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The Cube

157 statements
29 feature instances
10 referencing feature instances

The Cube	type	TVTItem
The Cube	label	The Cube
The Cube	page	TheCube
The Cube	comment	The Cube was an hour-long teleplay that aired on NBC's weekly show NBC Experiment in Television on February 23, 1969. The production was produced and directed by puppeteer Jim Henson, the screenplay co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl (who also appears in a cameo).The story follows Richard Schaal as a man trapped in a cubical white room that anyone else could enter and leave, but which he himself apparently could not leave. The main character, simply named The Man in The Cube, is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters as a variety of people come through various hidden doors. But as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it.Not to be confused with Cube.
The Cube	fetched	2023-08-30T00:15:05Z
The Cube	parsed	2023-08-30T00:15:05Z
The Cube	processingComment	Dropped link to SesameStreet: Not a Feature - ITEM
The Cube	processingComment	Dropped link to shapeshifter: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
The Cube	processingUnknown	shapeshifter
The Cube	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Cube	sameAs	http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Cube_(1969_film)
The Cube / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Cube / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Near the end, the Manager opens a door and tells him he can leave, and the man refuses to believe it isn't yet another trick.
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The Cube / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Cube / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Muppet performer Jerry Nelson appears onscreen as a monk. While the Man is being shown the end of the teleplay on a TV set, we see the names of both Joe Raposo (one of Sesame Street 's songwriters and music composers) and Don Sahlin (Jim Henson's original Muppet builder) scroll during the closing credits. Neither of them actually worked on the actual special, though. Muppet/Henson writer Jerry Juhl (who also co-wrote this film) appears in a party scene, where he can be heard talking shop with others about the film itself; "I didn't care for the ending."
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The Cube / int_1bcfe069	type	Absurdism
The Cube / int_1bcfe069	comment	Absurdism: This is probably one of the best examples ever found on American television.
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The Cube / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
The Cube / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: The man finds out in the last minute that his escape was an illusion and he's still in the cube.
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The Cube / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Cube / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: The Man in The Cube, at we seem to think so until the Mind Screw kicks in both in-universe and out.
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The Cube	hasFeature	The Cube / int_24321e44
The Cube / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
The Cube / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: It's never shown what the character was doing before he appeared in the cube. In the end, it seems he only exists inside of the cube.
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The Cube / int_2bc0fc4d	type	Ice-Cream Koan
The Cube / int_2bc0fc4d	comment	Ice-Cream Koan: Said by the monk. "All is all. What is, is."
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The Cube / int_3a3489f	type	Fourth-Wall Observer
The Cube / int_3a3489f	comment	Fourth-Wall Observer: One visitor is a film critic who tells the man that he's just a character in a teleplay, and produces a TV to show him the ending.
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The Cube / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Cube / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The man tries to commit suicide by the end, but the gun he's provided with just squirts ink at his head, upon which every character seen so far all show up and laugh at him.
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The Cube / int_7089d02e	type	All Germans Are Nazis
The Cube / int_7089d02e	comment	All Germans Are Nazis: The two Munich police officers seem to be wearing altered SS uniforms.
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The Cube / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
The Cube / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: Furniture appears and disappears when the man's back is turned suggesting they are being moved when he's not looking. Of course it could just be his mind.
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The Cube / int_7b144404	type	Mental World
The Cube / int_7b144404	comment	Mental World: Suggested by the film critic, and also by the band's opening verse, "You're really in the middle of the inside of yourself."
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The Cube / int_932da128	type	Monster Clown
The Cube / int_932da128	comment	Monster Clown: Two comedians with clown make-up who like everybody else in the film are menacing, unsettling and malicious.
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The Cube / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Cube / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Used by the 'people' as a jarring a effect to further fluster and confuse the Man in The Cube.
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The Cube / int_a5adbbe7	type	Unreliable Expositor
The Cube / int_a5adbbe7	comment	Unreliable Expositor: Pretty much everyone, given how they all contradict each other.
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The Cube / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
The Cube / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: The protagonist is so flabbergasted by his circumstances, coupled with the confidence of his visitors, that he submits to their logic fairly quickly and doesn't attempt to force his way past them and exit through their doors. When the dark-skinned visitor encourages him to get out, the protagonist says he can't, because it's not his door.
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The Cube / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Cube / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: One possible interpretation of the ending — the man will be stuck in the Cube being tormented by his visitors until the end of time.
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The Cube / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
The Cube / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Groundhog Day" Loop: Implied by the strawberry jam on the stool, which is the same stool that the man broke the Ramadar with.
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The Cube / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
The Cube / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: The protagonist is not given any time between strange encounter after strange encounter, just to make matters worse for him.
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The Cube / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Cube / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: For both the man and the viewer. Who is the man? What is the cube, and why is he in it?
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The Cube / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
The Cube / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: The protagonist cuts himself and tastes his own blood. It's Strawberry Jam.
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The Cube / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Cube / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The Man comes very close to going crazy, but in the end, he appears to leave The Cube through a door, only to be led to a completely different room which turns out to also be The Cube.
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The Cube / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Cube / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The character. One visitor calls him "Ted", a name he denies is his. The original script gives the man's name as Martin.
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The Cube / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
The Cube / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Completely subverted, which is odd, given that this was still a couple of years or so before edgier television programming was the norm. "Hell" and "damn" are spoken.
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The Cube / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
The Cube / int_d6b5863	comment	Driven to Madness: The man is constantly in danger of losing his sanity.
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The Cube / int_db8ace03	type	Epiphanic Prison
The Cube / int_db8ace03	comment	Epiphanic Prison: The only way out is to figure out what the cube is all about. (Maybe.)
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The Cube / int_fab3b838	type	Everything Is Racist
The Cube / int_fab3b838	comment	Everything Is Racist: Invoked with one visitor, who is black, and expresses that he liked the Cube very much, and even has one of his own, but there is one problem he has with it: it's all white.
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The Cube / int_fec2b522	type	Happy Ending
The Cube / int_fec2b522	comment	Happy Ending: Discussed and subverted. The film critic shows the man the play's ending in advance — the man's healthy, happy, and even got the girl... but he's still in the cube. And to top it off, he doesn't actually want the girl. The play eventually ends on a cruel note, with the man escaping the cube only to find himself back inside just before the credits roll.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Colme	seeAlso	The Cube
The Cube	hasFeature	Definite Article Title / int_bac47f8c
The Cube	hasFeature	Driven to Madness / int_bac47f8c
The Cube	hasFeature	Epiphanic Prison / int_bac47f8c
The Cube	hasFeature	Everything Is Racist / int_bac47f8c
The Cube	hasFeature	Fourth-Wall Observer / int_bac47f8c
The Cube	hasFeature	Putting on the Reich / int_bac47f8c
TheCube	seeAlso	The Cube
The Cube	hasFeature	The Game Never Stopped / int_bac47f8c
The Cube	hasFeature	You Wake Up in a Room / int_bac47f8c

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