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The second Discworld adaption by Sky One, ''The Colour of Magic'' adapts the Discworld novel [[
In the fantastical Discworld's resident [[Wretched Hive]], Ankh-Morpork, the Disc's first tourist, the naive Twoflower, finds himself the target of much attention and confusion on arrival. Soon hooking up with cowardly "wizzard" Rincewind, the two embark on a comedy of errors which leads them on one adventure after another (such as introducing the concept of insurance to a greedy public, falling afoul of the upwardly mobile Trymon of Unseen University, encountering imaginary dragons and octogenarian barbarians, and accidentally saving the world), merrily skewering fantasy cliches along the way.
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* [[Accidental Unfortunate Gesture]]: Twoflower preforms one in the bar. Thankfully the possibility of a large payment makes Broadman just corrects him so he knows the V-sign with the middle and index fingers should be made with the palm facing the recipient.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: The way [[Sean Astin|Twoflower]] says "[[Memetic Mutation|PO-TAY-TOES]]" can only be this.
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** [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show|Frank 'N' Furter]] is Trimon!
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Jeremy Irons]]' voice as Lord Vetinari is ''very'' recogniseable as [[The Lion King|Scar]].
** And [[Christopher Lee|Christopher Freaking Lee]] Is The Voice Of
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: Trymon gets to the top this way (Dead Man's Pointy Shoes, as it's called in the story).
* [[The Other Darrin]]: {{smallcaps|Death}} is played by [[Christopher Lee]], as opposed to Ian Richardson in ''[[
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]? Pre-Mort, Death is a very different character.
** Although [[Christopher Lee]] had played {{smallcaps|Death}} before... he voiced the character in the 1997 animated adaptation of ''[[
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: The Patrician has been switched to Havelock Vetinari, [[Magnificent Bastard|magnificent]]/[[Manipulative Bastard]] of later Discworld books, rather than the obese hedonist originally depicted in the first book.
** Death is also closer to the sympathetic Death from the later books than the [[Jerkass]] Death from the earlier ones.
* [[Race Lift]]: Agatean tourist Twoflower is played by Sean Astin, though to be fair the Agatean empire was not established as a Chinese/Japanese counterpart country until ''[[
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The on-location footage is quite gorgeous.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The Librarian gets referred to by name, a name that didn't appear in the books, but was mentioned in The Discworld Companion.
* [[Title Drop]]: Both ''[[
* [[Translation Convention]]: Taken a step further than in the book where it was taken as read that Rincewind was talking Betrobbi when talking to Twoflower. They actually talk in what the viewer is expected to assume is Betrobbi for a short while, complete with subtitles, until Twoflower admits that he took a correspondence course in Morporkian. From that point on you can assume that all conversation is being conducted in Morporkian.
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