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--> '''Baker's Wife''': We're moving!

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--> '''Baker's Wife''': [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere We're moving!moving!]]

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** During "Your Fault", there's the hilariously blase way she does her tongue-twisting line about how "the place got cursed in the first place".

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** During "Your Fault", there's the hilariously blase way she does her tongue-twisting line about how "the "its your father's fault that the curse got placed and the place got cursed in the first place".
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* In the two scenes where characters step forward and state dramatic, foreshadow-heavy advice, Rapunzel's contribution... is to sing. Wordlessly. Both times. Right in the middle of the number.

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* In the two scenes where characters step forward and state dramatic, foreshadow-heavy advice, Rapunzel's contribution... is to sing. Wordlessly. Both times. Right in the middle of the number. In her final note, she looks rather perplexed as she does it.
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* "You must be very careful with your children!" "I have no children." "That's okay, too..."
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* The PriceCharmless trope summed up in a single line:

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* The PriceCharmless PrinceCharmless trope summed up in a single line:
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-->'''Witch:''' ''(would-be casual tone)'' Some of us don't ''like'' the way you've been telling it...

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-->'''Witch:''' ''(would-be casual tone)'' Some of us don't ''like'' the way you've been telling it...it...
* The PriceCharmless trope summed up in a single line:
--> "I was raised to be ''charming'', not ''sincere''!"
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* Everyone standing around with no idea what to do after [[spoiler:killing the narrator.]]

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* Everyone standing around with no idea what to do after [[spoiler:killing the narrator.]]]]
** The [[spoiler:death of the narrator]] itself is pretty amusing in a BlackComedy kind of way, if only because who the hell expected ''that''?
-->'''Narrator:''' You need an objective observer to push the story along!
-->'''Witch:''' ''(would-be casual tone)'' Some of us don't ''like'' the way you've been telling it...
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* In the two scenes where characters step forward and state dramatic, foreshadow-heavy advice, Rapunzel's contribution... is to sing. Both times. Right in the middle of the number.

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* In the two scenes where characters step forward and state dramatic, foreshadow-heavy advice, Rapunzel's contribution... is to sing. Wordlessly. Both times. Right in the middle of the number.
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* "You must be very careful with your children!" "I have no children." "That's okay, too..."

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* "You must be very careful with your children!" "I have no children." "That's okay, too...""
* Everyone standing around with no idea what to do after [[spoiler:killing the narrator.]]
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* In the two scenes where characters step forward and state dramatic, foreshadow-heavy advice, Rapunzel's contribution... is to sing. Both times. Right in the middle of the number.

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* In the two scenes where characters step forward and state dramatic, foreshadow-heavy advice, Rapunzel's contribution... is to sing. Both times. Right in the middle of the number.number.
* This bit when they're trying to get Jack to give up his cow:
-->'''Baker's Wife:''' [[BadBadActing These are no ordinary beans, son. These beans carry magic.]]
-->'''Jack:''' What kind of magic?
-->''({{beat}})''
-->'''Baker's Wife:''' ''(to Baker)'' Tell him.
-->'''Baker:''' Magic that... defies all description!
* "You must be very careful with your children!" "I have no children." "That's okay, too..."
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--> ''Baker's Wife'': We're moving!

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--> ''Baker's Wife'': '''Baker's Wife''': We're moving!

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--> ''Witch'': A giant has a brain. A giant is like us, only bigger...much ''muuuuuuch'' bigger...SO BIG...that to them we are only tiny insignificant bugs.
She then proceeds to squash a bug and eat it. She leaves the Baker's house.

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--> ''Witch'': '''Witch''': A giant has a brain. A giant is like us, only bigger...much ''muuuuuuch'' bigger...SO BIG...that to them we are only tiny insignificant bugs.
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bugs. (She then proceeds to squash a bug and eat it. She leaves the Baker's house.)
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** Also in the filmed version, the delivery of these lines:
--> ''Witch'': A giant has a brain. A giant is like us, only bigger...much ''muuuuuuch'' bigger...SO BIG...that to them we are only tiny insignificant bugs.
She then proceeds to squash a bug and eat it. She leaves the Baker's house.
--> ''Baker's Wife'': We're moving!
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* It's entirely possible that Sondheim wrote the musical just so he could include the line "If the end is right, it justifies the beans!"

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* It's entirely possible that Sondheim wrote the musical just so he could include the line "If the end is right, it justifies the beans!"beans!"
* In the two scenes where characters step forward and state dramatic, foreshadow-heavy advice, Rapunzel's contribution... is to sing. Both times. Right in the middle of the number.
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** During "Your Fault", there's the hilariously blase way she does her tongue-twisting line about how "the place got cursed in the first place".



--> '''Baker's Wife:''' This is ridiculous! What am I doing here? I'm in the wrong story!

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--> '''Baker's Wife:''' This is ridiculous! What am I doing here? I'm in the wrong story!story!
* It's entirely possible that Sondheim wrote the musical just so he could include the line "If the end is right, it justifies the beans!"
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**Even better when you consider that the character saying this (Little Red) had an entire conversation with a wolf in the first act.
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--> '''Grandmother:''' *drags the baker back into the cottage to skin the wolf*

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--> '''Grandmother:''' *drags the baker back into the cottage to skin the wolf*wolf*
* This little bit when Cinderella's Prince [[spoiler: has an affair with]] the Baker's Wife:
--> '''Baker's Wife:''' This is ridiculous! What am I doing here? I'm in the wrong story!
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** Which turns into a pretty great BrickJoke when Red asks about the destruction caused by the Giantess and the Baker immediately answers that it was a [[spoiler: baking accident.]]
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* "[[DeadpanSnarker You can talk... to BIRDS?]]"

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* "[[DeadpanSnarker You can talk... talk to BIRDS?]]"birds?]]"
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** In the filmed version, the Baker says, [[WhatAnIdiot "Giants never strike]] [[TooDumbToLive the same place twice."]] The way Bernadette Peters delivered that DeathGlare is ''hilarious.''

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** In the filmed version, the Baker says, echoes Jack's Mother's, [[WhatAnIdiot "Giants never strike]] [[TooDumbToLive the same place twice."]] The way Bernadette Peters delivered that DeathGlare is ''hilarious.''
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* Red Riding Hood's grandmother is usually over the top and hilarious. In addition to the sheer silliness [[spoiler: of Red and Granny climbing out of the wolf's stomach after the Baker cuts it open]], Granny turns out to be surprisingly sadistic.

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* Red Riding Hood's grandmother is usually over the top and hilarious. In addition to the sheer silliness [[spoiler: of Red and Granny climbing out of the wolf's stomach [[spoiler: after the Baker cuts it open]], Granny turns out to be surprisingly sadistic.
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* "[[DeadpanSnarker You can talk... to BIRDS?]]"

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* "[[DeadpanSnarker You can talk... to BIRDS?]]"BIRDS?]]"
* Red Riding Hood's grandmother is usually over the top and hilarious. In addition to the sheer silliness [[spoiler: of Red and Granny climbing out of the wolf's stomach after the Baker cuts it open]], Granny turns out to be surprisingly sadistic.
--> '''Grandmother:''' *begins choking the wolf, who is already mutilated and writhing in pain* Kill the devil! Take that knife and cut his evil head of! Let's see the demon sliced into ''a thousand bits''! No! Better yet, let the animal die a painful, agonizing, hidious death!
--> '''Red Riding Hood:''' Granny!
--> '''Grandmother:''' Eeeh, ''quiet'', child! This evil needs to be destroyed! Now, you fetch me some great stones. We'll fill his belly with them, and then we'll watch him try to run away! *giggles gleefully*
--> '''Baker:''' *walks away, disgusted* I will just leave you to your task.
--> '''Grandmother:''' Wait! Don't you want the skins?
--> '''Baker:''' Oh, no, ''please'' keep them!
--> '''Grandmother:''' What kind of a hunter are you?!
--> '''Baker:''' I'm a baker!
--> '''Grandmother:''' *drags the baker back into the cottage to skin the wolf*
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--> '''Rapunzel's Prince:''' ''(completely deadpan)'' Rapunzel.

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--> '''Rapunzel's Prince:''' ''(completely deadpan)'' Rapunzel.Rapunzel.
* "[[DeadpanSnarker You can talk... to BIRDS?]]"
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There was no facepalm when I saw it. A facepalm wouldn\'t even fit, as what he said was not stupid based on the little information he was given.


--->'''Witch''': ''([[FacePalm facepalm]])'' No! But you had a sister . . .

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--->'''Witch''': ''([[FacePalm facepalm]])'' No! But you had a sister . . .
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* In the filmed version, there's just something constantly hilarious about Red Riding Hood's theft of as much of the Baker's wares as possible while the Baker and his wife futilely attempt to stop her.

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* In the filmed version, there's just something constantly hilarious about Red Riding Hood's theft of as much of the Baker's wares as possible while the Baker and his wife futilely attempt to stop her.her.
* The Baker believes that his father died... ''[[spoiler: in a baking accident.]]''
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--> '''Rapunzel:''' ''(offstage)'' *hysterical, over-the-top screaming*
--> '''Cinderella's Prince:''' *looks startled*
--> '''Rapunzel's Prince:''' ''(completely deadpan)'' Rapunzel.
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* "On The Steps of the Palace". The sheer wordplay of the whole thing.

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* "On The Steps of the Palace". The sheer wordplay of the whole thing.thing.
* In the filmed version, there's just something constantly hilarious about Red Riding Hood's theft of as much of the Baker's wares as possible while the Baker and his wife futilely attempt to stop her.
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--> '''Jack's Mother:''' ...That's okay, too...

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--> '''Jack's Mother:''' ...That's okay, too...too...
* The princes bickering in "Agony, Part 2", eventually getting to the "thing about dwarves". And on the topic of "Agony, Part 2": "Ah well, back to my wife!"
* "On The Steps of the Palace". The sheer wordplay of the whole thing.
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-->'''Little Red''': (stomps on the Baker's foot and/or depending on the production, kicks him [[GroinAttack in the nuts]])

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-->'''Little Red''': (stomps on the Baker's foot and/or depending on the production, kicks him [[GroinAttack in the nuts]])nuts]])
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--> '''Jack's Mother:''' You need to be careful with your children.
--> '''Baker's Wife:''' ''(sadly)'' I have no children.
--> '''Jack's Mother:''' ...That's okay, too...

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* In the filmed version, the Baker says, [[WhatAnIdiot "Giants never strike]] [[TooDumbToLive the same place twice."]] The way Bernadette Peters delivered that DeathGlare is ''hilarious.''
* "And then [[LargeHam BANG CRASH AND THE LIGHTNING FLASHED]] [[MoodWhiplash well, that's another story]], nevermind, anyway..."

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* The Witch. This is what you get when you have Bernadette Peters and Vanessa Williams as two of the iconic actresses in the role.
** This bit of the opening number:
--->'''Witch''': In return, however, I said "fair is fair, you can let me have the baby that your wife will bear . . . and we'll call it square".
--->'''Baker''': I had a brother?!
--->'''Witch''': ''([[FacePalm facepalm]])'' No! But you had a sister . . .
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In the filmed version, the Baker says, [[WhatAnIdiot "Giants never strike]] [[TooDumbToLive the same place twice."]] The way Bernadette Peters delivered that DeathGlare is ''hilarious.''
* ** "And then [[LargeHam BANG CRASH AND THE LIGHTNING FLASHED]] [[MoodWhiplash well, that's another story]], nevermind, anyway...""
* Little Red's hysterical, over the top screaming when the Baker takes her cape from her, topped by:
-->'''Baker''': I just wanted to be sure you really loved this cape!
-->'''Little Red''': (stomps on the Baker's foot and/or depending on the production, kicks him [[GroinAttack in the nuts]])
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* "And then BANG CRASH AND THE LIGHTNING FLASHED [[[[MoodWhiplash -well, that's another story]], nevermind-]] anyway...

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* "And then [[LargeHam BANG CRASH AND THE LIGHTNING FLASHED [[[[MoodWhiplash -well, FLASHED]] [[MoodWhiplash well, that's another story]], nevermind-]] nevermind, anyway..."

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