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* [[Freak-Out]]: Eiffel goes through one when she realizes Harold was real, and starts wondering if she really killed people with her previous books.
** But not before Harold has his own. The guy does find out he is going to die in a pretty unconventional and profound way, after all. That poor, poor lamp...
* [[Fridge Horror]]: Invoked. So [[Post Modernism|Po Mo]] that this even happens [[In
** It should be noted that this is not an uncommon worry for writers, of contemporary fiction or otherwise, to have lurking somewhere in the back of their mind. If you've ever wondered why so many authors seem to have a love affair with [[Aerith and Bob|impossible or incongruous names]], part of the reason is to dodge this particular bullet since the probability of an actual person having that name, and thus being effected, is ridiculously low.
* [[Genre Savvy]], [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: ([[Playing
** Once the professor actually believes Harold is being narrated (due to the "little did he know" line below), he instantly starts displaying his [[Genre Savvy]].
{{quote| '''Jules:''' Come back next week. Wait, you could be dead by then. Come back ''tomorrow''.}}
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* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Professor Hilbert's copious coffee consumption.
* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: The movie was portrayed as typical Will Ferrel comedy in advertisements, which it is decidedly not.
* {{spoiler|[[What Is One Man's Life in
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: In-universe example. While Harold is being distracted by Karen, someone asks him what the product of 67 and 453 is. He answers with 30351, which Karen says is wrong, and that the real answer is 31305, which he quickly corrects to. Because he is obviously distracted, it seems very probable that he would have gotten it wrong. He hadn't, and had the correct answer the first time. Of course, she may have just been messing with him, but why?
** It's a typo in a movie about a novel. The movie is filled with mathematical references and in-jokes. When a writer names every character after a famous mathematician, they can probably do basic multiplication.
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