cause the place is packed//
Ask for me, I'm Sam the waiter, and I also act
-->'''Waiter:''' We got hot bread, milk-fed veal and new potatoes//
And a hundred different ways to cook a couple of tomatoes//
If the service is a problem 'cause the place is packed//
Ask for me, I'm Sam the waiter, and I also act
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* RoadTripAcrossTheStreet
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* RoadTripAcrossTheStreetRoadTripAcrossTheStreet: Complete with swelling orchestra, as Harris drives to his next door neighbor.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: In the late 80's, early 90's, highway shootings were a major issue in L.A.
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* NonAnswer: At the end of the film, Harris asks the sign post, "Did I do this? Did you do this? What happened?" The sign post simply plays "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes and all of the signs in L.A. flash "CONDITION CLEAR".