Harold and Maude/YMMV


 * Adaptation Displacement: Hardly anybody remembers or even knows the novel by Colin Higgins, who was originally slated to direct before Hal Ashby came on board. The novel is currently out of print.
 * Crosses the Line Twice: Boy obsessed with being dead? Funny. Boy who stages his own suicide for attention? Dude Not Funny. Boy who turns staging his own suicide into a reoccurring act? Funny again.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: "If you want to sing out, sing out..."
 * Cult Classic
 * Dude Not Funny: Averted because Harold's pranks are so ludicrously over-the-top.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight or Funny Aneurysm Moment, depending: The priest's expression when describing Harold's "firm, young body."
 * Ruth Gordon, Maude's actress, later hawking the Subaru BRAT.
 * Bud Cort portrayed a serial abductor in Criminal Minds who.
 * It Was His Sled: Surprisingly averted. Although the movie's premise is reasonably well known, the ending is not.
 * Squick: The priest goes on for a very long scene about this.
 * Tear Jerker: