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* ArcWords: Strawberry jam.
* BlackBugRoom: [[spoiler: The titular cube is implied to be this.]]
* BrokenRecord: Happens to a live rock band.
* BlackBugRoom: [[spoiler: The titular cube is implied to be this.]]
* BrokenRecord: Happens to a live rock band.
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* CuckooNest
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* SanitySlippage
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* SelfInflictedHell: Hypothesized by an old man.
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* SinisterGeometry
* TomatoInTheMirror: "I'm... projected."
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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness
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* WhiteVoidRoom
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'''''The Cube''''' was an hour-long teleplay that aired on Creator/{{NBC}}'s weekly show ''NBC Experiment in Television'' on February 23, 1969. The production was produced and directed by puppeteer Creator/JimHenson, the screenplay co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl (who also appears in a cameo).
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** While the Man is being shown the end of the teleplay on a TV set, we see the names of both Joe Raposo (one of ''SesameStreet'' 's songwriters and music composers) and Don Sahlin (Jim Henson's original Muppet builder) scroll during the closing credits. Neither of them actually worked on the actual special, though.
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** While the Man is being shown the end of the teleplay on a TV set, we see the names of both Joe Raposo (one of ''SesameStreet'' ''Series/SesameStreet'' 's songwriters and music composers) and Don Sahlin (Jim Henson's original Muppet builder) scroll during the closing credits. Neither of them actually worked on the actual special, though.
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* HeAlsoDid: Yes, this is the same Creator/JimHenson who made TheMuppetShow.
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* HeAlsoDid: Yes, this is the same Creator/JimHenson who made TheMuppetShow.''Series/TheMuppetShow''.
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* HopeSpot: The Man comes very close to going crazy, but in the end, [[spoiler:he appears to leave The Cube through a door, only to be lead to a completely different room which turns out to ''also'' be The Cube.]]
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* HopeSpot: The Man comes very close to going crazy, but in the end, [[spoiler:he appears to leave The Cube through a door, only to be lead led to a completely different room which turns out to ''also'' be The Cube.]]
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** Muppet/Henson writer Jerry Juhl (who also co-wrote this film) appears in a party scene, where he can be heard talking shop with others about the film itself; "I didn't care for the ending."
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* NoNameGiven: The character. One visitor calls him "Ted", a name he denies is his.
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* NoNameGiven: The character. One visitor calls him "Ted", a name he denies is his. The original script gives the man's name as Martin.
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* HeAlsoDid: Yes, this is the same JimHenson who made TheMuppetShow.
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* HeAlsoDid: Yes, this is the same JimHenson Creator/JimHenson who made TheMuppetShow.
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'''''The Cube''''' was an hour-long teleplay that aired on NBC's weekly show ''NBC Experiment in Television'' on February 23, 1969. The production was produced and directed by puppeteer JimHenson, the screenplay co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl (who also appears in a cameo).
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'''''The Cube''''' was an hour-long teleplay that aired on NBC's Creator/{{NBC}}'s weekly show ''NBC Experiment in Television'' on February 23, 1969. The production was produced and directed by puppeteer JimHenson, Creator/JimHenson, the screenplay co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl (who also appears in a cameo).
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* TheCameo:
** Muppet performer Jerry Nelson appears on-screen as a monk.
** While the Man is being shown the end of the teleplay on a TV set, we see the names of both Joe Raposo (one of ''SesameStreet'' 's songwriters and music composers) and Don Sahlin (Jim Henson's original Muppet builder) scroll during the closing credits. Neither of them actually worked on the actual special, though.
** Muppet performer Jerry Nelson appears on-screen as a monk.
** While the Man is being shown the end of the teleplay on a TV set, we see the names of both Joe Raposo (one of ''SesameStreet'' 's songwriters and music composers) and Don Sahlin (Jim Henson's original Muppet builder) scroll during the closing credits. Neither of them actually worked on the actual special, though.
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* EverythingIsRacist: Invoked with one visitor, who is black, and expresses that he liked the Cube very much, and even has one of his own, but there is one problem he has with it: it's all ''white''.
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* GoshDangItToHeck: Completely subverted, which is odd, given that this was still a couple of years or so before [[TheRuralPurge edgier television programming was the norm]]. "Hell" and "damn" are spoken.
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* ShapeShifter: One of the visitors drops in on the man, at first, looking like a beautiful young lady, but as she converses with him about you can trust nobody, because no one out there are what they seem, she shifts more and more into a hideous old crone.
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* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream: One possible interpretation of the ending.]]
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* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: One possible interpretation of the ending.ending -- the man will be stuck in the Cube being tormented by his visitors until the end of time.]]
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* [[spoiler: BlackBugRoom: The titular cube is implied to be this.]]
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* [[spoiler: BlackBugRoom: [[spoiler: The titular cube is implied to be this.]]
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* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: see above.]]
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* [[spoiler:GroundhogDayLoop]]: Implied by the [[spoiler:strawberry jam on the stool, which is the same stool that the man broke the Ramadar with.]]
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* [[spoiler:GroundhogDayLoop]]: Implied GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler:Implied by the [[spoiler:strawberry strawberry jam on the stool, which is the same stool that the man broke the Ramadar with.]]
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* HappyEnding: {{Discussed}} and played with. The film critic shows the man the play's ending in advance - the man's healthy, happy, and even got the girl...
-->'''Man:''' BUT I'M STILL IN THE CUBE!
:: And to top it off, he doesn't actually want the girl.
-->'''Man:''' BUT I'M STILL IN THE CUBE!
:: And to top it off, he doesn't actually want the girl.
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* HappyEnding: {{Discussed}} and played with. subverted. The film critic shows the man the play's ending in advance - -- the man's healthy, happy, and even got the girl...
-->'''Man:''' BUT I'M STILL IN THE CUBE!
::girl... but he's still in the cube. And to top it off, he doesn't actually want the girl.girl. [[spoiler:The play eventually ends on a cruel note, with the man escaping the cube only to find himself back inside just before the credits roll.]]
-->'''Man:''' BUT I'M STILL IN THE CUBE!
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* HopeSpot: The Man comes very close to going crazy, but in the end, [[spoiler:he appears to leave The Cube through a door, only to be lead to a completely different room which turns out to ''also'' be The Cube.]]
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* EpiphanicPrison: The only way out is to figure out what the cube is all about.(Maybe.)
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* EpiphanicPrison: The only way out is to figure out what the cube is all about. (Maybe.)
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-->'''Ms. Bix''': How many hours a day do you spend in here, anyhow?
-->''[Arnie whispers in her ear]''
-->'''Ms. Bix''': Good heavens! He can't spend the rest of his...!
''The Cube'' was an hour-long teleplay that aired on NBC's weekly show ''NBC Experiment in Television'' on February 23, 1969. The production was produced and directed by puppeteer JimHenson, the screenplay co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl (who also appears in a cameo).
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-->'''Ms. Bix''': Good heavens! He can't spend the rest of his...!
''The Cube'' was an hour-long teleplay that aired on NBC's weekly show ''NBC Experiment in Television'' on February 23, 1969. The production was produced and directed by puppeteer JimHenson, the screenplay co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl (who also appears in a cameo).
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[[caption-width-right:300:Which door to leave through?]]
->'''Ms. Bix''': How many hours a day do you spend in here, anyhow?
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[[spoiler: DownerEnding: see above.]]
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* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: see above.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: Used by the 'people' as a jarring a effect to further fluster and confuse the Man in The Cube.
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* [[spoiler: BlackBugRoom: The titular cube is implied to be this.]]
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* CuckooNest
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* Gaslighting: Furniture appears and disappears when the man's back is turned suggesting they are being moved when he's not looking. Of course it could just be his mind.
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* Gaslighting: {{Gaslighting}}: Furniture appears and disappears when the man's back is turned suggesting they are being moved when he's not looking. Of course it could just be his mind.
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* Gaslighting: Furniture appears and disappears when the man's back is turned suggesting they are being moved when he's not looking. Of course it could just be his mind.
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* AlienBlood: [[spoiler: The protagonist cuts himself and tastes his own blood. It's Strawberry Jam.]]
* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream: One possible interpretation of the ending.]]
* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream: One possible interpretation of the ending.]]
[[spoiler: DownerEnding: see above.]]
* MonsterClown: Two comedians with clown make-up who like everybody else in the film are menacing, unsettling and malicious.
* OnlySaneMan: The Man in The Cube, at we seem to think so until the MindScrew kicks in both in-universe and out.
* OnlySaneMan: The Man in The Cube, at we seem to think so until the MindScrew kicks in both in-universe and out.
* SanitySlippage
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* SelfInflictedHell: Hypothesised by an old man.
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* SelfInflictedHell: Hypothesised Hypothesized by an old man.
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* UnreliableExpositor: Pretty much ''everyone'', given how they all contradict each other.
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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness
* UnreliableExpositor: Pretty much ''everyone'', given how they all contradict eachother. other.
* WeirdnessMagnet: The protagonist is not given any time between strange encounter after strange encounter, just to make matters worse for him.
* WhiteVoidRoom
* UnreliableExpositor: Pretty much ''everyone'', given how they all contradict each
* WeirdnessMagnet: The protagonist is not given any time between strange encounter after strange encounter, just to make matters worse for him.
* WhiteVoidRoom
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* UnreliableExpositor: Pretty much ''everyone'', given how they all contradict each other.
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Not to be confused with ''{{Cube}}''.
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Not to be confused with ''{{Cube}}''.
''Film/{{Cube}}''.
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Watch it [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3907143513685066286 here]].
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* EpiphanicPrison: The only way out is to find out how to leave.
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* EpiphanicPrison: The only way out is to find figure out how to leave.what the cube is all about.(Maybe.)
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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.
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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, Man in The Cube, 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.
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''The Cube'' was an hour-long teleplay that aired on NBC's weekly show ''NBC Experiment in Television'' on February 23, 1969. The production was produced and directed by puppeteer Jim Henson, the screenplay co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl (who also appears in a cameo).
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''The Cube'' was an hour-long teleplay that aired on NBC's weekly show ''NBC Experiment in Television'' on February 23, 1969. The production was produced and directed by puppeteer Jim Henson, JimHenson, the screenplay co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl (who also appears in a cameo).
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Yes, this is the same JimHenson who made TheMuppetShow.
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* HappyEnding: {{Subverted}}. The film critic shows him the play's ending in advance - the man's healthy, happy, and even got the girl...
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* HappyEnding: {{Subverted}}. {{Discussed}} and played with. The film critic shows him the man the play's ending in advance - the man's healthy, happy, and even got the girl...
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** And he doesn't actually want the girl.
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* HeAlsoDid: Yes, this is the same JimHenson who made TheMuppetShow.
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* DrivenToMadnessDrivenToMadness: The man is constantly in danger of losing his sanity.
