Bittersweet Ending: - The endings of most of the "Part 2" episodes, where while the Baudelaires survive and escape Count Olaf's clutches (excluding "The Penultimate Peril", where he finally catches them), but end up traumatised and losing their newest guardian. Part 5 of A Series of Unfortunate Events Drabbles. Paper-Thin Disguise: Count Olaf:.. my name isn't whatever I just told you my name is! The instant the sunlight hits the paper, it catches on fire. On the other hand, that might just be because there aren't any normal people in Snicketland.
This is encapsulated in Hector's self-sustaining home, which is powered by a steam engine but the barn is protected by a retinal scanner. Number of the Beast: In part one of "The Ersatz Elevator", Poe calls Esmé the city's "seventh most important financial adviser" and she corrects him, choking that she's the sixth... three times. The Hostile Hospital adds a scene where Jacques says there was a survivor of "the fire, " leading both the Baudelaires and Olaf trying to find if one of their parents survived. Since we know that Kit is good, we assume the person she is meeting is Frank, the good twin. Once a Season and a Call-Forward: "A library is like an island in a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is tall and the surrounding area has been flooded. A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of darkly humorous children's books by Daniel Handler, under the nom de plume Lemony Snicket. Episode 1: "But all my associates and I have managed to learn is that neither the official fire department nor rhe Volunteer Fire Department arrived in time to stop the blaze.
Adaptational Modesty: In the book version of "The Penultimate Peril", Esmé's latest feat of awful fashion is (to Violet's upmost horror) a "bikini" that is actually about four pieces of lettuce just barely covering Esmé's nudity by simple tape. After narrowly managing to wrestle Olaf's harpoon gun from him, the Baudelaires get startled when Mr. Poe appears and drop it, making it go off and skewering Dewey Denouement. However, these may be the result of revisionism in accordance with V. 's own views. Count Olaf's close behind them with his troupe of lousy actors note. Stop Copying Me: Vice Principal Nero in The Austere Academy.
When Mr. Poe tries to cheers Olaf with "Mazel tov! " Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness: Olaf's poor hygiene and dirty house, played up even more in The Movie-- there are not only roaches and rats in the kitchen, but bats living in the cupboards. Similarly, just about every preview of The Beatrice Letters claimed that the punch-out letters would spell out two different secret messages, but if there is a second one, it's nothing more than a Red Herring. They end up on a boat that might as well be the Titanic. In "The Ersatz Elevator: Part 1", Larry tries to convince Olaf to sing a song, in a desperate attempt to distract him. YMMV on whether the (potentially lethal) negligence displayed by characters who were otherwise good people made this Laser-Guided Karma. Cerebus Retcon: As the series develops, it turns out that many of the characters' motivations and activities were tied up with the fraught history of a secret fire-fighting organisation. One of the final locations the siblings go to is called Dénouement Hotel. In the series, he shows up in The Austere Academy and The Ersatz Elevator helping fellow V. operatives behind the scenes and recruiting Olivia Caliban to the secret organization.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The white-faced women fall victim to this in Book the Tenth. Yiddish as a Second Language: In keeping with the running theme of characters' implied-but-not-outright-stated Judaism, characters frequently pepper their speech with Yiddish loanwords. Sigil Spam: The VFD logo shows up a lot in each episode, even in some places where it was not mentioned in the books—such as Uncle Monty's hedge maze, or on the spyglasses that certain characters carry. In the second-to-last episode, after Esmé and Carmelita make everyone literally eat crow via sausages they made, Mr. Poe remarks that it Tastes Like Chicken. Implausible Deniability: In "The Wide Window, Part 2", Count Olaf's false peg leg breaks and reveals his left leg, including the tattoo on his ankle.
Unusual Euphemism: On two occasions, flustered or frightened characters blaspheme the names of divine entities from about five different religions, concluding with "Charles Darwin! " Anyone Can Die: The series kicks off with the deaths of the protagonists' parents in a fire, and anyone who takes time to care for the orphans meets a horrible fate. They also function as flashlights using an electromagnetic circuit, and can produce enough heat to create an updraft strong enough to carry a small hot air balloon upwards. Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction.
You might hope that things improve, but I'm afraid that ship has sailed note. Anyone who read the Slippery Slope and Grim Grotto knows that Madame Lulu is referring to Fiona, and with the White-faced Women, she's referring to someone else... - At the start of part two of "The Carnivorous Carnival", Lemony narrates to have found a burned down lunette at the bottom of a pit. Also the trick the kids use in the elevator that their dad taught them, where they press every single button in order to cause a large delay. Seems borne from the annoyance Handler faced at test screenings where kids were freaking out and crying. We never did get to hear the end of the sentence that began, "Beatrice, Count Olaf is my—" in the books, although The End did hint at it. Something to notice is that during The Miserable Mill is that Klaus, Dr. Orwell and Count Olaf are all wearing the same frame of glasses. He also grouses that the theater he visits with Monty in episode 3 is a "godforsaken Nickelodeon", a slight at the studio that made the 2004 film.
At a few points in the series the Hook-Handed Man is implied to have some feelings for Count Olaf. Foregone Conclusion: The intros to many of the books tell you that the story will NOT have a happy ending, and Lemony Snicket will also casually reveal which characters will have bad things happen to them throughout the book. Evil Costume Switch: Fiona, when joining Olaf's side, exchanges a uniform with a portrait of Herman Melville for one with a portrait of notoriously bad poet Edgar Guest. The Beatrice Letters. Bring the Anchor Along: In one episode, Jacquelyn is tied to a small tree. This causes an even more unfortunate timeline than the one you know of. The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Bachelor Sister Wives 90 Day Fiance Wife Swap The Amazing Race Australia Married at First Sight The Real Housewives of Dallas My 600-lb Life Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. In the series, he doesn't get a second appointment and his hypnotism returns as soon as Olaf's cohorts say "lucky" to him, raising the question of whether his trance is still lingering after Dr. Orwell's defeat. Duncan, Quigley, Isadora! The Baudelaires must rescue them, but end up getting jailed. The Baudelaire fortune. Refuge in Audacity: The Reptile Room's door requires an absurd amount of security checks to you can just turn the doorknob, which no one would think to do upon seeing the rest of it.
Apparently, so do Fernald and Fiona in Book the Twelfth (albeit off-screen). Naturally, this type of music is prominent in "The Carnivorous Carnival", especially when Olaf, posing as the ringmaster of Caligari Carnival, sings a song during the freaks' performance. This in turn means that he doesn't know what happened to Kit and justifies his earlier musings about not knowing if he'd ever see her again. Neil Patrick Harris claimed in interview his characterization of Count Olaf is closer to the books than Jim Carrey's. Wig, Dress, Accent: Most characters' disguises involve some combination of these or similar items, and the three stages of V. 's disguise training-- Veiled Facial Disguises, Various Finery Disguises, and Voice Fakery Disguises -- resemble this trope. Casting Gag: - Cobie Smulders playing the mother, after How I Met Your Mother where she played pointedly not the mother. Big Bad: Count Olaf. Dr. Orwell's death is changed from being cut to pieces by a sawblade to falling into a furnace, no doubt to make the series more family-friendly.
Season 3 actually ties up several of these loose ends, along with more explicitly detailing certain events which were only implied in the books, such as Olaf's Start of Darkness. Depictions of any questionable, illegal, or potentially illegal activity in said fiction does not mean that I condone, promote, support, participate in, or approve of said activity. Unfortunately, the count proves to be a villainous fortune-hunter intent on inheriting the Baudelaire riches. Numerological Motif: Canon, text, paratexts... the number thirteen is everywhere. Then this (paraphrased) line from one of Lemony Snicket's love letters in The Beatrice Letters seals the deal: "I will love [Beatrice] until C realizes that S is unworthy of his love. That some "police officers" come almost immediately is a sign that they are not actually the police, although the audience and people who are not Poe put this together immediately. As it turns out, she faked her death by throwing a nearby statue first, the longer limbs being due to one arm holding a sword and one leg being on a pedestal. Part 38 of 100 Drabble Tumblr Challenge: Tokyo Drift. When preparing for his scene just before Marge revealed that she had returned home, Carl Carlson inquired the director on whether he should have his character have a bandage claiming that he had been stabbed to cover up the fact that he had a Foghorn Leghorn tattoo to avoid any copyright infringements, although the director refused, telling him that they'll take care of the matter without needing to go to that extreme.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: Played straighter with Dr. Monty than in the book series. Since Babs was Bound and Gagged with duct tape, Violet takes the duct tape off, and Babs screams in response (although this was more likely because Babs is a Nervous Wreck rather than her being in any pain). The official theme song has a few of these, including a map of Peru (where Uncle Monty wants to send the Baudelaires); a will written by the Baudelaires, presumably being forged; and the Prospero, a cruise ship featured in The Unauthorized Autobiography. The Illuminati: Hinted at with Fiona Widdershins, who seems to prefer triangular eyeglasses. The Baudelaires find Quigley at Anwhistle Aquatics, but are immediately separated from him again by the Medusoid Mycellium. Duncan, Isadora, and Quigley Quagmire also show up in both parts of "The Miserable Mill", despite not appearing until Book 5 in the prior two cases and Book 10 in the latter case. The VFD logo is Olaf's eye tattoo (in the books, it was assumed to be a regular tattoo in the shape of an eye until around The Carnivorous Carnival). Continuity Nod: Tons of these, especially in "An Unauthorized Biography". Strange Minds Think Alike: In the first two episodes, Count Olaf struggles to come up with a rhyme for his name, ultimately settling on "rice pilaf". Then the inversion is subverted, when the Lemony Narrator later directly tells the reader this is not always the case.
Competence Zone: In the eighth book, babies up to by-then-fifteen-year-old Violet. It Will Never Catch On: Real Life example: Daniel Handler thought the series was an awful idea, and when his editor said she liked it, he thought she was drunk. Waxing Lyrical: - In "The Austere Academy", Larry asks Carmelita "Tell me what you want, what you really really want". Granted, it's sugar that has a vaccine against the Medusoid mycelium mixed in with it, but still.
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