Underappreciated Things About A Series of Unfortunate Events
I’m rereading the series right now and I have a lot of thoughts
the time Lemony Snicket wanted you to never, ever do something so he typed never on one page and ever over and over on the entire next page
he once disguised himself as a dustpan
Captain Sham because his disguise is a sham geddit
not really underappreciated but “If you are allergic to a thing it’s generally not a good idea to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if that thing is cats.”
describes a dark place with two solid pages of black ink
““I’m your waiter, Larry,” said the Baudelaires’ waiter, Larry.”
Sunny once said “Busheney” to mean “You’re an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.” (this book came out in 2003. think about it.)
Lemony apparently knows Robert Frost
“There is a writer who, like me, is often assumed dead. His name is William Shakespeare.”
this isn’t within the ASOUE text but once in an interview Handler was talking about times when people have been mad about the series and this one woman took umbrage about him once saying that there are times when it’s better to lie and she was like “can you name one” and he was like “nice sweater”
Mr. Poe was the Vice President in Charge of Coins
then he was the Vice President in Charge of Orphan Affairs
puts so much thought into the naming relationship between the siblings and Olaf but then “his name is Dewey cuz he works in a library I’m clocking out”
legit though why the fuck does a count/actor have a massive fuckin tower in his suburban backyard
I’m pretty sure he mentions picnicking at least once in every book and just like. why. that’s a weird coincidence. someone take the poor man on a picnic.
also of the like three time he mentions animals living somewhere he uses the word condominium twice and just. it’s not that notable I guess but why that specific word.
also remember when he stopped mid sentence and was like “I’m gonna relay a fairy tale because the message I need to say is too complex to just write down” so he tells this story about some brat prince wanting diamonds for his birthday and the end is just. lions are dangerous sometimes. like. that’s it.
he just fucking namedrops Mikhail Bulgakov and Haruki Murakami and just. to what end.
in the town infested with crows that perch on the Nevermore Tree Olaf is disguised as Detective Dupin
honestly the amount of literary references here are wild
he once wanted to illustrate deja vu so he put in the same page twice
this is still one of the most subtly sarcastic books I’ve ever read
he once used littering as a way to identify evil people
honestly the messages in this book are the best
having a rough past doesn’t excuse being a shithead
morality is complicated but you’ve got to try your best
you can stop being an ass and change if you want to and good people will be kind about it
like the most infuriating people are the ones who are too scared to stand up to evil stuff (Mr. Poe, Jerome, Hector, Aunt Josephine, etc.)
“well-read people are less likely to be evil”
there’s this bit in The Vile Village where the siblings are thinking about running away with Hector in his self-sustaining hot air balloon and they’re just like yeah everything sucks but we can’t just run away. there’s stuff we want to do on the ground. and I don’t know but that just shook as a kid like that has legit kept me from killing myself three or four times now.
the cathedral of the alleged virgin
there’s tons more but that’s all I can remember right now
romaincrisis
yousharknotpass
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