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Rodney mentions the movie in which Tyrone Power played the Geek.

When Jonas Nightingale (Steve Martin) 'cold reads' the police officer that pulled the bus over it's extremely similar to the scene when Stan (Tyrone Power) does the same with the Sheriff that wants to shut down the Carnival.

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As an inspiration to documentary subject Joe Coleman.

The carnival shots are direct replicas of the carnival in this classic Film Noir that inspired Bob Dylan's own "Ballad of a Thin Man," in particular the verse about the "geek"...later shots particularly in the "Mr. Jones" (Bruce Greenwood) sequence, set to Ballad of a Thin Man, replicate Tyrone Power's descent into madness and eventual "Geekdom."