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1!!Film and Book
2* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack is full of this, as to be expected from a movie set in a record store. Creator/JackBlack's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzl_l5gC5is performance]] of Music/MarvinGaye's "Let's Get It On" is a particular highlight.
3* FreezeFrameBonus: If you pause the film on Rob sticking Marie's CD in his player, you'll notice a tracklisting full of covers added as Easter eggs, including "[[Music/{{Hanson}} Mmmbop]]" and "[[Music/PublicEnemy 911 is a Joke]]"
4* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Barry sarcastically labels Hasselhof a German during a conversation.
5* HilariousInHindsight: The book was written in 1995, and the movie released in 2000, well after vinyl had seemingly died its final death (except among older or out-of-touch people); nowadays, of course, there's a ''huge'' resurgence in vinyl, and the record shop would most likely be much more of a success.
6* OneSceneWonder:
7** Tim Robbins gets one or two scenes as Rob's pompous, arrogant hippie neighbor Ian, and steals every one.
8** Music/BruceSpringsteen also shows up as Rob's SpiritAdvisor.
9* RetroactiveRecognition: Rob's high-school girlfriend Penny is best-known these days as [[Series/{{Justified}} Ava Crowder.]]
10* ValuesDissonance: Rob is meant to be an asshole (his words) but ultimately likable. A lot of his actions would be viewed much more harshly today, if not outright misogynist.
11* TheWoobie: Both the sad and damaged Sarah and the marginally stronger Penny. The latter gets a moment of awesome when she [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tells Rob off]]. Of course, he [[ComicallyMissingThePoint misses the point]].
12--> I was crazy about you, and I wanted to sleep with you one day, but not when I was sixteen. When you broke up with me, ''you'' broke up with ''me'', because I was, to use your charming expression, [[NatureAbhorsAVirgin ''tight'']]...I cried and I cried and I hated you. When that little shitbag asked me out and I was too tired to fight him off! [[DateRape It wasn't rape]] because [[QuestionableConsent I said okay]], but it wasn't far off. You know, I couldn't have sex until after college because I hated it so much? That's when you're supposed to have sex, Rob. In college! Now you want to have a little chat about rejection? Well, [[PrecisionFStrike fuck you]], Rob!
13!!TV Show
14* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/IvannaSakhno appears in two episodes as Kat Monroe, a girl Rob is interested in, three years before she would become more famous for playing Shin Hati in ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}''.

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