| 1 | * FanPreferredCutContent: Fans agree that the film would have been too long if it had kept all, or even most, of the 45 minutes of deleted scenes. Still, they tend to mourn the deleted subplots that flesh out Ed's family and introduce a rival TV personality. |
| 2 | * HilariousInHindsight: The television channel which comes up with the idea for [=EDtv=] is named "True TV", and its intent is to constantly air what happens in a normal person's life. A case of {{Defictionalization}} occurred in 2008 when the actual television network [=CourtTV=] changed its name to "truTV", which places a heavy focus on "caught-on-video" reality programs, just like the film! |
| 3 | * OlderThanTheyThink: When it was released, the film was criticized for being a derivative knockoff of ''Film/TheTrumanShow''. Most people who saw the film didn't realize that [=EDtv=] was based off a little-known French-Canadian film called ''Louis 19'', which was made five years before either film was released and dealt with the same subject matter. |
| 4 | * RetroactiveRecognition: |
| 5 | ** What the hell are [[Series/TrueDetective Rust Cohle and Martin Hart]] doing on a reality show? |
| 6 | ** Greg Sestero of ''Film/TheRoom2003'' fame plays one of the people watching Edtv. |
| 7 | * ValuesResonance: In 1999, this film portrayed a world where an individual who tries out for a casting call, and has his life turned into a circus for the benefit of television audiences. Ten years later, in the wake of the RealityShow concept being played to death, ''[=EDTV=]'' seems oddly prescient about the entire genre. (Though, of course, reality television and its effects on people [[Series/TheRealWorld already existed in the 90s]], it was just less prevalent.) |
| 8 | * VindicatedByHistory: The film bombed at theaters when it was released and was generally written off by critics as a poor man's ''Film/TheTrumanShow'', but has gone on to become a foretelling look at the reality television craze of the 2000s. |
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