Episode

The Bad Beginning

: Part One

by Barry Sonnenfeld, Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket, Patrick Warburton, Elizabeth Bowen and 30 others

The dreadful history of the Baudelaire children begins with a deadpan narrator, a terrible fire and the ominous arrival of a distant relative.

(6 total)

Characters

Daniel Handler (6)Neil Patrick Harris (3)Count Olaf (3)Patrick Warburton (2)Lemony Snicket (2)Justice Strauss (1)Joan Cusack (1)

“A library is like an island in a vast sea of ignorance.”

— Daniel Handler, Justice Strauss, Joan Cusack, imdb.com

Tagged: Simile Examples, library, Island, vast sea, Ignorance

“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, then you would be better off somewhere else. In this story, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning, and very few happy things in the middle.”

— Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket, Patrick Warburton, imdb.com

Tagged: Stories, Story, not much happiness, No happy ending

“Is this about the children? I apologize for the noise. I told them to cry using their inside voices.”

— Daniel Handler, Count Olaf, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com

Tagged: Children, Apologize, noises, cry, inside voices

“Please, come in, and mind you wipe your feet on the mat so you don’t track in any mud. And don’t forget your enormous fortune!”

— Daniel Handler, Count Olaf, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com

Tagged: Welcome, wipe your feet, mud, enormous fortune

“The stove is a bit like a servant. You have to whack it sometimes to get it to work.”

— Daniel Handler, Count Olaf, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com

Tagged: stove, Servant, whack, Work, Metaphor Examples

“Trouble and strife can cover this world like the dark of night, or like smoke from a suspicious fire. And when that happens, all good, true and decent people know that it’s time to volunteer.”

— Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket, Patrick Warburton, imdb.com

Tagged: trouble, Strife, dark, Night, Simile Examples