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* [[Foe Yay]]: Adams and Dickinson.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: If you pay attention in history class: Robert E. Lee, the top general of the Confederate Army in the [[American Civil War]], was related to Richard Henry Lee, the man who brought in Virginia's resolution on independence. The bit of the song where Richard Henry Lee is listing all of the famous Lees of Old Virginia? "Light Horse Harry" Lee was Robert E. Lee's father. Also, all of South Carolina's posturing about claiming to speak for the Deep South and threatening not to deliver on unanimity? Guess which state was the first to secede from the Union.
** Also, Martha Jefferson's lines in the last verse of "He Plays The Violin":
{{quote|''When Heaven calls to me
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''Loving wife, loving life.''}}
:::Considering that she died only six years after the period portrayed in the film, it's disturbingly prophetic.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: "[[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|Wake up, Franklin!]] [[
** "Like hell I am, what for?" "The whoreing and the drinking!" remember a tiny show called ''[[Jersey Shore]]''?
* [[Historical Hero Upgrade|Historical Hero Downgrade]]/[[History Marches On]]: James Wilson, portrayed in the film and musical as a non-entity who voted for independence because he didn't want the notoriety of being the one who voted it down, was in fact a committed independence man who delayed his vote until after he checked with his constituents to make sure they agreed with him -- and to do so, was partially responsible for the postponement that the film shows as engineered by Adams and Franklin. However, to be fair to the playwrights, this historical data was not easy to find at the time the play was written (the late 1960s), mainly because Wilson was considered a relatively inconsequential figure. (Indeed, even Adams' role in the process had frequently been trivialized by historians well into the twentieth century.) This led the playwrights to believe his apparent change of heart was unexplained.
* [[Historical Villain Upgrade]]: Mostly averted. Rutledge and Read do come around, and while Dickinson does not sign the Declaration, he still joins the American army and is given a standing ovation when he leaves Congress. Not to mention that he would become one of the architects of the Constitution eleven years later.
** If approached from the real Adams' point of view, this Rutledge is definitely upgraded. Adams thought Rutledge was a waste of political space ("jejune, inane, and puerile," among other things); likewise, he thought Dickinson was "very modest, delicate, and timid" -- quite a difference from the political steamroller in the play/movie. He was much more impressed by Richard Henry Lee (whom the stage/movie version of Adams apparently considers an idiotic blowhard).
* [[Ho Yay]]: Dickinson and Wilson; Adams and Jefferson.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Rutledge, Dickinson
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