Car Fu: The 'chicken' showdown at the climax.

Camp: Well, it is John Waters, after all.

Be a Whore to Get Your Man: Averted, with Lenora, and Allison, who Cry-Baby thought was cute before her sexy makeover.

Badass Grandma: Ramona Rickets and, eventually, Mrs.

All Girls Want Bad Boys: Quoth Allison, 'I am so tired of being good.'.

Affectionate Parody: Of 1950s juvenile delinquent movies, and the jukebox musicals of the same time period.

It mainly involves Letting Her Hair Down, and giving her a pair of skin-tight pedal-pushers and a bustier top.

Adrenaline Makeover: What the drapettes do for Allison.

It also includes scenes of Wanda, Pepper and Hatchet-Face in a girl's reform school, while Cry-Baby and Dupree are in jail. It also claims that Cry-Baby's parents were sent to the electric chair for being suspected Communist spies and that Allison's grandmother was responsible for it happening. Adaptation Expansion: The stage musical transforms Cry-Baby's would-be girlfriend Lenora into a bona-fide Stalker with a Crush.Action Dress Rip: The motorcycle stunt at the end.It tells the classic story of Star-Crossed Lovers - 'Square' Allison Vernon-Williams falls for Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker, leader of the local 'drapes' in their small Maryland town - and the upheaval their romance causes between the hillbilly drapes and the uptight squares. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.Ĭry-Baby is a 1990 film directed by John Waters. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the 'Trope Workshop' found on the 'Troper Tools' menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the 'fair use' licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed.

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