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* NightmareFuel: The third act.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: [[{{Anvilicious}} Guys, did you know you should appreciate life?]] Trust us, though, this is a very necessary anvil.
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** Sometime during Act II (at least in the Alley Theatre production), Mr. Webb gives George, his son-in-law-to-be, a long lecture on how to steer clear of your wife's authority (Ex: "Make sure she doesn't really know how much money you have). Then Mrs. Webb walks in and... "I did the opposite of that and I'm a happy man")

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** Sometime during During Act II (at least in the Alley Theatre production), II, Mr. Webb gives George, his son-in-law-to-be, a long lecture on how to steer clear of your wife's authority (Ex: "Make sure she doesn't really know how much money you have). Then Mrs. Webb walks in and... "I did the opposite of that and I'm a happy man")man."
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* Misaimed Fandom: Wilder himself felt that the play, while immensely popular, was seldom performed as he meant it to be performed. It's often treated as a charming, nostalgic portrait of small-town life, when many elements are meant to critical (if often gently so) of the characters' parochialism.

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* Misaimed Fandom: MisaimedFandom: Wilder himself felt that the play, while immensely popular, was seldom performed as he meant it to be performed. It's often treated as a charming, nostalgic portrait of small-town life, when many elements are meant to be critical (if often gently so) of the characters' parochialism.
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* Misaimed Fandom: Wilder himself felt that the play, while immensely popular, was seldom performed as he meant it to be performed. It's often treated as a charming, nostalgic portrait of small-town life, when many elements are meant to critical (if often gently so) of the characters' parochialism.

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* Misaimed Fandom: Wilder himself felt that the play, while immensely popular, was seldom performed as he meant it to be performed. It's often treated as a charming, nostalgic portrait of small-town life, when many elements are meant to critical (if often gently so) of the characters' parochialism.
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* Misaimed Fandom: Wilder himself felt that the play, while immensely popular, was seldom performed as he meant it to be performed. It's often treated as a charming, nostalgic portrait of small-town life, when many elements are meant to critical (if often gently so) of the characters' parochialism.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The third act.

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* {{Gayngst}}: Simon Stimson is predominantly, though not definitively, identified as a closeted gay character, driven to alcoholism and eventually suicide.
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*{{Gayngst}}: Simon Stimson is predominantly, though not definitively, identified as a closeted gay character, driven to alcoholism and eventually suicide.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the film ''Monster In a Box'', Spalding Gray [[http://www.whysanity.net/monos/monster.html relates]] during one performance of the play at Lincoln Center when the actor playing Wally Webb (Shane Culkin, brother of Macauley) interrupted the funeral scene with projectile vomit.

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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: In the film ''Monster In a Box'', Spalding Gray [[http://www.whysanity.net/monos/monster.html relates]] during one performance of the play at Lincoln Center when the actor playing Wally Webb (Shane Culkin, brother of Macauley) interrupted the funeral scene with projectile vomit.



* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: [[{{Anvilicious}} Guys, did you know you should appreciate life?]] Trust us, though, this is a very necessary anvil.



* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: [[{{Anvilicious}} Guys, did you know you should appreciate life?]] Trust us, though, this is a very necessary anvil.
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* CharacterDerailment: Although it does not affect the emotional value of the play in any way, most portrayers of Emily in today's production often have her [[spoiler: sobbing over her lost life and ignorance in the ending. But Thornton Wilder makes a note that Emily should say goodbye with ''not'' sadness but with wonder.]]

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