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  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: When Fogg, Passepartout, and Aouda arrive in America, this passage follows:
    Passepartout, in his joy on reaching at last the American continent, thought he would manifest it by executing a perilous vault in fine style; but, tumbling upon some worm-eaten planks, he fell through them. Put out of countenance by the manner in which he thus "set foot" upon the New World, he uttered a loud cry, which so frightened the innumerable cormorants and pelicans that are always perched upon these movable quays, that they flew noisily away.
  • Catharsis Factor: After Fix arrests Fogg, seemingly costing him the bet, he realizes he messed up and frees him. Fogg's response to the apology is to punch the policeman in the face so hard that it knocks him to the ground. Knowing the full circumstances, everyone admits that Fix deserves it, including Fix.
  • Common Knowledge: In the novel, Fogg does not travel by hot-air balloon at any point. Despite this, he does so in practically all of the adaptations, and when Michael Palin did his journey, he did so even though he pointed out in the book of the series that Fogg had not actually used that mode of transport.
  • Crazy is Cool: Phileas Fogg, full stop. He pulls some absolutely ridiculous stunts with a straight face.
    Phileas Fogg: Sir, I wish to buy your vessel.
    Captain Speedy: No! By all the devils, no!
    Phileas Fogg: But I shall be obliged to burn her. The top part, at least. The coal is giving out.
    Captain Speedy: Burn my ship?? A vessel worth fifty thousand dollars?!
    Phileas Fogg: Here are sixty thousand.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The series was aired in the USSR nearly every summer (without several episodes, though). It is still frequently rerun in some ex-USSR countries.
  • It Was His Sled: The novel is just as famous, if not more, for the ending twist than for its actual plot.
  • Signature Scene: The story is unusual in that its most iconic scene, Fogg travelling by hot-air balloon, does not actually occur in it, despite often being depicted on the book's cover. Virtually all adaptations to date have included a balloon scene, also.
  • Values Dissonance: In chapter 16, the Papuans are said to be savage, and in the lowest scale of humanity.


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