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Revived IN SPACE! in the early 1980s, in [[Hollywood California|Southern California]] in the 1990s and [http://tomswift.bobfinnan.com/ts5.htm in the first person] in the 2000s.
Origin of the "[[Tom Swifty]]", such as ''"Pass me the shellfish," said Tom crabbily'' or ''"How was your colonoscopy?" asked Tom probingly.'' This is something of a [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]] (or "Play it again, Sam") situation, as while Stratemeyer was [http://www.fun-with-words.com/tom_swifties_history.html eager to employ adverbs] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty reluctant to use] [[Said Bookism|the plain verb "said"]], actual "Tom Swifty" puns were rare.
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'''Servo [as Eradicate]''': I disagree -- even given Rossini's questionable reusage of material from his earlier operas, "The Barber of Seville" is one of the greatest Opera Buffas ever written; even the renowned Verdi himself said as much.<br />
'''Crow [as Koku]''': True, my friend, but I still think you're downplaying Mozart's "Don Giovanni" too much -- that raised the level of Opera Buffas to unknown levels which Verdi himself only matched with "Falstaff," some eighty years later. }}
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Crow, Servo and Joel's description of Swift's [[Cold
* [[Running Gag]]: "I get paid by the word, you know."
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: [[Rule of Funny|Crow destroys Tom's airfield as revenge for ditching him in a biplane over the no-fly zone in southern Iraq]].
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Ned. Oh ''boy'', NED.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Tom Swift has a tank to test. He wants to see how it fares when driven through a building. He spots a barn in a farmyard. Does he stop and ask the farmer's permission first? [[Heroic Sociopath|No]].
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