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* [[Foreigner for A Day]]: Lake Wobegon regards itself as part of Minnesota (and the United States) despite not officially being part of the state because of a cartographer's error when Minnesota was officially surveyed.

* [[Harpo Does Something Funny]]: The Lake Wobegon monologues are totally unscripted.

** Actor and Sound Effects artist Fred Newman has also played [[Doug|Skeeter]] and [[Doonesbury|Uncle Duke.]]

* [[Ho Yay]]: Occasionally between Dusty and Lefty, the cowboys. They tend to say "my partner", which makes people think of the [[Have a Gay Old Time|the newer version of "partner".]]

* [[Strawman Political]]

* [[Tongue On the Flagpole]] (Garrison Keillor suggests that the ability to hypnotize children into doing this is an innate ability of pump handles and other metallic objects.)

** Furthermore, the "hole" in the map consists of Mist County, of which Lake Wobegon is county seat. The only way they have any train service at all is because the tracks were laid there by mistake. And you have to petition for each and every train to come there, because nobody has heard of the place.

 

=== Tropes from the movie: ===

* [[Angel Unaware]]: Asphodel

* [[As Himself]]: Garrison Keillor. Actually, the character he playes is credited as "G.K.", with some notable personality differences: the [[Real Life]] Keillor doesn't have any problems with giving memorials on the radio, including moments of silence, and is only ''slightly'' less of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] than his film equivalent.

** [[George Clooney]] was offered the role of Guy Noir, but regretfully turned it down due to scheduling conflicts. Keillor jokes in the screenplay that he actually wanted Clooney to play ''him''.

* [[While Rome Burns]]: The singers bravely put on one last show for the memories.

* [[Woman in White]]: Pops up a few times in Guy Noir.

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