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{{quote|''A second
''Plagues of locusts everywhere,''
''Or a cataclysmic earthquake''
''I'd accept with some despair,''
''But no! You sent us Congress!''
''Good God,
''
Daniels plays [[John Adams]] (later the first-ever Vice President), a Boston revolutionary who spearheads the American effort to turn from a British Crown Colony into its own nation. All sorts of reasons are brought up for this, including taxation sans representation and the alienation that the Atlantic Ocean brings. With the help of Yoda-esque [[Ben Franklin]] and a reluctant [[Thomas Jefferson]], who is so homesick he can barely write the Declaration of Independence, he puts forth these reasons... which are almost immediately savaged. It takes a minor miracle just to get the whole thing to a point where it can be voted on, much less ratified -- ''that'' would require unanimity.
Though light-hearted in many parts (it's almost impossible to get through the number about who will write the Declaration without laughing), it also contains poignant looks at how difficult decisions had to be made (the South viewed slavery as an economic necessity and walked out en masse upon hearing Jefferson, a fellow Southerner, condemn it). In addition, a report from a soldier on the front (the haunting "Momma Look Sharp" number) drives home just how much (and yet how little) the piece of paper will mean.
Not to be confused with a ''[[300]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTcVNuNX8yY parody] made by ''[[Robot Chicken]]''.
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: "Two [useless men] are called a law firm." John Adams was a lawyer -- in particular, he was famous for defending the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
** Adams could have been aiming a bit of self deprecating humor at himself and/or a [[Take That]] at his lazy contemporaries, much like when he decries the congress he's a part of.
* [[I Want My Mommy]]:
* [[Incoming Ham]]: Richard Henry Lee.
{{quote|'''Lee:''' YOU SENT FOR ME, BENJAMIN?
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** Ben Franklin cannot sit down without doing so in a noteworthy manner.
{{quote|'''Franklin''': What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen a great man before?}}
* [[Lower Deck Episode]]: Well, scene: MacNair, his assistant and the courier sitting in the chamber by themselves, including the song "Momma Look Sharp".
* [[Minor Character, Major Song]]: Ron Holgate as Richard Henry Lee, who has just one major scene and a minor one, but carries some great big wonderful slabs of roast pork while he's singing "The Lees of Old Virginia."
* [[Not So Different]]: "Molasses to Rum" has Rutledge spotlighting the North's complicity in the slave trade.
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