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=== This film contains examples of the following tropes: ===
 
* [[Adorkable]]: William.
* [[Age Cut]]
* [[Almighty Mom]]
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* [[Fan Boy]]/[[Fan Girl]]: Numerous, ''numerous'' in-movie examples.
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: At first, William.
* [[Homage]]: In addition to many events taken directly from real life (e.g. the scene where {{spoiler|the band's plane almost crashes}} happened while director Crowe was touring with The Who), the movies is full of homages to rock bands and albums. The scene where one of the Stillwater members is shocked by his microphone is a possible shout out to Keith Relf of the Yardbirds, who died after being electrocuted by improperly grounded music equipment. Some scenes are also framed to look like or include references to album covers, such as a shot of the crowd at the first Stillwater concert that's made to look like the cover to Neil Young's "Time Fades Away.".
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: The groupies are ''not'' groupies. They are, in fact, "band-aids.".
* [[Intoxication Ensues]]: "I AM A GOLDEN GOD!"
** That scene is also a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Led Zeppelin|the original Golden God.]]
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* [[Lennon Specs]]: Penny Lane wears these (and one of the advertising posters was a closeup of Kate Hudson wearing them).
* [[Lost Him in a Card Game]]: One of the bands bets their groupies.
** * sigh* It's [[Insistent Terminology|Band-aid]].
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Penny Lane is a deconstruction of this -- she uses her quirky, upbeat attitude to hide her inner loneliness and hurt, something that becomes painfully apparent at the end of the movie.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Elaine, William's mother, though subverted to some degree: She's portrayed sympathetically.
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{{quote|Russell: Hey, why didn't you come back to the party last night? [[Bob Dylan]] showed up. He was sitting at our table for what had to be an hour or something, right, Dick?
Dick: Yeah.
Russell: Just rapping. Bob Dylan at our fucking table. }}
** "Stillwater" is possibly a play on [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]], and maybe Crosby Stills & Nash.
** Not to mention Will very briefly catching sight of [[John Lennon|a man]] [[Yoko Ono|and a woman]], singing and playing the guitar together in a hotel room.
** [[Word of God]] on the dvdDVD commentary identifies those two as Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: [[Stevie Wonder]]'s dreamily romantic "My Cherie Amour" plays as William watches Penny get her stomach pumped following her overdose on pills.
* [[Title Drop]]: Sign on the front of the Stillwater tour bus.
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