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* [[Bi the Way]]: Margot's background file shows that she had many lovers, one of which was a woman.
* [[Black Comedy]]
* [[Braids, Beads, and Buckskins]]: Eli Cash.
* {{spoiler|[[Brother-Sister Incest]]}}: averted {{spoiler|ADOPTED sister.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Bungled Suicide]]: Richie}}
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Margot.
* [[Expy]] / [[Shout -Out]]: [[Word of God]] has it that Eli is a combined expy of authors Cormac McCarthy and Jay McInerney. Similarly, Margot's first husband - a Jamaican reggae musician named Desmond - is supposed to be reggae legend Desmond Dekker.
* [[Film of the Book]]: The film's conceit is that it's based on a (nonexistent) best-selling book.
* [[First Father Wins]]: Royal patches up his relationship with the kids, but {{spoiler|doesn't remarry his ex though.}}
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: Every set is adorable and quirky. YMMV.
** How about the closet crammed several feet high--on all sides--with '70s board games: where Chas threatens Royal? Yet Another Example of the Wes Anderson retro-collage school of art direction, yeah...still, it's kinda [[Rule of Cool|cool]].
* [[Shout -Out]]: A brother and sister living in a museum (hiding inside, at night) is more-or-less the plot of E.L. Konigsburg's ''From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler''. Minus the [[Squick]], as it was a children's novel. Another literary reference: a character in J.D. Salinger's ''Franny and Zooey'' is endlessly in the bathtub, smoking. Wrong gender, though, to be like Margot. However, given the prominence in Salinger's fiction of [[Child Prodigy|child prodigies]]--and Manhattan as a setting--it seems unlikely to be coincidental.
* [[Spiritual Sequel]]: [[The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou]].
* [[Take That]]: Peter Bradley, the talk show host who interviews Eli badly, is based on Charlie Rose. (The Criterion edition DVD of ''[[Rushmore]]'' has among its bonus features Charley Rose interviews with Wes Anderson & Bill Murray. During the course of both interviews, Rose repeatedly states the main character's motivation as [[Did Not Do the Research|wanting his face on Mount Rushmore]].)
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