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''[[Title Drop|Electric Dreams!]] Electric! Ooh, lalala! Ooooooh!'' }}
* [[The Faceless]]: Edgar. The director, Steve Barron, refused to let the rest of the cast members ever meet Bud Cort during filming, except as a voice coming out of a box, to preserve their sense of interacting with a non-human personality.
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* [[He Had a Name|I Had A Name]]: Edgar.
* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|Instant AI -- Just Add Water]]: Or, in this case, champagne.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: {{spoiler|When Edgar realizes that Madeline loves Miles, he decides to eliminate himself from the picture.}}
* [[Jerkass]]: Bill, who when he hears that Madeline's beloved cello has been smashed, blandly assures her that ''he'' can perform her cello solo, instead.
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* [[Letting the Air Out of The Band]]: An ''electronic'' one at the end of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U81kd_t028 that song.]
* [[Love Triangle]]: Madeline for Miles and Edgar (who she thinks ''is'' Miles), though she is also attracted to fellow cellist Bill; Miles and Edgar for Madeline.
* [[Miraculous Malfunction]]: Miles spills champagne on his PC while it is plugged into his company's megacomputer, causing his computer (of course!) [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|to come to life]].
* [[Montage]]: Of Miles and Madeline frolicking at Alcatraz (no, really -- and it's actually very romantic).
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: As a result of Miles' having mistyped his name, Edgar refers to him as "Moles" throughout most of the movie.
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** Other [[Shout Out|Shout Outs]] are more associated with the song "Together in Electric Dreams" than with the film itself:
*** It is played on the fictional radio station "Flash FM" in the [[Video Game]] ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories|Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]]''.
*** It is the theme to the BBC show ''[[
*** It was covered in 2001 by Lali Puna for the album ''Reproductions: Songs of The Human League''.
*** It was covered by Swedish Indie pop band "Nixon" on the album ''Only Ugly People Smoke''.
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* [[Smart House]]: Miles wires his house to be run by Edgar; {{spoiler|this, of course, backfires ''spectacularly'' later.}}
* [[Title Drop]]: Nearly every song on the soundtrack includes the phrase "Electric Dreams" in its lyrics.
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]?: Miles has to explain "Love" to Edgar by reminding him how he felt when Madeline's music was playing.
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