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* [[Running Gag]]: Several, but the way every cassette left in a car for too long turns into ''The Best Of [[Queen]]'' is particularly prominent.
* [[Samaritan Syndrome]]: Aziraphale. "Lord, heal this bike."
* [[Satan]]{{context}}
* [[Science Is Wrong]]: Parodied.
* [[Screw Destiny]]: The entire book is about breaking away from destiny and people's expectations of you, and finding your own path. At the end, {{spoiler|Newton Pulsifer even convinces Anathema Device not to live her life trying to interpret prophecies left to her by a distant ancestor}}. Also, {{spoiler|the Anti-Christ averts Armageddon.}} However, {{spoiler|Agnes may have seen it all coming.}}
** Hilarious that the plot to [[Screw Destiny]] is actually orchestrated by God, and everything might just as His [[Magic Franchise Word|ineffable]] plan intended; even the angels and devils really have no idea.
{{quote|''God does not play dice with the universe. He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the other players,<ref>i.e. everybody</ref> to be involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you rules and '''smiles all the time'''.''}}
* [[SuchShame aIf LovelySomething NounHappened]]: Mentioned when describing Aziraphaele's book shop.
* [[Short Title: Long Elaborate Subtitle]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many, many of them, ranging from [[Edgar Allan Poe]] to [[Dirty Harry]].
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** A few to ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' series. When discussing the coming apocalypse while drunk, Aziraphale mentions, "Something about dolphins".
** Pepper's real name, [[The Lord of the Rings|Pippin Galadriel]] [[The Neverending Story (novel)|Moonchild]] is twofer reference to ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]''.
** And guess where the names Hastur and Dagon come from? ([[Small Reference Pools|No]], not [[H.P. Lovecraft]]. Hastur is from a story by [[Ambrose Bierce]]. Dagon was an Assyrian fertility god.)
* [[Shown Their Work]]: You'd think that Nutter and Device were just comedic last names made up for laughs. Anathema's lecture on the topic certainly plays this aspect up. However, if you're familiar with the [[wikipedia:Pendle witches|Pendle Witches]] then you'll know that they were the family names of some "actual" witches.
* [[Sidetracked by the Analogy]]: Too many to list. It seems no one can make an analogy without being derailed by their listeners.
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* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]]/[[Sue Donym]]: Mr. (Ezra?) Fell, Mr A. Ziraphale.
* [[Strongly Worded Letter]]: R.P. Tyler is the king of these.
* [[Such a Lovely Noun]]: Mentioned when describing Aziraphaele's book shop.
* [[Super Senses]]: Crowley can see in the dark, but turns on the headlights anyway so as not to upset the other drivers.
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Aziraphale.