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** This gets followed up when the Captain tells her that the last governess stayed only ''two hours''.

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** This gets followed up when she meets the Captain tells her that Captain:
--> '''Captain''': "I trust you'll be an improvement over
the last governess one (governess). She stayed only ''two hours''.two hours."
--> '''Maria''': "What's ''wrong'' with the children?"
--> '''Captain''': ''(defensively)'' "There's ''nothing'' wrong with the children, only with the governesses!"
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** Maria also shows that despite her naivete, she's no fool--when the Mother Superior says that the Captain has had a very difficult time finding a governess for the children, Maria warily asks, "Er. . .why so difficult?", no doubt instantly suspecting that the children must be very badly behaved.
** This gets followed up when the Captain tells her that the last governess stayed only ''two hours''.


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* When the family hides from the Nazis, Gretel epitomizes ChildrenAreInnocent when she blithely asks Maria, "Would it help if we sang about our favorite things?" (Maria had taught them the song as a means of feeling better or allaying their fears) Maria can't help but laugh at the absurdity of the question before quickly telling her, "''No'', darling, this time it would ''not'' help." and telling her to be ''very'' quiet.
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** Captain Von Trapp's face is just hilarious as his childrens' lie get more outlandish. He's visibly {{Corpsing}}.

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** Captain Von Trapp's face is just hilarious as his childrens' children's lie get more outlandish. He's visibly {{Corpsing}}.

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* "They weren't blueberries sir, they were strawberries! [[DiggingYourselfDeeper It's been so cold lately they turned blue]]." Then the "Did I ''really'' just say that?" look on Friedrich's face directly afterwards.

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* "They weren't When the Captain points out a hole in the children's blueberry-picking story - namely, that blueberries sir, they aren't in season yet - Friedrich tries to cover with, "They were strawberries! [[DiggingYourselfDeeper It's been so cold lately they turned blue]]." "
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Then the "Did I ''really'' just say that?" look on Friedrich's face directly afterwards.



* When the von Trapps are hiding from the Nazis behind the statues in the convent, and the kids are all scared, Gretel asks, "Is now a good time to sing about our favorite things?"
-->'''Maria''': [[RealityEnsues No, darling. This is one time it would]] ''[[RealityEnsues not]]'' [[RealityEnsues help. You must be very quiet. Hold tight to me.]]

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-->'''First nun''': Reverend Mother, I have sinned...\\
'''Second nun''': As have I, Reverend Mother.\\
'''Mother Superior''': Oh? And what is this sin, my children?\\

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-->'''First nun''': Reverend Mother, I have sinned...sinned.\\
'''Second nun''': As have I, I too, Reverend Mother.\\
'''Mother Superior''': Oh? And what What is this sin, my children?\\




-->'''Captain Von Trapp''': ''No.''
Liesl's pouting face afterwards.

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\n-->'''Captain '''Captain Von Trapp''': ''No.''
** Liesl's pouting face afterwards.
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'''First nun''': Reverend Mother, I have sinned...\\

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'''First -->'''First nun''': Reverend Mother, I have sinned...\\

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* "Reverend Mother, I have sinned..."

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* "Reverend Two nuns come up to the Mother Superior while she watches the Nazis struggle with starting their cars:
'''First nun''': Reverend
Mother, I have sinned..."\\
'''Second nun''': As have I, Reverend Mother.\\
'''Mother Superior''': Oh? And what is this sin, my children?\\
''[both nuns look at each other, then produce engine parts from the Nazis' cars from under their robes]''
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* Gretl claims she can't sing because she hurt her finger. What really makes the gag is that Max doesn't question it at all.

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* Maria guilt-trips the children for trying to make her first day miserable while they're eating dinner, causing all of them to lose their appetites

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* While they're eating dinner, Maria guilt-trips the children for trying to make her first day miserable while they're eating dinner, miserable, causing all of them to lose their appetitesappetites:



-->'''Maria''': Oh, they're all right, Captain. They're just happy... ''[cue mass bawling]''

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-->'''Maria''': '''Maria''': Oh, they're all right, Captain. They're just happy... ''[cue mass bawling]''



So long! Farewell! Au revoir! Auf Wiedersehen!\\

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-->'''Liesl''': So long! Farewell! Au revoir! Auf Wiedersehen!\\



'''Captain Von Trapp''': ''No.''\\

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'''Captain
-->'''Captain
Von Trapp''': ''No.''\\''

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* "Fraulein, is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you intend on leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion?"\\
"Oh, they're all right, Captain. They're just happy..." (cue mass bawling)

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* "Fraulein, Maria guilt-trips the children for trying to make her first day miserable while they're eating dinner, causing all of them to lose their appetites
-->'''Captain Von Trapp''': Fraulein,
is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you intend on leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion?"\\
"Oh,
indigestion?\\
-->'''Maria''': Oh,
they're all right, Captain. They're just happy..." (cue ''[cue mass bawling)bawling]''



* "So long! Farewell! Au revoir! Auf Wiedersehen!"\\
"I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne! Yes?"\\
''"No."''\\

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* Liesl's verse in "So Long, Farewell" and her father's response:
So
long! Farewell! Au revoir! Auf Wiedersehen!"\\
"I'd
Wiedersehen!\\
I'd
like to stay and taste my first champagne! Yes?"\\
''"No."''\\
Yes?\\
'''Captain Von Trapp''': ''No.''\\



** "[[RealityEnsues No, darling. This is one time it would ''not'' help. You must be very quiet. Hold tight to me.]]"

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** "[[RealityEnsues -->'''Maria''': [[RealityEnsues No, darling. This is one time it would ''not'' would]] ''[[RealityEnsues not]]'' [[RealityEnsues help. You must be very quiet. Hold tight to me.]]"]]
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* Maria comes racing back into the abbey after her opening number, only to suddenly notice the Mother Superior and several other nuns right next to her. She promptly slows to a walk and gives a brief glance skyward.

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* Maria comes racing back into the abbey after her opening number, only to suddenly notice the Reverend Mother Superior and several other nuns right next to her. She promptly slows to a walk and gives a brief glance skyward.
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** Followed by nearly slipping and falling on her face as she tries to sing some more about how confident she is, an actual flub by Julie Andrews that everyone naturally agreed to keep in the film.
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* Maria comes racing back into the abbey after her opening number, only to suddenly notice the Mother Superior and several other nuns right next to her. She promptly slows to a walk and gives a brief glance skyward.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sound_of_music_pinecone.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Enchanting little ritual."]]
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** Captain Von Trapp's face is just hilarious as his childrens' lie get more outlandish. He's visibly {{Corpsing}}.
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**"[[RealityEnsues No, darling. This is one time it would ''not'' help. You must be very quiet. Hold tight to me.]]"
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* When the von Trapps are hiding from the Nazis behind the statues in the convent, and the kids are all scared, Gretel asks, "Is now a good time to sing about our favorite things?"
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* Maria's reaction to being sent to take care of seven children - her eyes look ready to pop out of her head. Reverend Mother calmly asks "don't you like children, Maria?" - to which Maria says she does "but ''seven''?"
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* When Maria asks Gretel how she hurt her finger: "It got caught!" "Caught in what?" "Friedrich's teeth!"
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* Remember how Maria said nuns' worldly clothes are given to the poor when they join the convent? At the opening of the scene where Reverend Mother convinces Maria to return to the Von Trapps, she has just finished admitting a new postulant, and sends her to change into her robes. In the next scene, when Maria returns to the Von Trapps, she's wearing the dress that new postulant gave up!
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* After the Captain asks Maria why she still has her dress if all her clothes were given to the poor: "The poor didn't want this one..."

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* After the Captain asks Maria why she still has her dress if all her clothes were given to the poor: [[EvenBeggarsWontChooseIt "The poor didn't want this one..."one."]]

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--> '''Captain (with barely restrained anger)''': Are you telling me ''my children'' have been running around Salzburg dressed in nothing but some old '''drapes'''?!?
--> '''Maria (grinning from ear-to-ear)''': Mmhmm! And having a marvelous time!

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--> '''Captain (with '''Captain''' ''[with barely restrained anger)''': anger]'': Are you telling me ''my children'' have been running around Salzburg dressed in nothing but some old '''drapes'''?!?
--> '''Maria (grinning '''Maria''' ''[grinning from ear-to-ear)''': ear-to-ear]'': Mmhmm! And having a marvelous time!



* The Salzburg Marionette Theatre premiered a puppet version of ''The Sound of Music'' in 2007. Among other changes, "The Lonely Goatherd" plays during the curtain call...in which the puppeteers operate marionettes of the Von Trapps operating marionettes of the characters in the song.

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* The Salzburg Marionette Theatre premiered a puppet version of ''The Sound of Music'' in 2007. Among other changes, "The Lonely Goatherd" plays during the curtain call...in which the puppeteers operate marionettes of the Von Trapps operating marionettes of the characters in the song.song.
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* "They weren't blueberries sir, they were strawberries! [[DiggingYourselfDeeper It's been so cold lately they turned blue]]."
** Let's not forget the "Did I ''really'' just say that?" look on Friedrich's face directly afterwards.

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* "They weren't blueberries sir, they were strawberries! [[DiggingYourselfDeeper It's been so cold lately they turned blue]]."
** Let's not forget
" Then the "Did I ''really'' just say that?" look on Friedrich's face directly afterwards.



** Speaking of Kurt, when he introduces himself as "incorrigible", Maria responds with "Congratulations"...which is funnier when you realise what incorrigible ''actually'' means (uncontrollable or firmly fixed in their ways)

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** Speaking of Kurt, when he *When Kurt introduces himself as "incorrigible", Maria responds with "Congratulations"...which is funnier when you realise what incorrigible ''actually'' means (uncontrollable or firmly fixed in their ways)



* After Liesl casually mentions that Louisa can make the climb up to the governess' room with a whole jar of spiders in her hand, Maria reacts brilliantly. And despite having a heart-to-heart with Liesl, she spends the rest of the scene sneakily checking under her bed clothes for anything. She jumps when she does find something... but it turns out to be a slipper.
* Somewhat "meta" here, but hearing the nuns complain about Maria "singing in the abbey" becomes about five times funnier when you realise that this complaint is expressed through song. [[HypocriticalHumor While they're in the abbey.]]

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* After Liesl casually mentions that Louisa can make the climb up to the governess' room with a whole jar of spiders in her hand, Maria reacts brilliantly. And despite Despite having a heart-to-heart with Liesl, she spends the rest of the scene sneakily checking under her bed clothes for anything. She jumps when she does find something... but it turns out to be a slipper.
* Somewhat "meta" here, but hearing the nuns complain about Maria "singing in the abbey" becomes about five times funnier when you realise that this complaint is expressed through song. song, [[HypocriticalHumor While while they're in the abbey.]]

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* "I am not finished, Captain--" "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Oh yes YOU ARE]], CAPTAIN... Fraulein."

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* This exchange:
--> '''Captain (with barely restrained anger)''': Are you telling me ''my children'' have been running around Salzburg dressed in nothing but some old '''drapes'''?!?
--> '''Maria (grinning from ear-to-ear)''': Mmhmm! And having a marvelous time!
* "I am not finished, Captain--" "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Oh yes YOU ARE]], CAPTAIN...[[FreudianSlip CAPTAIN]]... Fraulein."
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* When Georg tells the children that Uncle Max will be coming back with him, he is quite clearly rolling his eyes.
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** Let's not forget the "Did I really just say that?" look on Friedrich's face directly afterwards.

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** Let's not forget the "Did I really ''really'' just say that?" look on Friedrich's face directly afterwards.
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**Let's not forget the "Did I really just say that?" look on Friedrich's face directly afterwards.
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* Kurt asking Brigitta not to call Maria's dress the ugliest one they ever saw, since one of their previous governesses wore an even uglier one.

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* Kurt asking reprimanding Brigitta not to call for calling Maria's dress the ugliest one they ever saw, since one of their previous governesses wore an even uglier one.



** Speaking of Kurt, when he introduces himself as "incorrigible", Maria responds with "Congratulations"...which is funnier when you realise what incorrigible ''actually'' means. (meaning uncontrollable or firmly fixed in their ways)
* Maria stops in the middle of her own musical number when she sees the size of the house. Julie Andrews's delivery of "Oh help" is priceless.

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** Speaking of Kurt, when he introduces himself as "incorrigible", Maria responds with "Congratulations"...which is funnier when you realise what incorrigible ''actually'' means. (meaning uncontrollable means (uncontrollable or firmly fixed in their ways)
* Maria stops in the middle of her own musical number when she sees the size of the house. Julie Andrews's delivery of "Oh "Oh, help" is priceless.
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* "I am not finished yet!" "Oh yes YOU ARE, CAPTAIN... Fraulein."

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* "I am not finished yet!" "Oh finished, Captain--" "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Oh yes YOU ARE, ARE]], CAPTAIN... Fraulein."
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"Smart girl."
* "So long! Farewell! Au revoir! Auf wiedersehn!"\\

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"Smart "You're a very intelligent girl."
* "So long! Farewell! Au revoir! Auf wiedersehn!"\\Wiedersehen!"\\

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