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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The original play ends with [[spoiler: Bunny listening to an apology and proposal message from Cutler, with the implication that she will accept and transfer with him]]. Meanwhile, the film ends [[spoiler: with Cutler letting Bunny go, and Bunny instead returning Sumner's feelings and staying at her position]].
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The original play ends with [[spoiler: Bunny [[spoiler:Bunny listening to an apology and proposal message from Cutler, with the implication that she will accept and transfer with him]]. Meanwhile, the film ends [[spoiler: with Cutler [[spoiler:Cutler letting Bunny go, and Bunny instead returning Sumner's feelings and staying at her position]].
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Bunny Watson (Creator/KatharineHepburn) is the head of the research department at a large broadcasting network. Richard Sumner (Creator/SpencerTracy) is a "methods engineer" who is studying ways to use computers to make businesses more efficient. When he starts hanging around Bunny's department, she's convinced he's trying to replace her and her staff with a computer. She's sort of right...
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Bunny Watson (Creator/KatharineHepburn) is the head of the research department at a large broadcasting network.network in [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. Richard Sumner (Creator/SpencerTracy) is a "methods engineer" who is studying ways to use computers to make businesses more efficient. When he starts hanging around Bunny's department, she's convinced he's trying to replace her and her staff with a computer. She's sort of right...
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''Desk Set'' is a 1957 romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang. It was written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on the 1955 play''The Desk Set'' by William Marchant.
''Desk Set'' is a 1957 romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang. It was written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on the 1955 play''The Desk Set'' by William Marchant.
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** Scenes that makes it clearer how the gossip chain works in the office.
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* PromotedToLoveInterest: Sumner in the original play was merely an antagonist to Bunny who eventually gained a grudging respect for her, and was implied to be much younger than her to boot. But when you cast [[ThoseTwoActors Spencer Tracy alongside Katherine Hepburn]], [[ForegoneConclusion well... adjustments had to be made.]]
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* PromotedToLoveInterest: Sumner in the original play was merely an antagonist to Bunny who eventually gained a grudging respect for her, and was implied to be much younger than her to boot. But when you cast [[ThoseTwoActors Spencer Tracy in the role, alongside Katherine Hepburn]], Hepburn as Bunny, [[ForegoneConclusion well... adjustments had to must be made.]]
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''Desk Set'' is a 1957 romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang. It was written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on the 1955 play "The play''The Desk Set" Set'' by William Marchant.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Few people are familiar with the original Broadway play the film was based on.
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''Desk Set'' is a 1957 romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang.
Lang. It was written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on the 1955 play "The Desk Set" by William Marchant.
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The original play ends with [[spoiler: Bunny listening to an apology and proposal message from Cutler, with the implication that she will accept and transfer with him]]. Meanwhile, the film ends [[spoiler: with Cutler letting Bunny go, and Bunny instead returning Sumner's feelings and staying at her position]].
* AdaptationDisplacement: Few people are familiar with the original Broadway play the film was based on.
* AdaptationExpansion: The original play all took place in the reference department, where the film expands to several locations. In addition, the film adds:
** The subplot about the company merger that Sumner has to keep secret.
** The romantic subplot between Bunny and Sumner (who was younger in the play), including the entire apartment scene. The original play implied Bunny would stay with Cutler.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Where Sumner of the film is generally easy-going and admires Bunny's intelligence from the off, Sumner of the original play is more uptight and haughty, and outright calls Bunny a freak for her incredible memory.
* AgeLift: Richard Sumner is implied to be a young man in the original play, as he is Mr. Azae's nephew and makes a couple of ageist comments towards Bunny. The film's Sumner was played by a then 57-year-old Spencer Tracy, and is more of a contemporary of Bunny's.
* AdaptationDisplacement: Few people are familiar with the original Broadway play the film was based on.
* AdaptationExpansion: The original play all took place in the reference department, where the film expands to several locations. In addition, the film adds:
** The subplot about the company merger that Sumner has to keep secret.
** The romantic subplot between Bunny and Sumner (who was younger in the play), including the entire apartment scene. The original play implied Bunny would stay with Cutler.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Where Sumner of the film is generally easy-going and admires Bunny's intelligence from the off, Sumner of the original play is more uptight and haughty, and outright calls Bunny a freak for her incredible memory.
* AgeLift: Richard Sumner is implied to be a young man in the original play, as he is Mr. Azae's nephew and makes a couple of ageist comments towards Bunny. The film's Sumner was played by a then 57-year-old Spencer Tracy, and is more of a contemporary of Bunny's.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: No, not Bunny, Sumner. He wanders around the office not quite knowing what day it is, likes to eat on the rooftop in the middle of December, doesn't bother about prestige, and is a world-class computer expert.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: No, not Bunny, that Bunny - Sumner. He wanders around the office not quite knowing what day it is, likes to eat on the rooftop in the middle of December, doesn't bother about prestige, and is a world-class computer expert.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: The old lady who shuffles around the building as though she owns it. When Sumner asks who she is, Bunny points to the drawing of an Athena-like figure; the lady was the model for the network's mascot and they still pay her a salary.
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* IWasQuiteALooker: The old lady who shuffles around the building as though she owns it. When Sumner asks who she is, Bunny points to the drawing of an a young Athena-like figure; the lady was the model for the network's mascot and when they first started, and the company still pay pays her a salary.
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* WrongGuyFirst: Mike Cutler. The main objection is how he takes Bunny for granted; she's been wanting to advance the relationship for ''seven years'' and he can't even commit to taking her to a dance... but then expects her to drop everything with a few day's notice when he's transferred.
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* WrongGuyFirst: Mike Cutler. The main objection is how he takes Bunny for granted; she's been wanting to advance the relationship for ''seven years'' and he can't even commit to taking her to a dance... but then expects her to drop everything with a few day's notice when he's transferred.transferred.
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This is the second-to-last movie starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, only followed by ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''. Creator/JoanBlondell plays Bunny's friend Peg.
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This is the second-to-last movie starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, only followed by ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''. Also in the cast are Creator/JoanBlondell plays as as Bunny's friend Peg.
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* AlcoholicHic: The building's receptionist loudly hiccups on the day of the boozy Christmas party. Richard suggests she get something to drink.
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* AlcoholicHic: AlcoholHic: The building's receptionist loudly hiccups on the day of the boozy Christmas party. Richard suggests she get something to drink.
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This is the second-to-last movie starring Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/SpencerTracy, only followed by ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''.
This is the second-to-last movie starring Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/SpencerTracy, only followed by ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''.
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''Desk Set'' is a 1957 romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang.
Bunny Watson (Creator/KatharineHepburn) is the head of the research department at a large broadcasting network. Richard Sumner (Creator/SpencerTracy) is a "methods engineer" who is studying ways to use computers to make businesses more efficient. When he starts hanging around Bunny's department, she's convinced he's trying to replace her and her staff with a computer. She's sort of right...
This is the second-to-last movie starringCreator/KatharineHepburn Katharine Hepburn and Creator/SpencerTracy, Spencer Tracy, only followed by ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''.''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''. Creator/JoanBlondell plays Bunny's friend Peg.
Bunny Watson (Creator/KatharineHepburn) is the head of the research department at a large broadcasting network. Richard Sumner (Creator/SpencerTracy) is a "methods engineer" who is studying ways to use computers to make businesses more efficient. When he starts hanging around Bunny's department, she's convinced he's trying to replace her and her staff with a computer. She's sort of right...
This is the second-to-last movie starring
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* BrandX: The characters all work for a fictional broadcasting network with headquarters in 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
* BrickJoke: Sumner puts his wet shoes in Bunny's oven to dry off. After the argument with Mike, they start commenting on a burning smell (which Sumner says must be a blocked ventilator). Once Peg drops in she actually checks... and brings out Sumner's smoking, overcooked shoes.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: No, not Bunny, Sumner. He wanders around the office not caring about the questions he attracts, likes to eat on the rooftop in the middle of December, doesn't bother about prestige, and is a world-class computer expert.
* BrickJoke: Sumner puts his wet shoes in Bunny's oven to dry off. After the argument with Mike, they start commenting on a burning smell (which Sumner says must be a blocked ventilator). Once Peg drops in she actually checks... and brings out Sumner's smoking, overcooked shoes.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: No, not Bunny, Sumner. He wanders around the office not caring about the questions he attracts, likes to eat on the rooftop in the middle of December, doesn't bother about prestige, and is a world-class computer expert.
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* BrandX: The characters all work for a fictional broadcasting network (the Federal Broadcasting Corporation) with headquarters in 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
* BrickJoke: Sumner puts his wet shoes in Bunny's oven to dry off. After the argument with Mike, they start commenting on a burning smell(which Sumner says must be and decide it's a blocked ventilator).ventilator. Once Peg drops in she actually checks... and brings out Sumner's smoking, overcooked shoes.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: No, not Bunny, Sumner. He wanders around the office notcaring about the questions he attracts, quite knowing what day it is, likes to eat on the rooftop in the middle of December, doesn't bother about prestige, and is a world-class computer expert.
* BrickJoke: Sumner puts his wet shoes in Bunny's oven to dry off. After the argument with Mike, they start commenting on a burning smell
* BunnyEarsLawyer: No, not Bunny, Sumner. He wanders around the office not
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* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Bunny's Christmas gift to Mike. She ''had'' monogrammed a nice bathrobe for him, but he'd already seen it--on Sumner. So she grabbed a pair of bongoes that was under a sign reading "For the Man Who Has Everything."
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* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Bunny asks if Sumner is an efficiency expert. Sumner dislikes this term and calls himself a "methods engineer" instead. What's he engineering? A way to make the office more efficient.
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** Smithers in payroll is a male example, a pleasant but nebbish fellow who is quite nosy and chatty.
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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Somehow, Sumner got a [=PhD=] in "science" from [=MIT=]. Not computer science, which is the only one he demonstrates expertise in, just... science.
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* SarcasmBlind: Sumner's assistant, Miss Warriner. When Bunny starts to needle her at the Christmas party and sarcastically claims a terrible memory, Warriner confusedly asks why she went into reference. Sumner pulls her away.
-->"Watch out, you're playing in the major leagues."
-->"Watch out, you're playing in the major leagues."
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* TechnoBabble: After hearing Sumner talk about his ideas for a few minutes, Mr. Azae says he has no idea what any of it meant but that it sounds terrific.
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* AlcoholicHic: The building's receptionist loudly hiccups on the day of the boozy Christmas party. Richard suggests she get something to drink.
* BigRedButton: Or rather, a small red toggle switch that, when removed, sends the computer into a whirring, beeping, paper-spewing frenzy. Its actual purpose is never explained--it and its 'do not touch label' apprently exist just to tempt fate.
* BigRedButton: Or rather, a small red toggle switch that, when removed, sends the computer into a whirring, beeping, paper-spewing frenzy. Its actual purpose is never explained--it and its 'do not touch label' apprently exist just to tempt fate.
* BrickJoke: Sumner puts his wet shoes in Bunny's oven to dry off. After the argument with Mike, they start commenting on a burning smell (which Sumner says must be a blocked ventilator). Once Peg drops in she actually checks... and brings out Sumner's smoking, overcooked shoes.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: No, not Bunny, Sumner. He wanders around the office not caring about the questions he attracts, likes to eat on the rooftop in the middle of December, doesn't bother about prestige, and is a world-class computer expert.
* CompanionCube: Bunny says that [=EMERAC=] is Sumner's love more than herself and asks him to prove otherwise by pulling the lever to see if he'll ignore it. He makes a valiant effort to do so, for about sixty seconds.
* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Bunny's Christmas gift to Mike. She ''had'' monogrammed a nice bathrobe for him, but he'd already seen it--on Sumner. So she grabbed a pair of bongoes that was under a sign reading "For the Man Who Has Everything."
* BunnyEarsLawyer: No, not Bunny, Sumner. He wanders around the office not caring about the questions he attracts, likes to eat on the rooftop in the middle of December, doesn't bother about prestige, and is a world-class computer expert.
* CompanionCube: Bunny says that [=EMERAC=] is Sumner's love more than herself and asks him to prove otherwise by pulling the lever to see if he'll ignore it. He makes a valiant effort to do so, for about sixty seconds.
* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Bunny's Christmas gift to Mike. She ''had'' monogrammed a nice bathrobe for him, but he'd already seen it--on Sumner. So she grabbed a pair of bongoes that was under a sign reading "For the Man Who Has Everything."
* DiggingYourselfDeeper:
** Mike has already offended Bunny by accusing her of cheating on him, then he compounds it by saying he never expected to see her with another man in a way that implies she's unattractive.
** Sumner says that he'd better go change--his clothes are in the bedroom. He realizes this with an air of casual amusement, since he's aware they're all pretty close to rock-bottom anyway.
* GoodWithNumbers: Bunny, who uses mneumonics to keep track of the math questions that Sumner puts her to and edits Mike's financial reports.
** Mike has already offended Bunny by accusing her of cheating on him, then he compounds it by saying he never expected to see her with another man in a way that implies she's unattractive.
** Sumner says that he'd better go change--his clothes are in the bedroom. He realizes this with an air of casual amusement, since he's aware they're all pretty close to rock-bottom anyway.
* GoodWithNumbers: Bunny, who uses mneumonics to keep track of the math questions that Sumner puts her to and edits Mike's financial reports.
* GossipyHens:
** Office gossip spreads like wildfire. The building receptionists keep an open communication with the other departments, alerting them to possible developments that might affect their employment (hence the rumor that [=EMERAC=] is going to replace the reference librarians outright).
** Smithers in payroll is a male example, a pleasant but nebbish fellow who is quite nosy and chatty.
* GracefulLoser: Mike and Sumner arrive at the same time to propose to Bunny. When Mike sees the two of them together, he quietly slips out of the office.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Bunny and Peg are joined at the hip.
* {{Hypocrite}}: When Bunny hesitates at the idea of moving to the West Coast on short notice, Mike storms out in a huff over having "waited" seven years.
-->'''Bunny:''' ''You'' waited!
** Office gossip spreads like wildfire. The building receptionists keep an open communication with the other departments, alerting them to possible developments that might affect their employment (hence the rumor that [=EMERAC=] is going to replace the reference librarians outright).
** Smithers in payroll is a male example, a pleasant but nebbish fellow who is quite nosy and chatty.
* GracefulLoser: Mike and Sumner arrive at the same time to propose to Bunny. When Mike sees the two of them together, he quietly slips out of the office.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Bunny and Peg are joined at the hip.
* {{Hypocrite}}: When Bunny hesitates at the idea of moving to the West Coast on short notice, Mike storms out in a huff over having "waited" seven years.
-->'''Bunny:''' ''You'' waited!
* MoodWhiplash: Even with the argument between Mike and Bunny, the office Christmas celebrations are ready to end on a high note when someone wheels a piano into the reference library and Sumner decides to take everyone out for a drink. Then Sumner's computer assistant turns up and starts talking about where the new computer is going to go.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [=EMERAC=] is basically [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC ENIAC]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [=EMERAC=] is basically [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC ENIAC]].
* OfficeRomance: Between Bunny and Mike, initially. Later it becomes Bunny and Richard.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: One of the issues with [=EMERAC=]. If you put in the wrong spelling or the wrong context, it'll spit out ''an'' answer, but not ''the'' answer. Or a hundred-stanza poem that cannot be interrupted until it's done.
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* StockLateralThinkingPuzzle: Richard administers Bunny a test that includes some of these, including the one with the two dead goldfish.
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* WrongGuyFirst: Mike Cutler. The main objection is how he takes Bunny for granted; she's been wanting to advance the relationship for ''seven years'' and he can't even commit to taking her to a dance... but then expects her to drop everything with a few day's notice when he's transferred.
* WrongGuyFirst: Mike Cutler. The main objection is how he takes Bunny for granted; she's been wanting to advance the relationship for ''seven years'' and he can't even commit to taking her to a dance... but then expects her to drop everything with a few day's notice when he's transferred.
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Bunny Watson is the head of the research department at a large broadcasting network. Richard Sumner is a "methods engineer" who is studying ways to use computers to make businesses more efficient. When he starts hanging around Bunny's department, she's convinced he's trying to replace her and her staff with a computer. She's sort of right...
This is the second-to-last movie starring Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/SpencerTracy, only followed by ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''.
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* BrandX: The characters all work for a fictional broadcasting network with headquarters in 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
* CaughtInTheRain: Bunny and Richard have a fairly innocent -- if suspicious-looking -- version of this. She invites him into her flat to get out of the rain and they share dinner together.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The repeated mentions of the other machine Richard is installing in the payroll department. At the climax of the movie, it fires everybody, including the CEO and Richard himself.
* FunWithPalindromes: "Able was I, ere I saw Elba" makes an appearance.
* GooglingTheNewAcquaintance: As a research librarian, Bunny is able to do this to Richard despite living in the pre-Google era.
-->You were born in Columbus, Ohio in May. That makes you a Gemini. You're a graduate of M.I.T. with a [=PhD=] in Science. You're a Phi Beta Kappa, although you don't wear your key, which means either that you're modest or that you lost it. You spent World War II in Greenland ... working on something so top secret that even I couldn't find out about it. You're one of the leading exponents of the electronic brain in this country, and the inventor of an electronic brain machine called EMARAC - the Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator.\\
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That's all I found out so far, but I only had half an hour.
* ManVersusMachine: It's set up to look like this is going to happen -- but it turns out in the end that Richard is actually installing EMARAC to help the Research Department with trivial tasks, not to replace them. He just can't talk about it because of the company's impending merger.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Bunny invites Richard into her apartment to dry off, and gives him a bathrobe. Nothing especially racy happens, but Mike has trouble believing that when he walks in on the two of them eating ice cream together in their bathrobes (especially since Richard is wearing a bathrobe that Bunny was going to give Mike for Christmas).
* PhotographicMemory: Bunny has this, or something very much like it. It's a job requirement.
* RomanticRunnerUp: Mike spends most of the movie as Bunny's nominal boyfriend, even though neither seems particularly fond of the other. At the end Richard convinces her to walk out on Mike in the middle of him trying to propose to her.
* SherlockScan: Bunny notes that Richard must be single, as he's wearing mismatched socks.
* ShoutOut: Mike brings Bunny a large stuffed rabbit with a champagne bottle inside, which she refers to as "Film/{{Harvey}}."
* StockLateralThinkingPuzzles: Richard administers Bunny a test that includes some of these, including the one with the two dead goldfish.
Bunny Watson is the head of the research department at a large broadcasting network. Richard Sumner is a "methods engineer" who is studying ways to use computers to make businesses more efficient. When he starts hanging around Bunny's department, she's convinced he's trying to replace her and her staff with a computer. She's sort of right...
This is the second-to-last movie starring Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/SpencerTracy, only followed by ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner''.
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* BrandX: The characters all work for a fictional broadcasting network with headquarters in 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
* CaughtInTheRain: Bunny and Richard have a fairly innocent -- if suspicious-looking -- version of this. She invites him into her flat to get out of the rain and they share dinner together.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The repeated mentions of the other machine Richard is installing in the payroll department. At the climax of the movie, it fires everybody, including the CEO and Richard himself.
* FunWithPalindromes: "Able was I, ere I saw Elba" makes an appearance.
* GooglingTheNewAcquaintance: As a research librarian, Bunny is able to do this to Richard despite living in the pre-Google era.
-->You were born in Columbus, Ohio in May. That makes you a Gemini. You're a graduate of M.I.T. with a [=PhD=] in Science. You're a Phi Beta Kappa, although you don't wear your key, which means either that you're modest or that you lost it. You spent World War II in Greenland ... working on something so top secret that even I couldn't find out about it. You're one of the leading exponents of the electronic brain in this country, and the inventor of an electronic brain machine called EMARAC - the Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator.\\
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That's all I found out so far, but I only had half an hour.
* ManVersusMachine: It's set up to look like this is going to happen -- but it turns out in the end that Richard is actually installing EMARAC to help the Research Department with trivial tasks, not to replace them. He just can't talk about it because of the company's impending merger.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Bunny invites Richard into her apartment to dry off, and gives him a bathrobe. Nothing especially racy happens, but Mike has trouble believing that when he walks in on the two of them eating ice cream together in their bathrobes (especially since Richard is wearing a bathrobe that Bunny was going to give Mike for Christmas).
* PhotographicMemory: Bunny has this, or something very much like it. It's a job requirement.
* RomanticRunnerUp: Mike spends most of the movie as Bunny's nominal boyfriend, even though neither seems particularly fond of the other. At the end Richard convinces her to walk out on Mike in the middle of him trying to propose to her.
* SherlockScan: Bunny notes that Richard must be single, as he's wearing mismatched socks.
* ShoutOut: Mike brings Bunny a large stuffed rabbit with a champagne bottle inside, which she refers to as "Film/{{Harvey}}."
* StockLateralThinkingPuzzles: Richard administers Bunny a test that includes some of these, including the one with the two dead goldfish.
