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Bored of the Rings
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An, and possibly the, outrageous parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings written by Henry Beard and Douglas Kenney and published in 1969 by the staff of the Harvard University humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon. (The members of which, not coincidentally, would go on several years later to found The National Lampoon magazine.)Produced during the first wave of Tolkien's popularity, when LOTR fandom was a hallmark of the counterculture, Bored draws a deliberate parallel to the contrast between LOTR's epic, almost academic, style and the bohemians and hippies who typified its fans at the time. In part BOTR accomplishes this by slavishly mimicking the form of the book, both in content and in physical layout — the original◊ paperback edition copied the design of the first authorized Tolkien paperbacks published in the United States, right down to the back-cover note warning of the unauthorized editions which had been previously published. However, draped over this superficially Tolkienian framework is an over-the-top and frequently hallucinogenic tale that twists every element of The Lord of the Rings into something ridiculous yet still recognizable.The book manages to find and skewer all the high points of Tolkien's magnum opus with considerable alacrity. In the first few chapters we meet a bevy of under-impressive characters, including: Dildo Bugger, finder of the Great Ring. Goodgulf Greyteeth, a self-proclaimed "wizard" whose only mastery of magic is legerdemainnote skillful use of one's hands when performing conjuring tricks. Frito Bugger, nephew of Dildo. Spam Gangree, his half-witted manservant. Moxie and Pepsi Dingleberry, twin morons. Arrowroot, the weak-chinned and bucktoothed ranger who is the heir to the throne of Twodor. But he goes by many names. Bromosel, son of Benelux, Steward of Twodor. Gimlet, son of Groin, a deformed dwarf. Legolam, an acerbic elf.Together they make up a fellowship intended to see to the destruction of the Great Ring (of elvish design but manufactured by Sorhed under license), a fellowship which sets forth across the nations of Lower Middle Earth with the dark land of Fordor as its goal, bickering and sniping at each other all the way. Although no one in this story is anywhere close to competent, the fate of the world (or something) depends on their quest being successful.In a sense, it is one continuous novel-length example of Sophisticated as Hell.A Video Game inspired by, but not based directly on the book, was released in 1985. | |
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Look Behind You | |
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Look Behind You: When Frito wants to distract Goddam, he points at the sky and says: "Look! The Winged Victory of Samothrace!" | |
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Dirty Coward | |
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Dirty Coward: Everyone, except maybe Eorache. Goodgulf and Arrowroot even hide during the massive battles of Serutanland and Minas Troney, respectively. | |
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Second-Hand Storytelling: Subverted by Goodgulf, who deliberately skips the stuff his listeners really want to hear — like how he survived plunging into a chasm with a Ballhog. | |
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Abnormal Ammo | |
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Abnormal Ammo: During the siege of Minas Troney, the enemy uses "flaming matzoh balls, high velocity dog yummies, and the collected works of Rod McKuen." Horrible indeed. | |
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ISO Standard Fantasy Setting: Subverted, in the first parody thereof, by all manner of "foreign" elements and intrusions. There are Elves and dragons and magic swords, but there are also frag grenades, Nehru jackets, snub-nosed .38s, and Browning semi-automatics. | |
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Our Elves Are Different | |
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Our Elves Are Different: Parodied — wood elves are tacky low-lives who run tourist traps, and high elves are effectively white trash with delusions of grandeur. | |
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Non-Verbal Miscommunication | |
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Nonverbal Miscommunication: When the "tall, dark Ranger" tries to use Hand Signals to tell Frito to meet him in the men's room in five minutes, several onlookers think he's trying to play a game of Charades and start calling out "Famous saying?" and "Sounds like!" | |
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The Time of Myths | |
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The Time of Myths: All but explicitly called that in the prologue, but judging from the pop culture references, not so much. The setting is a strange mixture of medieval elements, such as mounted warriors with swords, and modern technology, such as frag grenades and Dildo's snub-nosed .38. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Frito. Not that that's saying much, but he at least wants to destroy the ring and is generally kind to everyone. | |
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Arcadia | |
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Arcadia: Subverted by The Stye, home of the Boggies. As the name implies, it's a disgusting, run-down shithole populated by morons and lowlives. | |
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Line in the Sand | |
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Line in the Sand: As the Army of the West approaches the Gates of Fordor, many start to desert. Finally Arrowroot decides to shame them into being courageous. | |
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Toll Booth Antics | |
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Toll Booth Antics: The Riv'n'Dell Elves stop the Black Riders chasing Frito by means of a toll booth that charges an exorbitant toll from anyone who fits the "black rider" description. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: The endless plant/vegetable puns that lace every sentence uttered by Birdseye, Lord of the Vee-Ates. | |
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Amazonian Beauty | |
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Amazonian Beauty: Eorache. Arrowroot takes one look at her beefy charms and falls hopelessly in love with her. She finds him annoying, but eventually they get hitched, mostly because Arrowroot becomes king of Twodor. | |
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Performer Guise | |
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Performer Guise: After Sorhed was defeated at the Battle of Brylopad, he and the Nine Nozdrul slipped out of the mopping-up cleverly disguised as a troupe of gypsy acrobatic dancers. | |
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Liquid Courage | |
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Liquid Courage: The only reason Arrowroot's army follows him to the Black Gate is because they're still drunk after their celebration of their victory at Minas Troney. But they sober up very quickly once Sorhed's armies appear (see Line in the Sand, above). | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: Numerous examples, most notably the overarching contrast between mimicking Tolkien's form while writing deliberately outrageous material. | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: Spoofed in the prologue where, after the answer to "What have I got in my pocket?" is demonstrated to be a .38 pistol, the thought behind "pity stayed his hand" is revealed as "It's a pity I've run out of bullets." | |
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Magic from Technology | |
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Magic from Technology: Three Rings of Power had to be recalled because they "tended to short out in the rain and fry one's fingers off". | |
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TrailersAlwaysLie | |
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Trailers Always Lie: On the flyleaf of the paperback is a passage allegedly from later in the book in which a beautiful, lusty elf maiden is about to seduce Frito. Naturally, it appears nowhere else. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: Arrowroot murders Farahslax so as to have Eorache to himself. | |
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Narration Echo | |
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Narration Echo: Oh boy, they LOVE this one: Lampshaded near the beginning of the book: Another early example: Much later: | |
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Fourth-Wall Observer | |
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Fourth-Wall Observer: Bromosel, who has been told in a prophetic dream that he will "cash in [his] chips around page eighty-eight," will periodically check the page number — or look across the page to the half of the book still remaining in the reader's right hand — just to see how much longer he has to stay in this stupid story. (In the original paperback edition, he doesn't actually buy the farm until p. 96.) | |
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You Shall Not Pass! | |
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You Shall Not Pass!: Parodied; Goodgulf tries to hold a rope bridge, but the Fellowship, knowing he's completely incompetent, chops it down while he's on it. | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall: Not only are the characters aware they're in a book, they wish the reader would just hurry up and finish so they can get on with something — anything — else. Even dying. | |
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Artifact of Doom | |
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Artifact of Doom: The Great Ring, forged by Sorhed to conquer the world. | |
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Black Speech | |
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Black Speech: The language of Fordor and Sorhed; parodied by being essentially doggerel constructed from 1960s pop cultural references. | |
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Mr. Alt Disney | |
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Mr. Alt Disney: Serutan, with his Dicky Dragon amusement park and merchandise. At one point in the past, Goodgulf was his business partner, but their relationship soured due to Serutan becoming more greedy (at least, according to Goodgulf). | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: Lampshaded. Gwahno the eagle, who arrives just in time to save Frito and Spam after the Ring is destroyed, is actually labeled "Deus Ex Machina Airlines". | |
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Sibling Team | |
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Sibling Team: Both subverted and strangely embodied by Moxie and Pepsi. At first, they don't so much kick asses as act like them, but later on they cleverly escape from the Narcs and call down the wrath of the Vee-Ates on Serutan's forces. | |
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Narrative Poem | |
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Narrative Poem: Numerous, often very witty, parodies of the original songs and poems. Perhaps the most memorable is the story of the elf-maiden Nesselrode, who is supposedly betrayed and turned into a river by her lover Menthol. After hearing the story from Legolam, Frito inquires further: | |
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Ancestral Weapon | |
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Ancestral Weapon: Krona, Arrowroot's sword, is the ancestral blade of the true kings of Twodor. In practice, it's not a very impressive weapon, since the blade slides off the hilt when Arrowroot tries to wield it against the Nozdrul. | |
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Vagueness Is Coming | |
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Vagueness Is Coming: Goodgulf tries to warn Dildo with a series of portentous statements, going from "Evil Ones are afoot in the lands" to "There is a dog in the manger." It takes several rounds of these, until Goodgulf is practically screaming "Doom is here!", before Dildo catches on. | |
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Volleying Insults | |
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Volleying Insults: Gimlet and Legolam frequently trade lame epithets. | |
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Always Chaotic Evil | |
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Always Chaotic Evil: The Narcs, being parodies of orcs. They love carnage and destruction, and routinely fight amongst themselves. | |
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When Trees Attack | |
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When Trees Attack: Subverted by Lord Birdseye and the Vee-Ates, who are not trees but giant vegetables. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Heroic Fantasy: Averted by possibly the first parody of the genre. The fantastic world of Lower Middle Earth is an absolute craphole, and our "heroes" are all cowardly jackasses who'd happily sell each other out to save their own hides. | |
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TruthSerum | |
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Truth Serum: Goodgulf resorted to "one of his secret potions (probably sodium pentothal)" to get Dildo to reveal how he acquired the Ring. | |
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The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much | |
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The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: The death of the last king of Twodor — in which he allegedly threw himself backwards onto several dozen knives and forks — and the series of "suicides" in "imitation" of his method amongst the other nobles of Minas Troney. Benelux, the steward, leapt into a burning pyre after "ingeniously tying himself up". | |
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Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age | |
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Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age: Subverted: | |
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Cosmopolitan Council | |
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Cosmopolitan Council: Orlon's council at Riv'n'dell is made up of Boggies, humans, Elves, and Dwarves. It's not that inspiring in practice however, since all of these races are equally moronic in this setting. | |
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Rhyming Wizardry | |
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Rhyming Wizardry: Goodgulf has quite a lot of these, e.g.: "Hocus-pocus / Loco Parentis! / Jackie Onassis / Dino De Laurentiis!" His magic is completely based on parlor tricks and funny incantations. | |
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The Eeyore | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_54fdbff5 | comment |
The Eeyore: Goddam is a weepy war veteran prone to long, boring stories. Spam nearly kills him for it. | |
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Doorstopper | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_55940b68 | comment |
Doorstopper: Averted; for a book that manages to parody the whole of LOTR, it's surprisingly slim. | |
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_55ec42d7 | comment |
Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Deliberately done for the sake of humor, and to skewer Tolkien's various archaic dialects. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: Starts where Tolkien left off and runs with it — everybody seems to hate everybody else in Lower Middle Earth, especially the Elves and Dwarves. | |
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Fantasy Counterpart Culture | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_57d43e40 | comment |
Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Most obvious in the faux-German Roi-Tanners, though the elves are spoofs of the sort of people you might meet on an road trip in the USA. | |
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Hand Signals | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_5a8f3057 | comment |
Hand Signals: Stomper uses them to ask Frito to meet him in the inn's bathroom. This results in half of the patrons watching him and trying to figure out the signals. | |
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Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die | |
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Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die: When Arrowroot is marching against Sorhed and sees that his army is losing its nerve, he gives a speech and ends it with: "Those who still ride with the King of Twodor will live forever in song and legend! The rest may go." The entire army instantly deserts. | |
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Fake Wizardry | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_5e9cddcc | comment |
Fake Wizardry: Goodgulf's "magic" is all just card tricks and heavy weaponry. | |
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Oh, and X Dies | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_5ee6a992 | comment |
Oh, and X Dies: Bromosel arrives at the Council of Orlon with a prophecy that states "You cash in your chips around page eighty-eight." Depending on the print, it is sometimes off by a few pages. | |
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Spanner in the Works | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_60194b82 | comment |
Spanner in the Works: Subverted by Goddam, who turns out to be precisely what Spam and Frito are looking for at the end. | |
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Said Bookism | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_626f55cc | comment |
Said Bookism: Played for Laughs, like pretty much everything else. | |
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Obviously Fake Signature | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_63fac3d4 | comment |
Obviously Fake Signature: The boggies sign the inn's register "Alias Undercover", "Ivan Gottasecret", "John Doe-Smith", and "Ima Pseudonym". | |
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Evil Tower of Ominousness | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_65163c3a | comment |
Evil Tower of Ominousness: The Eisentower and Chikken Noodul, being parodies of Isengard and Minas Morgul, respectively. | |
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Hot Potato | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_65bdfe8f | comment |
Hot Potato: Starting with Frito, everyone at the Council of Orlon tries to pass the Ring to a more suitable owner: Frito to Arrowroot, rightful king of Twodor and heir of Barbisol; then Goodgulf the wizard as one familiar with magic; Orlon the elf whose people were the original ring makers; Dildo as the Ring Finder; and back to Frito again. | |
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Parody Names | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_66a4e100 | comment |
Parody Names: Pick a character, nation or city from Tolkien's work, and one will find a parodic counterpart, such as Minas Troney for Minas Tirith. | |
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Giant Flyer | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_67677940 | comment |
Giant Flyer: Gwahno the Giant Eagle, the Gwaihir parody. He talks like a New York cabbie to the people he ferries around. | |
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Parody Magic Spell | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_6bc0b4c3 | comment |
Parody Magic Spell: As evidenced by the page quote, there's quite a few of these. | |
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Insult to Rocks | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_6c8ce91f | comment |
Insult to Rocks: | |
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Speak Friend and Enter | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_6e1b226c | comment |
Speak Friend and Enter: Parodies the Trope Namer by having Goodgulf only consider using the doorknob on the gates to Doria after hours of futile guessing and spellcraft. | |
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Extreme Omnivore | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_6eb1268c | comment |
Extreme Omnivore: Boggies will eat just about anything if they are hungry, such as fake fruit, curtains, lampshades or dirt. | |
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Fictionary | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_6fc2ca79 | comment |
Fictionary: The samples seen of the various languages of Lower Middle Earth are generally assembled from the names of commercial products, public figures, pop-culture references and nonsense sounds. | |
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All Germans Are Nazis | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_7089d02e | comment |
All Germans Are Nazis: The natives of the Plains of Roi-Tan are all German stereotypes ranging from Wagnerian opera to Nazis, sometimes mixing and matching elements. | |
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Camp Gay | |
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Camp Gay: Legolam says "Dames, who needs 'em?" when Arrowroot is having troubles in his relationship with Eorache, and then puts an arm around Arrowroot's shoulder. Later at the battle of Minas Troney, he leads an army of Elven hairdressers. | |
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Population: X, and Counting | |
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Population: X, and Counting: The village of Whee has a welcoming sign announcing its population as "96 and still growing!" with 1004 and 328 each crossed out before it. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus: Birdseye and the Vee-Ates are conveniently disposed of off-screen. | |
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Healing Hands | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_7913eb6f | comment |
Healing Hands: Subverted by Arrowroot, who during the siege of Minas Troney shows up in blood-spattered surgical garb, and who appears to have killed Faraslax while "treating" him in order to get him out of the way. | |
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HorseOfADifferentColour | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_7e2caff3 | comment |
Horse of a Different Colour: The Nozdrul ride first pigs, then giant pelicans. The Roi-tanners ride sheep. | |
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Sdrawkcab Name | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_808b6d16 | comment |
Sdrawkcab Name: Numerous examples, although some — like "Serutan" — were simply lifted from other sources. In this case, a laxative. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Numerous examples, such as (in the Prologue): "[Boggies] could only exist in the minds of the sort of children... who grow up to be muggers, dog thieves, and insurance salesmen." | |
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Extreme Omnisexual | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_8159411a | comment |
Extreme Omnisexual: Boggies will go for just about any living thing — especially Moxie and Pepsi, who manage to impregnate vegetables. | |
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Final Battle | |
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Final Battle: Subverted; the Forces of Good are hungover and reduced to a handful by deserters, and the Forces of Evil flee and turn into pillars of garlic when the Ring is destroyed. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: A number of plot threads are deliberately left hanging for comedic effect, such as Spam and Frito's escape from the lair of Schlob. | |
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Arboreal Abode | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_8758ea2e | comment |
Arboreal Abode: The elves of Lornadoon live inside hollowed out dead trees. | |
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Simultaneous Arcs | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_8d630561 | comment |
Simultaneous Arcs: Much like in the original, Frito and Spam separate from the Fellowship and have their own simultaneous quest. | |
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Redundant Parody | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_9193cbcb | comment |
Redundant Parody: The Gimli parody here is "Gimlet, son of Groin", but Tolkien-original Gimli's actual grandfather is named Gróin. | |
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Hobbits | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_91ed563c | comment |
Hobbits: Viciously satirized by the lazy, slovenly, gluttonous and generally disgusting Boggies. | |
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Black Cloak | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_95afab6 | comment |
Black Cloak: The Nozdrul, being Nazgul parodies. Hilariously, no-one in the Stye seems to notice how forboding they are. See Unusually Uninteresting Sight below. | |
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Big Bad | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Sorhed, being a Sauron parody, is this. He created the ring, and is the main force opposing the heroes throughout the story. | |
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Dirty Communists | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_9c47b23b | comment |
Dirty Communists: The Narcs of Doria are partly based on North Korean soldiers. They're described as wielding hammers and sickles, while their war cries consist of geographical names relevant to The Korean War — e.g. "Pyongyang panmunjom" refers to the North Korean capital and the village where the Korean armistice was negotiated — and "You dieth, G.I.!", which is a Ye Olde Butchered English equivalent of what the North Koreans yelled across the battlefields. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: The general reaction of everybody in the book to most everything they encounter. The Thesaurus, the Ballhog, and the varous battles leave the characters groaning and whimpering, if not outright running away. The Battle of the Black Gate, in particular, is this. Goodgulf is left shrieking in disbelief when Arrowroot suggests they challenge Sorhed directly, and when the heroes arrive at the Black Gate, their entire army flees, leaving only Eorache and the Fellowship to face Sorhed's armies. | |
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Taxonomic Term Confusion | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_9fe216fd | comment |
Taxonomic Term Confusion: There is an appearance by "six different phyla of giant insects". Insects, whatever their size, are a single class of phylum Arthropoda — and you would think Harvard students would know that. On the other hand, these are Harvard writing students. | |
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Ye Goode Olde Days | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_a0566bcc | comment |
Ye Goode Olde Days: Subverted by a world where pretty much everybody is some variety of scum and most of the animals are rabid. The Shire, for example, becomes "The Stye", which is described as full of lazy ne'er-do-wells and morons. | |
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Hooked Up Afterwards | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_a1e2cedd | comment |
Hooked Up Afterwards: | |
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Half-Human Hybrid | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_a2cbad1 | comment |
Half-Human Hybrid: The prologue mentions a "halfling", which is defined as "half Boggie, half opossum". Moxie and Pepsi somehow manage to get two of the Vee-Ates — who are plants — pregnant. | |
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Supporting Leader | |
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Supporting Leader: Parodied by Arrowroot. He obviously thinks he's a great hero, but he's actually a cowardly buffoon. | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish" | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Parodied by the lengths Goodgulf goes to while trying to open the gates to Doria, before noticing the doorknob. | |
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Hollywood Tactics | |
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Hollywood Tactics: Subtly lampshaded when Arrowroot stupidly (and drunkenly) suggests marching on Sorhed's overwhelmingly larger army after the siege of Twodor is over. Goodgulf can't believe anyone could be so cataclysmically stupid and tries to throttle him. | |
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Beneath the Earth | |
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Beneath the Earth: The dwarven realm of Doria, the Moria spoof. Goodgulf and the others are puzzled as to how to gain entry, and try a number of magic spells and passwords, before noticing the doorknob. | |
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Left-Justified Fantasy Map | |
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Left-Justified Fantasy Map: Parodied. The map appears to focus on the western coast, but on closer examination, the compass directions are labelled only as "up", "down", "left", and "right". | |
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Sickbed Slaying | |
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Sickbed Slaying: Strongly implied when a blood-spattered Stomper appears and explains that Farahslax died of his wounds despite his best efforts — and despite being almost unwounded. Stomper says that it was "water-on-the-Brain" and that he "was forced to amputate". | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_a939a527 | comment |
Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Black Riders have "perfectly normal red glowing fires" where their eyes should be. | |
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Hidden Elf Village | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_a971e83c | comment |
Hidden Elf Village: Riv'n'dell; Lornadoon is literally hidden inside trees. Neither one is nearly as fantastic as their LOTR counterparts, with the former being a trailer park and the latter being a tourist stop. | |
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Mordor | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_aa2bd65c | comment |
Mordor: Fordor is a parody of this, with the Black Tower of Barad-dûr being replaced by the sinister high-rise of Bardahl. | |
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Brawn Hilda | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_aa55cd25 | comment |
Brawn Hilda: Eorache is an absurd Valkyrie parody who wields a giant battle-mop and speaks in a ridiculous German accent. | |
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Discreet Drink Disposal | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_aca54dad | comment |
Discreet Drink Disposal: Frito tries to do this to get rid of his Orca-Cola in the inn. The spy hiding in the pot plant takes it from him. | |
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Group Reacts Individually | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_ad1c0834 | comment |
Group Reacts Individually: Played for Laughs: As the Fellowship is passing through Andrea Doria, they come to a point where the passage splits in two. | |
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Apocalyptic Log | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_ad22fa80 | comment |
Apocalyptic Log: Tim Benzedrine's note to the boggies. He enters a drug flashback while writing it, and it devolves to gibberish as a result. | |
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Parody | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_ae853f28 | comment |
Parody: Utterly lampoons LOTR and everything about it, right down to the songs. | |
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Plant Person | |
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Plant Person: Lord Birdseye and the Vee-Ates, being parodies of the Ents, are this. Lord Birdseye naturally makes several annoying vegetable puns, and is described as looking like the Jolly Green Giant. | |
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Robe and Wizard Hat | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_b00a7c5e | comment |
Robe and Wizard Hat: Both embodied and averted by Goodgulf, who frequently changes into radically different outfits — like a Nehru jacket and bellbottoms. | |
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Intellectual Animal | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_b2463ea1 | comment |
Intellectual Animal: The evil "black beaver" is able to deceive our moronic heroes as to his identity, despite being covered with fur and having massive buck teeth. Gwahno the Eagle is also fairly intellectual, being capable of speech, even if he acts like a New York Cabbie. | |
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Briar Patching | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_b6287eff | comment |
Briar Patching: Cornered by Nozdrul, Frito performs the entire Br'er Rabbit routine (and a little extra), knowing it's the oldest trick in the book. Naturally, it works. | |
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Evil Smells Bad | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_b64e1024 | comment |
Evil Smells Bad: The Nozdrul smell "like a barnyard" and have terrible gas. | |
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Original Flavour | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_ba2c525b | comment |
Original Flavour: Rich Drushel's parodies of The Scouring of the Shire and Appendix A, done explicitly to extend BOTR. They are strikingly similar to the flavor of the original work. | |
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It's a Long Story | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_bda3d97b | comment |
It's a Long Story: When Eorache asks Goodgulf how he escaped: | |
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Brief Accent Imitation | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_be6f7ae7 | comment |
Brief Accent Imitation: The smitten Arrowroot to Eorache: "Ve going mit you." | |
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True Companions | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_c313d43a | comment |
True Companions: Subverted; nobody actually wanted to join, but were volunteered by other people who hated them. | |
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Mooks | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_c36cba70 | comment |
Mooks: The Narcs, which are parodies of Sauron's orcs. | |
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ElvesVsDwarves | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_c7575bab | comment |
Elves vs. Dwarves: And how. Gimlet and Legolam absolutely hate each other. | |
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Magic 8-Ball | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_c7e9706f | comment |
Magic 8-Ball: The Mallomar, a featureless black ball with a window in it. Goodgulf claimed the Old Ones used them to probe the secrets of the future and look deep into the minds of men. When he asks about the outcome of the conflict with Sorhed, its answer is written in the air with fiery letters: "Reply Hazy, Ask Again Later." | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_caa28b82 | comment |
Cloudcuckoolander: Tim Benzedrine, since he's constantly on drugs. His dialogue is barely comprehensible, and he has to stop writing a letter halfway through because he's tripping out. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: Bromosel dies when he trips and impales himself on his absurdly pointed shoes. | |
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Mocky Mouse | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_d4b6915b | comment |
Mocky Mouse: Serutanland has a mascot named Dicky Dragon, who is implied to be based on Mickey Mouse due to his alliterative name and being created by a Mr. Alt Disney wizard named Serutan. | |
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I Have Many Names | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_d5d976dd | comment |
I Have Many Names: Stomper — AKA "Arrowroot son of Arrowshirt, True Son of Arrowhead of Araplane" — actually uses this phrase word-for-word; other characters also have many names, few of them complimentary. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_d71d51fd | comment |
The End of the World as We Know It: Threatened result of Sorhed regaining the Great Ring. Despite this, our heroes are all too happy to surrender to him. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: One of the Nozdrul in the first chapter is described thus: | |
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The Cavalry | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_d9e9ad7e | comment |
The Cavalry: Subverted by the Riders of Roi-Tan, who ride bad-tempered sheep. | |
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Action Girl | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Eorache of the Roi-Tanners sits firmly on the line dividing an example and an aversion of this trope. She's easily the most competent of the good guys, and her forces mop up Serutan's armies, but at the same time, she's a ridiculous German stereotype who wields a battle-mop. | |
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Who Writes This Crap?! | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_dd891949 | comment |
Who Writes This Crap?!: | |
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Functional Magic | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_dfe120e5 | comment |
Functional Magic: Thoroughly and enthusiastically averted. Anything presented as magic is usually just a lame trick or worse. | |
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Urban Segregation | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_e04ed269 | comment |
Urban Segregation: Minas Troney has nine city levels, each with better life quality than the previous ones. The people of the higher levels keep throwing their garbage to the lower ones, and on the lowest level people are so poor they have to eat it to survive. | |
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We Are Not Going Through That Again | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_e0c5d0bc | comment |
We Are Not Going Through That Again: Frito, having returned to his digs at the end of the story, is visited by a mysterious stranger who thinks he's the kind of person that takes quests. He slams the door, locks it and swallows the key. | |
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The Bore | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_e201cc | comment |
The Bore: Goddam is prone to long, boring stories, which nearly gets him knifed by Spam (if Spam hadn't collapsed from boredom). | |
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The Ditz | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Moxie and Pepsi Dingleberry ("whom no one would trust with a burned-out match") are a pair of twin ditzes with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. | |
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Crystal Ball | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_e453ef50 | comment |
Crystal Ball: The mallomar, which turns out to be nothing more than a Magic 8-Ball with a holographic display | |
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Composite Character | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: Eorache is most obviously a spoof of Eowyn, but she also fills the roles of Theoden and Eomer by leading the Riders of Roi-Tan, and of Arwen by being Stomper's love interest. | |
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Greek Chorus | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_e4d079c1 | comment |
Greek Chorus: Lavalier (parodying a similar scene with Galadriel in Lorien) recites an ancient Elvish lament, which is followed in the text by a translation. The lament, which starts out in gibberish Elvish modeled closely on Tolkien's original ("Dago, Dago, Lassi Lima rintintin / Yanqui unicycle ramar rotoroot...") ends with the repeated line "Honi soit la vache qui rit, / Honi soit la vache qui rit", which the subsequent text translates as "We are the chorus, and we agree. We agree, we agree, we agree." | |
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Souvenir Land | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_e5394bff | comment |
Souvenir Land: Lornadoon, the parody of Lothlorien. There's a gift shop, and the Lady Lavalier hands out such wonderous enchanted gifts as a snow globe and a Mah-Jongg Set. | |
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Creepy Long Fingers | |
| Bored of the Rings / int_e6521611 | comment |
Creepy Long Fingers: Boggies. What's worse, their creepy fingers are often found in other people's pockets. | |
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The Load | |
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The Load: Moxie and Pepsi do nothing useful and only steal their companions' food. This does change after they are captured: they ingeniously escape the Narcs and get the Vee-Ates to march on Serutanland. Afterwards, they return to being useless, and even get some Vee-Ates (who are vegetables) pregnant! | |
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Weapons-Grade Vocabulary | |
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Weapons-Grade Vocabulary: Goddam's long, boring war story. Spam is visibly pained by it, and tries to kill Goddam. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Pretty much everyone. They all volunteer each other for the dangerous mission, fight in the most cowardly ways possible, and Goodgulf and Arrowroot even murder Benelux and Farahslax, respectively. It's all Played for Laughs, of course. | |
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No More for Me | |
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No More for Me: The party is camped at a crossroads and manages to avoid a bunch of dangerous encounters by sheer fools' luck, resulting in this: | |
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Got Volunteered | |
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Got Volunteered: No-one actually wanted to be in the Fellowship. Everyone attending the Council of Orlon tries to get out of the quest by nominating someone else, and usually gets named in turn as revenge: Legolam picks Gimlet, who then drags the elf in. | |
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Pungeon Master | |
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Pungeon Master: Lord Birdseye makes several annoying vegetable puns that drive Moxie and Pepsi insane. | |
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Forbidden Zone | |
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Forbidden Zone: Fordor, being a parody of Mordor, is this. | |
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Mushroom Samba | |
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Mushroom Samba: During the boggies' visit with Tim Benzedrine and Hashberry. They eat a few shrooms and have a ridiculous hallucination. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Surprisingly, there are very few. Legolam and Gimlet's spats, which also mimic Legolas and Gimli's own rivalry. An extremely localized one is found on a page which lists other volumes in the Harvard Lampoon's Classic and Not-So-Classic Book series — part of every title in the lists is replaced by "Matzoh". | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: Played with when the party are attacked by a group of narcs, the leader of which is wielding a large faggot. You'd think it'd mean a bundle of wood, until the "faggot" cries out "You dieth, G.I!" Straight example when the party is crossing a stream so shallow it's barely ankle-high on the boggies: | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: Along with Narration Echo, this crops up frequently, as in: | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Some of the Parody Names run along brief themes, such as Twodor and Fordor, and Moxie and Pepsi. | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
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With Friends Like These...: Pretty much everyone. They all attempt to weasel out of the quest, Gimlet and Legolam hate each other, and Arrowroot and Goodgulf are full-on murderers. | |
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Lady of War | |
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Lady of War: Eorache. In fact, she's the only remotely competent fighter in the cast. | |
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Gondor Calls for Aid | |
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Gondor Calls for Aid: Twodor called for aid, but no one wanted to give it. | |
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