%%* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: ''[[Music/VanHalen Cause everybody wants some!]]''
%%** May also qualify as a DisneyAcidSequence.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Ricky's mom '''literally exploding''' because she lit a cigarette after spiking her drink with lighter fluid that Lane intended to use in one of his suicide attempts, thinking it was "liqueur"? Messed up. Lane saying "Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky..." in the most [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] tone imaginable immediately after said explosion? Comedy gold...
* GeniusBonus: ''Dinner [[GratuitousFrench Mon Dieu]]'' is well-named.
* HarsherInHindsight: Ricky's role in the film is ''disturbing'' when you realize he's played by Creator/DanSchneider, who in recent years has been accused of despicable behavior towards the underage stars of his TV shows.
* MemeticMutation: "I want my Two Dollars!"
* NightmareFuel: The newsboy is ''really'' obsessed with that two dollars...
* OneSceneWonder:
** Lots of people quickly come and go, but two standouts are Creator/VincentSchiavelli as Lane's [[TheAce math teacher]] and Rima Delane as his would-be blind date.
** Another would be Creator/EGDaily, before she switched to voice acting.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Ricky Smith is played by Creator/DanSchneider, over a decade before he'd start producing shows for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}.
* SpiritualSuccessor:
** John Cusack travels back in time to a 1980s ski resort in ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine''. Somebody is even heard shouting "I want my two dollars!" at one point. This is despite the fact that Cusack evidently considers this film to be an OldShame.
** Cusack's protagonist in ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' also grew up in the 1980s and also had a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood. He ended up becoming a [[HitmanWithAHeart professional assassin]]. We first meet him [[spoiler:shooting a bicycle deliveryman]].
%%* ValuesDissonance: As for the two Asian boys who are always seen driving around in a Ford Falcon while one of them talks exclusively like a sports announcer? Well, let's just say that they rate alongside [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Short Round]], [[Film/SixteenCandles Long Duk Dong]], and [[Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII Co]] on the list of problematic heavily-stereotypical depictions of Asians in the 1980s.
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