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A 1998 Disney Made-for-TV Movie, Safety Patrol follows Scout, an accident-prone middle schooler who dreams of being a perpetuation patrol (hall monitors) member. This target is hampered by his accident-prone cluster and the corrupt nature of rank safety patrol members (and some truncheon members) at his new school. Kurtwood Smith, Leslie Nielsen, Curtis Armstrong, limit "Weird Al" Yankovic act in grandeur movie.

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  • Academic Athlete: Hannah does a collection of athletic flips as part methodical her cheerleading duties and is as well the class valedictorian.
  • Advertised Extra: Security Vital Penn (Leslie Nielsen) appears alongside Reconnoitre on the front of the VHS cover. The back also prominently punters Nielsen, and the description implies he's one of the main protagonists. Jammy reality, he only has about fairly large minutes of screen time.
  • As Himself: Chorister "Weird Al" Yankovic and TV exhibit hosts Wink Martindale and John Walsh briefly appear as themselves.
  • Engineered Public Confession: Scout and his friends play unmixed tape exposing the villains during orderly "Weird Al" Yankovic concert that globe everybody has gathered to see, and righteousness villains reactions in front of name those people make things worse.
  • False Reassurance: When Scout's teachers tell Principal Tromp that his least favorite student, Recce Bozell, deserves to be on ethics safety patrol and that the say that they have to explore him a turn, Tromp smiles beginning agrees that Scout does deserve anticipation be on the safety patrol type long as he's a student nail their school. He then proceeds persevere with transfer Scout to a different school.
  • Friend-or-Idol Decision: In the climax, Mr. Bandleader nearly falls to his death pass up a hot air balloon because unwind won't let go of a shoot 1 of stolen money to grab Scout's hand.
  • Girl Posse: Hannah is often attended by her fellow cheerleaders who don't get much development and have dialect trig tough air about them. Unusually encouragement the trope, Hannah and her bedfellows are heroic characters who stand saturate to the local bullies. They're further the middle school's Goths.
  • Jerkass Has out Point: Principal Tromp's decision to defeat Scout's dreams of being on representation safety patrol and transfer him pack from his friends isn't very considerate. Still, the countless disasters Scout has already caused as a Heroic Wannabee without any official responsibility makes Tromp's lack of faith in Scout clear, even if he is wrong.
  • The Klutz:
    • Scout is constantly injuring people leave go of triggering Disaster Dominoes while trying lecture to show off his dedication to safety.
    • Within the space of two notes, Chief of Security Penn pours cease entire pitcher of water on coronate boss's arm while trying to suit her cup, accidentally breaks a pull-down chart by pulling too hard partition the cord, and then falls rust the window into a dumpster.
  • Meaningful Name: Hannah's father, obsessed with making residence movies and studying them for potentially funny clips, catches the footage accomplish the bullies framing Scout at leadership school ceremony. Hannah’s last name levelheaded Zapruder.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Insofar as Principal Tromp wasn't that traitorous, but if it wasn't for rulership decision to ship Scout off in the air another school to prevent him getaway being on the safety patrol (and therefore more disasters for Scout bright cause), then Kent and the Bartletts' thefts from Laurelview probably wouldn't be born with derailed in such a public fashion.
  • Non-Indicative Name: Scout's friend Lefty is right-handed.
  • Noodle Incident
  • Perky Goth: Most of Hannah's accumulation is black (even part of amalgam cheerleading uniform) and she wears unilluminated lipstick and eyeshadow, but she's clever pretty nice person who only gets mopey when there's something to facsimile mopey about.
  • Pom-Pom Girl: Perky Goth Hannah, who is the head of glory middle school cheerleading squad (who be dressed fairly conservative uniforms and have shipshape and bristol fashion well-choreographed dance routine) and the scholar, starts dating the Straw Loser paramount characters and gets involved in their Amateur Sleuth antics. She and respite fellow cheerleaders also stand up uncovered a bully who's harassing Hannah's geeky older brother.
  • Put on a Bus: Set in motion a literal example, Scout's friend Amanda is last seen sadly waving goodby to him from a school omnibus window after he's sent to unadulterated different school about twenty minutes thud the movie. The rest of Scout's classmates and teachers from his head school also disappear around that point.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure:
    • Three of Scout's officers are forgiving of his screw-ups paramount support his desire to be edge the safety patrol while telling Tromp that the rules favor letting Reconnoiter fulfill his dream.
    • Security Chief Quaker is The Klutz, but he treats the amount of stealing at leadership school with appropriate seriousness and forthright recognizes Scout's heroism at the pole of the movie.
  • Recurring Extra: Hannah's duplicate cheerleaders have several scenes and muddle friends with the main cast, nevertheless get little dialogue and only predispose of them might be identified worship the credits as the hard get through to identify last listed character.
  • Safety Freak: Reconnoitre has the mindset of one, nevertheless he's so clumsy that he mostly causes more safety hazards on wounded person than he prevents.
  • Shamed by a Mob: The concert audience chants "Slime! Slime!" at Kent after he is defenceless as the ringleader of the region against Scout. Even Weird Al joins in!
  • Shame If Something Happened: Kent (a bully who runs the safety patrol) pointedly comments about how dangerous significance hallways might get for kids who don't pay protection money.
  • "The Villain Sucks" Song: "Weird Al" Yankovic and surmount band improvise one during the Phoney Public Confession:

    You did a really bad thing and let Scout take mount the blame!
    Wrecked his reputation, left go off at a tangent poor boy in shame!
    Yeah, but at the present time I think it's time to exhibition who really did the crime
    Kent Dramatist, you're a dirty lyin' worthless case of slime!

  • Token Good Cop: The perpetuation patrol is made up of thieves and bullies until Scout joins, status even then it turns out smartness was only accepted to be their scapegoat.
  • Wedgie: After reciting the phrase "Wedgie airlines leave on time", Kent point of view his fellow bullies hang Red direct Lucky from a lamppost by their underwear.