History Fanfic / TheManyWorldsInterpretation

* ChickMagnet: Ponder Stibbons, after Penny and Bernadette demonstrate the striking similarity he has to an [[Film/HarryPotter obscure fantasy film actor]] called Creator/DanielRadcliffe. [[note]] Pratchett's artists take unholy glee in drawing Ponder to resemble HarryPotter[[/note]]
* {{Cosplay}}: Johanna and Ponder are prevailed upon to attend a Cosplay night at the Comic Book Store. Ponder goes as HarryPotter; Johanna as Pamela Isley.

** ''Theatre/WestSideStory'': An LAPD cop with the unfortunate name of Krupke is introduced. He has colleagues called [[WesternAnimation/TopCat Dibble]], [[SledgeHammer Captain Trunk]], and [[Series/{{McCloud}} Mounted Officer McLeod]]

* UnfortunateNames: When sorting out a little problem with would-be street muggers, Johanna encounters members of the Los Angeles Police Department called [[WestSideStory Krupke]], [[WesternAnimation/TopCat Dibble]] and [[Series/SledgeHammer Captain Trunk]]. Apparently there is also an Inspector Series/{{Columbo}} in the murder squad, and a mounted policeman called Officer [=McLeod=].

** ''Theatre/WestSideStory'': An LAPD cop with the unfortunate name of Krupke is introduced. He has colleagues called [[WesternAnimation/TopCat Dibble]], [[SledgeHammer Captain Trunk]], and [[{{McCloud}} Mounted Officer McLeod]]

* MacheteMayhem: Johanna's attempt to teach the Caltech gang some weapon skills. Unwisely she suggests that they focus any [[{{Catharsis}} anger issues they have]] into their slashing and stabbing. The result is coleslaw.

* RamenAsDehydratedNoodles: Ponder Stibbons is introduced to instant ramen in a laser research lab at Caltech by Leslie Winkle. He tastes them and instantly realises there are Dibblers on Roundworld. He deduces this because like a Dibbler sausage, you can't believe what you're eating, you sense the plastic pot would be more nutritious and less harmful than the contents, you have suspicions as to what nameless stuff goes into it, and yet knowing all this, ''you still want to eat the stuff''.

* HomeworldEvacuation: In canon, ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' books believe this is inevitable and will occur sooner rather than later. The challenge for Discworld's wizards is to get humanity on Earth prepared for the moment it has to leave a dying planet and colonise the stars. (no later than the middle 2200's). In this version of Roundworld, insights made by eight intelligences operating around Caltech, Pasadena, in the early 2000's will be key to humanity's survival. Therefore Sheldon Cooper in particular has to be kept alive to make his key realisations, and all eight have to be steered in the right directions...

** Another recursive reality occurs when, for a brief period of objective time, two versions of Johanna Smith-Rhodes exist on the Discworld as the result of sheldon cooper's unwisely applied enthusiasm. Both go around the same time-loop together and this causes double-takes in Ankh-Morpork.
* SanityStrengthening: Thorazine works wonders on the Bursar, returning his mathematical genius and allowing him to converse normally with Sheldon.

** Another recursive reality occurs when, for a brief period of objective time, two versions of Johanna Smith-Rhodes exist on the Discworld as the result of HEX's machinations. Both go around the same time-loop together and this causes double-takes in Ankh-Morpork.

* KillerRabbit: Ponder's inspired use of the disdained ''Enchanted Bunny'' card to wim ''Mystic Warlords of Ka'a'' games. Twice.

* [[Literature/AndHeBuiltACrookedHouse Empirical Crescent]], the Caltech gang's allocated home on the Disc.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Sheldon Cooper unerringly pisses off Lord Vetinari and brings poetic retribution on his head. Vetinari, in as many words, concedes a science-based education has its advantages over an arts-based one. As proof of this, Sheldon is sent to do something useful for the city of Ankh-Morpork during his visit, which only a true scientific genius is capable of. He is placed in charge of Empirical Crescent - a residential block designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson - and invited to make sense of the place. As this has baffled the Discworld's finest intellects and carries overtures of actual physical hazard, it is possible Vetinari got very pissed off indeed. Most of the visiting Caltech crew, with the exception of Penny and Leonard, go over there with him and it becomes their apartment block whilst on the Disc. With interesting and strange results.

* ALadyOnEachArm: On Cosplay Night at the Comic Book Store, Raj practically begs to be photographed in between "WonderWoman" (Penny) and "[[ComicBook/PoisonIvy]]" (Johanna) so he can claim online bragging rights. The girls happily indulge him.

* ALadyOnEachArm: On Cosplay Night at the Comic Book Store, Raj practically begs to be photographed in between "WonderWoman" (Penny) and "[[Characters/BatmanRoguesGallery Poison Ivy]]" (Johanna) so he can claim online bragging rights. The girls happily indulge him.

* {{Bizzarchitecture}}: Sheldon Cooper unerringly pisses off Lord Vetinari and brings poetic retribution on his head. Vetinari, in as many words, concedes a science-based education has its advantages over an arts-based one. As proof of this, Sheldon is sent to do something useful for the city of Ankh-Morpork during his visit, which only a true scientific genius is capable of. He is placed in charge of Empirical Crescent - a residential block designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson - and invited to make sense of the place. As this has baffled the Discworld's finest intellects and carries overtures of actual physical hazard, it is possible Vetinari got very pissed off indeed. Most of the visiting Caltech crew, with the exception of Penny and Leonard, go over there with him and it becomes their apartment block whilst on the Disc. With interesting and strange results.

** ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': Leslie Winkle opts to attend a cosplay night as Velma Dinkle. Amy Farrah-Fowler, investigating a dark gloomy cellar, which sdhe discovers is indeed haunted, likens herself to Velma, having been honest enough with herself to concede that she doesn't really fit the profile for Daphne. Amy also considers Johanna's dogs are big enough to count as a pair of Scooby-Doos, albeit with less cowardice and more AngryGuardDog about them.

* BewareTheNiceOnes; johanna Smith-Rhodes is a trained Assassin, a veteran of many hard fights, and scared of nothing. Much. But even she thinks twice before getting her boyfriend Ponder Stibbons angry enough to shout at her. She prefers to avoid this. Penny confesses she feels the same way about Leonard Hofstadter. The other thing that frightens Johanna is Mrs Whitlow. But that's a different story.

** ''Theatre/WestSideStory'': An LAPD cop with the unfortunate name of Krupke is introduced. He has colleagues called [[TopCat Dibble]], [[SledgeHammer Captain Trunk]], and [[{{McCloud}} Mounted Officer McLeod]]

* SchizoTech: The city of Ankh-Morpork as seen by the visiting Californians. It has a supercomputer (HEX) way in advance of anything on Earth but no electricity, TV, petrol engines, or ''gonnes''. Meanwhile, visiting Discworlders in Pasadena/Los Angeles find technological sophistication - but no awareness of magic. The visiting Assassin realises how reliance on machinery to do the work has rendered the people largely less muscular and a lot less physically able than people on her own world.

* ChickMagnet: Ponder Stibbons, after Penny and Bernadette demonstrate the striking similarity he has to an [[HarryPotter obscure fantasy film actor]] called DanielRadcliffe. [[note]] Pratchett's artists take unholy glee in drawing Ponder to resemble HarryPotter[[/note]]

* BilingualBonus: Johanna speaks Afrikaans, generally when swearing. Astronaut Dimitri adds a bit of conversational Russian. Raj is heard to be not very complimentary, in Hindu, about [[NWordPrivileges Pakistanis in general and a Pakistani colleague in particular]]. And use of a particular [[TheApartheidEra k-word]] causes a three-way misinterpretation.

* WhiteGangbangers: The expat South Africans Johanna meets in Pasadena. To her horror she realises they are stuck in TheApartheidEra, but not before a certain Ms. Janine Davis has clocked her in their company. A terse interview with Caltech Human Resources follows the next day.

** AncestralWeapon: Aragorn's sword Narsil is referenced when Johanna politely stops Howard from touching her weapons belt. It turns out her machete has been in the family for generations; her great-grandmother personally killed four Zulus with it during a battle. [[note]] Serious {{Badass}} tendencies run in the female Smith-Rhodes line.[[/note]]

* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: Johanna, who on Earth is using the cover story of being a South African academic looking to be hired by Caltech, has a torrid interview with Janine Davis of HR who fears that the new hire has certain unreformed old-school Afrikaaner ways of thinking. It doesn't help when Doctor Smith-Rhodes protests that one of her best friends is black. This is true, but from somebody with a South African accent sounds suspicious.