History Film / TheNuttyProfessor1996

* MeaningfulName: The fact that the last name of the universally overweight Klumps sounds like "plump" is obvious. More so is that the slender love interest in the second Eddie Murphy film is named Denise Gains, especially when we're shown that Mrs. Klump's old wedding dress fits her.
** The word "clump" can mean a lump of something.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original Buddy was pretty obnoxious and conceited but doesn't do anything villainous. In this film, Buddy starts out this way, but starts to become truly evil as the film progresses, eventually attempting to make the transformation stable and permanent which would cause Sherman's identity to be entirely consumed and replaced by that of Buddy ([[Main/FateWorseThanDeath as opposed to Sherman's being killed outright]]).

The film spawned a sequel in 2000 "The Nutty Professor 2: Meet the Klumps'', though it wasn't as successful at the first film.

!!These films provide examples of:

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[[folder:''The Nutty Professor'']]

--> '''Buddy''': Of all the nights this had to happen to me! ''WHY?!''
--> '''Carla''': ''(pleading)'' Okay.
--> '''Buddy''': ''(big gasp)'' '''[[LargeHam WHY?!]]'''
--> '''Carla''': ''(through her teeth)'' Okay!
--> '''Buddy''': ''([[ChewingTheScenery bigger gasp]])'' '''''[[RuleOfThree WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?]]'''''
--> '''Carla''': Shh! Okay, okay, okay!

--> '''Carla''': Professor, are you asking me out on a date? \\
'''Sherman''': ''(bashful)'' Yes. Yes, I am. \\
'''Carla''': I'd love to!

-->'''Buddy''': If you don't mind, I have a date at the alumni ball, and you have a date with linoleum.
-->'''Jason''': Who?
-->(cue Buddy punching Jason out)

-->'''Buddy Love:''' "You can't beat me!"
--> ''(Sherman's side beats up Buddy)''
-->'''Sherman Klump:''' "YES! I! CAAAAAAAN!"

--> '''Dean Richmond''': Can I get you anything? Juice? Coffee? Rack of lamb?

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[[folder:''The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps'']]
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Grandma Klump to Buddy.
** Also, the hamster to Dean Richmond.
* AscendedExtra: Ever wonder why it's subtitled "The Klumps"?
* AttractiveBentSpecies: During the [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Attack of the 50-Foot Hamster]] in the second film, the dean tries to hide under a fur coat, making him resemble a giant hamster himself. This works out for him [[BlackComedyRape just as you'd expect]].
* CaptainObvious "The University of Maine? But, Denise...that's in Maine!"
* ChekhovsGag: When Buddy regenerated, he accidentally absorbed dog DNA, meaning he keeps acting like a dog. [[spoiler: Sherman uses this to his advantage, by throwing a serum-laced rubber ball at him, knowing he would catch it in his mouth]].
* ContinuityNod: Buddy mentions Carla from the first film.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The Klumps had a few moments of that range from dark humor to horror. Buddy Love in the second movie is more evil than he ever was in the first nor its predecessor. Going from trying to take Sherman's place to downright trying to stalk and destroy Sherman and anyone else that got in the way. Even before his DNA was separated from Sherman's, Buddy even found many ways to attack him on the inside, especially by hijacking his mind randomly. From giving him a terrible nightmare to saying and doing rude and embarrassing stuff at delicate times that alienates him from his father and love interest. That aside there were TearJerker moments too, from relationship problems between Sherman's parents mirroring Sherman's relationship with Denise, as well as breaking off the marriage under the belief that he can't be a good husband after his intellect is deteriorating from what he went and did to get rid of Buddy, especially due to an incident where Buddy Love sabotaged the fountain of youth formula and stole the actual sample, causing a test gone awry. The audience was also almost fooled with a [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding, when we including Denise and Cletus thought Sherman's mental impairment had been rendered permanent]].
* DirtyOldWoman: The oversexed Grandma Klump.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Sherman dreams that an asteroid hits Earth, and because he's losing his intelligence he's unable to prevent it.
* EnemyWithout: Buddy Love is excised from Sherman Klump's body when the latter decides he finally wants to be rid of him, whereas in the previous film he was simply an evil SplitPersonality. [[spoiler:However, this turns out to have negative side effects since neither can survive without the other and Sherman starts to rapidly lose his intellect.]]
* FanDisservice: Granny leaping through a field of daisies in a see-through nightgown.
* FanserviceExtra: The remake sequel provides the current trope image.
* FountainOfYouth: Sherman's formula. It's designed for use on animals, but turns out to work just fine on humans as well.
* GagBoobs: Granny has them, as evidenced by the FanDisservice scene and when she thought she was having a heart attack, but she was actually standing on one of them.
* ItsNotYouItsMe: [[spoiler:Sherman Klump ends up breaking off the marriage because he believes that he can't be a good husband while his intellect was deteriorating after removing Buddy Love from his system.]]
* MagicCountdown: During the ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' parody that makes up one of Sherman's dreams, Denise tells him that he has thirty seconds before the asteroid hits Earth, but it's actually two minutes before the asteroid hits. Justified, since the scene is parodying disaster films, where this trope is common (well, that and the fact that it's a dream).
* MythologyGag: Kathleen Freeman, one of the actors from the 1963 Nutty Professor movie, makes a cameo.
* OhCrap:
** Sherman when he saw Buddy Love somehow became a separate person.
** During his dream, Sherman says this (or rather, "Oh, Shit") after managing to blow up Earth's moon instead of the planet-killing asteroid he was supposed to destroy.
** [[spoiler:When Buddy runs off after Sherman turns him back into a jello-like substance, and he disintegrates. Luckily, it happens by a fountain, so when a tear from Denise drops on to his DNA structure and it lands in the water of it, Sherman is able to be revived by her and Clesius forcing him to drink it.]]
* OldShame: In-Universe, Buddy Love was this for Sherman, and he didn't tell Denise about him before.
* PowerWalk: The Klumps as they're headed to an all-you-can-eat buffet, where they eat every last piece of food in the place ''except'' the salad.
%%* RandomEventsPlot
* RememberTheNewGuy: Denise. She and Sherman appear to have been seeing each for some time between films.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Buddy replaces Sherman's youth formula with Miracle-Gro, which is then fed to a lab hamster. HilarityEnsues.
* SexualKarma: Dean Richmond gets more than his share of this, courtesy of "Jumbo the Horny Hamster".
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Denis appears to be this to Carla from the first film.
* SynchronizedSwarming: The professor proposes to his girlfriend by attracting fireflies into the words "Marry me?" using a synthesized firefly pheromone.
* ThatCameOutWrong: "Pardon me ladies and gentlemen, but I cannot go on living unless I have this man inside me right now!"
* ThisAintRocketSurgery: Sherman, whose mind is decaying rapidly and is just about to meet Denise's parents, assures himself that he won't make a fool of himself because Denise's parents are probably not rocket scientists. Turns out that's exactly what they are.
* ToiletHumour: When Jumbo becomes well, jumbo, he starts shooting hamster pellets the size of footballs. They spin like footballs and can hit a man with enough force to send him flying. And yes they show all of this in its "glory".
* TookALevelInDumbass: PlayedForDrama: By removing Love from his DNA [[spoiler: triggered a deterioration of Sherman's brain. He can't teach his class, articulate his words, and is a bit of a bumbler. Towards the end of the movie, he loses his memory, and breaks up with Denise, not wanting to burden Denise by being dumb. He his able to recover his brilliance by reabsorbing Buddy]].
* TookALevelInKindness: Dean Richmond by the end of the film.
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* BigDamnHeroes / BigNo: Jason shows up at the ball and yells "No!" just in time to stop [[spoiler:Buddy]] from [[spoiler:attempting to kill Sherman]] and exposes his true identity.

* AdaptationExpansion: The first half of the film is relatively faithful to the original, but the second half is largely it's own work with more or less the same ending.

-->'''Buddy Love:''' I'm THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!!!!!
* BigDamnHeroes: Jason shows up at the ball just in time to stop [[spoiler:Buddy]] from [[spoiler:attempting to kill Sherman]] and exposes his true identity.
* BigNo: Jason yells "No!" when he tries to [[spoiler:stop Buddy from killing Sherman]].

'''Sherman''': *Bashful* Yes. Yes I am. \\

* RealityEnsues: Sherman talks about wanting to lose weight and his family are less than supportive, especially Cletus (only Ernie Sr. gives him decent advice, namely exercise). TruthInTelevision for most who have tried to lose weight in real life. Especially if the person's friends or family are overweight themselves.

TheRemake of ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1963}}'' released in 1996, starring Creator/EddieMurphy, Creator/JadaPinkettSmith, [[RuleOfThree and Eddie Murphy,]] and co-starring [[UncannyFamilyResemblance Eddie Murphy,]] [[ActingForTwo Eddie Murphy,]] [[OverlyLongGag and Eddie Murphy.]] The success of the remake led to a sequel, with Music/JanetJackson amid the various Eddie Murphys.

* NWordPrivileges: The Klumps and Buddy.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Cletus Klump, Sherman's father.

* BattleCry: After his first transformation in the remake. He proudly stands up on on top of the college he works in shouting this.

* ImagineSpot: Sherman has two of them, one where he buries Stella into the sand with his body weight, and one where he becomes so fat that he becomes a {{Kaiju}} terrorizing the city.

* BigNo: Jason when he tries to [[spoiler:stop Buddy from killing Sherman]].

--> '''Jason:''' ''(arriving in time)'' [[BigNo NOOOOOOOO!]] [[BigDamnHeroes WAIT! I can not let you do this anymore!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis THIS- HAS GOT- TO STOP!]] ''(arrives onto the stage)'' Ladies and gentlemen... ''(points to Buddy)'' this man is trying to kill Professor Sherman Klump!

* FanDisservice: During his workout montage, Sherman is in desparate need of a powerful sports bra.

* MamaBear / PapaWolf: There is no doubt about it, that Cletus and Mama Klump love Sherman, so when his best friend and colleague accuses Buddy Love of murdering him this line cements it:

* MeanBoss / DeanBitterman: Richmond, the dean of the university that Sherman Klump works at, frequently insults Sherman Klump's obesity and makes no secret of his contempt of Klump.

* StealthPun: The theater scene in the sequel. The original Nutty Professor was made a year after ''Film/CapeFear'', whilst in the remake's sequel, Buddy is laughing mad while watching the original in the style of [=DeNiro=]'s Max Cady's Iconic scene in the remake of ''Cape Fear''.

* ToiletHumor: The 1990s movie has a lot of fart jokes, as well as implied soiled pants. In both of them, the whole Klump family except for Sherman (including Buddy Love and some others) use foul language, and do socially revolting things.

* SexualKarma: The JerkAss dean gets more than his share of this, courtesy of "Jumbo the Horny Hamster".

** It happened even earlier in the first film. Klump had accidentally let loose all the hamsters on the campus. One climbed into a student's pant legs, moving near his crotch. The girl he was talking to mistook it as him having a huge throbbing penis to [[BiggerIsBetterInBed her pleasant surprise.]]

** It happened even earlier in the first film. Klump had accidentally let loose all the hamsters on the campus. One climbed into a student's pant legs, moving near his crotch. The girl he was talking to mistook it as him having throbbing massive boner to [[BiggerIsBetterInBed pleasant surprise.]]

** It happened even earlier in the first film. Klump had accidentally let loose all the hamsters on the campus. one climbed into a student's pant legs. The girl he was talking to [[BiggerIsBetterInBed clearly mistook it as something else.]]

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Mama Klump tries to call for Sherman as he fights Buddy Love.

* ThatCameOutWrong: "Pardon me ladies and gentlemen, but I cannot go on living unless I have this man inside me right now!"

* FountainOfYouth: Sherman's formula.

* RandomEventsPlot

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Before the climactic fight, Buddy decks Jason towards the instrument set to prevent the magical vial from being confiscated, calling it a "short musical interlude".

* [[spoiler:EarthShatteringKaboom: Sherman dreams that an asteroid hits Earth, and because he's losing his intelligence he's unable to prevent it.]]