Sleeper Trivia

1. When the scientists first discover Woody Allen's character, Miles Monroe, in cryogenic freeze, what is covering his body?

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Answer: aluminum foil

They have to peel layers of it away from his entire body. The big gag at this point is when they unroll the foil from around his glasses, revealing his face. Miles had originally entered the hospital for an ulcer operation, but somehow--it's not made clear how in the film--ends up frozen at an immortality institution.

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Answer: tinfoil

He was wrapped in tinfoil or aluminum foil. Miles had been admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital for a routine exploration of a peptic ulcer. Complications set in and he was admitted for cryogenic immersion by his cousin. The scientists removed him from his capsule and delicately removed the tinfoil covering. It was also funny to see that he had been frozen with his glasses on.

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Answer: He was mayor of New York.

Bela Lugosi was a famous horror movie actor who played Dracula. Miles is also shown pictures of Stalin, Charles DeGaulle and a video of Howard Cosell as well. When he is shown a Playboy centerfold, he offers to keep it for a more thorough viewing. It's never explained in the film why the scientists don't know who these people are, but it makes for a great comedic effect.

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Answer: clarinet

Miles was a clarinet player for the Ragtime Rascals. Woody Allen does play the clarinet in real life and played with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band for the soundtrack of this film.

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Answer: The Happy Carrot

He comments, at dinner, that futuristic food tastes so bad he should sell it in his store. Some of the breakfast items he requests are wheat germ and organic honey. Instead the give him deep fried fatty foods and fudge which, in the future, are considered healthy.

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Answer: health food restaurant owner

The scientists who revived Miles received all of their information from a data card enclosed in the capsule. It said he was part owner of the Happy Carrot Health Food Restaurant. As you come to find out later in the film, the concept of health food changed somewhat in the future.

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Answer: Writes poetry

She has sold several poems, including greeting cards. Her boyfriend in the film compares her to poet Rod McKuen.

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Answer: wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk

Miles requested wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk as those were the types of food that were supposed to contain life-preserving properties. One of the scientists said "You mean there was no deep fat, steak, cream pies or fudge?" The other scientist remarked "Those were thought to be unhealthy, precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true." Also, future scientists believed that tobacco was one of the healthiest things for your body.

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Answer: Erno

Erno is played by John Beck, who also plays Moonpie in the science fiction film "Rollerball." At one point Miles tells Luna that Erno is away from camp "taking his handsome lessons". He's a tall guy with a big moustache and "wall-to-wall muscles" according to Miles.

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Answer: H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells wrote many science fiction novels around the turn of the twentieth century, including "The Invisible Man" and "War Of The Worlds." Of course, the interpretation of "The Sleeper Awakes" is a loose interpretation! Allen really did call on some of the science fiction giants of the day for script ideas, including Issac Asimov and Ben Bova.

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Answer: Howard Cosell

They were watching a clip of Howard Cosell talking about Muhammad Ali. The scientist surmised that when citizens of the 20th century were found guilty of committing a crime against the state, they were forced to watch Howard Cosell. Miles said "Yes, that's exactly what that was."

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Answer: Albert Shanker

In real life, Shanker was the head of the American Federation of Teachers at the time. What a hilarious play on Allen's indictment of the education system! There was no more information given in the movie about the character of Shanker.

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Answer: The Aries Project

Miles was the perfect candidate for gaining access to the administration since he had emerged into this future society without an electronic identity. Everyone else had been cataloged, fingerprinted, photographed, voice-printed and computerized. Miles was not amenable to the idea, particularly since it might involve torture. He said that he was not the heroic type and that he was once beaten up by Quakers.

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Answer: A Volkswagen Beetle

It's in pretty good shape, despite centuries of cave dust and being covered in piles of tree limbs. To get up enough strength to push the yellow "slug bug", Miles and Luna eat a meal of giant celery and bananas the size of surfboards!

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Answer: Volkswagen

Administration security was on to Miles. Miles escaped disguised as a robot in the back of a Domesticon van. He was delivered to the home of Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) where he posed as a domestic servant. Luna tried to turn Miles into the police but the plan backfired. Luna had been corrupted by having spent too much time with (the alien) Miles. They escaped together and found a 200-year-old Volkswagen in a cave. Remarkably, it started the first time. Miles said "They really built these things, didn't they?"

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Answer: Rags

Miles is concerned that the robot dog is housebroken, and thus won't leave little batteries laying around. Miles doesn't have enough time in yet for his own android!

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Answer: a plan to clone the leader from his nose

The future society's leader had been killed by a bomb planted by the underground and the only part of him left was his nose. The plan was to clone the leader from his nose. On "Aries Day" the most prominent scientists and doctors assembled for the operation for the purpose of cloning their leader.

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Answer: The Aires Project

The project involves cloning a new leader from the leader's nose, which is the only thing left after he is killed by a bomb. Miles and Luna have to infiltrate the research facility and steal the nose. At one point Miles hides it under his surgeon's mask! They end up destroying the nose by throwing it underneath a steam roller.

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