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* [[Ten Minutes in the Closet|10 Minutes In The Bomb Shelter]]
* [[Adam and Eve Plot]]: Sandra thinks she and Gene are in one after they're locked in the fallout shelter.
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Sherry
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Howard the Theater Manager as well as Sandra, Gene and most the theater patrons think the apocalypse has already happened.
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** Gene thinks that the theater managers trying to break in to the sealed bomb shelter are starving [[After the End|atomic mutants]] bent on [[Stupid Evil|killing them]] for food. Sandra responds: [[Friend to All Living Things|"Then we have a duty to let them in!"]]
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Bill makes them to deal with his transformation.
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''(scientist picks up bug spray)'' }}
* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Actually, people hate it, but the trope is how "MANT!" is formed.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Andy.
* [[Lenny Bruce]]: Gene and his friends sneak a listen to his "tits and ass!" routine on the record player.
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* [["Mister Sandman" Sequence]]: Pretty similar to ''[[Back to The Future]]'' in this regard, but with more social commentary.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: [[The Professor]] in MANT. Also, the Dentist:
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** [[Title Drop]] <small>"So that's how he became a--"</small>
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* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: Bill aka MANT!
* [[Show Within a Show|Movie Within A Movie]]: MANT! Is a completely recreated 50s-style B-Movie. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2Lbhwl23M Exerpts] of it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT8hzyE_CRI exist] online.
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* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Woolsey. He comes off as dishonest at first with his risky plans for promoting his movie, but shows great passion for showmanship and is very direct with Gene.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: The Scientist lectures Bill about how atomic energy is turning him into an ant.
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'''Dentist:''' "I'm ''sorry'', Bill! }}
* [[Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?]]: Starkweather seems bent on stalking Sherry after sending her beat poetry from juvenile detention.
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