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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Estragon and Vladimir (the latter name is a bit exotic but real; the former sounds like high fantasy).
** Estragon is the French name for Tarragon, a spice.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: "Godot" comes from the Irish "Go Deo" (pronounced relatively similarly to the US and Canadian English pronunciation of "Godot") which means "forever". Samuel Beckett, as is often forgotten, was an Irishman.
** However, "Go Deo" would be more accurately written in phonetic French as something more like Gojot, not Godot.
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* [[Ho Yay]]: [[wikipedia:Waiting for Godot#Homoerotic|Tons of it.]]
* [[Hypocritical Humour]]: At one point in the second act, Vladimir tells Estragon that they should stop discussing things and just act. It takes him half a page of dialogue to say this.
* [[Improv]]: Most performances include at least ''some'', even if it's only physical comedy.
** The 2009/2010 Berliner Ensemble performance had Didi and Gogo getting into discussions with the prompt. It was quite subdued and casual, and the actors were so in tune with each other it didn't seem at all disrespectful towards Beckett.
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]: For some reasons, most Americans still have it in their heads after all this time that it's pronounced "Go-DOT" instead of "GO-dot". And most Canadians, thanks to mandatory French lessons, think it's "Go-DOH".
** It ''was'' originally in French.
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** Possibly the entire play. If you criticize it for lacking something (plot, character, meaning), well, it worked!
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Occasionally joined by Those Two Other Guys.
* [[Title Drop]]:
{{quote|'''Estragon:''' Let's go.
'''Vladimir:''' We can't.
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* [[Volleying Insults]]: Vladimir and Estragon have a nice shouting match like this.
* [[Upper Class Twit]]: Pozzo.
* [["What Now?" Ending]]: Godot never shows up, but Vladimir and Estragon can't bring themselves to leave.
* [[Word of God]]: Beckett as said on several occasions that Godot does not represent God, so much so that he even regrets naming the character in such a way to cause people to make the assumption. In actual fact "Godot" can be taken to mean pretty much anything that you would wait for to the point that you fail do anything else but wait.
** Beckett was also very clear that Pozzo was not Godot, although he understood where people were coming from when they thought that.
* [[Word Salad Philosophy]]: Lucky again.
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