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* TheKlutz: Miss Prism is this, especially as played by Margaret Rutherford. There's a moment in the film where she gets her watch chain tangled with her eyeglass chain holder and Cecily either hides a giggle, or Dorothy Tutin is {{Corpsing}} and they [[ThrowItIn threw it in]]
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* TheKlutz: Miss Prism is this, especially as played by Margaret Rutherford.Creator/MargaretRutherford. There's a moment in the film where she gets her watch chain tangled with her eyeglass chain holder and Cecily either hides a giggle, or Dorothy Tutin is {{Corpsing}} and they [[ThrowItIn threw it in]]
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* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: Having noticed that his butler's register notes eight bottles of champagne as having been consumed at his most recent party, Algernon asks his manservant Lane about the missing wine.
-->'''Algernon:''' Why is it that at a bachelor’s establishment, the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.\\
'''Lane:''' I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.
-->'''Algernon:''' Why is it that at a bachelor’s establishment, the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.\\
'''Lane:''' I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.
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* AccidentalTruth: Jack and Algernon pretend to be [[spoiler: brothers, and it turns out they are. Jack also pretends to be named Ernest, and that was the name he was christened as, before he was lost as a baby.]]
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* AccidentalTruth: Jack and Algernon pretend to be [[spoiler: brothers, [[spoiler:brothers, and it turns out they are. Jack also pretends to be named Ernest, and that was the name he was christened as, before he was lost as a baby.]]
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** In the 2002 film, the credits play over [[spoiler: the characters holding a funeral for Mr. Bunbury, who Algernon later tells his aunt finally died.]]
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** In the 2002 film, the credits play over [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the characters holding a funeral for Mr. Bunbury, who Algernon later tells his aunt finally died.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The resolution of the plot hinges on a huge one. The Colin Firth film averts this. [[spoiler: Jack just lies. Lady Bracknell knows, but goes along with it.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The resolution of the plot hinges on a huge one. The Colin Firth film averts this. [[spoiler: Jack [[spoiler:Jack just lies. Lady Bracknell knows, but goes along with it.]]
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* GrandeDame: Lady Bracknell is one of the grandest -- and one of the ''[[IncrediblyLamePun dame]]''[[IncrediblyLamePun -dest]].
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* GrandeDame: Lady Bracknell is one of the grandest -- and one of the ''[[IncrediblyLamePun dame]]''[[IncrediblyLamePun ''[[{{Pun}} dame]]''[[{{Pun}} -dest]].
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When Gwendolen and Cecily mistakenly come to believe that they are both engaged to the same man, they engage in an incredibly vicious yet polite catfight. The unstated rule is that they must insult each other while maintaining the appearance of civility and the one who loses her temper first loses. [[spoiler: Cecily wins.]]
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When Gwendolen and Cecily mistakenly come to believe that they are both engaged to the same man, they engage in an incredibly vicious yet polite catfight. The unstated rule is that they must insult each other while maintaining the appearance of civility and the one who loses her temper first loses. [[spoiler: Cecily [[spoiler:Cecily wins.]]
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* WringEveryLastDropOutOfHim: Quoth [[GrandeDame Lady Bracknell]] about Algernon's "sick friend" Bunbury --who Algernon made up as an excuse to avoid unwanted social engagements, and has been using as an excuse for years. "I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he is going to live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd."
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[[ItMakesSenseInContext It makes... more sense if you actually read it.]] And keep in mind that Wilde specifically ordered that the comedic script should be acted with the utmost seriousness. Plus the finale ending with the multiple plays on the word/name "Ernest" is much funnier if played seriously.
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[[ItMakesSenseInContext It makes... more sense if you actually read it.]] And keep in mind that Wilde specifically ordered that the comedic script should be acted with [[TheComicallySerious the utmost seriousness.seriousness]]. Plus the finale ending with the multiple plays on the word/name "Ernest" is much funnier if played seriously.
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--> '''Ernest''': "It's a very serious thing for a man to suddenly discover that all his life he's been speaking the exact truth."
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--> '''Ernest''': "It's It's a very serious thing for a man to suddenly discover that all his life he's been speaking the exact truth."
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-->'''Jack:''' How you can sit there calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.
-->'''Algernon:''' Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
-->'''Algernon:''' Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
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-->'''Jack:''' How you can sit there calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.
-->'''Algernon:'''heartless.\\
'''Algernon:''' Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
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'''Algernon:''' Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
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* CoupledCouples: Jack [[spoiler:aka Ernest]] and Gwendolen, and Algernon and Cecily.
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* CoupledCouples: Jack [[spoiler:aka Ernest]] and Gwendolen, and Algernon and Cecily.
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* IceCreamKoan: An awful lot of the wittiest lines ''sound'' profound at first, but fall apart when you [[FridgeLogic think about them]] too hard, the characters even comment on this fact.
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* IceCreamKoan: An awful lot of the wittiest lines ''sound'' profound at first, but fall apart when you [[FridgeLogic think about them]] too hard, the hard. The characters even comment on this fact.
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* TheIngenue: Gwendolen and Cecily are parodies. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Lady Bracknell for Gwendolen, and Jack for Cecily.
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* TheIngenue: Gwendolen and Cecily are parodies. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Lady Bracknell for Gwendolen, and Jack for Cecily.
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* InventedIndividual: Algernon's [[InventedIndividual Ernest]] is the nonexistent and perpetually sickly "Mr Bunbury"; Jack's is, naturally, his brother Ernest.
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* InventedIndividual: Algernon's [[InventedIndividual Ernest]] Ernest is the nonexistent and perpetually sickly "Mr Bunbury"; Jack's is, naturally, his brother Ernest.
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-->I don't play accurately--anyone can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression.
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* FawltyTowersPlot: It's already one of these by the first act. Jack has convinced Gwendolen that his name is Ernest and has become engaged to her behind Lady Bracknell's back, while Algernon unscrupulously acquires Jack's country address to approach Cecily. And it only gets worse from there.
