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YMMV / The Comedy of Errors

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  • Memetic Mutation: Dromio's line "tis high time" was popular enough to change "high time" from a reference to noon to a cliché referring to the time something ought to be done.
  • Values Dissonance:
    • Both Antipholuses are ready and willing to beat their servants (or the men they believe are their servants) when they're even the slightest bit annoyed with them, which was relatively acceptable and funny at the time they were written but is very uncomfortable to modern eyes. Today productions often try to decrease the awkwardness by letting the Dromios give as good as they get when it comes to blows, and in the Karamazov version the townspeople give Antipholus a Collective Death Glare until he stops.
    • Also, nobody bats an eye at the fact that Antipholus of Ephesus goes to visit a courtesan, even on the off-chance that sex didn't ensue.

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