Cloud Cuckoolander: The old guy at the bar.Creepy Monotone: Robbie sounds like this when he's drunk or depressed.'Nobody wants to see an old guy hitting on chicks.'

Later, however, Sammy admits to Robbie that he's not at all happy with his lifestyle. Glenn is also one of these, and doesn't plan to stop even after he gets married. The Casanova: Sammy admits in the opening act that he wants to be like Fonzie.The Cameo: Billy Idol helps Robbie tell Julia his true feelings on the plane.When Julia and Glenn fly to Las Vegas to elope, Julia remembers the conversation with Robbie and asks Glenn if she can have the window seat so she can see the strip on the way over, but he says he needs the window seat because the service carts always hit him on the elbow, but she can lean on him as they approach. Since Robbie had never been, but Linda had, he asked if he could have the window seat so he could see it as they arrived, but Linda convinced him to let her keep the window seat. Call-Back: As Robbie starts to get over Linda, Robbie tells Julia that there were subtle hints that they were not meant to be, and mentions the time they went to the Grand Canyon.This said, it is suggested that he is merely innocently parroting opinions that he has overheard his parents express about Robbie and Linda's relationship behind his back. Brutal Honesty: Robbie's one nephew who both calls Linda a bitch and says he himself is headed for a nervous breakdown and is going to wind up in a mental institution.Brick Joke: The drunk best man played by Steve Buscemi shows up right at the end.

Blackmail: Robbie gets Sammy to pay for a first-class ticket to Las Vegas by threatening to tell everyone what Sammy said at the bar the night before.After Linda leaves Robbie, he gives one himself at another performance. Before Linda leaves Robbie, the best man at one of the weddings he performs at gives one Robbie does his best to smooth it over. Basement-Dweller: Robbie doesn't have a place of his own, and lives with his sister and her husband.Robbie Hart's later song in the film, a pastiche of The Cure, with half of it written when he was in love with Linda and the other half written when she left him at the altar, also qualifies. Geils Band in 1980, and is included on the film's soundtrack. Anti-Love Song: 'Love Stinks', which is, believe it or not, a real song, recorded by The J.

He treats Holly well because she showed him her boobs, tries to get Julia to do the same, and is clearly enjoying his dance with Sammy halfway through the film (while grabbing his ass, no less It Makes Sense in Context). It's a film using the rule of funny to pop off as many references as it can, so it's OK. For instance, JR was shot five years before the film's setting, but it's treated as it just happened here.

Anachronism Stew: Apparently, everything 80s happened in 1985.

However that's not that kind of movie, there's No Endor Holocaust here. Even though it was the father who threw the punch and attacked Robbie - and even if Robbie refused payment because of what he did, the father probably still would have had grounds to sue.

All Is Well That Ends Well: Robbie's actions at Cindy and Scott's wedding were absolutely reprehensible.

Adaptational Sexuality: George, whose sexuality is not mentioned in the movie, admits that he has never liked girls in the musical.

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