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Don't Look Up

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Don't Look Up	comment	Don't Look Up is a 2021 satirical Black Comedy Disaster Movie directed and co-written by Adam McKay.The film follows two low-level astronomers, grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and her PhD advisor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), as they embark on a long and discouraging press tour to warn humanity of an incoming threat: a comet that will likely destroy the planet. Amid heavy scrutiny and skepticism towards their findings — particularly from the boorish and narcissistic US President, Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep), and her incompetent Chief of Staff and son Jason (Jonah Hill) — it's up to them to convince everyone to take action before it's too late.DiCaprio and Lawrence head an impressive All-Star Cast that also includes the likes of Rob Morgan, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, TimothÃ©e Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Cate Blanchett, Himesh Patel, Chris Evans, Tomer Sisley, Melanie Lynskey, Michael Chiklis, and Paul Guilfoyle.Don't Look Up was released in select theaters on December 10, 2021, before premiering on Netflix two weeks later on December 24.
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Don't Look Up / int_1036c075	type	Forceful Kiss
Don't Look Up / int_1036c075	comment	Forceful Kiss: Attempted by Jason, who tries to kiss Kate at a meeting; she turns away in disgust.
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Don't Look Up / int_118a2d16	type	Hanlon's Razor
Don't Look Up / int_118a2d16	comment	Hanlon's Razor: When Kate hangs out with Yule and his friends, she shoots down a couple of their conspiracy theories, saying, "The truth is way more depressing. They are not even smart enough to be as evil as you're giving them credit for." Of course, the theory about the spaceship is later proven right, but her point stands.
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Don't Look Up / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Don't Look Up / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: President Orlean is a Trumplica, and scandals associated with her mirror some of the real scandals from Donald Trump's presidency. The problems surrounding her Supreme Court nomination, for instance, is something of an amalgamation of the scandals surrounding Trump's support for Joe Arpaio (a controversial sheriff) and Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh (a nominee plagued by allegations of sexual misconduct). Isherwell is an amalgamation of tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs. Brie is a blonde news anchor who runs a morning show with a male co-anchor, which suggests she's a stand-in for Kelly Ripa, though her voice, intonation, and mannerisms are much more similar to Megyn Kelly's. Jeff Lander, a minor character who planned to challenge Orlean for the presidency, is based on Bernie Sanders, from his physical looks to his voice. It could also be a case of Author Appeal as well considering one of the two main writers, David Sirota, worked in Bernie Sanders' campaign as senior advisor and speechwriter.
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Don't Look Up / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Don't Look Up / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything? The COVID-19 Pandemic broke out after McKay completed the script but forced a delay in filming. During this time, McKay heightened the satirical commentary to include aspects from the pandemic, including how precautions or common sense become weaponized political statements dividing countries. Obstructive politicians initially ignore Randall and Kate's warnings about Comet Dibiasky's destructive potential because they don't understand their science and don't want to accept the reality of the situation if it's true. The parallels to the climate change debate are easy to draw.
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Don't Look Up / int_14fbe67f	type	Godiva Hair
Don't Look Up / int_14fbe67f	comment	Godiva Hair: One of the women in the mid-credits scene, who is exiting her space pod and setting foot on the new planet, has this trope. Averted, however with the other nude women whom are arriving onto the planet.
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Don't Look Up / int_183b52	type	Kafka Komedy
Don't Look Up / int_183b52	comment	From the other side, after one too many instances of being ignored, mocked, and then handcuffed with a bag over her head, Kate Dibiasky signs an NDA, disappears from the public sphere, quits her PhD and takes up a retail job. Randall Mindy stays on a little longer, but even he eventually reaches his breaking point and gives up.
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Don't Look Up / int_1865f13a	type	Apocalypse Anarchy
Don't Look Up / int_1865f13a	comment	Apocalypse Anarchy: At one point Kate riles people up, and they then start rioting in the streets. After the comet gets visible in the sky, social order crumbles as demonstrated by a half-ransacked supermarket Kate and Randall visit.
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Don't Look Up / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Don't Look Up / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: When Mindy's team tries to convince humanity to unite via "Just Look Up" campaign to help stop the comet, Orlean sets up a "Don't Look Up" counter-campaign to convince her supporters that their opposers are actually belittling them, all while further politicizing and downplaying a clear crisis. The slogan gets chanted by its supporters.
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Don't Look Up / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Don't Look Up / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Chris Evans makes a brief appearance as actor Devin Peters who plays Dr. Mindy in Total Devastation, the in-universe biopic of the impending apocalypse near the end of the film. Sarah Silverman appears as a comedian named Sarah Benterman. Liev Schreiber provides The Voice of the "BASH Liif" commercial narrator.
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Don't Look Up / int_1b7d59b6	type	Death by Materialism
Don't Look Up / int_1b7d59b6	comment	Death by Materialism: Probably one of the largest scale instances of this trope. The original plan to deflect the comet which had a fair chance of saving the planet is canceled when Peter Isherwell discovers that the comet is made of rare minerals worth over a hundred trillion dollars. In its place, Isherwell comes up with a plan to break up the comet and capture the pieces for profit, which ends up failing and causing the complete annihilation of all life on Earth.
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Don't Look Up / int_1dd225c4	type	Everything Is an iPod in the Future
Don't Look Up / int_1dd225c4	comment	Everything Is An I Pod In The Future: Gets a Deconstructive Parody. Isherwell's spacecraft and visualizations look impressively modern, but seem to be about as dependable as the Schizo Tech of Brazil. Two spacecraft fail at launch, several more fail later in the course of the mission, and in the end they did nothing to break up the asteroid as planned, or even divert its course. As for their secret emergency plan to colonize an exoplanet, only half of the cryopods make it to the destination. And Isherwell happily notes that outcome is better than he expected. Meanwhile, the aged and used NASA shuttlecraft from the first attempt suffered zero failures before the mission is aborted, despite a margin of error being accounted for. The predicted success probability was also pretty high.
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Don't Look Up / int_1e159001	type	Diagonal Billing
Don't Look Up / int_1e159001	comment	Diagonal Billing: In the film's credits, Leonardo DiCaprio is billed to the lower left while Jennifer Lawrence is billed to the upper right.
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Don't Look Up / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Don't Look Up / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive politicians initially ignore Randall and Kate's warnings about Comet Dibiasky's destructive potential because they don't understand their science and don't want to accept the reality of the situation if it's true. The parallels to the climate change debate are easy to draw.
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Don't Look Up / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Don't Look Up / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Janie Orlean's chief of staff is her son Jason, who has a strange tendency to make sexually inappropriate comments about his mother.
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Don't Look Up / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Don't Look Up / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: The film presents how a common disaster movie scenario (specifically a planet-killing comet heading toward Earth) would likely play out in real life in a modern-day political and social landscape, with their answer being that government corruption, greed, and a dash of willful ignorance would ultimately screw everyone over. Also doubles as Deconstructive Parody since this outcome is Played for Laughs.
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Don't Look Up / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Don't Look Up / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Randall, Kate, and Teddy are consistently portrayed as the only people in most situations who understand the sheer gravity of the comet and desperately try to get others to do so as well, to no avail.
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Don't Look Up / int_2497e5b8	type	Atomic F-Bomb
Don't Look Up / int_2497e5b8	comment	Atomic F-Bomb: Mindy unleashes one upon hearing that Orlean had cut Russia, India, and China from their BASH operation because of the mining deal. They attempt to do their own emergency plan but fail. With BASH the only one left able to do anything, for better or worse, he believes humanity is already doomed.
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Don't Look Up / int_25bcf6ce	type	Lightswitch Surprise
Don't Look Up / int_25bcf6ce	comment	Lightswitch Surprise: At one point Brie and Randall stumble into a hotel room for a tryst. When the light turns on, they find Randall's wife June waiting for them.
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Don't Look Up / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
Don't Look Up / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: Even characters who seemingly accept the danger posed by the comet as real don't seem to be especially bothered by it; noticing this is what triggers Kate's on-air breakdown early on in the movie, and Randall's own profanity-laden plea for sanity in the second half. With that said, there are plenty of bystanders who do want to do something, as Kate, Mindy, and Teddy are able to create a "Look Up" movement against Orlean and Isherwell's plan—but society has reached a point where just a few powerful and selfish people helped by dulling social media can prevent anything useful from being done.
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Don't Look Up / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Don't Look Up / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: The film's mid-credit scene shows Isherwell and the ultra-rich arriving on a new and beautiful planet over 22,000 years in the future, where President Orlean is almost immediately killed by a local animal, before the rest of its pack begins circling the now-frightened new arrivals before cutting to black. Similarly, the post-credit scene shows Jason Orlean as the sole known survivor on Earth, but considering his dimwitted nature, he's certainly going to die of thirst, starvation or other vengeful survivors within weeks.
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Don't Look Up / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Don't Look Up / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Janie up and leaves Jason at BASH mission control, only remembering that he's still there after it's too late to turn back. During the film, his father is never seen or mentioned. Kate's parents disown her for her anti-comet stance as they believe in Isherwell's plan to mine the comet.
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Don't Look Up / int_2a6b56f4	type	Rattling Off Legal
Don't Look Up / int_2a6b56f4	comment	Rattling Off Legal: A TV commercial by Bash featuring Randall ends with a disclaimer being quickly rattled off.
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Don't Look Up / int_2b2abf36	type	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense
Don't Look Up / int_2b2abf36	comment	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: A Fatal Flaw for all the rich characters in the film, especially Isherwell, who only decides to destroy the comet when it is too late.
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Don't Look Up / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Don't Look Up / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Most of the movie's in-universe social networks are thinly veiled parodies of real-life networks, with the bizarre exception of Twitch.
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Don't Look Up / int_2bbba5f3	type	Say Your Prayers
Don't Look Up / int_2bbba5f3	comment	Say Your Prayers: Yule does this twice. The first time, it is a private prayer done when the comet becomes visible to the naked eye. The second time, he's leading a group prayer at the Mindy residence, with the group preparing to eat their final meal in the face of the Earth's imminent destruction.
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Don't Look Up / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
Don't Look Up / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: During the end, we're treated to a far-away shot of a rooftop orgy and a brief close-up of at least one couple having sex as the end is coming.
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Don't Look Up / int_33e48eb9	type	Hysterical Woman
Don't Look Up / int_33e48eb9	comment	Hysterical Woman: All the media present Kate as one after her morning-show meltdown.
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Don't Look Up / int_38ad0e6a	type	BreakingSpeech
Don't Look Up / int_38ad0e6a	comment	Breaking Speech: Isherwell delivers one to Randall at the hangar where he compares him to a field mouse that runs from pain towards pleasure and predicts that he would be Dying Alone (which doesn't come true).
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Don't Look Up / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Don't Look Up / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: President Orlean shares her surname with Meryl Streep's character in Adaptation.. After Kate's first outburst on live TV, one of the show's staff suggests she seek treatment for bipolar disorder, which Jennifer Lawrence's character in Silver Linings Playbook suffers from. After Ready Player One, Mark Rylance is again an eccentric billionaire tech CEO with a creepy droning voice who thinks is doing humanity a favor with his omnipresent inventions.
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Don't Look Up / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Don't Look Up / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Some people are shown trying to meet the end as calmly as possible, especially the Mindys, Teddy, Kate, and Yule, who all sit down for dinner and keep the conversation focused on mundane topics.
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Don't Look Up / int_39798793	type	Ludicrous Precision
Don't Look Up / int_39798793	comment	Ludicrous Precision: Subverted. When Kate says how much time is left until the asteroid hits to impact down to the second, the people around her are stunned that she was able to provide this time with such accuracy on the spot. She then replies that it's because she put in the predicted impact time into a diet-tracking app, which she had just checked.
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Don't Look Up / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Don't Look Up / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Meanwhile, the aged and used NASA shuttlecraft from the first attempt suffered zero failures before the mission is aborted, despite a margin of error being accounted for. The predicted success probability was also pretty high.
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Don't Look Up / int_39cb0851	type	Artistic License – Astronomy
Don't Look Up / int_39cb0851	comment	Artistic License - Astronomy: Earth after the comet impact is a far cry from what a planet would look like after such an apocalyptic event. For starters, the atmosphere is crystal-clear where it should be choked with dust, soot and other particulate matter thrown up by the impact. The continents also look largely unchanged despite the comet having touched down in the ocean, triggering multi-kilometer tsunamis that would've reached far enough inland to make the coastlines completely unrecognizable. That said, it sure does look more beautiful and impressive the way it is portrayed in the film. The Sleeper Starship in the epilogue is shown passing dangerously close to a huge black hole and even far outside our galaxy despite traveling for a mere 22,000 years. With the film's technology level being mostly the same as what we have today, this wouldn't be nearly long enough for a spaceship to reach locations in deep space that would offer such perspectives. Rule of Cool is firmly in effect here.
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Don't Look Up / int_3ae5f176	type	Flyaway Shot
Don't Look Up / int_3ae5f176	comment	Flyaway Shot: A zoom up from Mindy and others standing in the street after spotting the comet in the night sky.
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Don't Look Up / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
Don't Look Up / int_3bce9346	comment	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing: The Sleeper Ship that Isherwell, Orlean, and their cohorts use to escape Earth's destruction remains in working order for 22 millennia and arrives safely at its destination in another solar system. In the same time period, only around half of the cryochambers fail.
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Don't Look Up / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Don't Look Up / int_3d2c6d30	comment	The hosts of The Daily Rip have Skewed Priorities, devoting the majority of their show to celebrity breakup/make-up gossip, rather than a comet that's going to kill everyone on Earth. Not that their audience is much better, as the biggest takeaway social media got from the science segment is how amusing Kate's mental breakdown was and how attractive Randall is.
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Don't Look Up / int_3f064a0d	type	Humans Are Morons
Don't Look Up / int_3f064a0d	comment	Humans Are Morons: And squarely in Too Dumb to Live territory. The world soon becomes ideologically divided between people who (sensibly) know the apocalyptic implications about the comet and demand it to be blown to hell, people who decry that group for unjustified alarmism, and a significant portion of people who deny that the comet even exists. As Randall Mindy says: And as Kate Dibiasky says:
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Don't Look Up / int_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
Don't Look Up / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: The hosts of The Daily Rip have Skewed Priorities, devoting the majority of their show to celebrity breakup/make-up gossip, rather than a comet that's going to kill everyone on Earth. Not that their audience is much better, as the biggest takeaway social media got from the science segment is how amusing Kate's mental breakdown was and how attractive Randall is. Near the end of the film, the Fox News Expy insists that the most talked-about story is... topless urgent care centers.
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Don't Look Up / int_43be2121	type	Logging onto the Fourth Wall
Don't Look Up / int_43be2121	comment	Logging onto the Fourth Wall: A QR code shown shortly before Riley Bina's concert scene links to the actual music video.
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Don't Look Up / int_46e7492b	type	Comet of Doom
Don't Look Up / int_46e7492b	comment	Comet of Doom: Astronomers discover a 10-kilometer-wide comet set to collide with Earth in six months. The film charts their efforts to warn the world of impending doom and convince politicians to take the necessary action to avert catastrophe.
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Don't Look Up / int_46f86041	type	Bad Vibrations
Don't Look Up / int_46f86041	comment	Bad Vibrations: The glasses on the dinner table shake violently right before the comet blast wave hits the Mindys' house.
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Don't Look Up / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
Don't Look Up / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: Kate pukes into a trash bin at the lobby of the White House when she realizes that she is supposed to talk to the President in person.
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Don't Look Up / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Don't Look Up / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Two. The mid-credits scene shows Isherwell and his other passengers arriving on a new planet and taking in the scenery before President Orlean is brutally killed by one of the local fauna, with a pack of the same creatures slowly surrounding the rest of them, cutting away just before they attack en masse. The post-credit scene shows Jason Orlean as the sole survivor of the comet and posting about it on this phone, before looking uncomfortably at his new surroundings and desperately calling out for his mother.
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Don't Look Up / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Don't Look Up / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: After learning the comet is going to hit Earth, Mindy asks Kate if he's in an alternate reality.
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Don't Look Up / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Don't Look Up / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Thanks to political and corporate greed, all countermeasures against the comet fail and it hits the Earth, killing all life sans Jason, while the rich elites who escaped at the last second on a Sleeper Ship quickly become food for the local wildlife of the planet they eventually find. The one comfort the audience receives is that Randall, Kate, and their friends and family get to spend one last dinner with each other, dying with dignity. Another silver lining is that the ones responsible for Earth's (potentially avoidable) destruction through inaction will reap what they've sown.
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Don't Look Up / int_4e3f6d57	type	What Would X Do?
Don't Look Up / int_4e3f6d57	comment	What Would X Do?: Early on, when Mindy is challenged with the task to calculate the comet's trajectory, he asks his group of students what Carl Sagan would do. Apparently, he would take it back to first principles.
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Don't Look Up / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Don't Look Up / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Jason thinks he and Kate have this.
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Don't Look Up / int_519c2e3a	type	Trashcan Bonfire
Don't Look Up / int_519c2e3a	comment	Trashcan Bonfire: One can be seen in the background when Kate hangs out with Yule and his friends.
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Don't Look Up / int_55cd4012	type	"Everybody Dies" Ending
Don't Look Up / int_55cd4012	comment	"Everybody Dies" Ending: Thanks the greed of the Administration, and the overall ignorance of humanity, there is nothing stopping the comet from killing virtually everyone on Earth. The only ones who do survive are the upper class who fled on a starship, and even they seem to be slated to die by the large wild animals that populate the planet they arrive on. The post-credits scene reveals that Jason somehow survived the comet, though it's highly doubtful that he'll last long.
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Don't Look Up / int_57de4e72	type	Beauty Inversion
Don't Look Up / int_57de4e72	comment	Beauty Inversion: Nothing too extreme, but the very attractive Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence have their good looks downplayed to make them look like dorky scientists. He gets off fairly lightly with just spectacles and a thick beard which is shaved early on into a far more fashionable goatee. Her case is more noticeable, getting a nose ring and clearly dyed hair which is cut in a fairly unflattering style. In both cases the characters are still acknowledged as attractive In-Universe, the former to memetic levels. Though TimothÃ©e Chalamet's Pretty Boy features aren't covered up, he's given a very unfashionable outfit and his hair is extremely long and messy.
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Don't Look Up / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Don't Look Up / int_58970413	comment	Coincidental Broadcast: When Kate is on the phone with her fiancÃ© and complaints about being stood up by the president, he tells her to watch the TV news which she does where it explains that the president was busy resolving a scandal.
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Don't Look Up / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Don't Look Up / int_599f943f	comment	Likewise zig-zagged with Peter Isherwell. His plotting and refusal to listen to others' concerns led to humanity's extinction; both in forcing the abortion of the comet diversion mission that may have solved everything early on, and his neglect in testing the equipment for his own mining operation that ended up becoming humanity's last desperate hope. But he had a backup plan and escaped the planet along with a group of his fellow super-rich elites, finding a planet that can host human life, so he got the last laugh. At least until President Orlean is quickly killed by a local creature, and a good deal of others start approaching his group. Even on the off-chance he manages to survive, there's then the whole matter of if he and others of pampered wealth can survive on a new planet, building from the ground up.
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Don't Look Up / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Don't Look Up / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: When Randall loses his shit in his second appearance on the morning show and goes on a rant on live TV.
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Don't Look Up / int_5f173ee4	type	I Kiss Your Hand
Don't Look Up / int_5f173ee4	comment	I Kiss Your Hand: Randall kisses his wife's hand at the dinner table after they reunited.
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Don't Look Up / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
Don't Look Up / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: The cast members' names are shown against the background of items related to their characters floating aimlessly in outer space.
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Don't Look Up / int_669c4caa	type	Produce Pelting
Don't Look Up / int_669c4caa	comment	Produce Pelting: Jason Orlean becomes the target of an angry crowd during a "Don't Look Up" rally when people start noticing the comet in the night sky.
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Don't Look Up / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Don't Look Up / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: All the scientists are giddy with excitement about Kate's discovery of a new comet. A similarly giddy Dr. Mindy starts walking them through the calculations to determine how close the comet will come to Earth. At the same time that Kate is asking "Why does the ephemeris keep getting lower and lower?", Dr. Mindy stops mid-sentence, because he realizes that the ephemeris is going to decline to zero (that is, the comet will hit Earth). He sends all the students except for Kate home.
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Don't Look Up / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
Don't Look Up / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Discussed and invoked. Dibiasky and Mindy are from Michigan State University, which Jason and his mother use to dismiss their credibility, refusing to take action until experts from Ivy League schools corroborate their claim.
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Don't Look Up / int_6ccba96b	type	Talking in Bed
Don't Look Up / int_6ccba96b	comment	Talking in Bed: Randall and Brie introduce each other in bed after making out.
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Don't Look Up / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
Don't Look Up / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Gets a Deconstructive Parody. Isherwell's spacecraft and visualizations look impressively modern, but seem to be about as dependable as the Schizo Tech of Brazil. Two spacecraft fail at launch, several more fail later in the course of the mission, and in the end they did nothing to break up the asteroid as planned, or even divert its course. As for their secret emergency plan to colonize an exoplanet, only half of the cryopods make it to the destination. And Isherwell happily notes that outcome is better than he expected.
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Don't Look Up / int_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
Don't Look Up / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: The movie breaks the fourth wall to point out that the "Planetary Defense Coordination Office" is actually a real thing. They even show its actual logo.
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Don't Look Up / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Don't Look Up / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Isherwell, in his Breaking Speech to Randall Mindy, claims to know everything about Randall thanks to extensive social media profiling, down to predicting that he will die alone. He is wrong. Played for Laughs when he makes a similar prediction about the cause of death of President Orlean, which is by being eaten by a "brontoroc"; Isherwell himself has no idea what the term refers to. In the Distant Epilogue set on an exoplanet, shortly after landing she is indeed eaten by an alien creature, which Isherwell decides to dub a "brontoroc." How the algorithm managed to predict the existence of "brontorocs", never mind their name, without the people who programmed it having any idea what they are is left unexplained; whether this should be considered a case of Accidentally Correct Zoology or Sure, Let's Go with That is up to the viewer. Possible Fridge Brilliance here. The whole point of A.I. is it can figure things out that the programmer can't. The AI reasoned that they would build a Sleeper Ship to go to another life-supporting planet, and that it would surely have the President and Isherwell on board. It also surmised that such a planet would have a high probability of having large carnivorous animals, and that the President was arrogant and stupid enough to casually approach one. The naming was just a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The A.I. just chose a name that Peter would probably come up with based on his tastes, and Peter named it that because that's what the A.I. called it. Which the A.I. knew he would do!
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Don't Look Up / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Don't Look Up / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs when he makes a similar prediction about the cause of death of President Orlean, which is by being eaten by a "brontoroc"; Isherwell himself has no idea what the term refers to. In the Distant Epilogue set on an exoplanet, shortly after landing she is indeed eaten by an alien creature, which Isherwell decides to dub a "brontoroc." How the algorithm managed to predict the existence of "brontorocs", never mind their name, without the people who programmed it having any idea what they are is left unexplained; whether this should be considered a case of Accidentally Correct Zoology or Sure, Let's Go with That is up to the viewer. Possible Fridge Brilliance here. The whole point of A.I. is it can figure things out that the programmer can't. The AI reasoned that they would build a Sleeper Ship to go to another life-supporting planet, and that it would surely have the President and Isherwell on board. It also surmised that such a planet would have a high probability of having large carnivorous animals, and that the President was arrogant and stupid enough to casually approach one. The naming was just a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The A.I. just chose a name that Peter would probably come up with based on his tastes, and Peter named it that because that's what the A.I. called it. Which the A.I. knew he would do!
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Don't Look Up / int_7a1856ba	type	I Reject Your Reality
Don't Look Up / int_7a1856ba	comment	I Reject Your Reality: It's right there in the title, which In-Universe is a rallying slogan for people to ignore the evidence of their own eyes after the comet becomes visible without the need for a telescope. President Orlean proves to be terrifyingly good at getting people to ignore the dangers of Comet Dibiasky and making them believe in her pie-in-the-sky narrative. After a while, even her most loyal followers eventually realize how close the comet is themselves and start panicking along with everyone else.
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Don't Look Up / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Don't Look Up / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The film focuses on America the Boorish, with President Orlean superficially using patriotic imagery to make herself look good while also making the situation much worse with her blundering.
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Don't Look Up / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Don't Look Up / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Kate Dibiasky to Dr. Randall Mindy: The BASH operation begins, but several drones are destroyed at or fail to launch. Isherwell insists they have enough to complete the operation. Jason then asks how many drones can they afford to lose, but Isherwell is unable to process this until it's too late.
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Don't Look Up / int_7bed2677	type	Super Cell Reception
Don't Look Up / int_7bed2677	comment	Super Cell Reception: Played with. In the post-credits scene, Jason is apparently able to stream himself after he survives the comet, even though Earth is now a post-apocalyptic wasteland without any Internet or cell service. Though considering the type of person Jason is, it is just as likely he wouldn't notice if it wasn't working.
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Don't Look Up / int_82d9561a	type	Remote Vitals Monitoring
Don't Look Up / int_82d9561a	comment	Remote Vitals Monitoring: The thirty drones for the comet mining mission get monitored by Mission Control. We see the failed ones in red on a screen.
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Don't Look Up / int_85cad9bb	type	Earth-Shattering Poster
Don't Look Up / int_85cad9bb	comment	Earth-Shattering Poster: An In-Universe example; The poster for the fictional biopic Total Devastation shows the asteroid going through the Earth.
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Don't Look Up / int_8acd56cf	type	Elite School Means Elite Brain
Don't Look Up / int_8acd56cf	comment	Elite School Means Elite Brain: Inverted. The POTUS' Chief of Staff and son Jason Orlean, an incompetent ninny, makes fun of Randall and Kate for being associated with a "lowly" state university (Michigan State, to be specific), though he's an incompetent ninny in this view is portrayed as totally wrong. Later, after he has scientists from "the prestigious schools of Harvard, Princeton, etcetera" confirm their data about the comet that's about to destroy Earth, he is more willing to accept their science just in time for his mother to utilize it to boost her midterm ratings.
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Don't Look Up / int_8b5801b2	type	Talk Show Appearance
Don't Look Up / int_8b5801b2	comment	Talk Show Appearance: Randall and Kate go on the in-universe talk show The Daily Rip to talk about the approaching comet. Kate's mounting hysteria turns the hosts off, but Randall goes on to make multiple later appearances, even beginning an affair with one of the hosts.
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Don't Look Up / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
Don't Look Up / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: The movie is set six months before a massive comet is set to collide with the Earth. Then it does.
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Don't Look Up / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Don't Look Up / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Isherwell's Sleeper Ship seems to lack many critical and common-sense things that you'd need to colonize and survive on another planet. They land on an alien planet with absolutely zero clothing and no basic tools or weapons, not to mention no children and seemingly no people to do the actual work. And sure, you may have programmed the thing to find an Earth-like planet, but you'll still need to survey the immediate area for wildlife and actually sample the atmosphere before you step outside. This lack of foresight spells doom for Isherwell and his group, with them not only dying just minutes after exiting their ships, but also seeing much gorier and painful deaths than the rest of humanity did millennia prior.
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Don't Look Up / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Don't Look Up / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: As a result of not taking Randall's and Kate's warnings seriously, Isherwell, Orlean and the survivors end up getting what they deserve: becoming Brontoroc food.
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Don't Look Up / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Don't Look Up / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: The film centers around a comet the size of Mt. Everest that will collide with the Earth and cause at least a Class 4. And thanks to the staggering greed, incompetence and complacency of each and every one of the people who could have stopped the comet, it does just that.
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Don't Look Up / int_91e8cd03	type	Apocalypse Wow
Don't Look Up / int_91e8cd03	comment	At one point, Kate says she entered the asteroid's impact date into a diet-tracking app to keep tabs on how much time is left until it hits. In the Apocalypse Wow montage, we see a smartphone that miraculously survived the impact unharmed floating in space, displaying a message congratulating her on completing the diet.
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Don't Look Up / int_92d6af50	type	Truck Driver's Gear Change
Don't Look Up / int_92d6af50	comment	Truck Driver's Gear Change: The parodied Award-Bait Song "Just Look Up" by Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi goes up two semitones for the second chorus.
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Don't Look Up / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Don't Look Up / int_958a7bef	comment	Mindy nervously engages in technical talk when trying to explain the severity of the situation to the president. She interrupts him and demands a Layman's Terms explanation.
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Don't Look Up / int_962b9429	type	Social Media Is Bad
Don't Look Up / int_962b9429	comment	Social Media Is Bad: The movie makes a point about social media distracting people from seeing the real issues.
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Don't Look Up / int_96a2363c	type	Bathos
Don't Look Up / int_96a2363c	comment	Bathos: Most of the humour in the film comes from the fact that nearly every character is incompetent and/or selfish on levels that are horrifyingly real and hilariously exaggerated in equal measure. The peak of it is the ending — after an Apocalypse Wow montage of Earth being destroyed by the comet, we cut to space... and among the debris is Kate's phone cheerfully reporting that her diet is over! To be fair, Kate explicity says that she set the Diet Is Over alarm to be the time of impact.
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Don't Look Up / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Don't Look Up / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Why did General Themes lie and make Kate pay for free snacks?
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Don't Look Up / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Don't Look Up / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: The following duo who stand in the way of the comet's destruction. President Janie Orlean who ignores the humanity-ending threat until solving the problem is convenient for her. Sir Peter Isherwell, who stops the plan to destroy the comet so he can put his far riskier plan to harvest its valuable materials into action.
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Don't Look Up / int_97e48376	type	The Elites Jump Ship
Don't Look Up / int_97e48376	comment	The Elites Jump Ship: The Hate Sink politicians and industrialists who greedily bungled the efforts to destroy a meteor approaching Earth flee in a luxurious starship just before it strikes. They get attacked by alien animals as soon as they land on a new planet.
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Don't Look Up / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Don't Look Up / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Teddy explains to Kate and Randall (and the audience) about the certainly known fact about Russia, India and China having joined forces for a space mission to deflect the comet which then failed.
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Don't Look Up / int_986bd638	type	This Is a Work of Fiction
Don't Look Up / int_986bd638	comment	This Is a Work of Fiction: Parodied in the trailer, which touts the film as being "based on true events... that haven't happened... yet."
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Don't Look Up / int_98b5f82b	comment	Basement-Dweller: Both of Mindy's grown-up sons are still living with them in the house.
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Don't Look Up / int_98f5de00	type	Let Me Get This Straight...
Don't Look Up / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: At the Oval Office, Kate frustratingly summarizes the president's decision:
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Don't Look Up / int_9cb3e22e	comment	Interface Spoiler: When viewing the film on Netflix, it's not difficult to tell how the deflection mission will play out given that it starts when Netflix's runtime counter hasn't even reached the film's halfway point yet.
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Don't Look Up / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Don't Look Up / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: One of the images focused on in Kate's workspace moments before she discovers the comet is a printout of an image macro featuring an astronaut going "Well, shit" as they watch Earth getting destroyed from the Moon. A peek into the Oval Office shows a large portrait of Richard Nixon hung on the wall, hinting at how corrupt the Orlean administration is. The possibility of alien life existing is discussed early in the movie. The fact that it does, indeed, exist is what ends up killing the few who escaped Earth. When trying to question Isherwell about how sound his plan to break up the asteroid is, Mindy notes that the other scientists have noted that the sync rates and explosion calculations for the BEAD devices seem horribly off. When the plan is eventually put into motion, this is exactly how all the remaining BEADs end up failing, only serving to explode themselves and each other.
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Don't Look Up / int_9e062ca3	type	Suicide Mission
Don't Look Up / int_9e062ca3	comment	A montage of people all over the world watching the launch of Drask's Suicide Mission.
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Don't Look Up / int_a0390164	type	It's for a Book
Don't Look Up / int_a0390164	comment	It's for a Book: In response to a worried pedestrian on the street who overheard Kate telling her boyfriend about the impending doom by the comet, Kate tells her they were talking about a video game.
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Don't Look Up / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
Don't Look Up / int_a0797fb3	comment	The scientists at the very beginning of the movie are initially excited to discover the comet. Then they realize that its trajectory will have it collide with the Earth, and everyone falls silent.
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Don't Look Up / int_a20d4674	comment	Technobabble: Mindy nervously engages in technical talk when trying to explain the severity of the situation to the president. She interrupts him and demands a Layman's Terms explanation. Isherwell's sales pitch for his BEAD program is peppered with trendy tech buzzwords like "nano" and "quantum". Whether any of it is genuine or just marketing BS remains unclear.
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Don't Look Up / int_a2340346	type	Friendly Address Privileges
Don't Look Up / int_a2340346	comment	Friendly Address Privileges: Dr. Oglethorpe invites Randall and Kate to call him by his first name Teddy.
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Don't Look Up / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Don't Look Up / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: Played for laughs. Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi's "Just Look Up" (released in-universe as an anthem by their characters, Riley Bina and DJ Chello), is a soaring ballad about The Power of Love ... until the second verse, where Riley tells the audience to get their heads out of their asses and start listening to the experts about the comet that's about to annihilate humanity.
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Don't Look Up / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Don't Look Up / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: When Kate Dibiasky and Randall Mindy realize they've found an undiscovered comet, they throw a party to celebrate her find. And then when Mindy gets to the end of the calculations of its trajectory, he realizes the horrible truth, won't put the final number on the board, and abruptly calls it a night.
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Don't Look Up / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Don't Look Up / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Downplayed for Jason Orlean. The man is an all-around asshole who helped contribute to his mother's role in causing humanity's extinction. Despite that, outside of the super rich who leave the planet, he's the only person we see who survives the comet. However, this fate is certainly far from pleasant as the combination of his stupidity and his new dismal surroundings means he's highly unlikely to live long regardless, doomed to die of thirst, starvation or vengeful survivors. Likewise zig-zagged with Peter Isherwell. His plotting and refusal to listen to others' concerns led to humanity's extinction; both in forcing the abortion of the comet diversion mission that may have solved everything early on, and his neglect in testing the equipment for his own mining operation that ended up becoming humanity's last desperate hope. But he had a backup plan and escaped the planet along with a group of his fellow super-rich elites, finding a planet that can host human life, so he got the last laugh. At least until President Orlean is quickly killed by a local creature, and a good deal of others start approaching his group. Even on the off-chance he manages to survive, there's then the whole matter of if he and others of pampered wealth can survive on a new planet, building from the ground up.
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Don't Look Up / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Don't Look Up / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Brie, vapid morning show co-host, reveals she has three master's degrees.
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Don't Look Up / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Don't Look Up / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: When the FBI captures her on the street, Kate complaints about one of the agents posing as a blind guy.
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Don't Look Up / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Don't Look Up / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: BASH Cellular, Ishwell's tech company. It's based on global tech giants such as Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
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Don't Look Up / int_ab6e01e	type	Clean Cut
Don't Look Up / int_ab6e01e	comment	Clean Cut: Amongst the debris after the comet's impact are several dead humpback whales that were strangely cut clean in half, as if with a giant knife, by the impact.
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Don't Look Up / int_abb930ed	type	Sleeper Starship
Don't Look Up / int_abb930ed	comment	The Sleeper Starship in the epilogue is shown passing dangerously close to a huge black hole and even far outside our galaxy despite traveling for a mere 22,000 years. With the film's technology level being mostly the same as what we have today, this wouldn't be nearly long enough for a spaceship to reach locations in deep space that would offer such perspectives. Rule of Cool is firmly in effect here.
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Don't Look Up / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Don't Look Up / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The film gives us several. The scientists at the very beginning of the movie are initially excited to discover the comet. Then they realize that its trajectory will have it collide with the Earth, and everyone falls silent. We get another when the US mission randomly aborts because of Isherwell. We get a third when we learn that BASH cut the BRIC countries out of the mineral retrieval project, so those same countries launched their own mission, but that mission failed disastrously. Jason has one when he asks how many BASH modules they can afford to lose after seven out of thirty are lost. The words aren't spoken, but his face and the nervous tone in his voice indicate he realized that Isherwell's plan may not actually work. If you pay attention, you can see President Orlean is clearly having one and doing her best to hide it after meeting with Randall and Kate and being informed of the unavoidable asteroid collision. While she can't stop playing the politician and trying to downplay things, towards the end of the scene it's clear she's realized how desperate the situation is. She's barely keeping it together and frantically pawing through her desk to find a pack of cigarettes. Lighting one up visibly helps her regain her composure.
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Don't Look Up / int_ad54ff39	type	Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure
Don't Look Up / int_ad54ff39	comment	Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: Mindy explains to the president that the comet's impact will be of the power of a billion Hiroshima bombs. Kate later puts it at twice the size of the Chicxulub meteor that wiped out the dinosaursnote which isn't entirely correct - going by size alone, they're more or less the same, which is arguably easier to grasp in terms of its threat level.
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Don't Look Up / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Don't Look Up / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Deconstructed. Kate lampshades that her antagonists are too stupid to be evil.
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Don't Look Up / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Don't Look Up / int_b0cd3349	comment	Possible Fridge Brilliance here. The whole point of A.I. is it can figure things out that the programmer can't. The AI reasoned that they would build a Sleeper Ship to go to another life-supporting planet, and that it would surely have the President and Isherwell on board. It also surmised that such a planet would have a high probability of having large carnivorous animals, and that the President was arrogant and stupid enough to casually approach one. The naming was just a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The A.I. just chose a name that Peter would probably come up with based on his tastes, and Peter named it that because that's what the A.I. called it. Which the A.I. knew he would do!
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Don't Look Up / int_b39abd04	type	The Whole World Is Watching
Don't Look Up / int_b39abd04	comment	The Whole World Is Watching: A montage of people all over the world watching the launch of Drask's Suicide Mission. The same happens later, during BASH's drone mission with Mindy and Dibiansky remarking on the empty highway.
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Don't Look Up / int_b3a49cdb	type	Satire
Don't Look Up / int_b3a49cdb	comment	Satire: The entire movie is a satire of the global warming crisis and society's response to it. The approaching comet is a thinly-veiled metaphor for Global Warming, and the heroes who are trying to address the issue are stymied by various short-sighted people out to exploit it for their own interests.
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Don't Look Up / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Don't Look Up / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The film is rife with not just potshots at the Trump administration, but at society in general and how we desire even awful news to be delivered in a lighthearted and comforting manner rather than directly face real problems that could doom everyone. It's rare in that it also takes shots at political centrists.
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Don't Look Up / int_b8245de7	type	Academia Elitism
Don't Look Up / int_b8245de7	comment	Academia Elitism: The POTUS's bumbling Chief-Of-Staff sneers at Randall and Kate's research because they are from the "less prestigious" Michigan State University while he is Ivy League educated. He also attempts to discredit them by suggesting that if they were really as clever as they think, they would be affiliated with better schools. When he gets the results repeated by Harvard, Yale, and Princeton scientists, he's much quicker to believe them (even though, by then, their options are narrowing).
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Don't Look Up / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
Don't Look Up / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Kate's response to learning that their meeting with the president had been adjourned after having waited seven hours already at the White House lobby.
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Don't Look Up / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Don't Look Up / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Viciously deconstructed as the consistent refusal to listen to Randall, Kate, and Teddy ends up dooming the human race to extinction.
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Don't Look Up / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Don't Look Up / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Randall during his rant on live TV:
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Don't Look Up / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
Don't Look Up / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: Jason is his mother's right hand man and likes making inappropriate sexual or sexualized comments about her. Though she isn't shown to reciprocate, she also doesn't seem to mind.
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Don't Look Up / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Don't Look Up / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The three/four main women in Randall Mindy's life. His wife June is brunette, his mistress Brie is blonde (as is his boss President Orlean), and his grad student Kate is red-haired.
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Don't Look Up / int_bfb5f597	type	Money Is Not Power
Don't Look Up / int_bfb5f597	comment	Money Is Not Power: Most, if not all, of the human survivors in Isherwell's Sleeper Starship consist of his and President Orlean's wealthy allies, titans of finance and industry. Because of this, they likely have few or no practical skills useful for survival. Having spent most of their lives using connections and money to get their way, they only can watch helplessly as a pack of flightless alien birds attacks them seconds after they disembark. It might even be considered Laser-Guided Karma because all of these people were arguably responsible to one degree or another for Earth's destruction because of their greed. Also, The Stinger reveals that Jason somehow managed to survive the apocalypse, but as he's also a rich idiot and he stands alone amidst the devastation with a dumbfounded expression with no food, water or shelter in sight, he probably won't last long either.
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Don't Look Up / int_bfc7d0a3	type	Climate Change Allegory
Don't Look Up / int_bfc7d0a3	comment	Climate Change Allegory: The film is extremely overt in drawing parallels between the apathetic reaction to the comet and the real-life response of politicians and pundits to the devastating effects of climate change.
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Don't Look Up / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Don't Look Up / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Benedict Drask's mission takes off with only a few minor hitches, with NASA proclaiming that everything is well within the margin of error. But then the rockets suddenly turn back...
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Don't Look Up / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Don't Look Up / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Cate Blanchett receives the "with" billing while Meryl Streep receives the "and" billing.
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Don't Look Up / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Don't Look Up / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: The comet is a threat to the whole Earth, and yet the USA is the only country able to do anything. It takes months after Isherwell's plan is revealed for any other country to even consider doing anything themselves, and even then it takes Russia, China and India combined to replicate the USA's original plan (something that they had needed basically zero preparation to do). And while the American attempt was shown to be going remarkably well, with the implication it would have worked if it wasn't called back, their attempt fails. And they can't attempt it a second time, and no other country can. Even worse when you consider that Isherwell's plan, a complete disaster, is still more successful than that by virtue of at least making it to space. Considering how viciously the film parodies other aspects of American culture, it's jarring to see this one played straight. In fairness, there are hints that Isherwell is actively sabotaging other parties to monopolize the resources of the comet.
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Don't Look Up / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Don't Look Up / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The mid-credits scene has everyone who survived and landed on the distant planet butt-naked. The survivors are mostly middle-aged and elderly people who are not in the best of shape.
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Don't Look Up / int_c6a70ec5	type	Apocalyptic Gag Order
Don't Look Up / int_c6a70ec5	comment	Apocalyptic Gag Order: President Orlean orders Mindy and Dibiasky to keep quiet on the comet until after the midterm elections. Obviously, they decide leaking news of The End of the World as We Know It is more important, but thanks to the media having the Worst News Judgment Ever, nobody takes them seriously until scientists from more prestigious universities verify their discovery. When Kate reveals to the public that the president aborted the mission to deflect the comet so her donor's company could mine it for trillions of dollars worth of minerals, she's kidnapped by the FBI and forced to sign a gag order. Later on, after he grows disillusioned with BASH's plan and has a breakdown on live TV, Mindy gets a similar order to sign.
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Don't Look Up / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Don't Look Up / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Mindy's on-air rant along with the shooting style and DiCaprio's performance recalls Howard Beale's "I'm mad as hell" monologue from Network. Kate at one point refers to Mindy as "Doc". The soundtrack takes several cues from Jean-Michel Jarre's Cosmos. Dr. Oglethorpe is misnamed as "Ogilvy" at one point. In War of the Worlds Ogilvy was the name of the astronomer who first detected the incoming Martian cylinders.
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Don't Look Up / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Don't Look Up / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: As quoted up top, Mindy snaps on national television about how his and Kate's warnings about the comet are either downplayed, not taken seriously or just plain ignored, despite scientific evidence and the fact that everyone has seen it in some way and talked about it on social media. What's worse is that the President is doing everything she can to keep things quiet, including firing and silencing him and other scientists and ditching their initial plan to deflect the comet with a less effective alternative. He begs the viewers to listen, but his words fall on deaf ears and is instead chewed out.
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Don't Look Up / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
Don't Look Up / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: Right before appearing on the morning show, one of Mindy's sons assures his mother that Mindy is having everything under control. Cut to Mindy on a toilet hyperventilating.
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Don't Look Up / int_ca5d7b66	comment	Pre-Climax Climax: Kate decides to make out with Yule because the world is gonna end soon anyway.
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Don't Look Up / int_cccfa535	type	Blindfolded Trip
Don't Look Up / int_cccfa535	comment	Kate and Randall find themselves handcuffed in the backs of cars with bags over their heads at various points in the film, constantly speculating about the motivation for doing such a thing.
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Don't Look Up / int_cd8aa3e8	type	Smoking Is Glamorous
Don't Look Up / int_cd8aa3e8	comment	Smoking Is Glamorous: The president manages to spin public opinion on smoking and opening poses smoking a cigarette on the cover of a magazine.
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Don't Look Up / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Don't Look Up / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To Armageddon (1998), where instead of humanity working together to stop a meteor from wiping out the Earth, it is instead divided on the issue and the powers that be waste precious time squabbling over it. Also, instead of the main heroes meat-headed Action Heroes who save the day Hollywood-style, they are Ignored Experts who fail to do so. It's also one to Deep Impact, which it shares similar plot beats with such as an apathetic world populace, political drama, and frustrated scientists who first discover the comet, but all amped to farcical levels. The key difference however is that despite all drama, the comet in Deep Impact is destroyed and the world is saved, while the comet in Don't Look Up isn't and everyone dies.
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Don't Look Up / int_cf16cfa9	comment	Golden Mean Fallacy: In-Universe, the director of the Total Devastation movie shows off his button with an up and down arrow, and explains how he wants to get beyond all of the polarization between the Just Look Up and Don't Look Up factions, and how his movie is a mindless popcorn movie that both sides can enjoy. The interviewer compliments his inspiring attitude, but it obviously comes off as a cynical cash grab that argues that the people worried about the impending end of the world shouldn't get so worked up about those who refuse to look at the comet and just think of the potential profits.
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Don't Look Up / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Randall and Kate's news about the comet is initially taken seriously, but the White House's spin machine is effective enough, and the media's disinterest powerful enough, that people start out disbelieving the danger or viewing it as a hoax. It's not until another scandal gets big enough that the White House needs something to distract attention from that that people take the threat seriously.
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Don't Look Up / int_d04d14a5	comment	Everybody Hates Mathematics: Randall isn't thrilled by how Teddy asks him to present his and Kate's findings, possibly because he's not fond of this trope.
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Don't Look Up / int_d10d5eb5	comment	Made of Indestructium: If the epilogue and the credits are supposed to be taken literally rather than metaphorically, a good chunk of items relating to the main cast (i.e. Randall's glasses, Kate's phone and cashier ID)somehow survived the destruction of Earth and the deaths of their owners, and are now floating relatively intact, even activated, in space. Other Earth items can also be seen floating in space relatively undamaged.
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Don't Look Up / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Don't Look Up / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the BASH mission fails, everyone in Mission Control immediately leaves so they can be with their loved ones in their final moments. Similarly, mere moments before, Peter Isherwell and President Orlean both immediately leave the room for their escape ship upon realizing that the mission has failed and they are all totally fucked. From the other side, after one too many instances of being ignored, mocked, and then handcuffed with a bag over her head, Kate Dibiasky signs an NDA, disappears from the public sphere, quits her PhD and takes up a retail job. Randall Mindy stays on a little longer, but even he eventually reaches his breaking point and gives up.
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Don't Look Up / int_dc3d72e6	comment	Something We Forgot: The president leaves BASH Mission Control for the emergency Sleeper Ship but forgets to take her son which she only realizes on her flight to the launch site.
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Don't Look Up / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: The failure of Russia, China, and India's joint program to stop the comet makes the main characters lose hope of any chance of realistically saving the planet.
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Don't Look Up / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
Don't Look Up / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: After a tight, slow motion reaction shot of Dibiasky's face as the house crumbles around her, the viewer is treated to a Jump Scare: an up-close view of the comet hitting you.
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Don't Look Up / int_e3585b3d	comment	No Party Given: President Orlean. Director Adam McKay intentionally kept it vague, saying "I don't think either party has much to be proud about over the last 40 years". While much of the film has her acting like a Donald Trump stand-in, there are a few clues that indicate she might be a Democrat, such as a photo of her hugging Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, and she also bears an uncanny resemblance to obstructionist corporate Democrat Kyrsten Sinema.
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Don't Look Up / int_e5421161	comment	Near the end of the film, the Fox News Expy insists that the most talked-about story is... topless urgent care centers.
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Don't Look Up / int_e5a93e61	type	Homeworld Evacuation
Don't Look Up / int_e5a93e61	comment	Homeworld Evacuation: Orlean and Isherwell's Plan B is to evacuate themselves and 2,000 people off the planet and onto another one in the Goldilocks zone via a Sleeper Starship. The Stinger then Deconstructs this trope: when the ship arrives, several of the landers fail and burn up in orbit, while the others successfully set foot on another world, and are promptly eaten by the local wildlife, having failed to bring any supplies or clothing whatsoever with them.
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Don't Look Up / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The audience can't hate the comet that causes the disaster in the end, as it is a force of nature, but they can hate Isherwell, the Orlean administration and the other higher-ups for their apathy, ignorance, in general, being a bunch of dumbasses.
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Don't Look Up / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
Don't Look Up / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: The three heroic scientists. The hot-headed and emotional Kate is the id. The always kindly, placid Teddy is the superego. Randall is the ego who starts off embodying both Kate's high emotional instability and Teddy's even-tempered rationality.
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Don't Look Up / int_e96fe76d	type	Hobbes Was Right
Don't Look Up / int_e96fe76d	comment	Hobbes Was Right: In the most nihilistic way... and ultimately subverts what Hobbes was driving at, since the self-interested authoritarian assholes are the ones who end up dooming humanity.
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Don't Look Up / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: General Themes is given a shade of this when Kate discovers that he charged her money for free snacks available at the White House.
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Don't Look Up / int_edd00feb	comment	Sistine Steal: During the phone presentation, a screened BASH animation shows an image of god handing a Bash phone to the human.
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Don't Look Up / int_ef54d219	type	Footsie Under the Table
Don't Look Up / int_ef54d219	comment	Footsie Under the Table: Brie touches Randall provocatively under the table during the morning show.
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Don't Look Up / int_f4869601	type	Foreboding Fleeing Flock
Don't Look Up / int_f4869601	comment	Foreboding Fleeing Flock: Scenes of fleeing deer, a bear raiding a supermarket, and otters acting strangely are shown before the comet hits Earth.
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Don't Look Up / int_f7040ef0	type	Trumplica
Don't Look Up / int_f7040ef0	comment	President Orlean is a Trumplica, and scandals associated with her mirror some of the real scandals from Donald Trump's presidency. The problems surrounding her Supreme Court nomination, for instance, is something of an amalgamation of the scandals surrounding Trump's support for Joe Arpaio (a controversial sheriff) and Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh (a nominee plagued by allegations of sexual misconduct).
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Don't Look Up / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Kate simply cannot let go of the fact that General Themes charged them for the free White House snacks at the beginning of the movie, mystified by the strange act of pettiness. She keeps bringing it up at various points in the film. Kate and Randall find themselves handcuffed in the backs of cars with bags over their heads at various points in the film, constantly speculating about the motivation for doing such a thing.
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Don't Look Up / int_fb732731	type	FilmWithinAFilm
Don't Look Up / int_fb732731	comment	Film Within a Film: The movie features Total Devastation which fictionalizes the impending apocalypse.
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Don't Look Up / int_fd76df83	type	Artistic License â€“ Economics
Don't Look Up / int_fd76df83	comment	Artistic License â€“ Economics: The deflection mission is cancelled because Isherwell discovers that the comet has $140 trillion worth of rare earth minerals. However, introducing so many tons of ore would cause prices to plummet, meaning they wouldn't get as rich as they think they would. Then again, Isherwell and Orlean are too stupid and short-sighted to realize this.
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Don't Look Up / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Don't Look Up / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Isherwell tells President Orlean that his algorithm says that she'll die being eaten by something called a "brontoroc," which baffles the both of them. Sure enough, in the Distant Epilogue, she gets eaten by an alien creature that Isherwell dubs a "brontoroc". At one point, Kate says she entered the asteroid's impact date into a diet-tracking app to keep tabs on how much time is left until it hits. In the Apocalypse Wow montage, we see a smartphone that miraculously survived the impact unharmed floating in space, displaying a message congratulating her on completing the diet.
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Don't Look Up / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Don't Look Up / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: A US general scams the scientists out of about fifty bucks in the first few minutes of the movie. Kate keeps coming back to this throughout the movie, struggling to understand such pointlessly petty act. Jason constantly tormenting Kate.
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Don't Look Up / int_ff7b34f9	type	Strawman News Media
Don't Look Up / int_ff7b34f9	comment	Strawman News Media: Kate at one point goes on what appears to be a Fox News Channel stand-in, with highly patriotic imagery in the backdrop, whose hosts snidely dismiss her claims with the implication that she's getting some kind of benefit from belief in the comet because she discovered it and it's named for her.
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Don't Look Up / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: When the comet is visible to the naked eye, it has the two tails typical of comets.
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