!!The 1988 Book/1992 Film
* AwardSnub: Though the movie received terrific reviews, and Creator/RobertAltman received an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Director (the script and the editing were also nominated), the film itself did not receive a nomination for Best Picture, nor did Creator/TimRobbins get nominated for Best Actor.
* HarsherInHindsight: The staff meeting scene where Larry Levy basically says that writers aren't really necessary for the filmmaking process, and demonstrates it by coming up with film premises by applying standard plot formulas to random news stories. Three decades later, the unveiling of advanced AI models like [=ChatGPT=] immediately led to fears in the writing community that studios would use AI to generate full screenplays doing ''exactly'' the same thing Levy was doing. This became one of the major issues at stake in the [[UsefulNotes/TVStrikes 2023 Writers' Guild of America strike]].
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Creator/SusanSarandon has a cameo as a saintly onlooker in the execution scene in ''Habeas Corpus.'' Three years later, she won an Oscar as a nun in ''Film/DeadManWalking,'' directed by star Tim Robbins.
** ''Habeas Corpus'' is presented as a contrived and farfetched story about a character trying to stop an innocent person from getting executed at the last minute. Two later films, ''Film/TrueCrime'' (1999) and ''Film/TheLifeOfDavidGale'' (2003), would use exactly the same premise unironically.[[labelnote:note with spoilers]]''The Life of David Gale'' has the prisoner get executed, like the original pitch of ''Habeas Corpus'', while ''True Crime'' has the prisoner getting saved, like the FocusGroupEnding of ''Habeas Corpus''.[[/labelnote]]
** In the opening scene, director (and Altman protégé) Alan Rudolph gets mistaken for Creator/MartinScorsese. Scorsese himself ended up in a cameo for Altman's miniseries ''Tanner on Tanner'' in 2004.
** A man gets killed in a heated moment by a prominent businessman, who tries to carry on normally while he's being investigated by an eccentric police detective and his more personable female partner. Sounds like an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', only in this case, Creator/VincentDOnofrio plays the ''victim'', not the detective.
** During the opening scene, Creator/BuckHenry, AsHimself, pitches Griffin an idea of a sequel to ''Film/TheGraduate'', where we pick up with the characters several years later (which was a ThrowItIn moment by Henry). Nearly 15 years later, Creator/RobReiner directed the movie ''Rumor Has It'', which told the story of someone who learns she's related to the people ''Film/TheGraduate'' were really based on, starring Creator/JenniferAniston, Creator/KevinCostner, Creator/ShirleyMacLaine, and Creator/MarkRuffalo.
** Griffin tries to make small-talk with David after watching ''Film/TheBicycleThief'' and says his studio should remake it. David sneers that they'd ruin it (in his opinion) by giving it a happy ending. Since then, there has been a SpiritualSuccessor (although not an official remake) of ''Film/TheBicycleThief'' with a happy ending.
* JerkassWoobie: David Kahane is a struggling writer who's obviously not in a terribly happy place in his life. He's also an eccentric, self-important hothead who needlessly agitates Griffin during their confrontation. Still, he certainly didn't deserve his ultimate fate.

!!The 2015 Series
* HilariousInHindsight: This series revolves around the idea that absurdly wealthy people need a deadly outlet like the Game or else they'd start deadly wars out of boredom. Several years later, ''Series/SquidGame'' depicts a similar situation, except those games are much more sadistic.
* MoralEventHorizon: He regards the abduction and interrogation of Cassandra to have been an unforgivable action on his part, and blames Alex for putting him in the situation where he went along with it.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The scenes shot in The House feature some truly abysmal green screen effects. Justified in that they're actually hi-def screens meant to keep anyone from knowing what floor of the building it's in without ruining the aesthetic of a high-stakes casino.
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