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* CriticalDissonance: The Music/TalkingHeads album was successful, reaching No. 17 on the Billboard chart and going gold, but critical opinion was mostly negative.
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* CriticalDissonance: The album Music/TalkingHeads album released of their own versions of the movie's songs was quite successful, reaching No. 17 on the Billboard chart and also going gold, but critical opinion was mostly negative.negative and Music/DavidByrne [[CreatorBacklash in particular is rather annoyed by its existence]], due to it being mandated by their record label.
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** Also, while shopping malls themselves have mostly fallen out of style compared to the height of their popularity in the 80's and 90's, the musings that Byrne shares on the nature of shopping culture itself still hold plenty of water in the modern era.
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** This [[Film/NapoleonDynamite wouldn't be the last movie]] set in a middle-of-nowhere American town with a RandomEventsPlot, a cast of quirky characters and a socially awkward lead which ended in a live musical act.
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* OneSceneWonder: With the film's episodic structure and large cast, there are several of these, most prominently the preacher (played by John Ingle) whose ConspiracyKitchenSink sermon eventually turns into a performance of "Puzzlin' Evidence".
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* OneSceneWonder: With the film's episodic structure and large cast, there are several of these, most prominently the preacher (played by John Ingle) Creator/JohnIngle) whose ConspiracyKitchenSink sermon eventually turns into a performance of "Puzzlin' Evidence".
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* VindicatedByCable: Despite flopping at the box office, Creator/{{HBO}} airings gave the film CultClassic status.
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* VindicatedByCable: Despite flopping at the box office, Creator/{{HBO}} airings and home video gave the film CultClassic status.
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Up To Eleven is being dewicked.
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* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: "Dream Operator." Then taken UpToEleven with "Glass Operator," the instrumental reprise on glass harp which can be heard on the soundtrack.
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* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: "Dream Operator." Then taken UpToEleven up to eleven with "Glass Operator," the instrumental reprise on glass harp which can be heard on the soundtrack.
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Loads And Loads Of Characters is no longer a trope
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* OneSceneWonder: With the film's episodic structure and LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, there are several of these, most prominently the preacher (played by John Ingle) whose ConspiracyKitchenSink sermon eventually turns into a performance of "Puzzlin' Evidence".
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* OneSceneWonder: With the film's episodic structure and LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, large cast, there are several of these, most prominently the preacher (played by John Ingle) whose ConspiracyKitchenSink sermon eventually turns into a performance of "Puzzlin' Evidence".
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The "Shopping Is a Feeling" sequence chronicles the height of shopping mall culture in the 1980s.
** The video for "Love for Sale" is a time capsule of 1986 TV commercials.
** Zig-zagged with the line about Creator/SteveJobs no longer being the head of Apple; in 1986, the line was fairly topical, as Jobs had just been fired the year earlier after a feud with CEO John Sculley. However, Jobs came and went from the company several more times for the rest of his life, causing the line to cycle in and out of this trope on a loop; eventually, it was rendered timeless by Jobs' death in 2011.
** The "Shopping Is a Feeling" sequence chronicles the height of shopping mall culture in the 1980s.
** The video for "Love for Sale" is a time capsule of 1986 TV commercials.
** Zig-zagged with the line about Creator/SteveJobs no longer being the head of Apple; in 1986, the line was fairly topical, as Jobs had just been fired the year earlier after a feud with CEO John Sculley. However, Jobs came and went from the company several more times for the rest of his life, causing the line to cycle in and out of this trope on a loop; eventually, it was rendered timeless by Jobs' death in 2011.
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* CoveredUp: In an unusually self-inflicted example, the Music/TalkingHeads version of the film's songs remain far better-known than the versions sung by the film's cast, if only because the film itself was a commercial disappointment and remains somewhat obscure to this day, to David Byrne's chagrin (as he considers the film versions of the songs the definitive ones).
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* CoveredUp: In an unusually self-inflicted example, the Music/TalkingHeads version versions of the film's songs remain far better-known than the versions sung by the film's cast, if only because the film itself was a commercial disappointment and remains somewhat obscure to this day, to David Byrne's chagrin (as he considers the film versions of the songs the definitive ones).
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* SignatureScene: The lip-syncing scene with "Wild Wild Life," due to an alternate cut being used as the song's music video.
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* SignatureScene: SignatureScene:
** The lip-syncing scene with "Wild Wild Life," due to an alternate cut being used as the song's musicvideo.video.
** The "Love for Sale" sequence using TV commercials of the era is also well-known for its music video version.
** The lip-syncing scene with "Wild Wild Life," due to an alternate cut being used as the song's music
** The "Love for Sale" sequence using TV commercials of the era is also well-known for its music video version.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A low-key alternative rock musical about a quirky rural town is difficult to market, and a big reason the film has never been terribly popular outside of dyed-in-the-wool Music/DavidByrne/Music/TalkingHeads fans.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A low-key alternative rock musical about a quirky rural town is difficult to market, and a big reason the film flopped at the box office and has never been terribly popular outside of dyed-in-the-wool Music/DavidByrne/Music/TalkingHeads Music/DavidByrne[=/=]Music/TalkingHeads fans.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A low-key alternative rock musical about a quirky rural town is difficult to market, and a big reason the film has never been terribly popular outside of dyed-in-the-wool Music/DavidByrne fans.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A low-key alternative rock musical about a quirky rural town is difficult to market, and a big reason the film has never been terribly popular outside of dyed-in-the-wool Music/DavidByrne Music/DavidByrne/Music/TalkingHeads fans.
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** The odd outfits in the "Wild Wild Life" and "Dream Operator" sequences could be sees as early examples of {{Cosplay}}.
