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* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: When Detritus is locked in the freezer, he starts working out maths problems. He gets all the way through calculus and out the other side, and was probably up to a Unified Theory of Everything when they got him out and the warmth erased all his work, which he promptly forgot. |
* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: When Detritus is locked in the freezer, he starts working out maths problems. He gets all the way through calculus and out the other side, and was probably up to a Unified Theory of Everything when they got him out and the warmth erased all his work, which he promptly forgot. |
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* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Cuddy.}} |
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Cuddy.}} |
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* [[Save the Villain]]: Gaspode tries this, and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it. He nearly winds up {{spoiler|falling to his death along with Big Fido}}. |
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* [[Science Marches On]]: Big Fido's "all dogs are wolves" spiel, and the other dogs' reactions to it, become particularly [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] because right about the time the book came out, dogs were reclassified from the separate species ''canis familiaris'' to the subspecies ''canis'' '''lupus''' ''familiaris'', making every dog a wolf. Yes, even a poodle. |
* [[Science Marches On]]: Big Fido's "all dogs are wolves" spiel, and the other dogs' reactions to it, become particularly [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] because right about the time the book came out, dogs were reclassified from the separate species ''canis familiaris'' to the subspecies ''canis'' '''lupus''' ''familiaris'', making every dog a wolf. Yes, even a poodle. |
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* [[Shout Out]]: The Patrician sits in a plain chair at the foot of the steps leading up to the ancient golden throne of Ankh-Morpork, taken from the Steward's seat in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. However, at the end Carrot learns that the throne is actually just gold foil over wood, the real gold having been sold long before. As usual on Discworld, it's belief that's important. |
* [[Shout Out]]: The Patrician sits in a plain chair at the foot of the steps leading up to the ancient golden throne of Ankh-Morpork, taken from the Steward's seat in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. However, at the end Carrot learns that the throne is actually just gold foil over wood, the real gold having been sold long before. As usual on Discworld, it's belief that's important. |
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