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* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: An American distributor (apparently due to a complete lack of understanding of Morris dancing) once claimed ''[[
▲* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: An American distributor (apparently due to a complete lack of understanding of Morris dancing) once claimed ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'' was about a football team in its synopsis, to which Pratchett's response was that football was one subject he would ''never'' write a Discworld book about...
** [[Fridge Brilliance|Maybe he meant American football.]]
*** Sorry, no. The quote specifically mentions Association Football.
** [[Epileptic Trees|Although some
*** Well, the thing about football, the most important thing about football, is that it's never just about football.
* [[Older Than They Think]]: If the book was intended as a subversion of {{spoiler|Tolkien's conception of Orcs, in fact some of Tolkien's late writings move along remarkably parallel lines, considering that orcs might have free will when apart from their evil masters and being made from ruined men rather than elves. He died before he could finally decide on one definite origin story and cosmic fate}}.
** Considering, it's probably more [[Shown Their Work]]...Or [[Fridge Brilliance]].
* [[What an Idiot!]]: The Librarian {{spoiler|eating the poisoned banana.}}
** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] - considering the Librarian's reputation and how everyone else regards him,
** And also foreshadowed, much earlier, when it's mentioned that {{spoiler|unlike men, who waste a lot of time asking questions like "I seem to see a banana, but could my senses be deceiving me?", an orangutan will just eat the banana}}.
* [[The Woobie]]: Nutt, most of the time. {{spoiler|At least before he tried auto-hypnosis quasi-Freudianism.}}
** A Woobie, for sure, but of the [[Iron Woobie|iron]] kind.
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