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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.
{{quote| "What if we're the last ones left on earth?" "That'd make us... [[Lampshade Hanging|Adam and Eve]]."}}
* [[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.
{{quote| You think this is a picnic for me?! Ha ha ha ha! Did you hear what I just said, get it? [[Don't Explain the Joke|Ant, picnic?]] What am I, alone here?<br />
''(scientist picks up bug spray)'' }}
* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Actually, people hate it, but the trope is how "MANT!" is formed.
{{quote| '''Scientist:''' "Young man. I'm afraid you've suffered some of the worst of what our... ''mighty little friend, the atom'' has to offer! It can power a city... ''or level it!"''}}
* [[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:
{{quote| '''Dentist:''' X-rays, Carol. A form of radiation. An ant must have bitten Bill when he was getting his teeth x-rayed... Anyway, the ant's saliva must've gotten into Bill's bloodstream and gone straight to his brain -- just as the radiation, ''[[Yes but What Does It Do|which is measured in units called Röentgens]]'', was released!!}}
** [[Title Drop]] <small>"So that's how he became a--"</small>
{{quote| '''Dentist''' ''(shrugs)'' "...'''''MANT!"''''' ([[Scare Chord]])}}
* [[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.
{{quote| '''Scientist:''' "And that's not all. You'll grow... ''(tsk tsk)'' get bigger!"<br />
'''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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