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* SpiritualSuccessor: 1998's ''Film/YouveGotMail'' is a romance set in New York, features a ThoseTwoActors couple (Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan), involves conversations about technology and people at risk of losing their jobs to progress, and is [[Creator/NoraEphron written by an Ephron]]. [[note]] ''Desk Set'' was adapted for the screen by Henry and Phoebe Ephron, Nora Ephron's parents.[[/note]]

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* SpiritualSuccessor: 1998's ''Film/YouveGotMail'' is a romance set in New York, features a ThoseTwoActors couple (Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan), involves conversations about technology and people at risk of losing their jobs to progress, and is [[Creator/NoraEphron written by an Ephron]]. [[note]] ''Desk Set'' was adapted for the screen by Henry and Phoebe Ephron, Nora Ephron's parents.[[/note]][[/note]]
* ValuesResonance: The worries about technology replacing people's jobs have only gotten stronger since this film came out in 1957.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Or Harsher, depending on your point of view. Bunny's ability to research Richard's life story shows GooglingTheNewAcquaintance is OlderThanYouThink.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Or Harsher, depending on your point of view. Bunny's ability to research Richard's life story shows GooglingTheNewAcquaintance is OlderThanYouThink.OlderThanTheyThink.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Or Harsher, depending on your point of view. Bunny's ability to research Richard's life story shows GooglingTheNewAcquaintance is OlderThanYouThink. Perhaps even an UnbuiltTrope at the time of this film.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Or Harsher, depending on your point of view. Bunny's ability to research Richard's life story shows GooglingTheNewAcquaintance is OlderThanYouThink. Perhaps even an UnbuiltTrope at the time of this film.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Or Harsher, depending on your point of view. Bunny's ability to research Richard's life story shows GooglingTheNewAcquaintance is OlderThanYouThink. Perhaps even an UnbuiltTrope at the time of this film.



--> '''Mr. Sumner''': (''reading out the computers mistaken analysis'') What the devil is this?
--> '''[[LargeHam Bunny]]''': It's the poem, "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight". Isn't that nice? (''starts reciting melodramatically'') ''Cromwell will not come till sunset, and her lips grew strangely white... as she breathed the husky whisper, curfew must not a-ring tonight.''

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--> '''Mr. --->'''Mr. Sumner''': (''reading out the computers mistaken analysis'') What the devil is this?
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'''[[LargeHam Bunny]]''': It's the poem, "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight". Isn't that nice? (''starts reciting melodramatically'') ''Cromwell will not come till sunset, and her lips grew strangely white... as she breathed the husky whisper, curfew must not a-ring tonight.''
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* SpiritualSuccessor: 1998's ''Film/YouveGotMail'' is a romance set in New York, features a ThoseTwoActors couple (Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan), involves conversations about technology and people at risk of losing their jobs to progress, and is [[Creator/NoraEphron written by an Ephron]].

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* SpiritualSuccessor: 1998's ''Film/YouveGotMail'' is a romance set in New York, features a ThoseTwoActors couple (Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan), involves conversations about technology and people at risk of losing their jobs to progress, and is [[Creator/NoraEphron written by an Ephron]]. [[note]] ''Desk Set'' was adapted for the screen by Henry and Phoebe Ephron, Nora Ephron's parents.[[/note]]
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--> '''[[LargeHam Bunny]]''': It's the poem, "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight". Isn't that nice? (''starts reciting melodramatically'') ''Cromwell will not come till sunset, and her lips grew strangely white... as she breathed the husky whisper, curfew must not a-ring tonight.''

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--> '''[[LargeHam Bunny]]''': It's the poem, "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight". Isn't that nice? (''starts reciting melodramatically'') ''Cromwell will not come till sunset, and her lips grew strangely white... as she breathed the husky whisper, curfew must not a-ring tonight.''''
* SpiritualSuccessor: 1998's ''Film/YouveGotMail'' is a romance set in New York, features a ThoseTwoActors couple (Creator/TomHanks and Creator/MegRyan), involves conversations about technology and people at risk of losing their jobs to progress, and is [[Creator/NoraEphron written by an Ephron]].
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Few people are familiar with the original Broadway play the film was based on.
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** The poem Bunny recites, while EMARAC and poor Miss Warriner are both having a nervous breakdown.
--> '''Mr. Sumner''': (''reading out the computers mistaken analysis'') What the devil is this?
--> '''[[LargeHam Bunny]]''': It's the poem, "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight". Isn't that nice? (''starts reciting melodramatically'') ''Cromwell will not come till sunset, and her lips grew strangely white... as she breathed the husky whisper, curfew must not a-ring tonight.''

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