When Lemony Snicket refers having to fight with a TV repairman, it might be a reference to The Cable Guy which contains a scene in which the characters played by Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick go to a restaurant named "Medieval Times" and are chosen to fight with swords.
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The Miserable Mill is the fourth novel of the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
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Her building is designed to resemble a great eye, which is a likely allusion to the famous figure from Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, Big Brother, who is proverbially "watching" at all times; some editions of 1984 feature one or more eyeballs on the cover.
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