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** In the show's Broadway debut, this line got the biggest laugh out of all of them.
* [[Toilet Humor]]: "Rhode Island passes"; also the "calling an ox a bull" exchange.
* [[Too Important to Walk]]: Subverted. Benjamin Franklin is carried in a sedan chair right to his seat in Congress -- but it's not because he's vain or thinks he's better than the other representatives, it's because his gout is acting up and he actually can't walk. A minute later he jokes [[Self-Deprecation|self-deprecatingly]] about being a "great man".
* [[Truth in Television]]: Vast amounts of dialogue and even song lyrics were lifted ''intact'' from the writings of the various Founding Fathers. In particular, "obnoxious and disliked" was ''John Adams' own description'' many decades after the fact of how he felt he was viewed by the Founders and the nation in general (although many historians feel he was an [[Unreliable Narrator]] in this respect), and his duets and discussions with the mental image of his wife Abigail are composed of passages from their letters to each other -- including the "Saltpeter!"/"Pins!" [[Running Gag]].
** Similarly, every motion made on the floor of Congress, and every modification proposed or made to the Declaration (including the briefly heard objection about it not mentioning deep-sea fishing rights!) come directly from either the Congressional minutes or Jefferson's own notes from the revision of the Declaration into its final form.
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