Follow the Bouncing Ball: Lyrics and a bouncing heart appear when the Volunteers Fighting Diseases group first start singing. Common Meter: "The Little Snicket Lad". Klaus: How do you know that? The title was a spoof on Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events". Nice Hat: The Council of Elders in the seventh book wear hats shaped like crows. Klaus, more often than not, had to wait for important news to come to him. A Series of Unfortunate Events contains examples of: - Accidental Murder: - Olaf's father dies when Beatrice hits him with a stray poison dart after he tries to break up a fight at the opera. Reasonable Authority Figure: Uncle Monty was this (at least in the film).... for as long as he lasted. Or, you know, the stage didn't catch fire?
When choosing a dish to cook for Count Olaf, Violet suggests pasta puttanesca. In "The Carnivorous Carnival: Part 1'', Olaf sings "Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the House of Freaks " as he, disguised as a ringmaster, sings about The Freakshow. Blatant Lies: The Incredibly Deadly Viper is completely harmless; Monty just named it that way as a joke. Adaptational Early Appearance: - From the get-go, agents of VFD are involved in the plot; Jacquelyn tries to keep the Baudelaires safe, Monty and Josephine both show remnants of their VFD training, Olaf is said to know Lemony Snicket, and the actual symbol is Sigil Spammed everywhere. At the very end of the first season, the camera zooms in on a picture at Prufrock Prep to reveal Snicket and Olaf looking like old friends. The girl is said baby, and, as they compare the story you just finished watching, only for her to drop a massive, for the entire series, Wham atrice: You know this story? The book-within-the-book in "The End", in which Ishmael, The Baudelaire parents, and eventually The Baudelaire siblings themselves keep a written record of VFD, their own histories, and the Island, is also named "A Series of Unfortunate Events".
At one point, we see a map of The City, and it's laid out in the shape of an eye, suggesting that members were involved in its construction. Season 2 also adds "Take up the torch"; spoken most often by Jacques Snicket, it takes on a darker tone when later repeated by Olaf. In the first book an assistant of Olaf's is mentioned who has warts all over his face. Lemony Lick-It's A Series of Horny Events is an adult snuggle-film made by Gentlemen's Relief Productions. Least Rhymable Word: The henchmen admit that not a lot of things rhyme with "Count Olaf. "
Klaus and Violet reference Tu Bishvat and explain that it's "the Jewish equivalent of Arbor Day. Cut Short: Or more precisely, No Ending. Stylistic Suck: - The Marvelous Marriage by Al Funcoot, consists of 90% Olaf declaiming about being a handsome man in various locales, with the white-faced women popping out from behind him to say they must have him or they'll die (because he's sooo handsome), and 10% forcing Violet to marry him.
Or when he fails to remember his own alias. The adaptation introduces her as Prufrock Preparatory School's librarian in The Austere Academy. Overly Long Name: Esmé Gigi Genevieve Squalor, whose aliases for her disguises in The Vile Village and The Hostile Hospital are even more of a mouthful- In the latter she goes by Nurse Cassandra Ursula Terrific Elliandra, and in the former her alias changes each time she introduces herself, between "Sabrina Pepper Anastasia Marigold, " "Donatella Violetta Cappuccino Milano, " and "Sarah Petunia Alexandra Maryellen, " though always adding that you can just call her "Officer Luciana. Adaptational Nice Guy: The Troupe in "The Bad Beginning" are considerably nicer than they were in the book. Cut Apart: Near the end of "The Miserable Mill, Part 1", it seems that the Baudelaires are finally going to meet Mother and Father, as it cuts back and forth between each group approaching a Very Fancy Door.
When preparing for his scene just before Marge revealed that she had returned home, Carl Carlson inquired the director on whether he should have his character have a bandage claiming that he had been stabbed to cover up the fact that he had a Foghorn Leghorn tattoo to avoid any copyright infringements, although the director refused, telling him that they'll take care of the matter without needing to go to that extreme. The Problem with Licensed Games. The new paperbacks are aversions because they're much better for about half the price. And what happens when both Klaus and Count Olaf find themselves wanting the marriage? Signature Style: And how. "No one ever listens to children". The Adults Are Useless mentality of pretty much everyone the kids meet probably made most of them Too Dumb to Live when they refuse to believe the building they're in is on fire. You cant keep yourself sheltered from the world, even though its a dark and cruel place. "We haven't had much of that lately, have we? The Hook-Handed Man is just as mocking toward the freaks as everyone else despite his own condition. Jews aren't supposed to name babies after still living relatives, as this is considered tantamount to putting a death sentence on the older party. Yoko Oh No: None of the troupe can tolerate Esmé (well, barring the Bald Man). Mr. Poe knows what it means.
They also don't eat their coconut cream cake in episode 3. Hannibal Lecture: Or rather, Hannibal Gloat, in the movie. A group of awful people for whom murder is a yawn. While it literally translates as "little death", "la petite mort" is a French term for orgasm.
"The world is quiet here. Strange Minds Think Alike: In the first two episodes, Count Olaf struggles to come up with a rhyme for his name, ultimately settling on "rice pilaf". It's implied that he would've said Olaf's name, much like the White-Faced Women. Mistaken for Prank Call: In episodes 3 and 4, this is a running gag whenever someone mentions Uncle Monty's full name Montgomery Montgomery over the phone. More villains have arrived, and there is no place they can go. Synchronized Swarming: The swarm of "snow gnats"can take on forms like hoops and arrows when attacking people. Obfuscating Stupidity: An Alternate Character Interpretation of movie!
Failed a Spot Check: No one notices that the statue disappeared around the same time that a human shaped hole appeared in the Wide Window. Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid. In the books and film Aunt Josephine's death is fairly ambiguous (complete with a couple hints in later books). It still doesn't stop him from being murdered, though. Adventure Towns: Each book is in a different town (or island or mountain or... ). Theme Initials: V. D. - Theme Naming: The teachers at Prufrock Preparatory School are named after fish, and later we discover some families of siblings with alphabetically sequential names. When encountering "Dr. Faustus, " he sneers that Klaus looks young to be a doctor. The entire troupe seem to be apprehensive at what Olaf does after the Bauldelaires serve them dinner, visibly recoiling when he strikes Klaus. Complicated further in The Film of the Book, which mixes American and British accents.
In "The End, " Olaf counters the Baudelaires' assumption that he is the one who burned their house down. In the book, Sir is still in charge of the lumbermill by the end of the story despite his mistreatment of the workers. Olaf suggested with a sly grin. Aluminum Christmas Trees: There actually is a hotel in New York City organized by the Dewey Decimal System. The Un-Reveal: When Sir is in a sauna, he puts down the cigar whose smoke usually covers his face, but he is covered up again by the steam. Oh, and they left the second "o" out of "Coroner" on their van. How does she find them? Book the Twelfth: The Penultimate Peril.