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* [[Award Snub]]: Though it won two well-earned gongs, many people are still annoyed that ''[[The English Patient]]'' awalked away with all the awards on Oscar night. Still, Fargo is now considered a classic and on the AFI's 100 greatest list while ''The English Patient'' is better remembered for inspiring an episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]''.
* [[Better Onon DVD]]: Although this was a well-received production when released theatrically, a lot of the greatness of the film can only be uncovered and appreciated with repeat viewings.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Grimsrud
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Margie's arrest of Gaear Grimsrud.
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*** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"Crowningly awesome?"]]
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: Near the end, one of Norm's paintings of a mallard will be on a three-cent stamp, and he insists it's nothing special because "People don't much use the three-cent", when Marge says this:
{{quote| '''Marge:''' Oh, for Pete's sake. Of course they do. Whenever they raise the postage, people need the little stamps.}}
** Also, from earlier in the film: the look on Margie's face when Norm says he'll make her eggs, even when she insists he go back to sleep.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Pretty much the whole score, but particularly the music during the aforementioned arrest.
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* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: Jean's father adamantly refuses to hand over the money if he doesn't get his daughter back first; he gets shot in the stomach for trying to be a hero, but before dying, squeezes of a shot that grazes Carl's cheek, leaving him whining, bleeding all over the place, and screaming like a bitch.
* [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory]]: There are a few arguments over what the lumberjack statue is supposed to represent.
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Marge's meeting in the city with her old classmate Mike. At first the scene seems extraneous, but when Marge learns the truth behind Mike's dialogue the next day, during a phone call from her friend in Brainerd, she has the most subtle [[Eureka Moment]] and is able to look at Jerry in a different way. Noted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120920023253/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010405/REVIEWS08/104050301/1023%2F20010405%2FREVIEWS08%2F104050301%2F1023 Ebert's second review] of the movie.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: To people who watched the film before 2008, [[Sarah Palin]] talks like the people in ''Fargo''. To people who watched it after, the people in Fargo talk like Sarah Palin. Either way, you laugh (and cringe a little).
** Fans of [[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]] were already well familiar with the Minnesota accents, thanks to the riffing by Joel and the 'bots when making fun of Minnesotans, especially in ''[[The Day the Earth Froze]]''.
* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Averted; most of the actors are kinda funny lookin'.
* [[It Was His Sled]]: At the end of the movie somebody puts somebody else in a woodchipper. Fortunately, that's not a huge plot spoiler. It just kind of ruins the shock value of the scene.