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* [[Laugh Track]]: In-story in "Laugh Track", of course. The ghosts of those whose laughter was recorded are now trapped in it, and one of them gets out and starts jeering at the awful comedies it's being used for. (An explicit comparison is made to the idea of a [[Spooky Photographs|soul-stealing camera]].)
* [[Magical Negro]]: Explicitly averted in "Paladin of the Lost Hour" and "Mefisto In Onyx".
* [[Mind Screw]]: His latest{{when}} short "How Interesting: A Tiny Man".
* [[Missing Episode]]: ''[[The Last Dangerous Visions]]''
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Ellison
** In "Grail", the demon [[Locked Door|Surgat]] is a minor demon who specializes in opening locks. [[wikipedia:Surgat|He has his own Wikipedia page.]]
* [[Space Jews]]: In "I'm Looking For Kadak".
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: ''Many'' of his stories about his interactions with Hollywood/other writers have gotten called into question by the rest of the science fiction community. Ellison is one of those people who won't let the truth get in the way of a good story; take anything he
* [[What Could Have Been]]: His script for a film adaptation of ''[[I, Robot (literature)|I, Robot]]''.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: Very famously, Ellison neither
** Many people attending science fiction conventions in the late 60s and early 70s remember Ellison as smelling so strongly of pot you could get high standing next to him. He has often railed against ''hard'' drugs, though.
* [[Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things]]: Wrote an essay on it (sci fi/fantasy literature, specifically), called "Xenogenesis", which included a number of examples of the awful things that have been done to him and other writers by fans.
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