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Betsy-Tacy
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A historical, fictionalized autobiographical series, though far less well known than the Little House books. Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy series has a comparatively small, but extremely devoted, fanbase, complete with yearly conventions in Maud's hometown of Mankato, Minnesota.The series begins in early 1899, and ends in the middle of 1917. The first four books in the series chronicle the childhood of Betsy Ray, and her two closest friends, Tacy Kelly and Tib Muller, from ages 5 to 12. The last six books take them through all four years of high school, follow Betsy on her Grand Tour of Europe right before the outbreak of WWI, and then follow all three young women into marriage on the eve of war. A good slice-of-life from the Edwardian period, with the added bonus of portraying female friendship as healthy, positive, and nurturing. Three other stories are set in the fictional Deep Valley, and all have a tangential link to Betsy. | |
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Likes Older Men | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_1411ae39 | comment |
Likes Older Men: Tacy to Harry Kerr. It's even mentioned in-book, where it's discussed that the shy Tacy is more at ease with Harry, who's quieter and more mature than boys the girls are around in high school. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Emily's Grandpa Webster who's a civil war veteran and is super-kindhearted towards children. Naifi's grandfather also qualifies too. | |
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Poirot Speak | |
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Poirot Speak: Tib's Grosspapa Hornik speaks in a mixture of heavily-accented, jumbled English and perfect German: | |
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Always Someone Better | |
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Always Someone Better: The Rays can never seem to live up to the McCloskeys, Anna's previous family. | |
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Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy | |
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Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: Betsy to Phil in Betsy in Spite of Herself. Subverted in that Phil is just a bit of a stiff and a bore, not an outright jerk, and Betsy was hardly a nerdy social pariah. But the message "Don't change yourself for a guy, because the right guy will like you just the way you are" hold true. | |
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| Betsy-Tacy / int_1dfbbf31 | type |
Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_1dfbbf31 | comment |
Heterosexual Life-Partners: Though each girl does marry, the three heroines basically fills this, especially between Betsy and Tacy. | |
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Childhood Friends | |
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Childhood Friends: One of the major points of the series - childhood friends Betsy, Tacy, and Tib remain close for life, with nothing coming among them and disrupting their friendship. | |
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| Betsy-Tacy / int_233da103 | type |
Cordon Bleugh Chef | |
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Cordon Bleugh Chef: In ''Betsy~Tacy and Tib", the Trio makes Everything Pudding by tossing everything they find in the Ray kitchen into a saucepan and boiling it. They all end up with stomachaches. | |
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Cute Bookworm | |
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Cute Bookworm: So much Betsy and Joe. She reminds him several times that the first moment she saw him, he was reading a book and eating an apple. Up until they're practically engaged, nearly all of their interactions involve books, writing, or English class. | |
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Sadist Teacher | |
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Sadist Teacher: Mr. Gaston, although it's mostly featured in Betsy in Spite of Herself. It's explained that he studied to be a science teacher but got stuck teaching English, and can't stand Betsy's flowery writing style, which he finds too hungup on details. It's even mentioned that he was alright to Betsy during her freshman year, but after a song she wrote for a school assembly becomes popular and is constantly sung in the school halls, he begins going out of his way to antagonize her in class and mock her work in front of the other students. | |
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Better as Friends | |
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Better as Friends: How Betsy comes to feel towards Tony, and eventually, Marco. Also, Carney towards Larry in spin-off book Carney's House Party. | |
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All Guys Want Sorority Women | |
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All Guys Want Sorority Women: Subverted after the girls start a sorority in high school (though the sex and drinking are obviously not considered part of the bargain). Their usual escorts all start to wander, since the girls are too busy with their meetings to pay them any attention. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Winona is the tomboy and her best friend Irma is the girly girl. | |
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Girlish Pigtails | |
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Girlish Pigtails: Worn by Betsy until she turns 14. | |
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Student Council President | |
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Student Council President: Joe in his senior year is given this "highest honor his class had to bestow". | |
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Unrequited Love Switcheroo | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_310f67d2 | comment |
Unrequited Love Switcheroo: Betsy spends most of her freshman year infatuated with Tony and upset that he doesn't return her feelings. Three years later, he's interested in her but she's dating Joe and is not interested. She ends up with Joe. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Margaret lets Betsy know that she is elated about her and Tony possibly getting together. | |
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Age-Appropriate Angst | |
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Age-Appropriate Angst: Generally played straight, though the death of Tacy's baby sister in the first book may seem a bit shocking to a modern audience, or the worrying about dying in the second, after Tacy is quarantined with diphtheria. | |
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The Edwardian Era | |
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The Edwardian Era: Takes place almost entirely in the Edwardian Era, the books going from 1899 to 1917, and Edward's reign going from 1901 to 1910. Absurd hats abound. | |
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Gratuitous German | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_35fb9016 | comment |
Gratuitous German: Tib sometimes does this. Her relatives do this as well since many of them are German/Austrian immigrants. Milwaukee is described like this when Betsy goes to visit Tib due to most of it's citizens being German immigrants. Tib even comments that one would probably do better speaking only German there instead of English. | |
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Costume Porn | |
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Costume Porn: Not as much as there might be, but the high school books provide a good insight into Edwardian fashion by a clothes-conscious teenager. | |
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I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship | |
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I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Betsy to Tony in Betsy and Joe, and to Marco in Betsy and the Great World. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_415b3315 | comment |
Stylistic Suck: Exaggerated in Betsy-Tacy Go Downtown with the over-dramatic melodrama Betsy writes after she's stuck in bed with a twisted ankle for a few days. It involves a girl named Flossie, whose head is cut off during a sledding accident, but she herself isn't harmed whatsoever. She is kicked out by her parents and is ostracized by everyone she meets so she wanders from place-to-place carrying her head, all while wearing a white fur coat that never gets dirty. Eventually she ends up in Greece where she meets a man who falls in love with her at first sight and magically reattaches her head. They then marry and have ten children. It's made even funnier by Tacy and Tib proclaiming the story to be "the best one they've ever heard". | |
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Graceful Ladies Like Purple | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_4215e705 | comment |
Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Played with, as budding Fashionista, cook, dancer, and excellent back lot football player Tib has touches of purple in all of her clothes. | |
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Most Writers Are Writers | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_49f6a9e4 | comment |
Most Writers Are Writers: Maud's Expy, Betsy, is a writer, and her husband Delos's Expy, Joe, is also a dedicated writer. | |
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Tall, Dark, and Snarky | |
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Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Tony, to a certain extent, especially in Heaven to Betsy. | |
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Huge Guy, Tiny Girl | |
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Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Tib and Ralph Maddox. | |
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With This Ring | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_5353bf39 | comment |
With This Ring: Betsy does not have an engagement ring - when Joe said he was going to buy her a ring, and buy it at Tiffany's, she suggested he buy her wedding ring. | |
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High School | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_56d95b5b | comment |
High School: Five of the 13 books take place all or partially in Deep Valley High School. | |
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| Betsy-Tacy / int_5977de6c | type |
Write What You Know | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_5977de6c | comment |
Write What You Know: Many of Betsy's early stories were sensationalist, crime-filled dramas because she begun reading cheap dime novels at the time. | |
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Delinquents | |
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Delinquents: Tony shows signs of this later on in his High School years. However, he is a genuinely good person and has lots of friends, it's got more to do with his laissez-faire attitude to school, his dangerous habit of freighthopping and his shady, older poker buddies. At one point, it's said that he got suspended for drinking although it's never specified what. | |
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One of the Boys | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_5c98d100 | comment |
One of the Boys: Sophomore Betsy, to her chagrin. Winona also has shades of this. | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_60547993 | comment |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Tony who runs away to be on the stage when he realizes that Betsy truly loves Joe. | |
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| Betsy-Tacy / int_6977c45e | type |
Purple Prose | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_6977c45e | comment |
Purple Prose: It's mentioned that Betsy's writing style is a bit like this, as she enjoys adding in lots of descriptions and flowery details. It's even the reason given as to why her technically-minded English teacher, Mr. Gaston, dislikes her writing so much. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Tib's very beautiful and fashionable Aunt Dolly. | |
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| Betsy-Tacy / int_707bb8ce | type |
Pair the Spares | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_707bb8ce | comment |
Pair the Spares: Surprisingly subverted. Almost every character marries outside The Crowd, with only three of the couples eventually marrying, and the rest meeting spouses outside of high school. In-universe example: Betsy tries to matchmake her best friends with extra beaus - Tib with Tony, Tacy with Herbert. Tacy lampshades this by pointing out that beaus can't be passed around "as if they were pieces of cake". | |
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New Transfer Student | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_71fa50b5 | comment |
New Transfer Student: Tony's introduction to the books, and Joe to a certain extent (all of the other characters had gone to school together for years, while Joe had to go into town to go to high school). | |
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Put on a Bus | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus: Tib's family moves back to Milwaukee before her her Freshman year, although she does keeps in contact with her friends and Betsy goes to visit her for her sophomore Christmas break. She returns by Betsy Was a Junior. | |
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Like Brother and Sister | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_78540917 | comment |
Like Brother and Sister: Betsy realizes that her relationship with Tony is like this after spending most of Heaven To Betsy crushing on him. | |
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Boarding School | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_82d57ef5 | comment |
Boarding School: Tib attends one for her freshman and sophomore years, and she and Betsy tour the campus during the Christmas visit in Betsy in Spite of Herself. Phyllis Brandish attends the same school as well. | |
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| Betsy-Tacy / int_831b0a18 | type |
Intentional Heartbreaker | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_831b0a18 | comment |
Intentional Heartbreaker: Julia says that she could do this to Mr. Gaston as revenge for mistreating Betsy in class, after she discovers his crush on her. Betsy is glad when she decides not to go through with it. | |
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Betsy-Tacy / int_831b0a18 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_83743fe3 | type |
Mary Sue | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_83743fe3 | comment |
Mary Sue: In-universe example. In her younger years, Betsy has a bad habit of writing these. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_83743fe3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_83743fe3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_83743fe3 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_88141a44 | type |
Heartwarming Orphan | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_88141a44 | comment |
Heartwarming Orphan: Joe is an older version of this. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_88141a44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_88141a44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_88141a44 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8a295a46 | type |
Cool Car | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Cool Car: Phil's bright red 1907 Buick. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8a295a46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8a295a46 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_8a295a46 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8c9e724c | type |
Big Beautiful Woman | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8c9e724c | comment |
Big Beautiful Woman: The very stout Mrs. Poppy is routinely described as being handsome, elegant, and graceful. Later on, Julia gains weight during her opera training, and is described as being even prettier. Betsy also begins gaining weight in Germany, and crows about how beautiful it's making her shoulders and arms. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8c9e724c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8c9e724c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_8c9e724c | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8df19151 | type |
Bouquet Toss | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8df19151 | comment |
Bouquet Toss: In Betsy's Wedding, the bouquet is caught by the implied Expy of the author's future daughter. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8df19151 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_8df19151 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_8df19151 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_90e2b7b4 | type |
Theme Twin Naming | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_90e2b7b4 | comment |
Theme Twin Naming: Phil and Phyllis Brandish. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_90e2b7b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_90e2b7b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_90e2b7b4 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_912b24c4 | type |
Art Shift | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_912b24c4 | comment |
Art Shift: There's a noticeable change in the illustration style for the first four books versus the last six books. The first four features a simpler, more cartoony art style, which fits well for the books following the girls as children. The later illustrations have the characters drawn with in a realistic style with better proportions and more details. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_912b24c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_912b24c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_912b24c4 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_935212c | type |
Feminine Women Can Cook | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_935212c | comment |
Feminine Women Can Cook: Every woman in Tib's family, with Tib and her Aunt Dolly being specifically mentioned as cooking as gracefully as they dance. However, Betsy isn't a tomboy, but she's the last girl in the Crowd to learn how to cook. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_935212c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_935212c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_935212c | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_94e4c8ab | type |
Betty and Veronica | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_94e4c8ab | comment |
Betty and Veronica: In Betsy and Joe, Joe is the Betty and Tony is the Veronica to Betsy. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_94e4c8ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_94e4c8ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_94e4c8ab | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_a7850fbf | type |
Only Known by Their Nickname | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_a7850fbf | comment |
Only Known by Their Nickname: Betsy, Tacy, and Tib always go by those names and almost never go by their actual ones (Elizabeth, Anastacia, and Thelma). | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_a7850fbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_a7850fbf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_a7850fbf | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_a861560f | type |
The Friend Nobody Likes | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_a861560f | comment |
The Friend Nobody Likes: The irresistible Irma fills this role for a book and a half, with the other girls unable to stand her because just about every boy in the entire school falls for her. However, they eventually realize they're being awful and catty, and find they do actually like her. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_a861560f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_a861560f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_a861560f | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_aa5b4f2c | type |
Wedding Episode | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_aa5b4f2c | comment |
Wedding Episode: Betsy and Joe marry in Betsy's Wedding. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_aa5b4f2c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_aa5b4f2c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_aa5b4f2c | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_af8dad6b | type |
Beautiful Singing Voice | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_af8dad6b | comment |
Beautiful Singing Voice: Julia, Tacy, and Tony all qualify, with the first and last going on to make careers off of it. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_af8dad6b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_af8dad6b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_af8dad6b | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_aff29d6f | type |
Beauty, Brains and Brawn | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_aff29d6f | comment |
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The unshakeable friendship among Betsy, Tacy, and Tib. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_aff29d6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_aff29d6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_aff29d6f | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_b1814b1d | type |
Wanted a Son Instead | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_b1814b1d | comment |
Wanted a Son Instead: A gender-swapped, lighthearted version. While in Germany, Betsy buys a doll and hopes that the then-pregnant Tacy will have a daughter that she can give it to. One book and another child later, Tacy has still only given birth to boys. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_b1814b1d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_b1814b1d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_b1814b1d | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_b7e0c5ff | type |
Love Triangle | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
Love Triangle: The major crux of Betsy and Joe. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_b7e0c5ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_b7e0c5ff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_b7e0c5ff | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_bc80725e | type |
Wedding Finale | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_bc80725e | comment |
Wedding Finale: The series ends with Tib's wedding. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_bc80725e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_bc80725e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_bc80725e | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_bec0417c | type |
Happily Married | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Every married couple seems very happy. There are some hints of families that are not quite so happy, but a good deal of focus goes onto how to form a healthy, supportive relationship and turn it into a happy, healthy marriage. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_bec0417c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_bec0417c | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_bf9163d9 | type |
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_bf9163d9 | comment |
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Betsy (brunette), Tacy (redhead), and Tib (blonde). Plays with the hair types a bit: Tib is definitely not dumb — she's the most sensible and practical of the group, and Tacy, far from being fiery, is fun and charming with her friends, but suffers from crippling shyness. Betsy may be brainy in that she's a good writer, but she's generally average at school work. Also somewhat subverted as a cliche in that the three characters are based on three real women, who were a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_bf9163d9 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_bf9163d9 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c0594195 | type |
Through His Stomach | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c0594195 | comment |
Through His Stomach: Played with frequently. Betsy declares to Tib that her cooking is not an asset in finding a boyfriend, since her dainty and delicate appearance is at odds with her stolid German cooking. Subverted with Betsy herself, as she can not cook, and Joe can. He seems to still like her just fine. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c0594195 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c0594195 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_c0594195 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c31dc964 | type |
Grew a Spine | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c31dc964 | comment |
Grew a Spine: In one of the spin-off Deep Valley novels, Emily of Deep Valley, Emily realizes the boy she has been hung up on is a complete Jerkass, and gives him a fantastic brush-off. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c31dc964 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c31dc964 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_c31dc964 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c4e3afda | type |
Mum Looks Like a Sister | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c4e3afda | comment |
Mum Looks Like a Sister: Mrs. Ray is described as looking more like the oldest daughter than the mother. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c4e3afda | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_c4e3afda | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_c4e3afda | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_cb92ce71 | type |
DefeatEqualsFriendship | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_cb92ce71 | comment |
Defeat Equals Friendship: At the beginning of Betsy-Tacy Go Downtown, Winona is more of an antagonistic character towards the trio, especially in regards to the extra three play tickets. However, once Betsy, Tacy, and Tib manage to outsmart her, she does decide to to invite them to the play and becomes friends with them afterwards. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_cb92ce71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_cb92ce71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_cb92ce71 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d2979712 | type |
Old-Timey Bathing Suit | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d2979712 | comment |
Old-Timey Bathing Suit: Considering that this was when they were in fashion, and the books take place in the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the suits make occasional appearances. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d2979712 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d2979712 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_d2979712 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d2b59903 | type |
Cool Old Lady | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d2b59903 | comment |
Cool Old Lady: Anna the hired girl, and her bizarre ways of speaking don't keep her from being awesome. Also, Mrs. Poppy, and her drive to help the young women of Deep Valley with her training and experience in acting and music. Joe's Aunt Ruth turns out to be this too. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d2b59903 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d2b59903 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_d2b59903 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d3beb0de | type |
Precocious Crush | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d3beb0de | comment |
Precocious Crush: The trio gain one briefly on the teenage Alfonso the Thirteenth, when they read about him becoming the king of Spain in the newspaper. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d3beb0de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d3beb0de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_d3beb0de | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d46f812 | type |
Tastes Like Friendship | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d46f812 | comment |
Tastes Like Friendship: The picnic with Naifi. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d46f812 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d46f812 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_d46f812 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d6b5f05f | type |
Friendship Moment | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d6b5f05f | comment |
Friendship Moment: Too many to count, but the first one this troper remembers is 5-year-old Betsy climbing a tree to put her prettiest Easter egg in a nest for a bird to take to Tacy's baby sister in heaven. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d6b5f05f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_d6b5f05f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_d6b5f05f | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_dce6cd15 | type |
Family Versus Career | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_dce6cd15 | comment |
Family Versus Career: Brought up in Tib's case, as her father tells her she can't be an architect, because she will be busy being a little housewife. Later in life, she is working full-time as an advertising artist and showing no signs of settling down. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_dce6cd15 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_dce6cd15 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_dce6cd15 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eb682304 | type |
Wartime Wedding | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eb682304 | comment |
Wartime Wedding: Tib and Jack Dunhill. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eb682304 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eb682304 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_eb682304 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eb8ec7c8 | type |
Jerkass | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Surprisingly few for a series that has some bad relationships in it. Rocky in Betsy's Wedding and Don in Emily of Deep Valley both definitely qualify. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eb8ec7c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eb8ec7c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_eb8ec7c8 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_ed51d0 | type |
That Russian Squat Dance | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_ed51d0 | comment |
That Russian Squat Dance: A rare female example: the "Russian step" is the grand finale of Tib's Baby Dance. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_ed51d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_ed51d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_ed51d0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eeaee38c | type |
Geeky Turn-On | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eeaee38c | comment |
Geeky Turn-On: Betsy and Joe (books and writing), Julia and Paige (music) | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eeaee38c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_eeaee38c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_eeaee38c | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f23ad6de | type |
Food Porn | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f23ad6de | comment |
Food Porn: There's tons of delicious dinners, desserts, and drinks cooked and enjoyed throughout the books. There's even a cookbook available that has recipes for most of the foods featured in-series. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f23ad6de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f23ad6de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_f23ad6de | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f5a3e496 | type |
Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f5a3e496 | comment |
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: When the trio loses hope of Winona giving them the extra three tickets to Uncle Tom's Cabin, they decide to put on a play themselves. When they describe it to her later while still working on the script, they keep adding in scenes and special effects that she previously told them would be in the show. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f5a3e496 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f5a3e496 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_f5a3e496 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f81d8982 | type |
High-School Sweethearts | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f81d8982 | comment |
High-School Sweethearts: Subverted: out of all the various couples that happen throughout high school, only three pairings end in marriage. Betsy and Joe, Dennie and Winona, Katie and Leo. Tacy marries a man she meets in her senior year, but he's not a high school student. In real life, Maud's younger sister married her high school sweetheart, where Maud didn't meet her husband until she was in her 20's. Dennie and Winona don't start dating until after high school although it's implied that he has a crush on her. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f81d8982 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f81d8982 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_f81d8982 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f8600b | type |
Cool Big Sis | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f8600b | comment |
Cool Big Sis: Julia develops into one of these, after being bossy through childhood. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f8600b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_f8600b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_f8600b | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_fa6bfde9 | type |
Have a Gay Old Time | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_fa6bfde9 | comment |
Have a Gay Old Time: It's a series written in the 1940's about the 1900's - lots of people are described as being "gay" or doing things "gaily". Every single time, they mean happy and cheerful. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_fa6bfde9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_fa6bfde9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betsy-Tacy | hasFeature |
Betsy-Tacy / int_fa6bfde9 | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_faece9aa | type |
The Power of Friendship | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_faece9aa | comment |
The Power of Friendship: Major theme of the series, that healthy friendships are vital, between girls, boys, girls and boys, and family members. | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_faece9aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Betsy-Tacy / int_faece9aa | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_fcbdbac2 | type |
Lohengrin and Mendelssohn | |
| Betsy-Tacy / int_fcbdbac2 | comment |
Lohengrin and Mendelssohn: Obvious choices for Betsy and Joe's wedding, given that her sister is an opera star. | |
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1.0 | |
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