History Series / ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017

* AdaptationalModesty: In the book version of "The Penultimate Peril", Esmé's latest feat of awful fashion is (to Violet's upmost horror) a "bikini" that is actually about four pieces of lettuce just barely covering Esmé's nudity by simple tape. For obvious reasons, Esmé wears an actual swimsuit in the episode.

---> '''Lemony Snicket: Parts.

* AdaptationAmalgamation: "The End" adapts part of ''The Beatrice Letters'' as it shows [[spoiler: Beatrice II tracking down Lemony Snicket to discuss what happened to the Baudelaires after leaving the island]].

** [[spoiler: Uncle Monty is injected with the venom of the Mamba du Mal, stated to be one of the most deadly snakes in the hemisphere]]. The exact effects of Mamba du Mal venom are not stated, but effects of snake venom are typically ''not'' pleasant.
** [[spoiler: Aunt Josephine]] gets pushed overboard from a ferry and eaten alive by the swarming Lake Lachrymose leeches.

** [[spoiler: Olivia Caliban, while disguised as Madame Lulu,]] is dropped into the lion pit at Caligari Carnival and devoured by starving lions as the carnival guests watch in horror.
** [[spoiler: Larry Your-Waiter]] is suspended upside down and lowered into a pot of boiling curry.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Carmelita Spats's secret addiction is [[spoiler: sniffing cakes, which leaves a white residue of frosting sugar around her nose.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: The ending is ''finally'' optimistic. Despite the bittersweet nature of much of it, many of the surviving characters have their happy ending (Quigley is reunited with his siblings who are still safe and sound in Hector's Hot Air Balloon mobile home, Fernald and Fiona are also reunited with their stepfather, even the rest of ''Count Olaf's original troupe'' step out of their boss's shadow and thrive as moderately successful actors). Lemony is approached by his niece Beatrice, who indicates the Baudelaires survived, had much happier adventurers and raised Beatrice well, who goes to form a relationship with her uncle. Lemony ''finally'' gets the closure he seeks. To even take this a step further, the Daily Punctulio, after spending the ''entire series'' insensitively broadcasting the Baudelaires' miserable lives and even framing them, are finally exposed with false information, with Eleonora facing charges for false reporting]].

** At the beginning of part one of "The Carnivorous Carnival", Madame Lulu tells the actor troupe their fortunes. She uses the "your sister depends on you" line to both the Hook-handed Man and the White-faced Women. Note their reactions. [[spoiler: anyone who read the Slippery Slope and Grim Grotto knows that Madame Lulu is referring to Fiona, and with the White-faced Women, she's referring to someone ''else''...]]

*** In ''The Penultimate Peril: Part 2''; after Olaf tells the children that there are no noble people in the world and they bring up their parents, he and Esmé recount the event at the opera which let to the schism in V.F.D [[spoiler:and how Olaf's father died in the crossfire after Beatrice stole the sugar bowl.]] This story seems unrelated to the statement that the children made until you watch ''The End'' [[spoiler:and find out that the Baudelaires mother was Beatrice thus showing that Olaf was telling the children that their mother was no better then anyone else in the schism.]]

* NoOSHACompliance: The Lucky Smells Lumbermill in the "Miserable Mill" lives and breathes this trope, flouting every sort of safety or work regulations ever devised. 3 children are allowed to work in the mill with no reservations at all. Employees are forced to use equipment in poor condition. There are little to no safety precautions regarding dangerous machines and equipment. The workers are paid in gum and coupons. It's no surprise that the workers only tolerate these conditions [[spoiler: because Dr. Orwell routinely hypnotizes them. As soon as Violet breaks them out of their hypnosis, they rise against Sir in retaliation.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After Poe finds out that [[spoiler: Count Olaf has disguised himself and murdered Monty]] he calls the police immediately. He then reports to the orphans that the police are a fair bit of time away and that they are currently looking for a resident's cow. Because they are in the countryside with very few people where it is almost by definition sparsely populated, so besides law enforcement needing to cover more ground with the police that can be spared, they would have a harder time getting from place to place due to the distance needing to be covered rather than some conspiracy or incompetence. That some "police officers" come almost immediately is a sign that they are not actually the police, although the audience and people who are not Poe put this together immediately. In the book version, the reason isn't given and the children and audience are as much in the dark as Poe.

** Season the Second ends with [[spoiler: Violet and Klaus speeding down a mountain road in a carnival wagon, while Sunny is in the clutches of Count Olaf's troupe headed for the V.F.D. headquarters deep in the Mortmain Mountains.]]
* TriggerPhrase: [[spoiler:Lucky, fire, inordinate.]]

** [[Main/LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by Klaus in "The Miserable Mill, Part 1," where Sir starts to cough right at the moment he was about to give them some answers.

** In "The End," Olaf counters the Baudelaires' assumption that he is the one who burned their house down. [[spoiler: When he dies, we don't know if this was a lie or if it was the truth, who really set fire to the Baudelaire home]].

** In "The Slippery Slope," when Count Olaf orders the White-Faced Women to [[spoiler: throw Sunny off a cliff]], they refuse, saying "[[Music/MeatLoaf we would do anything for love, but we won't do that]]."

--->'''Jacques Snicket''': I suppose I should start at the beginning, but before I do, I have an important update. [[spoiler: It seems there may have been a survivor of the fire]].

** [[spoiler: "The End" reveals a little girl who takes a trolley to Hotel Denouement to be "Beatrice Baudelaire", who's soon revealed to be Kit's daughter, and she reveals to Lemony himself the ''next'' story of the Baudelaires...]].
* WhatNowEnding: The last we see of the Baudelaires is [[spoiler: them leaving the island with baby Beatrice. They are nowhere to be seen when an older Beatrice meets with Lemony and tells him their story.]]

** Justice Struass mentions she has a book on the most dangerous fungus in the world, a reference to ''The Grimm Grotto'', and at the end of "The Bad Beginning, Part 2", after the [[spoiler:play is over and the orphans are gone, she goes back into her library and starts reading the "Incomplete History of Secret Organizations". In the books, she does a lot of research into the troubles with VFD and the Baudelaires, and tries to use the law to take down Count Olaf and his gang in ''The Penultimate Peril''.]]
** [[spoiler:The Hook-Handed man seems to be the least actively malicious of Olaf's troupe, or at least is displaying that EvenEvilHasStandards, trying to catch Sunny when Count Olaf holds her over the table. As we learn in ''The Grimm Grotto'', the Hook-Handed man wasn't always bad.]]

--->''Who else has such robust good lucks in such a large amount?''\\

** It says something when even ''Olaf'', a ''murderous nutjob with a penchant for fire and murder and very little morals and sense'', is ''annoyed'' by Poe.

** TheHeavy: While Count Olaf is the series' BigBad and is the most significant threat to the Baudelaries' in just about every episode (save the GrandFinale where Ishmael takes over), there are some books that have an ArcVillain sharing just as much of the spotlight as Olaf himself.
*** ''The Miserable Mill'' has a duumvirate between Georgina Orwell, an associate (and former lover) of Olaf who hypnotizes Klaus and the lumber mill workers, and Sir, the tyrannical lumber mill owner who holds the workers hostage [[spoiler:under hypnosis (until they are freed and declare mutiny on him)]] and keeps the Bauderlaires' involvement in putting out the Paltryville fires hidden.
*** ''The Austere Academy'' also has a duumvirate between Vice Principal Nero, the tyrannical de facto headmaster of Prufrock Prep who cares ''way'' more about his dreadful violin career than the well-being of his students (to which he openly abuses with CruelAndUnusualPunishment), and Carmelita Spats, the school's resident [[TheBully bully]] who openly picks on the orphans ForTheEvulz and actually ''helps'' Olaf and his troupe infiltrate the school.
*** ''The Ersatz Elevator'' introduces Esme Squalor, a BitchInSheepsClothing pretending to be the Baudelaires' new guardian, only to be in cahoots with Olaf and has a separate reason for vengeance against the Baudelaires' over the Sugar Bowl.
*** ''The Vile Village'' has the Council of Elders, another set of tyrannical figures ruling over the Village of Fowl Devotees who has a list of insane rules and punishments, as well as openly falling for Count Olaf's scheme in framing the Baudelaires' for his own murder (actually the murder of Jacques Snicket by Count Olaf).
*** Subverted with ''The Slippery Slope'', which introduces Count Olaf's superiors and the series' {{Greater Scope Villain}}s, the Man with the Beard but No Hair and the Woman with the Hair but No Beard. The couple quickly establish themselves as the {{Viler New Villain}}s compared to Olaf, and are a far bigger threat than the latter.
*** ''The Penultimate Peril'' has Ernst Denouement, the evil one of the Denouement [[spoiler:Triplets]] who is in league with [=VFD's=] villainous faction.
*** ''The End'' also subverts this with Ishmael, the tyrannical facilitator of the island who usurps Olaf as the bigger threat to the Baudelaires' and ''Olaf'' himself, shooting the harpoon gun that releases the Medusoid Mycelium and ultimately killing the latter. Olaf at this point is [[VillainDecay reduced to nothing more than a pathetic, yet ultimately tragic figure who has officially run out of clever schemes to ruin the Baudelaires' lives, and makes one final heroic act to bring Kit Snicket (and her unborn daughter) to safety before dying]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: The ending is ''finally'' optimistic. Despite the bittersweet nature of much of it, many of the surviving characters have their happy ending. Lemony is approached by his niece Beatrice, who indicates the Baudelaires survived, had much happier adventurers and raised Beatrice well, who goes to form a relationship with her uncle. Lemony ''finally'' gets the closure he seeks.]]

** Carmelita Spats, a cruel, obnoxious twat of a little girl. The only characters that seem to be able to tolerate her are Nero and Esmé, who treat her as an adoptive daughter in the third season [[spoiler:after they burn down her house and kill her parents]].
** Mr. Poe is unique in that he’s not particularly cruel or mean-spirited, in fact he is well-meaning most of the time, but he is so utterly incompetent at his job that both the orphans and the audience can’t stand to be around him.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Count Olaf has trouble remembering he left his ex Dr. Orwell to drown.

** The books the series is adapted from essentially hae this as a central theme, so of course this is here. If anything, Mr. Poe is even ''worse'' than in the books.