Recurring Themes
Recurring themes/elements in the film include:
- Shots of the Jaws "shark attack" attraction on the Universal Studios Backlot Tour accompanied by the narrated phrase, "old and stupid."
- Seagrams wine coolers (usually distributed as a gift in order to appease a celebrity)
- The placement of porcelain deer in order to beautify a location (usually at the behest of the narrator)
- Buttons (sometimes comically oversized) that parody 50s campaign buttons, reading "I like Universal," and "Universal is A-OK!"
- As he drinks milk and eats Oreos, Michael J. Fox asks "Say, what does that mean?" repeatedly throughout the film. This is a direct parody of 1950s educational films, which stereotypically include such characters.
- The narrator repeatedly pronounces modernize as "modrenized".
- The overuse of the word "say" by various characters
- The appearance of Stallone, speaking as Rocky Balboa, with subtitles in the bottom of the screen.
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Famous quotes related to recurring themes:
“America is the world’s living myth. There’s no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We’re here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)