Clerk: One book, Swedish-Made Penis Enlargers and Me (This Sort of Thing Is My Bag, Baby). By Austin Powers. Talk Show Appearance: Dr. Evil and Scott go on Jerry Springer as a subject of dysfunctional fathers. He eventually incites a riot by getting into a fight with a Klansman and removes his hood. The first phrase he thought the character might say was "Do I make you horny?", which later did indeed become a catchphrase for the character. He has also disclosed that the character also draws on his recollections of former Radio Caroline DJ Simon Dee, who hosted the first real television chat show in the United Kingdom in 1967, which ended with his driving off in a sports car with a young blonde in the passenger seat. An important inspiration for the series is British super spy James Bond. Myers said of Bond, "I can't even tell you how huge it was in our house ... That's really why I wanted to do Austin Powers. Austin Powers is out of pure love for James Bond." [4] The name’s Bond. Bondathon. With twenty-four official James Bond films to conquer before No Time To Die hits theaters, Bond fan Anna Swanson and Bond newbie Meg Shields are diving deep on 007. Martinis shaken and beluga caviar in hand, the Double Take duo are making their way through the Bond corpus. In this entry, they’re on a quest to identify every single James Bond reference in the Austin Powers trilogy.

Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "DO! YOU! WORK! FOR! NUMBER! TWO!??" (original release version. The current releases use the clip of Austin shouting "Who... does... Number Two... work for?!")

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In November 2010, he was voted #23 in Entertainment Weekly 's list "The 100 Greatest Characters of The Last 20 Years." [17] See also [ edit ] Felicity does this in front of Austin in her first scene, while wearing skin-tight shorts, no less. Why the Cinema of Swinging London Matters, 50 Years Later". Vanity Fair. February 5, 2016 . Retrieved April 26, 2022. Austin Powers has been used for advertising numerous products and endorsements, such as Pepsi Cola. [16] Two plots Dr. Evil cooked up in the 60's have already happened in the 90's. He's too late to the punch to damage the ozone layer and his Royal Family sex scandal plot won't work because there already was a Royal Family sex scandal.

While many Bond movies’ villains have underground lairs (e.g. Dr. No, Goldfinger, Live and Let Die), Dr. Evil’s lair, located beneath a volcano, is a direct reference to Blofeld’s volcanic hideout in You Only Live Twice. Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Scott asks this almost verbatim: "why don't you just kill him?", in a scene parodying this kind of thing. (Dr.Evil instead lowers Austin and Vanessa into a pool of mutated sea bass.)Like the operatives of S.P.E.C.T.R.E., Dr. Evil has a ring with insignia. The Bond baddies have an octopus. Dr. Evil has a fancy “E.” Dull Surprise: The street-market shopper ( Fred Stoller) who appears in the third section of the montage ("Are they nice and firm?") has this reaction to the satellite's coming into view. Parodied in the last scene of the third movie where Scott laughs alone and desperately turns in every direction for someone to join in.

Austin’s famous “judo chop” can be seen in the jerky, robot-like hand to hand combat style of Roger Moore.

Chekhov's Gun: The Swedish penis pump which belongs to no one in particular and certainly not Austin. Inventor of the Mundane: During a group therapy session Dr. Evil mentions that his father claimed to have invented the question mark (among many other, equally strange declarations). In the third film, an obvious example is when Austin and Fat Bastard are fighting and Fat Bastard does "the ultimate wire-fighting maneuver", only for one of his wires to break. Writers Cannot Do Math: Mini-Me is described as being "one-eighth" Dr. Evil's size. But he's clearly closer to a third of the doctor's size.

Still those types of movies, or the more out-and-out fratboy renaissance in pictures like The Hangover (2009), maintained the popularity of studio comedies as a viable genre and paved the way for perhaps more transgressive and cleverer efforts like 2011’s Bridesmaids.

6. There could have been an entirely 60s-set prequel

Twinkle Smile: At the end while he's in bed with Vanessa Kensington Austin does this to show he's embraced dental hygiene. Even if Austin hadn't been able to stop the bomb from going off, it would not have happened anyway since the heat in the outer core, which can reach almost 10'000 degrees Fahrenheit, would have long-since melted the detonation devices into useless clumps of slag and the warhead would have just melted, provided the extreme temperatures didn't cause the drill itself to melt. Bait-and-Switch Silhouette: A mook believes he is seeing an impossible silhouette of a man with a small arm for a penis, who shakes hands with it and bites it before giving birth. It turns out to be Austin, Mini-Me, some tubing and an apple.