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The 37th book in the Discworld series, Unseen Academicals is about football. Well, slightly about football. Mostly it's about people, but then, aren't they all?Unseen Academicals tells the story of what happens when the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork tries to bring civilisation to the ancient and tradition-laden game of Foot-the-Ball. Since said traditions include a generous measure of mob violence both on and off the pitch, this proves a somewhat dicey project.At the heart of the plot is the need for Unseen University to field a team (the eponymous Academicals), but as the story progresses this becomes almost academic as the emotional focus of the story shifts to the downstairs staff whose work makes the team possible.Preceded by Making Money, followed by Snuff. Preceded in the Wizards series by The Last Continent (or The Science of Discworld 3, if you're counting those).A Sky One film adaptation has been in development since 2011 but has suffered repeated delays. In 2018, Audible released a full-cast dramatization by Dirk Maggs as a website exclusive.
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Card-Carrying Villain: Professor Hix, by university statute. They need someone around who can ignore the rules a bit but still knows when to stop.
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Instant Expert: Averted. Trev's skill with a can does not transfer to a football.
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I Don't Pay You to Think
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I Don't Pay You to Think: Smeems tells Mr. Nutt this. Unfortunately, when he gets stuck on top of the Emperor candle, he needs Nutt to figure out how to get him down. Nutt does it, but still says, "I thought I wasn't paid to think, sir."
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Rescue Romance
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Rescue Romance: Trev doesn't really get Juliet's interest until after he saves her from being beaned during a football match (the old-fashioned footballs are made of wood and very heavy).
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: The audio drama is far more dramatic and violent than the book. The stakes are far higher; while in the books the mob ball riots were violent enough, they were kept contained to certain parts of the city where the Watch turned a blind eye. Here, the riots are threatening to ruin the city and have become so dangerous that even Vimes is considering resigning from the Watch in despair. The stakes are higher for the University as well; in the book they merely had to participate in a game in order to avoid a sizeable, but manageable budget cut. Here, they have to win a game, or suffer budget cuts so severe that they might have to close down the University altogether. Overall, everything is a lot more tense and on the brink of violence than in the book. Even Lord Vetinari and Lady Margolotta have a more tense relationship that borders on pseudo-antagonistic.
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Small Parent, Huge Child
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Small Parent, Huge Child: Mrs. Atkinson is a vicious little old lady who is a particularly problematic presence in the Shove. She's able to get away with this because of her absolutely gargantuan son who threatens swift reprisal on his mother's behalf. This ultimately doesn't save her when she makes the mistake of poisoning the Librarian.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Someone throwing a banana to the Librarian while on the field is reminiscent of real-world racist insults to black football players by throwing bananas at them.
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Boisterous Bruiser
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To whomever poisoned the Librarian, congratulations. You have just angered a 300 pound ape and his boss, who is not just a Boisterous Bruiser but also one of the most powerful wizards on the Disc. In a word: Run.
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Picked Last
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Picked Last: Referenced several times. Ponder is explicitly described as having been picked last for every game he couldn't make up an excuse to avoid. He's thrilled that this time around he can appoint himself scorekeeper and stay out of the action.
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Continuity Porn
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Continuity Porn: At least, by Discworld standards. The text is liberally decorated with Continuity Nods, including to some of the Early-Installment Weirdness books like Sourcery that are rarely acknowledged later in the series.
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On One Condition
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On One Condition: The entire reason the wizards have to play football is that there is an important financial grant which will revert back to the other heirs if they don't enter a team "in the game of Foot-the-Ball or Poore Boys' Funne."
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Memetic Badass
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Memetic Badass: Vimes, in-universe; as discussed in Night Watch Discworld, coppers in Ankh-Morpork (and the surrounding cities) are called "Sammies" or "Old Sam" for a reason. (On Roundworld, it's why British cops are "bobbies," or "Old Bill.") Mrs. Whitlow has an in-universe Memetic Domestic Badass reputation among the UU staff, which Glenda eventually sees through and subverts.
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Anti-Magic
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Anti-Magic: The (former) Dean, as referee, puts up such a field around the pitch, to ensure that the wizards don't cheat via magic. Trev notices with dismay that he included himself in this effect. It doesn't hinder ghostly or divine possession, which work on different principles.
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Our Orcs Are Different
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Our Orcs Are Different: Mr. Nutt. They were made from humans, not from elves or goblins, and they are not Always Chaotic Evil. They are effectively a race of perfect soldiers, which means that they're incredibly smart to adapt to the situation quickly, generally quite friendly with their friends/comrades, and have a Healing Factor that allows them to go from "Only Mostly Dead" to "fine" in day.
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Underestimating Badassery
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Underestimating Badassery: Almost the entire cast of working class heroes thinks that the University Staff are a bunch of upper class fops who have no idea what they are doing, assuming them to be a bunch of old idiots they can either ignore or, in the case of the villains, trample over. Long time readers know that the wizards are, in fact, very powerful with a wide range of magical artefacts at their disposal which they can and will use to make anyone's life very unpleasant in very short order if sufficently angered. In the penultimate football match against the University, the Wizards are injured, mocked, and in one case, poisoned; something almost guaranteed to bring down the not inconsiderable wrath of the UU. It's actually a little disappointing that we don't get to see the Wizard's revenge.
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Poor Communication Kills
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Both the Trev/Juliet and the Glenda/Nutt relationships have had their angst levels taken up to eleven, with lots of drama, tears, Poor Communication Kills and external forces getting in their way.
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Our Nudity Is Different
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Our Nudity Is Different: The wizards are adamant they can't wear shorts that expose their knees, for fear of the effect this might have on women. The one woman who hears this has trouble keeping a straight face.
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: Trev works in the university dribbling candles for wizardly pursuits. By the end of the book, he's dribbling footballs instead. He's also "Dave Likely's son"... or Likely's lad; a "likely lad" being either a skilled sportsman or a known troublemaker - and Trev's both. Un-stealthed in the back-cover copy, which calls him "a likely lad with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can". (The pre-release blurb had much the same phrase, but called him an "urchin".) The three-eyed teddy, described as "more enlightened than the average bear" is an obvious reference to both the "third eye" of Eastern mysticism and Yogi Bear. Now think about where the title "yogi" comes from... Hix is Unseen University's token Black Magician. The team "Unseen Academicals" just happens to contain a number of not-seen-before staff of the Unseen University. Buried in the list of previously unmentioned seats of learning where Macarona has degrees is "Chubb". In the UK, Chubb is the name of a well-known manufacturer of high-security locks; a stealth pun on Yale.
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Punch-Clock Villain
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Punch-Clock Villain: A somewhat unusual version with Dr. Hix, of the Department of Necromancy... Er, Post-Mortem Communications, who is professionally obligated to be slightly evil from time to time, albeit within "acceptable levels" set by university regulations. Normally, he fulfills this obligation through minor mischief such as slipping people tickets to his community theater group. But it should also be noted that as the official Post-Mortem Communicator, Dr. Hix is also responsible for dealing with unofficial Post-Mortem Communicators. With fireballs, if necessary.
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Wrong Genre Savvy
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Glenda knows trashy romance novel tropes backwards and forwards, and doesn't really get a handle on events until she stops thinking in those terms and starts working with Earn Your Happy Ending instead.
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Chekhov's Gun: Glenda's favorite rule: The ball is the ball. The possessed whistle. "Come on if you think you're hard enough!" How to get a free drink at any pub in Ankh-Morpork.
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Mistaken Identity
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Mistaken Identity: Courtesy of Glenda's total lack of useful cynicism in some areas.
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Cordon Bleugh Chef
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Cordon Bleugh Chef: After Nutt comes Back from the Dead (that's a simplification; see Our Orcs Are Different), the Igor attending him gives him a tuna, spaghetti and jam sandwich. With sprinkles.
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Ironic Echo: Andy Shank threatens Trev that if he plays in the big game he'll be carried out of the stadium, meaning to suggest that Trev will be too injured to walk. When Trev, and the rest of the victorious team, are carried out in triumph on the shoulders of the crowd, the narrator notes that Andy's prediction was technically correct.
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Bring the Anchor Along
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Bring the Anchor Along: Nutt describes his early childhood labouring in a dark forge, where he built up his strength by working with larger and larger equipment until he could even carry the anvil. When his friend asks why that was so important to him, he clarifies that he was chained to the anvil.
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Changing of the Guard
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Changing of the Guard: Between Ponder's ascent to the University Council (most of it, in fact; Ponder holds enough different positions to form both a quorum and a majority all by himself, so he can call meetings and hold binding votes without another soul present), Nutt's implied future as Mightily Oats's successor, Adrian Turnipseed's professorship, and the youth of the cast in general, this book builds upon other recent Discworld novels in bringing a fresh generation of characters to the fore.
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Nephewism
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Nephewism: Ponder Stibbons was brought up by his aunts. He mentions this because, just after the wizards all remember their fathers taking them to football games, Ponder realizes he never met his.
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Verbal Tic: Juliet's habit of ending every sentence with "Din't it?" or "Didn't I?" or something similar, innit.
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Shoot the Dog
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Shoot the Dog: It's important that Mr. Nutt does not harm anyone, and publicly refrains from harming Andy when he'd be quite justified in doing so. However it's also important that Andy gets his just desserts, so Pepe obliges.
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Blood Sport
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Blood Sport: Street football is essentially this before Vetinari and UU get involved. Ponder mentions that in ancient times, losing teams could be throttled, and the painted urn that gets the story started depicts a player who's been brutally kicked by his opponent.
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Prince Charming
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Prince Charming: Referenced; Glenda thinks Juliet deserves a handsome prince, which is why she disapproves of her hanging around with Trev Likely. Later Glenda realizes this isn't the whole truth: she's gotten too used to "crab-bucket" thinking to see the real potential in Trev...and in Juliet.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: The fashion magazine that Juliet reads is Bu-Bubble or, more likely, Beau Beaux Belle - three different words for "beautiful" in French. The lines from philosophical works Nutt quotes are infinitely more hilarious if you understand German. (One, for example, mentions sweet, vanilla-flavoured desserts.)
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Oppose What You Suffered
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Oppose What You Suffered: Pepe stands up to the bully Andy when no-one else does both by providing the protagonists with protection against Andy's favoured Groin Attack and by actually cutting Andy with a knife, a treatment Andy is very keen on inflicting on others, and in his "The Reason You Suck" Speech Pepe states that he is very familiar with bullies, implicitly from having been bullied himself, potentially about his ambiguous species and sexuality, and will not allow bullies to get away with it any more.
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Sophisticated as Hell
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Sophisticated as Hell: Asked what makes a good football trainer, Nutt gives a long answer that takes in psychology, metaphysics and quantum physics, concluding with:
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Odd Name, Normal Nickname
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Odd Name, Normal Nickname: One of Unseen University's bledlows goes by Al. A fellow bledlow is surprised to learn it's short for Alphonse (a Quirmian name) rather than Alfred but goes no further due to Al obviously being sensitive about it.
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All Psychology Is Freudian
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All Psychology Is Freudian: Mr. Nutt's method of psychotherapy revolves around acknowledging repressed memories and emotions (especially vis-a-vis paternal/maternal conflict), and is based entirely on Uberwaldian philosophy which comes complete with nonsensical Germanesque names. He even adopts the stock gag-Austrian accent (with "ze" for "the"), explaining that it's "soothing". And afterwards, he asks for a cigar.
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: "You think it's over?" Done three times. A reference to a famous remark by the commentator at the end of the 1966 World Cup final: "They think it's all over..." (player shoots) "It is now!" (GOAL!)
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Nutt's upbringing combines this with Pet the Dog in the most warped way.
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Does Not Know His Own Strength
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Does Not Know His Own Strength: Inverted when Trev insists Nutt punch his arm, then admits that he didn't know Nutt's own strength while favoring his bruised biceps.
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Character Development
 Unseen Academicals / int_3b113b7
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Trev. In the book he's an amicable and friendly guy, who treats Mr Nutt with kindness from the start. Here, he's a total jerk towards him for much of the audio drama, though he does go through a bit of Character Development and changes for the better.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: Whatever happened on Tuesday. Ridcully's latest anti-Dean rant is still better than Tuesday.
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Unseen Academicals / int_3c0a4666
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Humans Are Bastards
 Unseen Academicals / int_3d4d3dc9
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Humans Are Bastards: People believe that orcs were created by magically and/or eugenically altering goblins. At the end, Margolotta reveals that, no, orcs are descended from humans. Vetinari reflects that it's obvious: goblins aren't vicious enough (an assessment borne out by Snuff).
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I'm Melting!
 Unseen Academicals / int_3ed8a8b9
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I'm Melting!: Not shown, but Evans the Striped reportedly expired in a Type E example, i.e. he evaporated.
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Unseen Academicals / int_3ed8a8b9
 Unseen Academicals / int_40a447c3
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Indestructible Edible
 Unseen Academicals / int_40a447c3
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Indestructible Edible: Professor Macarona's dehydrated pasta, the equivalent of Roundworld ramen.
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Unseen Academicals / int_40a447c3
 Unseen Academicals / int_40bb59d0
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Blatant Lies
 Unseen Academicals / int_40bb59d0
comment
Blatant Lies: Glenda tells Ottomy that she and Juliet missed the game because they were cleaning the ovens, causing him to look slowly around the kitchen at the lack of grime, cloths, soap, gloves, etc. She then adds that they just finished cleaning up.
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Unseen Academicals / int_40bb59d0
 Unseen Academicals / int_4280d1fd
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Spock Speak
 Unseen Academicals / int_4280d1fd
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Spock Speak: Nutt, most of the time.
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Unseen Academicals / int_4280d1fd
 Unseen Academicals / int_43ae1aba
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World's Most Beautiful Woman
 Unseen Academicals / int_43ae1aba
comment
World's Most Beautiful Woman: Juliet is described as pretty enough to make goddesses weep with jealousy.
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Unseen Academicals / int_43ae1aba
 Unseen Academicals / int_4604fd4d
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Worthy Opponent
 Unseen Academicals / int_4604fd4d
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Worthy Opponent: Mr. Hoggett, captain of Ankh-Morpork United. Despite the fact that his team contains a number of jerks, cheats, and Andy Shank, he tries to play a fair game, apologizes to the ref for his team's illegal moves, and punches out Andy Shank for mucking up what would otherwise have been a fair and square game in a personal Moment of Awesome.
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Unseen Academicals / int_4604fd4d
 Unseen Academicals / int_461038e6
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Mistaken for Spies
 Unseen Academicals / int_461038e6
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Mistaken for Spies: The line “I wish I knew exactly whom Vetinari was employing� from Ridcully implies he thinks Glenda is a spy for Vetinari. She isn’t; she’s just arranged to see what’s going on in the Uncommon Room because she’s curious about it.
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Unseen Academicals / int_461038e6
 Unseen Academicals / int_47a44ec9
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Motivation on a Stick
 Unseen Academicals / int_47a44ec9
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Motivation on a Stick: There's a scene with the wizards riding on the backs of the university porters and motivating them with a bottle of beer on the end of a stick.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_4832a3bb
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Always Chaotic Evil
 Unseen Academicals / int_4832a3bb
comment
Always Chaotic Evil: A widely-held belief regarding orcs, ultimately proved false. Ankh-Morpork doesn't seem to hold this against Nutt all that much...mostly because Ankh-Morpork assumes everybody's a vicious murdering bastard deep down.
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Unseen Academicals / int_4832a3bb
 Unseen Academicals / int_4abd0b32
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I'll Take Two Beers Too
 Unseen Academicals / int_4abd0b32
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I'll Take Two Beers Too: After the wizards catch the Megapode, one of the maids asks them what they want to eat. Ridcully gives an impressive list of food (including "cheese boards one through five") and then says "Anyone else want to add anything?"
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Unseen Academicals / int_4abd0b32
 Unseen Academicals / int_4e3decd5
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A Friend in Need
 Unseen Academicals / int_4e3decd5
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A Friend in Need: Glenda, Juliet, Mr Nutt, and Trev swap around bailing each other out in the course of the plot.
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Unseen Academicals / int_4e3decd5
 Unseen Academicals / int_4e7c4536
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Wham Line
 Unseen Academicals / int_4e7c4536
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Wham Line: Wham Word, in fact. A word most Discworld readers never expected to see in the books: ORC.
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Unseen Academicals / int_4e7c4536
 Unseen Academicals / int_4f84cdef
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Smug Snake
 Unseen Academicals / int_4f84cdef
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Smug Snake: Andy Shank. He's an evil-minded little git who carries himself like Carcer Dun. Pepe educates him in why this shouldn't be so.
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Unseen Academicals / int_4f84cdef
 Unseen Academicals / int_517ae522
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Loads and Loads of Rules
 Unseen Academicals / int_517ae522
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Loads and Loads of Rules: Part of Vetinari's attempt to control the game, as trying to outwit a game of complex rules is less likely to end in bloodshed. Like Round World soccer, the offsides rules in particular seem to be extremely complex and hotly disputed.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_5281d5b1
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Our Dwarves Are All the Same
 Unseen Academicals / int_5281d5b1
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Pepe and Madame Sharn are both exceptions to Our Dwarves Are All the Same. In fact, they bring up some very interesting questions about how dwarves think about sex, gender, and sexuality. All dwarves look male by human standards, even clearly feminine-gendered dwarfs wear so many layers of leather and metal that it's impossible to guess anatomical sex, and it's not polite to ask what sex another dwarf is unless you're engaged to them. So do dwarves have any concept of sexual orientation, or of gender arising from anatomical sex? Also, Pepe is the second example of the fact that Discworld dwarves regard dwarfishness in a fashion closer to a religion than anything biological.
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Unseen Academicals / int_5281d5b1
 Unseen Academicals / int_547196be
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Broad Strokes
 Unseen Academicals / int_547196be
comment
Broad Strokes: It is possible to tie Ridcully's background here (father was a butcher, grandfather was an Ankh-Morporkian who made music boxes and played football) with his introduction in Moving Pictures as having spent several years running his family's country estate, but it takes a bit of work.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_5535bb82
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Centipede's Dilemma
 Unseen Academicals / int_5535bb82
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The Luggage is implied to be part of the team. This was tried but failed because of the Centipede's Dilemma.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_556a4e20
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The Empire
 Unseen Academicals / int_556a4e20
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The Empire: This is the first book to go into any kind of detail about the fallen Evil Empire of Uberwald (also called the Unholy Empire and the Dark Empire in earlier books). According to Word of God, it's the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of the Soviet Union, combined with some fairly obvious nods to Mordor.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_58030b25
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Visual Innuendo
 Unseen Academicals / int_58030b25
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Visual Innuendo: Glenda points out that the proposed uniform design with "UU" on the front resembles breasts. (Especially since wizards are usually rather fat to begin with.) Used again when Dibbler's bootleg memorabilia uses the original design, which actually had been the uniform for University teams in the past.
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Unseen Academicals / int_58030b25
 Unseen Academicals / int_5cd6010b
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Turn Out Like His Father
 Unseen Academicals / int_5cd6010b
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Turn Out Like His Father: A touching version, once Trev comes to grips with pride in his father's achievements versus anger over his ignoble death.
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Unseen Academicals / int_5cd6010b
 Unseen Academicals / int_5ce2c9c6
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Suddenly Shouting
 Unseen Academicals / int_5ce2c9c6
comment
The wizards initially practice with a cursed whistle that is possessed by a parody of a nightmare PE Teacher. This mostly goes forgotten until the (former) Dean referees the game and blows the whistle... then declares into the megaphone "ANYONE NOT IN KIT WILL PLAY IN THEIR PANTS".
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Unseen Academicals / int_5ce2c9c6
 Unseen Academicals / int_5ecaab25
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Fantastic Vermin
 Unseen Academicals / int_5ecaab25
comment
Fantastic Vermin: While Nutt explores Unseen University's cellars, he is intrigued to learn that they are home to "that very rare indoorovore, the Uncommon Sock Eater". (Presumably this indicates that the Eater of Socks from Hogfather survived the book's events, possibly to breed.)
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Unseen Academicals / int_5ecaab25
 Unseen Academicals / int_5ff56a1f
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Long List
 Unseen Academicals / int_5ff56a1f
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Long List: Examples below combined with Overly Long Gag: Professor Macarona's full list of titles and honors goes on for about a full hardcover page. In reality it's only about an eight-line paragraph, but repeated so many times that it covers nearly two softcover pages - and audiobook readers may start to wonder if their file is stuck in a loop. Ridcully asks Ponder what the Academicals' problem is. The list of ways they are failing to grasp football takes up roughly the same space as the one above. Without repetition.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_60fb097
type
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
 Unseen Academicals / int_60fb097
comment
Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: The United team's cheating does nothing but turn the crowd against them and give Trev his chance to shine. The team captain (who wanted to win fairly to prove a point) is furious at his out-of-control players for this.
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Color-Coded Wizardry
 Unseen Academicals / int_61cd6e2b
comment
Color-Coded Wizardry: Parodied with UU's late sports instructor, Evans the Striped. Presumably he wore some sort of striped rugby shirt, or even a referee's black and white striped jersey.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_6306ceb6
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Hat of Authority
 Unseen Academicals / int_6306ceb6
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Hat of Authority: The Archchancellor's Hat, valued perhaps even more for its conferred status than its magical abilities, is hotly contested between the rival wizard universities.
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Unseen Academicals / int_6306ceb6
 Unseen Academicals / int_67f26dcc
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Planet of Hats
 Unseen Academicals / int_67f26dcc
comment
Nutt is an orc, but largely rejects violence. His Planet of Hats' hat get deconstructed by the end, though, showing that the orcs' bloodthirstiness had been an in-universe Dead Unicorn Trope.
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Unseen Academicals / int_67f26dcc
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Serious Business
 Unseen Academicals / int_6b35bdff
comment
Serious Business: Football. Starts out as a subversion, as the only thing on the line seems to be a large portion of the University's food budget, and the wizards don't even need to win the game to retain that. Then the Archchancellor's Hat is wagered on the result. And then Vetinari commits to reforming the rules and it becomes a fight for the spirit of the game and for reason containing the mob. A loss for the Academicals could actually damage the Patrician's authority.
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Unseen Academicals / int_6b35bdff
 Unseen Academicals / int_6bccf2ba
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Supreme Chef
 Unseen Academicals / int_6bccf2ba
comment
Supreme Chef: Glenda. Her grandmother was the cook at the Assassins' Guild when Vetinari was a student; he still remembers the pies fondly, and practically (for Vetinari) salivates when he learns that the recipes were passed down. He's also the one to realize that Glenda would never even think of poisoning a pie because of the almost religious importance she places on food. He mentions at the end that he had been planning on offering her a job if things had turned out differently.
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Unseen Academicals / int_6bccf2ba
 Unseen Academicals / int_6bda9a30
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Meaningful Name
 Unseen Academicals / int_6bda9a30
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Meaningful Name: Juliet, obviously. There's also Andy Shank; "shank" can mean a stabbing weapon. Also see Stealth Pun below for Trev Likely.
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I Gave My Word
 Unseen Academicals / int_6fb5cb83
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I Gave My Word: Trev promised his Mum he'd never play football.
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Unseen No More
 Unseen Academicals / int_705d2ccf
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Unseen No More: Seafood purveyor Verity Pushpram, hitherto only ever mentioned in passing as Nobby Nobbs' not-quite-girlfriend, actually makes a brief appearance here (and, unbeknown to herself, demonstrates to Glenda what Pepe meant by "crab bucket").
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Asymmetric Dilemma
 Unseen Academicals / int_70cc528
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Asymmetric Dilemma: The footnote on the first page about the Ankh-Morporkian system of government notes that "Everyone was entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari."
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
 Unseen Academicals / int_720e28a4
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: "The smell of pipe smoke and old socks, and since the wizards are lax about knocking out their pipes, smoking socks as well."
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Adaptational Intelligence
 Unseen Academicals / int_72455542
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Adaptational Intelligence: Juliet, while still far from an intellectual, is notably less of The Ditz here than in the book.
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Mugging the Monster
 Unseen Academicals / int_7276d0de
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Mugging the Monster: Ponder recalls how his wizardry first manifested when he set fire to the trousers of a schoolyard bully who'd been giving him a wedgie.
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade
 Unseen Academicals / int_730d3664
comment
Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Noticable on several levels. Nutt has some more serious angst issues than in the book. He's terrified of the Sisters, whose mere presence reduces him to screams of panic. Dave Likely's death haunts Trev to a bigger degree, with several instances where we get a Flashback Cut to the event. He also suffers far more hardships and goes completely to pieces in a way he never did in the book. Juliet's family are openly abusive and her home life pretty miserable. Both the Trev/Juliet and the Glenda/Nutt relationships have had their angst levels taken up to eleven, with lots of drama, tears, Poor Communication Kills and external forces getting in their way. Inverted, however, with Pepe, who's notably less cynical and more of an Adaptational Nice Guy.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_7315fd38
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Covers Always Lie
 Unseen Academicals / int_7315fd38
comment
Covers Always Lie: Vetinari sadly does not referee the game. Glenda and Juliet are not dressed as cheerleaders, although they do watch the match. The Luggage is implied to be part of the team. This was tried but failed because of the Centipede's Dilemma.
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Almighty Janitor
 Unseen Academicals / int_73ef9ef3
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Since the rules are still being written and Ponder is in charge, there is not yet a rule regarding player species, as this would force the Academicals' best goalie off the team. It is implied an Obvious Rule Patch will be made as soon as the game is over.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_7464705c
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Arc Words
 Unseen Academicals / int_7464705c
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Arc Words: "The leopard can change his shorts."
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 Unseen Academicals / int_7a3dd888
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Real Men Wear Pink
 Unseen Academicals / int_7a3dd888
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Real Men Wear Pink: The Dimwell colors are green and bright pink. Do you want to question a football hooligan's manhood? Didn't think so. Nutt theorizes that the pink was deliberately chosen to trick people into provoking the Dimwells.
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The Trope Formerly Known as X
 Unseen Academicals / int_7a560a7b
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The Trope Formerly Known as X: Vetinari repeatedly refers to the former Dean and current Archchancellor of Brazeneck University as "Archchancellor formerly known as Dean" in the gathering that happens halfway into the book. Later the narration starts using this form of address as well.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_7aa989ea
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Token Evil Teammate
 Unseen Academicals / int_7aa989ea
comment
Token Evil Teammate: Dr. Hix, again. It's in his job description.
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Bullying a Dragon
 Unseen Academicals / int_7eb73553
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Bullying a Dragon: Andy and his followers taunting Nutt about his species, once they learn the truth (they had the initial excuse of not knowing). To whomever poisoned the Librarian, congratulations. You have just angered a 300 pound ape and his boss, who is not just a Boisterous Bruiser but also one of the most powerful wizards on the Disc. In a word: Run.
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The Alcoholic
 Unseen Academicals / int_7eebe99c
comment
The Alcoholic: Played for Laughs with Pepe, who declares that he'll drink water "when fish climb out of it to take a piss", but put him in a room with a bottle and watch it rapidly disappear. While visiting the Night Kitchen he helps himself to cider vinegar ("I'm only drinking the cider bit."), ketchup and even Wow-Wow Sauce.
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Unseen Academicals / int_7eebe99c
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AwesomeByAnalysis
 Unseen Academicals / int_7f514dd1
comment
Awesome by Analysis: Mr. Nutt knows exactly how much force it would take to tear your head off, and what muscles would give him trouble in the process. Fortunately for you, he'd much rather think about how to turn a ragtag bunch of wizards into a credible football team.
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Actually Pretty Funny
 Unseen Academicals / int_8042e814
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Actually Pretty Funny: Contains one of the only examples in the series of the Patrician laughing out loud:
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 Unseen Academicals / int_80b57bec
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Super-Soldier
 Unseen Academicals / int_80b57bec
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Super-Soldier: Orcs. Super-strong, fast, can come Back from the Dead, super smart and with a natural teamwork instinct.
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Unseen Academicals / int_80b57bec
 Unseen Academicals / int_823c6e3e
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Large Ham
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comment
Large Ham: Ridcully, as always, feels the need to declare to no one in particular "Change and decay! I am surrounded by traitors! They thwart me at every turn" when he sees the housekeeper's raided all his secret food stashes.
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Adaptational Nice Guy
 Unseen Academicals / int_82a64c4b
comment
Inverted, however, with Pepe, who's notably less cynical and more of an Adaptational Nice Guy.
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Tall Poppy Syndrome
 Unseen Academicals / int_83535879
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Tall Poppy Syndrome: Referred to here as the "crab bucket". (The analogy being that the market sellers keep crabs for sale in open-topped buckets. The crabs don't escape because, since they all grasp at each other all the time, no crab ever succeeds in climbing out of the open bucket because the others hold it back.) Not getting ideas above one's station is a huge part of the working class culture of Dolly Sisters, and much of Glenda's Character Development is learning to let go of the crab bucket mindset. Trev's attempts to teach Nutt to use colloquial street-dialect rather than formal Morporkian could also be considered this trope, although he's even less conscious of what he's doing. Alternatively, he could be trying to protect Nutt from this attitude, and the concomitant mistrust of well-spoken people.
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Straight Gay
 Unseen Academicals / int_83b44e80
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Straight Gay: Professor Bengo Macarona of Genua, star football player, with 13 doctorates from Unki, QIS, and Chubb and a visiting professorship at Bugarup, cited in two hundred and thirty-six papers... and one divorce petition.
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
 Unseen Academicals / int_8409a385
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Parodied by Dr Hix: "Evil Empire. It did what it said on the iron maiden."
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Unseen Academicals / int_8409a385
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Inherently Funny Words
 Unseen Academicals / int_8426d2ac
comment
Inherently Funny Words: Gloing.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_8485d41a
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Interspecies Romance
 Unseen Academicals / int_8485d41a
comment
Interspecies Romance: Although Pepe and Madam Sharn are both dwarves, Pepe is technically a small human who converted to being a dwarf. Played straight with Glenda and Nutt... sort of. There's also the ambiguously romantic relationship between Lady Margolotta and Vetinari.
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Shameful Strip
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Shameful Strip: Evans the Striped would shame students who hadn't brought their kit (gym uniform) by making them take their regular trousers off and play in their underpants.
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Badass Boast
 Unseen Academicals / int_86b21114
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Badass Boast: Ridcully has one near the end of the book about an assault on one of the wizards.
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Black-and-Gray Morality
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Black-and-Gray Morality: Lady Margolotta's plans for Uberwald are far better than any of the alternatives but the means to the end are not necessarily nice. As evidenced by her Kick the Dog moments during Nutt's education.
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Eldritch Abomination
 Unseen Academicals / int_8774fb47
comment
And then there's the literal Brick Joke. After the heated meeting between Ridcully and Henry, Former Dean and Current Archchancellor of Brazeneck, Ponder sees Rincewind putting one of his socks back on. He once stopped an Eldritch Abomination by hitting it with half a brick in a sock. Ponder notes that it was probably the same sock.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_88ce9094
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Chubby Chef
 Unseen Academicals / int_88ce9094
comment
Chubby Chef: Trev unromantically calls Glenda a fat girl who makes a good pie. The latter is an understatement, as her culinary feats impress even wizards. The former is a source of some well-hidden insecurity, especially where her slim, famously beautiful childhood friend Juliet is concerned.
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Unseen Academicals / int_88ce9094
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Back from the Dead
 Unseen Academicals / int_8967e17f
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Back from the Dead: Happens automatically to Nutt, thanks to the "little brother" incorporated into orcs by the Igors who created them.
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Unseen Academicals / int_8967e17f
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Posthumous Character
 Unseen Academicals / int_8b568cb7
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Posthumous Character: Dave Likely. Trev lives forever in his father's shadow until he manages to outdo him with the final goal.
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I Was Told There Would Be Cake
 Unseen Academicals / int_8b9f8764
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I Was Told There Would Be Cake: "There will be cake."
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Beat the Curse Out of Him
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Beat the Curse Out of Him: Dr. Hix is the only one who dares to do this when Ridcully is under the control of a haunted artifact, which is exactly why he holds that job in the first place.
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No-Respect Guy
 Unseen Academicals / int_90b330ab
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Ponder Stibbons is shedding his No-Respect Guy tag as he proves himself a very skilled researcher who is also capable of managing all of UU's day-to-day affairs, including deftly manipulating much older and more ruthless wizards.
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Children Are Innocent
 Unseen Academicals / int_91672d3e
comment
Children Are Innocent: In this case, "innocent" can be taken in the legalistic sense of "innocent of being irredeemable psychopathic murderers until proven guilty". Even if you call them pups. Even if they are infant orcs.
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The Bard on Board
 Unseen Academicals / int_942ca04a
comment
The Bard on Board: Trev and Juliet are Romeo and Juliet from rival football teams. A lot of references to the play ensue, including "two teams, alike in villainy!" (And Trev puts his own spin on "A plague on both your houses" with "I hope the gods shit thin shit on all of you!")
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The Big Damn Kiss
 Unseen Academicals / int_9438e550
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The Big Damn Kiss: When Juliet and Trev kiss at the end of the match, they float in the air and are lit with a golden glow. Other characters comment on this.
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Unseen Academicals / int_9438e550
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Shaped Like Itself
 Unseen Academicals / int_94680696
comment
Shaped Like Itself: "Mostly they're just pies, sir. Made of... pie." Also, the first rule of football is "The ball shall be called the ball."
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Unseen Academicals / int_94680696
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Literalist Snarking
 Unseen Academicals / int_953626a3
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Literalist Snarking: Tell Glenda that "Vetinari has ears everywhere" and you'll get the reply "I only see two."
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Layman's Terms
 Unseen Academicals / int_958a7bef
comment
Layman's Terms: Inverted, played straight, and subverted with the love letter Trev asks Mr. Nutt to enhance from simply, "I think you are really fit, want to go out? No hanky-panky, promise." When the letter is delivered, the loquacious language is too hard for Juliet to understand and needs Glenda to translate it. Glenda ends up using the exact phrase Trev originally wanted enhanced. The subversion comes from the fact that Nutt had thought about his feelings for Glenda and what he would want to say to her to ask her out on a date with the same promises and she understood it without any issues.
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Tyop on the Cover
 Unseen Academicals / int_97c8b5b0
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Tyop on the Cover: One dust jacket has a synopsis that spells Vetinari as "Ventinari."
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore
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comment
Nothing Is the Same Anymore: For the first time since Moving Pictures, UU has been shaken up by the departure of the Dean - and, not coincidentally, we finally learn his name, or at least his first name.
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The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In
 Unseen Academicals / int_9ab2d4a
comment
The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In: Happens when Angua tosses Juliet's pin-on Dolly badge on the table next to Trev's hand. Even the narrative isn't sure if it's deliberate or not.
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Chainmail Bikini
 Unseen Academicals / int_9bfbf9f3
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Chainmail Bikini: Micromail is implied to be used primarily for underlayers (given how everyone talks about the lack of chafing) and is modeled complete with a false beard.
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 Unseen Academicals / int_9d12bbc1
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Foreshadowing
 Unseen Academicals / int_9d12bbc1
comment
Foreshadowing: The Actually, That's My Assistant scene is hinted at early, when the woman Glenda identifies as Lady Margolotta who is actually her librarian complains that it's too noisy in the coaching house. Ponder asks what Brazeneck is using to power Pex, and reacts with just a hint of unholy glee. The Furies' incessant cry of "Awk! Awk!" turns out to have a significance which probably flies right over rhotic speakers' heads: "Orc! Orc!"
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Animal Athlete Loophole
 Unseen Academicals / int_9d4f79e2
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Animal Athlete Loophole: Ain't No Rule saying an orangutan can't play football! Since the wizards are writing the rules of football themselves as they go along, obviously there wouldn't be ...until after the game. Ain't no rule saying a sentient piece of luggage can't play football either. The only reason that it's scrapped from the team (although included on the cover art) is because it's absolutely horrible at it.
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Flashback Cut
 Unseen Academicals / int_9e67ec50
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Flashback Cut: Several times during the audio drama, whenever Trev talks about not being able to play mob ball, we get a brief flashback to his father's death.
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Animals Hate Him
 Unseen Academicals / int_9fd18130
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Animals Hate Him: Specifically to horses, for whom Mr. Nutt's aroma is distressing; even the Horseman's Word only compels them to comply very, very unhappily.
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Tempting Apple
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Tempting Banana: Ordinarily, of course, this is an apple's job. But in this case it was Schmuck Bait for the Librarian.
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Overly Long Gag
 Unseen Academicals / int_a188ac4b
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Overly Long Gag: The Bengo Macarona chant goes on for over two pages due to Macarona's insistance that the chanting crowd use his complete list of titles and awards. Read in-full in the audiobook, going on for over 4 minutes.
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Passive-Aggressive Kombat
 Unseen Academicals / int_a201dad2
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Passive-Aggressive Kombat: It's noted that high-ranking wizards cannot get into fights in public, because that could have dire magical consequences. Therefore Ridcully and Henry, former Dean of UU butt heads in a very masculine form of Politeness Judo.
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Eye Scream
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How to get a free drink at any pub in Ankh-Morpork.
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Just the First Citizen
 Unseen Academicals / int_a2e96d18
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Just the First Citizen: Played with, as Ridcully, the Archchancellor of Unseen University, is traditionally considered the "first among equals", but he stresses the word first.
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Nice to the Waiter
 Unseen Academicals / int_a39d6056
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Nice to the Waiter: Ridcully and Lord Vetinari are both willing to hear and consider Glenda's thoughts on football and mob rule.
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Armor of Invincibility
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Armor of Invincibility: Micromail, which can No-Sell a sledgehammer blow to the nuts.
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Karma Houdini
 Unseen Academicals / int_a70223
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Karma Houdini: Defied. It looks like Andy Shank is going to get away virtually unscathed, but then the Camp Gay Pepe decides to make sure he gets what's coming to him.
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Adaptational Jerkass
 Unseen Academicals / int_a91078ea
comment
Adaptational Jerkass: Trev. In the book he's an amicable and friendly guy, who treats Mr Nutt with kindness from the start. Here, he's a total jerk towards him for much of the audio drama, though he does go through a bit of Character Development and changes for the better. Dean Henry. In the book, despite the rivalry between Brazeneck and UU, he was the neutral party and trusted to be the referee in the big game. Here, he's actively against UU, and is the main force that unites the Dimmers and the Dollies in order to get the most brutal team to take them down. The role of referee in the game instead goes to Vimes.
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 Unseen Academicals / int_a9de87d2
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Pepe. And Nutt.
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Offing the Mouth
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Offing the Mouth: The intellectual but totally unstreetwise Orc Mr Nutt gets this treatment from a gang of proto-football hooligans. His mistake was to try to engage them in debate on mob psychology and the sociopathology of overcrowded juvenile male rats, just as Trev was about to possibly get them out a messy situation. Nutt gets clubbed and left for dead by the gang.
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Given Name Reveal
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Given Name Reveal: Because the Dean has left UU and can't be referred to by either title by Ridcully ("Archchancellor" was out of the question, but "Dean" too obvious an insult), Ridcully has to dig around in his memories for "the bastard's name", which turns out to be Henry.
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Dramatic Irony
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Dramatic Irony: Anyone reading Discworld books in the first place is probably Genre Savvy enough to realize that Glenda is talking to Lady Margolotta in the coaching house — if not immediately, then certainly by the third paragraph.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Rincewind's incredible speed is mentioned early on when he plays the Megapode in the traditional Megapode hunt. During the big game, after the ball has been destroyed by Old Man Stollop who's trying to stop the Academicals from scoring more goals, Rincewind is the only one fast enough to run and fetch a new ball.
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Girls Love Stuffed Animals
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Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Even the three-eyed ones, who are more enlightened than the average bear.
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Xtreme Kool Letterz
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: Dr. Hix was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hicks, but "any man who wears a black robe and a skull ring isn't going to pass up the chance to have an X in his name".
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Always Camp
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Always Camp: Pepe the fashionista, but only when he's working.
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Playing Cyrano
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Playing Cyrano: Amusingly subverted, as Nutt ghost-writes a love letter to Juliet for Trev, who can't think of anything better to say than "I think you are really fit, want to go out? No hanky-panky, promise." This is, word for word, exactly how Glenda summarizes Nutt's poetic missive when Juliet asks her what all "Trev's" fancy words mean.
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Everyone Has Standards
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Everyone Has Standards: The United captain wants to knock the wizards down a peg as much as anyone, but the mob of cheating bullies he's saddled with disgusts him. He plays along with Glenda's gambit at the end just to deny Andy the victory, then lays him out once it's over.
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Too Dumb to Fool
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Too Dumb to Fool: Juliet can often tear down Glenda's white lies or deceptions, because she's too unimaginative to fill in the gaps on her own.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: UU's Mr. Floribunda apparently thought that using the Cabinet of Curiosity as a snack pantry was a good idea. Unfortunately for him, the rule that anything organic automatically returns to it within 14.14 hours did apply to bacon sandwiches ... even already-digested ones. Fortunately, he did live through whatever it was that happened to him.
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Twofer Token Minority
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Twofer Token Minority: The unnamed Medusa female watch officer.
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Demoted to Extra
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Demoted to Extra: The radio drama focuses more clearly on Nutt, Glenda, Trev and Juliet, with Vetinari and (to an extent) Lady Margolotta as the most important secondary characters. Ridcully, the UU faculty, Madame Sharn and Pepe are still there, and all of them get a number of scenes to shine, but they still have less focus than they did in the book.
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Genius Bruiser
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Genius Bruiser: Again, Mr. Nutt. He's a member of a race of specially-bred super soldiers, and also read and memorized most of Lady Margolotta's library. Which means he can tell you just how much force note  "three-to-five kiloBunns" it will take to snap your neck, and which muscles will get in the way.
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Berserk Button
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During Ridcully's tirade about the Dean leaving Ponder mentions that at least one wizard has retired. Doctor Earwig left to get married.
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No Social Skills
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No Social Skills: Nutt, initially. He's read a lot in books, but applying that to the real world is something else.
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Rugby Is Slaughter
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Rugby Is Slaughter: The state of football in the beginning of the book.note Where "football" is the original undifferentiated game, the Mass Shove with few rules, the caveman grandparent of what later became eleven-a-side football as we know it, two codes of Rugby, Australian Rules Football and of course American Football Part of Trev's backstory was that his father died on the pitch.
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Never Gets Drunk
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Never Gets Drunk: Subverted by Lord Vetinari. He matches a hall full of heavy drinkers twice his size mug-for-mug and most of them end up passing out. Vetinari only appears slightly tipsy, but then he stubs his toe on a stair, takes an extra 50 seconds to solve the Times crossword the next morning (even resorting to the dictionary) and Drumknott notes that he seems unusually talkative, though no less cogent. For him, that's the equivalent of getting married in Vegas.
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Badass Bookworm
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Badass Bookworm: Mr. Nutt, who doesn't let go of his Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness even when prodding serious buttock.
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Kaiju
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Kaiju: An accident at Brazeneck's Higher Energy Magic building unleashes a seventy-foot chicken onto the streets of Pseudopolis. And it's foreshadowed too. Early on, Ponder asks what Brazeneck is using to power their knockoff of Hex; the answer is chickens. Ponder's initial reaction is mildly alarm, and then smugness: he knows what will happen, and clearly has no interest in telling Adrian how to fix it. But then, they did steal the design for Hex (not to mention the Dean) - he isn't really fond of them.
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Second Verse Curse
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Second Verse Curse: Invoked; whoever wrote the Ankh-Morpork anthem knew nobody would remember the second verse so they just filled it with a bunch of "ner ner ner" to begin with.
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Henchmen Race
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Henchmen Race: The orcs were designed purely to serve as weapons, and most people assumed that they weren't capable of functioning without someone to give them orders.
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Actually, That's My Assistant
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The Actually, That's My Assistant scene is hinted at early, when the woman Glenda identifies as Lady Margolotta who is actually her librarian complains that it's too noisy in the coaching house.
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Brain Drain
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Brain Drain: Pseudopolis' new Brazeneck College is trying to poach talent from Unseen University. Their Archchancellor used to be UU's Dean, and the head of their technomancy department was once Ponder Stibbons' best student. They even offered Ponder the post of Bursar, but he never even asked what the salary was. After all, even if they made him a professor, he'd probably have a lot less clout than as UU's Jack of All Trades.
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Shout-Out
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The first few pages are an extended Shout-Out/parody of Dan Brown.
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My Species Doth Protest Too Much
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My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Played with in several instances. Nutt is an orc, but largely rejects violence. His Planet of Hats' hat get deconstructed by the end, though, showing that the orcs' bloodthirstiness had been an in-universe Dead Unicorn Trope. Pepe and Madame Sharn are both exceptions to Our Dwarves Are All the Same. In fact, they bring up some very interesting questions about how dwarves think about sex, gender, and sexuality. All dwarves look male by human standards, even clearly feminine-gendered dwarfs wear so many layers of leather and metal that it's impossible to guess anatomical sex, and it's not polite to ask what sex another dwarf is unless you're engaged to them. So do dwarves have any concept of sexual orientation, or of gender arising from anatomical sex? Also, Pepe is the second example of the fact that Discworld dwarves regard dwarfishness in a fashion closer to a religion than anything biological.
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Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!
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Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!: Much of Glenda's Character Development is unlearning all the rules she's been taught, consciously or not, about being helpful and "knowing her place", and learning to take advantage of the fact that people will not hit you with a hammer if you break these unspoken rules.
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Easily-Distracted Referee
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Easily-Distracted Referee: Henry the Dean in the big game, who misses lots of blatant fouls despite his attempts to be as fair as possible.
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Mistaken for Foreigner
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Mistaken for Foreigner: Glenda lampshades people's tendency to do this to dwarfs. When Juliet says that a dwarf who was rude should "go back where he came from," Glenda says "That'd be Treacle Mine Road, then. He was born in the city." Presumably, Glenda noticed his accent, while Juliet only noticed that he was a dwarf.
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Good Shepherd
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Good Shepherd: Mightily Oats from Carpe Jugulum appears only in the Backstory, but he appears to have grown into this role, bringing Forgiveness with him wherever he travels.
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Everybody Lives
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Everybody Lives: Unusually for a Discworld story, Death only shows up once to tell a character he's not dead yet. Then again... some things you don't want to live through.
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Implausible Deniability
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Implausible Deniability: The giant ever-burning candle known as the Emperor did not go out, even if Nutt's vision tricked him into thinking it did. This must be so, because Smeems insists as much... just like he did on the prior two occasions it's not gone out on his watch.
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Written by the Winners
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Written by the Winners: The war against the Evil Empire is often referred to as this. For a start, calling it the "Evil Empire" implies that there were any good guys in that particular conflict. Snuff demonstrates that even the universally-maligned goblins are subject to this trope, as they're always at the losing end of history.
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Roboteching
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Roboteching: Trev can do this with tin cans. It's all about the spin.
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Lower-Deck Episode
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Lower-Deck Episode: Many Discworld books have focused on the faculty of Unseen University and Equal Rites filled in several details about the household staff but this is the first book in which the staff become the main characters.
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Anomalous Art
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Anomalous Art: A nervous night watchman in Ankh-Morpork's Art Museum breaks an age-old Ephebian urn. It is put down as one of those things. It is inferred that this is the prison of Pedestriana, Goddess of Foot-The-Ball. Now freed into the world, she looks at what humans have made of her sport - originally a religious ritual in her honor but now degenerated to a day-long street brawl - and starts putting things to rights.
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": After years of calling the Dean “Dean�, Ridcully struggles to remember his actual name, even though they were friends at school. Most other wizards’ names still aren’t given in this book, but the Dean is a special case; Ridcully has to call him something because he’s left UU, but refuses to call him “Archchancellor.�
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In My Language, That Sounds Like...
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In My Language, That Sounds Like...: Various bits of dwarfish fall victim to this here.
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The Blacksmith
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The Blacksmith: Mr. Nutt shoes a horse for the carriage company and silvers Glenda's tins. No, not like that.
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Whodunnit to Me?
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Whodunnit to Me?: Not a major part of the book (Nutt knows Whodunnit To Him, but wasn't actually brought back by the Igor so is allowed to walk out of hospital), but it's implied that this is a part of Watch procedure, given that there's an actual rule where "if it took an Igor to bring you back, you were dead." I.E. your case would be pursued as a murder.
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Famed In-Story
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Famed In-Story: Trev's father, Dave Likely.
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Adaptation Name Change
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Adaptation Name Change: Street football has been renamed "mob ball." The name "football" or "foot-the-ball" is revealed to be the game's original name.
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Try to Fit That on a Business Card
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Try to Fit That on a Business Card: The aforementioned Professor Macarona D.Thau (Bug), D.Maus (Chubb), Magistaludorum (QIS), Octavium (Hons), PHGK (Blit), DMSK, Mack, D.Thau (Bra), Visiting Professor in Chickens (Jahn the Conqueror University (Floor 2, Shrimp Packers Building, Genua)), Primo Octo (Deux), Visiting Professor of Blit/Slood Exchanges (Al Khali), KCbfJ, Reciprocating Professor of Blit Theory (Unki), D.Thau (Unki), Didimus Supremius (Unki), Emeritus Professor in Blit Substrate Determinations (Chubb), Chair of Blit and Music Studies (Quirm College for Young Ladies).
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Crushing Handshake
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Crushing Handshake: Subverted when Andy tries this on Nutt, and doesn't achieve anything but to make his own hand sore. Played straight with Hoggett, who "to his credit, hardly winced when it was taken for a firm handshake" by Ridcully.
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Historical In-Joke: Many references are made to the origins of modern Association Football under the English FA (Football Association) in the 1870s, including the FA Cup, which originally included teams like the Old Etonians. At the same time, it also references the hooliganism that English football was infamous for in the 1980s, when wearing the wrong colours in the wrong place, at the wrong time, really could be a lethal mistake. Lord Vetinari's 'consultation with the Wizards' that produces the new form of Football on the Disc can likewise be equated with the Taylor Report. Unfortunately, unlike the Discworld equivalent, the Taylor Report was not driven by academics looking to keep their funding, but by the tragedy of the Hillsborough Disaster, when 96 people were killed in a human crush. The youngest of the victims, Jon-Paul Gilhooley, cousin of future Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard, was only 10 years old. This is itself unpleasantly reminiscent of the book's descriptions of the Shove.
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Mama Bear: Glenda. According to Vetinari, It Runs in the Family.
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Literal-Minded: Drumknott can't grasp the idea of kicking a football for fun and asks Vetinari exactly how the football would be "inviting" him to kick it. Would there be a note attached?
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Ambiguously Gay: Pepe again. Word of God (Shrug Of Gay?) is "he's probably as gay as a treeful of monkeys, but you can never tell". This is especially complicated because Pepe's a "dwarf convert" who defies both dwarf and human notions about sexuality. It doesn't help that his lover is Sharn, who identifies as female but in a way that leaves her biological sex ambiguous.
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Odd Job Gods: Pedestriana, the Goddess of Football.
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Composite Character: One of the main reasons for Trev's Adaptational Jerkass status is that his character and role has been combined with that of Smeems.
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Expy: Glenda has rather a lot in common with Agnes Nitt, albeit with a less downtrodden main personality and a better integrated Perdita-analogue (which is also in her case released by large amounts of sherry, not innate magical ability). Her relationship with Juliet also echoes Agnes' relationship with Christine, though Juliet is a more sympathetic version of a Brainless Beauty. Though there are some echoes of Christine in her character, Juliet has far more in common with Tawneee, being impossibly beautiful, somewhat dim, very sweet-natured, and with a tendency to make heterosexual men fall over themselves and get too nervous to approach her. The main difference is that Juliet is better-developed; she has more Hidden Depths and is less innocent than the wide-eyed Tawneee. Bengo Marcarona, meanwhile, is fairly blatantly an expy of (in)famous legendary Argentine football player Diego Maradona, though his intellectual pursuits also suggest the mercurial Eric Cantona, equally famous for his football skills, his unusually brilliant philosophical mind that netted him a successful acting career, and his explosive temper, which netted him a lengthy ban for karate kicking an opposing supporter.
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Insistent Terminology: Professor Bengo Macarona, after scoring the first goal for the Academicals, insists that any chanting of his name also includes his full name and list of honours. Since this in its entirety is "Professor Macarona D.Thau (Bug), D.Maus (Chubb), Magistaludorum (QIS), Octavium (Hons), PHGK (Blit), DMSK, Mack, D.Thau (Bra), Visiting Professor in Chickens (Jahn the Conqueror University (Floor 2, Shrimp Packers Building, Genua)), Primo Octo (Deux), Visiting Professor of Blit/Slood Exchanges (Al Khali), KCbfJ, Reciprocating Professor of Blit Theory (Unki), D.Thau (Unki), Didimus Supremius (Unki), Emeritus Professor in Blit Substrate Determinations (Chubb), Chair of Blit and Music Studies (Quirm College for Young Ladies)" and the crowd actually agrees to go along with it, this turns the football chant "One Makaronah, there's only one Makaronah, there's only one Makaronah, one Makaro-naah" into an Overly Long Gag of absolutely EPIC proportions. Also, continuing a gag from Making Money, it's "Post-Mortem Communications", not "necromancy".
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Good Old Ways: Changing the rules of football? Unthinkable! Glenda's description of it has enough innate magic to cause false memories in every wizard listening.
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Brain Bleach: Glenda and those slightly-less-than-three seconds of orcs in combat.
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Equal-Opportunity Evil: Dr. Hix mentions that the Department of Post-Mortem Communications gets a pass from the "no female wizards" rule when he tries to recruit Glenda.
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Groin Attack: Andy tries this on Trev, but runs into Pepe's gift.
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Early-Bird Cameo: The birds in question are the Sisters, whose species (Furies) was briefly mentioned in Eric.
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Food Porn: Just read those descriptions of Glenda's pies.
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Expospeak Gag: Nutt's erudite and verbose way of answering questions.
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Bad to the Last Drop: Juliet struggles to make tea; usually the only tea-like characteristic her tea has is the color.
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The Running Gag of the celebrity press asking about "your favourite spoon" is from Private Eye.
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I Call It "Vera": We find out that the double-headed battle-axe carried by Mightily Oats at the end of Carpe Jugulum now has a name: Forgiveness.
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Brick Joke: Back in Feet of Clay, Vimes had an affirmative action snit in response to a bigoted complaint and said he'd accept a gorgon in the Watch. Now a Noodle Incident reveals that the Watch recently recruited a Medusa who accidentally turned three people to stone when a gust of wind knocked off her sunglasses. Mightily Oates' axe and unique style of spreading the light of Om reappear for the first time since Carpe Jugulum. The longest-air-time bricks come from Sourcery, published 21 years earlier. The only earlier reference to orcs existing on the Disc was a very oblique reference in Sourcery, in which one of the sword-flourishes Nigel cribs from his how-to-be-a-barbarian-hero booklet is named Orcthrust. Rincewind asks to be excused from play with a note from his mother. Ridcully rejects this as Rincewind himself said his mother had abandoned him before birth (Discworld. Don't ask how). Rincewind then asks to be excused to go look for her. And then there's the literal Brick Joke. After the heated meeting between Ridcully and Henry, Former Dean and Current Archchancellor of Brazeneck, Ponder sees Rincewind putting one of his socks back on. He once stopped an Eldritch Abomination by hitting it with half a brick in a sock. Ponder notes that it was probably the same sock. Back in Reaper Man, there was a throw-away line about Ridcully wanting to get a team together for the 'Sity And Guild Match, described in the Discworld Companion as a slightly modernised version of Poor(e) Boys Fun. Quoth tells Susan about the profession of candle dribbler in Soul Music. It's not until this book that we find out the raven wasn't pulling her leg. Reaper Man describes "anti-crimes," and Hix can be said to be committing one: planting tickets for his amateur theater group's productions in people's pockets is the opposite of pickpocketing (especially since it's implied his group isn't very good). Pepe poo-poos Glenda's insistence that Juliet should keep working in the kitchens with, "What is this? Emberella?" In Witches Abroad, even Embers herself noted the silliness of her own name and circumstances. At the beginning of the book, the Faculty are congratulating themselves on the successful Hunt of the Megapode. At the end of the book, when discussing the rampage of the Blit-Chicken in Pseudopolis, Ponder and Ridcully agree that they don't need to hurry to help, as they have better things to do than run around after birds. The Horseman's Word is evidently just as effective for Nutt as for Jason Ogg. Of course, Nutt demonstrated that he could handle anvils and big hammers at a very young age... The race of Furies was obliquely mentioned in Eric, as one of many Classical Mythology-flavored creatures a Tsortean sergeant had fought in his military career. Granted, they may have been more common in the era of the Tsortean War. During Ridcully's tirade about the Dean leaving Ponder mentions that at least one wizard has retired. Doctor Earwig left to get married. The wizards initially practice with a cursed whistle that is possessed by a parody of a nightmare PE Teacher. This mostly goes forgotten until the (former) Dean referees the game and blows the whistle... then declares into the megaphone "ANYONE NOT IN KIT WILL PLAY IN THEIR PANTS".
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Offscreen, Mightily Oats has become a Badass Preacher and ethnographer in some of the most remote and dangerous parts of Uberwald.
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Football Fight Song / int_660a8ba0
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French Cuisine Is Haughty / int_660a8ba0
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Freudian Couch / int_660a8ba0
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Friendly Skeleton / int_660a8ba0
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Full-Name Basis / int_660a8ba0
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Funny Spoon / int_660a8ba0
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Gang of Bullies / int_660a8ba0
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Gentleman Wizard / int_660a8ba0
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Girls Love Stuffed Animals / int_660a8ba0
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Golden Snitch / int_660a8ba0
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Good Old Ways / int_660a8ba0
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Gym Class Hell / int_660a8ba0
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Happiness in Minimum Wage / int_660a8ba0
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Harping on About Harpies / int_660a8ba0
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Haughty Help / int_660a8ba0
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Head Pet / int_660a8ba0
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Head-Turning Beauty / int_660a8ba0
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Henchmen Race / int_660a8ba0
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Herr Doktor / int_660a8ba0
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Hiding Behind the Language Barrier / int_660a8ba0
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Hit Me, Dammit! / int_660a8ba0
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Hypno Pendulum / int_660a8ba0
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I Ate WHAT?! / int_660a8ba0
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I Call It "Vera" / int_660a8ba0
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I Do Not Drink Wine / int_660a8ba0
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I Don't Pay You to Think / int_660a8ba0
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I Gave My Word / int_660a8ba0
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I Have Brothers / int_660a8ba0
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I'll Take Two Beers Too / int_660a8ba0
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I'm Melting! / int_660a8ba0
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Imagine the Audience Naked / int_660a8ba0
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Implausible Deniability / int_660a8ba0
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Impossibly Delicious Food / int_660a8ba0
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In My Language, That Sounds Like... / int_660a8ba0
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In Vino Veritas / int_660a8ba0
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Indestructible Edible / int_660a8ba0
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Is It Something You Eat? / int_660a8ba0
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It's Like I Always Say / int_660a8ba0
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Jade-Colored Glasses / int_660a8ba0
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Jerk Jock / int_660a8ba0
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Job Mindset Inertia / int_660a8ba0
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Knuckle Cracking / int_660a8ba0
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Lady Drunk / int_660a8ba0
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Large Ham Title / int_660a8ba0
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Layman's Terms / int_660a8ba0
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Literalist Snarking / int_660a8ba0
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Long List / int_660a8ba0
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Lower-Class Lout / int_660a8ba0
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Made of Plasticine / int_660a8ba0
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Misplaced a Decimal Point / int_660a8ba0
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Mistaken for Related / int_660a8ba0
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Mistaken for Servant / int_660a8ba0
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Monstrous Cannibalism / int_660a8ba0
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Multitasked Conversation / int_660a8ba0
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Mundane Luxury / int_660a8ba0
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Music at Sporting Events / int_660a8ba0
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My Nayme Is / int_660a8ba0
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Named Weapons / int_660a8ba0
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Neck Snap / int_660a8ba0
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Necromancer / int_660a8ba0
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Nerves of Steel / int_660a8ba0
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Never Gets Drunk / int_660a8ba0
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No-Respect Guy / int_660a8ba0
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Noble Bigot with a Badge / int_660a8ba0
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Not Always Evil / int_660a8ba0
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Obvious Rule Patch / int_660a8ba0
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Odd Job Gods / int_660a8ba0
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Oddly Small Organization / int_660a8ba0
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Offing the Mouth / int_660a8ba0
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On One Condition / int_660a8ba0
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Oppose What You Suffered / int_660a8ba0
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Opposing Sports Team / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
Orphaned Etymology / int_660a8ba0
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Our Goblins Are Different / int_660a8ba0
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Our Nudity Is Different / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
Overly Long Gag / int_660a8ba0
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Own Goal / int_660a8ba0
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Picked Last / int_660a8ba0
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Pious Monster / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
Playing Drunk / int_660a8ba0
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Post-Game Retaliation / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
Poster-Gallery Bedroom / int_660a8ba0
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Powder Keg Crowd / int_660a8ba0
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Princess Phase / int_660a8ba0
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Purple Prose / int_660a8ba0
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_660a8ba0
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Rage Against the Heavens / int_660a8ba0
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Rail Enthusiast / int_660a8ba0
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Raised by Orcs / int_660a8ba0
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Reluctant Monster / int_660a8ba0
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Renaissance Man / int_660a8ba0
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Right in Front of Me / int_660a8ba0
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Rugby Is Slaughter / int_660a8ba0
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Sabotage to Discredit / int_660a8ba0
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Same Surname Means Related / int_660a8ba0
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Scare the Dog / int_660a8ba0
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School Stories / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
Screw the Rules, They're Not Real! / int_660a8ba0
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Screw the War, We're Partying / int_660a8ba0
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Secret Snack Stash / int_660a8ba0
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Severed Head Sports / int_660a8ba0
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Shaped Like Itself / int_660a8ba0
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Show Some Leg / int_660a8ba0
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Sidetracked by the Analogy / int_660a8ba0
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Silly Will / int_660a8ba0
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Slobs Versus Snobs / int_660a8ba0
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Slow Clap / int_660a8ba0
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Small Parent, Huge Child / int_660a8ba0
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Smart Ball / int_660a8ba0
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Squishy Wizard / int_660a8ba0
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Staring Down Cthulhu / int_660a8ba0
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Stealing from the Till / int_660a8ba0
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Straight Gay / int_660a8ba0
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Suddenly Significant Rule / int_660a8ba0
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Suicide as Comedy / int_660a8ba0
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Super Doc / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
Supernatural Angst / int_660a8ba0
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Table Space / int_660a8ba0
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The Alleged Boss / int_660a8ba0
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The Bard on Board / int_660a8ba0
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The Big Damn Kiss / int_660a8ba0
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The Blacksmith / int_660a8ba0
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The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In / int_660a8ba0
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The End / int_660a8ba0
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The Medic / int_660a8ba0
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The Muse / int_660a8ba0
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The Nudifier / int_660a8ba0
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The Philosopher / int_660a8ba0
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The Reliable One / int_660a8ba0
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The Shrink / int_660a8ba0
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The Teetotaler / int_660a8ba0
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The Triple / int_660a8ba0
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Thinks Like a Romance Novel / int_660a8ba0
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Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip / int_660a8ba0
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To the Pain / int_660a8ba0
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Too Important to Walk / int_660a8ba0
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Too Many Halves / int_660a8ba0
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Too Much Information / int_660a8ba0
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Translation: "Yes" / int_660a8ba0
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Try to Fit That on a Business Card / int_660a8ba0
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Turn Out Like His Father / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
20% More Awesome / int_660a8ba0
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Tyop on the Cover / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
Underdogs Never Lose / int_660a8ba0
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Unnecessary Roughness / int_660a8ba0
 Unseen Academicals
hasFeature
Vetinari Job Security / int_660a8ba0
 Unseen Academicals
hasFeature
Viewer Gender Confusion / int_660a8ba0
 Unseen Academicals
hasFeature
Violently Protective Girlfriend / int_660a8ba0
 Unseen Academicals
hasFeature
Visual Innuendo / int_660a8ba0
 Unseen Academicals
hasFeature
Warts and All / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
Wine Is Classy / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
Wolverine Claws / int_660a8ba0
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Written by the Winners / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
"X" Makes Anything Cool / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
Xtreme Kool Letterz / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
You Are Fat / int_660a8ba0
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hasFeature
Your Princess Is in Another Castle! / int_660a8ba0