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3 | ->''"And as the dull, watery sun washed out those long nights, I would go back up to my room and I would look into my mirror, and I would ask in the queasy dawn:\ |
4 | WHO AM I?\ |
5 | And the mirror would answer:\ |
6 | MY NAME IS JOHN HODGMAN. But that is all over now."''[[labelnote:240]][[ComicallyMissingThePoint "The mirrors at the Chateau Marmont are AMAZING."]][[/labelnote]] |
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9 | ''As Long Threatened and Longer Postponed, Herein you Will Find: A Third Compendium ("Tri-Pendium") of Complete World Knowledge, Now and Finally Complete, As Set Down by Me, A Former Professional Literary Writer; A Former Former Professional Literary Agent; A Minor Television Personality Who Is Arguably Still Famous In Some Circles; and ... A Current DERANGED MILLONAIRE, Who Is Known In Your Language as JOHN HODGMAN Simultaneously Covering and Uncovering Such Previously Un-touched-upon Subjects As... The Practice and Pronunciation of "Oenophilia"; The Ancient Teachings of The ''Americanomicon''; The Meaning of your Dreams; Gentleman Criminals; How Boats Work; How To Raise Sperm Wales; The Secrets of The Master Magicians; How To Finally Become Happy and Wealthy As A Deranged Millionaire Before The Coming Global Super-Collapse and The End of Human Civilization, aka "Ragnarok"; Plus: Sports! As Well As Most Other Subjects, At Last In Such Sufficiency As To Report: '''[[TitleDrop THAT IS ALL]]''' '' |
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11 | The final entry in the ''Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge'' trilogy, Creator/JohnHodgman's last book of fake trivia, and, quite possibly, the last book ever to be printed before the arrival of RAGNAROK and the end of the Earth. |
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13 | Compared to ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise'' and ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire,'' ''That Is All'' retains the humor of its predecessors even as it takes a much [[ToneShift darker tone]]. Hodgman's fame is waning, and now, a newly-minted Deranged Millionaire, he's taken it upon himself to document his Albuterol-induced visions of the final year of human civilization. |
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16 | !!This book provides examples of, and parodies, the following tropes: |
17 | * AIIsACrapshoot: |
18 | ** The entire subplot about Ray Kurzweil. |
19 | ** Also, all computers are sentient, and want to kill you. And as soon as the anti-sentience wave is shut down in the coming global superpocalypse, they will. |
20 | * AlternateHistory: Apparently the books are set in an alternate timeline where [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] drowned during the '30s. UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt was watching the whole time and did nothing. |
21 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Many of the ancient and unspeakable ones. |
22 | ** [[SeaMonster Giant Swimmer]]: Ole Missus Crushgumbs, Mother Of All Monster Catfish. |
23 | ** HairRaisingHare: Oester-[[Literature/WatershipDown Rah]]. |
24 | * BetterByADifferentName: A variant. Hodgman writes that he was able to accomplish his goal of getting ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'' back on the air, except he had nothing to do with it and the show is now called ''Series/BurnNotice''. |
25 | * BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The sasquatch seeks police custody. And the reason most people aren't allowed in NYC's Gramercy Park? THERE'S A YETI IN THERE. |
26 | * BrickJoke: The [[CoolVersusAwesome Zeppeliners Vs. Submariners Feud]] ends up surfacing unexpectedly, resulting in the tragic death of the jock/nerd {{Steampunk}} messiah Nick Mangold. |
27 | * CosmicHorrorStory: Admittedly, a very comic take on the genre. |
28 | * DemonicDummy: Waylon Flowers' puppet Madame resurfaces as the god-figure of the abandoned children of New Brookline, Massachusetts, and sentences Stephen King to death for the crime of bringing new information. Even though she's puppeteered by a teenager, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane she also does fifteen minutes of her old act, and makes many cultural references that even kids in the time-stopped New Brookline wouldn't get]]. |
29 | * EccentricMillionaire: John Hodgman and other Deranged Millionaires. |
30 | ** The BLOOD WAVE is actually caused by a Deranged '''Billionaire'''. |
31 | * EldritchAbomination: Many of them figure prominently in the end of the world. |
32 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt |
33 | * EtTuBrute: Your dog has BETRAYED US ALL. |
34 | * FantasyKitchenSink: All the many, many things contributing the Apocalypse. |
35 | * FlatEarthAtheist: Juggoth, God of Atheists Who Is Himself an Atheist |
36 | * GentlemanThief: Parodied in "Table 49: Other Gentlemen Criminals", most of whom committed crimes far less glamourous than burglary. |
37 | * GrailInTheGarbage: The [[spoiler: giant frozen head of Nug-Shohab]] is found in a walk-in freezer behind some meat, at a South Pole research station. |
38 | * HiveMind: DOGSTORM |
39 | * {{Homage}}: Nick Mangold's ascension as the Nerd-Jock Messiah is full of these. He credits [[Franchise/StarWars Admiral Ackbar]] with helping him recognize a trap by an opposing football team, plays a duet of [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} "Still Alive"]] with Creator/FeliciaDay, and reminds nerds and jocks they need to cooperate because [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire winter is coming]]. |
40 | * {{Immortality}}: Discussed at length as a common pursuit of Deranged Millionaires. Popular forms include [[BrainUploading Consciousness Transfer]], [[HumanPopsicle cryogenics]], and [[{{Cyborg}} Cyborgism]]. |
41 | * JustBeforeTheEnd |
42 | * LongList: This time, it's a list of the seven hundred [[EldritchAbomination Ancient and Unspeakable Ones.]] Some familiar names crop up, including Nick Nolte and the Century Toad. |
43 | * LovecraftLite: More in overall tone than in plot. |
44 | * MayanDoomsday |
45 | * ManEatingPlant: The Carno-fern. [[ForScience There are no practical uses for it.]] |
46 | * MonumentalDamage: Starting with Washington DC being consumed in a storm of green Masonic fire. |
47 | * NoteToSelf: The hideous scar you asked about in the previous book turns out to be a reminder to yourself to [[InsaneTrollLogic remember that you have amnesia.]] |
48 | * NostalgiaFilter: There's a HiddenElfVillage dedicated to preserving the year 1983, because it was clearly the best childhood ever. |
49 | * OverlyLongGag: [[Film/TheyLive "Rowdy" Roddy Piper encounters Keith David in an alley, and the two begin to fight viciously]]. Months later, [[spoiler:as the End Times rage around them and tear the world asunder]], they're ''still'' going at it. |
50 | * RaisingTheSteaks: See ZombieApocalypse, below. |
51 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The Diner's Club POFH Nine-Times-Diamond Credit Card. Among its perks: the right to have legitimate ticket-holders thrown out of any event you want to attend, the ability to fake your own death, and a safe house from the coming global superapocalypse. |
52 | ** KarmicDeath: The safe house is among the first to be destroyed. |
53 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[GiantFlyer The Thunderbirds]] abandon Earth, and the mole-men commit mass suicide via the Century Toad. The hobos, first to see it coming, are already long since gone. |
54 | * TheSingularity: Referred to by name. |
55 | * ShaggyDogStory: The odyssey of [[spoiler: Nug-Shohab the Headless]] |
56 | ** RedemptionEqualsDeath |
57 | * ZombieApocalypse: Almost entirely averted. The only dead that will rise will be [[RaisingTheSteaks taxidermied animals]], and they'll be harmless as they're nailed down and their eyes are glass. A bearskin rug does manage to crawl outside the taxidermist's shop, but it only succeeds in making someone cozy. |
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