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* MadAtADream: [[https://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/971 A woman dreams]] that her mother is being executed and her husband [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing cannot keep himself from laughing with glee throughout]]. She wakes up ''extremely'' irate with him.
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* MakeMyMonsterGrow: One of the shorts, "The Pet" has its dream involve a strange animal be taken in by a couple only to grow with everything it consumes. And we mean ''[[ExtremeOmnivore everything]].'' It's only defeated when it's at {{Kaiju}} size.
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* MakeMyMonsterGrow: MiracleGroMonster: One of the shorts, "The Pet" has its dream involve a strange animal be taken in by a couple only to grow with everything it consumes. And we mean ''[[ExtremeOmnivore everything]].'' It's only defeated when it's at {{Kaiju}} size.
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* MakeMyMonsterGrow: One of the shorts, "The Pet" has its dream involve a strange animal be taken in by a couple only to grow with everything it consumes. And we mean ''[[ExtremeOmnivore everything]].'' It's only defeated when it's at {{{Kaiju}} {{Kaiju}} size.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The protagonist reaction to his dream in [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/912 this strip.]]
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* AcidRefluxNightmare: The whole premise is that people eat the eponymous dish and experience some very strange nightmares. Interestingly, some scholars have noted that rarebit-- a dish consisting of seasoned cheese melted on toast-- is actually a fairly innocuous meal, not the sort of thing most people would associate with nightmares. Presumably that's part of the joke.
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* AcidRefluxNightmare: The whole premise is that people eat the eponymous dish and experience some very strange nightmares. Interestingly, some scholars have noted that rarebit-- a dish consisting of seasoned cheese melted on toast-- is actually a fairly innocuous meal, not the sort of thing most people would associate with nightmares. Presumably that's part of the joke. That said, there are old wives's tales about eating cheese before sleeping causing nightmares.
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* EveryEpisodeEnding: Each strip concludes with someone [[AllJustADream waking up]] and expressing regret that they ate too much rarebit.
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* DirectLineToTheAuthor: A few strips conclude with the dreamer waking up and saying something like, "Wow, I'm going to write that dream down and send it to [[PenName Silas]]!"
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* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: A few strips conclude with the dreamer waking up and saying something like, "Wow, I'm going to write that dream down and send it to [[PenName Silas]]!"
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Notably, Winsor [=McCay=] created a silent live-action short film based on the comic strip, titled ''Film/DreamOfARarebitFiend'' in 1906.
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Notably, Winsor [=McCay=] Edwin S. Porter created a silent live-action short film based on the comic strip, titled ''Film/DreamOfARarebitFiend'' ''Film/DreamOfARarebitFiend'', in 1906.
1906. In addition, [=McKay=] himself created animated adaptations of a few strips.
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Or insult an alligator for that matter. [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/964 Here]], a woman receives an alligator purse as a gift, only for it suddenly become a ''real'' alligator. The gator takes offense at the woman attempting to drive him away and gobbles the woman up.
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Or insult an alligator for that matter. [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/964 Here]], a woman receives an alligator purse as a gift, only for it suddenly become a ''real'' alligator. The gator takes offense at the woman attempting to drive him away and gobbles the woman up.
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* NonIndicativeName: The food "Rarebit" does not contain any ''rabbit'', Welsh or otherwise. It's cheese on toast.
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* PenName: [=McCay=] originally wrote this strip under the byline "Silas," for contractural reasons. After 1911 he switched newspapers and signed it under his own name.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: [=McCay's=] PenName "Silas" was the name of his neighborhood garbage cart driver.
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* AcidRefluxNightmare: The whole premise is that people eat the eponymous dish and experience some very strange nightmares.
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* AcidRefluxNightmare: The whole premise is that people eat the eponymous dish and experience some very strange nightmares. Interestingly, some scholars have noted that rarebit-- a dish consisting of seasoned cheese melted on toast-- is actually a fairly innocuous meal, not the sort of thing most people would associate with nightmares. Presumably that's part of the joke.
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* DadaComics: Possibly the UrExample.
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* DadaComics: Possibly the UrExample.UrExample, predating the UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} movement itself by a couple of decades.
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* FelonyMisdemeanor: In [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/938 this strip]], a man's nightmare concludes with the [[TakeThat horrifying revelation]] that he and his wife [[spoiler: got a new apartment in Brooklyn]]!
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* AllJustADream: A ForegoneConclusion every time (it's right there in the title!), but this device let [=McCay=] get away with a lot more surrealism than he might have been able to otherwise.
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* EveryEpisodeEnding: Each strip concludes with someone [[AllJustADream waking up]] and expressing regret that they ate too much rarebit.
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* WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/952 A 60-year-old man fights to avoid being taken to the "Chloroformatory"]].
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/937 A man in jail dreams]] that he is a giant drunkenly rampaging through New York City.
* BodyHorror: A frequent occurrence in the dreams.
* BloodierAndGorier: More bloodier than gorier, but injuries and general violence often have blood flying around.
* BloodierAndGorier: More bloodier than gorier, but injuries and general violence often have blood flying around.
* DeadlyBath: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/949 A man dreams]] that his bath is interrupted by the appearance of a number of jungle animals in the tub with him, including a angry hippopotamus, a crocodile, and an anaconda.
* DreamWithinADream: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/965 A man dreams]] that he continuously meets clones of himself. He wakes up commenting on his dream as everyone else does...only for his duplicates to wake up in bed beside him and tell him to be quiet. He then wakes up for real.
* DreamWithinADream: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/965 A man dreams]] that he continuously meets clones of himself. He wakes up commenting on his dream as everyone else does...only for his duplicates to wake up in bed beside him and tell him to be quiet. He then wakes up for real.
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* UseYourHead: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/930 After failing to get some engineers to halt their train]] so she can move her dog off the tracks, a woman opts to stop the train by headbutting it. ''It works'' and the train stops in place...but as a result another train rear-ends the first one and makes a huge mess. Of course, it was AllJustADream like all of the other incidents.
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* MushroomSamba: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/914 One man dreams that]] he has tried a new beverage called "wood alcohol whiksey" at the local bar, and while it starts off with him seeing circus animals everywhere, it quickly escalates to SurrealHorror in the form of a giant shrimp with a man's face yelling at the dreamer and then nearly getting eaten by a giant python.
* NeverTrustAHairTonic: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/912 A balding man]] takes a new hair tonic to regain his hair, but [[GoneHorriblyRight it works so well]] that he becomes a walking hairball and becomes a sideshow attraction.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Or insult an alligator for that matter. [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/964 Here]], a woman receives an alligator purse as a gift, only for it suddenly become a ''real'' alligator. The gator takes offense at the woman attempting to drive him away and gobbles the woman up.
* NotWearingPantsDream: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/934 A man realizes]] that he left his pants at his workplace and goes off to get them, leading to people staring at him and getting arrested for public indecency.
* RubberMan: A number of dreams have people's bodies stretching beyond what would be possible in real life, [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/975 such as this one]] where a man stretches his neck to get a better look at the horse race that he's spectating and winds up clothes-lining the jockeys.
* TheToothHurts: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/913 A woman has a dream]] wherein her dentist has trouble pulling one of her teeth out and resorts to such measures as a hammer and chisel, a crowbar, and ''dynamite''.
* UseYourHead: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/930 After failing to get some engineers to halt their train]] so she can move her dog off the tracks, a woman opts to stop the train by headbutting it. ''It works'' and the train stops in place...but as a result another train rear-ends the first one and makes a huge mess. Of course, it was AllJustADream like all of the otherincidents.incidents.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Double Subverted in [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/996 this comic]]. A man who likes snakes finds a snake while walking and decides to keep it as a pet. More snakes continue to show up, however, and soon the man is completely surrounded and covered by them. [[CatapultNightmare He wakes up screaming in frustrated horror]].
* NeverTrustAHairTonic: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/912 A balding man]] takes a new hair tonic to regain his hair, but [[GoneHorriblyRight it works so well]] that he becomes a walking hairball and becomes a sideshow attraction.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Or insult an alligator for that matter. [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/964 Here]], a woman receives an alligator purse as a gift, only for it suddenly become a ''real'' alligator. The gator takes offense at the woman attempting to drive him away and gobbles the woman up.
* NotWearingPantsDream: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/934 A man realizes]] that he left his pants at his workplace and goes off to get them, leading to people staring at him and getting arrested for public indecency.
* RubberMan: A number of dreams have people's bodies stretching beyond what would be possible in real life, [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/975 such as this one]] where a man stretches his neck to get a better look at the horse race that he's spectating and winds up clothes-lining the jockeys.
* TheToothHurts: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/913 A woman has a dream]] wherein her dentist has trouble pulling one of her teeth out and resorts to such measures as a hammer and chisel, a crowbar, and ''dynamite''.
* UseYourHead: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/930 After failing to get some engineers to halt their train]] so she can move her dog off the tracks, a woman opts to stop the train by headbutting it. ''It works'' and the train stops in place...but as a result another train rear-ends the first one and makes a huge mess. Of course, it was AllJustADream like all of the other
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Double Subverted in [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/996 this comic]]. A man who likes snakes finds a snake while walking and decides to keep it as a pet. More snakes continue to show up, however, and soon the man is completely surrounded and covered by them. [[CatapultNightmare He wakes up screaming in frustrated horror]].
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Predating his more well-known comic strip ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' by about a year, Creator/WinsorMcCay's ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend'' detailed the [[AcidRefluxNightmare bizarre dreams]] had by numerous people after eating a dish called Welsh rarebit, a dish where one spreads a spicy cheese sauce on toast.
The comic has a considerably more [[DarkerAndEdgier mature and adult-oriented]] tone than ''Little Nemo'', often featuring adults getting into more...well...adult situations (such as drinking too much, politics-related arguments, etc.) during their dreams. The comic is also noticeably more violent than Little Nemo usually gets, as well. (One comic features a man getting blown to pieces trying to cross the street, for example.)
Notably, Winsor [=McCay=] created a silent live-action short film based on the comic strip, titled ''Film/DreamOfARarebitFiend'' in 1906.
A good amount of these comics can be found on [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/browse/results?title=3 The Comic Strip Library]] along with ''Little Nemo''.
!!''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend'' provides examples of:
* AcidRefluxNightmare: The whole premise is that people eat the eponymous dish and experience some very strange nightmares.
* BaitAndSwitch: Some comics have the nightmares seeming to be experienced by one person, only for the final panel to reveal that someone else was having the dream. Sometimes, the person having the dream may not have actually been in the dream at all.
* CatapultNightmare: Numerous of the comics end with the dreamer pulling one of these.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Than ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', by a long shot.
* EverythingExplodesEnding: Not so much the strips themselves, but several dreams end with a huge explosion caused by something.
* FountainOfYouth: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/935 An older gentleman]] takes some pills that gradually make a person younger, but he takes too many and winds up turning into a baby, much to his wife's surprise.
* UseYourHead: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/930 After failing to get some engineers to halt their train]] so she can move her dog off the tracks, a woman opts to stop the train by headbutting it. ''It works'' and the train stops in place...but as a result another train rear-ends the first one and makes a huge mess. Of course, it was AllJustADream like all of the other incidents.
The comic has a considerably more [[DarkerAndEdgier mature and adult-oriented]] tone than ''Little Nemo'', often featuring adults getting into more...well...adult situations (such as drinking too much, politics-related arguments, etc.) during their dreams. The comic is also noticeably more violent than Little Nemo usually gets, as well. (One comic features a man getting blown to pieces trying to cross the street, for example.)
Notably, Winsor [=McCay=] created a silent live-action short film based on the comic strip, titled ''Film/DreamOfARarebitFiend'' in 1906.
A good amount of these comics can be found on [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/browse/results?title=3 The Comic Strip Library]] along with ''Little Nemo''.
!!''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend'' provides examples of:
* AcidRefluxNightmare: The whole premise is that people eat the eponymous dish and experience some very strange nightmares.
* BaitAndSwitch: Some comics have the nightmares seeming to be experienced by one person, only for the final panel to reveal that someone else was having the dream. Sometimes, the person having the dream may not have actually been in the dream at all.
* CatapultNightmare: Numerous of the comics end with the dreamer pulling one of these.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Than ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', by a long shot.
* EverythingExplodesEnding: Not so much the strips themselves, but several dreams end with a huge explosion caused by something.
* FountainOfYouth: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/935 An older gentleman]] takes some pills that gradually make a person younger, but he takes too many and winds up turning into a baby, much to his wife's surprise.
* UseYourHead: [[http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display/930 After failing to get some engineers to halt their train]] so she can move her dog off the tracks, a woman opts to stop the train by headbutting it. ''It works'' and the train stops in place...but as a result another train rear-ends the first one and makes a huge mess. Of course, it was AllJustADream like all of the other incidents.
