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This work provides examples of:

• Blue Blood: All the peers.
• Blessed with Suck: Strephon who is half a fairy. He's a fairy down to the waist, but his legs are mortal, and will eventually grow old and die.
• British Royal Guards: Private Willis is one of these, and he sings a solo while no one's looking.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: The Fairy Queen's response to the Peers' intransigence
  Fairy Queen: Peers shall teem in Christendom/and a Duke's exalted station/Be attainable by Competitive Examination!
  Peers NO!
• The Fair Folk: The fairies, of course.
• Half-Human Hybrid: The half-fairy Strephon, the romantic lead. His top half is an immortal fairy, but below the waist he'll eventually grow old.
• Have a Gay Old Time: "Tripping hither, tripping thither!"
  • A Fairy member - how delightful! Not really though - she's talking about Parliament.
• 'I Am' Song: This is Gilbert and Sullivan, what did you expect?
• Luke, I Am Your Father: The Lord Chancellor is Strephon's father
• Not What It Looks Like: Strephon's mother looks about 17. His fiance catches the two of them embracing. Oops.
• Patter Song: The Nightmare Song, easily the toughest such song in the whole canon.
• Real Dreams Are Weirder: ditto ditto the above.
• Straw Man Has A Point: Sullivan somehow made Gilbert's straw man arguments in Earl Tolloller's Blue Blood and Lord Mountararat When Britain Really ruled The Waves sound like they made sense.