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** Teniel's illustration of the Lion and the Unicorn in the second book depicts the two beasts as caricatures of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli Benjamin Disrael], a depiction that was common among political cartoonists at the time. Whether this was Carroll's intention is impossible to say.
** Even some British readers may be confused by some references, like the Hatter saying it's always tea time because it's always six o'clock. (Five o'clock tea would not become a tradition in Britain until later.)
** After the Caucus Race, Alice gives everyone "confits", which are hard fruit candies.
* [[And You Were There]]: All of the Wonderland characters appear as their Victorian equivalents in the garden party prologue.
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: The Mad Hatter's contributions to the [[Funny Background Event|Funny Background Events]] in the courtroom sequence.
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* [[Axe Crazy]]: The Queen of Hearts and the Cook.
* [[Billing Displacement]]: From the promotional materials and Opus Arte's DVD trailer, you'd think that the Mad Hatter was a much bigger role. If this were a musical, he'd qualify as [[Minor Character, Major Song]].
* [[Brick Joke]]:
** In chapter 7, the Hatter tells Alice how he performed at the Queen's concert (singing a parody of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star") and the Queen ordered him executed for "murdering the time". Later, in chapter 11, when he's called on as a witness at the trial, the Queen looks at him closely, and then asks a servant to bring her a list of the performers from the concert. Clearly, she's remembering the incident he mentioned. The Hatter is noticeably nervous about it.
** Also, in chapter 6, the Duchess growls, "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster than it does." Then, in chapter 9 (when Alice meets her in a much better mood) there's this exchange between them:
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