History YMMV / Fletch

** Creator/JoeDonBaker would later find fame appearing as the villainous General Whittaker in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' and later appearing as CIA operative in ''Film/GoldenEye'' and ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.

** Creator/JoeDonBaker would later find fame appearing as the villainous General Whittaker in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' and later appearing as CIA operative in ''Film/GoldenEye'' and ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''

** Joe Don Baker would later find fame appearing as the villainous General Whittaker in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' and later appearing as CIA operative in ''Film/GoldenEye'' and ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JamesAvery plays one of the crooked detectives who bust Fletch on a bogus narcotics charge.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Fletch's ImagineSpot in the first film where he's a star player for the Lakers.

* HarsherInHindsight: Fletch's ImagineSpot in the second film parodying ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'', both in light of increasing dislike of the film because of ValuesDissonance and Creator/ChevyChase's increasing infamy as a complete jackass on the set, even being racist to Creator/DonaldGlover while they were producing ''Series/{{Community}}''.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Crossing with an [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments awesome moment]], [[spoiler:Jimmy Lee Farnsworth pulling a [[GoThroughMe “shoot through me”]] when Ham has Fletch at gunpoint on Jimmy Lee’s show.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Fletch's ImagineSpot in the second film parodying ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'', both in light of increasing dislike of the film because of ValuesDissonance and Chevy Chase's increasing infamy as a complete jackass on the set, even being racist to Creator/DonaldGlover while they were producing ''Series/{{Community}}''.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Crossing with an [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments awesome moment]], [[spoiler:Jimmy Lee Farnsworth pulling a [[GoThroughMe “shoot through me”]] when Ham has Fletch at gunpoint on Jimmy Lee’s show.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Fletch's ImagineSpot in the second film parodying ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'', both in light of increasing dislike of the film because of its racist overtones and Chevy Chase's increasing infamy as a complete jackass on the set, even being racist to Creator/DonaldGlover while they were producing ''Series/{{Community}}''.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Crossing with an [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments awesome moment]], [[spoiler:Jimmy Lee Farnsworth pulling a [[GoThroughMe]] “shoot through me” when Ham has Fletch at gunpoint on Jimmy Lee’s show.]]

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Crossing with an [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments awesome moment]], [[spoiler:Jimmy Lee Farnsworth pulling a [[GoThroughMe “shoot through me” when Ham has Fletch at gunpoint on Jimmy Lee’s show.]]

** He has another in the sequel, where he's a Southern plantation owner, with his boss and his ex-wife's attorney as his slaves. With animated birds, no less.

** He has another in the sequel, where he's a Southern plantation owner, with his boss and his ex-wife's attorney as his slaves. With animated birds, no less.
* EarWorm: Fletch's theme.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Alan Stanwyk. In the novel he had nothing to do with the drug-dealing on the beach or the crooked police department. He did plan to kill Fletch as a way of faking his death, but Fletch correctly notes when he confronts him at the end that he's a good person who feels guilty about his bigamy, and he won't be able to pull the trigger.