History Film / TheCube

* YouWakeUpInARoom: Actually, it's never shown what the character was doing before he appeared in the cube. In the end, [[spoiler:it seems he only exists inside of the cube.]]

* EpiphanicPrison: the only way out is to find out how to leave.

** And he doesn't want the girl.

* TomatoInTheMirror

-->''Arnie whispers in her ear''

Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEnArK5uGTo here]].

* CuckooNest: Suggested by the film critic, and also by the band's opening verse, "You're really in the middle of the inside of yourself".

* YouWakeUpInARoom: Actually, it's never shown what the character was doing before he appeared in the cube.

The teleplay only aired twice, the original broadcast and a rerun in 1970.

-->'''Ms. Bix''': Good heavens! He can't spend the rest of his...

-->''"Oh, that guy's a real pain in the neck. It's a good thing he doesn't exist!"''
-->-Arnie

* TemptingFate: "How about this one? The minute I set foot outside this door, two gorillas grab me, dressed in ballet costumes, drag me back in, throw me on the floor and surround me singing Home Sweet Home!"

* HappyEnding: {Subverted}}. The film critic shows him the play's ending in advance - the man's healthy, happy, and even got the girl...

* BrokenRecord - happens to a live rock band.

* EpiphanicPrison - the only way out is to find out how to leave.
* FourthWallObserver - one visitor is a film critic who tells the man that he's just a character in a teleplay, and produces a TV to show him the ending.
* IceCreamKoan - "All is all. What is, is."

* NoNameGiven - the character. One visitor calls him "Ted", a name he denies is his.
* SelfInflictedHell - hypothesised by one of the visitors.

* TemptingFate - "How about this one? The minute I set foot outside this door, two gorillas grab me, dressed in ballet costumes, drag me back in, throw me on the floor and surround me singing Home Sweet Home!"
* YouWakeUpInARoom - actually, it's never shown what the character was doing before he appeared in the cube.

The story follows Richard Schaal as a man trapped in a cubical white room that anyone else could enter and leave, but which he himself apparently could not leave. The main character, simply named The Man, is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters as a variety of people come through various hidden doors that can't be opened from inside the cube. But as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it.

* TomatoInTheMirror - "I'm not projected! I'm not projected! I'm..." *notices the real him* "...projected." *disappears*
* TheGameNeverStopped

* TemptingFate / YourMindMakesItReal - "How about this one? The minute I set foot outside this door, two gorillas grab me, dressed in ballet costumes, drag me back in, throw me on the floor and surround me singing Home Sweet Home!"

* TomatoInTheMirror - "I'm not projected! I'm not projected! I'm... projected."

The story follows Richard Schaal as a man trapped in a cubical white room that anyone else could enter and leave, but which he himself apparently could not leave. The main character, simply named ''The Man'', is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters as a variety of people come through various hidden doors. But as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it.

* TheGameNeverStopped

* SinisterGeometry