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  • Crowning Moment of Funny: Several, especially discovering how to melt wizard, various things with Killer, Daystar's accidental politeness-magic-works thing for Shiara, various other fairy tale parodies... but this troper's favorite is Cimorene's choice of cause of death: Old age.
  • In Searching for Dragons, when Willin tries to convince Mendabar to marry a "proper" princess.
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  Mendabar: Willin, you haven't been talking to that dreadful woman with all of those daughters, have you? Because if you have, I'll...I'll stick you in that rack that you're so determined we replace!

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    • There's also the explanation of why the rack needs replacing to begin with: Mendabar's great-great-grandmother had it removed to dry tableclothes on.
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 Mendabar: She made someone haul a rack up eight flights of stairs and down six more, just to dry tableclothes?

Willin: A very determined woman, your great-great-grandmother.

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  • Telemain's magibabble is the Running Gag version of this, though asking about how the King's failed locator spell worked when there were clearly more important issues at hand stands out. After all, what is a Comic Relief Character for if not the Crowning Moment of Funny?
  • Mendabar's general hostility towards Willin in general at the beginning of Searching for Dragons.