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* [[Berserk Button]]: [[My Name Is Not Durwood|George "Babyface" Nelson]]. [[Truth in Television]] with the real George Nelson.

** Also, Pete doesn't take kindly to people stealing from his kin.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: "That ain't your daddy. Your daddy was hit by a train."

* [[Blind Seer]]: Lampshaded by Everett, who insists the man has a [[Disability Superpower]].

* [[Breakaway Pop Hit]]: The soundtrack had its own sequels.

** In-movie also, since the Soggy Bottom Boys' singing is [[Lampshade Hanging|so good]] it helps resolve the plot.

* [[Color Wash]]: They messed with the hue and saturation until everything was an intensely colorful brown, imitating the look of sepia-toned photos.

* [[Corrupt Hick]]: The insanely corrupt Big Dan Teague. Who is channeling the cyclops Polyphemus.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Tommy Johnson traded his soul to the devil at the crossroads for his guitar skills. This is the same claim made by the real blues musician Robert Johnson.

* [[Deep South]]

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: Of the sepia variety, see [[Real Is Brown]] below.

* [[Disney Death]]: Pete was believed to have transformed into a Toad by the launderer sirens, so they take him in a box. The toad was then killed by Big Dan Teague by being crushed, and his friends were physically incapable of stopping his death because they were beaten to bloody pulps. It was later revealed that the toad was actually ''not'' Pete, nor was he even transformed by a toad: Turns out those "launderer sirens" actually delivered him to Sheriff Cooley's men for the reward, and is now a prisoner back at the farm.

* [[The Ditz]]: Delmar.

* [[Historical In-Joke]]

* [[Hobos]]

* [[Implacable Man]]: The Sheriff.

* [[Inspector Javert]]: The Sheriff tries to characterize himself this way at the very end, claiming that the boys have only been pardoned by the law of man.

** Also, Homer Stokes' reaction when he realizes that the town, after his attempt at getting the Soggy Bottom Boys arrested failed, is now going to run him out of town on a rail as revenge for interrupting the performance.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Toward the end of the movie, the fugitive "Soggy Bottom Boys" perform while disguised with false beards. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] later, when their performance wins over the crowd and Everett deliberately yanks his beard off for a moment.

** Perhaps it was thanks to the [[Power of Rock|Power of Bluegrass]] that was able to sway their minds?

*** More likely that the townsfolk were more upset by Stokes interrupting the Soggy Bottom Boys' performance by trying to have them arrested and didn't care what else he said.

** Note that in 1932 Mississippi, {{spoiler|being a Klansman}} would have been politically ''correct''. It would have been almost impossible for {{spoiler|Stokes}} to {{spoiler|be a serious candidate for governor}} ''without'' being one.

* [[Produce Pelting]]: What the audience does when Homer Stokes ends up interrupting the Soggy Bottom Boys performance to get them arrested, that as well as ride him out of town on a rail.

* [[Rock Me, Asmodeus]]: "And I have it from the highest 'thority, that that negra...''sold his soul to the'' '''Devil!!!'''" (the townsfolk don't buy into it, though).

* [[Running Gag]]: Briefly.

* [[The Vamp]]: The three sirens.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: "Babyface" Nelson and Homer Stokes.

** "MY NAME IS GEORGE NELSON, AND I'M FEELIN' TEN FEET TALL!"

* [[Villainous Glutton]]: Big Dan Teague, as befits his correspondence with the cyclops Polyphemus.

* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: {{spoiler|Homer Stokes, oh so much}}.

* [[Working on the Chain Gang]]: The story begins with Ulysses, Pete, and Delmar escaping from this while chained to each other. Pete, at one point, is recaptured and put back to work on the chain gang and has to be broken out of prison ''again''.

 

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[[Category:The Coen Brothers]]

[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]

[[Category:The Great Depression]]