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* [[Big Applesauce]]{{context}}
* [[Coolest Club Ever]]{{context}}
* [[Dies Wide Open]]{{context}}
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]{{context}}
* [[Downer Ending]]{{context}}
* [[Everybody Must Get Stoned]]{{context}}
* [[Everything Is Big in Texas]]: The film opens with a shot of the "Big Tex Drive-In".
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]{{context}}
* [[Ho Yay]]: Rizzo and Joe Buck.{{context}}
* [[Imagine Spot]]{{context}}
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]{{context}}
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]{{context}}
* [[Jerkass]]: Rizzo, a good deal of the time.{{context}}
* [[Large Ham]]: O'Daniel.{{context}}
* [[Leitmotif]]: ''Everybody's Talkin'", used for Joe Buck.
* [[Naked in Mink]]{{context}}
* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]{{context}}
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Cass.{{context}}
* [[One Head Taller]]: Rizzo and Joe Buck.{{context}}
* [[Rape as Drama]]: The flashbacks of {{spoiler|"Crazy Annie" and Joe Buck getting gang raped.}}
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: Harry Nilsson's "Everybody's Talkin'".
* [[Red Light District]]: 42nd Street.{{context}}
* [[Signature Line]]: "I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"
* [[Slippery Soap]]: Dropped by Joe in the very first scene.
* [[Smoking Hot Sex]]: Subverted. Joe Buck and Shirley smoke out of frustration, after [[The Loins Sleep Tonight|he is hit with erectile dysfunction]].
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]{{context}}
* [[Tear Jerker]]{{context}}
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Joe Buck sure loves handing out money to people who ask.{{context}}
* [[Wrong Side of the Tracks]]{{context}}
 
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