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**** It's not Ralph it's Reif
* [[Moliere]] tended to lean on this to wrap up many of his comedies. In ''[[Tartuffe]]'' the protagonists are saved in the last act when a police officer shows up out of the blue with an order from the king arresting the villain. The conclusion of ''The School for Wives'' is so bizarrely complicated that we're still not quite sure what happened, but the gist is that the starcrossed lover's respective families show up to let them know that they had arranged their marriage years ahead of time (without either of them knowing it).
* Spoofed, perhaps even [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] by [[Woody Allen]] in his one-act play ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070516031656/http://members.fortunecity.com/bookdepository/plays/god/god2.html God]'', an excellent if strange production which has [[No Fourth Wall]] whatsoever; it's nominally about two Ancient Greeks trying to put on a play right there, when [[Theme Naming|Trichinosis]] shows [[Theme Naming|Diabetes]] his new invention, a machine for lowering the gods to the stage in order to solve characters' problems. (He boasts that he's going to make a fortune with it: "Sophocles put a deposit on one. Euripides wants two.") Unfortunately, when turned on, it winds up strangling the actor playing Zeus.
{{quote|'''Diabetes''': God is dead.}}
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