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The Twelve Chairs

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The Twelve Chairs	comment	The first part of a satirical duology by Ilia Ilf and Eugeny Petrov.In post-civil war Soviet Russia, a former member of nobility, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, works as a desk clerk, until his mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewelry had been hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family's dining room set. Those chairs, along with all other personal property, had been expropriated by the government during the Civil War. He becomes a treasure hunter, and after the smooth operator and Con Man Ostap Bender forces Kisa ("Kitty", Vorobyaninov's funny childhood nickname, which Bender prefers to long "Ippolit") to partner with him, they set off to track down the chairs. This ultimately helps Kisa, who doesn't possess Bender's charm and is not as street-smart.The two "comrades" nearly get the prize at the auction, but because Kisa screwed up and squandered all their cash, the chairs are split up and sold individually. They are not alone in this quest, either: Father Fyodor Vostrikov took advantage of the deathbed confession, and has also set off to recover the fortune. In this search for Mme Petukhova's treasure, he becomes Vorobyaninov's main rival. While in this enterprise Ostap is in his element, Vorobyaninov is not so happy. He's steadily abandoning his principles and losing self-esteem.The Odd Couple travels across the USSR in search of the MacGuffin, going through a number of Adventure Towns, giving the author a chance to satirize a wide section of the USSR populace.One of the best and most enduring Russian literature works from the Soviet era, and an inexhaustible source of great quotes along with its sequel, The Little Golden Calf.Mel Brooks directed a well-liked adaptation in 1970, with a wonderfully hammy Ron Moody as Vorobyaninov, with Dom De Luise as Father Fyodor, Frank Langella as Ostap Bender, and Brooks himself as Tikon.Two other Russian adaptations have created a bit of a Broken Base amongst the Russian viewers. The main point of contention is whether Andrei Mironov's interpretation of Bender as less of a Lovable Rogue and more of a Villain Protagonist works.The book was also loosely adapted into Keep Your Seats, Please!, a 1936 comedy from Ealing Studios.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_246c9dc5	type	Unknown Rival
The Twelve Chairs / int_246c9dc5	comment	Unknown Rival: Exaggerated with Ellochka Schukina and her ridiculous "rivalry" with Consuelo Vanderbilt.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_2497e5b8	type	Atomic F-Bomb
The Twelve Chairs / int_2497e5b8	comment	Atomic F-Bomb: In the Mel Brooks movie, after yet another chair turns out to contain nothing of value.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
The Twelve Chairs / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: There are some reasons to believe Bender is of Jewish descent. Also, his Odessa roots (a very Jewish city) and his claim of being the son of one Turkish subject (Jews often used foreign passports, especially readily available Turkish papers, as foreign nationality would change their ethnicity to Turk in legal documents to avoid being forced to fight in the Civil War). Bonus points for calling his father Turkish subject instead of simply a Turk.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_3667bfa1	type	Hastily Hidden MacGuffin
The Twelve Chairs / int_3667bfa1	comment	Hastily Hidden MacGuffin: The entire plot is built on that. Madame Petukhova, an Imperial Russian noblewoman, hid her collection of jewelry in a chair during the Revolution of 1917, to prevent the revolutionaries from confiscating them. Years later, her son-in-law Ippolit Vorobyaninov learns about that from Madame on her deathbed, and starts to look for that chair. As you can guess from the title, there are eleven more chairs looking exactly like that one.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
The Twelve Chairs / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution/Muggles Do It Better: When Bender visits a newspaper, there's a brief episode about the employees discussing their own enrichment scheme: buy government bonds, win a large sum and purchase several cars to go to a Caucasian resort for vacation. Months later, when Bender happens to be at said resort, he meets the same people who did exactly that and succeeded, without any of the hardships Bender endured in his pursuit. He ends up begging money from them.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
The Twelve Chairs / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: Mme Petukhova describes her jewelry in considerable detail. And listening to the description is the closest Vorobyaninov ever gets to the jewels, as by the time he finds the chair they were hidden in, someone else had already found the jewels, sold them, and spent the money on a public works project.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Twelve Chairs / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Kisa Vorobyaninov goes from one humiliation to another. Also Father Fyodor to some extent.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_494a4104	type	Naked People Trapped Outside
The Twelve Chairs / int_494a4104	comment	Naked People Trapped Outside: happened to engineer Shukin.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Twelve Chairs / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: When characters travels down the Volga river and again in Caucasus mountains.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
The Twelve Chairs / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Mel Brooks always appears on the front cover of the version he directed, since it also marked his first onscreen movie role. Sometimes the synopsis on the back cover makes his role sound as important as that of Bender and Father Fyodor, when in actuality Brooks only makes one or two appearances. In the 1971 Soviet adaptation the same role was played by Yuriy Nikulin, arguably, the biggest star in the cast. He is also often credited on the front cover right after the actors playing Bender and Vorobyaninov.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_4c583974	type	A MacGuffin Full of Money
The Twelve Chairs / int_4c583974	comment	A MacGuffin Full of Money: of very expensive jewelry, to be precise.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Twelve Chairs / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: And how. Father Fyodor is Driven to Madness, his wife's life is completely destroyed, and Kisa slices Bender's throat to avoid splitting the loot and then discovers that the jewels have already been found and that they have been spent on erecting a new public building, which drives him insane. (Though in the sequel, Bender gets better, only bears a scar on his neck, and finally obtains the fortune he desires — only to find that he cannot spend it.) In the film adaptation by Mel Brooks, Father Fyodor is left abandoned on a rocky spire with no way to get down, the jewels were found and spent on erecting a new public building months before Kisa and Bender find the last chair, and they end up begging in the streets.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Twelve Chairs / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: Father Fyodor. The catholic monks in the sequel also qualify, according to Bender.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
The Twelve Chairs / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: In the 1970 Mel Brooks film, Vorobyaninov and Bender have rehearsed a routine where Vorobyaninov falls to the ground and fakes an epileptic seizure to win the crowd's sympathy.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_5a371c8f	type	Opportunistic Bastard
The Twelve Chairs / int_5a371c8f	comment	Opportunistic Bastard: Vorobyanninov, who kills Ostap Bender after Father Fyodor goes mad, so he can get all the jewels for himself.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Twelve Chairs / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: In the book, after Vorobyaninov murders Ostap Bender, he finds the last chair, only to discover that the jewels have already been found and used to build the new recreation center where the chair was found, and goes insane. After following a bad lead, Father Fyodor ends up losing his sanity on a mountaintop.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Twelve Chairs / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Town named Stargorod (literally "Oldtown"). Bender tries to play this on real life Proval resort ("The Fall", may be freely translated as "The Pit", not to be mistranslated as "The FAIL", please) by shaking tips out from random bypassers:
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The Twelve Chairs / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
The Twelve Chairs / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: Bender's white scarf, sea captain's cap and checkerboard vest.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Twelve Chairs / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: By omission. The movie adaptations tend to leave out Bender's more humiliating moments, such as when he gets royally plastered and misses the chance to catch their prize (which is the only time he gets called out by Kisa and doesn't have a retort) or when he gets beaten up by some Caucasians (from the Caucasus Mountains) when he got caught cheating in cards.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Twelve Chairs / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Ostap Bender in Mel Brooks' 1970 film, as contrasted with the novel where he gets killed.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_79e43350	type	Bleak Abyss Retirement Home
The Twelve Chairs / int_79e43350	comment	Bleak Abyss Retirement Home: One of the places Bender searches.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
The Twelve Chairs / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Kisa Vorobyaninov.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_8fb244bd	type	Replaced with Replica
The Twelve Chairs / int_8fb244bd	comment	Replaced with Replica: Both the protagonists and their rival Father Feodor are looking for a set of chairs with a treasure hidden inside. Ostap manages to locate documents which detail where the chairs are. Father Feodor is after these documents, too, but he is late, and the archivist is angry that Ostap fooled him. So the archivist gives Feodor documents on another, identical set of chairs with no treasure inside.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Twelve Chairs / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Father Fyodor. He finds out about Vorobyaninov's talk with his dying mother-in-law (and therefore the chairs) by staying behind and listening at the keyhole after he gave her her final rites, and later, he persuades his long-suffering wife to sell practically all their possessions to finance his travels all around the Soviet Union in search of the chairs.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_9919369d	type	Con Man
The Twelve Chairs / int_9919369d	comment	Con Man: Bender.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
The Twelve Chairs / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Vorobyaninov squandered his estate and his wife's dowry. By 1917 they were living at the expense of his mother-in-law. This was the reason why she hesitated to tell him about the jewelry.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_a031ff7b	type	Noblewoman's Laugh
The Twelve Chairs / int_a031ff7b	comment	Noblewoman's Laugh: Ellochka, in a slightly milder variant. Ho-ho.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Twelve Chairs / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Bender himself was intended as a one-scene character, but became a One-Scene Wonder for the authors and had immediately stolen the spotlight.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Twelve Chairs / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The chair set.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Twelve Chairs / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Alchen, the most despicable character in the book.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_a7c91a10	type	Meaningless Villain Victory
The Twelve Chairs / int_a7c91a10	comment	Meaningless Villain Victory: After Father Fyodor gets lost in a village and goes insane, Vorobyaninov murders Ostap Bender to keep the loot for himself, only to discover that someone else already found the jewels and used them to build a new public recreation center, Vorobyaninov loses his sanity.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Twelve Chairs / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Bender.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Twelve Chairs / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Bender's The hearing is continued! ("Заседание продолжается!") Also, The ice has broken! ("Лед тронулся!") And several mentions about obtaining "the key to the apartment where the money is" ("ключ от квартиры, где деньги лежат") Ostap has several "Benderisms" which have since entered the Russian colloquial lexicon.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_b545453b	type	Internal Homage
The Twelve Chairs / int_b545453b	comment	Internal Homage: Due to time constraints, the Mell Brooks film cuts out all the Wacky Wayside Tribe scenes, including the iconic chess tournament. To compensate, one of the final scenes takes place in a chess room of the new railroad club.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_b82b5723	type	Convulsive Seizures
The Twelve Chairs / int_b82b5723	comment	Convulsive Seizures: in the Mel Brooks movie, Bender teaches Kisa to do this as a way of conning charity out of passers-by. It wasn't in the book.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_c251665e	type	My Hair Came Out Green
The Twelve Chairs / int_c251665e	comment	My Hair Came Out Green: Vorobyaninov tries to dye his hair and eyebrows and mustache a darker colour, but the dye is counterfeit and ends up turning him a rabid green colour. The poor sod ends up having to shave his head completely devoid of hair.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Twelve Chairs / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: The jewels are hidden in one of a set of twelve externally identical chairs.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Twelve Chairs / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Downplayed with the 1970 Mel Brooks film, where Bender doesn't get killed, and after Vorobyaninov goes insane, Bender urges the crowd to help his broken partner, and they reconcile as partners in crime.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
The Twelve Chairs / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: Bender.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_d3540d32	type	Life Imitates Art
The Twelve Chairs / int_d3540d32	comment	Life Imitates Art: In the 1980s the city administration did start to sell tickets at the entrance of Proval tunnel. And then closed it for a few years to clean the lake from debris and reinforce walls. Otherwise it could have collapsed by now.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
The Twelve Chairs / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: Referenced in the Mel Brooks adaptation. A street named after Russian nobility had its name crossed out and a new sign placed naming the street after heroes of the revolution. And one of those names is crossed out as well, as one of the heroes honored by the street name (Trotsky) had fallen out of favor with the leaders of the revolution.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Twelve Chairs / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Bender refers to himself as "The Great Combinator". The narration agrees. Not literally, though. His skill at chess is miserable, that's why his "World Chess Tournament" con quickly went sour.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
The Twelve Chairs / int_d6b5863	comment	Driven to Madness: Father Fyodor and Vorobyaninov after someone else finds the jewels.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_de999021	type	Rage Quit
The Twelve Chairs / int_de999021	comment	Rage Quit: Bender's reaction to losing at chess after pretending to be a grandmaster to raise money.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
The Twelve Chairs / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Another side of Ostap Bender's "The Great Combinator" persona. He is incredibly adept at inventing new scams on the fly and getting out of trouble with quick thinking.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
The Twelve Chairs / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Bender again.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Twelve Chairs / int_e563bf09	comment	Bonus points for calling his father Turkish subject instead of simply a Turk.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
The Twelve Chairs / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Bender, when he feels no need to be The Charmer. Film versions tends to downgrade his jerkassery a bit.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_f0085dbc	type	Impossible Thief
The Twelve Chairs / int_f0085dbc	comment	Impossible Thief: Played for Laughs. In the movie Alchen steals clothes from people on a painting. No, he doesn't cut them out, he just steals them.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
The Twelve Chairs / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Ellochka. Her vocabulary is thirty words large.
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The Twelve Chairs / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
The Twelve Chairs / int_f2877d9e	comment	Bender tries to play this on real life Proval resort ("The Fall", may be freely translated as "The Pit", not to be mistranslated as "The FAIL", please) by shaking tips out from random bypassers:
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The Twelve Chairs / int_f3d84bc4	type	Giftedly Bad
The Twelve Chairs / int_f3d84bc4	comment	Giftedly Bad: Lapis-Trubetskoy, whose poems are filled with inane tautologies. One of his colleagues calls him Lapsus-Trubetskoy. Later he is seen trying to sell poetry to several different magazine editors, changing the subject matter every time—for example, he calls his submission to a medical journal "The Ballad of Gangrene."
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The Twelve Chairs / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
The Twelve Chairs / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Al'hen, the "light blue thief / Goluboy Vorishka". At the time the book came out, his nickname would be understood as a reference to his superficial innocence and/or his constant conscience pangs. In modern Russian parlance, "Goluboy" means "gay".
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The Twelve Chairs / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Twelve Chairs / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Kisa's first appearance in the Mel Brooks film has him rushing home from his workplace, still holding a rubber stamp that he was presumably using when he heard the news that Mme Petukhova was dying. He's still holding the stamp during the entire conversation where he learns about the jewels. And he's still holding the stamp when he kisses his mother-in-law goodbye, resulting in the word CANCELLED being stamped on her face.
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