History Film / TheNuttyProfessor1996

** Carla Purty, an attractive female students whose surname sounds like the Southern pronunciation of the word "pretty". Denise Gains in the 2000 sequel, as she's shown to fit into Ana's old wedding dress.

* NightmareSequence: Sherman has a nightmare after he falls asleep while watchin TV, in which he grows into a rampaging giant and wrecks the city with a massive fart [[FartsOnFire that is ignited to cause an explosion.]]

* NiceGuy: Sherman is respected by his students and coworkers. His parents are friendly as well, despite being embarrassing for Sherman.

* FartsOnFire: In Sherman's nightmare, some homeless bum lights a cigarette at the worst time and blows the city sky high due to the gas from Sherman's fart.

* GentleGiant: Sherman.

** Buddy Love. He started out as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold before becoming an utter Jerkass.

** Ernie Klump in some extent. He gives Sherman practical advice on him losing weight, by telling him to exercise. Sherman later takes his advice and actually succeeds in getting in shape during the TrainingMontage. [[spoiler: Of course Reggie had to ruin his self-confidence later on.]]

* 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 many who have tried to lose weight in real life. Especially if the person's friends or family are overweight themselves.

* TrappedInContainment: Spoofed in the NightmareSequence where one of the docs can't make it out of the OP in time and [[https://youtu.be/UmvYIIUrd30?t=72 gets squeezed to death]] by the ever-growing Sherman.

* TrappedInContainment: Spoofed in the NightmareSequence where one of the docs can't make it out of the OP in time and gets squeezed to death by the ever-growing Sherman.

* NightmareSequence: Sherman has a nightmare after he falls asleep while watchin TV, in which he grows into a rampaging giant and wrecks the city with a single fart that is ignited to cause an explosion.

* StealthPun: The theater scene in the sequel. The original 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''.

-->'''Buddy:''' Of all the nights this had to happen to me! ''WHY?!''\\

* SquirrelsInMyPants: Variation: During a demonstration test on the fountain of youth serum on a hamster, it initially works, but thanks to Buddy Love sabotaging the serum earlier, the hamster ends up basically turning Godzilla on them, forcing the audience to evacuate and the guards to fire on "hamsterzilla" before it dispatched them with turds. It then sees Dean Richmond (wearing a fur rug over himself in a failed attempt to hide) and, mistaking Richmond for a potential mate, gets very interested in him and is also strongly implied to have raped him. As the cameras were still rolling, this was also shown on TV across the state, if not the nation or the world, as the scene in the Klumps' living room revealed.
** It happened even earlier in the first film. Klump had accidentally let loose all the hamsters on the campus. One climbed into a male student's pant legs and is then seen thrashing around near the guy's crotch. The girl he was talking to sees this and mistook it as him having a huge throbbing penis [[BiggerIsBetterInBed to her pleasant surprise.]]

* NotHyperbole: Dean Richmond gives a memorable example.

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite this, he did ally with Sherman Klump to stop Buddy Love from stealing the patent for the fountain of youth formula in the climax of The Klumps.

* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: In Sherman's {{Kaiju}} dream, Carla gives Sherman an annoyed look when he goes for a turkey leg instead of her.
* ArtisticLicense: Somatotypes. There are three main somatotypes in which people can be classified, and Sherman quite accurately describes one (Endomorph) while explaining why he was dieting to his parents in the first film. The formula he was working on was supposed to alter or deactivate endomorphic genes, allowing one to naturally lose more weight, and in the first scene with Shelly the hamster, it is implied to do just that. However, when Sherman takes the serum, over half of his body fat mysteriously vanishes in about thirty seconds, and his skin shrinks to fit.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original Buddy is 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 ([[FateWorseThanDeath as opposed to Sherman's being killed outright]]).

-->'''Buddy Love:''' Sherman is dead! He's gone, disappeared!

* ThatManIsDead: When Carla confronts Buddy about [[spoiler:Sherman]], he simply disavows his other identity
-->'''Buddy Love:''' Sherman is gone, disappeared!

Brilliant and obese scientist Sherman Klump invents a miraculous weight-loss solution. After a date with chemistry student Carla Purty goes badly, a depressed Klump tries the solution on himself. Though he instantly loses 250 pounds, the side effects include a second personality: an obnoxiously self-assertive braggart who calls himself Buddy Love. Buddy proves to be more popular than Sherman, but his arrogance and bad behavior quickly spiral out of control.

* DysfunctionalFamily: The Klumps. Whilw Ernie mostly provides humorous commentary, Sherman's parents bicker back and forth, and his grandmother does quite a bit of arguing with his father.

* AdaptationExpansion: The first half of the film is relatively faithful to the original, but the second half is largely its own work with more or less the same ending.
* AdaptationalNameChange: Julius Kelp becomes Sherman Klump, and ''Stella'' Purdy becomes ''Carla'' Purdy.
* 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 ([[FateWorseThanDeath as opposed to Sherman's being killed outright]]).

* AsHimself: Montell Jordan.

* ArtisticLicense: Somatotypes. There are three main somatotypes which people can be classified in, and Sherman quite accurately describes one (Endomorph) while explaining why he was dieting to his parents in the first film. The formula he was working on was supposed to alter or deactivate endomorphic genes, allowing one to naturally lose more weight, and in the first scene with Shelly the hamster it is implied to do just that. However, when Sherman takes the serum, over half of his body fat mysteriously vanishes in about 30 seconds, and his skin shrinks to fit.

'''Carla:''' Shh! Okay, okay, okay!

* ClusterFBomb: This film put television censors through their paces.

* DramaPreservingHandicap: Buddy calculates the necessary amount of formula he'd need to ingest to make the transformation into himself permanent, but he has to divide the formula out across two doses as drinking that much formula at once would be fatal, which [[spoiler:gives Jason time to distract Buddy long enough for the formula to wear off]].
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Klumps.

* FatherlyScientist: Sherman, in regards to Shelley, an obese hamster he has great empathy and affection for.
* FartsOnFire: In Sherman's nightmare, some homeless bum lights a cigarette at the worst time and blows the city sky high from Sherman's fart.
* FightingFromTheInside: When Buddy attempts to take a life of his own, Sherman decides to fight back for control of his body. [[spoiler: In the climax, it becomes a literal case and he succeeds]].

** Sherman himself is a couple of times but only in dreams he has, when they are power oriented and are essential for his survival even in which his father encourages.

* StraightMan: Professor Sherman Klump. Debatably and most surely. Even though he's just as fat and kind of rugged looking as the rest of them, unlike how his enemy, Buddy Love looks, Sherman is the only one of all the Klumps who behaves most decent and most respectfully and is always good intentioned in all of his blunders.