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A 1967 American comedy produced and directed by Creator/EdwardMontagne that follows a carnival ride operator (Creator/DonKnotts) who is hired as a janitor at the Space Center in Houston and getting sent to space.

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A 1967 American comedy film produced and directed by Creator/EdwardMontagne that follows a carnival ride operator (Creator/DonKnotts) who is hired as a janitor at the Space Center in Houston and getting gets sent to space.



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* PhonyVeteran: The hometown hero at one point admits to Roy that he was never a soldier like he claimed: he was a librarian, and even his "war wound" was just the result of an on-the-job injury. Since Roy has inadvertently been trumped up as an astronaut even though NASA simply hired him as a janitor, this amounts to ObliviousGuiltSlinging.

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* PhonyVeteran: The hometown hero at one point admits to Roy that he was never a soldier like he claimed: he was a librarian, and even his "war wound" was just the result of an on-the-job injury. Since Roy has inadvertently been trumped up as an astronaut even though NASA simply hired him as a janitor, this amounts to ObliviousGuiltSlinging.ObliviousGuiltSlinging.

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A 1967 American comedy produced and directed by Creator/EdwardMontagne that follows a carnival ride operator (Creator/DonKnotts) who is hired as a janitor at the Space Center in Houston and getting sent to space.

The movie also stars Creator/LeslieNielsen, Creator/JoanFreeman, Creator/ArthurOConnell, Creator/FrankMcGrath, Creator/PaulHartman, Creator/JeanetteNolan, Creator/RobertFSimon, among others.

It was released on June 16, 1967.

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!Tropes for the film:
* AccidentalAstronaut: Roy Fleming (Knotts) plays an astronaut a the local fairground. He gets work as a janitor at NASA, but mistakenly gets shut into a space capsule and fired into space.
* BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage: The titular character has a hastily arranged marriage so he and his bride can become the first married couple on the Moon.
* PhonyVeteran: The hometown hero at one point admits to Roy that he was never a soldier like he claimed: he was a librarian, and even his "war wound" was just the result of an on-the-job injury. Since Roy has inadvertently been trumped up as an astronaut even though NASA simply hired him as a janitor, this amounts to ObliviousGuiltSlinging.

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