- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Charlie falls asleep and has a dream where he's suddenly an angel, and dances with a lot of women dressed as angels until people dressed as demons come in and tempt everyone to evil. It comes out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the actual plot, and of course, sealing the deal, he wakes up and the movie continues as normal.
- Harsher in Hindsight: The flirtatious angel in the Dreamland sequence was played by twelve-year old Lita Grey. She would later become Charlie Chaplin's second wife and have a very unhappy relationship culminating in a messy divorce.
- Retroactive Recognition: Believe it or not, that's Uncle Fester as the title character.
- Signature Scene: Little John being sent off to the orphanage.
- Tear Jerker: The opening titles keep their promise. Be warned.
- Values Dissonance: If the mother had abandoned her kid today (leaving him in a stranger's car instead of formally giving him up for adoption), she would probably have suffered a lawsuit and lost her son to foster care anyway. An episode of Chicago Hope stressed this point, where a young mother left her newborn child in a trashcan. She was deemed unfit to take care of it by rule of law.
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