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* GrumpyBear: Andrews.
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* GrumpyBear: Andrews. Norton, too, but not to the same degree -- he's still willing to admit he finds some of the tourist attractions they fly past "pretty".
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: A key theme of this episode. The ''Dreamweaver'' is designed to enhance the images that come in through its windows to give its passengers their money's worth while sightseeing. Andrews is adamant that this is the whole nature of the tourism business, and thus their con job on Irma Gordon is just an extension of what they always do.
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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Getting his hands on this from Irma's robot is Andrews' entire motivation.
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* LongLived: Thanks to advances in medical technology, Irma's grandmother lived to 279 before she died, and Irma herself is now 342.
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* HenpeckedHusband: He hasn't married her yet -- he can't, until he gets that promotion he's been promising her -- but this is Brian and his girlfriend Barbara to a T.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Irma. She claims to be "sharp as a tack", and she almost unravels Andrews' plan once or twice, but the plot rests on her seeming
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Irma. She claims to be "sharp as a tack", and she almost unravels Andrews' plan once or twice, but the plot rests on her seeming to have forgotten all about the destruction of Earth despite this being CommonKnowledge. Her AmbiguousDisorder may not just be dementia but something more mystical, considering that her obsession with Earth seems connected to her mystical link with Norton.
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** RetroUniverse: Applies not just to the {{Zeerust}} "present day" but also the past as Irma imagines it; her grandparents' clothes and bicycle have an old-fashioned 1950s look, and her photograph of them is in black and white, even though the fact that they emigrated from Earth to different star system indicates they must have lived quite far in the future relative to 2018.
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** RetroUniverse: Applies not just to the {{Zeerust}} "present day" but also the past as Irma imagines it; her grandparents' clothes and bicycle have an old-fashioned 1950s look, and her photograph of them is in black and white, even though the fact that they emigrated from Earth to a different star system indicates they must have lived quite far in the future relative to 2018.
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* {{Zeerust}}: Compared to the rest of this series the future of this episode comes off as this, especially the character design of [=RB29=].
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* {{Zeerust}}: Compared to the rest of this series the future of this episode comes off as this, especially the character design of [=RB29=].[=RB29=].
** RetroUniverse: Applies not just to the {{Zeerust}} "present day" but also the past as Irma imagines it; her grandparents' clothes and bicycle have an old-fashioned 1950s look, and her photograph of them is in black and white, even though the fact that they emigrated from Earth to different star system indicates they must have lived quite far in the future relative to 2018.
** RetroUniverse: Applies not just to the {{Zeerust}} "present day" but also the past as Irma imagines it; her grandparents' clothes and bicycle have an old-fashioned 1950s look, and her photograph of them is in black and white, even though the fact that they emigrated from Earth to different star system indicates they must have lived quite far in the future relative to 2018.
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* VisionsOfAnotherSelf: Brian seems to have been having mysterious flashes of the life of Irma's grandfather, before he even met her, indicating some kind of {{Reincarnation}} may be going on (but see above). Based on what Irma says, Brian seems to share Bill Gordon's desire for the unknown.
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* VisionsOfAnotherSelf: Brian seems to have been having mysterious flashes of the life of Irma's grandfather, before he even met her, indicating some kind of {{Reincarnation}} may be going on (but see above). Based on what Irma says, Brian seems to share Bill Gordon's desire for the unknown.unknown.
* {{Zeerust}}: Compared to the rest of this series the future of this episode comes off as this, especially the character design of [=RB29=].
* {{Zeerust}}: Compared to the rest of this series the future of this episode comes off as this, especially the character design of [=RB29=].
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: There is no municipality called "Elk River" in either North or South Carolina (yet, anyway), although there is a river called the Elk River in North Carolina and Tennessee, bordering a town called Elk Park. [[spoiler: Moreover, the "Elk River" that appears in the ending is a clear case of CaliforniaDoubling -- and there is an Elk River, California.]] This is intentional, since all knowledge of the place was lost except for Irma's half-remembered stories from centuries ago.
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* TechnoBabble: Irma mentions that humans have analyzed matter not only down to the atoms but to the "quadrons and minimons".
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* TechnoBabble: Irma mentions that humans have analyzed matter not only down to the atoms but to the "quadrons and minimons".minimons" (indicating a level of detail far beyond the present day).
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* TechnoBabble: Irma mentions that humans have analyzed matter not only down to the atoms but to the "quadrons and minimons".
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Andrews doesn't seem like much of a hero at first, but he happily admits to being "trash" compared to Norton and hopes that Irma's money will help him finally achieve his dreams. When it looks like Norton is going to die from asphyxiation he screams that [[BlatantLies he'd be happy to steal his share of the money and leave]] in a desperate attempt to get him to come back.
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* LastRequest: Irma's desire to see Elk River, Carolina, before she dies.dies in two months of her heart condition.
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* TheCaretaker: [=RB29=] is this for Irma.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Andrews' con might seem to be vile exploitation of Irma's naivety, but as he argues to RB29, this is the only way that Irma can possibly achieve her dying wish.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Andrews' con might seem to be vile exploitation of Irma's naivety, but as he argues to RB29, [=RB29=], this is the only way that Irma can possibly achieve her dying wish.
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* LostCommonKnowledge: Irma's initial monologue requires her to explain concepts like what oak trees are, and RB29 apparently can't help her put on her dress because physical fasteners are now obsolete. She remembers the location of the town of Elk River only as "Carolina", and even though [[HiddenDepths Andrews knows that Mars is the name of the god of war]], he appears ignorant that it was also once known as the "Red Planet".
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* LostCommonKnowledge: Irma's initial monologue requires her to explain concepts like what oak trees are, and RB29 [=RB29=] apparently can't help her put on her dress because physical fasteners are now obsolete. She remembers the location of the town of Elk River only as "Carolina", and even though [[HiddenDepths Andrews knows that Mars is the name of the god of war]], he appears ignorant that it was also once known as the "Red Planet".
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* EarthThatWas: A highly cynical example. Earth was destroyed long ago, the only information about it that remains is one paragraph in a database, and the only person in the universe who seems to care is Irma.
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* LostCommonKnowledge: Irma's initial monologue requires her to explain concepts like what oak trees are, or that [[TheMaidenNameDebate her surname is inherited from her grandfather and not her grandmother]].
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* LostCommonKnowledge: Irma's initial monologue requires her to explain concepts like what oak trees are, or and RB29 apparently can't help her put on her dress because physical fasteners are now obsolete. She remembers the location of the town of Elk River only as "Carolina", and even though [[HiddenDepths Andrews knows that [[TheMaidenNameDebate her surname Mars is inherited from her grandfather and not her grandmother]].the name of the god of war]], he appears ignorant that it was also once known as the "Red Planet".
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* LastRequest: Irma's desire to see Elk River, Carolina, before she dies.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Andrews' con might seem to be vile exploitation of Irma's naivety, but as he argues to RB29, this is the only way that Irma can possibly achieve her dying wish.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Andrews. He's a slob, a drunk, a porn addict, casually rude to everyone he meets and seems to have no qualms about cruelly ripping off an old lady. But he seems to genuinely care about his coworker Brian and to be in extreme distress when it looks like [[spoiler: Brian and Irma are about to die of asphyxiation]].
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* LostCommonKnowledge: Irma's initial monologue requires her to explain concepts like what oak trees are, or that [[TheMaidenNameDebate her surname is inherited from her grandfather and not her grandmother]].
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* {{Squick}}: If you take the episode completely literally, then Irma may end up [[spoiler: having sex with her own grandfather, reincarnated]].
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* {{Squick}}: If you take the episode completely literally, then Irma may end up [[spoiler: [[IncestIsRelative having sex with her own grandfather, grandfather]], reincarnated]].
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: It seems like the rational explanation for the AmbiguousEnding is that Brian and Irma are dying of oxygen deprivation and only imagining that Emphor III has magically transformed into Old Earth. But the bizarre coincidence that Brian looks just like Irma's grandfather and the strange dreams he's had about Earth before even meeting her indicate something deeper may be happening.]]
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* IdenticalGrandson: Played with. Brian looks ''exactly'' like Irma's grandfather, Bill Gordon -- but, as far as we know, they're not biologically related, though he may be his reincarnation.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: It seems like the rational explanation for the AmbiguousEnding is that Brian and Irma are dying of oxygen deprivation and only imagining that Emphor III has magically transformed into Old Earth. But the bizarre coincidence that Brian looks just like Irma's grandfather and the strange dreams he's had about Earth before even meeting her indicate something deeper may be happening.]]]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: Played with. Based on the usual understanding of how reincarnation works, Irma can't actually be the reincarnation of her grandmother Louise, since she was born while her grandmother was still alive. But -- perhaps -- through some form of GeneticMemory she has come to identify with her grandmother as she ages [[spoiler: to the point where she seems to become her in death]].
* {{Squick}}: If you take the episode completely literally, then Irma may end up [[spoiler: having sex with her own grandfather, reincarnated]].
* VisionsOfAnotherSelf: Brian seems to have been having mysterious flashes of the life of Irma's grandfather, before he even met her, indicating some kind of {{Reincarnation}} may be going on (but see above). Based on what Irma says, Brian seems to share Bill Gordon's desire for the unknown.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: It seems like the rational explanation for the AmbiguousEnding is that Brian and Irma are dying of oxygen deprivation and only imagining that Emphor III has magically transformed into Old Earth. But the bizarre coincidence that Brian looks just like Irma's grandfather and the strange dreams he's had about Earth before even meeting her indicate something deeper may be happening.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Played with. Based on the usual understanding of how reincarnation works, Irma can't actually be the reincarnation of her grandmother Louise, since she was born while her grandmother was still alive. But -- perhaps -- through some form of GeneticMemory she has come to identify with her grandmother as she ages [[spoiler: to the point where she seems to become her in death]].
* {{Squick}}: If you take the episode completely literally, then Irma may end up [[spoiler: having sex with her own grandfather, reincarnated]].
* VisionsOfAnotherSelf: Brian seems to have been having mysterious flashes of the life of Irma's grandfather, before he even met her, indicating some kind of {{Reincarnation}} may be going on (but see above). Based on what Irma says, Brian seems to share Bill Gordon's desire for the unknown.
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* EarthAllAlong: Subverted. We are explicitly told that Earth's total destruction is a basic, known fact, a la "[[DeadToBeginWith Marley was dead]]", and moreover told that this is a setting where [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything humans have exhaustively mapped and catalogued the entire universe]]. Aside from the superficial similarity of being the third of nine planets, with one moon -- which is what Andrews was searching for in the database -- Emphor III ''cannot'' be Earth. [[AmbiguousEnding And yet...]]
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* EarthAllAlong: Subverted. We are explicitly told that Earth's total destruction is a basic, known fact, a la "[[DeadToBeginWith "[[Literature/AChristmasCarol Marley was dead]]", and moreover told that this is a setting where [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything humans have exhaustively mapped and catalogued the entire universe]]. Aside from the superficial similarity of being the third of nine planets, with one moon -- which is what Andrews was searching for in the database -- Emphor III ''cannot'' be Earth. [[AmbiguousEnding And yet...]]
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: PhilipKDick's original story "[[TheTheTitleConfusion The]] Impossible Planet" was famous for its EarthAllAlong ending. Since in a post-PlanetOfTheApes world this ending has become TheUntwist, this story makes it clear from the outset that this is not the case.
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* AfterTheEnd: A full Class X. Some sort of solar event caused an EarthShatteringKaboom -- far enough in the past that most humans don't seem to even ''care'', and Earth's solar system is just known by its serial number "2483B65".
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* AfterTheEnd: A full ApocalypseHow Class X. Some sort of solar event caused an EarthShatteringKaboom -- far enough in the past that most humans don't seem to even ''care'', and Earth's solar system is just known by its serial number "2483B65". The database entry for Earth clearly tells us there's no planet there even left to fly to, just vapor, necessitating the Emphor III [[TheCon con]].
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* AfterTheEnd: A full Class X. Some sort of solar event caused an EarthShatteringKaboom -- far enough in the past that most humans don't seem to even ''care'', and Earth's solar system is just known by its serial number "2483B65".
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: It seems like the rational explanation for the AmbiguousEnding is that Brian and Irma are dying of oxygen deprivation and only imagining that Emphor III has magically transformed into Old Earth. But the bizarre coincidence that Brian looks just like Irma's grandfather and the strange dreams he's had about Earth before even meeting her indicate something deeper may be happening.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: It seems like the rational explanation for the AmbiguousEnding is that Brian and Irma are dying of oxygen deprivation and only imagining that Emphor III has magically transformed into Old Earth. But the bizarre coincidence that Brian looks just like Irma's grandfather and the strange dreams he's had about Earth before even meeting her indicate something deeper may be happening.]]
