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A Bad Case of Stripes

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A Bad Case of Stripes is a children's book written by David Shannon.It centers around a young girl named Camilla Cream, who likes lima beans but is afraid to admit it. One day, she wakes up with stripes all over, which change into a different pattern every time something is suggested.Doctors, scientists, and all sorts of people try to cure Camilla, but none of the attempts work until it's revealed that the cure is... eating lima beans.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Camilla's changing when things are suggested is symbolic of people "changing themselves" as a result of peer pressure.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: Towards the end, the old lady says, "What we have here is a bad case of stripes!"
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Transflormation
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Transflormation: Downplayed. At one point, Camilla gets branches growing out of her.
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TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers
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The Last Of These Is Not Like The Others: The Specialists conclude that Camilla's symptoms aren't mumps, measles, chicken pox or sunburn, the latter of which is not a disease like the first three.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: It's unknown how the failed cures gave Camilla feathers, branches, and a tail.
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Captain Obvious: The Specialists describe Camilla's symptoms as not being the measles, the mumps, chicken pox, or sunburn. Anyone who has any knowledge of those four things would know that it's most definitely neither.
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Only One Who Likes Spam
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Only One Who Likes Spam: It's why Camilla is so self-conscious about being the only one who likes lima beans.
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Be Yourself
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Be Yourself: The book has a moral about being true to yourself.
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Eldritch Transformation
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Eldritch Transformation: Camilla ends up with many plant and animal parts growing out of her body, then when told to "become one with [her] room," she literally turns into a sentient version of her room. Luckily, she is cured not long after.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: Yes, even in this kid-friendly book, Camilla suffers a pretty nightmarish one. Your skin changing colors is pretty bizarre enough, but it quickly escalates into a turn for the worst. As a couple of scientists are observing her and giving suggestions on what the "disease" could be, her body begins forming bacterial tentacles, viral puffballs, and fungal splotches. Later, she loses her legs and partially turns into a tree, and some more weird stuff starts protruding from her skin like feathers, tree branches, and crystals and ends up looking like this◊ in the end. She also turns into a massive pill at some point. Eventually, she finally transforms into an entire house, with all of this stuff still attached to her no less.
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Easily Embarrassed Youngster
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Easily Embarrassed Youngster: The reason Camilla never eats lima beans is that she wants to fit in and she's described as often worrying about what other people think of her. After her stripes are cured, she becomes less easily embarrassed, though.
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Labcoat of Science and Medicine
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Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Dr. Bumble and "the Specialists" (four other doctors) all wear white lab coats.
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Involuntary Shapeshifting
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Involuntary Shapeshifting: Sometimes, Camilla inadvertently changes shape as well as color, the first instance being when she turns into a pill after taking pills.
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The Shrink
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The Shrink: Briefly mentioned when some psychologists come to help Camilla.
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Kids Hate Vegetables
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Kids Hate Vegetables: The main reason for Camilla's self-consciousness is that all of her friends hate lima beans and she doesn't want them to find out that she actually enjoys them.
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Nerd Glasses
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Nerd Glasses: Doctors Bumble, Grop, Sponge, Cricket, and Young all wear big glasses.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: As far as we know, the other students were never punished for teasing Camilla and making her condition worse.
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Edible Theme Naming
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Edible Theme Naming: Camilla's surname is "Cream." The Experts are named Dr. Gourd and Mr. Mellon.
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Trademark Favorite Food
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Trademark Favorite Food: Camilla's love for lima beans is a major plot point; it causes her insecurity and they're the cure for her stripes.
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Alliterative Name
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Alliterative Name: Camilla Cream.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Camilla's classmates call her "Night of the Living Lollipop," a reference to Night of the Living Dead (1968).
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No Name Given: The little old woman and the "environmental therapist" are unnamed.
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Cool Old Lady
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Cool Old Lady: A little old woman is the one who saves the day and knows how to deal with cases of stripes.
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Stock "Yuck!": The reason Camilla is embarrassed about liking lima beans is that everyone else hates them.
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May It Never Happen Again
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May It Never Happen Again: Camilla is too embarrassed to eat lima beans because her classmates hate them. However, when she gets a disease that makes her change shape and colour when people mention things, and the cure is lima beans, she decides to eat them anyway from then on.
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Suspiciously Specific Denial
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Camilla is claiming that nobody likes lima beans, she adds " especially me."
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Space Whale Aesop: The moral is to be true to yourself and it's implied that Camilla's morphing and changing color was a direct result of her not admitting she liked lima beans.
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First Day of School Episode: In the beginning, it's Camilla's first day of school.
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