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* [[Everything Is Racist]]: Louise assumes Chance's success is due to the fact that he's white.
* [[Equal Opportunity Evil]]: Averted with an all-black street gang.
* [[Fake American]]: Peter Sellers, a Brit, as Chance. In the film, Chance lives in Washington, D.C., but Sellers intentionally plays him without any kind of specific regional dialect/accent as per a description in the book. To pull this off, Sellers took (British) Stan Laurel's voice and gave it an American accent. (Sellers was a huge fan of Laurel and Hardy and openly admitted to using Laurel's screen persona to inform his performance as Chance, which makes this a big [[Shout
* [[The Film of the Book]]
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Chance. Luckily, he adapts quickly.
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** Bad -- (Movie only) The lawyers who come to close the house are a male-female duo who are carrying on an affair behind the back of the man's wife (who is getting suspicious).
* [[Good Morning, Crono]]: The opening sequence of the movie follows Chance as he's awakened by the TV in his bedroom, and he proceeds to tend to his garden (there's a TV in the greenhouse), watch some more TV in his bedroom, and then go down to the dining room to wait for breakfast and watch ''more'' TV.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: One of the President's aides is Gov. Gatling from ''[[Benson]]''.
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: The end credits run over footage of Sellers constantly breaking down laughing during a monologue that was ultimately cut from the film. Sellers thought this was a violation of the movie's tone and tried to have them removed. The tone of the film (and especially the actor's death) makes the outtakes seem more melancholy than anything else. It doesn't help that Sellers is lying face-up on a table wearing a dark tailored suit to deliver the speech, thereby resembling a ''corpse'', as a film journal put it in a retrospective article not long after he died.
* [[Ice Cream Koan]]: Chance's "wise sayings".
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* [[Reality Subtext]]: Sellers never hid his motivations for wanting to play Chance. He even had business cards made up with Chance's name in place of his own, and was known to occasionally confuse people by suddenly assuming Chance's persona -- and this was ''before'' the film was greenlit.
* [[Roger Ebert Great Movies List]]
* [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche]]: Definitely a satire. (One parodied by ''[[Mad Magazine]]''.)
* [[Small Secluded World]]: The Old Man's townhouse is this for Chance; television provides most of his knowledge of the world beyond it.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Thanks to [[Crystal Ball Scheduling]], this pops up a few times; for instance, you may never listen to {{spoiler|Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones"}} quite the same way again without thinking of Chance and Eve first arriving at the Rand estate.
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