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** Most modern adaptations have to explain that "treacle" is a word for molasses<ref>Also a case of Separated by a Common Language - it's still called treacle in the UK</ref>, and that a "cravat" is a piece of menswear that is a forerunner to a man's tie. (One adaptation actually has Alice call it a tie.) Some of the humor might go over the heads of modern readers, like the Hatter claiming Alice's hair "wants cutting" (a comment that would have been incredibly rude in Victorian times) and the Duchess claiming that she was "twice as rich and twice as clever" as Alice. ("Rich" and "clever" were used to describe contradicting terms, making her comment an impossibility.)
** Teniel's illustration of the Lion and the Unicorn in the second book depicts the two beasts as caricatures of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli Benjamin Disrael], a depiction that was common among political cartoonists at the time. Whether this was Carroll's intention is impossible to say.
** Even some British readers may be confused by some references, like the Hatter saying it's always tea time because it's always six o'clock. (Five o'clock tea would not become a tradition in Britain until later.)
* [[And You Were There]]: All of the Wonderland characters appear as their Victorian equivalents in the garden party prologue.
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: The Mad Hatter's contributions to the [[Funny Background Event|Funny Background Events]] in the courtroom sequence.
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* [[Axe Crazy]]: The Queen of Hearts and the Cook.
* [[Billing Displacement]]: From the promotional materials and Opus Arte's DVD trailer, you'd think that the Mad Hatter was a much bigger role. If this were a musical, he'd qualify as [[Minor Character, Major Song]].
* Brick Joke:
** In chapter 7, the Hatter tells Alice how he performed at the Queen's concert (singing a parody of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star") and the Queen ordered him executed for "murdering the time". Later, in chapter 11, when he's called on as a witness at the trial, the Queen looks at him closely, and then asks a servant to bring her a list of the performers from the concert. Clearly, she's remembering the incident he mentioned. The Hatter is noticeably nervous about it.
** Also, in chapter 6, the Duchess growls, "If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does." Then, in chapter 9 (when Alice meets her in a much better mood) there's this exchange between them:
Duchess: Tis so. And the moral of that is, "Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"
{{quote|'''Alice:''' Somebody said that [[Little Miss Snarker| it's done by everybody minding their own business!]]
:* As might be expected, the Duchess doesn't get the hint.
** The second book combines this with foreshadowing. When Alice sees the living chess pieces in miniature form, she writes in the King's notebook, "The White Knight is sliding down the poker; he balances very badly." Several chapters later, when she meets the white Knight in person, he clearly balances horribly, falling off his horse every few steps it makes.
** Humpty Dumpty's poem has him taking a corkscrew and going to punish the fish for not obeying him. Several chapters later, the two Queen's relate how he was trying to get into the house the other day with a corkscrew, although in their account, they say he was looking for a hippopotamus.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: The Dormouse.
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: The Mad Hatter taps because Wheeldon wanted to take advantage of the original dancer's skill.
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