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A lowly office drone, C.C. "Bud" Baxter, has just found the solution to getting up the corporate food chain: let the corporate bigwigs use his apartment for their extramarital affairs. His boss, J.D. Sheldrake finds out, and promotes Baxter on the condition that he lets him use the apartment for his own affair. Naturally, Baxter accepts the condition, but he reconsiders when he finds out his crush, Fran Kubelik, is Sheldrake's other woman. Things turn very complicated when he finds her close to death on his bed.

 

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* [[Better Living Through Evil]]: What Sheldrake gives Baxter.

* [[Bungled Suicide]]: Baxter tells Miss Kubelik he attempted suicide once, and ended up accidentally shooting himself in the knee.

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: Until ''[[Schindler's List]]'', this was the last black and white film to win Best Picture.

* [[Did I Mention It's Christmas?]]

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Baxter, when he learns Miss Kubelik is Mr. Sheldrake's other woman.

* [[Especially Zoidberg]]: This exchange:

* [[Grew a Spine]]: Baxter eventually refuses to loan his apartment to Sheldrake again, and quits instead.

* [[I Uh You Too]]: Baxter confesses his love to Miss Kubelik while they play Gin Rummy. She responds with this classic line:

* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Bud and Fran always refer to each other as "Miss Kubelik" and "Mr. Baxter".

* [[Love Triangle]]

* [[New Year Has Come]]

* [[Nice Hat]]: Baxter gets a bowler hat after his promotion.

* [[Race For Your Love]]: In the end, Miss Kubelik {{spoiler|leaves Sheldrake on New Year's Eve and runs to Baxter's apartment}}.

* [[Shout-Out]]: The shot where the camera swoops in to find Baxter at one in a sea of desks is a Shout Out to King Vidor's 1928 silent classic, ''[[The Crowd]]''.

** Trying to schedule a tryst with one of the company switchboard operators, one of the bosses suggests they meet at the apartment on Thursday night. "Thursday? But that's ''[[The Untouchables]]'' with Bob Stack!"

** Baxter gets tickets to ''[[The Music Man]]'' from Sheldrake and tries to take Miss Kubelik to the show.

** One of Billy Wilder's own earlier films gets a Shout Out when Kirkeby tells Dobisch about Miss Kubelik staying at Baxter's apartment:

* [[Sudden Principled Stand]]

* [[Take That]]/[[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: [[The Ditz]] that Dobisch takes to the apartment is a thinly veiled lampoon of [[Marilyn Monroe]]. Billy Wilder had earlier directed Monroe in ''[[The Seven Year Itch]]'' and ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'', and didn't think much of her professionalism. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when Dobisch even mentions that the girl looks like Marilyn Monroe.

** The [[Tagline]] on the movie's original poster: "Movie-wise, there has never been anything like ''The Apartment'' love-wise, laugh-wise, or otherwise-wise!"

** Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's screenplay ends thusly, following Miss Kubelik's "Shut up and deal" line:

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]

 

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[[Category:Films of the 1960s]]

[[Category:National Film Registry]]