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* [[Department of Child Disservices]]: The evil Social Service workers who want to separate Chaplin from John.

* [[Dream Sequence]]: A singularly bizarre one. Charlie falls asleep and has a dream where he's suddenly an angel, and dances with a lot of women dressed as angels until people dressed as demons come in and tempt everyone to evil. It comes out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the actual plot, and of course, sealing the deal, he wakes up and the movie continues as normal. Chaplin's longer films often had randomly inserted nonsensical dream sequences.

* [[Dramedy]]: As mentioned previously, this was one of the first times the two genres were ever blended on film.

* [[The Fagin]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]]; Charlie was literally unable to get rid of the baby when he found it, for it was returned to him every time he tried to abandon it. Eventually, Charlie became attached to John and became the [[Papa Wolf]] variety of this trope.

* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Poor little John.

* [[Hot Pursuit]]: The infamous roof-chase scene in which Charlie out-runs a policeman to try and save John from being taken away.

* [[Missed Him By That Much]]: John's mother actually comes to the slum John is living in to do charity work and ''sees'' him, but has no way of knowing that it's the son she abandoned five years before.

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