History YMMV / PrincessIda

* HarsherInHindsight: Among a list of ridiculous and implausible things the ladies at the university are supposedly planning to do is "set the Thames on fire". In the 1950s and 1960s, the Cuyahoga River in UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}} was so polluted it caught fire multiple times.

** King Hildebrand's plan to break [[TheComplainer King Gama]]...treat him so well he has nothing to grumble at.

* EndingFatigue: With three acts, Ida is the longest operetta out of the Creator/GilbertAndSullivan repertoire. Paradoxely, the LastMinuteHookup still feels very rushed.

* EarWorm: This being Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, the trope is inevitable. Aside from the opening chorus, the trio "I am a maiden", the duet "Now wouldn't you like to rule the roost" and Psyche's "A lady fair" count.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The second act contains the so-called string of pearls, which are considered some of Sullivan's most beautiful melodies. The quartet ''The world is but a broken toy'' has been called Gounod-esque.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
-->'''Hildenbrand''' (Gama has been spotted on the horizon): Is the princess with him?

* EarWorm: This being Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, the trops is inevitable. Aside from the opening chorus, the trio ''I am a maiden'', the duet ''Now wouldn't you like to rule the roost'' and Psyche's ''A lady fair'' count.
* EndingFatigue: With three acts, Ida is the longest operetta out of the Creator/GilbertAndSullivan repertoire. Paradoxely, the LastMinuteHookup still feels very rushed. See the next trope for more.
* FairForItsDay: the apparent [[StrawFeminist anti-feminism]] in ''Princess Ida'' is ''nothing'' compared to the genuine Anti-Feminist jokes of its time. The Tennyson poem it's based on is also arguably worse in many respects than Gilbert's parody, since the FramingStory basically claims it's an incompetent attempt by feminists to rewrite history, which ends up showing that a woman's place is with her man. In Gilbert's version, the worst you get is some ''characters'' poking fun of women's education -- before they get there, and all of whom think that educated women are ''fantastic'' once they meet them, skewering of some of the man-hating aspects of Ida's college, and a scene where book-learning meets reality, and the woman refuses to do surgery which she was taught to do from books alone.

--->'''Hildenbrand''' (Gama has been spotted on the horizon): Is the princess with him?
--->'''Florian''': Well, my liege, unless her highness is full six feet high, and wears mustachios too – and smokes cigars – and rides en cavalier in coat of steel – I do not think she is.

* EarWorm: This being GilbertAndSullivan, the trops is inevitable. Aside from the opening chorus, the trio ''I am a maiden'', the duet ''Now wouldn't you like to rule the roost'' and Psyche's ''A lady fair'' count.
* EndingFatigue: With three acts, Ida is the longest operetta out of the GilbertAndSullivan repertoire. Paradoxely, the LastMinuteHookup still feels very rushed. See the next trope for more.

* HarsherInHindsight: Among a list of ridiculous and implausible things the ladies at the university are supposedly planning to do is "set the Thames on fire". In the 1950s and 1960s, the Cuyahoga River in {{Cleveland}} was so polluted it caught fire multiple times.

* ValuesDissonance: Naturally enough, jokes about the concept of women's education do tend to seem (at very best) a bit outdated today.

* StrangledByTheRedString: Possibly Ida and Hilarion; he claims to love her, but initially mocks the concept of women's education and shows a few signs of having changed his mind at the end. She resents him for lying to her and loudly proclaims she'd rather die than marry him. And then, oh look, her brothers are defeated/we have five minutes before the opera ends, she's in love now!

* FairForItsDay: YourMileageMayVary, but the apparent [[StrawFeminist anti-feminism]] in ''Princess Ida'' is ''nothing'' compared to the genuine Anti-Feminist jokes of its time. The Tennyson poem it's based on is also arguably worse in many respects than Gilbert's parody, since the FramingStory basically claims it's an incompetent attempt by feminists to rewrite history, which ends up showing that a woman's place is with her man. In Gilbert's version, the worst you get is some ''characters'' poking fun of women's education -- before they get there, and all of whom think that educated women are ''fantastic'' once they meet them, skewering of some of the man-hating aspects of Ida's college, and a scene where book-learning meets reality, and the woman refuses to do surgery which she was taught to do from books alone.

* EndingFatigue: With three acts, Ida is the longest operetta out of the GilbertAndSullivan repertoire. Paradoxely, the LastMinuteHookup still feels very rushed.
* StrangledByTheRedString: Possibly Ida and Hilarion; he claims to love her, but initially mocks the concept of women's education and shows few signs of having changed his mind at the end. She resents him for lying to her and loudly proclaims she'd rather die than marry him. And then, oh look, her brothers are defeated/we have five minutes before the opera ends, she's in love now!

* EndingFatigue: With three acts, Ida is the longest operetta out of the GilbertAndSullivan repertoire. The ending can feel rather rushed by modern standards, especially due to the following trope.