YMMV / Bringing Up Baby

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Is the dress-ripping scene an early indication of David's attraction to Susan? After all, she's embarrassed him several times so why should he not want her to be publicly humiliated? Instead, he tries to cover her up and walk out of a potential meeting with Mr Peabody just to spare her the embarrassment.
• Award Snub: Not a single Academy Award nominee in sight.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: Susan is completely non-malicious and not exactly unintelligent, but she seems to misread social cues and be completely oblivious to David's dislike of her. She's also occasionally Literal-Minded and more comfortable around Baby than David, suggesting she could be on the autism spectrum.
• Fridge Brilliance: Given how loveless David and Alice's intended marriage would have been, with Alice telling him they won't have a honeymoon the day before, and saying "no domestic entanglements of any kind", part of David's aversion to Susan could be because he doesn't know what it feels like to have someone legitimately interested in him.
• Genius Bonus: If you know about bones, "intercostal clavicle" is obviously a joke name. If you don't, then it sounds quite plausible.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Susan makes up a story about David being a game hunter from Africa. Ten years later, Katharine Hepburn stars in The African Queen and gets an Oscar nomination for it.
  • The second act of the movie has Susan bringing David to dinner against her aunt's wishes. Fast forward to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner where Hepburn is on the other end of that argument.
  • This film was a hit comedy that features a wild feline, a leopard, debuting in a bathroom that freaks out one of the leads upon finding it and now the film is owned by Warner Bros. Then comes Warner's own hit comedy The Hangover decades later which features another kind of wild feline, a tiger belonging to Mike Tyson, also debuting in a bathroom that freaks out one of the leads upon finding it
• Memetic Mutation: David's dinosaur skeleton collapsing.
• Retroactive Recognition: Disney fans might recognise Walter Catlett, who played Constable Slocum, as the voice of Honest John in Pinocchio.
• Sacred Cow: Now considered one of the most beloved comedies ever made.
• She Really Can Act: A variation. Katharine Hepburn is remembered as one of the best dramatic actresses of the Golden Age of Hollywood. In this film, where she radically goes against type, she showed that she could be a talented comedian as well.
• Signature Scene: David jumping into the air while wearing Susan's robe and saying "I just went gay all of a sudden" - which is thought to be one of the first times the word was used to mean homosexuality.
• Special Effects Failure: In one scene, the man-eating circus leopard is in the background, but the strings being used to move its tail and head make it painfully obvious that it's a puppet.
• Vindicated by History: The film was a flop in its first release, to the point where Katharine Hepburn had to buy out her contract to RKO and Howard Hawks was fired from Gunga Din. Nowadays, it's regarded as a classic.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Through Double Vision, a leopard with a wrangler on set, some fearless courage from Katherine Hepburn and a few camera tricks, there's never any doubt that Baby is in the scene with the rest of the cast. And this is a movie from 1938.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: A lot of Susan's actions are very manipulative towards David, especially when she prevents him from getting married just because she likes him too. Even if David's fiancée wouldn’t have made him very happy in the end, Susan didn’t know that.

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