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* TrappedInVillainy: The curse of the Murgatroyds. The resolution is [[spoiler:when Sir Ruthven realizes that refusing to commit a daily crime is tantamount to suicide. [[LogicBomb And suicide is, itself, a crime.]] [[LoopholeAbuse So he fullfills the terms of the curse by refusing to do so.]]]]

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* TrappedInVillainy: The curse of the Murgatroyds. The resolution is [[spoiler:when Sir Ruthven realizes that refusing to commit a daily crime is tantamount to suicide. [[LogicBomb And suicide is, itself, a crime.]] [[LoopholeAbuse So he fullfills fulfills the terms of the curse by refusing to do so.]]]]
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* MilesGloriosus: Richard's song "I shipped, d'ye see," tells how his ship bravely prepared to attack a French merchant ship, only to turn tail and ran away when it turned out to be a frigate and fired at them, because, uh, they didn't want to hurt the poor helpless Frenchmen, that was it. Amusingly, a lot of people [[PoesLaw missed that it was a satire]].

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* MilesGloriosus: Richard's song "I shipped, d'ye see," tells how his ship bravely prepared to attack a French merchant ship, only to turn tail and ran run away when it turned out to be a frigate and fired at them, because, uh, they didn't want to hurt the poor helpless Frenchmen, that was it. Amusingly, a lot of people [[PoesLaw missed that it was a satire]].
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** Roderic orders Robin to carry off a lady, "I don't care what lady, any lady, choose your lady" to satisfy the curse. When said lady turns out to be Dame Hannah, Roderic's former fiancee, he reacts with indignation.

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** Roderic orders Robin to carry off a lady, "I don't care what lady, any lady, choose your lady" to satisfy the curse. When said lady turns out to be Dame Hannah, Roderic's former fiancee, fiancée, he reacts with indignation.
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* QuietlyPerformingSisterShow: It was the team's follow-up to their greatest hit, ''Theatre/TheMikado''; though it subsequently gained a reputation for being the pair's first "failure," it actually ran for 288 performances, and Gilbert himself remarked, "It ran eight months and, with the sale of the libretto, put £7,000 into my pocket." He also said, "I could do with a few more such failures."

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* QuietlyPerformingSisterShow: It was the team's follow-up to their greatest hit, ''Theatre/TheMikado''; though it subsequently gained a reputation for being the pair's first "failure," it actually ran for 288 performances, and Gilbert himself remarked, "It ran eight months and, with the sale of the libretto, put £7,000 £7,000[[note]]About three-quarters of a million USD nowadays when adjusting for inflation[[/note]] into my pocket." He also said, "I could do with a few more such failures."

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