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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter

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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter	comment	The Give Yourself Goosebumps book where you end up consuming mutagenic food that either shrinks or enlarges you.You're staying at your aunt's house when your parents goes on a trip to Europe, as much as you hate it. Because your cousins are making life hell during your stay — your older cousin Barney is a bully waiting to beat you up, while your younger cousin Dora keeps dragging you to play with her dolls. And your aunt, for some reason, insists that you say out from the basement.So, avoiding Barney who intends to beat you to a pulp, you enter the basement and come across a fridge containing two items — a chocolate cake, and a jar of peanut butter. And then you realize you're quite hungry...Beware your choice of snack — the eponymous peanut butter will make you shrink and be left at the mercy of rodents, lizards and Dora's hungry cat Puff, while the cake will enlarge you instead, which, while initially sounding ideal, will result in government agents and the local military mistaking you as a monster...
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Your cousin Barney simply loves beating you up. Even in front of the neighbourhood kids, your aunt, your other cousin Dora... one of the first things he did is to strong-arm you into a game of Hide-and Seek where "if he finds you, he gets to pummel you".
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_36754cc7	type	"Freaky Friday" Flip
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_36754cc7	comment	"Freaky Friday" Flip: One ending where Dr. Abbott botches the shrink-reverse process have the two of you swapping bodies instead.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: Well, Barney is your cousin, but he still fits under this trope.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: In one bad ending where the reader shrinks into nothingness, the book's accompanying text literally shrinks in it's last few words.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Dora's cat Puff, who will chase after you in an attempt to devour you after you end up shrinking to the size of a mouse from eating the peanut butter.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_5b351f0d	type	IntercontinuityCrossover
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_5b351f0d	comment	Intercontinuity Crossover: While seeking for a way to reverse the peanut butter's shrinking effects, you can come across the titular object from Monster Blood. As always, you're expected to know the effects of consuming Monster Blood from reading that other book.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: Granted, it's a GYG book, but the narrator of this issue is noticeably a bigger Deadpan Snarker than usual, from taunting the reader for choosing to obey their aunt's wishes to stay out the basement, to calling the reader a wimp for making wrong choices.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_7131e4c9	type	Rodents of Unusual Size
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_7131e4c9	comment	Rodents of Unusual Size: Subverted in the shrinking storyline. The rodent is regular-sized, but you've been shrunken by the peanut butter until you're smaller than your thumb. So from your perspective, you're fighting a giant rodent.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In contrast to the titular peanut butter, eating the other food item, a stale chocolate cake (which might be laced with a certain green substance) makes the reader gigantic as opposed to tiny. Exaggerated in one bad ending; you end up growing so insanely huge that your head reaches the stratosphere, and you suffocate in the depths of outer space!
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_8b9c512e	type	Down the Drain
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_8b9c512e	comment	Down the Drain: After shrinking from eating the peanut butter, one of the outcomes have you being flushed into a sink by Dora, and you'll need to travel through the drain pipes and find a way out.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_938e9bc0	type	Absent-Minded Professor
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_938e9bc0	comment	Absent-Minded Professor: It turns out the peanut butter and chocolate cake are injected with an experimental serum from the local professor, Dr. Abbott, who have zero knowledge of reversing the effects. Seeking the doctor's help will either have you turning into a living magnet, shrinking until you disintegrate, the doctor shrinking himself, or in one ending, the two of you swapping bodies.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_a1591cc3	type	Living Toys
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_a1591cc3	comment	The scene under Living Toys is a nod to the then one-year-old movie Toy Story.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_bab7fceb	type	Incredible Shrinking Man
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_bab7fceb	comment	Incredible Shrinking Man: This happens to the reader if they choose the Purple Peanut Butter. The cover art◊ even demonstrates this trope.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The book references Alice in Wonderland by the title at several points. Notably, you wonder if consuming the other food (chocolate cake or peanut butter?) could reverse the shrinking or growing effects, like what Alice did in her story. The scene under Living Toys is a nod to the then one-year-old movie Toy Story.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: This book takes it to the extreme with one ending where Effy the baker fails to reverse the effects of the chocolate cake, and instead turns you into a gingerbread man.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: The scenario where you encounter living dolls in Dora's dollhouse is one to the much later Give Yourself Goosebumps book Toy Terror: Batteries Included, whose main plot centered on toys coming to life.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_e44c01e1	type	Paranormal Mundane Item
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_e44c01e1	comment	Paranormal Mundane Item: The titular purple peanut butter, which makes you shrink, and a piece of cake that makes you grow in size.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_e70c45f0	type	All Animals Are Dogs
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_e70c45f0	comment	All Animals Are Dogs: While shrunken, you can actually tame a giant-sized (from your perspective anyway) lizard by rubbing its belly. Said lizard even licks your hand like a puppy would, and in the good ending where you restore yourself to normal, you feed that lizard some crumbs from the chocolate cake and gain an obediant giant lizard as a pet!
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_f92c808	type	Sauna of Death
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_f92c808	comment	Sauna of Death: In one bad ending, Arnold tried to reverse the cake's enlarging effects on you by having you enter a sauna. But it instead overheats, causin you to shrink into nothingness.
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Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Your cousin Barney delights in bullying you for no reason at all, but there are occasions in the first storyline where you gain extreme strength from eating the cake and get to pummel him back. As well as one ending in the shrinking storyline with you being restored to human size with a dinosaur-sized lizard as a bodyguard.
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