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* ChurchOfHappyology: Synthiotics is a thinly veiled {{expy}} of Scientology. Its founder is said to be a former science fiction writer, and its EliteMooks dress as sailors like members of the Sea Org. Notably, ''Wild Palms'' was released quite a few years before Scientology became widely known as an AcceptableTarget and displays considerably more subtle knowledge of said religion than most modern digs at it.

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* ChurchOfHappyology: Synthiotics is a thinly veiled {{expy}} of Scientology. Its founder is said to be a former science fiction writer, and its EliteMooks dress as sailors like members of the Sea Org. Notably, ''Wild Palms'' was released quite a few years before Scientology became widely known as an AcceptableTarget mocked and displays considerably more subtle knowledge of said religion than most modern digs at it.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: to ''Film/{{Videodrome}}'' (1983).

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* ShoutOut: ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'' included a song titled "Hello, I Must Be Going". It was the title of the final episode of the miniseries, and the song itself was sung by villain Senator Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) [[spoiler:as he died.]]

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''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'' included a song titled "Hello, I Must Be Going". It was the title of the final episode of the miniseries, and the song itself was sung by villain Senator Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) [[spoiler:as he died.]]
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%%* YaoiGuys: Tommy Laszlo and Tully Woiwode.
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[[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Set in 2007]], Harry Wyckoff (Belushi) has got it all: A successful career as a patent attourney, a beautiful wife, a teenage son starting a TV career, and a little daughter who is still too shy to speak. But at night, he is [[CatapultNightmare haunted by nightmares]] of palm trees and rhinoceroses. Accepting a call for help from [[FemmeFatale his former girlfriend]] to find her kidnapped son, Harry is pulled into a web of intrigue surrounding the charismatic [[EvilChancellor Senator Kreutzer]], [[PropagandaMachine TV Channel 3]], a strange religion called [[ChurchOfHappyology Synthiotics]] and old rival secret societies called [[LaResistance The Friends]] and [[TheGroup The Fathers]].

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[[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Set in 2007]], Harry Wyckoff (Belushi) has got it all: A successful career as a patent attourney, attorney, a beautiful wife, a teenage son starting a TV career, and a little daughter who is still too shy to speak. But at night, he is [[CatapultNightmare haunted by nightmares]] of palm trees and rhinoceroses. Accepting a call for help from [[FemmeFatale his former girlfriend]] to find her kidnapped son, Harry is pulled into a web of intrigue surrounding the charismatic [[EvilChancellor Senator Kreutzer]], [[PropagandaMachine TV Channel 3]], a strange religion called [[ChurchOfHappyology Synthiotics]] and old rival secret societies called [[LaResistance The Friends]] and [[TheGroup The Fathers]].



%%* AmbiguouslyJewish: Kreutzer, Wyckoff, Levitt And Schenkel.

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%%* AmbiguouslyJewish: Kreutzer, Wyckoff, Levitt And and Schenkel.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: to ''Film/{{Videodrome}}'' (1983).

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* ShoutOut: ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'' included a song titled "Hello, I Must Be Going". It was the title of the final episode of the miniseries, and the song itself was sung by villain Senator Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) [[spoiler:as he died.]]
** T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" and Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain" serve as the anthems of the Fathers and the Friends.
** [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Beat me up, Scotty!"]]



* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The Friends may be the "good guys," but they can be damned manipulative and cold at times.



* ShoutOut: ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'' included a song titled "Hello, I Must Be Going". It was the title of the final episode of the miniseries, and the song itself was sung by villain Senator Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) [[spoiler:as he died.]]
** T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" and Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain" serve as the anthems of the Fathers and the Friends.
** [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Beat me up, Scotty!"]]



* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The Friends may be the "good guys," but they can be damned manipulative and cold at times.
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''Wild Palms'' is a six hour science fiction TV mini-series from 1993, produced by Creator/OliverStone and written by Bruce Wagner (who also wrote the comic book the series was based on). It starred Creator/JamesBelushi, Creator/DanaDelany, Creator/BebeNeuwirth, Creator/AngieDickinson, Creator/KimCattrall, Creator/ErnieHudson, Ben Savage and Creator/RobertLoggia.

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''Wild Palms'' is a six hour science fiction TV mini-series from 1993, produced by Creator/OliverStone and written by Bruce Wagner (who also wrote the comic book the series was based on). It starred Creator/JamesBelushi, Creator/DanaDelany, Creator/BebeNeuwirth, Creator/AngieDickinson, Creator/KimCattrall, Creator/ErnieHudson, Ben Savage Creator/BenSavage and Creator/RobertLoggia.
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''Wild Palms'' is a six hour science fiction TV mini-series from 1993, produced by Creator/OliverStone and written by Bruce Wagner (who also wrote the comic book the series was based on). It starred Creator/JamesBelushi, Creator/DanaDelany, Creator/BebeNeuwirth, Creator/AngieDickinson, Creator/KimCattrall, Creator/ErnieHudson, Ben Savage and Robert Loggia.

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''Wild Palms'' is a six hour science fiction TV mini-series from 1993, produced by Creator/OliverStone and written by Bruce Wagner (who also wrote the comic book the series was based on). It starred Creator/JamesBelushi, Creator/DanaDelany, Creator/BebeNeuwirth, Creator/AngieDickinson, Creator/KimCattrall, Creator/ErnieHudson, Ben Savage and Robert Loggia.
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