History Film / Sleeper

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Having natural sex with Miles, Luna becomes a rebel. [[SubvertedTrope Then believes in free love.]]

* CluckingFunny: While searching for food, Miles encounters a giant chicken.

* PaperThinDisguise: Miles as a robot, as seen in the Trope Image.

* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: Miles is out for precisely 200 years.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: Miles is out for precisely 200 years.

* SocietyMarchesOn: In-universe example: one fellow wears a sweater dress with a large swastika emblazoned on it. It's PlayedForLaughs, but ItMakesSenseInContext, since 200 years from now, Nazism will be a distant historical subject, with no living Holocaust victims or even children of victims alive to make it a hot button subject. Moreover, the depicted swastika is dextral (the Nazi swastika is sinestral), further suggesting that the symbol is used to convey a different meaning in this future. In the context of the futuristic fascist society, however, it still takes on a sinister subtext, too.

* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Luna describes a friend's painting as "pure keane. No, it's greater than keane...it's cugat." (The made-up words are a ShoutOut to '60s schlock artist Walter Keane and bandleader-turned-cartoonist Xavier Cugat, respectively.)

* RidiculousFutureSequelisation: A UsefulNotes/{{McDonalds}} sign shows the number of hamburgers served as 1 followed by a hundred zeroes (a googol). In real life, the chain ended the count at 100 million in 1994, replacing it with "billions and billions served."

* ShoutOut: Aside from the general homage to silent comedies, there's a blink and you miss it moment where we see a Domesticom van driver dressed in dark blue coveralls and an unusual brimless cap, similar to the workers from {{Film/Metropolis}}.

-->My God... I beat a man sensible with a strawberry!

-->'''Luna''': "I wanted to have sex, but we didn't invite enough people."

* MumblingBrando: Miles is undergoing a deprogramming - something goes wrong and he assumes the persona of Blanche du Bois from ''Film/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. To give them time to sedate him, Luna plays Stanley Kowalski.
** Funnily enough, Diane Keaton starred opposite Creator/MarlonBrando in ''Film/TheGodfather''.

* FutureImperfect: The scientists' knowledge of the past is limited and comes from old tapes of Howard Cosell. They seek to learn more by asking a Creator/WoodyAllen character, which one supposes is an improvement.

* GiantFood: Advances in agriculture result in comically immense fruits and veggies. Miles notably and quotably "Beats a man senseless with a ''strawberry''."

-->'''Rags:''' Woof, woof, woof. Hello, I'm Rags! Woof, woof, woof.

** Art in this future is influenced by big-eye-kid painter Walter Keane[[note]]Well, not ''exactly'', as noted in ''Film/BigEyes''[[/note]] -- "Keane" is in fact the descriptive term for a brilliant work.

* KindheartedSimpleton: Luna is a NiceGirl but rather dumb, as she apparently [[ArtisticLicenseBiology thought butterflies turn into caterpillars, rather than vice version]], along with realizing God is dog spelled backwards and thinking that constitutes some kind of amazing insight.

-->'''Dr. Melik:''' Incredible.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Miles desperately tries to keep Luna from turning him in.
-->I'm a good person, I've got good life drives! I don't smoke, I don't drink, I would never force myself sexually on a blind person...

-->I'm a good person, I've got good life drives! I don't smoke, I don't drink, I would never force myself sexually on a blind person...

1973 film starring Creator/WoodyAllen and Diane Keaton, wherein Creator/WoodyAllen plays the role of Miles Monroe, a jazz musician who is accidentally frozen (with tinfoil for freshness) for two hundred years, waking in the year 2173. He is drafted by the scientists who wake him, as he's the only man in the world who hasn't been scanned and cataloged by the globe-spanning dictatorship of "The Leader".