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Trivia about The Man From Earth includes:

• Digital Piracy Is Okay: The creators encouraged people to download their movie using Bittorrent.
• Hey, It's That Guy! - Richard Riehle (Will Gruber) is one of the other villagers in The Inner Light, as well as Tom Smykowski in Office Space.
  • William Katt (Art) was Ralph Hinckley.
  • Ellen Crawford (Edith) was a nurse in ER called Lydia.
  • Tony Todd (Dan) was Kurn, Worf's brother, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, an adult Jake Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and an alpha Hirogen in Star Trek: Voyager.
    • It also doubles as an Actor Allusion when he says he'll go see some Trek to regain his sanity.
    • Not to mention it's a little strange/refreshing to see the Candyman/the Mortician engaging in an intellectual exploration. And being friendly.
  • John Billingsley (Harry) is Dr. Phlox in Star Trek: Enterprise.
• Shout-Out: The whole film strongly resembles the conversation from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. It's quite fitting.
  • And when Harry suggests John takes lab tests:

I'm leery of labs. Afraid I might go in and stay for a thousand years while cigarette-smoking men try to figure me out.

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