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* [[Beam Me Up Scotty]]: Everybody remembers Götz saying <ref>The literal translation of "Leck mich am Arsch" would be "lick me at my ass", but it is the idiomatic equivalent to "kiss my ass".</ref>, but what he actually says it "he can kiss me ''in'' the ass". And the original wording of the self-same incident in Götz' memoirs is different again -- Götz wrote, rather vaguely, "... I shouted back at him, he could kiss my rear."

* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: Everybody remembers Götz saying <ref>The literal translation of "Leck mich am Arsch" would be "lick me at my ass", but it is the idiomatic equivalent to "kiss my ass".</ref>, but what he actually says it "he can kiss me ''in'' the ass". And the original wording of the self-same incident in Götz' memoirs is different again -- Götz wrote, rather vaguely, "... I shouted back at him, he could kiss my rear."

** Probably due to the "am Arsch" version being the common form of the idiom nowadays.

** Either way the sentence "you can Götz from Berliching me" has become a synonym for that phrase in Germany.

* [[Cluster Bleep Bomb]]: Most editions of the drama don't actually print its most famous line, featuring only a cryptic censoring hyphen in its place.

* [[Cluster F Bomb]]: "Kiss my ass" seems tame by modern standards, but in Goethe's day it was a calculated audience shock.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: "Kiss my ass" seems tame by modern standards, but in Goethe's day it was a calculated audience shock.

* [[Historical Hero Upgrade]]: Goethe's Götz is much more noble-minded than anybody could honestly believe of the real Götz.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: A prominent motif; Götz just cannot part from his ways or swallow his pride to submit to the "new era".