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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 hashad [[Genius Bonus|esoteric and obscure references]] coming out the wazoo, and oftenermore often than not, even the really ''weird'' (for him, that's a special level of weird) ones are things you can look up.
** 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 sayssaids with a salt mine.
* [[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 drinksdrank nor smokessmoked nor getsgot blasted out of his mind on acid ''ever''. [[Badass|He used to smoke a pipe,]] but quit that years agobefore he died.
** 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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