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* BadAssDriver: Michael. He's able to drive his GTO at 120+ to outrun an electrical "probe", crashes through a road closed sign, and is able to bring the car safely to a stop off-road near an electrical tower with no damage.
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* BadAssDriver: Michael. He's able to drive his GTO at 120+ to outrun an electrical "probe", crashes through a road closed sign, and is able to bring brings the car safely to a stop off-road near an electrical tower with no damage.
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* BadAssDriver: Michael. He's able to drive his GTO at 120+ to outrun an electrical "probe", crashes through a road closed sign, and is able to bring the car safely to a stop off-road near an electrical tower with no damage.
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* CoolCar: The Presidential Limo seen in the opening scene, Harlan's customized Pontiac GTO and Vince's Buick Rivera equipped with a deployable middle finger.
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* CoolCar: The Presidential Limo seen in the opening scene, Harlan's customized Pontiac GTO with an electromagnetic-clutch-activated supercharger, and Vince's Buick Rivera equipped with a deployable middle finger.
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* CoolTeacher: Robert Roberts is this with somewhat mixed results. That said, all the main characters respect him and ask for his help to understand what the Gizmo is.
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* CoolTeacher: Robert Roberts is this with somewhat mixed results. That said, all the main characters respect him and ask for his help to understand what the Gizmo is. [[spoiler:When he ends up going into a warp, the three friends are horrified. Ellie and Michael clearly show concern for him, and are relieved and delighted to see him again when he returns.]]
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* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: A StopMotion one is summoned in the basketball court. Its entrance is surprisingly similar to the better known from ''Film/JurassicPark'' despite predating it by 8 years.
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* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: A StopMotion one is summoned in the basketball court. Its entrance is surprisingly similar to the better known one from ''Film/JurassicPark'' despite predating it by 8 years.
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Teenage gearhead Michael Harlan (John Stockwell) has two weeks to turn in a science project he hasn't even started, or he won't graduate high school. He and his date Ellie Sawyer (Creator/DanielleVonZerneck) break into a government aircraft boneyard looking for some machinery he can restore and use as his project. He takes a mysterious device that resembles a plasma globe attached to some other equipment. In auto shop the next day, he and his TV-obsessed friend Vince Latello (Creator/FisherStevens) discover that the device is a time machine, capable of creating a time warp where things from different time periods can interact.
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Teenage gearhead Michael Harlan (John Stockwell) (Creator/JohnStockwell) has two weeks to turn in a science project he hasn't even started, or he won't graduate high school. He and his date Ellie Sawyer (Creator/DanielleVonZerneck) break into a government aircraft boneyard looking for some machinery he can restore and use as his project. He takes a mysterious device that resembles a plasma globe attached to some other equipment. In auto shop the next day, he and his TV-obsessed friend Vince Latello (Creator/FisherStevens) discover that the device is a time machine, capable of creating a time warp where things from different time periods can interact.
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* ActorAllusion: At one point, teacher Robert Roberts (played by Dennis Hopper) [[Film/BlueVelvet gets high on nitrous]] to de-stress after a day of teaching.
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* FunctionalAddict: In his opening scene, Mr. Roberts seems to have retained the ideals and attitude of the 1960's, but is otherwise a clean and sober guy -- and then it's shown that he huffs a little nitrous to take the edge off after class.[[note]]Incredibly, this ''isn't'' an Actor Allusion to Hopper's role as Frank Booth in ''Film/BlueVelvet'', as that movie would not be made for another year.[[/note]]
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Sherman identifies the Neanderthal Man, Latello says that he doesn't care where he's from.
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* ButIReadABookAboutIt: At the climax, the group gets their hands on M-16 rifles but Harlan and Latello don't know how to reload them (Latello didn't even knew the shotgun he brought into the school [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets was not loaded until he tried to use it]]). Sherman, the nerd, then [[HiddenDepths reveals he read an Army field manual and demonstrates how to do it]]. He also recognizes the baseball court has been remodeled by plants from the Jurassic and when Latello asks how the heck would he know, Sherman says a deadpan "I read".
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* ButIReadABookAboutIt: At the climax, the group gets their hands on M-16 rifles but Harlan and Latello don't know how to reload them (Latello didn't even knew the shotgun he brought into the school [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets was not loaded until he tried to use it]]). Sherman, the nerd, then [[HiddenDepths reveals he read an Army field manual and demonstrates how to do it]]. He also recognizes the baseball court has been remodeled by plants from the Jurassic Creataceous and when Latello asks how the heck would he know, Sherman says a deadpan "I read".
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* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: A StopMotion one is summoned in the basketball court. Its entrance is surprisingly similar to the better known from ''Film/JurassicPark'' despite predating it by 8 years.
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* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: The boys are attacked by a completely hairy, chimpanzee-like FrazettaMan. Sherman identifies it as a "Neanderthal man", which even in TheEighties we knew weren't like that.
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* NotGoodWithPeople: Michael understands and trusts machines better than people, and at several points wishes humans were as predictable as cars.
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* ButIReadABookAboutIt: At the climax, the group gets their hands on M-16 rifles but Harlan and Latello don't know how to reload them (Latello didn't even knew the shotgun he brought into the school [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets was not loaded until he tried to use it]]). Sherman, the nerd, then reveals he read an Army field manual and demonstrates how to do it. He also recognizes the baseball court has been remodeled by plants from the Jurassic and when Latello asks how the heck would he know, Sherman says a deadpan "I read".
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* ButIReadABookAboutIt: At the climax, the group gets their hands on M-16 rifles but Harlan and Latello don't know how to reload them (Latello didn't even knew the shotgun he brought into the school [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets was not loaded until he tried to use it]]). Sherman, the nerd, then [[HiddenDepths reveals he read an Army field manual and demonstrates how to do it.it]]. He also recognizes the baseball court has been remodeled by plants from the Jurassic and when Latello asks how the heck would he know, Sherman says a deadpan "I read".
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* ButIReadABookAboutIt: At the climax, the group gets their hands on M-16 rifles but Harlan and Latello don't know how to reload them (Latello didn't even knew the shotgun he brought into the school [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets was not loaded until he tried to use it]]). Sherman, the nerd, then reveals he read an Army field manual and demonstrates how to do it. He also recognizes the baseball court has been remodeled by plants from the Jurassic and when Latello asks how the heck would he know, Sherman says a deadpan "I read".
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* ActorAllusion: At one point, teacher Robert Roberts (played by Dennis Hopper) [[Film/BlueVelvet gets high on nitrous]] to de-stress after a day of teaching.
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* GenreSavvy: Michael quickly recognizes Ellie's sabotage is an effort to get this attention and confronts her.
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* GenreSavvy: Michael quickly recognizes Ellie's sabotage is an effort to get this his attention and confronts her.he asks her what's going on.
