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Bunnicula

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Bunnicula	comment	Bunnicula is the name of a series of children's books written by Deborah and James Howe about a "vampire bunny" who is adopted by the Monroe family, who give him the name "Bunnicula" when they find him on a seat in the theater while going to see the movie Dracula. The story centers on the family's pets, Harold, an old, good-natured mongrel, who is the narrator of the story, Chester the cat, who has a vivid imagination and suspects Bunnicula of being a vampire, and the eponymous bunny, who never displays any overt vampiric traits despite constant accusations by Chester.The series is something of an Affectionate Parody of the horror genre, with equal parts mystery and comedy as well. The first book, simply titled Bunnicula, was written together with Howe's late wife Deborah.In 1982, the first novel was adapted into a half-hour animated adaptation for the ABC Weekend Special by Ruby-Spears. However, the special had many differences from the novels.In 2016, Warner Bros. Animation, the current owners of most of the Ruby-Spears catalog, produced a Bunnicula animated series, adapted fairly loosely from the original novels, which premiered on Cartoon Network's Saturday morning block.Main series: Bunnicula (1979) Howliday Inn (1982) The Celery Stalks At Midnight (1983) Nighty-Nightmare (1987) Return to Howliday Inn (1992) Bunnicula Strikes Again! (1999) Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow! (2006)Tales From The House of BunniculaA spinoff series of fictional books written (in-universe) by Howie Monroe, including sections from his writing journal. It Came From Beneath the Bed! (2002) Invasion of the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6! (2002) Howie Monroe and the Doghouse of Doom (2002) Screaming Mummies of the Pharaoh's Tomb II (2003) Bud Barkin, Private Eye (2003) The Odorous Adventures of Stinky Dog (2003)Harold and ChesterA series of oversized picture books for young readers; reworked in 2004-2006 as Bunnicula and Friends: a Ready-To-Read series. The Vampire Bunny (2004; retelling of Bunnicula, issued as Bunnicula and Friends #1) The Fright Before Christmas (1988; reworked and reissued in 2006 as Bunnicula and Friends #5) Scared Silly (1988; reworked and reissued in 2005 as Bunnicula and Friends #3) Hot Fudge (1991; reworked and reissued in 2004 as Bunnicula and Friends #2) Creepy Crawly Birthday (1992; reworked and reissued in 2006 as Bunnicula and Friends #6) Rabbit-Cadabra (1993; reworked and reissued in 2006 as Bunnicula and Friends #4) Bunnicula Escapes!: A Pop-up Adventure (1994)Non-fiction books Bunnicula's Wickedly Wacky Word Games: a Book for Word Lovers & Their Pencils! Bunnicula's Frightfully Fabulous Factoids: a Book to Entertain Your Brain! Bunnicula's Pleasantly Perplexing Puzzlers: A Book of Puzzles, Mazes, & Whatzits! Bunnicula's Long-lasting Laugh-alouds: a Book of Jokes & Riddles to Tickle Your Bunny-Bone!
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Bunnicula / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
Bunnicula / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: The Mindswappers From Asteroid 6™ speak English. "Justified" in that Howie is the author and he wants them to.
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Bunnicula / int_116b2321	type	Reminder of Impossibility
Bunnicula / int_116b2321	comment	Reminder of Impossibility: Harold the dog is fond of eating chocolate, cheese, and fudge. He is reminded in some books that these foods are poisonous to dogs, but he remarks that he is a fictional dog and thus can eat anything he wants.
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Bunnicula / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Bunnicula / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: M.T. Graves is an Affectionate Parody of Stephen King and R. L. Stine.
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Bunnicula / int_143c304b	type	Vegetarian Vampire
Bunnicula / int_143c304b	comment	Vegetarian Vampire: Literally! Bunnicula doesn't feed on blood at all. Instead, he sucks vegetables of all their juices.
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Bunnicula / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Bunnicula / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: While still very much a children's book, Howliday Inn does qualify somewhat when compared to its predecessor. Whereas Bunnicula merely dealt with Chester's madcap theories regarding the titular rabbit, Howliday Inn features an honest-to-goodness mystery involving petnapping and the implied — but false — death of one of the characters.
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Bunnicula / int_15101ed4	type	AnimalSuperhero
Bunnicula / int_15101ed4	comment	Animal Superhero: Howie is a wire-haired dachshund puppy (and Dean is a sparrow) so Stinky Dog and Little D are an animal superhero and an animal sidekick.
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Bunnicula / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
Bunnicula / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: After several books of being good (if argumentative) friends, Howie and Delilah make the change to Official Couple at the end of The Odorous Adventures of Stinky Dog.
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Bunnicula / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Bunnicula / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Harold's favorite food is chocolate cupcakes, even though a lot of chocolate can be dangerous to dogs. Since the book was published, Howe has revealed that he didn't actually know that chocolate was poisonous to dogs at the time; since learning it, he's made sure to work the information into future books, specifically pointing out in both Bunnicula Strikes Again! and Hot Fudge that you should never give your dog chocolate in real life. It is also noted in Bunnicula Strikes Again! that some dogs can eat chocolate just fine, and Harold happens to (thankfully) be one of these... because he, like the books he writes, is a work of fiction.
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Bunnicula / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Bunnicula / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Mindswappers From Asteroid 6™" is always emphasized and trademarked.
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Bunnicula / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Bunnicula / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Dog: Harold goes to great lengths to protect Bunnicula from Chester whenever he has a "Kill the wab-bit" attack.
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Bunnicula / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Bunnicula / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: In Bunnicula Strikes Again!, Harold reminds the audience that he, like the books he writes, is a work of fiction.
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Bunnicula / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Bunnicula / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The Latin word for rabbit is "cuniculus" and the scientific name for the European rabbit is Oryctolagus cuniculus; stick a feminine ending on it and it's "cunicula".
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Bunnicula / int_21af4dc3	type	Heroic Dog
Bunnicula / int_21af4dc3	comment	Heroic Dog: Harold is singlehandedly responsible for thwarting Chester's attempt to starve Bunnicula in the first book. Played with in Howliday Inn, in which an incident is recalled where Harold thought Mr. Monroe was being attacked by an oversized bumblebee. Only after he'd grabbed it and thrown it in the toilet did he learn it was actually an electric razor. Played with again in The Celery Stalks at Midnight; Harold tries to save Mr. Monroe from drowning, but it turns out he's misinterpreted the situation — Mr. Monroe was participating in a dunking booth and was never in any actual danger.
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Bunnicula / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Bunnicula / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Harold, the viewpoint character and in-universe narrator. While not very well-read, he certainly has a better grip on reality than Chester, and tries to keep the cat's wild notions in line — "tries" being the operative word. Chester, meanwhile, thinks he's one of these, but his imagination and cynicism tends to stir things up.
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Bunnicula / int_2484396e	type	Know-Nothing Know-It-All
Bunnicula / int_2484396e	comment	Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Pete trying to explain to his family that the white vegetables are caused by "vegetables that aren't organic".
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Bunnicula / int_2e77c628	type	The Baby of the Bunch
Bunnicula / int_2e77c628	comment	The Baby of the Bunch: Howie. Justified in that he is a puppy and the youngest of the four animals. He's also the runt of his siblings.
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Bunnicula / int_2eeb91b2	type	The Runt at the End
Bunnicula / int_2eeb91b2	comment	The Runt at the End: Howie, the smallest of four boys and three girls in his litter.
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Bunnicula / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Bunnicula / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: In Bunnicula Strikes Again!, Chester talks to Harold and Howie when they're wrapped up in towels, and at one point says "Why do I feel like I'm addressing the Roman Senate?", comparing their towels to togas. Mr. Monroe comes in a few minutes later and voices that "Chester, you look like you're addressing the Roman Senate."
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Bunnicula / int_314afdb	type	In-Universe Factoid Failure
Bunnicula / int_314afdb	comment	In-Universe Factoid Failure: Chester, paraphrasing Dracula, pegs May 5th as Saint George's Day in Nighty-Nightmare. This was the case when Dracula was written (in 1897), in the traditions of some Eastern Orthodox churches... except those churches actually celebrated it on April 23rd by the Julian calendar, which was May 5th Gregorian until 1901, when it became May 6th and will remain so until 2100, when it becomes May 7th.
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Bunnicula / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Bunnicula / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Parodied (and ultimately subverted) with Dr. Greenbriar. Jill could even be seen as his beautiful daughter, and Harrison as his Igor.
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Bunnicula / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Bunnicula / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Harold the dog makes a lot of obscure references, and can even read Carpathian. He would just rather eat the books instead of read them.
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Bunnicula / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Bunnicula / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: In Howliday Inn, Chester gets kidnapped, but his abductor makes it look like he was killed when something poisonous accidentally got into his food dish.
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Bunnicula / int_38072b53	type	Wrong Assumption
Bunnicula / int_38072b53	comment	Wrong Assumption: Chester sees himself as Van Helsing to Bunnicula's Dracula, when the truth is a lot more benign.
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Bunnicula / int_396d046e	type	Fun with Homophones
Bunnicula / int_396d046e	comment	When Harold recounts to Howie the time that Chester tried to ram a stake through Bunnicula's heart, he comments that it was rather difficult, considering the kind of stake that he used. This leads Chester to snappishly concede that he made a mistake.
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Bunnicula / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Bunnicula / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Oh, Chester. The cat sees conspiracies and evil plots behind everything, when the answer is usually more mundane. Heavily implied about Bunnicula's origin in Nighty-Nightmare.
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Bunnicula / int_3aa61d8e	type	TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight
Bunnicula / int_3aa61d8e	comment	The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: In Howliday Inn, Chester determinedly thinks something horrible is going to happen, and is proven right when Louise goes missing, believing it to be foul play. While not murder, the poodle did not vanish of her own will.
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Bunnicula / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Bunnicula / int_3c0a4666	comment	Harold has had his fair share of such incidents, but most of them are Noodle Incidents; the only ones we actually hear about are the time that he ate a geraniumnote which he admits was in bad taste — and had tasted rather bad, too, and when he tossed Mr. Monroe's electric razor into the toilet.
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Bunnicula / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Bunnicula / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: One of the chapters in the later books is titled "Gruel and Unusual Punishment", a reference to the phrase "cruel and unusual punishment". It receives a title drop from Howie. Also "The Celery Stalks at Midnight"
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Bunnicula / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Bunnicula / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: According to a sign in The Celery Stalks at Midnight, Centerville is "The Place That People Who Live Here Call Home".
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Bunnicula / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Bunnicula / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Chester, in a characterization different than how he was depicted in the novels, actually helps Harold defend Bunnicula from the angry mob.
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Bunnicula / int_3fcfdefd	type	Hillbilly Horrors
Bunnicula / int_3fcfdefd	comment	Hillbilly Horrors: Nighty-Nightmare starts with the Monroes going camping in a swampy backwoods and meeting a pair of creepy hillbillies and their creepy bulldog their first night. Turns out the hillbillies are perfectly nice and not at all creepy in broad daylight.
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Bunnicula / int_413f7922	type	Vampires Hate Garlic
Bunnicula / int_413f7922	comment	Vampires Hate Garlic: Chester succeeds at keeping the titular vampire wabbit away from the Monroes' vegetables by using garlic. Of course, this gets him in trouble the next morning when Mrs. Monroe catches him and gives the irate cat a bath. Later on, he uses a garlic necklace and blocks Bunnicula's way so he can't get at the vegetables. This subtler approach does not alert the Monroes and it's only thanks to Harold that Bunnicula survives.
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Bunnicula / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Bunnicula / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: As the books are in-universe written by Howie, they intentionally come across like unedited first drafts, with Howie making a lot of beginner's mistakes and learning as he goes about things like consistent tone, pacing, character description, etc. They are also littered with deliberate typos and misspellings.
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Bunnicula / int_42cd1d02	type	Fundraiser Carnival
Bunnicula / int_42cd1d02	comment	Fundraiser Carnival: There's a carnival being held at Pete and Toby's school in The Celery Stalks At Midnight, which Harold, Chester and Howie proceed to crash when they think Bunnicula's out causing trouble.
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Bunnicula / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
Bunnicula / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Chester in Bunnicula Strikes Again:
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Bunnicula / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Bunnicula / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: Bunnicula is physically absent from three of the books — he's staying with their neighbor Professor Mickelwhite in Howliday Inn, and with Pete's friend Kyle in Nighty-Nightmare and Return to Howliday Inn. In all three cases, it's justified in that the family is away on vacation and can't readily take a rabbit with them.
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Bunnicula / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
Bunnicula / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Most of the paranormal shenanigans are attributable to either this or Chester's paranoia, though there's a significant amount of Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane where Bunnicula is concerned.
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Bunnicula / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
Bunnicula / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Much like the novels, Harold narrated the special.
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Bunnicula / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Bunnicula / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Chester, in the "Vampires = Always Chaotic Evil" sense.
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Bunnicula / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Bunnicula / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Chester manages to both subvert this trope and play it straight, particularly in the first book. He makes numerous attempts to subdue and/or kill Bunnicula and can come off as rather cruel in some of his methods, but on the other hand he was acting out of a desire to protect his family and the world, thinking Bunnicula was truly evil. While the other cats we meet in the books (like Snowball in Celery Stalks At Midnight) are off in different ways, they share the status of being potentially antagonistic at any point. Still not due to outright cruelty, though.
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Bunnicula / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Bunnicula / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: In Howliday Inn, the animals in the kennel are being disappeared one-by-one. Harold finds an unpunctuated message scratched into the bottom of his food bowl and tries to parse out whether it's fingering the murderers ("Help! Howls out now!") or the next victims ("Help Howls out, now!"). It turns out to be the second option, but Harold only confirms this when help arrives.
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Bunnicula / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Bunnicula / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: In-universe — Chester was named after G. K. Chesterton, when he was gifted to Mr. Monroe as a kitten along with a few volumes of the author's work (which also inspired Chester's love of reading). In Polish translation — to keep this trope and match it with name kept from the Polish dubbing of animated series — Chester, locally known as Czesław, was named after poet Czesław Miłosz.
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Bunnicula / int_603b77ec	type	Savage Wolves
Bunnicula / int_603b77ec	comment	Savage Wolves: The climax of the special had Harold, Chester, and Bunnicula getting chased by a pack of wolves that were roaming around the vegetable processing plant.
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Bunnicula / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Bunnicula / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: Howie's parents Howard and Heather have such a spooky howl that Chester is convinced they're part werewolf. Howie inherits the howl, much to Chester's dismay.
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Bunnicula / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Bunnicula / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Howie's books star himself and his friend Delilah.
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Bunnicula / int_669966fa	type	Predator Turned Protector
Bunnicula / int_669966fa	comment	Predator Turned Protector: Chester, who spends much of the series seeing himself as the Van Helsing to Bunnicula's Dracula, ultimately saves him from the wreckage of a building once he finally accepts that Bunnicula isn't dangerous. Harold later comments on his new friendliness towards Bunnicula; Chester chooses to spin it as protecting the rabbit against his own dark nature.
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Bunnicula / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Bunnicula / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: Lots in Howie's books. Even Harold tells him that he's going overboard, especially with self-description.
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Bunnicula / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
Bunnicula / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: The prologues claim that Howe is merely the literary agent for Harold the dog, who drops the books off at Howe's office when he's finished writing them.
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Bunnicula / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Bunnicula / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: It's only when Stinky Dog starts thinking about how much he loves Delilah that Bathman is destroyed.
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Bunnicula / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Bunnicula / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Harold mentions that Chester was named after G. K. Chesterton.
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Bunnicula / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Bunnicula / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Edgar Allan Crow, who was named after horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. Pete's favorite horror writer, M.T. Graves, has another pun for a pseudonym ("empty graves").
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Bunnicula / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
Bunnicula / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Harold has had his fair share of such incidents, but most of them are Noodle Incidents; the only ones we actually hear about are the time that he ate a geraniumnote which he admits was in bad taste — and had tasted rather bad, too, and when he tossed Mr. Monroe's electric razor into the toilet. Chester has had such experiences, too, though he's decidedly more embarrassed to remember them than Harold is: One time, he ate a piece of string, and when Mr. Monroe tried to pull it out of his mouth, it ends with the human clear on the other side of the room, clutching at a ridiculously long string still protruding from Chester's mouth. Harold describes the poor cat as looking like a tape dispenser. Howie finds this hilarious; Chester does not. When Harold recounts to Howie the time that Chester tried to ram a stake through Bunnicula's heart, he comments that it was rather difficult, considering the kind of stake that he used. This leads Chester to snappishly concede that he made a mistake.
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Bunnicula / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Bunnicula / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Some editions show Chester as being much larger and fluffier than he is in-story. One edition of The Celery Stalks at Midnight has Harold, Chester and Howie looking up at a gigantic, menacing celery stalk. In the book, the only celery to appear is normal-sized.
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Bunnicula / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
Bunnicula / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Harold to Chester, though he still manages to get sucked into Chester's fantasies in every book.
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Bunnicula / int_74828aea	type	Killer Rabbit
Bunnicula / int_74828aea	comment	Killer Rabbit: Bunnicula is a vampire-like rabbit that Chester assumes is a killer rabbit, hiding his malevolent nature behind a cute exterior, but there's no evidence that he ever actually does any harm whatsoever besides draining vegetables.
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Bunnicula / int_7d152a2d	type	Agent Mulder
Bunnicula / int_7d152a2d	comment	Agent Mulder: Chester, who sees the supernatural in pretty much everything.
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Bunnicula / int_81241767	type	Smelly Skunk
Bunnicula / int_81241767	comment	Smelly Skunk: In Nighty-Nightmare, Bud and Spud have been secretly trying to capture a wild baby skunk for their mother as an early mother's day present. She's delighted with the gift, but points out that they'll have to get him descented. In Bunnicula Strikes Again!, the pets have a run-in with one (which they initially mistake for Bunnicula's mother due to its coloration), and Harold and Howie get sprayed by it. Chester, fortunately, gets out of range in time.
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Bunnicula / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
Bunnicula / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: Howie is essentially a young child learning to write as he goes, and so will confidently misunderstand various literary terms (e.g. "literary license" means "when you're the writer you can pretty much say whatever you want", which he uses as an excuse for things just randomly happening in his stories).
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Bunnicula / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Bunnicula / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Chester likes to present himself as the collected, mellow Only Sane Man of the pets, but when his imagination riles him up, he reveals quite a flair for dramatic overreaction. See his response to learning the Monroes will be boarding him and Harold in Howliday Inn:
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Bunnicula / int_8470aa73	type	Roman Ã Clef
Bunnicula / int_8470aa73	comment	Roman à Clef: In-universe, Harold has changed his family's actual surname to "Monroe" for his books.
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Bunnicula / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
Bunnicula / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: In Howliday Inn, while Louise and Georgette are fighting over Max, Louise calls Georgette "Hester Prynne." Very, very few kids are familiar with The Scarlet Letter, but parents who're familiar with it know that Louise just called Georgette a slut.
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Bunnicula / int_8a3c406e	type	Hair-Raising Hare
Bunnicula / int_8a3c406e	comment	Hair-Raising Hare. Possibly. Chester assumes Bunnicula is an evil, vampiric bunny who will take over/destroy the world given enough time. To anyone else, he's not really terrifying.
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Bunnicula / int_8c678d33	type	Death by Newbery Medal
Bunnicula / int_8c678d33	comment	Death by Newbery Medal: Howie tries to make Tales #4 more tragic in order to win a Medal. It doesn't work.
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Bunnicula / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Bunnicula / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Bunnicula himself never says a word, despite all other animals (cats, dogs, one weasel, and a parrot) being able to talk just fine. It's hypothesized something terrible happened to him in his childhood and rendered him mute, and even after they find out what's causing his vampirism, he never talks.
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Bunnicula / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Bunnicula / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Max the bulldog and his friend Georgette, introduced in Howliday Inn, make return appearances in The Celery Stalks at Midnight and Return to Howliday Inn, respectively. The dog pair Bob and Linda, and the cats Felony and Miss Demeanor, all make their debut in Return to Howliday Inn and reappear in Bunnicula Strikes Again!.
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Bunnicula / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Bunnicula / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: In Return to Howliday Inn:
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Bunnicula / int_96776279	type	Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros."
Bunnicula / int_96776279	comment	In Polish translation — to keep this trope and match it with name kept from the Polish dubbing of animated series — Chester, locally known as Czesław, was named after poet Czesław Miłosz.
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Bunnicula / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Bunnicula / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Despite being the Only Sane Man, Harold usually begins to get sucked into Chester's delusions toward the end of each book, when confronted with weirder and weirder goings-on with no ready prosaic explanation.
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Bunnicula / int_97522514	type	Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door
Bunnicula / int_97522514	comment	Heel–Face Revolving Door: Chester is an unusual example, as his loyalties never really change at least until Bunnicula Strikes Again, where he becomes Bunnicula's protector once-and-for-all. However, his sheer paranoia can make him either a hero or a villain depending on the situation.
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Bunnicula / int_97bc51a8	type	Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness
Bunnicula / int_97bc51a8	comment	Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness: Half-rabbit, half-vampire, all terror! He sucks the juice out of carrots. Or so Chester, the extremely high-strung family cat, believes. Harold the dog, who is The Watson to Chester's Holmes, is less convinced of the bunny's vampirism, though he admits that it has an odd way of feeding.
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Bunnicula / int_982b6570	type	Friendly Neighborhood Vampire
Bunnicula / int_982b6570	comment	Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Bunnicula only vampirizes vegetables by sucking out their juices.
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Bunnicula / int_98c1b508	type	Bully Bulldog
Bunnicula / int_98c1b508	comment	Bully Bulldog: In Nighty-Nightmare, Dawg is an old bulldog with a slightly deformed face who senses straight away that Harold is intimidated by him and enjoys it. He doesn't mean any real harm though and apologizes to Harold the next morning.
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Bunnicula / int_9a032f08	type	Giver of Lame Names
Bunnicula / int_9a032f08	comment	Giver of Lame Names: In the first book, Mrs. Monroe is mentioned as always attempting to name each new family pet "Fluffy" (both Harold and Chester are deeply relieved to have escaped this fate). Sure enough, it's one of her first suggestions when trying to name Bunnicula (after the equally-rejected "Bun-Bun")... eliciting a lot of groans.
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Bunnicula / int_9c5ce9ed	type	Blunt Metaphors Trauma
Bunnicula / int_9c5ce9ed	comment	Blunt Metaphors Trauma: In the first book, Howie at one point writes, "every sense was as finely tuned as a concert piano", which Harold, giving constructive criticism, praises as a good example of a simile. Howie proceeds to use "like a finely tuned concert piano" whenever he wants to throw in a simile from then on, no matter how little sense it makes. This becomes a Running Gag throughout the series, though it tapers off as Howie's writing improves, but comes back one last time towards the climax of his final book.
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Bunnicula / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Bunnicula / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Bunnicula isn't dangerous, goes to great lengths to help his friends, only drinks vegetable juice, doesn't sleep in a coffinnote However, he WAS FOUND in a shoebox of dirt...
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Bunnicula / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Bunnicula / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: In Howliday Inn, Taxi the dog explains that his original owners lived in New York City and decided it would be cute to call "Taxi!" to get him to come to them when they were out walking, except he didn't realize they meant him (and real taxis thought they were being called, getting mad when they realized the mixup) for the longest time. About the time he figured it out, they got tired of having a dog and gave him to a cousin in another town.
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Bunnicula / int_a070f751	type	Canine Confusion
Bunnicula / int_a070f751	comment	Canine Confusion: Harold the dog has chocolate as his Trademark Favorite Food, and he even steals fudge in another book, even though chocolate can kill dogs in real life. Justified by Harold pointing out that he, like the books, is a work of fiction.
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Bunnicula / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Bunnicula / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: In The Celery Stalks at Midnight, Harold calls Chester out on his poor decisions three times throughout the book, and each time Chester replies by trying to downplay his misjudgments as, "A [little mistake/small error of judgment/slight misinterpretation of the facts]. Everyone's entitled to one [mistake/small error of judgment/slight misinterpretation of the facts] in the course of a lifetime."
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Bunnicula / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Bunnicula / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Bud and Spud, who come across as dumb hicks by some folks, but are actually well-educated. Of course, most of the obfuscation comes from Chester's overactive imagination.
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Bunnicula / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Bunnicula / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In the climax, just when it seems that Bunnicula was about to get attacked by the wolves, Bunnicula is suddenly able to use vampire powers which trap the wolves in a vat at the plant.
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Bunnicula / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Bunnicula / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: This was Harold and Chester's reaction upon discovering the wolf pack in the plant.
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Bunnicula / int_af94cf6d	type	Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis
Bunnicula / int_af94cf6d	comment	Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis: In Nighty-Nightmare, Mr. Monroe gets contemplative about turning forty. He decides to try something new and exciting, by having the family go on an overnight camping trip in the woods for a while instead of staying in their lakeside cabin.
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Bunnicula / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Bunnicula / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: To daytime TV in Howliday Inn — two days of exposure to it has an unfortunate effect on Louise's mind.
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Bunnicula / int_b6a13a56	type	Ten Little Murder Victims
Bunnicula / int_b6a13a56	comment	Ten Little Murder Victims: Parodied in Howliday Inn. Several of the guests go missing, but none of them actually die, and they all turn up just fine during the climax of the adventure.
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Bunnicula / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Bunnicula / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: At the end of Howliday Inn, Harold and Chester learn that little Howie is going to become part of the family. When the wire-haired dachshund (whom Chester is convinced is at least part werewolf) first howls, it's too much for Chester, who promptly passes out.
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Bunnicula / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
Bunnicula / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: In the book Howliday Inn, Harold is introduced to a member of the kennel's staff. Cue the following lines:
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Bunnicula / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Bunnicula / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The FleshCrawlers series, which has at least 61 books (titles include #18 — Night of the Living Gargoyles; #19 — The Potato Has a Thousand Eyes; #24 — My Parents Are Aliens from the Planet Zorg; #28 — Screaming Mummies of the Pharaoh's Tomb; #33 — My Sister the Pickled Brain; #52 — Don't Go in the Yard; and #61 — The House That Dripped Eyeballs). The Tales From the House of Bunnicula are in-universe fictional books written by Howie and his friend Delilah, and include entries from his writing journal.
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Bunnicula / int_c24fa49e	type	Dogs Are Dumb
Bunnicula / int_c24fa49e	comment	Dogs Are Dumb: Chester certainly thinks so. However, he's quite prone to underestimating Harold's intelligence.
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Bunnicula / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Bunnicula / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: A character in the spooky campfire story Chester tells in book 4, Dr. Emil Alphonse Diabolicus. DrEAD.
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Bunnicula / int_c335b301	type	Cute Little Fangs
Bunnicula / int_c335b301	comment	Cute Little Fangs: Bunnicula, both in-story and in all the artwork.
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Bunnicula / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Bunnicula / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Harold, a dog, hates the sound of barking.
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Bunnicula / int_c3df91ff	type	Wooden Stake
Bunnicula / int_c3df91ff	comment	Wooden Stake: In Bunnicula, Chester reads that one way to dispose of a vampire is to pound a sharp stake through their heart. Fortunately for Bunnicula, the cat misunderstands and winds up trying to pound a sirloin steak through his heart instead (and Harold offers to taste it and see if it's sharp). Later, in The Celery Stalks at Midnight, Chester and the dogs use toothpicks and twigs to impale the vegetables that Bunnicula had drained during his nightly wanderings.
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Bunnicula / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Bunnicula / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Howliday Inn is a reference to the Holiday Inn chain of hotels. M.T. Graves and the Fleshcrawlers series are clearly a reference to R.L. Stine and Goosebumps.
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Bunnicula / int_c78c0896	type	Big Friendly Dog
Bunnicula / int_c78c0896	comment	Big Friendly Dog: Harold is a more laid-back version, but definitely qualifies. Especially when the Monroe kids have junk food.
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Bunnicula / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
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Bunnicula / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
Bunnicula / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: In Bunnicula Strikes Back, Howie cracks that "You're no bunny until some bunny loves you". Harold's narration notes that he could hear Chester grind his teeth in response.
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Bunnicula / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Bunnicula / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Bunnicula may or may not be a vegetable juice-sucking fiend, though it becomes less debatable as the series goes on. Much of the humor in the series comes from Chester's belief that Bunnicula's eating habits mean that the world around them follows horror tropes. Also, Howard and Heather — and by extension, Howie — might be part werewolf, though the only real bit of "evidence" Chester has for this theory is their unusually loud, spooky howls.
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Bunnicula / int_cca03e64	type	Pounds Are Animal Prisons
Bunnicula / int_cca03e64	comment	Pounds Are Animal Prisons: ...So are the kennels in Howliday Inn.
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Bunnicula / int_cf2cef75	type	Silly Animal Sound
Bunnicula / int_cf2cef75	comment	Silly Animal Sound: Played for laughs in the conclusion of Return to Howliday Inn, where Harold the dog and Chester the cat, who've both learned ventriloquism, use their newfound abilities to astound their family by making it look like Harold's meowing and Chester's barking.
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Bunnicula / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Bunnicula / int_d46ddfa2	comment	In Howliday Inn, Chester remarks that he read the other animals' personal files while being held hostage. On the subject of Lyle (another cat who's more than a little off-kilter), he'll only say Lyle has "had a rough life".
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Bunnicula / int_d67aae8f	type	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Bunnicula / int_d67aae8f	comment	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Played straight in the first chapter, "The Arrival", in the first book. Inverted in The Celery Stalks at Midnight:
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Bunnicula / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Bunnicula / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Chester would like to pull this during their visits to Chateau Bow-Wow, and especially mentions it in Return to Howliday Inn when Daisy is cuddling Howie:
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Bunnicula / int_dd608032	type	Hell Hotel
Bunnicula / int_dd608032	comment	Hell Hotel: Chateau Bow-Wow in Howliday Inn and Return To Howliday Inn. There's strange howling (simply a habit of two of the visitors) and disappearing guests ( caused by an employee-turned-petnapper trying to make extra money) in the first visit, and a guest who seems to have been murdered for discovering an alleged secret of the place during the second. It turns out one of the other visitors was trying to escape before he could be put down and made up the murder and "secret" to encourage the other animals to help him do so.
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Bunnicula / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
Bunnicula / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Chester fancies himself one.
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Bunnicula / int_e32ce9e0	type	Award Snub
Bunnicula / int_e32ce9e0	comment	Award Snub: invokedHow Howie views his failure to win a Newboney award for his fourth book.
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Bunnicula / int_e49c0cbd	type	Interspecies Adoption
Bunnicula / int_e49c0cbd	comment	Interspecies Adoption: Howie, a young wire-haired dachshund, adopts Chester, a cat, as his father figure. Chester is not amused, but reluctantly accepts the responsibility.
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Bunnicula / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Bunnicula / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Harold appears to bear a resemblance to that of Colonel from Disney's 101 Dalmatians. In addition to that, one of the Monroe sons wears clothes similar to that of Fred Jones.
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Bunnicula / int_ee7885fa	type	Southern-Fried Genius
Bunnicula / int_ee7885fa	comment	Southern-Fried Genius: In Nighty-Nightmare, Bud and Spud come across as dumb hicks, but are later revealed to have graduated cum laude from college — Bud (real name Buford) is an architect, and Spud (real name Spalding) practices law.
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Bunnicula / int_ef3ba585	type	"Harmful to Pets" Reminder
Bunnicula / int_ef3ba585	comment	"Harmful to Pets" Reminder: Zig-zagged. Harold, a dog, is depicted frequently eating cream-filled chocolate cupcakes. One of the young-reader books has him Breaking the Fourth Wall to inform readers that in real life a dog shouldn't eat chocolate.
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Bunnicula / int_efd11fe3	type	A Dog Named "Dog"
Bunnicula / int_efd11fe3	comment	A Dog Named "Dog": Or nicknamed, at least. In Nighty-Nightmare, Harold, Chester and Howie spend much of the book accompanied by a dog whose real name is Teufel, but everyone calls him Dawg.
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Bunnicula / int_f3da74ff	type	Creepy Crows
Bunnicula / int_f3da74ff	comment	Creepy Crows: Horror writer M.T. Graves has a bird who he calls Edgar Allan Crow. Chester, of course, thinks that both of them are up to no good. However, it ultimately turns out to be a subversion; Edgar Allan Crow is just an ordinary crow and not at all scary (except in Chester's runaway imagination).
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Bunnicula / int_f46fb603	type	Pungeon Master
Bunnicula / int_f46fb603	comment	Pungeon Master: Howie enjoys making punny remarks, much to Chester's exasperation.
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Bunnicula / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Bunnicula / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Howie likes to promote his previous books, though he claims to be simply giving helpful references to the reader.
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Bunnicula / int_f8b893e5	type	Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
Bunnicula / int_f8b893e5	comment	Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Early in Howliday Inn, Harrison mentions that he wants to retire at 21 after making a million bucks. He decides to do so by kidnapping Howard and Heather, a pair of purebred wire-haired dachshunds, and their seven newly born puppies, and selling them all for a lot of money.
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Bunnicula / int_f9e4739d	type	I Do Not Drink Wine
Bunnicula / int_f9e4739d	comment	I Do Not Drink Wine: Chester's story in Nighty-Nightmare has Dr. Emil Alphonse Diabolicus, a vampire, declare that "I don't drink... milk." Subverted with Bud, a normal human who also says that "I don't drink milk." In his case, though, it's just a matter of personal preference.
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Bunnicula / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Bunnicula / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: References to "a finely tuned concert piano" (see Blunt Metaphors Trauma above).
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Bunnicula / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Bunnicula / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Chester. Does Bunnicula suck the juice out of vegetables? Yes, but that's the most nefarious thing he ever gets up to. Chester goes to incredible lengths to prove Bunnicula's vampirism and get rid of the "dangerous" rabbit, assuming that eventually the bunny will try to take over the world.
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Bunnicula / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
Bunnicula / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: Used in-universe as the quality, direction, focus, and title vary depending on if Howie or Delilah is writing the book.
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Bunnicula / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Bunnicula / int_fe0330fb	comment	An incident where Harold ate a geranium is mentioned a few times. It also leads to a Brick Joke when Howie tries to eat a geranium.
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