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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.
* [[Hey It's That Guy|Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Miles is [[Twin Peaks|Harold Smith]], [[Red Dwarf (TV)|the Secret Policeman]], and [[The Pretender|Mr. Cox]]; Madeline is [[Highlander (TV)|Louise Marcus]], [[Candyman (Film)|Helen Lyle]], and [[Star Trek Voyager|Kellin]]; Bill is [[Grease|Michael Carrington]] and [[Dynasty|Miles Colby]]; and Edgar is [[Harold and Maude|Harold]] and [[Justice League|Toyman]].
* [[He Had a Name|I Had A Name]]: Edgar.
* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|Instant AI -- Just Add Water]]: Or, in this case, champagne.
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* [[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.
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Madeline catches Miles naked in his apartment, desperately trying to screen both Edgar and his own anatomy from her at one time.
* [[One of Us]]: ''See'' [[Shout -Out]]'', below.''
* [[Playing Cyrano]]: Miles tries to use Edgar to compose music for him to present to Madeline.
* [[Product Placement]]: Edgar's obscene "love-song" for Madeline is adapted from a "Pepsi" jingle ("[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lHEvW__P4g Catch That Pepsi Spirit!]").
* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Bill. (1984 was a bad year for male cellists wooing their female counterparts; the same year Dana Barrett was stolen from one by [[Ghostbusters|Dr. Peter Venkman]].)
* [[Shout -Out]]: When Miles wishes Edgar, "Sweet dreams," Edgar queries, "What's a dream?" -- to which Miles sleepily replies, "A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep. ... ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney)|Sleeping Beauty]]'', [[Did Not Do the Research|1950]]," to which Edgar <ref>who would obviously be a Troper if he were still around</ref> replies, "No, it was ''[[Cinderella (Disney)|Cinderella]]'', [[Did Not Do the Research|1949]]."
** 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 ''[[Name's the Same|Electric Dreams]]'' (2009), in which a family has to live in manner of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
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[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]
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