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* PairTheSpares: Every Cold Comfort Farm resident who isn't already married or has left the farm by Elfine's engagement ends up paired with each other. Urk settles for Mariam the hired girl, Flora's AbhorrentAdmirer Mr. Mybug falls for Rennet the OldMaid, and in the book Reuban decides to wait a few years for his hired hand's teenage daughter Nancy to be old enough to marry. (In the film, Reuban gets together with Rennet, as Mr. Mybug is AdaptedOut.)
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* PairTheSpares: Every Cold Comfort Farm resident who isn't already married or has left the farm by Elfine's engagement ends up paired with each other. Urk settles for Mariam the hired girl, Flora's AbhorrentAdmirer Mr. Mybug falls for Rennet the OldMaid, and in the book Reuban decides to wait a few years for his hired hand's teenage daughter Nancy to be old enough to marry. (In the film, Reuban gets together with Rennet, as and Mr. Mybug is AdaptedOut.last seen chatting up some young ladies at Elfine's wedding.)
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* {{Technobabble}}: A rare non-SF version. Reuben suspects Flora of wanting to take over the farm, so his surly conversational opener with her is an attempt to intimidate her with his knowledge of farming: "I ha' scranleted four hundred furrows this morning down i' the bute." Flora has no idea what he’s talking about and can’t decide whether she should reply "Oh, you poor dear!" or "Come, that’s capital." Eventually she decides on a non-committal "Have you?"
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A comic novel by Stella Gibbons, first published in 1932, which parodies the doom-laden rural novels of the time. The immediate inspiration for, and targets of, Gibbons's satire were the novels of Mary Webb and Sheila Kaye-Smith (which deserve it... try one), but she also pokes fun at more redoubtable figures such as D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and the Brontës. At the same time she has a good laugh at ''Vogue''-reading London socialites, while mocking the genre in which a young orphan girl brings joy and happiness to the lives of all around her. Jane Austen is the novel's presiding spirit, and ''Mansfield Park'' provides the epigraph: 'Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.'
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A comic novel by Stella Gibbons, first published in 1932, which parodies the doom-laden rural novels of the time. The immediate inspiration for, and targets of, Gibbons's satire were the novels of Mary Webb and Sheila Kaye-Smith (which deserve it... try one), but she also pokes fun at more redoubtable figures such as D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy Creator/ThomasHardy and the Brontës.[[Creator/CharlotteBronte the]] [[Creator/EmilyBronte Brontë]] [[Creator/AnneBronte sisters]]. At the same time she has a good laugh at ''Vogue''-reading London socialites, while mocking the genre in which a young orphan girl brings joy and happiness to the lives of all around her. Jane Austen Creator/JaneAusten is the novel's presiding spirit, and ''Mansfield Park'' provides the epigraph: 'Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.'
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* BloodMagic: Invoked by Urk. He claims he put a cross of water-vole's blood in her bottle the night she was born to make her his, but Elfine is very much not interested. He also gets over his disappointment pretty quickly after she gets engaged to someone else, and settles pretty happily on Mariam the hired girl, who is just as into him as he is into her.
* CoolOldLady: Flora admires Mrs. Beetle (Mariam the hired girl's mother) as the sole source of class, education, and organization in the entire farm.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Flora is a rather snobby busybody who plans to "tidy up" their lives more as a project for herself than for their happiness, but even she is appalled when she learns Mrs. Beetle (Mariam the hired girl's mother) is taking in Mariam's unwanted love children to make a jazz band to make money off of. Flora has to admit that while the plan is ''callous'', at least it's ''organized.''
* FreudWasRight: Mr. Mybug in the book is an "intellectual" to whom everything reminds him of sex. This irritates Flora, since he insists on accompanying her on walks and has to point out how every phallic and cavernous object he sees reminds him of sexual organs.
* HiddenDepths: Urk ThePigpen turns out to be a good stepfather to Mariam's hitherto unwanted love children.
* TheJailbaitWait:
** Urk in the book doesn't even try to hide how eager he is for Elfine to come to age so he can ravish her, since he's been fixated on making her his bride since the night she was born. Thankfully, Flora steps in and arranges Elfine to be married to a boy closer to her age, and Urk (after some brief wailing) settles on Mariam the hired girl, who is just as eager to have him as he is to have her.
** Reuben in the book decides to wait a few years for the fifteen-year-old daughter of one of his hired hands to come of age so he can marry her. Downplayed as they're not in regular contact and she doesn't live on the property, and it's more out of practicality since he figures she'll make a better farmer's wife than Flora. Averted in the film, where he marries Rennet instead.
** Urk in the book doesn't even try to hide how eager he is for Elfine to come to age so he can ravish her, since he's been fixated on making her his bride since the night she was born. Thankfully, Flora steps in and arranges Elfine to be married to a boy closer to her age, and Urk (after some brief wailing) settles on Mariam the hired girl, who is just as eager to have him as he is to have her.
** Reuben in the book decides to wait a few years for the fifteen-year-old daughter of one of his hired hands to come of age so he can marry her. Downplayed as they're not in regular contact and she doesn't live on the property, and it's more out of practicality since he figures she'll make a better farmer's wife than Flora. Averted in the film, where he marries Rennet instead.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Lampooned in the book, where Flora reflects that "intellectual" types like Mr. Mybug seem to think that love has to occur the instant one lays eyes on someone else, so people in his social circle tend to divorce or change partners every several months once they get bored or disillusioned by their current partner and "fall in love" with the next one, who inevitably turns out to be exactly like their current partner. When he falls for Rennet the OldMaid, Flora lets it slide since she figures Rennet couldn't do worse.
* OldMaid: Rennet in the book is mocked by all the other Starkadder wives as this.
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* OverlyLongGag: Aunt Ada's copy of the "Milk Producers' Weekly Bulletin and Cowkeepers' Guide."
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* OverlyLongGag: Aunt Ada's copy of the "Milk Producers' Weekly Bulletin and Cowkeepers' Guide."Guide", which she uses to pommel every person she's irritated by during the Counting.
* PairTheSpares: Every Cold Comfort Farm resident who isn't already married or has left the farm by Elfine's engagement ends up paired with each other. Urk settles for Mariam the hired girl, Flora's AbhorrentAdmirer Mr. Mybug falls for Rennet the OldMaid, and in the book Reuban decides to wait a few years for his hired hand's teenage daughter Nancy to be old enough to marry. (In the film, Reuban gets together with Rennet, as Mr. Mybug is AdaptedOut.)
* PairTheSpares: Every Cold Comfort Farm resident who isn't already married or has left the farm by Elfine's engagement ends up paired with each other. Urk settles for Mariam the hired girl, Flora's AbhorrentAdmirer Mr. Mybug falls for Rennet the OldMaid, and in the book Reuban decides to wait a few years for his hired hand's teenage daughter Nancy to be old enough to marry. (In the film, Reuban gets together with Rennet, as Mr. Mybug is AdaptedOut.)
* RememberTheNewGuy: In the book, Rennet is a main Starkadder family member and direct relation of Aunt Ada and Judith, yet is not mentioned to the reader until the Counting. Flora is not even surprised to learn of her existence the way she was to learn of the Starkadder hired hands' wives; Rennet is treated as having been around all along yet was never mentioned before this point... just in time for [[AbhorrentAdmirer Mr. Mybug]] to fall out of love with Flora and [[PairTheSpares fall for her instead]].
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* UpperClassTwit: Richard Hawk-Monitor, but he's a benign version: Flora dismisses Adam's fears that he intends to seduce and abandon Elfine with the consideration that "Like most other ideas, the idea would simply not have entered his head."
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* UpperClassTwit: Richard Hawk-Monitor, but he's a benign version: Flora dismisses Adam's fears that he intends to seduce and abandon Elfine with the consideration that that, "Like most other ideas, the idea would simply not have entered his head."
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* CulturalStereotypes. It may be a sophisticated parody of gothic literature, but let's face it, the novel gets most of its lulz from one of the world's most ancient brands of humour: laughing at farmers.
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* CulturalStereotypes. It may be a sophisticated parody of gothic literature, rural tradition novels but let's face it, the novel gets most of its lulz from one of the world's most ancient brands of humour: laughing at farmers.
