* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxOnbpWVELU The Forbidden Zone]] is so awesome that it was reused as the theme song to WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eHUrvuWpr8&list=RD5eHUrvuWpr8 SQUEEZIT THE MOOCHER]].
* BrokenBase: Which version is better, the original black and white or colorized edition? Defenders of the colorized edition point to the deliberately washed out colors as enhancing the film's surreal qualities, as well as it being [[CreatorsFavorite Richard Elfman's preferred version]]. Defenders of the black and white version, which was the only version available for decades, say that it makes it feel more like a live action Fleischer Bros. cartoon. And the less said about whether it was a good idea to [[{{Bowdlerization}} replace all the blackface characters with clowns]] in the colorized version, the better.
* CultClassic: It's sometimes referred to as the ''Film/CitizenKane'' of cult films.
* FairForItsDay: The film's treatment of Squeezit's twin Rene is very nice considering that A. the movie revels in RefugeInAudacity for pretty much everything and B. it's from 1980. Squeezit defends Rene's gender identity when Flash accuses her of being a gay man in drag, and Frenchy uses Rene's correct pronouns from then on. Rene may be shown to be a pervert who looks forward to being sexually assaulted, but since nearly every other character is perverted, she doesn't stick out in that regard. Sure, the movie never definitively says if she's trans, but it's close enough from a modern perspective.
* FoeYayShipping: The former queen and the current queen of the sixth dimension have the film's catfight.
* NightmareFuel: The SynchroVox scene.
* OneSceneWonder: The Devil only shows up in one scene, but always shows up in the promotional art - [[RetroactiveRecognition probably because]] [[Creator/DannyElfman Danny]] [[Music/OingoBoingo Elfman]] plays him.
* SoBadItsGood: The example to end all examples. Some people consider this film to be the best worst movie they've ever seen.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: "Squeezit The Moocher" seems to have been the precursor to [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas "Oogie Boogie's Song,"]] another Music/DannyElfman-penned Music/CabCalloway tribute.
* TheWoobie: Squeezit, the universe's total ChewToy. His parents are drunken sex-crazed abusive jackasses, he's a repeated bullying victim, and his only friends are Frenchy, Flash, and a bunch of chickens.
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