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* TenorBoy: Averted; Gilbert and Sullivan didn't have a strong leading tenor at this time, so the young lover character of Strephon was played by their bass, Richard Temple (though the part can also be sung by baritones).
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** Played quite literally on the original production's first night, when the Entry of the Peers was accompanied on stage by part of the actual regimental Band of the Grenadier Guards. The 1960 D'Oyly Carte recording also features the Band of the Grenadier Guards.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Mountararat recounts the Peers' contribution to one of Britain's greatest military triumphs:
-->When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,\\
As every child can tell,\\
The House of Peers, throughout the war,\\
Did nothing in particular,\\
And did it very well.
::In fact, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the head of the Admiralty, the secretary for War, the Prime Minister, and, of course, Wellington himself, were all members of the House of Peers. It's still one of Gilbert's best lines, and the facts be... d----d!
-->When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,\\
As every child can tell,\\
The House of Peers, throughout the war,\\
Did nothing in particular,\\
And did it very well.
::In fact, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the head of the Admiralty, the secretary for War, the Prime Minister, and, of course, Wellington himself, were all members of the House of Peers. It's still one of Gilbert's best lines, and the facts be... d----d!
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* AdaptationExpansion: Adapted from "[[http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/bab_ballads/html/fairy_curate.html The Fairy Curate]]", one of Gilbert's poems, stripped of its religious overtones, and [[GeckoEnding with a new second act]].
* AllThereInTheScript: Other than Iolanthe and the Queen, there are three fairies with speaking parts. The script refers to them as Celia, Leila, and Fleta, but these names appear nowhere in the dialogue.
* AllThereInTheScript: Other than Iolanthe and the Queen, there are three fairies with speaking parts. The script refers to them as Celia, Leila, and Fleta, but these names appear nowhere in the dialogue.
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* BritishRoyalGuards: Private Willis is one of these, and he sings a solo while no one's looking.
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* BritishRoyalGuards: Private Willis is one of these, of the First Grenadier Guards, and he sings a solo while no one's looking.
* EveryoneMustBePaired: Unlike some of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas, it's not just a last-minute thing. We see the growing relationship between the male and female choruses throughout most of an entire act, and it's part of the main plot. Further, every main cast pairing has at least one entire song setting them up.
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* ForgotICouldChangeTheRules: The Lord Chancellor's old job as "Equity Draughtsman"[[note]]Draftsman in modern American English; pronounced identically[[/note]] is parodied: in equity, a document may have to be redrafted to reflect as much of the authors' intent as possible, while making it consistent with law, justice, or public policy. The Lord Chancellor proposes a one-word alteration which completely reverses the meaning and intent of the relevant fairy law.
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* ForgotICouldChangeTheRules: ForgotICouldChangeTheRules:
** The Chancellor eventually realizes that he can give himself permission to marry Phyllis.
** A scene or two later, the Queen of the Fairies realizes that she can avoid having to execute Iolanthe by changing the law that requires it.
** The Lord Chancellor's old job as "Equity Draughtsman"[[note]]Draftsman in modern American English; pronounced identically[[/note]] is parodied: in equity, a document may have to be redrafted to reflect as much of the authors' intent as possible, while making it consistent with law, justice, or public policy. The Lord Chancellor proposes a one-word alteration which completely reverses the meaning and intent of the relevant fairy law.
** The Chancellor eventually realizes that he can give himself permission to marry Phyllis.
** A scene or two later, the Queen of the Fairies realizes that she can avoid having to execute Iolanthe by changing the law that requires it.
** The Lord Chancellor's old job as "Equity Draughtsman"[[note]]Draftsman in modern American English; pronounced identically[[/note]] is parodied: in equity, a document may have to be redrafted to reflect as much of the authors' intent as possible, while making it consistent with law, justice, or public policy. The Lord Chancellor proposes a one-word alteration which completely reverses the meaning and intent of the relevant fairy law.
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* NightmareSequence: The Lord Chancellor describes his nightmare in a memorable PatterSong. PlayedForLaughs, naturally.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The fairies.
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* ShoutOut: An almost literal one occurred on the first night of ''Iolanthe''; when Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, head of London's fire department and a big fan who was an inveterate first-nighter, attended the première, the Fairy Queen (Alice Barnett) stretched out her arms to him as she sang, "Oh, Captain Shaw, type of true love kept under!" ([[HilariousInHindsight Four years later, ironically]], Shaw was involved in a messy adultery case.)
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** [[ArtisticLicense When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the head of the Admiralty, the secretary for War, the Prime Minister, and, of course, Wellington himself, were all members of the House of Peers.]] [[RuleOfCool Still one of Gilbert's best lines, and the facts be... d----d!]]
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* {{Leitmotif}}: Of all characters, the Lord Chancellor has one, a short theme that plays every time he enters.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: Of all characters, Surprisingly, the Lord Chancellor has one, a short theme that plays every time he enters.
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* PatterSong: The Nightmare Song, a.k.a. "When You're Lying Awake" is easily the toughest such song in the whole canon, not least because it's the longest. [[note]] Although this depends in no small part on what one finds hard; while the Nightmare Song is longer, it has an internal flow, whereas most of [[{{Theater/TheSorcerer}} "My Name Is John Wellington Wells"]] is just a list, with nothing connecting one line to the next. [[/note]]
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* PatterSong: The Nightmare Song, a.k.a. "When You're Lying Awake" is easily the toughest such song in the whole canon, not least because it's the longest. [[note]] Although this depends in no small part on what one finds hard; while the Nightmare Song is longer, it has an internal flow, whereas most of [[{{Theater/TheSorcerer}} "My "[[{{Theatre/TheSorcerer}} My Name Is John Wellington Wells"]] Wells]]" is just a list, with nothing connecting one line to the next. [[/note]]
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* PatterSong: The Nightmare Song, a.k.a. "When You're Lying Awake" is easily the toughest such song in the whole canon, not least because it's the longest. [[note]] Although this depends in no small part on what one finds hard; while the Nightmare Song is longer, it has an internal flow, whereas most of [[{{Theater/TheSorceror}} "My Name Is John Wellington Wells"]] is just a list, with nothing connecting one line to the next. [[/note]]
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* PatterSong: The Nightmare Song, a.k.a. "When You're Lying Awake" is easily the toughest such song in the whole canon, not least because it's the longest. [[note]] Although this depends in no small part on what one finds hard; while the Nightmare Song is longer, it has an internal flow, whereas most of [[{{Theater/TheSorceror}} [[{{Theater/TheSorcerer}} "My Name Is John Wellington Wells"]] is just a list, with nothing connecting one line to the next. [[/note]]
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* PatterSong: The Nightmare Song, a.k.a. "When You're Lying Awake" is easily the toughest such song in the whole canon, not least because it's the longest.
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* PatterSong: The Nightmare Song, a.k.a. "When You're Lying Awake" is easily the toughest such song in the whole canon, not least because it's the longest. [[note]] Although this depends in no small part on what one finds hard; while the Nightmare Song is longer, it has an internal flow, whereas most of [[{{Theater/TheSorceror}} "My Name Is John Wellington Wells"]] is just a list, with nothing connecting one line to the next. [[/note]]
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Not to be confused with ''Iolanta'', a [[Creator/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Tchaikovsky]] opera.
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Not to be confused with ''Iolanta'', ''Theatre/{{Iolanta}}'', a [[Creator/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Tchaikovsky]] opera.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Strephon's mother looks about 17. His fiancée catches the two of them embracing and jumps to a reasonable if erroneous conclusion that drives the Act II plot. Later on, Strephon reminds Phyllis that all aunts look just as young. Phyllis understands:
--> '''Phyllis''': Whenever I see you kissing a very young lady, I shall know it's an elderly relative.
--> '''Strephon''': You will? Then, Phyllis, I think we shall be very happy!
--> '''Phyllis''': Whenever I see you kissing a very young lady, I shall know it's an elderly relative.
--> '''Strephon''': You will? Then, Phyllis, I think we shall be very happy!
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Strephon's mother looks about 17. His fiancée catches the two of them embracing and jumps to a reasonable if erroneous conclusion that drives the Act II plot. Later on, Strephon reminds Phyllis that all his aunts look just as young. Phyllis understands:
--> '''Phyllis''': Whenever I see you kissing a very young lady, I shall know it's an elderlyrelative.
-->relative.\\
'''Strephon''': You will? Then, Phyllis, I think we shall be very happy!
--> '''Phyllis''': Whenever I see you kissing a very young lady, I shall know it's an elderly
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'''Strephon''': You will? Then, Phyllis, I think we shall be very happy!
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-->'''Mountararat:''' We were boys together! Or at least, I was.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: The Fairy Queen takes a bit of a shine to [[GoodLookingPrivates Private Willis.]]
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Strephon is worried that Phyllis will no longer want to marry him if she finds out he is half a fairy.
** His monologue wondering what will happen as he grows older and only half of him ages is also full of this, to the point that it's not even all that hidden in terms of [[TheLoinsSleepTonight what precisely he's worried about]].
** Phyllis is beloved by the entire House of Lords. Here's a line of dialogue about it: "Why did five-and-twenty Liberal Peers come down to shoot over your [[UnusualEuphemism grass-plot]] last autumn? It couldn't have been the sparrows. Why did five-and-twenty Conservative Peers come down to [[UnusualEuphemism fish your pond]]? Don't tell me it was the gold-fish!"
** The peers' explanation to Phyllis of what Strephon said in Act I Finale's opening section "When darkly looms the day" ''must'' be an example of this, because no one complained at the time, but it really is not subtle at all...
--->'''Iolanthe''': ''(to Strephon)'' When tempest wreck thy bark\\
And all is drear and dark\\
If thou shouldst need an ark, I'll give thee one.
--->'''Phyllis''': ''(to Tolloller)'' What was that?
--->'''Tolloller''': I heard the minx remark\\
She'd meet him after dark\\
Inside St James's Park and give him one!
** Strephon is worried that Phyllis will no longer want to marry him if she finds out he is half a fairy.
** His monologue wondering what will happen as he grows older and only half of him ages is also full of this, to the point that it's not even all that hidden in terms of [[TheLoinsSleepTonight what precisely he's worried about]].
** Phyllis is beloved by the entire House of Lords. Here's a line of dialogue about it: "Why did five-and-twenty Liberal Peers come down to shoot over your [[UnusualEuphemism grass-plot]] last autumn? It couldn't have been the sparrows. Why did five-and-twenty Conservative Peers come down to [[UnusualEuphemism fish your pond]]? Don't tell me it was the gold-fish!"
** The peers' explanation to Phyllis of what Strephon said in Act I Finale's opening section "When darkly looms the day" ''must'' be an example of this, because no one complained at the time, but it really is not subtle at all...
--->'''Iolanthe''': ''(to Strephon)'' When tempest wreck thy bark\\
And all is drear and dark\\
If thou shouldst need an ark, I'll give thee one.
--->'''Phyllis''': ''(to Tolloller)'' What was that?
--->'''Tolloller''': I heard the minx remark\\
She'd meet him after dark\\
Inside St James's Park and give him one!
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* FairySexy: All the fairies look like winsome teenage girls of 17 years or thereabouts.
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--> '''Strephon''': You will? Then, Phyllis, I think we shall be very happy!
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** A Fairy Member - how delightful! [[note]] Member of Parliament, that is.[[/note]]
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** A Fairy Member - how delightful! "A fairy Member! That would be delightful!" [[note]] Member of Parliament, that is.[[/note]]
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** "We were boys together! Or at least, I was."
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Creator/GilbertAndSullivan opera set at some indeterminate point in English history poking considerable fun at the House of Lords. Not to be confused with ''Iolanta'', a [[Creator/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Tchaikovsky]] opera.
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The title character is a fairy who was banished by the Queen of the Fairies for marrying a mortal; when the Queen decides she has suffered enough and recalls her, Iolanthe reveals that her marriage produced a HalfHumanHybrid son, Strephon, who is an {{Arcadia}}n shepherd and in love with shepherdess Phyllis, a ward of the Lord Chancellor. The Lord Chancellor forbids their marriage, ostensibly because he thinks Strephon is not a suitable match for Phyllis, particularly compared to the many members of the House of Lords who also seek her hand, but privately because he wants to marry her himself.
When Phyllis sees a broken Strephon being consoled by his much younger-looking mother, she [[MistakenForCheating gets the wrong idea]] and breaks off their engagement in favour of two of the Peers, the Earl of Mountararat and Earl Tolloller; Strephon tries calling the fairies to his aid, but when the Lord Chancellor and the Peers insult them, they respond by installing Strephon in the House of Commons to make life very difficult for the Peers. Strephon and Phyllis reconcile just as the Lord Chancellor decides that he himself should marry her. However, Iolanthe has a surprising revelation that turns the romantic entanglements on their heads...
Not to be confused with ''Iolanta'', a [[Creator/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Tchaikovsky]]
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Strephon is worried that Phyllis will no longer want to marry him if she finds out he is half a fairy.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Strephon is worried that Phyllis will no longer want to marry him if she finds out he is half a fairy.
** Strephon is worried that Phyllis will no longer want to marry him if she finds out he is half a fairy.
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** "We were boys together! Or at least, [[HoYay I was]]."
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** "We were boys together! Or at least, [[HoYay I was]].was."
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Inside St James's Park and give him one!\\
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It's Love that makes the world go round!''
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It's Love that makes the world go round!''round!
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* MoodWhiplash: the second half of Act 2. The Lord Chancellor sings a gloomy recitative which leads into the surreal Nightmare Song. He, Tolloller and Mountararat then have a funny dialogue and an upbeat song. Then Strephon enters "in low spirits" (the whiplash is even more pronounced if his darkly satirical CutSong is included) but then reconciles with Phyllis and they sing a happy duet. They ask Iolanthe to persuade the Lord Chancellor to let them marry.\\\
The whiplashings culminates in a completely [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness non-comic]] TearJerker scene absolutely PlayedForDrama: [[spoiler:Iolanthe reveals to Strephon and Phyllis that she married the Lord Chancellor years ago, but now must never see again on pain of death. The Lord Chancellor enters, determined to marry Phyllis. Iolanthe pleads with him incognito in a beautiful, heart-rending song, reminding him of his own dead wife from his youth. After momentary indecision, he steels himself and informs this unknown lady that Phyllis is his own promised bride. Iolanthe reveals herself, prepared to sacrifice her life for his son's happiness. The Fairy Queen enters to execute her.]] Then the whole thing is resolved with an absurd, typically Gilbertian plot twist.
%%* MurphysBed: The Lord Chancellor's nightmare provides the page quote.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Strephon's mother looks about 17. His fiance catches the two of them embracing and jumps to a reasonable if erroneous conclusion that drives the Act II plot. Later on, Strephon reminds Phyllis that all aunts look just as young. Phyllis understands:
The whiplashings culminates in a completely [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness non-comic]] TearJerker scene absolutely PlayedForDrama: [[spoiler:Iolanthe reveals to Strephon and Phyllis that she married the Lord Chancellor years ago, but now must never see again on pain of death. The Lord Chancellor enters, determined to marry Phyllis. Iolanthe pleads with him incognito in a beautiful, heart-rending song, reminding him of his own dead wife from his youth. After momentary indecision, he steels himself and informs this unknown lady that Phyllis is his own promised bride. Iolanthe reveals herself, prepared to sacrifice her life for his son's happiness. The Fairy Queen enters to execute her.]] Then the whole thing is resolved with an absurd, typically Gilbertian plot twist.
%%* MurphysBed: The Lord Chancellor's nightmare provides the page quote.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Strephon's mother looks about 17. His fiance catches the two of them embracing and jumps to a reasonable if erroneous conclusion that drives the Act II plot. Later on, Strephon reminds Phyllis that all aunts look just as young. Phyllis understands:
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* MoodWhiplash: the The second half of Act 2. The Lord Chancellor sings a gloomy recitative which leads into the surreal Nightmare Song. He, Tolloller and Mountararat then have a funny dialogue and an upbeat song. Then Strephon enters "in low spirits" (the whiplash is even more pronounced if his darkly satirical CutSong is included) but then reconciles with Phyllis and they sing a happy duet. They ask Iolanthe to persuade the Lord Chancellor to let them marry.\\\
The whiplashings culminates in a completely [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness non-comic]]TearJerker scene absolutely PlayedForDrama: [[spoiler:Iolanthe reveals to Strephon and Phyllis that she married the Lord Chancellor years ago, but now must never see again on pain of death. The Lord Chancellor enters, determined to marry Phyllis. Iolanthe pleads with him incognito in a beautiful, heart-rending song, reminding him of his own dead wife from his youth. After momentary indecision, he steels himself and informs this unknown lady that Phyllis is his own promised bride. Iolanthe reveals herself, prepared to sacrifice her life for his son's happiness. The Fairy Queen enters to execute her.]] Then the whole thing is resolved with an absurd, typically Gilbertian plot twist.
%%* * MurphysBed: The first verse of the Lord Chancellor's nightmare provides "nightmare" song is devoted to this trope, and how the page quote.
anxiety of hopeless love can make every lump in the pillow and every prickle in the blankets seem much worse than it is.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Strephon's mother looks about 17. Hisfiance fiancée catches the two of them embracing and jumps to a reasonable if erroneous conclusion that drives the Act II plot. Later on, Strephon reminds Phyllis that all aunts look just as young. Phyllis understands:
The whiplashings culminates in a completely [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness non-comic]]
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The House of Lords, and proudly so.
-->''"When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,\\
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The House of Lords, and proudly so.
-->''"Whenso. As Mountararat sings in "When Britain Really Ruled the Waves", British Peers have distinguished themselves throughout their nation's most glorious historical victories by... not so much as lifting a finger.
-->When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,\\
-->''"When
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* RelativeError: Justified quite well, as Strephon's mother (as an immortal fairy) is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld but looks to be about seventeen. Phyllis is [[NotWhatItLooksLike understandably skeptical]] when she sees them embracing, and promptly breaks off her engagement. Eventually resolved in the [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious lines]]:
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* RelativeError: Justified quite well, as Strephon's mother (as an immortal fairy) is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld but looks to be about seventeen. Phyllis is [[NotWhatItLooksLike understandably skeptical]] when she sees them embracing, and promptly breaks off her engagement. Eventually resolved in the [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious lines]]:lines:
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* BlueBlood: All the peers. Lord Tolloler even gets a song about it, "Spurn Not the Nobly Born."
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* BlueBlood: All the peers. Lord Tolloler Tolloller even gets a song about it, "Spurn Not the Nobly Born."
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* FriendVersusLover: Tolloler and Mountararat are torn between their friendship and their unrequited love triangle with Phyllis. This nearly [[CockFight leads to a duel]] between the two friends, until Phyllis reminds them of what's important and what's not.
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* FriendVersusLover: Tolloler Tolloller and Mountararat are torn between their friendship and their unrequited love triangle with Phyllis. This nearly [[CockFight leads to a duel]] between the two friends, until Phyllis reminds them of what's important and what's not.
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* PowerOfFriendship: Parodied with Lords Tolloler and Mountararat, with heavy doses of both {{Jerkass}} and WhatAnIdiot, not to mention so much HaveAGayOldTime, it verges on HoYay.
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* PowerOfFriendship: Parodied with Lords Tolloler Tolloller and Mountararat, with heavy doses of both {{Jerkass}} and WhatAnIdiot, not to mention so much HaveAGayOldTime, it verges on HoYay.
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* UnwantedHarem: The Lord Chancellor, the Earls of Mountararat and Tololler, and the entire Chorus of Peers are all in love with Phyllis, who wants none of them.
* WifeHusbandry: The Lord Chancellor is as smitten with his ward, Phyllis, as all the other Lords, and decides to marry her himself after Lords Mountararat and Tolloler convince him that it would not be improper to do so.
* WifeHusbandry: The Lord Chancellor is as smitten with his ward, Phyllis, as all the other Lords, and decides to marry her himself after Lords Mountararat and Tolloler convince him that it would not be improper to do so.
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* UnwantedHarem: The Lord Chancellor, the Earls of Mountararat and Tololler, Tolloller, and the entire Chorus of Peers are all in love with Phyllis, who wants none of them.
* WifeHusbandry: The Lord Chancellor is as smitten with his ward, Phyllis, as all the other Lords, and decides to marry her himself after Lords Mountararat andTolloler Tolloller convince him that it would not be improper to do so.
* WifeHusbandry: The Lord Chancellor is as smitten with his ward, Phyllis, as all the other Lords, and decides to marry her himself after Lords Mountararat and
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** The peers' explanation to Phyllis of what Strephon said in Act I Finale's opening section "When darkly looms the day" ''must'' be an example of this, because noone complained at the time, but it really is not subtle at all...
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** The peers' explanation to Phyllis of what Strephon said in Act I Finale's opening section "When darkly looms the day" ''must'' be an example of this, because noone no one complained at the time, but it really is not subtle at all...all...
-->'''Iolanthe''': ''(to Strephon)'' When tempest wreck thy bark\\
And all is drear and dark\\
If thou shouldst need an ark, I'll give thee one.
-->'''Phyllis''': ''(to Tolloller)'' What was that?
-->'''Tolloller''': I heard the minx remark\\
She'd meet him after dark\\
Inside St James's Park and give him one!\\
-->'''Iolanthe''': ''(to Strephon)'' When tempest wreck thy bark\\
And all is drear and dark\\
If thou shouldst need an ark, I'll give thee one.
-->'''Phyllis''': ''(to Tolloller)'' What was that?
-->'''Tolloller''': I heard the minx remark\\
She'd meet him after dark\\
Inside St James's Park and give him one!\\
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The Fairy Queen's response to the Peers' intransigence
-->'''Fairy Queen:''' ''Peers shall teem in Christendom/and a Duke's exalted station/Be attainable by Competitive Examination!''
-->'''Peers''' ''[[BigNo NO!]]''
** She then goes on to add even more horrific punishments, such as [[FelonyMisdemeanor rearranging Parliament's schedule so that the House of Lords will be in session during grouse hunting season.]]
* CutSong: ''Fold your flapping wings'', a solo for Strephon (he has no solo if it's cut, despite being the romantic lead) about poverty and crime, cut for being too serious for the show.
* DragQueen: At least one production has had "[[{{Pun}} The Fairy Queen]]" played by a man in drag.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: See CoolAndUnusualPunishment, above. Played for laughs, obviously.
-->'''Fairy Queen:''' ''Peers shall teem in Christendom/and a Duke's exalted station/Be attainable by Competitive Examination!''
-->'''Peers''' ''[[BigNo NO!]]''
** She then goes on to add even more horrific punishments, such as [[FelonyMisdemeanor rearranging Parliament's schedule so that the House of Lords will be in session during grouse hunting season.]]
* CutSong: ''Fold your flapping wings'', a solo for Strephon (he has no solo if it's cut, despite being the romantic lead) about poverty and crime, cut for being too serious for the show.
* DragQueen: At least one production has had "[[{{Pun}} The Fairy Queen]]" played by a man in drag.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: See CoolAndUnusualPunishment, above. Played for laughs, obviously.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The Fairy Queen's response Queen responds to the Peers' intransigence
-->'''Fairy Queen:''' ''Peers shall teem in Christendom/and a Duke's exalted station/Be attainableintransigence by Competitive Examination!''
-->'''Peers''' ''[[BigNo NO!]]''
** She then goes onthreatening to add even more horrific punishments, make Strephon a member of Parliament, where he will institute sweeping policy changes such as [[FelonyMisdemeanor rearranging Parliament's schedule so that the House of Lords will be in session during grouse hunting season.]]
* CutSong: ''Fold your flapping wings'', a solo for Strephon (he has no solo if it's cut, despite beingseason. Note, however, that the romantic lead) about poverty and crime, cut for being too serious for the show.
* DragQueen: At least one production has had "[[{{Pun}} TheFairy Queen]]" played by a man in drag.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: See CoolAndUnusualPunishment, above. Played for laughs, obviously.Queen's final threatened policy change--opening the Peerage's traditionally birthright titles to competitive examination--completely [[AvertedTrope averts]] this trope because the threat is genuinely fearsome, raising as it does the prospect that most of the Peers will eventually be stripped of their titles.[[note]]In most productions, the Lord Chancellor faints at this point, and with good reason.[[/note]]
-->'''Fairy Queen:''' ''Peers shall teem in Christendom/and a Duke's exalted station/Be attainable
-->'''Peers''' ''[[BigNo NO!]]''
** She then goes on
* CutSong: ''Fold your flapping wings'', a solo for Strephon (he has no solo if it's cut, despite being
* DragQueen: At least one production has had "[[{{Pun}} The
* FelonyMisdemeanor: See CoolAndUnusualPunishment, above. Played for laughs, obviously.
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* ForgotICouldChangeTheRules: How the plot conflict is conveniently resolved at the end.
** The Lord Chancellor's old job as "Equity Draughtsman"[[note]]Draftsman in modern American English; pronounced identically[[/note]] is parodied: in equity, a document may have to be redrafted to reflect as much of the authors' intent as possible, while making it consistent with law, justice, or public policy. [[spoiler: His single-word proposed alteration of fairy law completely reverses the meaning and intent of the law.]]
* FriendVersusLover: Tolloler and Mountararat are torn between their friendship and their unrequited love triangle with Phyllis.
** Almost leads to a CockFight between the two friends, until Phyllis reminds them of what's important and what's not.
** The Lord Chancellor's old job as "Equity Draughtsman"[[note]]Draftsman in modern American English; pronounced identically[[/note]] is parodied: in equity, a document may have to be redrafted to reflect as much of the authors' intent as possible, while making it consistent with law, justice, or public policy. [[spoiler: His single-word proposed alteration of fairy law completely reverses the meaning and intent of the law.]]
* FriendVersusLover: Tolloler and Mountararat are torn between their friendship and their unrequited love triangle with Phyllis.
** Almost leads to a CockFight between the two friends, until Phyllis reminds them of what's important and what's not.
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* ForgotICouldChangeTheRules: How the plot conflict is conveniently resolved at the end.
**The Lord Chancellor's old job as "Equity Draughtsman"[[note]]Draftsman in modern American English; pronounced identically[[/note]] is parodied: in equity, a document may have to be redrafted to reflect as much of the authors' intent as possible, while making it consistent with law, justice, or public policy. [[spoiler: His single-word proposed The Lord Chancellor proposes a one-word alteration of fairy law which completely reverses the meaning and intent of the law.]]
relevant fairy law.
* FriendVersusLover: Tolloler and Mountararat are torn between their friendship and their unrequited love triangle withPhyllis.
** AlmostPhyllis. This nearly [[CockFight leads to a CockFight duel]] between the two friends, until Phyllis reminds them of what's important and what's not.
**
* FriendVersusLover: Tolloler and Mountararat are torn between their friendship and their unrequited love triangle with
** Almost
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* HalfHumanHybrid: The half-fairy Strephon, the romantic lead. His top half is an immortal fairy, but below the waist he'll eventually grow old.
* HaveAGayOldTime: "Tripping hither, tripping thither!"
** A Fairy member - how delightful! [[spoiler: Not really though - she's talking about Parliament.]]
* HurricaneOfAphorisms:
* HaveAGayOldTime: "Tripping hither, tripping thither!"
** A Fairy member - how delightful! [[spoiler: Not really though - she's talking about Parliament.]]
* HurricaneOfAphorisms:
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* HalfHumanHybrid: The half-fairy Strephon, the romantic lead. His top half is an immortal fairy, but below the waist he'll eventually grow old.
he's a human as mortal as any other.
*HaveAGayOldTime: HaveAGayOldTime:
** "Tripping hither, tripping thither!"
** A Fairymember Member - how delightful! [[spoiler: Not really though - she's talking about Parliament.]]
[[note]] Member of Parliament, that is.[[/note]]
*HurricaneOfAphorisms:HopeSpot: When Strephon learns that his father--Iolanthe's husband--is of noble birth, Phyllis suggests that they need but tell him and all objections to her marrying Strephon will be at once removed. Iolanthe must then explain why Phyllis' simple and logical proposal is unworkable: Strephon's father believes Iolanthe to have died childless, and she is bound under penalty of death not to undeceive him.
* HurricaneOfAphorisms: The song, "If You Go In, You're Sure To Win" is little more than a collection of old proverbs.
*
** "Tripping hither, tripping thither!"
** A Fairy
*
* HurricaneOfAphorisms: The song, "If You Go In, You're Sure To Win" is little more than a collection of old proverbs.
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%% * IAmSong: This is Gilbert and Sullivan, what did you expect?
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: The Lord Chancellor is Strephon's father]]
* MoodWhiplash: the second half of Act 2. The Lord Chancellor sings a gloomy recitative which leads into the surreal Nightmare Song. He, Tolloller and Mountararat then have a funny dialogue and an upbeat song. Then Strephon enters "in low spirits" (the whiplash is even more pronounced if his darkly satirical CutSong is included) but then reconciles with Phyllis and they sing a happy duet. They ask Iolanthe to persuade the Lord Chancellor to let them marry.
** The MoodWhiplash reaches its ultimate with a totally [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness non-comic]] TearJerker scene absolutely PlayedForDrama: [[spoiler:Iolanthe reveals to Strephon and Phyllis that she married the Lord Chancellor years ago, but now must never see again on pain of death. The Lord Chancellor enters, determined to marry Phyllis. Iolanthe pleads with him incognito in a beautiful, heart-rending song, reminding him of his own dead wife from his youth. After momentary indecision, he steels himself and informs this unknown lady that Phyllis is his own promised bride. Iolanthe reveals herself, determined to sacrifice her life for his son's happiness -- and possibly because of her own jealousy[[hottip:**:or because the marriage would make her husband a bigamist, which would be bad karma even though done unknowingly, just as Oedipus's incestuous marriage was]]. The Fairy Queen enters to execute her.]] Then the whole thing is resolved with a typically ridiculous G&S happy ending.
** Sullivan may have been "inspired" to compose for that scene by his mother's death that year.
* MurphysBed: The Lord Chancellor's nightmare provides the page quote.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Strephon's mother looks about 17. His fiance catches the two of them embracing. Oops.
** Later on, Strephon reminds Phyllis that all aunts look just as young. Phyllis understands:
---> '''Phyllis''': Whenever I see you kissing a very young lady, I shall know it's an elderly relative.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: The Lord Chancellor is Strephon's father]]
* MoodWhiplash: the second half of Act 2. The Lord Chancellor sings a gloomy recitative which leads into the surreal Nightmare Song. He, Tolloller and Mountararat then have a funny dialogue and an upbeat song. Then Strephon enters "in low spirits" (the whiplash is even more pronounced if his darkly satirical CutSong is included) but then reconciles with Phyllis and they sing a happy duet. They ask Iolanthe to persuade the Lord Chancellor to let them marry.
** The MoodWhiplash reaches its ultimate with a totally [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness non-comic]] TearJerker scene absolutely PlayedForDrama: [[spoiler:Iolanthe reveals to Strephon and Phyllis that she married the Lord Chancellor years ago, but now must never see again on pain of death. The Lord Chancellor enters, determined to marry Phyllis. Iolanthe pleads with him incognito in a beautiful, heart-rending song, reminding him of his own dead wife from his youth. After momentary indecision, he steels himself and informs this unknown lady that Phyllis is his own promised bride. Iolanthe reveals herself, determined to sacrifice her life for his son's happiness -- and possibly because of her own jealousy[[hottip:**:or because the marriage would make her husband a bigamist, which would be bad karma even though done unknowingly, just as Oedipus's incestuous marriage was]]. The Fairy Queen enters to execute her.]] Then the whole thing is resolved with a typically ridiculous G&S happy ending.
** Sullivan may have been "inspired" to compose for that scene by his mother's death that year.
* MurphysBed: The Lord Chancellor's nightmare provides the page quote.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Strephon's mother looks about 17. His fiance catches the two of them embracing. Oops.
** Later on, Strephon reminds Phyllis that all aunts look just as young. Phyllis understands:
---> '''Phyllis''': Whenever I see you kissing a very young lady, I shall know it's an elderly relative.
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-->The law is the true embodiment\\
Of everything that's excellent.\\
It has no kind of fault or flaw,\\
And I, my Lords, embody the Law.
* LukeIAmYourFather:
* MoodWhiplash: the second half of Act 2. The Lord Chancellor sings a gloomy recitative which leads into the surreal Nightmare Song. He, Tolloller and Mountararat then have a funny dialogue and an upbeat song. Then Strephon enters "in low spirits" (the whiplash is even more pronounced if his darkly satirical CutSong is included) but then reconciles with Phyllis and they sing a happy duet. They ask Iolanthe to persuade the Lord Chancellor to let them
**
The
** Sullivan may have been "inspired" to compose for that scene by his mother's death that year.
*
%%* MurphysBed: The Lord Chancellor's nightmare provides the page quote.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Strephon's mother looks about 17. His fiance catches the two of them
**
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* PatterSong: The Nightmare Song, easily the toughest such song in the whole canon.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything:
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything:
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* PatterSong: The Nightmare Song, a.k.a. "When You're Lying Awake" is easily the toughest such song in the whole canon.
canon, not least because it's the longest.
*ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything:ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The House of Lords, and proudly so.
*
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* {{Tsundere}}: The fairies in Iolanthe, especially in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81wP_xMdJec "In vain to us you plead"]], which is practically the Tsundere ''anthem''.
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* {{Tsundere}}: The fairies in Iolanthe, especially in In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81wP_xMdJec "In vain Vain to us you plead"]], which is practically Us You Plead"]], the Tsundere ''anthem''.fairies are clearly of two minds concerning the Peers:
-->It's true we sigh,\\
But don't suppose\\
A tearful eye\\
Forgiveness shows.\\
We're very cross indeed... Don't go!
-->It's true we sigh,\\
But don't suppose\\
A tearful eye\\
Forgiveness shows.\\
We're very cross indeed... Don't go!
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* WifeHusbandry: The Lord Chancellor's plan for Phyllis, his ward.
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* WifeHusbandry: The Lord Chancellor's plan for Chancellor is as smitten with his ward, Phyllis, his ward.as all the other Lords, and decides to marry her himself after Lords Mountararat and Tolloler convince him that it would not be improper to do so.
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Creator/GilbertAndSullivan opera set at some indeterminate point in English history poking considerable fun at the House of Lords.
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Creator/GilbertAndSullivan opera set at some indeterminate point in English history poking considerable fun at the House of Lords.
Lords. Not to be confused with ''Iolanta'', a [[Creator/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Tchaikovsky]] opera.
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Absurdly Youthful Mother has been made into a supertrope. Wicks will be moved to subtropes where appropriate.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Fairies are unaging, and Stephron has a hard time explaining to his beloved that these nubile women he is seen embracing are, in fact, his mother and his aunts, all of whom look younger than him.
-->''I wouldn't say a word that could be reckoned as injurious\\
But to find a mother younger than her son is very curious''
-->''I wouldn't say a word that could be reckoned as injurious\\
But to find a mother younger than her son is very curious''
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* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Fairies are unaging, and Stephron has a hard time explaining to his beloved that these nubile women he is seen embracing are, in fact, his mother and his aunts, all of whom look younger than him.
-->''I wouldn't say a word that could be reckoned as injurious\\
But to find a mother younger than her son is very curious''
-->''I wouldn't say a word that could be reckoned as injurious\\
But to find a mother younger than her son is very curious''
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misuse — Real Dreams Are Weirder is about weird ordinary dreams being contrasted with sensible magical or metaphorical dreams, not just about the fact that dreams are generally weird
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* RealDreamsAreWeirder: The Nightmare Song.
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...Can\'t just... cut off the actual joke...
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-->'''Lord Chancellor:''' [[BeigeProse No. It's a nice point.]] I don't know that I ever met it before.
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-->'''Lord Chancellor:''' [[BeigeProse No. It's a nice point.]] I don't know that I ever met it before. But my difficulty is that at present there's no evidence before the Court that chorused Nature has interested herself in the matter...
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** Phyllis is beloved by the entire House of Lords. Here's a line of dialogue about it: "Why did five-and-twenty Liberal Peers come down to shoot over your [[UnusualEuphemism grass-plot]] last autumn? It couldn't have been the sparrows. Why did five-and-twenty Conservative Peers come down to [[UnusualEuphemism fish your pond]]? Don't tell me it was the gold-fish!"
**The peers' explanation to Phyllis of what Strephon said in Act I Finale's opening section "When darkly looms the day" ''must'' be an example of this, because noone complained at the time, but it really is not subtle at all...
**The peers' explanation to Phyllis of what Strephon said in Act I Finale's opening section "When darkly looms the day" ''must'' be an example of this, because noone complained at the time, but it really is not subtle at all...
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** The MoodWhiplash reaches its ultimate with a totally [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness non-comic]] TearJerker scene absolutely PlayedForDrama: [[spoiler:Iolanthe reveals to Strephon and Phyllis that she married the Lord Chancellor years ago, but now must never see again on pain of death. The Lord Chancellor enters, determined to marry Phyllis. Iolanthe pleads with him incognito in a beautiful, heart-rending song, reminding him of his own dead wife from his youth. After momentary indecision, he steels himself and informs this unknown lady that Phyllis is his own promised bride. Iolanthe reveals herself, determined to sacrifice her life for his son's happiness -- and possibly because of her own jealousy[[hottip:*:or because the marriage would make her husband a bigamist, which would be bad karma even though done unknowingly, just as Oedipus's incestuous marriage was]]. The Fairy Queen enters to execute her.]] Then the whole thing is resolved with a typically ridiculous G&S happy ending.
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** The MoodWhiplash reaches its ultimate with a totally [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness non-comic]] TearJerker scene absolutely PlayedForDrama: [[spoiler:Iolanthe reveals to Strephon and Phyllis that she married the Lord Chancellor years ago, but now must never see again on pain of death. The Lord Chancellor enters, determined to marry Phyllis. Iolanthe pleads with him incognito in a beautiful, heart-rending song, reminding him of his own dead wife from his youth. After momentary indecision, he steels himself and informs this unknown lady that Phyllis is his own promised bride. Iolanthe reveals herself, determined to sacrifice her life for his son's happiness -- and possibly because of her own jealousy[[hottip:*:or jealousy[[hottip:**:or because the marriage would make her husband a bigamist, which would be bad karma even though done unknowingly, just as Oedipus's incestuous marriage was]]. The Fairy Queen enters to execute her.]] Then the whole thing is resolved with a typically ridiculous G&S happy ending.
