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The book, the original film and its sequels:

• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the book, Joanna says she and Walter bought their house from a couple called Pilgrim, who lived there for two months before moving to Canada.
• It Was His Sled: The Robotic Reveal of the original was the film's shocking surprise ending. Thirty years later, when the phrase "Stepford Wife" had entered the lexicon, the remake assumed audience familiarity with the concept and played it for laughs.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • "I thought we were friends! I was just going to give you coffee!"
  • The eyes on Joanna's unfinished robot double. GREAT NINJA JESUS, THE EYES.

The 2004 remake:

• Big Lipped Alligator Moment: The scene where the husbands use one of the wives as an ATM.
• Shocking Swerve: The 2004 remake ends with a twist: the wives simply have chips in their brains that are easily deactivated, rather than being robot doubles, so we can have a happy ending. This creates a large plot hole, as it contradicts a few scenes like one of the wives acting like an ATM and spewing dollar bills from her mouth. One deleted scene with Bette Midler's character going nuts with various housecleaning accessories in her body makes it very clear that they were originally intended to be robots.
• Unfortunate Implications: So much involving the gay couple.
  • Camp Gay males are equivalent to females, given how the Camp Gay half of the couple ends up turned into a Stepford Wife.
  • Political views correlate perfectly with cultural mannerisms. A Camp Gay will always be liberal, a Straight Gay will be conservative.
  • The Straight Gay is, of course, a villain.