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2	* AwardSnub: Despite being one of the most original documentaries at the time and being a box office success, it wasn't even nominated for an Academy Award.
3	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Rhonda Britton, the lady selling rabbits as "Pets or Meat". She even became of the focus of a PBS documentary in 1992.
4	* GenreTurningPoint: Before ''Roger and Me'', documentaries (of a non-musical nature at least) had been mostly confined to TV and film festivals. ''Roger and Me'' demonstrated that one could make a documentary that the masses would want to see, allowing other documentaries, including Moore's later films, to achieve widespread financial and critical success.
5	* HarsherInHindsight:
6	** The situation in Flint has just gotten worse in the thirty years since the film's release, as the water crisis they suffered in TheNewTens showcased.
7	** In a broader sense, the movie is (sadly) even more relevant today than 1989, as we've seen ''numerous'' situations like Flint's play out across the country, thanks to the Great Recession of 2007-2008 and, more recently, the COVID pandemic causing mass unemployment and closed businesses.
8	* HilariousInHindsight: Looks like [[Anime/TheBigO Roger Smith really is a louse]].
9	* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Despite it's negative depiction of General Motors, many [=GM=] employees and executives actually liked the movie due to their disillusionment with Roger Smith's leadership. By the time the film was released in Christmas 1989 [=GM=] was badly losing money and marketshare while fielding a lineup of "cookie cutter" cars that were struggling on the marketplace. Smith would actually retire less than a year after the film was released -- and hardly anybody was sad to see him go.
10	* NightmareFuel: The scenes with Rhonda Britton, who is [[DissonantSerenity quite happy]] about the fact that she makes a living by killing animals. The early scenes where she discusses her job and how she does it are off-putting enough, but then we actually get to see her slaughter and skin a rabbit, and it's [[ViolenceIsDisturbing not glorified in any way]].
11	* OvershadowedByControversy: The rabbit killing scene has become a bone of contention, with some schools and teachers refusing to show this movie to students, despite it covering an important aspect of modern history, simply because of this one scene. Michael Moore is bewildered by this because the movie also shows a man being killed by police, but that scene never raised as much controversy. Though to be fair, the man killed by police was filmed at a distance, whereas the rabbit killing, skinning and gutting is up close and ''doesn't'' cut away after a few seconds.
12	* {{Tearjerker}}: To the point it might as well be called ''Tearjerker: The Movie''.
13	* ValuesResonance: Downsizing and outsourcing have only accelerated since the 1980s, as Moore noted in his later film ''Film/CapitalismALoveStory''.

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