* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The music score is wonderfully discordant and dissonant, leading to the crescendo when the band is playing for some waltzers in a ''danse macabre''.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "Now I'm Free to see the WOOOOOOORLD!"
** TruthInTelevision: That was one of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPiWCkpl5aM series]] of real ads for Hoveround that played ''ad nauseum'' late night in the 90's. For those who were half-asleep during those hours, that reference is a lot darker.
* HarsherInHindsight: Supposedly, the movie was a favorite of (alleged) Tuscon, AZ assassin Jared Lee Loughner.
* MemeticMutation: "Super perfundo on the early eve of your day!"
* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Alex Jones is shown driving around Austin lecturing over loudspeakers to the populace.
* SpiritualSuccessor:
** Linklater's 2006 ''Literature/AScannerDarkly'' adaptation. Both were shot in the same rotoscoped style.
** Also, ''Waking Life'' itself to his first film, ''Slacker''. Both go from character to character, discussing whatever's on their mind. ''Waking Life'' has slightly more plot, though.
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