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** We learn ''a lot'' of information about Harold's [[ADateWithRosiePalms lack of a sex life]] throughout the book.
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** We learn ''a lot'' of information about Harold's [[ADateWithRosiePalms lack of a sex life]] life throughout the book.
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** It is off-handedly mentioned that a group of workers in a lab are sprawled dead at lunch beside spilled bottles of Coca-Cola and... Bubble-Up, a lemon-lime soda similar to 7-Up that was popular in TheSeventies. It is not ''nearly'' as widely known or popular now, and was thus changed to Sprite in the expanded 1990 re-release.
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** It is off-handedly mentioned that a group of workers in a lab are sprawled dead at lunch beside spilled bottles of Coca-Cola and... Bubble-Up, a lemon-lime soda similar to 7-Up that was popular in TheSeventies. It is not ''nearly'' as widely known or popular now, and was thus changed to Sprite in the expanded 1990 re-release.
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** Though thematic, the brief clip of the short-lived game show ''Series/{{Blackout}}'' in the intro is this. Especially since it's from the pilot, hosted by Robb Weller, and not from the series itself (which had Bob Goen hosting).
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Zero Context Examples. Deleting because Awesome Music is Sugar Wiki.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: From the miniseries:
** The intro [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUAvTn3uz5w roams around the laboratory]] and past all the staff who have suddenly died in the middle of what they were doing, set to Music/BlueOysterCult[='=]s "Don't Fear The Reaper".
** "Eve of Destruction" played in the middle of the highway.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEuAVP44EG0#t=1m50s main guitar/violin theme]] by W.G. "Snuffy" Walden, that kicks in as the heroes begin their [[DoomedExpedition final journey]] [[WalkIntoMordor to Las Vegas]].
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBwAYIxUso Don't Dream It's Over]]" by Crowded House over shots of the aftermath of the plague.
** The intro [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUAvTn3uz5w roams around the laboratory]] and past all the staff who have suddenly died in the middle of what they were doing, set to Music/BlueOysterCult[='=]s "Don't Fear The Reaper".
** "Eve of Destruction" played in the middle of the highway.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEuAVP44EG0#t=1m50s main guitar/violin theme]] by W.G. "Snuffy" Walden, that kicks in as the heroes begin their [[DoomedExpedition final journey]] [[WalkIntoMordor to Las Vegas]].
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBwAYIxUso Don't Dream It's Over]]" by Crowded House over shots of the aftermath of the plague.
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** Harold Lauder loves chocolate Pay Day bars, which didn't exist when the novel was first published in 1978. By the time of the expanded re-release in 1990, Sara Lee (which owned the brand at the time) had started to produce chocolate-covered Pay Day bars on a limited basis. Ultimately averted in 2020 when Hershey (the current owner) permanently added them to the product line.
** It is off-handedly mentioned that a group of workers in a lab are sprawled dead at lunch beside spilled bottles of Coca-Cola and... Bubble-Up, a lemon-lime soda similar to 7-Up that was popular in TheSeventies. It is not ''nearly'' as widely known or popular now, and was thus changed to Sprite in the expanded 1990 re-release.
** Harold Lauder loves chocolate Pay Day bars, which didn't exist when the novel was first published in 1978. By the time of the expanded re-release in 1990, Sara Lee (which owned the brand at the time) had started to produce chocolate-covered Pay Day bars on a limited basis. Ultimately averted in 2020 when Hershey (the current owner) permanently added them to the product line.
** It is off-handedly mentioned that a group of workers in a lab are sprawled dead at lunch beside spilled bottles of Coca-Cola and... Bubble-Up, a lemon-lime soda similar to 7-Up that was popular in TheSeventies. It is not ''nearly'' as widely known or popular now, and was thus changed to Sprite in the expanded 1990 re-release.
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** Though thematic, the brief clip of the short-lived game show ''Series/{{Blackout}}'' in the intro is this. Especially since it's from the pilot, hosted by Robb Weller, and not from the series itself (which had Bob Goen hosting).
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%%* TastesLikeDiabetes :The miniseries ending.
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America isn't the whole world.
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** One of the vignettes about the survivors of Captain Trips features a 17-year-old girl who was pressured by her parents into getting married at the age of ''15'' to the college-aged man who had impregnated her. Needless to say, in modern times this is considered [[{{Squick}} statutory rape and child marriage]]—disgusting, but by no means uncommon even in this day and age.
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** One of the vignettes about the survivors of Captain Trips features a 17-year-old girl who was pressured by her parents into getting married at the age of ''15'' to the college-aged man who had impregnated her. Needless to say, in modern times modern-day America this is considered [[{{Squick}} statutory rape and child marriage]]—disgusting, but by no means uncommon even in this day and age.marriage.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ol4Z_kgGeA "The Rat-Man forgive you, this time!"]]
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ol4Z_kgGeA "The Rat-Man forgive you, this time!"]]
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old women are allowed to be sexual
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** When Abagail is going through her memories, the reader is suddenly treated to [[spoiler:her reminiscing about her sex life, including the ''smell'' of semen. This is a 108 years-old woman.]]
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The president did survive the virus snd scientists say he has the anti bodies now
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* HarsherInHindsight: The (unnamed) United States President gives a speech laced with [[BlatantLies blatant lies]] about the superflu while trying to overcome a coughing fit; come 2020 in real life, President Donald Trump gave several interviews shortly after being diagnosed with COVID-19, and while bragging about "being immune" was interrupted by coughing fits.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The (unnamed) United States President gives a speech laced with BlatantLies about the superflu while trying to overcome a coughing fit; come 2020 in real life, President Donald Trump gave several interviews shortly after being diagnosed with Covid-19, and while bragging about "being immune" he was interrupted by coughing fits.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The (unnamed) United States President gives a speech laced with BlatantLies [[BlatantLies blatant lies]] about the superflu while trying to overcome a coughing fit; come 2020 in real life, President Donald Trump gave several interviews shortly after being diagnosed with Covid-19, COVID-19, and while bragging about "being immune" he was interrupted by coughing fits.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The (unnamed) United States President gives a speech laced with BlatantLies about the superflu; come 2020 in real life, President Donald Trump gave several interviews shortly after being diagnosed with Covid-19, and while bragging about "being immune" he was interrupted by several coughing fits.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The (unnamed) United States President gives a speech laced with BlatantLies about the superflu; superflu while trying to overcome a coughing fit; come 2020 in real life, President Donald Trump gave several interviews shortly after being diagnosed with Covid-19, and while bragging about "being immune" he was interrupted by several coughing fits.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The (unnamed) United States President gives a speech laced with BlatantLies about the superflu; come 2020 in real life, President Donald Trump gave several interviews shortly after being diagnosed with Covid-19, and while bragging about "being immune" he was interrupted by several coughing fits.
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** In the novel, Larry's mother tells him his singing makes him sound black, and several others who hear the song think this to the point that it's a running gag in his first chapter. Larry is being played by Jovan Adepo, who is black in the second miniseries.
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** In the novel, Larry's mother tells him his singing makes him sound black, and several others who hear the song think this to the point that it's a running gag in his first chapter. Larry is being played by Jovan Adepo, who is black black, in the second miniseries.
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** Stu and Tom rig up a projector and watch a film called "Rambo IV: The Firefight", which from its brief description sounds a lot like the actual fifth film in the series, ''Film/RamboLastBlood''.
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* MemeticMutation: Many fans took to calling the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic "Captain Trumps" after the book's Captain Tripps. King, never a fan of Trump, gave his full approval.
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* MemeticMutation: Many fans took to calling the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic "Captain Trumps" after the book's Captain Tripps. King, never a fan of Trump, gave his full approval. (Though he did also firmly remind people that for all the misery it's caused, COVID-19 is still not ''nearly'' as bad as Captain Tripps.)
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* HarsherInHindsight: Stephen King actually ''apologized'' for the book's topic in the midst of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, but he was also quick to remind people not to freak out, as the real superflu is nowhere near as deadly as his fictional one.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Stephen King actually ''apologized'' for the book's topic in the midst of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Stephen King actually ''apologized'' for the book's topic in the midst of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.pandemic, but he was also quick to remind people not to freak out, as the real superflu is nowhere near as deadly as his fictional one.
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** The various media personalities who [[CantStopTheSignal defy the governments attempts at censoring news about what's going on]].
*** Bob Palmer leads an armed expulsion of the soldiers locking down his his television station then goes on the air while his cohorts guard the door and announces everything that's really been going on (and about how he only made his previous broadcasts at gunpoint).
*** Bob Palmer leads an armed expulsion of the soldiers locking down his his television station then goes on the air while his cohorts guard the door and announces everything that's really been going on (and about how he only made his previous broadcasts at gunpoint).
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** The various media personalities who [[CantStopTheSignal defy the governments government's attempts at censoring news about what's going on]].
*** Bob Palmer leads an armed expulsion of thesoldiers soldiers, locking down his his television station station, then goes on the air while his cohorts guard the door and announces reveals everything that's really been going on (and about how he only made his previous broadcasts at gunpoint).
*** Bob Palmer leads an armed expulsion of the
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*** Small-town newspaperman James Horgliss, with information about the origin of Captain Trips, drives around town leaving newspapers outside of houses he isn't sure anyone is left alive in as he sucumbs to the final stages of the virus himself.
** George [=McDougal=] a survivor who [[OutlivingOnesOffspring lost all eleven of his children to the flu]] and can't bring himself to do anything but numbly jog around town in depression.
** George [=McDougal=] a survivor who [[OutlivingOnesOffspring lost all eleven of his children to the flu]] and can't bring himself to do anything but numbly jog around town in depression.
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*** Small-town newspaperman James Horgliss, with information about the origin of Captain Trips, drives around town leaving newspapers outside of houses he isn't sure anyone is left alive in as he sucumbs succumbs to the final stages of the virus himself.
** George[=McDougal=] [=McDougal=], a survivor who [[OutlivingOnesOffspring lost all eleven of his children to the flu]] and can't bring himself to do anything but numbly jog around town in depression.depression. The jogging-induced heart attack that kills him comes to him as sweet relief.
** George
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*** Bob Palmer leads an armed explosion of his television station then goes on the air while his cohorts guard the door while announcing everything that's really been going on (and about how he only made his previous broadcasts at gunpoint).
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** George [=McDougal=] a survivor who [[OutlivingOnesOffspring lost all eleven of his children to the flu]] and Anthony do anything but numbly jog around town in depression.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In the book, while Larry and Rita leave New York City, they come across a man in only his shorts laying on top of an abandoned car. When they think he's dead, he sits up and waves at them, they wave back at him, and he goes back to sunbathing. Not only does this feel out of place in the story, but it's also never brought up again.
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* OneSceneWonder: The Kid, with King going so far as to say he felt the character's loss was the only cut in the original edition that made the book noticeably weaker.
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* OneSceneWonder: OneSceneWonder:
** [[GreaserDelinquents TheKid, Kid]], with King going so far as to say he felt the character's loss was the only cut in the original edition that made the book noticeably weaker.weaker.
** The various media personalities who [[CantStopTheSignal defy the governments attempts at censoring news about what's going on]].
*** Bob Palmer leads an armed explosion of his television station then goes on the air while his cohorts guard the door while announcing everything that's really been going on (and about how he only made his previous broadcasts at gunpoint).
*** Ray Flowers locks himself in his radio booth when he's the only employee to show up for work, then urges anyone with a story about Captain Trips to dial his number, broadcasts their stories over the air and won't budge when soldiers start breaking down his door.
*** Small-town newspaperman James Horgliss, with information about the origin of Captain Trips, drives around town leaving newspapers outside of houses he isn't sure anyone is left alive in as he sucumbs to the final stages of the virus himself.
** George [=McDougal=] a survivor who [[OutlivingOnesOffspring lost all eleven of his children to the flu]] and Anthony do anything but numbly jog around town in depression.
** [[GreaserDelinquents The
** The various media personalities who [[CantStopTheSignal defy the governments attempts at censoring news about what's going on]].
*** Bob Palmer leads an armed explosion of his television station then goes on the air while his cohorts guard the door while announcing everything that's really been going on (and about how he only made his previous broadcasts at gunpoint).
*** Ray Flowers locks himself in his radio booth when he's the only employee to show up for work, then urges anyone with a story about Captain Trips to dial his number, broadcasts their stories over the air and won't budge when soldiers start breaking down his door.
*** Small-town newspaperman James Horgliss, with information about the origin of Captain Trips, drives around town leaving newspapers outside of houses he isn't sure anyone is left alive in as he sucumbs to the final stages of the virus himself.
** George [=McDougal=] a survivor who [[OutlivingOnesOffspring lost all eleven of his children to the flu]] and Anthony do anything but numbly jog around town in depression.
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not YMMV
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* ArtisticLicense: Early on in the 1990 version, Larry sees a slasher flick in the theater, and assumes there will be another one next year, because the title has a [[NumberedSequels Roman numeral]] at the end of it. The problem? King happened to choose [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet the one franchise that used Arabic numerals, not Roman]].
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%%** Commander Starkey and his lieutenant, especially in the miniseries.
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%%* TheScrappy: Frannie Goldsmith in the miniseries.
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%%* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: A lot of people said this about Creator/MollyRingwald playing Frannie. A lot of others got varying degrees: Laura San Giacomo (Nadine) Corin Nemec (Harold) and Creator/JameySheridan (Flagg).
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* HarsherInHindsight: Stephen King actually ''apologized'' for the book's topic in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
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* MemeticMutation: Many fans took to calling the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic "Captain Trumps" after the book's Captain Tripps. King, never a fan of Trump, gave his full approval.
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** One of the vignettes about the survivors of Captain Trips features a 17-year-old girl who was pressured by her parents into getting married at the age of ''15'' to the college-aged man who had impregnated her. Needless to say, in modern times this is considered [[{{Squick}} statutory rape and child marriage]].
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** One of the vignettes about the survivors of Captain Trips features a 17-year-old girl who was pressured by her parents into getting married at the age of ''15'' to the college-aged man who had impregnated her. Needless to say, in modern times this is considered [[{{Squick}} statutory rape and child marriage]]. marriage]]—disgusting, but by no means uncommon even in this day and age.
