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* [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating]]: For some reason, the film's R rating was a huge marketing point.

* [[Behind the Black]]: Funny how the characters don't notice the bodies hanging from the trees until the camera reveals them, even though they had been driving straight towards them for a good 30 seconds.

* [[Broken Aesop|Broken]] [[Green Aesop]]: Even if you accept the premise of global warming as a trigger, the result is just plain ''stupid''. It's something plants would ''like''. Why would they try to ''stop'' it?

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Alma, more or less, spends most of the movie in [[Dull Surprise]] mode, and states at the beginning "I don't like to show my emotions."

** It's almost impossible to listen to that line without thinking that it wasn't originally in the script, and that Shyamalan just added it in light of Deschanel's famously emotionless acting.

* [[Evolutionary Levels]]: The plants suddenly evolve the ability to emit neurotoxin. All species of plants. ''[[You Fail Biology Forever|Simultaneously.]]''

* [[Expospeak]]: [[Alan Ruck]] explains the symptoms at the beginning to the other teachers. Later, the nursery owner explains plants' ability to release chemicals. Mrs. Jones explains the speaker in the springhouse.

* [[Fake Food]]: In a gag which runs on a little long.

* [[Fridge Horror]]: Does anyone else wonder what happened to the suicidal infants and very young children after the adults succeeded at suicide?

* [[Gorn]]: Apparently someone realized that people were just laughing at the answer to the "mystery", so commercials for the DVD release are ''exclusively'' focusing on the deaths, and how it's Shyamalan's first R rated film, ignoring the whole mystery bit.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: The Private's use of "Cheese and Crackers!" as an exclamation, and the construction worker's use of the word "thing" for "penis" feel a little bit out of place in an R-Rated film.

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]

* [[Sole Survivor]]: In the beginning, {{spoiler|and in the end in France}}, only one random person isn't affected by the neurotoxins, and [[Forced to Watch]] everyone kill themselves.

* [[Space Whale Aesop]]

* [[Television Geography]]: The real Filbert, PA is near Uniontown, PA, about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh - this puts it very far from the eastern part of the state that the guy in the restaurant points out on the TV screen, and well past their train’s stated destination of Harrisburg. The actual town has no rail service, either.