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* ComedicSociopathy: Mark once knew this girl who had a dozen guys...
--->'''Mark''': One of them found out about it... beat her up so bad she ended up at a hospital on Guerrero Street.
--->'''Johnny: Ha ha ha. What a story, Mark.
--->'''Mark''': One of them found out about it... beat her up so bad she ended up at a hospital on Guerrero Street.
--->'''Johnny: Ha ha ha. What a story, Mark.
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* DramaticIrony: Johnny kindly (and very [[MoodWhiplash suddenly]] sets aside his anger over Lisa's false accusation of domestic violence to lend a sympathetic ear to Mark as he talks about ''his'' girl problems. Johnny hasn't a clue that the girl Mark mentions he's seeing is Lisa.
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* DramaticIrony: Johnny kindly (and very [[MoodWhiplash suddenly]] suddenly]]) sets aside his anger over Lisa's false accusation of domestic violence to lend a sympathetic ear to Mark as he talks about ''his'' girl problems. Johnny hasn't a clue that the girl Mark mentions he's seeing is Lisa.
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** Some people believe that the 'I feel like I'm sitting on an atomic bomb' line is a shout out to the famous sequence in DrStrangelove.
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A lion's share of the money went into the production itself, as Wiseau decided to shoot the film in both 35 mm film and HD video side-by-side. The film was theatrically released only in Los Angeles. It was advertised by a vague billboard consisting entirely of Wiseau's face staring down at visitors in the area.
''The Room'' continues to be screened in L.A. and other cities, becoming a [[CultClassic cult phenomenon]] of sorts. Showings include interactive affairs à la ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', which are often accompanied with guests throwing plastic spoons at the film (which has a recurring spoon motif), blurting the film's dialogue back at the characters, tossing footballs (themes of [[AuthorAppeal touch football]] are [[PlayingWithATrope explored]] in the film) and dressing up as their favorite character.
It was exposed to a national audience for the first time on AdultSwim on AprilFoolsDay, 2009. Tommy Wiseau was also the focus of a ''TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' episode which aired immediately after the 2009 showing, causing Adult Swim fans to refer to it as ''[[FanNickname The Tim and Eric Movie]]''. A RiffTrax commentary for the film was released in 2009.
''The Room'' continues to be screened in L.A. and other cities, becoming a [[CultClassic cult phenomenon]] of sorts. Showings include interactive affairs à la ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', which are often accompanied with guests throwing plastic spoons at the film (which has a recurring spoon motif), blurting the film's dialogue back at the characters, tossing footballs (themes of [[AuthorAppeal touch football]] are [[PlayingWithATrope explored]] in the film) and dressing up as their favorite character.
It was exposed to a national audience for the first time on AdultSwim on AprilFoolsDay, 2009. Tommy Wiseau was also the focus of a ''TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' episode which aired immediately after the 2009 showing, causing Adult Swim fans to refer to it as ''[[FanNickname The Tim and Eric Movie]]''. A RiffTrax commentary for the film was released in 2009.
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** ''Nothing'' between the second sex scene and the birthday party has any actual effect on the plot.
** There were at least two or three establishing shots during ''one scene'' that took place in the ''same setting''.
** Probably the most obvious form of padding used is that of having characters essentially repeat scenes with only a few details changed. This is especially obvious when it comes to Lisa and Claudette, whose conversations with each other are always about virtually the same thing.
** ''Nothing'' between the second sex scene and the birthday party has any actual effect on the plot.
** There were at least two or three establishing shots during ''one scene'' that took place in the ''same setting''.
** Probably the most obvious form of padding used is that of having characters essentially repeat scenes with only a few details changed. This is especially obvious when it comes to Lisa and Claudette, whose conversations with each other are always about virtually the same thing.
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''The Room'' is a [[MindScrew very strange]] 2003 film by an unlikely filmmaker named Tommy Wiseau. It is ostensibly about a man tortured by the betrayal of his fiancée and his best friend, who are having an affair together.
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''The Room'' is a [[MindScrew very strange]] 2003 film by an unlikely filmmaker named Tommy Wiseau. It is ostensibly about a man man, Johnny, played by Wiseau, tortured by the betrayal of his fiancée Lisa and his best friend, Mark, who are having an affair together.
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A lion's share of the money went into the production itself, as Wiseau decided to shoot the film in both 35 mm film and HD video side-by-side. The film was theatrically released only in Los Angeles. It was advertised by a vague billboard consisting entirely of Wiseau's face staring down at visitors in the area.
''The Room'' continues to be screened in L.A. and other cities, becoming a [[CultClassic cult phenomenon]] of sorts. Showings include interactive affairs à la ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', which are often accompanied with guests throwing plastic spoons at the film (which has a recurring spoon motif), blurting the film's dialogue back at the characters, tossing footballs (themes of [[AuthorAppeal touch football]] are [[PlayingWithATrope explored]] in the film) and dressing up as their favorite character.
It was exposed to a national audience for the first time on AdultSwim on AprilFoolsDay, 2009. Tommy Wiseau was also the focus of a ''TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' episode which aired immediately after the 2009 showing, causing Adult Swim fans to refer to it as ''[[FanNickname The Tim and Eric Movie]]''. A RiffTrax commentary for the film was released in 2009.
''The Room'' continues to be screened in L.A. and other cities, becoming a [[CultClassic cult phenomenon]] of sorts. Showings include interactive affairs à la ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', which are often accompanied with guests throwing plastic spoons at the film (which has a recurring spoon motif), blurting the film's dialogue back at the characters, tossing footballs (themes of [[AuthorAppeal touch football]] are [[PlayingWithATrope explored]] in the film) and dressing up as their favorite character.
It was exposed to a national audience for the first time on AdultSwim on AprilFoolsDay, 2009. Tommy Wiseau was also the focus of a ''TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' episode which aired immediately after the 2009 showing, causing Adult Swim fans to refer to it as ''[[FanNickname The Tim and Eric Movie]]''. A RiffTrax commentary for the film was released in 2009.
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** Apparently a dozen or so Lisas filmed scenes before either being fired by Wiseau or quitting in disgust, so the lines referring to her beauty may have stayed the same while the appearance of the character changed.
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* {{Padding}}:
** ''Nothing'' between the second sex scene and the birthday party has any actual effect on the plot.
** There were at least two or three establishing shots during ''one scene'' that took place in the ''same setting''.
** Probably the most obvious form of padding used is that of having characters essentially repeat scenes with only a few details changed. This is especially obvious when it comes to Lisa and Claudette, whose conversations with each other are always about virtually the same thing.
** ''Nothing'' between the second sex scene and the birthday party has any actual effect on the plot.
** There were at least two or three establishing shots during ''one scene'' that took place in the ''same setting''.
** Probably the most obvious form of padding used is that of having characters essentially repeat scenes with only a few details changed. This is especially obvious when it comes to Lisa and Claudette, whose conversations with each other are always about virtually the same thing.
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* BechdelTest: ''Fails''. All of the conversations held between women are about boys, usually Johnny. The Claudette's mention of her cancer feels like it was only thrown in as an attempt to pass.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The name's "Denny", not "Danny".
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* YouCanSayThatAgain: In response to the "what a story, Mark!" line.
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* YouCanSayThatAgain: In response to the "what a story, [[DomesticAbuse story]], Mark!" line.
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* [[INeedAFreakingDrink You Need a Drink]]: "I don't drink, you know that!"
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* OneSceneWonder: Chris-R. He's not the only one, though. Characters drift in and out of the film like a fever dream.
* OneSteveLimit: Just [[TheyJustDidntCare an odd example of laziness]]: the couple found having sex in the apartment are "Mike" and "Michelle", which are the same name, just masculine and feminine.
* OneSteveLimit: Just [[TheyJustDidntCare an odd example of laziness]]: the couple found having sex in the apartment are "Mike" and "Michelle", which are the same name, just masculine and feminine.
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* OneSteveLimit: Just [[TheyJustDidntCare an odd example of laziness]]: the couple found having sex in the apartment are "Mike" and "Michelle", which are the same name, just masculine and feminine.
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* IllKillYou: "I KILL YOU I BREAK EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY! I KILL YOU YOU BASTURD"
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* IHaveThisFriend: Invoked verbatim by Mark during this rooftop scene with Johnny about infidelity.
* IllKillYou: "I KILL YOU I BREAK EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY! I KILL YOU YOUBASTURD"BASTURD!"
* IllKillYou: "I KILL YOU I BREAK EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY! I KILL YOU YOU
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* AdaptationExpansion: The ScreenToStageAdaptation, which adds new characters (Travis, Claudette's lover, and Scott, Denny's friends), and a few [[ThrowItIn improvised]] scenes. [[WordOfGod Tommy Wiseau]] says that the play is canon to the mythology of ''The Room''.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The ScreenToStageAdaptation, which adds new characters (Travis, Claudette's lover, and Scott, Denny's friends), friend), and a few [[ThrowItIn improvised]] scenes. [[WordOfGod Tommy Wiseau]] says that the play is canon to the mythology of ''The Room''.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The ScreenToStageAdaptation, which adds new characters (Travis, Claudette's lover, and Scott, Denny's friends), and a few [[ThrowItIn improvised]] scenes. [[WordOfGod Tommy Wiseau]] says that the play is canon to the mythology of ''The Room''.
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Not to be confused with ''SilentHill [[SilentHill4 4: The Room]]'', a sealed room ([[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere strangely absent]]), a room {{you wake up in|ARoom}}, or with ''Room'' by Emma Donoghue, ''The Room'' by HaroldPinter (which isn't quite as awkward), or ''The Room'', a Hubert Selby Jr. novel.
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Not to be confused with ''SilentHill [[SilentHill4 4: The Room]]'', a sealed room ([[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere strangely absent]]), a room {{you wake up in|ARoom}}, or with ''Room'' by Emma Donoghue, ''The Room'' by HaroldPinter (which isn't quite as awkward), or ''The Room'', a Hubert Selby Jr. novel.
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* WordOfGod: According to Mr. Wiseau, Lisa's mother makes a full recovery from her breast cancer.
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* AuthorTract: Cast members have alleged that Lisa represents what Wiseau thinks of women.
--->'''Mark''': Oh man, I just can't figure women out. Sometimes they're just too smart. Sometimes they're just flat-out stupid. Other times they're just evil.
--->'''Mark''': Oh man, I just can't figure women out. Sometimes they're just too smart. Sometimes they're just flat-out stupid. Other times they're just evil.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Johnny kills himself because Lisa has been horrible to him but is still relying on him for cash, whilst cheating on him with his best friend]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Johnny kills himself because Lisa has been horrible to him but is still relying on him for cash, whilst cheating on him with his best friend]].friend. He finds all this out on his BIRTHDAY!]].
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* DawsonCasting: Inverted. Lisa has been together with Johnny for seven years, yet was played by an 22-year-old actress. Though her character was probably meant to be older, the contrast of the actress's age with Johnny's Tommy Wiseau being in his late 40s made this all the more noticeable.
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* VoodooShark: The drug dealer scene, which apparently exists only to give Johnny [[spoiler: a gun]], raises far more questions than it answers. Why does the adopted child of a millionaire banker who funds his every whim need to sell drugs to make ends meet? If the dealer's going to jail, why don't the police need his gun for evidence?
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* VoodooShark: The drug dealer scene, which apparently exists only to give Johnny [[spoiler: a gun]], raises far more questions than it answers. Why does the adopted child of a millionaire banker who funds his every whim need to sell drugs to make ends meet? If the dealer's going to jail, why don't the police need his gun for evidence?evidence? Why the hell didn't Mark just get rid of it if they didn't? And why couldn't Johnny simply have had a gun, given his (presumed) ability to legally own one?
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* HoYay: There's a bit between Johnny and Mark in the beginning, but it's quickly dropped in order to make room for the love triangle plot that drives the rest of the movie.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Lisa's mother brings up her cancer once. No one ever speaks of it again.
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* UnexplainedAccent: Johnny has a thick accent, vaguley French or Eastern European, yet no one ever mentions it or where Johnny came from. The closest Johnny comes is recalling when he arrived in San Francisco. The accent is unexplained in real life too. Wiseau makes contradictory claims to be from either France or New Orleans, though the letter W is fairly uncommon in the French language so it's unlikely that Wiseau is a real French name. It seems more like a bad approximation of the french word "Oiseau."
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* UnexplainedAccent: Johnny has a thick accent, vaguley vaguely French or Eastern European, yet no one ever mentions it or where Johnny came from. The closest Johnny comes is recalling when he arrived in San Francisco. The accent is unexplained in real life too. Wiseau makes contradictory claims to be from either France or New Orleans, though the letter W is fairly uncommon in the French language so it's unlikely that Wiseau is a real French name. It seems more like a bad approximation of the french word "Oiseau."
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[OhHiThere Oh hai]], [[DullSurprise TV]] [[MemeticMutation Tropes]].]]
->"''You are [[LargeHam tearing me apart]], Lisa!''"
-->--'''Johnny'''
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''The Room'' is a [[MindScrew very strange]] 2003 film by an unlikely filmmaker named Tommy Wiseau. It is ostensibly about a man tortured by the betrayal of his fiancée and his best friend, who are having an affair together.
It was made on a budget of ''$6 million'', even though you'd never know it. The only real locales are the eponymous room, a different room, and a rooftop, punctuated with StockFootage establishing shots of San Francisco just to spice things up.
A lion's share of the money went into the production itself, as Wiseau decided to shoot the film in both 35 mm film and HD video side-by-side. The film was theatrically released only in Los Angeles. It was advertised by a vague billboard consisting entirely of Wiseau's face staring down at visitors in the area.
''The Room'' continues to be screened in L.A. and other cities, becoming a [[CultClassic cult phenomenon]] of sorts. Showings include interactive affairs à la ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', which are often accompanied with guests throwing plastic spoons at the film (which has a recurring spoon motif), blurting the film's dialogue back at the characters, tossing footballs (themes of [[AuthorAppeal touch football]] are [[PlayingWithATrope explored]] in the film) and dressing up as their favorite character.
It was exposed to a national audience for the first time on AdultSwim on AprilFoolsDay, 2009. Tommy Wiseau was also the focus of a ''TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' episode which aired immediately after the 2009 showing, causing Adult Swim fans to refer to it as ''[[FanNickname The Tim and Eric Movie]]''. A RiffTrax commentary for the film was released in 2009.
There is also [[TheRoomTheGame a flash game tribute]] to the film [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307 here]].
Not to be confused with ''SilentHill [[SilentHill4 4: The Room]]'', a sealed room ([[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere strangely absent]]), a room {{you wake up in|ARoom}}, or with ''Room'' by Emma Donoghue, ''The Room'' by HaroldPinter (which isn't quite as awkward), or ''The Room'', a Hubert Selby Jr. novel.
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!!The film provides examples of:
* AmbiguousDisorder: Denny in seems completely ignorant of social norms and generally acts much younger than his apparent age, at one point leaping into bed with Johnny and Lisa as they are about to have sex. In an interview, director Tommy Wiseau admitted that Denny is "retarded, a little bit," but the actor was never informed of this.
* AngerMontage: Quite possibly one of the wimpiest, most half-hearted Anger Montages in the history of film, right at the end, culminating with Johnny [[TantrumThrowing tossing a television set through his window]]. It's especially silly because, in many ways, the scene mirrors a similar scene from ''Film/CitizenKane''. It's just... not done quite as well.
* {{Angrish}}: During his AngerMontage, Johnny screams like this.
* AskAStupidQuestion: Lisa and Mark are ''really'' fond of this.
* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: Johnny]] ends up doing this at the end of the movie.
* AudienceParticipation: At ''RockyHorrorPictureShow''-style screenings, audiences are actively encouraged to vocally express their abject revulsion, even by Wiseau himself. This includes hurling of plastic spoons and impromptu games of football starting in the aisles each time a similarly incomprehensible football game starts on screen.
* AuthorAppeal:
** Tommy Wiseau enjoys {{Cinemax}}-style love scenes set to cheesy R&B, as there are several.
** When asked in the DVD director's interview why there are so many scenes of characters playing catch with a football, Wiseau simply responds that [[RuleOfFun football is fun]].
* BechdelTest: ''Fails''. All of the conversations held between women are about boys, usually Johnny. The Claudette's mention of her cancer feels like it was only thrown in as an attempt to pass.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Lisa.
* BodyHorror: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqL0OEcM1X4 Lisa's neck.]]
* BusmansHoliday: Peter the psychologist. He is always playing psychologist.
* CaptainObviousAesop: Wiseau claims the message of the film is "If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live."
** Considering he says this in the context of Denny confessing his love for Lisa, its also a BrokenAesop.
* {{Catchphrase}}: One of the film's major themes is the constant repetition of a certain few lines of dialogue by various characters. They include:
** "O hai, X!" This is used by all characters, and in such a way that they all seem constantly surprised to see each other.
*** It turns into a RunningGag in the {{Rifftrax}} dub. "Oh hai, newspaper. Oh hai, sidewalk. [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide Oh hai, gunbarrel.]]]] Oh hai, Rifftrax."
** "Everything will be fine" and "Don't worry about it." For some reason, no one really wants to confront the seriousness of anything that's going on in the story, from doomed marriages to cancer.
** "It's an awkward situation."
** Various characters state that Mark is Johnny's ''best'' friend.
** Johnny is a ''wonderful person''.
** Various characters remark that Lisa is ''so'' beautiful.
** "[She is/You are] my future wife."
** "Thaatz the eyedeeah!" Wiseau loves saying this in his trademark heavy accent.
** "You owe me one."
** "Let's go home."
** "I don't wanna talk about it."
** Mark repeats "What's going on?" every time Lisa tries to sleep with him.
* CharacterDevelopment: Mostly averted. The only characters who change during the film are Denny, who comes to terms with his feelings for Lisa via a "heartfelt" conversation with Johnny, and Lisa herself, who becomes more and more unpleasant as time goes on, eventually flaunting her affair and making up a pregnancy to needle Johnny. Mark shaves his beard at one point, and the same amount of attention is paid to this as many an ImportantHaircut...but it doesn't mean anything. At. All.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The gun that Mark takes off Chris-R somehow winds up in Johnny's possession]].
* ClusterFBomb: Chris-R, who wants his fucking money right now, not in five fucking minutes, or else Denny is fucking dead.
* CoitusEnsues: Four times, plus the chocolate session.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Johnny manages to take so long to work out Mark and Lisa are having an affair that even when he ''walks in on them slow dancing and stroking each other'' he still doesn't get it straight away.
-->'''Mark:''' I have a girl, I mean, she's very attractive, she's getting married, it's driving me crazy.
-->'''Johnny:''' Can I meet her?
-->'''Mark:''' I don't think so. It's... it's an awkward situation.
-->'''Johnny:''' You mean she's [[ChristmasCake too old]], or you think I will take her away from you?
* DawsonCasting: Inverted. Lisa has been together with Johnny for seven years, yet was played by an 22-year-old actress. Though her character was probably meant to be older, the contrast of the actress's age with Johnny's Tommy Wiseau being in his late 40s made this all the more noticeable.
* [[spoiler: DeathOfTheHypotenuse]]: [[spoiler: Johnny kills himself]].
-->'''[[spoiler: Lisa]]''': [[spoiler: I lost him, but I still have you, right? Right?]]
-->'''[[spoiler: Mark]]''': [[spoiler: You don't have me! You'll NEVER have me!]]
* DespairEventHorizon: "Everybody betray me. I fed up with this ''wirruld''."
* DoubleStandard: Mark continually blames Lisa for seducing him and betraying his best friend Johnny.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Johnny discovers Lisa's affair, ransacks his own apartment and kills himself. The film ends with Lisa, Mark, and Denny variously crying and screaming at each other. And we assume that Denny and Lisa are both doomed because Johnny was paying all of their bills]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Johnny kills himself because Lisa has been horrible to him but is still relying on him for cash, whilst cheating on him with his best friend]].
* DrugsAreBad: Denny almost got killed by Chris-R because of his "drug money". Later, Mark attempted to kill Peter while high on marijuana.
* DullSurprise: "O hai, (fill in the name)!"
* EasilyForgiven: Mark ''nearly shoves Peter over the edge of the roof'' and is forgiven almost instantly.
* EverythingsBetterWithChocolate: "Did you, uh, know that chocolate is the symbol of love".
* EvilMatriarch: Lisa's mother guiltlessly, but only [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor occasionally]], insists that Lisa take advantage of Johnny for financial reasons, as she seems to have done with her previous husbands. She gets in on the action by trying to bilk the down payment on a house out of Johnny. She has a tendency to touch her finger to Lisa's nose in an awkward facsimile of maternal tenderness.
* ForTheEvulz: Lisa is originally just interested in [[StealthPun Johnny's cash]], but after a while she starts to flaunt her affair with Mark, and lies to Johnny about being pregnant just to make things interesting.
* FunnyForeigner: Johnny, and Tommy Wiseau himself, unintentionally. ObscurusLupa described Wiseau as "the French {{Borat}}, if he didn't know he was the French Borat", while IFC.com described his voice in the film as "Borat trying to do an impression of ChristopherWalken playing a mental patient."
** Made even funnier because in RealLife Tommy Wiseau claims to be from NewOrleans. (Love that French Quarter accent!)
* GangstaStyle: Like any good movie gangsta, Chris-R holds his gun sideways.
* GargleBlaster: Half scotch, half vodka, served neat. Scotchka!
* GetOut:
-->'''Johnny to [[spoiler:Mark]]:''' "Don't touch me, mothafawker. Get out!"
** And then after [[spoiler:Lisa]] is gone: "Get out. Get out! ''GET OUT OFF MY LIIIIIFE!''"
* {{Hammerspace}}: Continuity problems often cause characters to suddenly gain and lose objects between cuts.
** Denny loses his apple after walking up the stairs to jump on Johnny's and Lisa's bed.
--->'''[[RiffTrax Bill]] (as Denny):''' I just ate an entire apple! Even the core!
** Lisa suddenly produces a vase for Johnny's flowers.
** After overhearing Lisa tell her mother about her affair, Johnny walks immediately over to his phone and sets down a tape recorder he wasn't carrying so he can hook it up to the phone.
* HappyBirthdayToYou: This otherwise low budget movie apparently sprang for the rights to use this song. Wasteful spending like this goes to show why the film doesn't show anywhere near its $6 million budget.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Mark and Lisa keep seeming to change between intended sympathetic characters and {{Jerkass}}es, Lisa in particular. Also, Lisa' friend Michelle. Is she supportive of Lisa cheating on Johnny or not? Make up your mind, Wiseau!
* HollywoodSex: During the first sex scene, Johnny is so high up on Lisa it looks as though he is having sex with ''her belly button''.
* HoYay: There's a bit between Johnny and Mark in the beginning, but it's quickly dropped in order to make room for the love triangle plot that drives the rest of the movie.
* TheHyena: Johnny.
* HypocriticalHumor: "I cannot tell you, it's confidential. Anyway, how is your sex life?"
* IAmNotLeonardNimoy: It's easier to identify the main character as Tommy Wiseau rather than "Johnny."
* IllKillYou: "I KILL YOU I BREAK EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY! I KILL YOU YOU BASTURD"
* ImportantHaircut: Some attention is given to Mark shaving his beard off partway through the film, although it's not at all clear what, if anything, this is supposed to signify.
** The film at that point, [[GrowingTheBeard shaves the beard]] and [[FridgeBrilliance becomes stupider.]]
* InformedAbility:
** Johnny is supposed to be an excellent banker, despite his limited English and vampiric appearance.
** Lisa says she's in "the computer business", whatever that means, but is never shown doing anything resembling work. On the other hand, she's also supposedly unable to support herself.
* InformedAttractiveness: Lisa is frequently referred to as being beautiful and sexy. Most fans think she doesn't quite live up the praise (and honestly, [[ItsAllAboutMe her personality doesn't help]]). She's not ''un''attractive at all, its that the movie goes on and on about how beautiful and sexy she is with almost every male character making a remark about it. This is particularly hilarious at the party, when a nameless character comments that "Lisa looks hot tonight." This is ''his only line in the entire film'', except yelling "Surprise!" in unison with everyone else when Johnny comes home.
** The makeup doesn't help.
* IronicEcho: "You just a chicken. [-CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP-]!"
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: An indirect example.
-->'''Lisa:''' Johnny got drunk last night, and he hit me.\\
'''Claudette:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Johnny doesn't drink!]]
* KarmaHoudini: For some reason, Mark is ''blameless'' when Lisa cheats on Johnny with him -- all four times. [[spoiler:When Johnny commits suicide, Mark is indignant at ''her''.]] It takes two to tango, and he tangoed four times ''knowingly'' with his best friend's steady girlfriend and fiancée.
* KubrickStare: The official poster. The fact Wiseau is slightly cross-eyed makes it less than threatening, though still kind of creepy.
* KudzuPlot
* LargeHam: Tommy Wiseau actually manages to ''combine'' this with DullSurprise.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** Probably unintentionally. When Claudette discovers Mike and Michelle, who are introduced as they inexplicably come into the apartment to make out and eat chocolate, she asks, "What are these characters doing here?" The audience is probably wondering the exact same thing.
** In a more literal example, when Johnny knocks over a picture frame in the movie's final scenes, it falls toward the screen and lands on the camera.
* LimitedSocialCircle: Averted, hilariously. See SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute.
* LoopingLines: ''Constantly''. Most of Johnny's dialogue was obviously dubbed over in post. This may explain some of his more notorious line readings.
* {{Melodrama}}: Ostensibly, although in spite of all the terrible things in the film, such as drug addiction, cancer and infidelity, it's only at the end that anyone seems really bothered by anything that's happened.
* TheMessiah: Johnny pays Denny's tuition and rent, lavishes his girlfriend with gifts, brings in lots of clients to his bank, and just cares so much about everybody. Everyone praises Johnny, even those who betray him.
* MilkingTheGiantCow: Truly wild example - ''"You are tearing me apart, Lisa!"''
* MoodWhiplash: Thanks to Wiseau's dialogue and direction, viewers are ''never'' sure where a scene is going. The best example of this is: "I did not hit her! It's not true! It's bullshit, I did not hit her! I did NAAHHT!... Oh, hi Mark"
* MrFanservice: Greg Sestero is [[FanNickname called]] "Sestosterone" for a reason. He is - let's face it - a very handsome man.
** No wonder he worked as a model for Gucci and Ferré before starting his acting career.
* NippledAndDimed: Shockingly averted, there's quite a few lingering shots of Lisa's breasts, including the nipples.
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: "You're just a chicken! Cheep-cheep-cheep-cheep-cheep-cheeeeep"
* NonIndicativeName: ''The Room''. Despite the title, the characters are neither [[ClosedCircle trapped in a room]] nor is there anything particularly strange about their apartment.
** [[WordOfGod According to Wiseau]], the title refers to a person's HappyPlace, [[VoodooShark which makes even less sense.]]
* NonSequitur:
** "Anyway, how is your sex life?"
** "I ''definitely'' have breast cancer."
** "Yeah, I'm thinking of moving into a bigger place, man. I'm making some good money."
* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: It's suggested Johnny works in a bank. Also Lisa is in "the computer industry" which could mean anything.
** All we learn about Mark's job is that he's making some good money (see above). The first time Lisa calls him, he says he's busy, though whether that has anything to do with his job is ambiguous. Especially as when he says this, he's sitting in a parked car, in casual dress.
* ObliviousToLove: You'd think that Mark would sort of get the hint as to what Lisa wants from him the ''third'' time he is unwittingly seduced by her.
* OneHourWorkWeek: Johnny comes from work, then apparently never goes back again, given that he spends day after day playing with Mark and Denny.
* OneSceneWonder: Chris-R.
* OnlyOneName: ''Everyone''.
* OnlySaneMan: Peter is the only one who hesitates to play football in a tuxedo.
* {{Padding}}:
** ''Nothing'' between the second sex scene and the birthday party has any actual effect on the plot.
** There were at least two or three establishing shots during ''one scene'' that took place in the ''same setting''.
** Probably the most obvious form of padding used is that of having characters essentially repeat scenes with only a few details changed. This is especially obvious when it comes to Lisa and Claudette, whose conversations with each other are always about virtually the same thing.
* ParodyRetcon: The director and star claimed his film was actually a "{{black comedy}}" after it became the SoBadItsGood hit of 2003. Trailers were even hastily edited to reflect this. No one was fooled, except maybe Wiseau. The rest of the cast and the script supervisor knew exactly what they were making.
* PassedOverPromotion: Johnny's failure to be promoted can be interpreted as what inspires Lisa to begin the affair in earnest.
* PleaseWakeUp: Denny to [[spoiler: Johnny, after his suicide]].
* PlotHole: How does Johnny know that Lisa told her Mom he hit her? TheOtherWiki has more examples.
* PsychopathicManchild: Denny seems to be hinted as being one, with his creepy fascination with Lisa and his affinity for "[[ThePeepingTom watching]]" Lisa and Johnny. However, his strange personality never pans into anything.
** Through much of the film, it feels like Denny's part had been written for someone much younger than the actor playing him.
* RedOniBlueOni: Mark and Johnny in one of the rooftop scenes, though this was almost certainly unintentional. It's also inverted, as Mark (wearing a red T-shirt) is considerably calmer than Johnny (wearing a blue jacket) during this scene.
* RooftopConfrontation
* ScreenToStageAdaptation: There have been several, but the "official" adaptation is ''The Room: Live'', in which Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero reprise their roles from the film.
* ShaggyDogStory
* ShoutOut:
** Johnny's "Why, Lisa?" tantrum is a direct reference to the similar (but rather better) scene in ''Film/CitizenKane''.
** "You are tearing me APART!" is a reference to ''RebelWithoutACause''.
* SirSwearsalot: Chris-R.
* SpinOff: Tommy Wiseau plans on creating a novelization of ''The Room''. There's already a Flash game tribute (see below).
* StockFootage: They used clips of the first sex scene in the second sex scene.
** ...because the actress playing Lisa refused to let Tommy Wiseau near her to film another one.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[http://blog.rifftrax.com/2009/06/12/rifftrax-interview-with-the-rooms-greg-ellery/ A particularly lazy example.]] The actor playing Peter the psychiatrist got fed up and quit, so Wiseau went out and cast a new actor to play Peter, then changed the name of the character to Steven, then ditched the suit-and-glasses look for the character so that Steven becomes a random friend who shows up for the last 19 minutes of the movie with no introduction and delivers an impassioned, if hammy, performance as though he's already deeply invested in what's going on.
--> '''Mike Nelson:''' ''You just walked in and started acting didn't you . . .''
** The flash game mocks this by having Peter get run over on the way to the party by Chris-R. having just carjacked Johnny.
** There was at least one already established character who could have been given Peter's lines.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: During Mark's "do you think girls have affairs" dialog with Johnny, it's ''painfully'' obvious that Mark is asking Johnny if he knows his girlfriend is having an affair with him. He denies it has anything to do with himself and is just about "[[IHaveThisFriend a friend]]".
* TantrumThrowing: That poor television set...
* TemptingFate: "I'm so happy I have you as my best friend. And I love Lisa so much."
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "In a few minutes, bitch!" said by Johnny while weeping in the bathroom.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: "I fed up with this '''WARULD'''!"
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy, Hot Future Wife]]: Johnny and Lisa.
* UnexplainedAccent: Johnny has a thick accent, vaguley French or Eastern European, yet no one ever mentions it or where Johnny came from. The closest Johnny comes is recalling when he arrived in San Francisco. The accent is unexplained in real life too. Wiseau makes contradictory claims to be from either France or New Orleans, though the letter W is fairly uncommon in the French language so it's unlikely that Wiseau is a real French name. It seems more like a bad approximation of the french word "Oiseau."
* TheUnfairSex: Lisa tells everybody about her affair except Johnny and frequently laughs or acts cavalier about it. Those who aren't told figure it out. Somewhat inverted though in that almost everyone accepts that the affair was entirely Lisa's fault. [[ImAManICantHelpIt Mark, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with it.]]
* UpdatedRerelease: Tommy Wiseau is working on converting the film to [[ThreeDMovie 3D]] for theatrical release in 2012.
* VoodooShark: The drug dealer scene, which apparently exists only to give Johnny [[spoiler: a gun]], raises far more questions than it answers. Why does the adopted child of a millionaire banker who funds his every whim need to sell drugs to make ends meet? If the dealer's going to jail, why don't the police need his gun for evidence?
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Many plot threads are left dangling or are forgotten immediately after they're introduced.
** Lisa's mom casually mentions her cancer to her dismissive daughter early in the movie, but it is never mentioned again and the mom becomes preoccupied with other more trivial matters.
** The drug subplot vanishes immediately after the scene ends, seemingly serving only to introduce [[spoiler:the gun]].
** The four main male characters all dress up in tuxedos to take wedding photos, but promptly abandon that notion to play a game of catch in the street.
** Peter finds out about Mark and Lisa's affair somehow, but the only scene that Peter appears in after that is another pointless football scene, so nothing ever comes of it.
* WriterOnBoard: One could safely assume that Tommy Wiseau has not had great relations with the opposite sex. ''The Room'' is most likely his biased take on a real relationship gone sour.
* YouCanSayThatAgain: In response to the "what a story, Mark!" line.
* YouOweMe: "I want to talk, right now. [[CoitusEnsues You owe me one anyway]]."
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->''Ha ha ha, what a story, Tropers. Anyway, how is your [[NerdsAreVirgins sex life]]?''
[[caption-width-right:350:[[OhHiThere Oh hai]], [[DullSurprise TV]] [[MemeticMutation Tropes]].]]
->"''You are [[LargeHam tearing me apart]], Lisa!''"
-->--'''Johnny'''
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''The Room'' is a [[MindScrew very strange]] 2003 film by an unlikely filmmaker named Tommy Wiseau. It is ostensibly about a man tortured by the betrayal of his fiancée and his best friend, who are having an affair together.
It was made on a budget of ''$6 million'', even though you'd never know it. The only real locales are the eponymous room, a different room, and a rooftop, punctuated with StockFootage establishing shots of San Francisco just to spice things up.
A lion's share of the money went into the production itself, as Wiseau decided to shoot the film in both 35 mm film and HD video side-by-side. The film was theatrically released only in Los Angeles. It was advertised by a vague billboard consisting entirely of Wiseau's face staring down at visitors in the area.
''The Room'' continues to be screened in L.A. and other cities, becoming a [[CultClassic cult phenomenon]] of sorts. Showings include interactive affairs à la ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', which are often accompanied with guests throwing plastic spoons at the film (which has a recurring spoon motif), blurting the film's dialogue back at the characters, tossing footballs (themes of [[AuthorAppeal touch football]] are [[PlayingWithATrope explored]] in the film) and dressing up as their favorite character.
It was exposed to a national audience for the first time on AdultSwim on AprilFoolsDay, 2009. Tommy Wiseau was also the focus of a ''TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' episode which aired immediately after the 2009 showing, causing Adult Swim fans to refer to it as ''[[FanNickname The Tim and Eric Movie]]''. A RiffTrax commentary for the film was released in 2009.
There is also [[TheRoomTheGame a flash game tribute]] to the film [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307 here]].
Not to be confused with ''SilentHill [[SilentHill4 4: The Room]]'', a sealed room ([[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere strangely absent]]), a room {{you wake up in|ARoom}}, or with ''Room'' by Emma Donoghue, ''The Room'' by HaroldPinter (which isn't quite as awkward), or ''The Room'', a Hubert Selby Jr. novel.
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!!The film provides examples of:
* AmbiguousDisorder: Denny in seems completely ignorant of social norms and generally acts much younger than his apparent age, at one point leaping into bed with Johnny and Lisa as they are about to have sex. In an interview, director Tommy Wiseau admitted that Denny is "retarded, a little bit," but the actor was never informed of this.
* AngerMontage: Quite possibly one of the wimpiest, most half-hearted Anger Montages in the history of film, right at the end, culminating with Johnny [[TantrumThrowing tossing a television set through his window]]. It's especially silly because, in many ways, the scene mirrors a similar scene from ''Film/CitizenKane''. It's just... not done quite as well.
* {{Angrish}}: During his AngerMontage, Johnny screams like this.
* AskAStupidQuestion: Lisa and Mark are ''really'' fond of this.
* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: Johnny]] ends up doing this at the end of the movie.
* AudienceParticipation: At ''RockyHorrorPictureShow''-style screenings, audiences are actively encouraged to vocally express their abject revulsion, even by Wiseau himself. This includes hurling of plastic spoons and impromptu games of football starting in the aisles each time a similarly incomprehensible football game starts on screen.
* AuthorAppeal:
** Tommy Wiseau enjoys {{Cinemax}}-style love scenes set to cheesy R&B, as there are several.
** When asked in the DVD director's interview why there are so many scenes of characters playing catch with a football, Wiseau simply responds that [[RuleOfFun football is fun]].
* BechdelTest: ''Fails''. All of the conversations held between women are about boys, usually Johnny. The Claudette's mention of her cancer feels like it was only thrown in as an attempt to pass.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Lisa.
* BodyHorror: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqL0OEcM1X4 Lisa's neck.]]
* BusmansHoliday: Peter the psychologist. He is always playing psychologist.
* CaptainObviousAesop: Wiseau claims the message of the film is "If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live."
** Considering he says this in the context of Denny confessing his love for Lisa, its also a BrokenAesop.
* {{Catchphrase}}: One of the film's major themes is the constant repetition of a certain few lines of dialogue by various characters. They include:
** "O hai, X!" This is used by all characters, and in such a way that they all seem constantly surprised to see each other.
*** It turns into a RunningGag in the {{Rifftrax}} dub. "Oh hai, newspaper. Oh hai, sidewalk. [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide Oh hai, gunbarrel.]]]] Oh hai, Rifftrax."
** "Everything will be fine" and "Don't worry about it." For some reason, no one really wants to confront the seriousness of anything that's going on in the story, from doomed marriages to cancer.
** "It's an awkward situation."
** Various characters state that Mark is Johnny's ''best'' friend.
** Johnny is a ''wonderful person''.
** Various characters remark that Lisa is ''so'' beautiful.
** "[She is/You are] my future wife."
** "Thaatz the eyedeeah!" Wiseau loves saying this in his trademark heavy accent.
** "You owe me one."
** "Let's go home."
** "I don't wanna talk about it."
** Mark repeats "What's going on?" every time Lisa tries to sleep with him.
* CharacterDevelopment: Mostly averted. The only characters who change during the film are Denny, who comes to terms with his feelings for Lisa via a "heartfelt" conversation with Johnny, and Lisa herself, who becomes more and more unpleasant as time goes on, eventually flaunting her affair and making up a pregnancy to needle Johnny. Mark shaves his beard at one point, and the same amount of attention is paid to this as many an ImportantHaircut...but it doesn't mean anything. At. All.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The gun that Mark takes off Chris-R somehow winds up in Johnny's possession]].
* ClusterFBomb: Chris-R, who wants his fucking money right now, not in five fucking minutes, or else Denny is fucking dead.
* CoitusEnsues: Four times, plus the chocolate session.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Johnny manages to take so long to work out Mark and Lisa are having an affair that even when he ''walks in on them slow dancing and stroking each other'' he still doesn't get it straight away.
-->'''Mark:''' I have a girl, I mean, she's very attractive, she's getting married, it's driving me crazy.
-->'''Johnny:''' Can I meet her?
-->'''Mark:''' I don't think so. It's... it's an awkward situation.
-->'''Johnny:''' You mean she's [[ChristmasCake too old]], or you think I will take her away from you?
* DawsonCasting: Inverted. Lisa has been together with Johnny for seven years, yet was played by an 22-year-old actress. Though her character was probably meant to be older, the contrast of the actress's age with Johnny's Tommy Wiseau being in his late 40s made this all the more noticeable.
* [[spoiler: DeathOfTheHypotenuse]]: [[spoiler: Johnny kills himself]].
-->'''[[spoiler: Lisa]]''': [[spoiler: I lost him, but I still have you, right? Right?]]
-->'''[[spoiler: Mark]]''': [[spoiler: You don't have me! You'll NEVER have me!]]
* DespairEventHorizon: "Everybody betray me. I fed up with this ''wirruld''."
* DoubleStandard: Mark continually blames Lisa for seducing him and betraying his best friend Johnny.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Johnny discovers Lisa's affair, ransacks his own apartment and kills himself. The film ends with Lisa, Mark, and Denny variously crying and screaming at each other. And we assume that Denny and Lisa are both doomed because Johnny was paying all of their bills]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Johnny kills himself because Lisa has been horrible to him but is still relying on him for cash, whilst cheating on him with his best friend]].
* DrugsAreBad: Denny almost got killed by Chris-R because of his "drug money". Later, Mark attempted to kill Peter while high on marijuana.
* DullSurprise: "O hai, (fill in the name)!"
* EasilyForgiven: Mark ''nearly shoves Peter over the edge of the roof'' and is forgiven almost instantly.
* EverythingsBetterWithChocolate: "Did you, uh, know that chocolate is the symbol of love".
* EvilMatriarch: Lisa's mother guiltlessly, but only [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor occasionally]], insists that Lisa take advantage of Johnny for financial reasons, as she seems to have done with her previous husbands. She gets in on the action by trying to bilk the down payment on a house out of Johnny. She has a tendency to touch her finger to Lisa's nose in an awkward facsimile of maternal tenderness.
* ForTheEvulz: Lisa is originally just interested in [[StealthPun Johnny's cash]], but after a while she starts to flaunt her affair with Mark, and lies to Johnny about being pregnant just to make things interesting.
* FunnyForeigner: Johnny, and Tommy Wiseau himself, unintentionally. ObscurusLupa described Wiseau as "the French {{Borat}}, if he didn't know he was the French Borat", while IFC.com described his voice in the film as "Borat trying to do an impression of ChristopherWalken playing a mental patient."
** Made even funnier because in RealLife Tommy Wiseau claims to be from NewOrleans. (Love that French Quarter accent!)
* GangstaStyle: Like any good movie gangsta, Chris-R holds his gun sideways.
* GargleBlaster: Half scotch, half vodka, served neat. Scotchka!
* GetOut:
-->'''Johnny to [[spoiler:Mark]]:''' "Don't touch me, mothafawker. Get out!"
** And then after [[spoiler:Lisa]] is gone: "Get out. Get out! ''GET OUT OFF MY LIIIIIFE!''"
* {{Hammerspace}}: Continuity problems often cause characters to suddenly gain and lose objects between cuts.
** Denny loses his apple after walking up the stairs to jump on Johnny's and Lisa's bed.
--->'''[[RiffTrax Bill]] (as Denny):''' I just ate an entire apple! Even the core!
** Lisa suddenly produces a vase for Johnny's flowers.
** After overhearing Lisa tell her mother about her affair, Johnny walks immediately over to his phone and sets down a tape recorder he wasn't carrying so he can hook it up to the phone.
* HappyBirthdayToYou: This otherwise low budget movie apparently sprang for the rights to use this song. Wasteful spending like this goes to show why the film doesn't show anywhere near its $6 million budget.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Mark and Lisa keep seeming to change between intended sympathetic characters and {{Jerkass}}es, Lisa in particular. Also, Lisa' friend Michelle. Is she supportive of Lisa cheating on Johnny or not? Make up your mind, Wiseau!
* HollywoodSex: During the first sex scene, Johnny is so high up on Lisa it looks as though he is having sex with ''her belly button''.
* HoYay: There's a bit between Johnny and Mark in the beginning, but it's quickly dropped in order to make room for the love triangle plot that drives the rest of the movie.
* TheHyena: Johnny.
* HypocriticalHumor: "I cannot tell you, it's confidential. Anyway, how is your sex life?"
* IAmNotLeonardNimoy: It's easier to identify the main character as Tommy Wiseau rather than "Johnny."
* IllKillYou: "I KILL YOU I BREAK EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY! I KILL YOU YOU BASTURD"
* ImportantHaircut: Some attention is given to Mark shaving his beard off partway through the film, although it's not at all clear what, if anything, this is supposed to signify.
** The film at that point, [[GrowingTheBeard shaves the beard]] and [[FridgeBrilliance becomes stupider.]]
* InformedAbility:
** Johnny is supposed to be an excellent banker, despite his limited English and vampiric appearance.
** Lisa says she's in "the computer business", whatever that means, but is never shown doing anything resembling work. On the other hand, she's also supposedly unable to support herself.
* InformedAttractiveness: Lisa is frequently referred to as being beautiful and sexy. Most fans think she doesn't quite live up the praise (and honestly, [[ItsAllAboutMe her personality doesn't help]]). She's not ''un''attractive at all, its that the movie goes on and on about how beautiful and sexy she is with almost every male character making a remark about it. This is particularly hilarious at the party, when a nameless character comments that "Lisa looks hot tonight." This is ''his only line in the entire film'', except yelling "Surprise!" in unison with everyone else when Johnny comes home.
** The makeup doesn't help.
* IronicEcho: "You just a chicken. [-CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP-]!"
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: An indirect example.
-->'''Lisa:''' Johnny got drunk last night, and he hit me.\\
'''Claudette:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Johnny doesn't drink!]]
* KarmaHoudini: For some reason, Mark is ''blameless'' when Lisa cheats on Johnny with him -- all four times. [[spoiler:When Johnny commits suicide, Mark is indignant at ''her''.]] It takes two to tango, and he tangoed four times ''knowingly'' with his best friend's steady girlfriend and fiancée.
* KubrickStare: The official poster. The fact Wiseau is slightly cross-eyed makes it less than threatening, though still kind of creepy.
* KudzuPlot
* LargeHam: Tommy Wiseau actually manages to ''combine'' this with DullSurprise.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** Probably unintentionally. When Claudette discovers Mike and Michelle, who are introduced as they inexplicably come into the apartment to make out and eat chocolate, she asks, "What are these characters doing here?" The audience is probably wondering the exact same thing.
** In a more literal example, when Johnny knocks over a picture frame in the movie's final scenes, it falls toward the screen and lands on the camera.
* LimitedSocialCircle: Averted, hilariously. See SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute.
* LoopingLines: ''Constantly''. Most of Johnny's dialogue was obviously dubbed over in post. This may explain some of his more notorious line readings.
* {{Melodrama}}: Ostensibly, although in spite of all the terrible things in the film, such as drug addiction, cancer and infidelity, it's only at the end that anyone seems really bothered by anything that's happened.
* TheMessiah: Johnny pays Denny's tuition and rent, lavishes his girlfriend with gifts, brings in lots of clients to his bank, and just cares so much about everybody. Everyone praises Johnny, even those who betray him.
* MilkingTheGiantCow: Truly wild example - ''"You are tearing me apart, Lisa!"''
* MoodWhiplash: Thanks to Wiseau's dialogue and direction, viewers are ''never'' sure where a scene is going. The best example of this is: "I did not hit her! It's not true! It's bullshit, I did not hit her! I did NAAHHT!... Oh, hi Mark"
* MrFanservice: Greg Sestero is [[FanNickname called]] "Sestosterone" for a reason. He is - let's face it - a very handsome man.
** No wonder he worked as a model for Gucci and Ferré before starting his acting career.
* NippledAndDimed: Shockingly averted, there's quite a few lingering shots of Lisa's breasts, including the nipples.
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: "You're just a chicken! Cheep-cheep-cheep-cheep-cheep-cheeeeep"
* NonIndicativeName: ''The Room''. Despite the title, the characters are neither [[ClosedCircle trapped in a room]] nor is there anything particularly strange about their apartment.
** [[WordOfGod According to Wiseau]], the title refers to a person's HappyPlace, [[VoodooShark which makes even less sense.]]
* NonSequitur:
** "Anyway, how is your sex life?"
** "I ''definitely'' have breast cancer."
** "Yeah, I'm thinking of moving into a bigger place, man. I'm making some good money."
* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: It's suggested Johnny works in a bank. Also Lisa is in "the computer industry" which could mean anything.
** All we learn about Mark's job is that he's making some good money (see above). The first time Lisa calls him, he says he's busy, though whether that has anything to do with his job is ambiguous. Especially as when he says this, he's sitting in a parked car, in casual dress.
* ObliviousToLove: You'd think that Mark would sort of get the hint as to what Lisa wants from him the ''third'' time he is unwittingly seduced by her.
* OneHourWorkWeek: Johnny comes from work, then apparently never goes back again, given that he spends day after day playing with Mark and Denny.
* OneSceneWonder: Chris-R.
* OnlyOneName: ''Everyone''.
* OnlySaneMan: Peter is the only one who hesitates to play football in a tuxedo.
* {{Padding}}:
** ''Nothing'' between the second sex scene and the birthday party has any actual effect on the plot.
** There were at least two or three establishing shots during ''one scene'' that took place in the ''same setting''.
** Probably the most obvious form of padding used is that of having characters essentially repeat scenes with only a few details changed. This is especially obvious when it comes to Lisa and Claudette, whose conversations with each other are always about virtually the same thing.
* ParodyRetcon: The director and star claimed his film was actually a "{{black comedy}}" after it became the SoBadItsGood hit of 2003. Trailers were even hastily edited to reflect this. No one was fooled, except maybe Wiseau. The rest of the cast and the script supervisor knew exactly what they were making.
* PassedOverPromotion: Johnny's failure to be promoted can be interpreted as what inspires Lisa to begin the affair in earnest.
* PleaseWakeUp: Denny to [[spoiler: Johnny, after his suicide]].
* PlotHole: How does Johnny know that Lisa told her Mom he hit her? TheOtherWiki has more examples.
* PsychopathicManchild: Denny seems to be hinted as being one, with his creepy fascination with Lisa and his affinity for "[[ThePeepingTom watching]]" Lisa and Johnny. However, his strange personality never pans into anything.
** Through much of the film, it feels like Denny's part had been written for someone much younger than the actor playing him.
* RedOniBlueOni: Mark and Johnny in one of the rooftop scenes, though this was almost certainly unintentional. It's also inverted, as Mark (wearing a red T-shirt) is considerably calmer than Johnny (wearing a blue jacket) during this scene.
* RooftopConfrontation
* ScreenToStageAdaptation: There have been several, but the "official" adaptation is ''The Room: Live'', in which Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero reprise their roles from the film.
* ShaggyDogStory
* ShoutOut:
** Johnny's "Why, Lisa?" tantrum is a direct reference to the similar (but rather better) scene in ''Film/CitizenKane''.
** "You are tearing me APART!" is a reference to ''RebelWithoutACause''.
* SirSwearsalot: Chris-R.
* SpinOff: Tommy Wiseau plans on creating a novelization of ''The Room''. There's already a Flash game tribute (see below).
* StockFootage: They used clips of the first sex scene in the second sex scene.
** ...because the actress playing Lisa refused to let Tommy Wiseau near her to film another one.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[http://blog.rifftrax.com/2009/06/12/rifftrax-interview-with-the-rooms-greg-ellery/ A particularly lazy example.]] The actor playing Peter the psychiatrist got fed up and quit, so Wiseau went out and cast a new actor to play Peter, then changed the name of the character to Steven, then ditched the suit-and-glasses look for the character so that Steven becomes a random friend who shows up for the last 19 minutes of the movie with no introduction and delivers an impassioned, if hammy, performance as though he's already deeply invested in what's going on.
--> '''Mike Nelson:''' ''You just walked in and started acting didn't you . . .''
** The flash game mocks this by having Peter get run over on the way to the party by Chris-R. having just carjacked Johnny.
** There was at least one already established character who could have been given Peter's lines.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: During Mark's "do you think girls have affairs" dialog with Johnny, it's ''painfully'' obvious that Mark is asking Johnny if he knows his girlfriend is having an affair with him. He denies it has anything to do with himself and is just about "[[IHaveThisFriend a friend]]".
* TantrumThrowing: That poor television set...
* TemptingFate: "I'm so happy I have you as my best friend. And I love Lisa so much."
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "In a few minutes, bitch!" said by Johnny while weeping in the bathroom.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: "I fed up with this '''WARULD'''!"
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy, Hot Future Wife]]: Johnny and Lisa.
* UnexplainedAccent: Johnny has a thick accent, vaguley French or Eastern European, yet no one ever mentions it or where Johnny came from. The closest Johnny comes is recalling when he arrived in San Francisco. The accent is unexplained in real life too. Wiseau makes contradictory claims to be from either France or New Orleans, though the letter W is fairly uncommon in the French language so it's unlikely that Wiseau is a real French name. It seems more like a bad approximation of the french word "Oiseau."
* TheUnfairSex: Lisa tells everybody about her affair except Johnny and frequently laughs or acts cavalier about it. Those who aren't told figure it out. Somewhat inverted though in that almost everyone accepts that the affair was entirely Lisa's fault. [[ImAManICantHelpIt Mark, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with it.]]
* UpdatedRerelease: Tommy Wiseau is working on converting the film to [[ThreeDMovie 3D]] for theatrical release in 2012.
* VoodooShark: The drug dealer scene, which apparently exists only to give Johnny [[spoiler: a gun]], raises far more questions than it answers. Why does the adopted child of a millionaire banker who funds his every whim need to sell drugs to make ends meet? If the dealer's going to jail, why don't the police need his gun for evidence?
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Many plot threads are left dangling or are forgotten immediately after they're introduced.
** Lisa's mom casually mentions her cancer to her dismissive daughter early in the movie, but it is never mentioned again and the mom becomes preoccupied with other more trivial matters.
** The drug subplot vanishes immediately after the scene ends, seemingly serving only to introduce [[spoiler:the gun]].
** The four main male characters all dress up in tuxedos to take wedding photos, but promptly abandon that notion to play a game of catch in the street.
** Peter finds out about Mark and Lisa's affair somehow, but the only scene that Peter appears in after that is another pointless football scene, so nothing ever comes of it.
* WriterOnBoard: One could safely assume that Tommy Wiseau has not had great relations with the opposite sex. ''The Room'' is most likely his biased take on a real relationship gone sour.
* YouCanSayThatAgain: In response to the "what a story, Mark!" line.
* YouOweMe: "I want to talk, right now. [[CoitusEnsues You owe me one anyway]]."
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->''Ha ha ha, what a story, Tropers. Anyway, how is your [[NerdsAreVirgins sex life]]?''
