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* MisaimedMarketing: The poster and marketing campaign spoil the ending where [[spoiler: Helen murders Adelle and displays her body on the stage]].
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: The climax was considered very graphic in 1971. Viewers raised on torture porn films or lots of {{Gorn}} might not appreciate this.

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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: OnceOriginalNowCommon: The climax was considered very graphic in 1971.1971 (it was going to be even ''more'' graphic but censors asked it to be toned down). Viewers raised on torture porn films or lots of {{Gorn}} might not appreciate this.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The climax was considered very graphic in 1971. Viewers raised on torture porn films or lots of {{Gorn}} might not appreciate this.

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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: OnceOriginalNowOverdone: The climax was considered very graphic in 1971. Viewers raised on torture porn films or lots of {{Gorn}} might not appreciate this.
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* HilariousInHindsight:
** Robbi Morgan plays one of the girls in Adelle's class. Roughly ten years later she would get to be a more direct victim of another 'psycho biddy' - [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Pamela Voorhees]].
** Creator/ShelleyWinters would crank the psycho biddy character up to eleven in ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo'' a few years later.
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** Creator/ShelleyWinters would crank the psycho biddy character UpToEleven in ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo'' a few years later.

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** Creator/ShelleyWinters would crank the psycho biddy character UpToEleven up to eleven in ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo'' a few years later.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: The routine Adelle performs for all the parents and students. Debbie Reynolds did all of that at age thirty-eight herself.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: The routine Adelle performs for all the parents and students. Debbie Reynolds Creator/DebbieReynolds did all of that at age thirty-eight herself.



** Shelley Winters would crank the psycho biddy character UpToEleven in ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo'' a few years later.

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** Shelley Winters Creator/ShelleyWinters would crank the psycho biddy character UpToEleven in ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo'' a few years later.later.
* MisaimedMarketing: The poster and marketing campaign spoil the ending where [[spoiler: Helen murders Adelle and displays her body on the stage]].



* MisaimedMarketing: The poster and marketing campaign spoil the ending where [[spoiler: Helen murders Adelle and displays her body on the stage]].



* ValuesDissonance: Adelle is rather unsympathetic to Helen's deteriorating sanity. When Helen has a breakdown at the recital, Adelle is not worried about her friend at all and just complains about her ruining things. There may be some DeliberateValuesDissonance at play as well - since the film is set in the 1930s.

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* ValuesDissonance: Adelle is rather unsympathetic to Helen's deteriorating sanity. When Helen has a breakdown at the recital, Adelle is not worried about her friend at all and just complains about her ruining things. There may be some DeliberateValuesDissonance at play as well - since the film is set in the 1930s.1930s.
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** Shelley Winters would crank the psycho biddy character UpToEleven in ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo?'' a few years later.

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** Shelley Winters would crank the psycho biddy character UpToEleven in ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo?'' ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo'' a few years later.
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** Shelley Winters would crank the psycho biddy character UpToEleven in ''Who Slew Auntie Roo?'' a few years later.

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** Shelley Winters would crank the psycho biddy character UpToEleven in ''Who Slew Auntie Roo?'' ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo?'' a few years later.
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** The "You Nasty Man" girl performing at the recital. Her song is a huge EarWorm, as well as being a deeply unsettling look at how 1930s child stars could be pimped out.

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** The "You Nasty Man" girl performing at the recital. Her song is a huge EarWorm, hugely catchy, as well as being a deeply unsettling look at how 1930s child stars could be pimped out.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: The routine Adelle performs for all the parents and students. Debbie Reynolds did all of that at age thirty-eight herself.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Robbi Morgan plays one of the girls in Adelle's class. Roughly ten years later she would get to be a more direct victim of another 'psycho biddy' - [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Pamela Voorhees]].
** Shelley Winters would crank the psycho biddy character UpToEleven in ''Who Slew Auntie Roo?'' a few years later.
* NarmCharm: The cheesy numbers at the recital are unbelievably ghastly and awesome at the same time. It helps that they're clearly meant to be a TakeThat to such numbers of the day.
* MisaimedMarketing: The poster and marketing campaign spoil the ending where [[spoiler: Helen murders Adelle and displays her body on the stage]].
* OneSceneWonder:
** The "You Nasty Man" girl performing at the recital. Her song is a huge EarWorm, as well as being a deeply unsettling look at how 1930s child stars could be pimped out.
** And of course Agnes Moorhead as the hammy Sister Alma.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The climax was considered very graphic in 1971. Viewers raised on torture porn films or lots of {{Gorn}} might not appreciate this.
* ValuesDissonance: Adelle is rather unsympathetic to Helen's deteriorating sanity. When Helen has a breakdown at the recital, Adelle is not worried about her friend at all and just complains about her ruining things. There may be some DeliberateValuesDissonance at play as well - since the film is set in the 1930s.

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