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• Award Snub: Leonard Frey, who played Harold. He'd be nominated for Best Supporting Actor the next year for Fiddler on the Roof.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Hank and Larry's phone calls to eachother.
  • Michael's gift to Harold - a silver framed photo of Michael, with an inscription that's never revealed.

Harold: (choked up) Thank you, Michael.

• Cult Classic
• Fair for Its Day: Many people see this film as a hopelessly outdated relic of a time when gays were only camp, snarky queens. Few are aware that this was one of the first films to show homosexuals as not only protagonists, but real three dimensional individuals who were every bit as human as Their straight counterparts. This is from a time when Gays rarely even made it to the end credits of films.
• Genius Bonus: The dialogue is loaded with literary and cinematic references that are likely to go over many viewers' heads.
• The Masochism Tango: Emory and Bernard, Michael and Donald. Michael and Harold? Is there a Sadism Tango?
• Memetic Mutation: "Who do you have to fuck to get a drink around here?" (This one's widely subject to the Weird Al Effect.)
• Mondegreen: Some people hear Emory say, "I may be nelly, Michael, but I'm Noel Coward."