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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
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* [[Blackmail]]: How Sherry's little brother plans on getting to the movies.
* [[B-Movie]]: the film is an [[Homage]] to the William Castle B-Movies with ''Smell-O-Vision'' and the like. Goodman plays Woolsey, an [[Expy]] of Castle whose previous work was ''[[The Tingler]]'' and involved shocking people in their seats. Actors are hired to work the crowd before and during the show.
* [[Casting Gag]]: Several B-Movie Alumni are cast such as William Schallert and Robert Cornthwaite.
** [[Actor Allusion]]: The actors who play Herb and Bob are forgotten veteran B-movie actors both in-story and out.
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Gene after dreaming his father came how just as the bomb fell.
* [[Character Filibuster]]: Lawrence Woolsey delivers the film's message.
* [[Cold War]]: got hot.
* [[Dancing Bear]]: Lawrence Woolsey's movies (an in-work reference to the Funhouse Horror films of William Castle).
* [[Delinquents|Delinquent]]: Harvey Starkweather of the big haired, leather jacket, wallet stealing variety.
* [[Dueling Movies]]: [[The Sandlot]], another nostalgic film set in 1962 was released mere months after this one.
* [[Dull Surprise]]: The actors in "MANT!"
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* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Extensive (and oppressive) [[Reality Subtext]] for those who remember the [[Cold War]] and how close the world came to annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
* [[Eucatastrophe]]: Woolsey's expectation that the show will do well because people are seeking a release from fear of nuclear annihilation. Woolsey gives a speech about the phenomenon, comparing moviegoers to cave men seeking to confront their fear of the unknown.
* [[Excited Show Title!]]: "MANT!"
* [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You]]:
** When Harvey Starkweather goes on a rampage in his rubber suit, audience members mistake it for part of the show.
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* [[Lenny Bruce]]: Gene and his friends sneak a listen to his "tits and ass!" routine on the record player.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The film.
** [[YMMV]]. It is set during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]], and nuclear anxiety is one of the key themes.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Harvey Starkweather.
* [["Mister Sandman" Sequence]]: Pretty similar to ''[[Back to The Future]]'' in this regard, but with more social commentary.
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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.
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Sandra recognizes the futility of nuclear drills and paints a grim picture of the effects of radiation. She is also a crusader for social justice, familiar with Gandhi and the plight of Negroes in the United States.
** This is probably thanks to her parents, who seem just a little out of place.
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