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* CulturallySensitiveAdaptation: In countries where adultery is SeriousBusiness, the scene of Khlestakov hitting on both a girl and her mother is sometimes changed into him hitting on two sisters.
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* PermanentElectedOfficial: The character translated as Mayor, who is a powerful CorruptHick with more powers than a mayor would be thought of as having. This being Czarist Russia, there was neither a press nor was central bureaucracy as strong as today.
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* PermanentElectedOfficial: The character translated as Mayor, who is a powerful CorruptHick SmallTownTyrant with more powers than a mayor would be thought of as having. This being Czarist Russia, there was neither a press nor was central bureaucracy as strong as today.
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* TheInspectorIsComing: Corrupt local government officials panic when they hear there's an inspector in town, but the guy they suspect of being him is a case of mistaken identity.
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* TheInspectorIsComing: Corrupt local government officials panic when they hear there's an inspector in town, but the guy they suspect of being him is a case of mistaken identity. The real inspector arrives at the end of the play.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted, with two (unrelated) characters named Piotr Ivanovich Bobchevsky and Piotr Ivanovich Dobchevsky.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted, with two (unrelated) characters named Piotr Ivanovich Bobchevsky Bobchinsky and Piotr Ivanovich Dobchevsky.Dobchinsky.
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Inspired the 1949 Creator/DannyKaye film ''The Inspector General'', which doesn't have a lot in common with the play.
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Inspired the 1949 Creator/DannyKaye film ''The Inspector General'', ''Film/TheInspectorGeneral'', which doesn't have a lot in common with the play.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: In the film version the various corrupt officials are cousins, nephews, brothers-in law and such and don't hesitate much to try and sell each other out.
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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: In the film, there are two twin corrupt officials in the city, Izzick and Grizzick. When they get mixed up one of them keeps saying that he has a mole on his knee and his brother doesn't (repeatedly reaching down to roll up his pant leg before being interrupted). When he finally ''does'' roll up his pant leg he finds out that he doesn't have a mole but that his brother does, revealing that even ''they'' got each other mixed up.
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* SnakeOilSalesman: In the film, Yakov, the previous employer and untrustworthy friend of the inspector general sells a fake medicine to heal all wounds.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A couple cases in the film
** The Mayor of a previous town hit by the real inspector general passes through and requests a fresh horse to get out of their for parts unknown, commenting that he got out of town just ahead of a firing squad while one of his accomplices was hanged and another got twenty years.
** There's a RunningGag of one of the town officials repeatedly attempts to resign his job and leave as well (starting how after he first hears the story of the other towns mayor).
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A couple cases in the film
** The Mayor of a previous town hit by the real inspector general passes through and requests a fresh horse to get out of their for parts unknown, commenting that he got out of town just ahead of a firing squad while one of his accomplices was hanged and another got twenty years.
** There's a RunningGag of one of the town officials repeatedly attempts to resign his job and leave as well (starting how after he first hears the story of the other towns mayor).
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the movie, Georgi and Yakov's fellow performers disappear after they scatter at the beginning.
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* TheGamblingAddict: Khlestakov is stuck in the town because he'd gambled all his money away. His parting words strongly imply that his ill-gotten fortune will only survive until the next gaming-table.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: In the film version the various corrupt officials are cousins, nephews, brothers-in law and such and don't hesitate much to try and sell each other out.
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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: In the film, there are two twin corrupt officials in the city, Izzick and Grizzick. When they get mixed up one of them keeps saying that he has a mole on his knee and his brother doesn't (repeatedly reaching down to roll up his pant leg before being interrupted). When he finally ''does'' roll up his pant leg he finds out that he doesn't have a mole but that his brother does, revealing that even ''they'' got each other mixed up.
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* SnakeOilSalesman: In the film, Yakov, the previous employer and untrustworthy friend of the inspector general sells a fake medicine to heal all wounds.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A couple cases in the film
** The Mayor of a previous town hit by the real inspector general passes through and requests a fresh horse to get out of their for parts unknown, commenting that he got out of town just ahead of a firing squad while one of his accomplices was hanged and another got twenty years.
** There's a RunningGag of one of the town officials repeatedly attempts to resign his job and leave as well (starting how after he first hears the story of the other towns mayor).
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A couple cases in the film
** The Mayor of a previous town hit by the real inspector general passes through and requests a fresh horse to get out of their for parts unknown, commenting that he got out of town just ahead of a firing squad while one of his accomplices was hanged and another got twenty years.
** There's a RunningGag of one of the town officials repeatedly attempts to resign his job and leave as well (starting how after he first hears the story of the other towns mayor).
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the movie, Georgi and Yakov's fellow performers disappear after they scatter at the beginning.
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* GermanRussians: The doctor, who can't even speak Russian.
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The text does in fact state that these rodents are unusually large
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* InventionPretension: Khlestakov's {{Tall Tale}}s are full of it.
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** One of the actors playing the role used his fingers to show the rodents's size as 'tiny'' - doesn't say in the text they are unusually ''big''
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** One of the actors playing the role used his fingers to show the rodents's size as 'tiny'' ''tiny'' - doesn't say in the text they are unusually ''big''
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* FreezeFrameEnding: The play ends with the officials hearing that the ''real'' inspector wants to see them. According to the author's instructions, everyone is supposed to freeze in place (in thoroughly described positions) until the curtain falls over a minute later. Few performances have managed to follow these demands to a letter; Vsevolod Meyerhold actually used dolls for the scene.
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''The Inspector General'' (''Ревизор'', ''Revizor'', literally "The Inspector", also translated as ''The Government Inspector'') is a comedy play in five acts by Creator/NikolaiGogol.
The corrupt Mayor (or Governor, depending on the translation) of a small town receives a message informing him that a government inspector will be visiting the town incognito to investigate how it is run, causing a panic as he and his underlings hurry to cover up their misdeeds. A stranger to town, Khlestakov, is mistaken for the inspector; in fact he is an impoverished minor civil servant, and when he realizes why everyone is suddenly being so nice to him he takes full advantage to scam them for everything he can get. After his departure, the officials celebrate the apparent successful handling of the inspector's visit, until a message arrives revealing the truth about Khlestakov. As they start blaming each other, another message arrives: a summons for the Mayor from the ''real'' inspector.
!!This play contains examples of:
* AudienceMonologue: At the end, as the officials are turning on each other, the Mayor addresses the audience -- "What are ''you'' laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!"
* GermanRussians: The doctor, who can't even speak Russian.
* TheInspectorIsComing: Corrupt local government officials panic when they hear there's an inspector in town, but the guy they suspect of being him is a case of mistaken identity.
* MassOhCrap: The famous "silent scene" at the end is an epic, several minute long Mass "Oh, Crap!" moment, described in great detail.
* MistakenForSpecialGuest: A poor but foppish gentleman visiting a small town is mistaken for an expected government inspector by the local corrupt bureaucrats. He quickly understands what's going on, and uses the situation to swindle a neat sum out of the locals. Then he leaves and the real [=McCoy=] comes...
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, with two (unrelated) characters named Piotr Ivanovich Bobchevsky and Piotr Ivanovich Dobchevsky.
* PermanentElectedOfficial: The character translated as Mayor, who is a powerful CorruptHick with more powers than a mayor would be thought of as having. This being Czarist Russia, there was neither a press nor was central bureaucracy as strong as today.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: One character dreams of two "Rodents of Unusual Size" the night before receiving the letter that the inspector is secretly coming to town.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky.
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The corrupt Mayor (or Governor, depending on the translation) of a small town receives a message informing him that a government inspector will be visiting the town incognito to investigate how it is run, causing a panic as he and his underlings hurry to cover up their misdeeds. A stranger to town, Khlestakov, is mistaken for the inspector; in fact he is an impoverished minor civil servant, and when he realizes why everyone is suddenly being so nice to him he takes full advantage to scam them for everything he can get. After his departure, the officials celebrate the apparent successful handling of the inspector's visit, until a message arrives revealing the truth about Khlestakov. As they start blaming each other, another message arrives: a summons for the Mayor from the ''real'' inspector.
!!This play contains examples of:
* AudienceMonologue: At the end, as the officials are turning on each other, the Mayor addresses the audience -- "What are ''you'' laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!"
* GermanRussians: The doctor, who can't even speak Russian.
* TheInspectorIsComing: Corrupt local government officials panic when they hear there's an inspector in town, but the guy they suspect of being him is a case of mistaken identity.
* MassOhCrap: The famous "silent scene" at the end is an epic, several minute long Mass "Oh, Crap!" moment, described in great detail.
* MistakenForSpecialGuest: A poor but foppish gentleman visiting a small town is mistaken for an expected government inspector by the local corrupt bureaucrats. He quickly understands what's going on, and uses the situation to swindle a neat sum out of the locals. Then he leaves and the real [=McCoy=] comes...
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, with two (unrelated) characters named Piotr Ivanovich Bobchevsky and Piotr Ivanovich Dobchevsky.
* PermanentElectedOfficial: The character translated as Mayor, who is a powerful CorruptHick with more powers than a mayor would be thought of as having. This being Czarist Russia, there was neither a press nor was central bureaucracy as strong as today.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: One character dreams of two "Rodents of Unusual Size" the night before receiving the letter that the inspector is secretly coming to town.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky.
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