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  • Funny Moments: There's a particular scene early on wherein Dorine reports Elmire's (Orgon's wife) failing health to him and Orgon is noticeably more concerned with Tartuffe and how he's doing. Dorine's final response can best be summed up as "I'll be sure to tell your wife about how incredibly worried you were for her."
  • Memetic Mutation: The word "tartuffe" had entered the (contemporary) French and English languages as a synonym to hypocrite, especially a religious hypocrite. It seems to have made an impact in German as well—or on one German at any rate: Friedrich Nietzsche was rather fond of using the term "tartuffery" to mean hypocrisy.
  • Ho Yay: Orgon towards Tartuffe. Dorine says he treats him like a lover, Cléante calls him out on being so enchanted by a man he forgets everything else, and when Tartuffe threatens him with leaving, he exclaims: "I won't survive if you leave me".
  • Signature Scene: The scene where Elmire tries to show Orgon how terrible Tartuffe is by having Orgon hide under the table is legendary among the theatre crowd.

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