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* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: The actual line from Howard Beale's rant is "I'm ''as'' mad as hell, and I'm not ''going'' to take ''this'' anymore!" Often misquoted as "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" Also, Beale doesn't shout it out the window; only his viewers do, although their wording differs slightly... which makes this case of [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]] understandable.
* [[Fake American]]: Australian Peter Finch as Howard Beale.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Kidnapped|Alan Breck Stewart]] is Howard Beale.
** [[The Bridge on the River Kwai|Shears]] is Max Schumacher.
** [[Superman (film)|Otis]] is Jensen.
** [[To Kill a Mockingbird|Boo Radley]] is Mr. Hackett, and
** [[Bonnie and Clyde|Bonnie Parker]], appropriately enough, is Diana.
** Sort of: Mary Ann Gifford is played by [[Walter Cronkite]]'s daughter.
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Amusingly, You can spot a young [[Lois and Clark|Perry White]] among UBS's news staff.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: Although it could just as easily apply to the present day. Many of the changes to the station in general and the news in particular were meant to be overblown exaggerations of then-current trends, now they're things that happened thirty years ago and standard industry practices (other than the open terrorist connections and assassination).
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