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%%* ValuesDissonance: Well, obviously. This is an over ''2000 year-old'' play, after all.



* StrawmanHasAPoint: Due to ValuesDissonance, Socrates is supposed to be in the wrong when he teaches clouds make rain. Nowadays, this is a well-known fact.

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* ShallowParody: The ideas the play's version of Socrates espouses have nothing to do with Socrates' actual views as a philosopher, and he's essentially treated as a combination of a pre-Socratic natural philosopher and a Sophist rhetorician. Regardless, it's still a very funny take on him, and even the actual Socrates [[ActuallyPrettyFunny was reportedly amused by it]].
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Due to ValuesDissonance, Socrates is supposed to be in the wrong when he teaches clouds make rain. Nowadays, this is a well-known fact.fact.
%%* ValuesDissonance: Well, obviously. This is an over ''2000 year-old'' play, after all.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Strepsiades says at one point that if Pheidippides convinces him that it's right for a boy to beat his mother, then he doesn't care if Pheidippides gets put to death, "along with Socrates and the Worse Argument too!" Yeah, about that whole "putting Socrates to death" thing...

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* HarsherInHindsight: Strepsiades says at one point that if Pheidippides convinces him that it's right for a boy to beat his mother, then he doesn't care if Pheidippides gets put to death, "along with Socrates and the Worse Argument too!" Yeah, about that whole "putting Socrates to death" thing...thing...
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Due to ValuesDissonance, Socrates is supposed to be in the wrong when he teaches clouds make rain. Nowadays, this is a well-known fact.
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* ValuesDissonance: Well, obviously. This is an over ''2000 year-old'' play, after all.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Strepsiades says at one point that if Pheidippides convinces him that it's right for a boy to beat his mother, then he doesn't care if Pheidippides gets put to death, "along with Socrates and the Worse Argument too!" Yeah, about that whole "putting Socrates to death" thing...

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* %%* ValuesDissonance: Well, obviously. This is an over ''2000 year-old'' play, after all.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: HarsherInHindsight: Strepsiades says at one point that if Pheidippides convinces him that it's right for a boy to beat his mother, then he doesn't care if Pheidippides gets put to death, "along with Socrates and the Worse Argument too!" Yeah, about that whole "putting Socrates to death" thing...
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* ValluesDissonance: Well, obviously. This is an over ''2000 year-old'' play, after all.

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* ValluesDissonance: ValuesDissonance: Well, obviously. This is an over ''2000 year-old'' play, after all.
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* ValluesDissonance: Well, obviously. This is an over ''2000 year-old'' play, after all.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Strepsiades says at one point that if Pheidippides convinces him that it's right for a boy to beat his mother, then he doesn't care if Pheidippides gets put to death, "along with Socrates and the Worse Argument too!" Yeah, about that whole "putting Socrates to death" thing...

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