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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chap11.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Mmm, [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals what kind of creature is it?]]]]
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4	* The jackdaw who is obsessed with keeping track of the number of jokes Narnia has seen.
5	--> '''Aslan:''' No, my child, you have not made the first joke. [[NotSoStoic You have merely been the first joke.]]
6	** Even better in the audiobook, where Creator/KennethBranagh seems to be doing an impression of Fozzie.
7	* Andrew's {{Humiliation Conga}} as the animals he's convinced can't talk keep trying to feed him, particularly the bear who makes a very thoughtful sacrifice of his honeycomb.
8	--> Not all the bees were dead.
9	** When the animals think Uncle Andrew might actually be a plant of some kind, and try sticking his "roots" (his feet) into the ground and watering him. It's mentioned that Uncle Andrew had a very narrow escape, because the animals at one point wondered if his bushy hair was actually his roots and nearly buried him in the ground head-first.
10	** The fact that the animals adopted Uncle Andrew as a sort of pet and name him "Brandy", [[INeedAFreakingDrink 'because he made that noise so often']].
11	* Andrew's housekeeper during the entire sequence of Jadis stomping around London, having the best day of her life.
12	* For that matter, everyone's reaction to Jadis's arrival in London: "Three cheers for the Hempress of Colney 'Atch!" [[note]]Colney Hatch was a lunatic asylum.[[/note]] For a moment she's flattered by their sarcastic praise, until she sees they're all laughing at her. Then she tries to cast a curse on them, only to find her magic doesn't work on Earth. Everyone else who hears her failed spell assumes she's drunk.
13	** Jadis is halted in her attempts to go out and conquer London by Digory's aunt, Letty. Yes, a [[StatuesqueStunner giant]] [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen queen]] who [[OmnicidalManiac single-handedly killed everyone in her world]] is being stood up to by an [[DeadpanSnarker unimpressed]] [[GrandeDame battleax of an Englishwoman]], who thinks Jadis is some kind of a circus performer and doesn't approve of the [[SleevesAreForWimps revealing outfit]] she wears. Jadis eventually resorts to bodily throwing Letty across the room, and Letty ''still'' just gets up and goes off to call the police.
14	** Then, when a policeman does arrive, Uncle Andrew is not very helpful in clarifying what's happened, as his hat has been crammed down over his face.
15	--->'''Policeman:''' [[StockPhrases Now then, what's all this?]]\
16	'''Andrew:''' ''Womfle-pomfy-shomf!''\
17	'''Policeman:''' None of that, now! You'll find this is no laughing matter.
18	* The last two lines of the book, where Uncle Andrew tells this story to his grandnephews and recounts how Jadis had "a devilish temper" but was "a damn fine woman".
19	* Any time it's brought up that Andrew goes to visit the bottle of brandy (AKA the "nasty grown-up drink") he keeps hidden in his closet. After having several glasses, in one case, he becomes convinced that Jadis might actually fall for him. She doesn't.
20	* Any time the She-Elephant accidentally insulted short noses, causing the Bulldog to say "I object to that remark!"
21	* Towards the beginning of the book, Andrew insists that as a magician, he is AboveGoodAndEvil, and gives Digory a whole speech on how "Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny." Digory isn't buying any of it.
22	* When he tries to leave, [[StealthPun Andrew gets him back by appealing to his chivalry]], or in other words, almost ''literally'' pulled a {{Shut Up Kirk}}e.
23	* The way it's described that Polly's punishment for disappearing with Digory for hours is to be "given dinner with all the nice parts left out" before getting sent to bed "for two solid hours".
24	* The author can be quite a DeadpanSnarker at times, such as the above incident and when he notes that "people who try to make themselves stupider very often succeed."
25	* The newly named Fledge is made a winged horse and asked if he could carry Digory and Polly on their mission to get the apple. He agrees that he could after all the weight he carried during his time as a cab horse... but hopes the elephant doesn't want to come too.
26	* In a CrossesTheLineTwice way, Jadis leading Digory and Polly through the palace in Charn. Digory hopes she'll tell them about the palace… and tell she does, pointing out the dungeons, the torture chamber, and a hall where seven hundred nobles were slaughtered at a feast.

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