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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: This play may seem like a stream of cliches to some of us these days but when it premiered in 1878, nobody had ever seen anything like it.
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: OnceOriginalNowCommon: This play may seem like a stream of cliches clichés to some of us these days but when it premiered in 1878, nobody had ever seen anything like it.
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: This play may seem like a stream of cliches to some of us these days but when it premiered in 1878, nobody had ever seen anything like it.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This play may seem like a stream of cliches to some of us these days but when it premiered in 1878, nobody had ever seen anything like it.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Audiences may assume the reference to a telephone is an anachronism, but it's in the original libretto--''HMS Pinafore'' was written in 1878, a few years after Bell's invention.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Captain Corcoran's line "I never use a big, big D" is supposed to refer to swearing (saying "damn" aka "the D word") but nowadays sounds like he's declaring [[TeenyWeenie something else about himself entirely]].
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--> '''[[Creator/TimCurry Dr. Mystico]]:''' They're right! It was [[RightHandCat my cat!]]
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* ParodyDisplacement: A lot of 90s kids first learned "Carefully on Tiptoe Stealing" in its use in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' episode "The Island of Dr. Mystico."
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* ValuesResonance: Mocking political appointees with no practical experience and overinflated egos... that has a good chance of never ''not'' being funny. The opera's relatable plot and witty humor actually catapulted Gilbert and Sullivan to stardom and ''Pinafore'' was one of the most popular operas on ''both'' sides of the Atlantic.
* WeirdAlEffect: A lot of 90s kids first learned "Carefully on Tiptoe Stealing" in its use in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' episode "The Island of Dr. Mystico."
* WeirdAlEffect: A lot of 90s kids first learned "Carefully on Tiptoe Stealing" in its use in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' episode "The Island of Dr. Mystico."
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* ValuesResonance: Mocking political appointees with no practical experience and overinflated egos... that has a good chance of never ''not'' being funny. The opera's relatable plot and witty humor actually catapulted Gilbert and Sullivan to stardom and ''Pinafore'' was one of the most popular operas on ''both'' sides of the Atlantic.
* WeirdAlEffect: A lot of 90s kids first learned "Carefully on Tiptoe Stealing" in its use in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' episode "The Island of Dr. Mystico."Atlantic.
* WeirdAlEffect: A lot of 90s kids first learned "Carefully on Tiptoe Stealing" in its use in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' episode "The Island of Dr. Mystico."
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This play may seem like a stream of cliches to some of us these days but when it premiered in 1878 nobody had ever seen anything like it.
* ValuesDissonance
* ValuesDissonance
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This play may seem like a stream of cliches to some of us these days but when it premiered in 1878 1878, nobody had ever seen anything like it.
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