History YMMV / Thud

* HilariousInHindsight: In the book, one of the paintings is stolen, leaving just the frame and a blank section of wall; Nobby suggests a rename to "Art Theft". [[https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200192209/danish-artist-jens-haaning-blank-canvases-ordered-to-repay-loan-kunsten In 2021]] a Danish artist was commissioned to recreate two of his other paintings; he turns in blank canvases, which end up being displayed by the museum. And at some point during the process, he gives his project the title... "Take the Money and Run". (He was eventually ordered to refund most of his fee. The rest has been considered a payment for actually ''displaying'' the empty canvases.)

* InformedWrongness: Tawneee (real name, Betty) dating Nobby Nobbs. When Angua, Sally and Cheeri find out that she is an absolute bombshell, they take it upon themselves to find out exactly why she is subjecting herself to ''Nobby Nobbs'', and it turns out she has some self-confidence issues due to being SoBeautifulItsACurse... upon which they take it upon themselves to try and "fix" the situation, implicitly so she will break up with Nobby. But the fact remains that, from what Tawneee says about their relationship, he's a perfect gentle... man? to her and she actually ''likes him'', yet Nobby scoring someone so beautiful is apparently against the order of things and must be rectified. Nobby is revealed to not mind that much as her cooking is awful.

* HilariousInHindsight: In the book, one of the paintings is stolen, leaving just the frame and a blank section of wall; Nobby suggests a rename to "Art Theft". [[https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200192209/danish-artist-jens-haaning-blank-canvases-ordered-to-repay-loan-kunsten In 2021]] a Danish artist was commissioned to recreate two of his other paintings; he turns in blank canvases, which end up being displayed by the museum. And at some point during the process, he give his project the title... "Take the Money and Run". (He was eventually ordered to refund most of his fee. The rest has been considered a payment for actually ''displaying'' the empty canvases.)
* InformedWrongness: Tawneee (real name, Betty) dating Nobby Nobbs. When Angua, Sally and Cheeri find out that she is an absolute bombshell, they take it upon themselves to find out exactly why she is subjecting herself to ''Nobby Nobbs'', and it turns out she has some self-confidence issues due to being SoBeautifulItsACurse... upon which they take it upon themselves to try and "fix" the situation, implicitly so she will break up with Nobby. But the fact remains that, from what Tawneee says about their relationship, he's a perfect gentle... man? to her and she actually ''likes him'', yet Nobby scoring someone so beautiful is apparently against the order of things and must be rectified. Nobby is revealed to not mind that much as her cooking is awful.
* ItWasHisSled: If you can somehow manage to hear anything about this book without seeing the phrase [[spoiler:'''"THAT! IS!! NOT!!! MY!!!! COW!!!!!"''']], you are very lucky.

* HilariousInHindsight: In the book, one of the paintings is stolen, leaving just the frame and a blank section of wall; Nobby suggests a rename to "Art Theft". [[https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200192209/danish-artist-jens-haaning-blank-canvases-ordered-to-repay-loan-kunsten In 2021]] an artist was commissioned to recreate several other paintings; he ends up turning in several blank canvases, with some of them being displayed by the museum. And at some point during the process, he give his project the title... "Take The Money And Run". (He was eventually ordered to refund most of his fee. The rest has been considered a payment for actually ''displaying'' the empty canvases.)

* HilariousInHindsight: In the book, one of the paintings is stolen, leaving just the frame and a blank section of wall; Nobby suggests a rename to "Art Theft". [[https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200192209/danish-artist-jens-haaning-blank-canvases-ordered-to-repay-loan-kunsten In 2021]] an artist was commissioned to recreate several other paintings: he ends up turning in several blank canvases, with some of them being displayed by the museum. And at some point during the process, he give his project the title... "Take The Money And Run". (He was eventually ordered to refund most of his fee. The rest has been considered a payment for actually ''diplaying'' the empty canvases.)

* HilariousInHindsight: In the book, one of the painting is stolen, leaving just the frame and a blank section of wall; Nobby suggests a rename to "Art Theft". [[https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200192209/danish-artist-jens-haaning-blank-canvases-ordered-to-repay-loan-kunsten In 2021]] an artist was commissioned to recreate several other paintings: he ends up turning in several blank canvases, with some of them being displayed by the museum. And at some point during the process, he give his project the title... "Take The Money And Run". ( He was eventually ordered to refund most of his fee. The rest has been considered a payment for actually ''diplaying'' the empty canvases.)

* HilariousInHindsite: In the book, one of the painting is stolen, leaving just the frame and a blank section of wall; Nobby suggests a rename to "Art Theft". [[https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200192209/danish-artist-jens-haaning-blank-canvases-ordered-to-repay-loan-kunsten In 2021]] an artist was commissioned to recreate several other paintings: he ends up turning in several blank canvases, with some of them being displayed by the museum. And at some point during the process, he give his project the title... "Take The Money And Run". ( He was eventually ordered to refund most of his fee. The rest has been considered a payment for actually ''diplaying'' the empty canvases.)

** Related to Nobby's suggestion under TrueArtIsIncomprehensible below. There ''is'' a case of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum#Art_theft_of_1990 a museum]] leaving the empty frames of stolen artwork on display.

* InformedWrongness: Tawneee (real name, Betty) dating Nobby Nobbs. When Angua, Sally and Cheeri find out that she is an absolute bombshell, they take it upon themselves to find out exactly why she is subjecting herself to ''Nobby Nobbs'', and it turns out she has some self-confidence issues due to being SoBeautifulItsACurse... upon which they take it upon themselves to try and "fix" the situation, implicitly so she will break up with Nobby. But the fact remains that, from what Tawneee says about their relationship, he's a perfect gentle... man? to her and she actually ''likes him'', yet Nobby scoring someone so beautiful is apparently against the order of things and must be recitified.

* InformedWrongness: Tawnee (real name, Betty) dating Nobby Nobbs, when Angua, Sally and Cheeri find out that she is an absolute bombshell, they take it upon themselves, to find out exactly why she is subjecting herself to ''Nobby Nobbs'', turns out she has some self-confidence issues, due to being SoBeautifulItsACurse, upon which they take it upon themselves to try and "fix" them, implicitly so she will break up with Nobby, but, where it becomes this, is the fact that from what she says about her relationship with Nobby, is that he is a perfect Gentle... man? to her, she actually ''likes him'', but Nobby scoring someone so beautiful apparently trumps this.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: There are two "modern art" pieces by Daniellarina Pouter: ''Don't Talk to Me About Mondays'', which consists of a pile of rags, and ''Freedom'', which consists of a stake to which Ms. Pouter had been nailed after Lord Vetinari had seen her previous piece. (She was delighted and is planning to nail herself to a wide variety of objects in the near future as a special exhibition.)
** Despite that, Nobby's suggestion that the empty frame where ''The Battle Of Koom Valley'' had been before it was stolen be reclassified as a piece of modern art named ''Art Theft'' was rejected.

* TheWoobie: You can't help but feel sorry for Brick after a while. Maybe even instantly. Helmclever as well.
* TheBusCameBack: Subverted, but I was always disappointed that there was never a mention or nod to Cuddy, the second dwarf watchman (after Carrot), and Detritus' first dwarven friend
** This is very probably because Constable Cuddy ''dies'' in the novel ''Men At Arms'', not long after joining the Watch.

* TheBusCameBack: Subverted, but I was always disappointed that there was never a mention or nod to Cuddy, the second dwarf watchman (after Carrot), and Detritus' first dwarven friend

* TheWoobie: You can't help but feel sorry for Brick after a while. Maybe even instantly. Helmclever as well.

** AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: For some people, that's ''all'' they know about the book, especially since the spoiler in question is almost always present with little to no context.

* ItWasHisSled: If you can some how manage to hear anything about this book without seeing the phrase [[spoiler:'''"THAT! IS!! NOT!!! MY!!!! COW!!!!!"''']], you are very lucky.

** During the magically-accelerated coach ride, Vimes notices that the landscape appears slightly bluish when he looks ahead, and slightly reddish when he looks behind: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Doppler_effect Blueshift and redshift]].

* GeniusBonus: Related to Nobby's suggestion under TrueArtIsIncomprehensible below. There ''is'' a case of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum#Art_theft_of_1990 a museum]] leaving the empty frames of stolen artwork on display.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The Summoning Dark.
** And in-universe, Vimes [[spoiler: possessed by the Summoning Dark]] rapidly becomes this to the dark dwarfs at the end.

* TheWoobie: You can't help but feel sorry for Brick after a while. Maybe even instantly.
** Don't forget Helmclever. Poor Helmclever...