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A long-running series of heavily-illustrated novels by Jeff Kinney based on his webcomic of the same name hosted on FunBrain, aimed at preteens. They tell the story of Greg Heffley, a self-proclaimed "wimpy kid" attempting to navigate the pitfalls and perils of middle school life. The books are presented as Greg's own journals, filled with handwritten notes and stick drawings of his daily adventures.Greg's family includes his mother, Susan; his father, Frank; and his two brothers, Rodrick and Manny. Rodrick is older and often picks on Greg, whilst Manny is the baby of the family who can get away with anything. Other kids in the neighborhood include Greg's friend Rowley, and the strange kid Fregley, who lives down the block.One of the most popular and influential children's book series ever, spawning a massive movement of similar children's realistic fiction book series presented as diaries that combine text and drawings.The books to date are: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2008) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2009) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2009) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth (2010) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever (2011) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel (2012) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck (2013) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2014) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School (2015) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down (2016) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway (2017) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown (2018) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball (2019) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End (2020) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot (2021) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde (2022) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer (2023) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess (2024; upcoming)There is also a Do-It-Yourself Book (2008; expanded in 2011) and, tying in with the film adaptation of the first book, a making-of Movie Diary (2010; updated in '11 and '12 to include the sequels, and a separate one called The Next Chapter about the making of the Long Haul film in '17), as well as three Spin-Off books set in a Perspective Flip from Rowley; Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid (2019), Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure (2020), and Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories (2021).The series got multiple film adaptations, the tropes for which can be found here.For other children's book series in a diary format, see Dork Diaries and Dear Dumb Diary. See also Zombie Kid Diaries, which was the subject of a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement against the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.For tropes concerning the original webcomic, go here. | |
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Creator Breakdown | |
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Creator Breakdown: An In-Universe example. The school newspaper needs a new cartoonist after the kid who drew Wacky Dawg starts using it to handle his "personal business." | |
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Elderly Ailment Rambling | |
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Elderly Ailment Rambling: Greg's great-grandmother Gammie gives him "the talk" about how he should enjoy his childhood and not rush to grow up. She mentions that getting to be her age isn't fun, and starts talking about hemorrhoids and shingles. When she starts rolling down a sock to show him, he quickly leaves the room. In one book, Greg pranks his great-grandmother with a Whoopee Cushion, but she doesn't feel it and thinks she genuinely farted. In her apology note, she claims to have had "trouble controlling her body" and wonders if her recent surgery had given her gas. In Dog Days, Greg tries to write a newspaper comic named "Hey, People!" a blatant Author Tract where he complains about other people's habits that he finds gross. One strip depicts him overhearing an old man loudly discussing his ingrown toenail surgery while at a restaurant. | |
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The Millstone | |
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The Millstone: The pig causes nothing but trouble for the Heffleys by eating food it shouldn’t that belongs to them and making the most simple of tasks difficult. And that’s when it’s not actively trying to cause trouble. When it does, it usually results in a lot of property damage. | |
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Urban Legends | |
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Urban Legends: The Goat Man is brought up. Greg wonders if either the top half is a goat and the bottom half is a man or vice versa, but Rowley thinks it's split down the middle. | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling | |
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Aunt Cakey in the webcomic (and later the books). Even though it's Manny she's responding to, passing off his displays of affection as a sign that he needs speech therapy is pretty cold. | |
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Playing Sick | |
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Playing Sick: Discussed. After mentioning that he's afraid of germs, Greg says he's still thankful the flu hasn't been cured yet, as he wouldn't be able to fake being sick to get out of school if it was | |
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Cannot Tell a Joke | |
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In Dog Days, Manny tries to pass the time in the car by telling lame jokes. At first, his parents play along with it, but as time goes on, even they become annoyed by his nonstop jokes. | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg | |
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Greg feels that the girls and Rowley misunderstood the point of the egg sitting project; instead of just taking care of their eggs, they also decorated them and even knitted elaborate pouches for them. He has a point, as the assignment was to simply keep the egg from breaking until the next health class and they get so imprinted on the eggs that they enter hysterics when the teacher disposes of them. | |
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Gassy Gastronomy | |
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Gassy Gastronomy: Implied in the "Do it Yourself Book", in which one comic, The Amazing Fart Police, portrays farting as illegal. One comic that's advertised is "The Fart Police Invade a Burrito Factory", indicating that they're arresting the workers for producing a food that makes people fart. | |
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With a Foot on the Bus | |
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With a Foot on the Bus: The book sets up Greg's family moving away from Surrey Street. Rowley is very upset about it, and he has a going-away party with other people in his neighborhood. But when the last bit of construction goes wrong, the house is in disrepair and is not sold, so Greg and his family have to stay. | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Greg's mother shows up to school to bring Greg his lunch, while wearing her workout clothes. And to rub salt in the wound, it was on fourth period, where he and Holly Hills share a session. | |
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Blind Without 'Em | |
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Blind Without 'Em: Greg's cabinmate Emilio Mendoza is as blind as a bat without his glasses, something Greg finds out after he and fellow cabinmate Jeffrey Swanson accidentally break Emilio's glasses in a high-five. This bites the whole cabin in the butt later when their deoderant raid is found out by Mrs. Graziano, who caught Emilio stumbling around in the dark and brought him with her. | |
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Car Ride Games | |
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Car Ride Games: The Heffleys are on a road trip and they play two games: Alphabet Groceries where people have to think of food that begins with each letter of the alphabet, and I Must Confess which is similar to the real-life game Never Have I Ever. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: A kid called Mitchell Pickett sells pre-made snowballs. When there's a big snowfall he expands his business to include more advanced weaponry like snowball launchers, icicles and even custom-made snowballs with a slushy center. He sells to the kids on the Surrey Street hill and the kids on Lower Surrey Street who are in a constant feud with the kids on the hill. He buys a snowmobile with the money he makes. Greg comments that this proves war CAN pay. One imagines Mitchell would be very successful as an amoral Arms Dealer should he decide to go down that route when he grows up. | |
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This Loser Is You | |
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This Loser Is You: The readers are meant to identify with Greg, who is not only a self-proclaimed "wimpy kid", but who regularly gets tormented from the bigger kids around him and hangs out with the likes of Rowley and Fregley. Probably not the best example of this trope though if he's meant to represent the average Middle School reader since Greg is just really lacking in places where most of his age would be decent at or even excel. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Heffleys are definitely not a stable family. Frank's a Jerkass and Bumbling Dad, Susan's absolutely oblivious to how teenagers are nowadays, Rodrick's a step away from dropping out of school, Manny is a spoiled brat who can't seem to stay in school and Greg is a slacker who could very well end up like Rodrick. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: When the teachers claimed that students are not allowed to leave the awful camping trip early with the exception of medical reasons, students deliberately start getting sick in various different ways, including by eating deoderant. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: While Greg is by no means a good guy, some of the people he faces are much, much worse. | |
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Not Where They Thought | |
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In "Rodrick Rules", Rodrick keeps bringing up "that thing" that happened to Greg over summer (Specifically, he accidentally entered the women's bathroom at a retirement home and was mistaken for a Peeping Tom.) and threatening to tell people about it. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Greg knows that most classics his mom will force him to read will have the Death by Newbery Medal trope. He does mess up on one prediction, though. He says that because Charlotte's Web is a "Classic", either the girl or the pig won't make it to the end of the book. He doesn't finish it, so he doesn't learn that it's Charlotte the spider who dies. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: The books are a downright Sadist Show filled with incompetent characters whereas Greg seems to view himself as the Only Sane Man, but even his journal entries leave hints to the reader that all is not what it seems in his world. An example where it's Played for Laughs is during The Ugly Truth, Greg says that they got a good thing going whereas Rowley is shown pulling Greg up the hill. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Greg caricatures the children whom Grandpa and Darlene could possibly conceive, assuming they'd have elderly-looking children. However, given Darlene's age, she would be infertile. This could be Handwaved by Greg not knowing about menopause or just being dramatic. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The titular wrecking ball is mentioned a few times. | |
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Comic-Book Time | |
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Comic-Book Time: Lampshaded. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Fregley only appears once in this book. | |
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Ignoring by Singing | |
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Ignoring by Singing: When Greg and Rowley are being driven to a roller skating rink to impress Holly Hills and Susan overhears the conversation, she starts sharing some less-than-flattering trivia about her from her preschool days. Greg, who is nursing a major crush on Holly and doesn't want to hear about this, starts tuning her out by loudly sining "LA LA LA". | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Prior to Uncle Gary marrying his second wife Lydia, they have a conversation where Lydia says she has "30 thousand dollars, maybe 40", whereas Uncle Gary says that he has 45. He means that he has 45 total dollars, but she thinks Gary means that he has 45 thousand dollars. Lydia doesn't learn the truth until they get married and the time comes to pay the band, which results in a divorce. | |
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Dropped in the Toilet | |
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Dropped in the Toilet: After Susan lends him her old phone, Greg is so shocked when his aunt Veronica tries to video-chat with him while he's on the toilet that he drops his phone. It lands in the toilet, and while he does get it out, it no longer works. | |
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Dad the Veteran | |
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Frank: choleric | |
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The Quiet One | |
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The Quiet One: Manny. Averted at the end of The Long Haul where he has a conversation with two mechanics in fluent Spanish for almost an hour. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1dfbe681 | type |
Helping Another Save Face | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1dfbe681 | comment |
Helping Another Save Face: After Rowley is forced by a group of older bullies to eat "The Cheese" (a piece of moldy cheese on the playground that became infamous at the school), students are suspicious to where it went. Wanting to save his friend the humiliation of what happened (as well as try and rekindle the friendship), Greg claims that he got sick of the Cheese and threw it away, causing the students to be grossed out by him instead of Rowley. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1e6eb73 | type |
Birthday Party Goes Wrong | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1e6eb73 | comment |
Birthday Party Goes Wrong: In Dog Days, the trope is exaggerated for Greg's birthday. His presents are lame, his birthday money in confiscated, his uncle's dog eats the cake, and his 'make-up' present of a fish is eaten by Rodrick's fish. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1e7c47ab | type |
Stealth Pun | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1e7c47ab | comment |
Stealth Pun: On page 52, there's a picture of a guy with a hockey mask and a chainsaw chasing Greg and Rowley with the written sound effect "RRRRRRRRRRRRR!" (with exactly thirteen "R"s). | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1f36c9f5 | type |
Apathetic Pet | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1f36c9f5 | comment |
Apathetic Pet: Sweetie. When Frank adopts him, he doesn't get along much with the other members of the family. The only one he shows much affection to is Susan, and she doesn't pay him a lot of attention either. He is afraid of Frank and can be a nuisance to Greg. This ends up being the reason why the Heffleys give him to Gramma. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1f79f239 | type |
The Compliance Game | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1f79f239 | comment |
The Compliance Game: Greg complains that his grandfather bought him a "laundry hoop" for Christmas. It's a plastic hoop attached to a net, and said grandparent claimed it would make putting his clothes away more "fun", but Greg says that Grandpa essentially bought him a chore. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1fb4d915 | type |
The Stool Pigeon | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_1fb4d915 | comment |
Greg is not happy with the fact that Manny's constantly ratting him out. He notes that he used to be a tattletale until the day he was cured of the habit; he overheard Rodrick swearing, so he spelled it out and Susan gave him the Soap Punishment and didn't punish Rodrick for saying it first. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2023f63c | type |
Boring Religious Service | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2023f63c | comment |
Boring Religious Service: Greg finds church services boring, and is annoyed that his parents always bring lots of toys to keep his little brother Manny occupied, when they never did that for him at the same age. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_20989d05 | type |
Parents as People | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_20989d05 | comment |
Parents as People: Even through Greg's Protagonist-Centered Morality, it's clear that Susan and Frank have their own flaws to work through and do love their sons. They do want the three to succeed better, and they just don't provide the necessary means to actually help them. Other parents across the books are also shown to be flawed, but well-meaning. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_20a18a93 | type |
I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_20a18a93 | comment |
I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: Greg does not look forward to attending a beauty salon instead of his normal barbershop, but ends up enjoying it due to the gossip he hears. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_20a18a93 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2110d8ac | type |
Egg Sitting | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2110d8ac | comment |
Egg Sitting: Greg and his peers are tasked with preventing an egg from breaking until their next health class. All the boys break their eggs except for Greg and Rowley; Susan accidentally scrambles Greg's egg for breakfast. The girls (and Rowley) get theirs to school safely, some having sewn little pouches for their eggs and decorated them with sparkles and glitter, but they burst into tears when the teacher collects the eggs and throws them in the trash. Greg's conclusion is, "This assignment has got me seriously worried about the next generation of parents in our country." | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_21c863c3 | type |
Plaster Cast Doodling | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_21c863c3 | comment |
Plaster Cast Doodling: After Rowley breaks his hand and it gets encased with a cast it draws the attention of other students who want to sign it. Greg gets jealous of the attention, so he wraps his arm in gauze, pretends he has an infected splinter, and offers students to sign his "sympathy sheet" (a clipboard). The only one who wants to sign it is Fregley, who wants to look at Greg's so-called infection. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_21e5b9c7 | type |
Failed a Spot Check | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_21e5b9c7 | comment |
Failed a Spot Check: While participating in a "Last to take their hand off a truck wins it" contest, Rodrick is apparently down to just one more competitor in the form of fellow band member Bill, and the two argue over who should get to keep the truck. They decide to both simultaneously release the truck in hopes that they would both win it after striking a deal, only to find that they had neglected to check if anyone was still holding onto the other side of the truck, resulting in them both losing to someone who was. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_21f3e32e | type |
Chekhov's Boomerang | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_21f3e32e | comment |
Chekhov's Boomerang: Three teenagers terrorize Greg and Rowley on Halloween night and are never brought up after that point. Near the end of the book, the same teens confront the two and make Rowley eat the Cheese. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_21f3e32e | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_22a60f6a | type |
Nepotism | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_22a60f6a | comment |
Nepotism: Greg points out that the evaluators for the basketball tryouts appear to favor their own kids over the other kids. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_22cf50f9 | type |
Chekhov's Gag | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_22cf50f9 | comment |
Chekhov's Gag: Corny's Family-Style Restaurant turns out to be where Greg goes with Abigail and Rowley for dinner before the dance. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_22cf536c | type |
Chekhov's Gun | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_22cf536c | comment |
Chekhov's Gun: When Greg is talking about how he once found a used tissue in a plastic Easter egg, there's an egg hidden in a pile of logs in the background. It's the egg with Meemaw's diamond ring in it. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_22cf536c | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_231e8193 | type |
Mistaken Identity | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_231e8193 | comment |
In one of the movies, Greg feels guilty about not owning up when Rowley gets punished for something he (Greg) did because Greg was wearing Rowley's coat. His mother Susan observes that he hasn't "badgered [her] for any snacks" and asks if he's OK. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_231e8193 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_232aa245 | type |
Laser Cutter | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_232aa245 | comment |
Laser Cutter: Drew thinks laser light shows work like this, and as such doesn't want to do one for the band, because he is afraid that he will get cut in half by a laser. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_23698fa8 | type |
Aborted Arc | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_23698fa8 | comment |
Aborted Arc: Despite the book ending with Rowley becoming famous on TV and Greg being jealous of him, they end up being back to being friends by the next book without any explanation. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_23698fa8 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2398d61a | type |
Group-Identifying Feature | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2398d61a | comment |
Group-Identifying Feature: Discussed. When Rowley goes through a phase of copying Greg, the latter ends up rolling up one pants leg and and tying a bandanna to his ankle. The former copies, and their neighbour mistakes them for "thugs" sporting the "gang colours". In "Old School", there are some teenagers in a reform camp, who all wear orange jumpsuits. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2398d61a | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_241ca0d8 | type |
Back for the Dead | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_241ca0d8 | comment |
Back for the Dead: The plot of Wrecking Ball is kicked off by the death of Aunt Reba, a minor character who only appeared in The Last Straw. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_241ca0d8 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_24321e44 | type |
Only Sane Man | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_24321e44 | comment |
Only Sane Man: Greg sees himself as this. Even if he often does stupid things, he can be the snarky narrator to his clueless parents, his Dumbass Teenage Son of an older brother, and his odd and spoiled little brother. Greg's dad can also play this role, both in the books and the movies. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_24321e44 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_24ec14c7 | type |
Crappy Holidays | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_24ec14c7 | comment |
Crappy Holidays: Greg never gets anything he actually wants for Christmas, just clothes or practical things. In Hard Luck, Easter starts out okay but ends in an old family feud being brought up and everyone except the Heffleys searching for a lost diamond ring. Greg accidentally finds it a few months later and hides it in his parents closet. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_24ec14c7 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2547b359 | type |
Real Dreams are Weirder | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2547b359 | comment |
Real Dreams are Weirder: While remembering various dreams he had and what they relate to, Greg remembers one where he kicked his own head over an American Football goal while declaring "Mustards on my turnips, please!". It currently serves as the page image. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2547b359 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_25b4ad2f | type |
Surprisingly Happy Ending | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_25b4ad2f | comment |
Surprisingly Happy Ending: As it turns out, all the other campers abandoning Campers' Eden during the second storm allows the Heffleys to finally have a wonderful vacation over the next few days. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_25b4ad2f | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_25bc8511 | type |
Generation Xerox | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_25bc8511 | comment |
Generation Xerox: It turns out that Greg looks exactly like Frank's cousin, Terence, when they were the same age. He's not happy about it. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_25bc8511 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_25f33d8 | type |
Sick Episode | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_25f33d8 | comment |
Sick Episode: Nearly everyone in Greg's group ends up having to be seen by the nurse, including Rowley who gets sent home on the first day after accidentally butting heads with another kid, whose tooth gets lodged in his head. The day he gets back, he has an accident with poison ivy. Rowley's father inhales poison ivy and they both get sent home early. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_25f33d8 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_264a140b | type |
Fat and Skinny | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_264a140b | comment |
Fat and Skinny: Greg is a Lean and Mean Anti-Hero while his Fat Best Friend, Rowley, despite being childish and chubby, is a Nice Guy overall. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_264a140b | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_264b8f4c | type |
Balloon Belly | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_264b8f4c | comment |
Balloon Belly: A snake that escapes during a school assembly is allowed to wander the halls by the students because it is eating the mice and the exterminator was recently fired. Two of the three panels featuring the snake show it slithering around with a mouse-sized bulge in its midsection. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_264b8f4c | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_270ed8b8 | type |
Candlelit Bath | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_270ed8b8 | comment |
Candlelit Bath: Greg claims that he tries to recreate the time when he was in Susan's womb by taking a bath in the dark with lit candles and a washcloth over his eyes, but usually gets interrupted whenever Rodrick and Manny use the bathroom. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_277686f2 | type |
Reused Character Design | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_277686f2 | comment |
Reused Character Design: Doo-Doo, one of the kids at Campers' Eden, is identical to "Stinky Williams" (a precursor to Fregley) in the webcomic. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_281de59f | type |
Extremely Short Timespan | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_281de59f | comment |
Extremely Short Timespan: Compared to previous books which last for at least a few months, this one only lasts for nine days, three of which take place during a Time Skip after the family gets home. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_281de59f | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_28a5213a | type |
Small Name, Big Ego | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_28a5213a | comment |
Small Name, Big Ego: Implied with Krisstina, the local pop singer who calls herself an "international pop sensation" despite only having local venues such as a car wash and skate rink. Greg assumes she has never even travelled out of the state. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2940d49 | type |
Mega Meal Challenge | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2940d49 | comment |
Mega Meal Challenge: Greg mentions that his Uncle Gary finished the "Monstrilla Burger" in one sitting and got a tattoo for it. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2940d49 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_294807a5 | type |
Silly Prayer | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_294807a5 | comment |
Silly Prayer: When Greg's grandmother can't find something, she prays to find it, and apparently it works every time. When Greg owes his friend's dad money, he prays for him to be hit on the head so he forgets about the money, and also to be able to beat a video game. He then ends his prayer with "Amen, and thank you in advance." | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_294807a5 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2acb97e5 | type |
Asinine Alternate Activity | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2acb97e5 | comment |
Asinine Alternate Activity: Greg wants a cell phone for his birthday, but Susan believes that it's too much responsibility and she's concerned he'll rack up a huge phone bill like his older brother Rodrick tends to do. Her solution is to give him a "ladybug phone", which can only call the house phone and 911. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2acb97e5 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2ae29c0d | type |
The Dreaded | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2ae29c0d | comment |
The Dreaded: The Mingos, a gang of possibly feral children who appear in Hard Luck and The Meltdown. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2b5ea43c | type |
Bland-Name Product | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2b5ea43c | comment |
Bland-Name Product: One of the electronic devices locked in "The Vault" appears very similar to a Nintendo Switch. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2b7ec38e | type |
The Scrappy | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2b7ec38e | comment |
The Scrappy: In-Universe, Old-Timey Tobias, the mascot for the Old-Timey Ice Cream Parlor, gets pelted with ice cream left and right every time he comes out to entertain the kids at the restaurant. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2b7ec38e | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2be74be | type |
Sucky School | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2be74be | comment |
Sucky School: The unnamed middle school Greg attends is so inadequately funded that it lacks heating systems. The teachers also tend to be either overly strict or straight-up incompetent. Due to the stupidity of the students, the playground equipment has been recalled. The rules are so tight that it is forbidden to simply sit down or play tag during recess. | |
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GrossOutShow | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_2c1696ec | comment |
Gross-Out Show: Downplayed. While the series can use Toilet Humor sometimes, it's not as bad as other examples of this trope. Played straight in the first book though where Fregley gives Greg a letter with a booger on it. | |
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Debating Names | |
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Debating Names: Frank adopts a dog for the Heffleys, who then decide what to name it. Greg wants to name him something edgy like Shredder or Ripjaw, but Susan won't let him. Manny suggests "Elephant" or "Zebra" and Rodrick suggests "Turtle" (just so he can call the dog "Turd" for short). Susan goes with her idea, "Sweetie," despite Greg finding it too girly. | |
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Reveling in the New Form | |
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Reveling in the New Form: Greg dreams that he grows a tail and loves being able to do tricks with it. While this dream eventually becomes a nightmare when he gets hunted down for having a tail, he's still disappointed when he wakes up with no tail. | |
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Potty Emergency | |
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Potty Emergency: Rowley really has to pee while walking home from school with Greg. He ends up peeing behind a large rock. | |
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Embarrassing Ad Gig | |
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Embarrassing Ad Gig: Greg says that he was on the cover of a book a few years ago... but unfortunately, the book was titled Your Child and Constipation. | |
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Books vs. Screens | |
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Books vs. Screens: Dog Days features two examples. First is when Greg and Rowley are traumatized after watching a horror movie and Mrs. Heffley thinks it's because twelve-year-olds aren't reading enough and so starts a reading club (which she then captions the photo of with "The Reading is Fun Club says, 'no' to video games"), then later when the boys stay at a hotel without computers and TV, the Jeffersons suggest Greg read instead, which he thinks is ridiculous. In The Long Haul, Rodrick watches movie versions of books and does book reports on them, rather than reading the books. This causes him trouble when he's asked to read The Lord of the Rings but instead rents a wrestling movie called Lords of the Ring. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Cute? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Not much to Greg. He shamelessly admits that if he were Noah, he would've left off the creepy and dangerous animals like scorpions in favor of cute ones. | |
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The Baby of the Bunch | |
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Manny: eclectic | |
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Platonic Valentine | |
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Platonic Valentine: Zigzagged. Greg is made to write Valentines for his whole class, which does include Holly, his crush, but it also includes his friends, and his rivals. He decides to just say what he thinks of everyone, which ends up offending the rivals. He also wrote a Valentine for himself, saying, "Dear Greg, I hate your guts", to cover his tracks after offending the rivals. | |
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Accidental Pervert | |
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Accidental Pervert: Greg accidentally steps onto a nude beach on the Wild Side with a camera. He ends up paying for it. | |
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Physical Fitness Punishment | |
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Physical Fitness Punishment: Coach Patel makes the kids run wind sprints whenever he sees them making mistakes. | |
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When It Rains, It Pours | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_30f48597 | comment |
When It Rains, It Pours: The RV park the Heffleys stay at gets hit with two back-to-back powerful storms. | |
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Illness Blanket | |
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Illness Blanket: While Greg likes being wrapped in a blanket anyway, he plays this trope straight when he's sick and is seen sitting on the couch in a blanket with a thermometer in his mouth. | |
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Previously on… | |
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Previously on…: Greg claims that the story of him and his family now living in his grandmother's basement is a long one, so he just shows an image of a crane dropping a hot tub through the roof of their house, which happened at the end of Wrecking Ball. | |
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Memetic Mutation | |
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Memetic Mutation: In-universe: "Zoo-Wee Mama!" from the comic that Greg and Rowley created, and which Rowley later used in his own comic, becomes a meme at school, much to Greg's dismay. | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Embarrassing Nickname: Manny comes up with the nickname "Ploopy" for Greg. | |
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Kid Detective | |
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Kid Detective: One of the kids in Greg's neighborhood is a boy named Pervis Gentry, who solves neighborhood crimes (most of which are committed by the same delinquent) from his backyard treehouse during the summer. | |
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Scatterbrained Senior | |
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Scatterbrained Senior: When Greg's great-granny Meemaw was alive, she hosted an Easter egg hunt for the family every year and filled the eggs with prizes herself. But as she got older, she "wasn't as sharp as she used to be" and started putting strange things in the eggs, including green beans, tissues, and her extremely valuable diamond ring. | |
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The Unintelligible | |
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The Unintelligible: Greg's Great Uncle Arthur is this, only making sounds like "muurp" and "rrup". | |
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Troublesome Pet | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_32c94ad9 | comment |
Troublesome Pet: Frank decides to buy a new dog, to the rest of his family's displeasure. The dog, named Sweetie by Susan, is lazy and is particularly a nuisance to Greg: he sleeps in the middle of Greg's bed — leaving little room for Greg to sleep on — then use Greg's face as a launch pad when he gets up; when not on the bed, Sweetie likes to laze around on the living room couch, which prevents people from sitting down and watching TV, then bark at the TV unless a particular commercial is playing. He is eventually given away to Greg's grandmother. | |
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Out of Focus | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_32da91b8 | comment |
Out of Focus: Everybody save for Greg, his immediate family and the Beardos in this book, in which Rowley only turns up in a flashback illustration and no other recurring characters appear. However, Rowley is in the film adaptation, as he gets to come along with the Heffleys to a restaurant. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Ben, Greg's former best friend who moved away never appears in the books. | |
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Not Helping Your Case | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_33f1c576 | comment |
Not Helping Your Case: When the Heffley family are at the country club with stranger's clothes, a security guard confronted them, saying that they were reported for wearing a family's missing clothes. Instead of coming clean and explaining the truth to him, Greg steals the guard's golf cart with his family behind them, and they attempt to take off. Not only do they fail to escape as the guard catches up with them, but this act also convinces him that the Heffley's intentionally stole the other family's clothing to use for themselves and attempted to flee in order to avoid getting caught, and he refuses to listen to any further explanations as he makes them give back the clothing and kicks them out of the resort. | |
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Embarrassing Pyjamas | |
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Embarrassing Pyjamas: Rodrick once pranked Greg by telling him that the next day is "Pyjama Day" at school. Greg later redoes this prank on his friend Rowley. | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_355007c3 | comment |
Brilliant, but Lazy: A lot of Greg's problems in school would be avoided if he weren't so lazy. It's shown in books like Hard Luck and Double Down that Greg can be creative...when he's not forced to be. | |
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The Fellowship Has Ended | |
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The Fellowship Has Ended: Near the end of the book, Rodrick's band breaks up and Bill gets a job with another band (although he comes back after they fire him) while the other two musicians accept that they are never going to be rock stars and enroll in college and go to work at the deli, respectively. Downplayed in the sense that Rodrick and Bill are revealed to have reformed the band on the final page. | |
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Trip Trap | |
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Trip Trap: Greg does this prank on Rowley's dad, tripping him with a wire while he's walking home. He doesn't understand why Rowley's dad doesn't find it funny. | |
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Bizarre Human Biology | |
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Bizarre Human Biology: Fregley can blow a bubble out his belly button. | |
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Karmic Butt-Monkey | |
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Karmic Butt-Monkey: Greg is an egotistical, smart-alecky Dirty Coward who often doesn't give a damn about others. He usually ends up paying for it whenever he steps out of line in any way, especially when he tries to hide what he's done. Although in some of the later books, bad things happen to him for no reason, even if it's not (directly) karmic. | |
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What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? | |
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What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Invoked. The pool party features a movie screening that appears to be a Jaws knockoff, to the terror of all the little kids in the pool. | |
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Parody of Evolution | |
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Parody of Evolution: Greg illustrates how humans have come to depend on the comforts of modern life with a parody of "The March of Progress", in which the upright-walking human is followed by Greg wrapped in a blanket playing video games. | |
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Chekhov's Gift | |
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Chekhov's Gift: Greg gets a "Ladybug" phone that can only call home and 911 as a birthday present. At the end, he calls 911 with it because he thought Frank was going to sell him. | |
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Bile Fascination | |
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Bile Fascination: In-Universe — Greg and his dad can't resist reading the dreadful newspaper comic Li'l Cutie (a parody of The Family Circus) just to see how bad it is. (One of the captions for a Li'l Cutie comic is "Daddy, is rain just God sweating?") | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: A good example of the cynical attitude in the books is the Hero Points story. The teachers start giving Hero Points to kids whenever they catch them doing good deeds, and the points can be exchanged for rewards like extra recess time. Not even this manages to make them nicer: most decide to fake good deeds when teachers are around, or just buy counterfeit Hero Points. After the program is shut down due to the rampant counterfeiting, Greg remarks that "now that extra recess is off the table nobody's willing to do anything nice". | |
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Heavy Sleeper | |
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Heavy Sleeper: Greg and Rodrick, but the latter especially—in fact, Greg claims that Rodrick ended up sleeping for 36 hours straight during one autumn (from Sunday night to Tuesday morning) and didn't realize that he missed an entire day of his life until he couldn't find Monday Night Football on Tuesday evening. | |
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Your Tomcat Is Pregnant | |
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Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: In a flashback, Aunt Gretchen told the Heffleys that her rabbit, one of the many pets she offered them to look over, was male. The Heffleys weren't happy when it gave birth to a litter. | |
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Embarrassing Old Photo | |
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Embarrassing Old Photo: Rodrick once fell asleep in a hot tub, getting his skin wrinkly for two weeks, and got his picture taken a few days later. | |
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Teens Are Monsters | |
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Teens Are Monsters: Besides the bullies at school, a lot of teenagers outside of Greg's school are portrayed as juvenile delinquents. Also, Rodrick, as an older teen, often acts aggressive and reckless. Frank believes this up to eleven and is noticeably more upfront with Greg after he turns 13 in the webcomic. | |
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Pac-Man Fever | |
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Pac Man Fever: Arcades are shown to be still culturally relevant in Dog Days and Cabin Fever where Greg tries to get the high score in an arcade game and Greg trying to make an arcade game for a holiday festival respectively. Greg is shown to own what resembles a Nintendo 64 in most books Additionally, video games are depicited to be 80s style Shmups most of the time. | |
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Intentional Mess Making | |
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Intentional Mess Making: In "The Meltdown", the pig is mad at the Heffleys for having excluded him from their vacation in the previous book. Greg mentions that he had been taking his anger out on the family by destroying things, like knocking over a potted plant. In "The Last Straw", Frank unknowingly throws Manny's Security Blanket Tingy in the trash. Manny gets back at him by wrecking his Civil War battlefield diorama. | |
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Namesake Gag | |
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Namesake Gag: Greg goes over the story of the man who invented the toilet, Thomas Crapper. He then hopes he made a lot of money from it, since he wouldn't want a synonym for defecating named after him. Cue an illustration of a man saying to his roommate: | |
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Diaries Are Girly | |
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Diaries Are Girly: Greg insists on calling his diary a journal, despite the cover saying otherwise, to avoid being called a sissy. Rowley, on the other hand, proudly owns a diary that's clearly designed for little girls, a "Sweet Secrets Diary" that has hearts on the cover. Greg is desperate to find out what Rowley writes about, but the cover has a lock on it, so Greg convinces his Dad to buy an identical diary so he can use the key to open Rowley's. Mr. Heffley, unaware of this plan, is not happy about this. | |
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Character Development | |
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Rowley was simply gullible and slow on the uptake before becoming a kiddy kid. This Flanderization is countered by his Character Development, however; The Third Wheel even implies that he is maturing faster than Greg is. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Greg mentions that, at some point, the Löded Diper van got rear-ended and Rodrick can't use its back doors. How exactly it happened and what occurred next is unknown. | |
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Took a Level in Kindness | |
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Took a Level in Kindness: Rodrick towards Greg, that is. In this book he's never seen bullying Greg like in the older books. The closest thing to it is the band making Greg carrying their stuff so that they don't have to do so themselves. When Greg later demands to be payed for his services in the band Rodrick doesn't even object and immediately accepts it. | |
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One-Episode Fear | |
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One-Episode Fear: Greg is afraid of wasps in this book. | |
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Cast of Snowflakes | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_3e848d5c | comment |
Cast of Snowflakes: Background characters throughout the series are very rarely recycled. | |
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Gotta Pass the Class | |
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Gotta Pass the Class: Greg has to finish all of his missing assignments or else he has to go to summer school. | |
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Absurdly Powerful Student Council | |
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Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Greg wins a bid to be principal for a day, which in real life is generally a ceremonial position with some limited responsibilities, like being a student council member. Nonetheless, the school secretary asks him to sign checks, the janitors can get extra days off from him, and a teacher asks him for a better parking space. Greg lampshades that he isn't sure if he actually has any binding authority to do this, but none of the adults seem to think otherwise. | |
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Faked Rip Van Winkle | |
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Faked Rip Van Winkle: Rodrick's "you slept through summer vacation" prank on Greg. In the movie he doesn't explain why the summer has ended, he just counts on Greg being too sleepy to know. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: In-universe, Greg's class watches a video called "It's Great To Be Me" about how you should be happy about who you are. All the kids at Greg's school (most of whom are bullies) misinterpret it as "it's fine to be a jerk if you're already one". The illustration emphasizes his point by showing a bully shoving a kid to the floor and saying, "It's great to be me!" and his friend laughing. | |
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Property Line | |
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Property Line: It turns out that an extension to the Heffleys' house is over their neighbor's property line, so they have to tear it down and patch up the hole in the wall. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Rodrick tells Greg about "sewer wasps" that come out of the toilet. Greg believes him and is very cautious when he goes to the bathroom. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Löded Diper doesn't win the Battle of the Bands competition and Rodrick's main band members quit to pursue their own ambitions. On the plus side, Bill reconciles with him and the two begin reforming the original Löded Diper, while Rodrick's favorite band, Metallichihuahua, is back in the music business and better then ever, indirectly saving the latter from a lawsuit involving his band's name. Greg is also relieved that the whole debacle is over, and refuses to get involved in a rock band's life again. | |
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FilmOfTheBook | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_40f3b23a | comment |
Film of the Book: Actually, film of the book of the webcomic. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Li'l Cutie, a ridiculously saccharine newspaper cartoon about a cute little boy. One example of its style is a panel where the titular cute child asks "Daddy, is rain just God sweating?" This is the only thing that Greg and Frank agree to hate. | |
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Big Brother Bully | |
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Big Brother Bully: Greg details various mean things Rodrick has done to him, from punching him to pushing him off a diving board to stealing his food. | |
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Ambiguous Ending | |
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Ambiguous Ending: It's never revealed in this book or the later books whether Greg tells his family that the key to the locker at the water park was in his shorts after all, which would have saved everyone so much trouble had it been found earlier, or not. | |
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Sibling Team | |
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Sibling Team: The Marlee sisters, who live in Greg's neighborhood and will attack anybody or anything that comes into their yard. | |
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Downplayed Trope | |
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Greg complains about a kid copying his lemonade stand even though making one wasn't his idea in the first place — his father did the same thing as a child and suggested it to him. Downplayed, since Frank suggested this explicitly so that Greg could make his own, whereas the other kid saw their work and emulated them with a bigger budget. | |
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Compressed Hair | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_43175028 | comment |
Compressed Hair: The Suck E. Cheese's security guard has quite a mass of hair under his cap, although it is a pretty bulky cap. This makes it harder to realize that he is the former Metalchihuahuas bassist until he takes off his cap to reveal his trademark spiky hair while watching the Battle of the Bands. | |
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man | |
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manny and Rowley (Sensitive), Rodrick (Manly), and Greg (Manly to Manny and Rowley, Sensitive to Rodrick). | |
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Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book | |
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Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Fregley is the master of squick without even trying. | |
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Gag Nose | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_4560b6bb | comment |
Gag Nose: Many background characters are drawn with one. | |
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Middle School Is Miserable | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_45ab69e6 | comment |
Middle School Is Miserable: This trope is one of the codifiers. The series pulls no punches in its portrayal of middle school as a nightmare where pubescent awkwardness reigns and everyone is a dick. Protagonist Greg Heffley (who's hardly immune himself) even says as much in the first book, noting that the mix of pubescent and prepubescent students is a natural recipe for disaster. Although it's noted more than once that Greg's school is an exceptionally bad one, with the worst test scores in the state, and literally falling to ruin in No Brainer due to loss of funding and staff layoffs. | |
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Mistaken for Thief | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_461aad62 | comment |
Mistaken for Thief: How the Heffley's get kicked out of the resort initially, as they used clothes that they got in a wrong suitcase to get access to the country club there. They were planning on returning them after they left the club, but the family of the original suitcase spots them and assumes that they stole it to gain special privileges. This causes the Heffley's to be ordered to return the clothing to the owners, and the security guard who caught them drove them to the airport, as the resort does not tolerate "theft." | |
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In-Universe | |
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Then later In-Universe. Greg creates a comic called 'Creighton the Cretin', which focuses on the titular idiot. When he gets published, the published comic (where Creighton eats his maths test) is turned into a blatant ad for the local school library. He promptly quits, and when Rowley takes his place, the published Zoo-Wee Mama comic is published without edits. Greg is understandably pissed. | |
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Mistaken for Flatulence | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_47002c8f | comment |
Mistaken for Flatulence: When Greg pranks his great-grandma, Gammie, with a Whoopee Cushion, everyone at the dinner thinks she actually farted, even Gammie herself. In her apology letter, she wonders if her latest surgery made her gassier. | |
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GenkiGuy | |
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In "Cabin Fever", Greg berates Rowley for skipping. Rowley thinks that Greg is jealous of him for not being able to skip, but Greg actually just thinks skipping looks stupid. However, Rowley was right in the assumption that Greg can't skip. | |
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FloatingTimeline | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_47ef424c | comment |
This was the reason why everyone had to be recast for the film adaptation of The Long Haul, since a Floating Timeline doesn't translate well and age is an unstoppable factor. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Rodrick really gets it bad during his shift at the Old-Timey Ice Cream Parlor; he's initially stuck taking the trash out and getting embarrassed by Susan's attempts for the Heffleys to stick by him as long as possible when they visit him at work. The manager then "promotes" him to the position of the parlor's mascot, Old-Timey Tobias, and poor Rodrick suffers Produce Pelting and attacks left and right by angry kids. And on the night Greg is taken to the restaurant to celebrate his seemingly great academic process, Rodrick's attempt to take the carpool lane to go to work faster is a disaster and ends with the police having his trusty Löded Diper van towed away, leaving him an open target for passing kids while walking on the side of the road. Thankfully, he does not lose his job over this. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: Played for Laughs with the Cheese Touch. It's just a slice of expired swiss cheese that somehow became the basis of an Urban Legend in Westmore Middle School. Anyone who touches it or a victim of the moldy cheese becomes infected with the Cheese Touch, causing everyone to scream in a blind panic as they try to get away from the "infected". The only cure to the Cheese Touch is to pass on its "curse" to someone else. After Abe Hall moved out as the last person cursed by the Cheese Touch, the remaining students swore to never go near the cheese again in hopes that the curse would end with Abe. | |
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Road Trip Plot | |
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Road Trip Plot: The first third or so of the book is about a road trip the Heffleys go on before sticking with the RV park for the remainder of the plot. | |
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Episode on a Plane | |
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Episode on a Plane: Part of the book deals with Greg's first plane ride. He is seated between a family with a baby, has fantasies about everything that could go wrong, has a bathroom break ruined by turbulence, and is not happy with only getting pretzels for food. | |
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Foul Ball Pit | |
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Foul Ball Pit: The family-style restaurant Corny's has a play area with a large ball-pit and a plastic tube area with slides. Manny got stuck in the tube area and was too scared to come out, so Greg had to rescue him since he was the only person in the family that could fit inside the tubes. It was difficult for him to find his way around there, and when he got inside, a kid had vomited and all the other children were running away. The tubes smelled like dirty socks so heavily that Greg had to throw out his favorite pair of jeans, because he couldn't wash out the smell no matter how hard he tried. | |
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Special Effect Failure | |
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Special Effect Failure: In-universe where Greg tries to create a homemade horror movie on No Budget: Rowley is the only actor, and has to act for many. Since Greg has no video editing skills, this means that no scene in the movie can feature more than one character. Rowley plays an unnnamed woman. Unfortunately, he refuses to wear a dress, and they don't have a wig for him. He ends up wearing yoga pants and a hooded sweater, and having the character never show her face. They try to make a scene in which an unnamed man tries to take a shower, but worms come out instead of water. Greg can't find a way to make it looks natural, and settles for throwing gummy worms at Rowley's face and hoping it'll look realistic once they make the final cut. They use ketchup as fake blood. Discussed when Greg points out that he still hasn't figured out how to film the climax of the movie, which would feature a battle against a giant worm. Sadly, they never get around to attempting this scene at all. | |
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"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate | |
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"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate: Greg goes fishing with a group of kids who get into a heated argument over whether it would be more difficult to fight a person with the head of a shark or a shark with the head of a person. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: Downplayed as we're talking about a non-physical contest here, but some people in the "last one to take their hand off a truck wins it" competition play fairly dirty in order to sabotage others. One woman sings loudly and out of tune, a man starts reading from the phone book, and someone else even puts expired tuna in his mouth, and breathes into other people's faces in order to try and stink them out. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Greg lampshades that it seems he's been in Middle School forever. That book represents the fourth time we've seen Greg start a school year and each successive book spans a shorter period of time (the first being a year, the latter books spanning months or weeks). Then again, it's pretty normal for some schools to consider Middle School as being up to the 9th or (on MUCH rarer occasions) even 10th grade. | |
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Really Fond of Sleeping | |
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Really Fond of Sleeping: This applies to all three Heffley brothers: Greg dislikes waking up early and often takes naps in the afternoon to feel rested. Rodrick likes napping even more than Greg and once accidentally napped for a day and a half. Manny hates being woken up from his naps. | |
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Be Yourself | |
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Be Yourself: This stock aesop is discussed and mocked, where one chapter has Greg complain about his class watching a movie titled It's Great to Be Me and how the message of being fine just the way you are and not needing to change anything about yourself is a terrible lesson to tell the kids in his school. His point is proven by an illustration of two bullies declaring "It's great to be me" while beating up another kid. | |
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Nobody Likes a Tattletale | |
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Nobody Likes a Tattletale: When Greg and Rodrick were little kids, they used to tattle on each other so often that their mom gave them a toy turtle called the Tattle Turtle that they could tell their problems to instead of her. It worked in Rodrick's favor, because he could do things like steal all the money from Greg's piggy bank and Greg couldn't tell their mom. Greg is not happy with the fact that Manny's constantly ratting him out. He notes that he used to be a tattletale until the day he was cured of the habit; he overheard Rodrick swearing, so he spelled it out and Susan gave him the Soap Punishment and didn't punish Rodrick for saying it first. | |
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Spiteful Spit | |
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Spiteful Spit: The Plainview-Slacksville rivalry dates back so far, it's tradition in Plainville elders to spit whenever they just mention Slacksview, illustrated with a pair of seniors spitting when one of them says he has to go to Slacksville to fix his vacuum cleaner. | |
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Buy or Get Lost | |
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Buy or Get Lost: While stuck out of their homes in the freezing weather outside due to their parents intervening, Greg and Rowley attempt to hide out in a pizza parlor to keep warm by the kitchen oven, but the owner made them leave once he figured out that they only came in for the heat. But the next day, the two boys decide to come in again and buy a meal this time, so they could bask in the warmth of the newly baked product. The owner is visibly not amused at them taking advantage of this escape clause. | |
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"Scooby-Doo" Hoax | |
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"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Downplayed. While there is no disguise involved, the Urban Legend of deranged murderer Silas Scratch was invented by Frank Heffley to frighten his fellow campers away from the maintenance shed so he wouldn't have to share its running water and electricity. | |
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SickeningSweethearts | |
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Sickening Sweethearts: This is the reason why there's a couples table at the school's cafeteria. The couples will be acting so sweet to each other that no one would stand being near the table. Towards the end of the book, Greg gets a sick feeling when he has to take Rowley and Abigail's picture for the school catalog and sees that the two had been voted the cutest couple. | |
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The Dentist Episode | |
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The Dentist Episode: Greg changes dentists. He is very uncomfortable with his new dentist, whose office is full of unsettling posters and tools. He has X-rays taken, but bites on the dentist's finger instead of the thing he's supposed to. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: The Heffleys' vacation to Isla de Corales is ruined by Contrived Coincidences and bad luck; Rodrick is left with severe sunburns and finds out his new girlfriend is cheating on him, Manny loses all of the animals he tried to take home as pets, the resort is left in shambles, and the Heffleys have been banned from Isla de Corales, which is now trying to actively track them down, meaning Frank and Susan can't return to the place they had their honeymoon for some time. The only one who gets what they want, ironically, is Greg, who briefly gets to swim with the dolphins, the thing he wanted to do the most, while fleeing from the local police and to add salt to the wound, The Meltdown reveals this led to the Pig running away. | |
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Author Tract | |
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Author Tract: The book begins with Greg ranting about climate change. | |
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Lazy Bum | |
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Greg: phlegmatic | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The story takes place over an entire school year - later entries would take place over a few months or even only about a week. There is also not much of an underlying "theme" or a story arc, therefore it comes off as more of a Random Events Plot compared to the later books. While the book establishes its trademark illustrations, at one point, one of them is on the bottom right corner of a page rather than a part/half of a page. This is something the books never did again. | |
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Playing a Tree | |
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Playing a Tree: Greg is a tree in his school's production of The Wizard of Oz. Subverted in that he wanted this role (it meant he got to throw apples at Dorothy AKA Patty Farrel), in part because he didn't want to be in the show but was forced to audition by his mom. Another student gets the role of a shrub due to more students auditioning for the play than there are roles. He ends up delaying the start of the play due to stage fright. Greg even comments on how ridiculous the whole situation was. In the movie adaptation, Greg wanted a main role in the play to make Rowley jealous. He can sing extremely well, but he's a male soprano. The theatre director said the only soprano parts in the play were Dorothy (Patty quickly made her drop that idea) and the Trees. | |
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The Swear Jar | |
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The Swear Jar: Susan sets one up because Manny is learning too many bad words from Rodrick and Greg. And Manny gets the money. | |
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Tabloid Melodrama | |
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Tabloid Melodrama: Greg discusses avoiding this at the top of the book as a key reason he'd rather not be famous. But if someone like Rowley were to become famous and Greg rides his coattails, the latter will gladly take advantage of it to sell gossip about the former to the press! This is one reason Greg goes along with becoming the band's roadie. | |
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Annoyingly Repetitive Child | |
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Annoyingly Repetitive Child: In Dog Days, Manny tries to pass the time in the car by telling lame jokes. At first, his parents play along with it, but as time goes on, even they become annoyed by his nonstop jokes. Two examples in The Last Straw; Manny the toddler calls Greg (his middle school-aged brother) "ploopy"note Or "pootie" in the original webcomic as a childish insult. Greg approaches Susan when she's on the phone to tell her about what Manny said and says, "Mom?" several times. She is quite annoyed by this interruption and asks what that even means, which throws him for a loop. Manny then continues to call him a "ploopy" for the rest of the day. (Though he isn't quite so pleased when Greg calls him that later.) In The Ugly Truth, the middle school boys are having a sleepover at the school. One of them farts loudly every once in a while, and Mr. Palmero gets tired of this, so he orders the students to cut loose behind the curtain. The guys then take this opportunity to make fake flatulent sounds such as Blowing a Raspberry or playing a low note on a tuba for quite a while. | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: A chain of events at the fall concert leads to Rowley playing the flute while coloring in Greg's underpants in the band room. Frank interrupts and grounds Greg, accusing him of "goofing off." | |
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Wearing It All Wrong | |
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Wearing It All Wrong: In "Hard Luck", Fregley has a hard time putting on a shirt and ends up with his head sticking out of an arm hole. "Old School" has Greg put his socks on over his shoes because he can't remember which order they go in. | |
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Escalating War | |
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Escalating War: The climax of The Meltdown ends up being about this, as the different factions of kids' in Greg's neighborhood go to war over long-simmering tensions on a snow day— soon all sorts of other factions join and it devolves into a massive free-for-all, which is ended by the snowplow coming up the road and blindsiding everybody. | |
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At Least I Admit It | |
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Grandpa, however, will tell you straight up who his favorite is. | |
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Clingy Child | |
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Clingy Child: Greg once mentions that the extremely neurotic Julian was the type to get extra upset whenever he was dropped off at school. One time, he clung to his mother so tightly that it took the vice principal to pry him off her. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: Greg and Rowley sneak into Gramma's house while she's gone so that they can get warm. Greg figures that they could warm their clothes in the dryer in the basement, but since they’re naked otherwise, they decide to use some of Gramma's clothes. Cue Greg's mom walking in on them. Initially, it seems that she’s in Tranquil Fury that they went into Gramma's house without permission to do shenanigans, but she later sits down with Greg to tell him that it's okay for boys to "play pretend" and that it's part of growing up. Greg doesn't understand what she means, but it's obvious to older readers what she was thinking. | |
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Horrible Camping Trip | |
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Horrible Camping Trip: The perils encountered here include a curious bear, roving skunks, flaming marshmallows and a flash flood. | |
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Women Are Wiser | |
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Women Are Wiser: By this point, the Safety Patrol at the school consists only of girls, because boys would either quit or be kicked out, or in the case of the last two, get into a snowball fight with each other in front of the Elementary School. The girls also take their jobs seriously and report anyone who so much as steps out of line. | |
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No True Scotsman | |
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No True Scotsman: One of the kids from the hill section of Surrey Street, Trevor Nix, later moved down to a bigger house on the flat section of it. But the kids who already lives on the lower part considers him to still be a hill kid and won't let him play outside with them, while the hill kids view him as traitor, so he has nowhere to play and has to sit inside all day. | |
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Lucky Charms Title | |
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Lucky Charms Title: The U in Hard Luck is a horseshoe. | |
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Growing Up Sucks | |
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Greg's great-grandmother Gammie gives him "the talk" about how he should enjoy his childhood and not rush to grow up. She mentions that getting to be her age isn't fun, and starts talking about hemorrhoids and shingles. When she starts rolling down a sock to show him, he quickly leaves the room. | |
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Hero of Another Story | |
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Hero of Another Story: Greg makes a brief reference to some Intrepid Reporters who found proof that a former principal embezzled thousands of dollars from the school. One of the school reporters breaks the story about the school facing closure after spending a week eavesdropping on the teachers from the nurse's office. | |
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Failure Montage | |
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Failure Montage: Greg mentions having tried out for previous Field Days at school, playing a variety of sports. Cue three consecutive illustrations of him on his 32nd strike in baseball, accidentally falling off the diving block on a swim team, and failing to block a puck in hockey. He mentions that he's been trying to block out these memories. | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Gary and Frank are this to a T: Gary is a Manchild who can’t hold down a job or a marriage, but he’s also a Cool Uncle. Frank is more mature and has a steady job and a family, but he’s also stuffy and acts like he’s far older than he really is. As expected, Frank doesn’t really like Gary, although Gary is nicer to Frank. Their brother Joe is a combination: He has a family and career and is mature, but is fun loving and comedic. While Frank is annoyed by him, he does seem to like him. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: The snow war starts with the Upper Surrey Street kids vs. each other, then all the Upper Surrey Street kids vs. the Lower Surrey Street kids, then all the Surrey Street kids vs. the Safety Patrols, then the Whirley Street kids join the fight and it turns into a free-for-all, and then finally the entire neighborhood vs. the Mingo kids. | |
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Five-Second Rule | |
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Five-Second Rule: Exploited by some students. They decide that you can eat food off the floor within five seconds, even if it isn't yours. This leads to one of them getting sick after eating a piece of ham that had been on the floor for way more than five seconds. | |
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More Hypnotizable Than He Thinks | |
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More Hypnotizable Than He Thinks: After a school assembly featuring a hypnotist, a kid who thinks he was a fake tries hypnotizing two other kids into thinking they're superglued together. It works a little too well, and they have to track down the hypnotist at his job to unstick them. | |
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Autopilot Artistry | |
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Autopilot Artistry: In Big Shot, Greg learns he can only make a shot in basketball when he throws it backwards. | |
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Ambiguous Syntax | |
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Ambiguous Syntax: When Greg is talking about his uncle Gary's previous marriages, an illustration is shown of Gary and his second wife Lydia discussing finances. Lydia says she has thirty five or forty thousand dollars in her bank account, to which Gary says he "has forty-five". Lydia thinks he means forty-five thousand dollars, but as Greg mentions in his narration, Uncle Gary only has forty-five dollars total. This ambiguity leads directly to their getting divorced. | |
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"Truman Show" Plot | |
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"Truman Show" Plot: Greg wonders if the world really does revolve around him and thinks that people are watching him on TV. This leads to situations such as him inventing a Catchphrase, Greg wondering if his family members are actors or robots, Greg suggesting new plots to the "writers" by talking into a mirror, and doing funny things to make sure people keep watching. | |
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Gift for an Outgrown Interest | |
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Gift for an Outgrown Interest: Greg and his brothers are left with their Grandpa Heffley when their parents go out of town. Grandpa follows an instruction book the parents wrote, but it was written years ago, when Greg and Rodrick were still small children and Manny hadn't been born yet. For example, Grandpa only puts on Edutainment Shows, which the twelve-year-old Greg doesn't like. | |
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Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films | |
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Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: Greg and Rowley watch a B-Movie called Hello, You're Dead that they found in Rodrick's room, featuring a muddy hand. Rowley has his eyes covered the whole movie. Greg doesn't find the movie all that scary... until the end, when the "muddy hand" crawls straight to the screen, meaning the "hand" is coming for the viewer next. | |
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Easily Embarrassed Youngster | |
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Easily Embarrassed Youngster: Greg is extremely easily-embarrassed, which is why he can be bossy (believing nonconformity is a no-go) and a lot of the comedy comes from him getting into embarrassing situations. | |
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Meaningful Background Event | |
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Meaningful Background Event: On Page 171, Manny can be seen swimming underwater with a bucket in hand. Seven pages later, we find out what he put in said bucket... | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: After the puberty unit in health class, Rowley starts avoiding the older kids at school because he thinks he's going to "catch puberty" from them, as if it's a disease. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: The concept of luck. The grown-ups become obsessed with finding Meemaw's wedding ring, hoping to find the lucky egg. Soon after, Greg starts using a Magic 8-Ball, becoming dependent on it for every decision. He eventually gets mad at it and throws it in his grandma's backyard, but goes back to retrieve it, and it leads him right to Meemaw's wedding ring. | |
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Human Snowman | |
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Human Snowman: The cover for The Meltdown has Greg as one. In the book proper, Fregley is seen as one when Greg passes by him while walking to Rowley's house. | |
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Pest Episode | |
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Pest Episode: Subplots involve the Heffleys dealing with wasps and rats. Greg wishes that his house would be infested by something cute like koalas. | |
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Answer to Prayers | |
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Answer to Prayers: In "Dog Days", Greg claims that whenever his grandmother can't find something, she prays and it appears. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
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Greg makes a brief reference to some Intrepid Reporters who found proof that a former principal embezzled thousands of dollars from the school. | |
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Not Allowed to Grow Up | |
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Not Allowed to Grow Up: Greg started middle school in the first book and stays there. Jeff Kinney is on record saying Greg will be in middle school forever. This was the reason why everyone had to be recast for the film adaptation of The Long Haul, since a Floating Timeline doesn't translate well and age is an unstoppable factor. | |
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Slipping into Stink | |
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Slipping into Stink: Greg steps in dog poop and mentions that "normally, [he finds] poop as funny as the next guy," recalling laughing at people walking and almost tripping into horse poop. | |
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Germans Love David Hasselhoff | |
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Germans Love David Hasselhoff: In-Universe; Sebastian Sleeves claims that he's been living off on money from royalty checks he gets from the Metallichihuahua Pups cartoon still airing in Denmark. | |
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Brainy Pig | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_614d9a06 | comment |
Brainy Pig: The Heffleys accidentally winding up adopting a piglet. The piglet turns out to be very smart; he can use a potty, and in the next book, "Old School", he even learns to walk on his hind legs, use the TV remote, and communicate with Manny's See-n-Say. | |
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Dream Sequence | |
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Dream Sequence: A small scene in the book is Greg recalling various strange dreams he has had: one about sneezing his teeth out, one where he's a turtle, one where he is made to walk the plank, one where he grows a tail, and another that is just some space non-sense. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Lenwood Heath was the biggest troublemaker in the Heffley's neighborhood, and Frank's biggest enemy. His enrollment at Spag Union changed him for the better, leading Frank to consider sending Greg there. | |
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Sequelitis | |
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Sequelitis: In-universe with the Slumber Party Pals series. Greg thinks the first 30 books were good, but that the quality went downhill when the author ran out of ideas. Volume #87 is titled Lindsey Loses a Mitten. | |
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Losing Your Head | |
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Losing Your Head: Greg's bizarre dream involves himself kicking his own head, which is shouting, "Mustards on my turnips, please!" | |
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Shrunken Head | |
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Shrunken Head: While one doesn't physically appear, Rodrick asks for one on his Christmas list. This is normal for him. | |
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Grub Tub | |
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Grub Tub: Manny's idea for home renovation is to have a pool filled with chocolate pudding. | |
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Kids Are Cruel | |
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Kids Are Cruel: This is middle school, so kids mock, bully, and humiliate each other for kicks. Greg himself isn't above it; Chirag Gupta will tell you that firsthand. Manny, especially in Cabin Fever, when he leaves the rest of the family to freeze to death. | |
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Pretty Boy | |
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Pretty Boy: Rowley's favorite singer, Joshie, is more or less described as being one of the sort. Emphasized in The Ugly Truth when Rowley goes to a Joshie concert and notices that he is the only boy in the audience. | |
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Multigenerational Household | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_64265de8 | comment |
Multigenerational Household: After the rent at his retirement home was raised, Grandpa moves in with the Heffleys. | |
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Where There's a Will, There's a Sticky Note | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_64aa93cb | comment |
Where There's a Will, There's a Sticky Note: The narration reveals that Greg's great-grandmother, Gammie, is so old that people have started putting sticky notes on her stuff. Greg points out that it's disrespectful before admitting that he also did it himself. | |
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Christmas Creep | |
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Christmas Creep: A "Back to School" variant. Greg discovers a Back to School ad in his newspaper, two months before school actually starts. He thinks that whoever advertised that doesn't like children. | |
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Myspeld Rökband | |
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Myspeld Rökband: Rodrick's band is called Löded Diper (although Greg remarks that his brother probably doesn't know how to spell "Loaded Diaper" anyway). | |
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Injured Limb Episode | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_651ec44d | comment |
Injured Limb Episode: Rowley breaks his left hand falling off a tricycle. This happens in the first movie, too. | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_65bc92fc | comment |
Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Heffley Family Susan: sanguine Frank: choleric Rodrick: melancholic Greg: phlegmatic Manny: eclectic | |
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Easter Episode | |
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Easter Episode: A recurring theme in the book is Greg and his relatives (on his mother's side) who are visiting for Easter looking for a plastic egg in which a dead relative allegedly hid her wedding ring. | |
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Grossout Fakeout | |
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Grossout Fakeout: In "The Long Haul", a raw cinnamon roll explodes in the hot car, and when Rodrick gets some on his head, he thinks it's his brains. When Manny starts licking the dough off his fingers, Rodrick screams. In "Rodrick Rules", Rodrick and his friends put fake throw-up on strangers' cars. In "The Ugly Truth", during the school sleepover, some boys pretend to fart behind the curtain. One of them even uses a tuba. | |
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Children Are a Waste | |
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Children Are a Waste: Greg says that if he has children, he'll send them out of the house as soon as they become old enough to order at fast food restaurants. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Author Avatar: In-universe, Greg's "Hey, People!" comic features a main character that resembles him. | |
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School Play | |
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School Play: Greg's school does a play of The Wizard of Oz. Greg's role is a tree and he only has one word. He's satisfied with how the play goes when he and the other trees start throwing apples at someone, although his parents don't approve. | |
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Children Are Tender-Hearted | |
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Children Are Tender-Hearted: Implied; an illustration shows a younger version of Tyler Post (whom Li'l Cutie is based on) asking his father Bob if a green bean's parents will be sad if he eats it. | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_670db7d7 | comment |
Formula-Breaking Episode: The original gimmick of the series was that it was a cringe-inducingly nostalgic lookback on middle school. As such, this book was unique because it was the first one that took place entirely away from middle school and instead focused solely on Greg's summer vacation. | |
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Games of the Elderly | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_675206b9 | comment |
Games of the Elderly: In the movie adaptation, Greg's grandmother isn't home because it's "Bingo Night". In The Last Straw, Greg invites his grandma over to stay, in order to avoid his dad chewing him out. When she leaves to go to bingo, he comes too, and ends up playing with a bunch of seniors. In Rodrick Rules, Greg's grandpa plays gin rummy with the Heffley boys while staying over with them. | |
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Disgusting Public Toilet | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_67624800 | comment |
Disgusting Public Toilet: In a flashback, Greg talks about when he went to a professional sports match for the first time and had to use a port-a-potty: | |
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Noodle People | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_67f88923 | comment |
Noodle People: Almost everyone. Subverted with Rowley, Mr. Beardo, and a few other minor characters. | |
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Getting Sick Deliberately | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_680f346b | comment |
Getting Sick Deliberately: When the students hear that they can be sent home from Hardscrabble Farms early if they're sick, they try to think of ways to make themselves ill. Melinda eats a lot of the chef's stew, which is made by compiling the campers' leftovers, to give herself indigestion and she gets to go home. Julian eats an entire stick of deodorant and he also gets to go home, though by the time his mother comes to pick him up, he seems to have gotten better, so he may have faked eating it. | |
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Security Blanket | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_687d991e | comment |
In "The Last Straw", Frank unknowingly throws Manny's Security Blanket Tingy in the trash. Manny gets back at him by wrecking his Civil War battlefield diorama. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_68a171b6 | type |
Sadist Show | |
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Sadist Show: The books rely heavily on misfortune and the misery of everyone, but since it's Greg's diary, we see most of his misfortune and misery - he also could be an Unreliable Narrator for all we know. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_69121204 | type |
The Un-Favourite | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_69121204 | comment |
The Un Favourite: Rodrick and Greg always get the short end of the stick, while Manny is pampered and spoiled. Especially Rodrick, more so than Greg (not by much though). | |
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Detention Episode | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_69631eb0 | comment |
Detention Episode: One scene deals with Greg in detention. He is annoyed by the students sitting next to him, but manages to get out early when he tricks the teacher into thinking one of the students punched him. | |
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Big Brother Instinct | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_69681e01 | comment |
Big Brother Instinct: In a rare case of Rodrick actually having a heart in the books, he willingly tried to help Greg to safety when he saw him in serious danger of getting cornered by an angry mob. | |
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Chest Burster | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_69a54df1 | comment |
Chest Burster: Greg gets startled by a sea horse while snorkeling, and in a panic, swallows some water. Worried that he might've accidentally swallowed the seahorse, Greg imagines it bursting out of his midsection at school. | |
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"Take Your Child to Work Day" Plot | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_69c01db4 | comment |
"Take Your Child to Work Day" Plot: Greg's dad takes him to his office job on the designated day. To offset the boring aspect of the work (and let the adults get some work done), they hire clowns to distract the kids. Greg watches his father work, and to get rid of him, he sends Greg to get some snacks. Greg returns with jawbreakers, which Greg's father finds even more distracting. Greg sits in the bathroom to eat, and his parents forget about him at the end of the day, only for him to be discovered by the nighttime janitor. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6a4f3cf7 | type |
Took a Level in Dumbass | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6a4f3cf7 | comment |
Took a Level in Dumbass: While books like Rodrick Rules establish Rodrick as dumber than Greg, he does have moments like tricking Frank into writing his assignments for him, and showing Greg how to avoid Fregley by going through the sewers. In The Long Haul, he locks a pizza in a safe that he confuses for a microwave oven and somehow believes that his brains have been blown out and eaten. Double Down has him applying to dog colleges. Greg notes that he doesn't know if Rodrick doesn't realize they're for dogs, or if they're the only ones he thinks he can get into. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6acebb1e | type |
Mistaken for Insane | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6acebb1e | comment |
Mistaken for Insane: In the first book, Rodrick tricks Greg into thinking it's the first day of school. Frank yells at Greg for waking him up so early in the morning and Greg tells him what Rodrick did. They go to Rodrick's room, where he has fallen asleep so that he won't be suspected, and Greg comments in his narration that Frank probably thinks that Greg "has a screw loose or something". In "The Long Haul", the Heffleys' car gets a flat tire. Two men stop their car and approach them, and since they only speak Spanish, the Heffleys try to non-verbally tell them what happened by pointing to the tire and blowing a raspberry to simulate a deflating sound. Greg notes that the guys probably think they're crazy, at least until Manny notifies them of their situation in Spanish. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: Toilet paper for the students at Greg's school. One candidate for student council president didn't bother campaigning at all and his entire speech was him promising to make the school replace the regular toilet paper with the quilted kind. He won the election by a landslide. It's decided that, since the school doesn't have enough money to replace the toilet paper, kids can bring in their own from home. The kids bring in so much of it, they have to carry bags of the stuff to class with them because it wouldn't fit in their lockers. | |
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Supreme Chef | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6bccf2ba | comment |
Supreme Chef: The school rents a room in a closed-down wing to Mrs. Jackson, a fantastic baker who has customers lined up down the block to buy her muffins and snickerdoodles. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6d1c2b3f | type |
Lip Losses | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6d1c2b3f | comment |
Lip Losses: Discussed in "The Meltdown" when Greg says he wouldn't want to lose his lips to frostbite because he would look like he was smiling at unfitting moments (listing a funeral as an example). | |
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Clueless Chick-Magnet | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6df8075f | comment |
Clueless Chick-Magnet: Rowley. He doesn't seem to be all that interested in girls, yet in Rodrick Rules he's managed to socialize with some of the most popular girls in his year. At the end of The Third Wheel, he ends up in a relationship with Abigail. It doesn't last, but that he'd be used to make another boy jealous is impressive. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6e0e5ba0 | type |
Multiple Choice Form Letter | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6e0e5ba0 | comment |
Multiple Choice Form Letter: The candygram messages used to raise money for the Valentine's Day dance are designed for the giver to fill in their and the recipient's name. Greg tries to cover multiple bases by filling in the blank with one girl's name, then writing in a P.S. telling her that if she doesn't want to go to the dance with him, she should give it to a particular girl who sits nearby. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6e1e6488 | type |
Moving-Away Ending | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6e1e6488 | comment |
Moving-Away Ending: Subverted. The story sets up an ending where Greg and his family would move, but a last-minute disaster strikes and forces the family to stay in their old house after all. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6e37c196 | type |
Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6e37c196 | comment |
Once Done, Never Forgotten: In "Rodrick Rules", Rodrick keeps bringing up "that thing" that happened to Greg over summer (Specifically, he accidentally entered the women's bathroom at a retirement home and was mistaken for a Peeping Tom.) and threatening to tell people about it. In one book, Greg reveals that his classmate Cody gets called Dookie by his classmates, teachers, and even the principal, all because he once stepped in dog poop. One book reveals that Greg's father Frank believes Rowley Jefferson to be accident-prone just because Rowley once broke a plate. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6ef9d3fe | comment |
Christmas Episode: Doubles as a Vacation Episode by having the Heffleys take a Mexican resort vacation to avoid traditional Christmas trappings and hassle. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6fb0f080 | type |
Loud Sleeper Gag | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_6fb0f080 | comment |
Loud Sleeper Gag: While staying at a hotel, Greg reveals that his parents both snore, so he packed some earplugs for this exact reason. However, he can only find one of them in his bag, and has to sleep with his free ear pressed against the floor. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_7128c5cd | type |
Laborious Laces | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_7128c5cd | comment |
Laborious Laces: Rowley is described by his best friend Greg as "one of those kids who are always gonna be a few years behind everyone else maturity-wise." He's in middle school, but doesn't know how to tie his shoes because he still has Velcro instead of laces. Last year, his mom bought him sneakers with laces, and Greg had to help him tie them numerous times. | |
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Feeling the Baby Kick | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_713856 | comment |
Feeling the Baby Kick: As Greg recounts his life before he was born, he mentions that he hated when his parents would kiss, so he would kick to try to get them to stop, but that only made them kiss more. | |
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In Touch with His Feminine Side | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_716645fb | comment |
Rowley, on the other hand, proudly owns a diary that's clearly designed for little girls, a "Sweet Secrets Diary" that has hearts on the cover. Greg is desperate to find out what Rowley writes about, but the cover has a lock on it, so Greg convinces his Dad to buy an identical diary so he can use the key to open Rowley's. Mr. Heffley, unaware of this plan, is not happy about this. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_7286e96d | comment |
"Old School" has Greg put his socks on over his shoes because he can't remember which order they go in. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_72cdfc33 | type |
Big Bad Ensemble | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_72cdfc33 | comment |
Big Bad Ensemble: Greg Heffley has plenty of enemies, mostly bullies or adults that look down on him. Namely Rodrick, Patty, Mr. Jefferson and in Cabin Fever, Manny. The movies make the main villains more clear: Pete Hosey in the first, Bill Walter (the closest you're gonna get) in the second, and Heather Hills and Stan Warren in the third. | |
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Cheaters Never Prosper | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_72d30083 | comment |
Cheaters Never Prosper: In order to get higher grades so they're allowed into the High Flyers Club program, some students resorts to cheating, but they usually end up caught. Adam Katz put a sticker with all the answers on his water bottle during a chemistry test, but he was discovered because it was clear to see what he was doing. And during a science test, Damon Fell made a fake arm to put on his desk while he used his real arm under the desk to look up the answers on his phone, but that fell apart when his phone got a notification. Some kids do get away with their cheating, such as a group of girls who wrote the answers to a history test on the back of their necks and then moved their hair out of the way so the girl sitting behind could see it. And in English, some boys used their pens to communicate in Morse code. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: The book has a cover illustration of Greg holding a cassette tape, which doesn't actually appear in the book. | |
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Dog Got Sent to a Farm | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_73212caf | comment |
Dog Got Sent to a Farm: Greg's father tells him that he used to have a dog named Nutty who ran away to a butterfly farm. Greg's grandfather speaks up and says the truth that he accidentally ran over the dog while backing out of the driveway. | |
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Thermometer Gag | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_7491142c | comment |
Thermometer Gag: After getting his temperature taken by a veterinarian (since it was the only doctor's office the family could find), Greg is informed by Rodrick that they stick the thermometer somewhere else when they check the temperature of animals, and they probably use the same one for all patients. Greg is briefly freaked out, but figures he should take it with a grain of salt since Rodrick's not all that smart, and is eating pellets meant for animals at that moment. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_74a7d2d | type |
Creator's Culture Carryover | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_74a7d2d | comment |
Creator's Culture Carryover: There is an arcade in one scene which is depicted as having retro arcade games from the 2nd to 6th generation and redemption games such as basketball hoops. While this is pretty accurate to Arcades in the United States that don't upgrade their video games and put emphasis on ticket games, most arcades in Latin America put emphasis on newer cabinets from the 7th and 8th generation that put emphasis on fighting games (though they are unoffical cabinets that run on Xbox hardware) | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_74b34280 | type |
Academic Alpha Bitch | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_74b34280 | comment |
In The Last Straw, Patty the Academic Alpha Bitch becomes the classroom monitor and is noted to take her job way too seriously. Greg asks if he can be excused to use the bathroom and she responds with a Blunt "No". | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_759b4c29 | type |
Flush the Evidence | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_759b4c29 | comment |
Flush the Evidence: Greg goes to a lock-in at his middle school where a kid named Jeffery Chang brought a big bag of cheese puffs. Due to a ban on snacks, he locked himself in the boys' bathroom to eat them, but the adults caught on quickly, so Jeffery was forced to flush the cheese puffs down the toilet. | |
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Whoopee Cushion | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_77759d87 | comment |
In one book, Greg pranks his great-grandmother with a Whoopee Cushion, but she doesn't feel it and thinks she genuinely farted. In her apology note, she claims to have had "trouble controlling her body" and wonders if her recent surgery had given her gas. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_7870735b | type |
From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: After the school bans the Commando Crocodile books, there is security added to the entrances checking the students' bags for books in the series, which means it takes a long time to get inside the school. Then, after the kids starts bringing digging tools to the school in hopes of finding Larry Mack's rumored buried money, they start using said tools to dig shortcuts through the walls, which leads to one student digging right into the principal's private bathroom. So now the school searches through their bags for both books and tools, meaning it takes twice as long. | |
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December–December Romance | |
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December–December Romance: Grandpa Heffley is still into dating, as shown in Hard Luck and Old School. Greg's surprised to see this. | |
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Periphery Demographic | |
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Periphery Demographic: An in-universe example: Rowley's favorite musician is a European singer named "Joshie", but Greg looks at the album cover and immediately tells Rowley that Joshie's music is more than likely targeted at eight-year old girls. More or less confirmed in The Ugly Truth, when Rowley talks about the time when he went to a Joshie concert and is the only boy at the concert. (And the only one over 10, to boot.) | |
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The Nose Knows | |
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The Nose Knows: Emilio Mendoza has a keen sense of smell, which more then makes up for his inability to see without any glasses. | |
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New Media Are Evil | |
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New Media Are Evil: Susan makes Greg and Rodrick put their electronic devices in a vault, to be locked for two hours. Greg and Rodrick try to break it, but are unable to. | |
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Imaginary Friend | |
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Imaginary Friend: Manny has many imaginary friends, including Joey, Petey, Danny, Charles Tribble, The Other Charles Tribble, Tiny Jim, and Johnny Cheddar. He mainly uses them as scapegoats and excuses to get extra dessert. | |
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Later-Installment Weirdness | |
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Later-Installment Weirdness: Since The Long Haul, the books are usually single events rather than the usual random plot-relevant events. Double Down and The Meltdown avert this. | |
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All Guys Want Cheerleaders | |
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All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Greg wants to be elected treasurer so he can use his power to do favors for the cheerleaders. | |
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Superstition Episode | |
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Superstition Episode: The main plot of the book is Greg getting a Magic 8 Ball and using it to make decisions for him. He just wants something to answer all his questions for him and acts upon its responses. | |
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Cultural Translation | |
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Cultural Translation: When Greg's family watches the Olympics, Manny is holding an American flag. In some translations of the book, Manny holds the country's respective flag (colored in black and white), such as a striped flag in the Spanish version and the United Kingdom flag in UK releases. | |
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Slice of Life | |
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Slice of Life: The entire series is written around the perspective of an average teenager. | |
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Car Radio Dispute | |
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Car Radio Dispute: Frank says that only the driver gets to control the radio station. Greg likes sitting in the front seat besides needing to listen to his country music. Later, when Frank gives Rodrick the lead to drive over a high bridge, he sets it to heavy metal, which makes Frank uncomfortable. | |
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Vague Age | |
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In "The Ugly Truth", it's mentioned that Greg's younger cousin Benjy (who is either a toddler or a baby) is already reading chapter books. | |
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Out-of-Context Eavesdropping | |
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In "Dog Days", Greg overhears Frank talking about giving someone away and wonders if he's talking about him. Later, he looks in Frank's schedule and finds that it has "Sell Greg" written in it (it's implied Rodrick wrote that). When Frank tells him to get in the car because he has a surprise for him, Greg panics and calls the cops on him. Then it's revealed that Frank was actually planning to take Greg to a baseball game and he even got front-row seats. However, Frank no longer has the energy to attend the game and gives their tickets to the cops. Also, Frank was going to give their dog Sweetie away. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Rodrick's bandmates are all angry with him near the end of the book: Bill is mad at him for making him break up with Becky and showing No Sympathy to his heartbreak, Mackie's fed up with Rodrick's poor practice scheduling, and Drew's upset... because Bill and Becky's break-up means that there will be no free donuts for them anymore. | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed with Kenny Keith; he's still a Jerk Jock who frames Greg for scaring Mr. Litch with the car's horn, but most of his actions thereafter from the webcomic have been omitted. | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Greg. The movies downplay this a bit and make him a more fleshed out Jerk with a Heart of Gold, so if we take the movies as to what really happens behind the scenes, then Greg really needs to work on writing himself better in his journals. | |
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Bratty Half-Pint | |
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Bratty Half-Pint: Manny throws tantrums over things such as having mustard applied on his hot dog "wrongly" (he wants it vertically down the middle, not horizontally across) and not having his sandwich cut into slices. | |
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Artistic License – Animal Care | |
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Artistic License – Animal Care: A monkey is regularly served at a swim-up bar. This is frowned upon in real life, as even if they were serving it safely (such as with bananas rather than alcohol), there would be concerns over it attacking human patrons. | |
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Chickenpox Episode | |
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Chickenpox Episode: During the book, there's an outbreak of chicken pox, stemming from local Kidanova Evan Whitehead. Greg is surprised that you can even still get chicken pox anymore. Later, Greg and Rowley are about to go to a school dance, but Greg sees that Rowley has a few red bumps on his face. Thinking that he's gotten chicken pox, Greg has him wear a hat and a scarf to cover it up. At the dance, Greg sees that Abigail has a red bump by her lip and freaks out, fearing that she's gotten it too. As it turns out, neither of them had chicken pox and they were just zits. Ironically, Greg himself gets chickenpox at the end of the book. | |
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Artistic License – Law | |
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Artistic License – Law: No health laws would allow Hardscrabble Farms to serve the stew to the campers, given that the "stew" is actually leftovers combined into one pot, and they use the same pot from over thirty years ago. The stew even gave a camper indigestion. Other aspects of the camp clearly violate health and hygiene code. The pancakes were hard enough to break someone's teeth. There was no running water to allow campers to properly wash themselves as water had to be transported via a bucket from a river during a challenge (and they apparently have only one shot to do so), which could contain leeches and other things you wouldn't want pouring over you in the shower. The mattresses on the bed had weird stains on them while the floor inside the cabins was extremely filthy. | |
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Middle Child Syndrome | |
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Middle Child Syndrome: Greg. His older brother Rodrick frequently bullies him and gets away with it through intimidation and covering his tracks. Meanwhile, his younger brother Manny makes himself a pest, but Greg can't do anything to him without getting into trouble with his parents. | |
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Oblivious Guilt Slinging | |
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Oblivious Guilt Slinging: According to Greg, Gammie does this whenever he tries to prank her. For instance, after putting a Whoopee Cushion on Gammie's chair, everyone (including Gammie herself) thinks she actually farted, which leads her to write an apology letter to the entire family. | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons: Greg's assumption that Abigail is using Rowley is clearly only out of jealousy, but it actually ends up being correct: she was only dating him to make her ex-boyfriend jealous. | |
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Trojan Veggies | |
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Trojan Veggies: According to Greg, Rowley's mom is "one of those moms who sneaks healthy food into your snacks." She puts spinach in her brownies, but she doesn't hide them very well, as Greg can immediately tell they have spinach in them when he takes a bite. The first time Rowley had a regular brownie was at Greg's house, and he spit it out in surprise. | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The series is loosely implied to take place in the United States, but as the Movie Diary puts it, "you don't know if they live along the West Coast, or the East Coast, or somewhere in the middle." | |
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Noah's Story Arc | |
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Noah's Story Arc: Early in the book, Greg discusses the story of Noah's Ark. He says that if he were Noah, he would've left off animals like scorpions and kept more puppies and pandas. The climax of the book sees Greg and his family trying to escape (and eventually save) people from a flood. | |
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Small Town Rivalry | |
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Small Town Rivalry: Greg's hometown of Plainview has an ugly feud with a neighboring town named Slacksville ever since Slacksville (supposedly) used bribery to get a profitable factory built in their town instead of Plainview. They are bitter sports rivals, but it goes deeper than that. Plainview changed its zoning laws so a smelly dump would have to be built in Slacksville, and Slacksville stuck Plainview with chemically dangerous lumber under the guise of a peace offering. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Discussed. Greg reads a Preston Platypus book where Preston's best friend, Pelican Pete, moves away. He thinks it's fine until the ending in which Preston makes new friends and just forgets all about Pete, and that it's never shown if Pete is happy in his new neighborhood. He considers writing the author an angry letter over this. | |
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Jerk Jock | |
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Jerk Jock: Kenny Keith seems to fit the description. However, Greg is a jerk to Kenny whenever he gets the chance and we don't see how Kenny acts around people he actually gets along with. Subverted with Bryce Anderson. Greg tries his best to make him seem like one, but so far there's no real evidence that Bryce is one of these. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: Downplayed. Greg likes the Underpants Bandits series so much that he write a letter to the author, Mik Davies, in his own time. Despite commending the author, Greg does not receive a personalized response, but just an ad for a new book, as the author receives so much mail that he is unable to give back a personalized response. | |
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Kiddie Kid | |
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Kiddie Kid: Greg's best friend Rowley acts like a seven-year-old. It's justified by the fact that he's extremely sheltered because of his overprotective parents. Manny might be a "baby kid", being older than 5 (two years have passed after he mentions that he's only 3), but still acting like a toddler. | |
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Teacher's Pet | |
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Patty Farrell has not appeared in the books following The Last Straw and the movie adaption of Dog Days. | |
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Parental Favoritism | |
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Parental Favoritism: Greg's parents clearly favor Manny, to the point where he's becoming a Spoiled Brat. Manny is allowed to get his way, such as throwing tantrums over minor things like how his sandwich wasn't cut the right way. And his parents let him do it. Manny is also Gramma's favorite (all you need to do is look on her fridge for proof), to the point where everyone in the family (yes, even Susan) is aware of it. Grandpa, however, will tell you straight up who his favorite is. | |
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Abhorrent Admirer | |
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Abhorrent Admirer: Greg tries to be nice to a Fregley-like girl named Ruby Bird because he's terrified of her, but he worries that he's being too nice to her and is scared by the idea that she might develop a crush on him. We never get to find out her feelings on the matter. | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality: Greg suffers from this big time. For example, in Rodrick Rules, he mistreats Chirag Gupta by pretending he doesn't exist. If the same thing happened to him, he'd almost certainly complain about it and call the kid(s) doing it to him bulllies. The book series might actually be one of the best explorations of this trope, especially if one treats it as a look into the worldview, life and perceptions of a borderline amoral Middle School student. | |
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Denser and Wackier | |
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Also, the book takes on a much more cartoony tone than the previous ones. It focuses less on satire and more on the ridiculously bad luck of the Heffleys, while also introducing a bizarrely intelligent pig that only gets more humanlike over time. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded "Thank You" Letter: Greg doesn't want to write his Christmas thank-you notes due to wanting to spend time on his snowman-building project instead. He hurriedly writes fill-in-the-blank letters with the format, "Dear A. Thank you very much for the awesome B! I love the way the B looks on my C. All my friends will be so jealous that I have my very own B. Sincerely, Greg", which comes out looking awkward when he thanks his aunt for a pair of pants. | |
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Warm Water Whiz | |
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Warm Water Whiz: Greg is at a sleepover with Rowley and a bunch of younger (all supposedly no older than six years old) boys. Some of the boys sneak up on Greg with a bowl of warm water, clearly intending to invoke this trope, but Greg is still awake and scares the kids off. | |
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Perspective Flip | |
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Perspective Flip: The spin-off Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid is set from Rowley's point of view. | |
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Wild Teen Party | |
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Wild Teen Party: Mariana Mendoza is known for hosting annual Halloween parties, which are rowdy and wild. Her parents don't care, as long as the party stays in the basement. A year before the books' events, the party got so large, that it spread to outside the house and the police had to end the party. This year, Mendoza only invites the band (actually only the woodwind part), so Greg tries to join the band. When Greg's mother accompanies Greg and Rowley to Mendoza's party, she takes control of it and changes the party from what could become a wild party to a tame party with games typical of children's parties. This made Greg a target of derision from the boys who were unhappy about this intervention. | |
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Death by Newbery Medal | |
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Death by Newbery Medal: Discussed when Greg's mom tries to organize a summer reading club and assigns him Charlotte's Web. Greg predicts that either the girl or the pig pictured on the cover won't live to the end of the book. He never learns he's wrong — it's Charlotte the spider who dies — because he only gets three chapters into it. | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass: The normally nice Grandma is openly not happy about the family living with her, to the point where she makes them live in the basement because the guest room is “Sweetie’s room� and when she has friends come over, she refuses to let them come upstairs, not even to use the bathroom. | |
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Bathroom Control | |
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Bathroom Control: In the first book, this is played with. Rowley informs Greg that he needs to go while they're trick-or-treating, and Greg has him hold it for forty-five minutes. By the time they reach Greg's grandmother's house, Rowley's quite desperate, so Greg lets him use the grandma's bathroom (though he threatens to steal some of his candy if he doesn't hurry up). In The Last Straw, Patty the Academic Alpha Bitch becomes the classroom monitor and is noted to take her job way too seriously. Greg asks if he can be excused to use the bathroom and she responds with a Blunt "No". | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: In a flashback, Greg explains that one of the reasons why soccer was better when he was little was being able to have slushees at the snack bar. But then Susan and the other parents had the stand changed to sell only produce and granola bars as snacks, resulting in sales dropping-and the field becoming overgrown, because selling the slushees paid for upkeep. | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
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Dumb Blonde: Sophie, a Slacksville girl Greg dates in the final act, is a fair-haired girl who can't spell or understand how a clock tells time. However, this (probably) isn't because Sophie herself is inherently dumb or a bad student and is instead a symptom of the pathetic curriculum at her school. | |
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Lies to Children | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_8f37640a | comment |
Lies to Children: At Greg's Garage Sale, he puts broken toys on a table labeled "FUN TOYS" and outright says that he hopes kids who can't read will buy them. | |
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Token Good Teammate | |
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Token Good Teammate: Susan. She's the only one who isn't a total Jerkass in the family. However, she is also the epitome of Stupid Good and can still be rather selfish at times. | |
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Ludicrous Gift Request | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_90af4d14 | comment |
Ludicrous Gift Request: Greg wants a dog and a leather recliner for his birthday. Although his father buys the family a dog later in the book, Greg never gets a recliner. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: At the start of the book, the teachers either barely teach about what they're supposed to (Mrs. Lackey only teaches about countries she's planning on visiting with her husband after she retires as it's her last year) or not at all (Ms. Pritchard uses her smart board for things like helping her pick out which breed of puppy to get). Needless to say, when the school has to take a standardized test, the student's scores tank so badly (Greg mentions there wasn't a single question about farts or burps which is what Mr. Rask was near exclusively teaching everyone due to apathetic students) the middle school makes the news as a result. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: The Grout is drawn in a much more realistic, gritty style than the rest of the series. Justified in that it's what Greg thinks, so he imagines it being really scary. | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_927b2f11 | comment |
The Bus Came Back: The members on Greg's basketball team include Marcus and Darren Woodley (the boys who Frank chaperones at the campout in The Last Straw), and Ruby Bird from The Third Wheel. | |
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Bookshelf of Authority | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_93139cf0 | comment |
Bookshelf of Authority: Rodrick photoshops himself to make it look like he's sitting in front of a bookshelf while wearing glasses and reading an encyclopedia, in hopes that he'll come off as smart. | |
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Lovable Jock | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_9315c635 | comment |
Lovable Jock: Preet Patel is the only good player on Greg's team (at least until he's injured early on) and is surprisingly nice for a jock in the series. He happily goofs around with Greg and the other un-athletic kids in one scene. He later shows up to cheer for them during the final game after their humiliating season, while happily agreeing to play while wearing an orthopedic boot. | |
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Movie-Making Mess | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_9320c28e | comment |
Movie-Making Mess: Greg tries to make a horror movie titled Night of the Night Crawlers. He has to shoehorn jokes into the script because the only actor, Rowley, is easily frightened and doesn't even want to make a horror movie. Rowley keeps forgetting his lines and refuses to wear a dress when he plays an unnamed woman. The terrible special effectsinvoked include throwing gummy worms at Rowley's face in an attempt to make a scene where worms come out of the shower. After Rowley runs out of the house with barely any clothes on and climbs a tree to escape the geese that ate the gummy worms on the ground, Greg's dad gets home and the attempt to make a movie comes to an end. | |
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Mail-Order Novelty | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_935489cf | comment |
Mail-Order Novelty: Greg reveals that he has no disposable income because he spent them on comic book ads that turned out to be scams. The X-Ray Vision glasses don't work, the money-printing machine is just a magic trick you have to load with your own money first, the ventriloquism book's lessons are useless, and the Hover Board is actually a manual with (prohibitively expensive and complicated) instructions on how to build one. | |
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Copycat Mockery | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_939de546 | comment |
Copycat Mockery: When Rowley breaks his hand but Greg doesn't realise it's broken, he tries to cheer him up by saying, "Look, I'm your dad! Durr, durr, durr". | |
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Symbol Swearing | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_95ef5b0d | comment |
Symbol Swearing: Susan lets Manny sit up front in the RV. However, he starts blaring the horn and swearing at other drivers, portrayed by an assortment of random symbols in his speech bubble. | |
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You Are Grounded! | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_962e6260 | comment |
You Are Grounded!: Extra chores aside, Greg gets punished a lot of times in this book: He suffers a week of grounding for spraying Frank down with a garden hose to check if he's a robot. Back in fourth grade, Susan took away his TV privileges for a whole month for faking a bullying case and getting an innocent kid in trouble (something he admits he deserved). Frank then bans him from video games, TV, or friends for two weeks for "goofing off" instead of performing at a music festival (Greg says that the only thing he can do is practice his instrument, which he thinks is the point). | |
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Moral Guardians | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_96e5792c | comment |
Moral Guardians: In-universe example when a teacher yells at Greg and Rowley for listening to rock and roll because it's "evil" and is going to "ruin [their] brains". | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: While Greg, Erick, and Kenny are waiting for Mr. Litch in the car, Kenny honks the horn as a joke; due to Greg being in the passenger seat, Mr. Litch believes he was responsible and deliberately takes a long time driving them home. Erick and Kenny are consequently mad at Greg, despite Kenny being the one who honked the horn in the first place. | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_97926168 | comment |
Rewatch Bonus: A teacher mentions that one kid named Frankie saw Silas Scratch and was "never the same afterwards". After the twist is revealed, it's ridiculously obvious that this is Greg's father. His name is Frank, and the flashback drawing is how he's portrayed as a kid. | |
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Cut Himself Shaving | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_97b4c1fd | comment |
In "The Ugly Truth", Rodrick spits out his chewed gum at a swarm of moths, but he misses and hits Frank in the face with it. Frank gets so frustrated that he chases Rodrick around the parking lot, only to trip and twist his ankle (though he lies that he tripped over a toy car). | |
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555 | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_984763bb | comment |
555: The number on the VIP Lawn Service poster starts with 555. | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_98576799 | comment |
Throw the Dog a Bone: Greg manages to be on the winning team in the last round of the "second chance" tournament and avoids being part of the worst basketball team of the state, though he was transferred to the Funky Dunkers during the match. Not only that, it's because of his throw at last possible second his new team wins and he's seen celebrating and having genuinely a great time with his new team. | |
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Cross-Cast Role | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_985d3ad0 | comment |
Rowley plays an unnnamed woman. Unfortunately, he refuses to wear a dress, and they don't have a wig for him. He ends up wearing yoga pants and a hooded sweater, and having the character never show her face. | |
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Ageless Birthday Episode | |
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Ageless Birthday Episode: Greg celebrates his birthday, although his age is never stated. | |
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Let Me Get This Straight... | |
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Let Me Get This Straight...: During a car game that involves bringing up moments of the family's lives, Rodrick tries to win the game by bringing up how he and the rest of Löded Diper threw toilet paper at their neighbor's house for complaining about how loud their music is. His mother is not amused. | |
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Time Title | |
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Time Title: Dog Days is a term used for Summer, which is the time period the book is set in. | |
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Absent Animal Companion | |
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Absent Animal Companion: Rodrick and Greg get a fish each. Greg's fish dies, but Rodrick's fish survives, yet still is never seen again. On the other hand, the webcomic clarifies that Rodrick's fish died after becoming immobile due to eating the other fish. | |
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Fictional Video Game | |
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Fictional Video Game: Various video games shown in the series include Twisted Wizard, Formula One Racing, Discovering the Alphabet, and Net Kritterz. | |
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Appeal to Tradition | |
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Appeal to Tradition: The driving trope of the book. First of all, Mom wants her family to take a break from electronics and live like the old days. She successfully convinces the town to set an Electronic-free Weekend. Second, Greg goes to Hardscrabble Farms, which is old-styled and doesn't allow anything modern. | |
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Stealing the Credit | |
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Stealing the Credit: Greg's Schools' lunch lady created a new food called Fudgedogs, tofu dogs dipped in fudge. They become a hit and are beloved be the students so much that when the new Principal tried to stop their production, the students protested and succeed in getting them back. After the school is shut down and Greg is sent to Slacksville Middle School, he introduces the recipe to the school and they love it just as much as the Plainview students do. When the school opens back up, they can no longer make Fudgedogs, because Slacksville decide to take the claim for making them, patented the recipe, and even made it so that production of Fudgedogs outside of Slacksville against the law. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: This marks the second book where Rodrick takes center stage and is also the first book to properly focus on Löded Diper, with Greg observing from the sidelines for long stretches of the action and having little direct bearing on what happens. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: The Reveal at the Battle of the Bands is hinted at throughout the book thanks to the details given about Metallichihuahua as well as the designs of several characters. At one point there's a picture of every band member of Metallichihuahua with their respective names on it. The lawyer who sends Rodrick a letter later has the exact same name as the band's singer and when he shows up in person at the end it's revealed that he is in fact Metallichihuahua's singer. When Warwick recalls the band's breakup, he says the lead singer went back to law school and their bassist went in to "some kind of law enforcement." This hints at Stewart becoming a lawyer and Wayne becoming a security guard. Also, eagle-eyed readers may recognize that the security guard at the Suck E. Cheese's looks awfully similiar to Metallichihuahua's bassist. In fact, that's exactly who he is. | |
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Attack of the Political Ad | |
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Attack of the Political Ad: Parodied. When Greg runs for treasurer, he makes posters claiming that his opponent had head lice in second grade, to which Vice Principal Roy informs him that spreading "fabrications" of other candidates is not allowed (even though Greg tells him that the head lice incident actually happened). This gets him kicked out of the election. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Greg's team is initially sponsored by Marconi's Sub Shop, which appears in The Meltdown. Greg is suspicious because they've been closed due to health code violations. Later, Coach Patel takes them there to eat at the end of the season. | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl | |
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Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Holly is taller than Greg in the movie adaptation of Rodrick Rules. They are almost the same height in Dog Days though. | |
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90% of Your Brain | |
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Greg learning about humans only using 80 percent of their brain and discussing chaos if people got to use the other 20 percent of their brain may be a reference to Lucy (except this movie uses the premise of people only using 10 percent of their brains), while the depiction of characters using telekinesis and floating with chaos ensuing may be a reference to Chronicle. | |
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Housepet Pig | |
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Housepet Pig: In "The Long Haul", the Heffleys win a piglet at a county fair and keep him as a pet for the next few books before he runs away in "The Meltdown" and is never seen again. | |
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Landslide Election | |
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Landslide Election: Eugene Ellis becomes president in a landslide, all because he promises the students better toilet paper in the bathrooms. | |
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Random Events Plot | |
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There is also not much of an underlying "theme" or a story arc, therefore it comes off as more of a Random Events Plot compared to the later books. | |
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Fat Best Friend | |
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Fat Best Friend: Rowley is Greg's best friend, and is chubby both in the book's art and in the movies. | |
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Early Personality Signs | |
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Early Personality Signs: Greg has been a Lazy Bum for a long time, as shown when he was four and would sing the clean-up song with his classmates but never do any actual cleaning. | |
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Yoko Oh No | |
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Yoko Oh No: When Bill enters a relationship with donut shop assistant manager Becky, his love for her begins affecting his work as he starts writing corny love ballads that don't exactly fit in with the band's sound. She also encourages him to see himself as the band's face and even rewrites Rodrick's "Can You Smell Us Now?" into the less abrasive "Can You Hear Us Now?" | |
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Parental Obliviousness | |
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Parental Obliviousness: Susan seems to be completely unaware of modern teenage behavior. One notable example in Rodrick Rules is that she thinks that the other students at Greg's school would agree that walking into the ladies bathroom at the retirement home by accident was an honest mistake and they'll let him off easy. | |
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Ordered Apology | |
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Ordered Apology: After telling his family about his tee-peeing incident that he and his bandmates did to a neighbor's house, Susan ordered her husband to pull the car to the side of the road, and then demanded that Rodrick get on the phone to apologize to the neighbor. Greg notes in his diary that it was awkward for everyone in the car to hear. | |
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Double-Meaning Title | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_a4905771 | comment |
Double-Meaning Title: Dog Days refers to the summer setting, but also the Heffleys adopting a dog. | |
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Cruel Twist Ending | |
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Cruel Twist Ending: The Heffleys' house, which the family were planning to sell, getting a giant hole through the middle from their old hot tub being dropped from the roof. This caused both the family buying the house to back out, and leaving the Heffleys unable to afford their new house. On the other hand, Greg is glad to have not left Rowley, as he initially thought. | |
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Language Barrier | |
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In "The Long Haul", the Heffleys' car gets a flat tire. Two men stop their car and approach them, and since they only speak Spanish, the Heffleys try to non-verbally tell them what happened by pointing to the tire and blowing a raspberry to simulate a deflating sound. Greg notes that the guys probably think they're crazy, at least until Manny notifies them of their situation in Spanish. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Status Quo Is God: In the last act, the middle school is closed due to bad test scores and lack of funding and the students are sent to other schools (splitting up Greg and Rowley). Rowley ends up in a prestigious academy with lots of luxury stuff like massage tables, while Greg is sent to a school in the rival town of Slacksville but becomes the smartest and most popular student in school (it’s not a high bar to beat) and starts dating Sophie, the daughter of the local millionaire. Within a few pages, the old middle school gets a new stream of funding and reopens, getting all of the students sent back there (something few of them appreciate), and causing Sophie to dump Greg due to the difficulties of long-distance relationships. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Greg once accidentally stunk up the Snellas' house by dumping devilled eggs in their plastic potted plant, forcing them to move out. Greg is never caught, though he admits to feeling a pang of guilt watching them carrying their potted plant with them, knowing what's in there. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
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Imagine Spot: Annoyed with him, Greg imagines sending Rodrick to space in a rocket. Greg imagines being the guy whose job is to collect wolf urine. | |
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Uncool Undies | |
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Uncool Undies: Greg is given a pair of Wonder Woman-themed underpants that he is too ashamed to ever wear. However, after running out of clean clothes to wear, he is forced to wear them to a birthday party where his pants end up slipping down and revealing the underpants to everyone. | |
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"Brave the Ride" Plot | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_a7d344cf | comment |
"Brave the Ride" Plot: Zigzagged in Dog Days. Greg wants to ride a ride called the Cranium Shaker, and he does but he gets nauseous. Rowley on the other hand is too scared to ride it but gets a shirt saying he survived the Cranium Shaker anyway. | |
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Not So Stoic | |
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Not So Stoic: The normally quiet and reserved Alex Aruda ends up in the Principal's Office after he deliberately makes a mess so he could get a lollipop after learning Greg has been handing them out as part of his Principal For A Day and then he starts crying when he is in the office, likely from never being in trouble before. | |
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Conforming OOC Moment | |
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Conforming OOC Moment: Greg says that all the boys in his class read a book series called Underpants Bandits. This isn't OOC on its own, but it becomes this trope when he says they'd become illiterate if the teacher banned the books, implying that's all they read. Actually, one of his male classmates, Alex Aruda, is nerdy and it's clear he reads a lot more books than just Underpants Bandits. | |
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Bizarre Beverage Use | |
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Bizarre Beverage Use: Greg and Rowley sell some (actually completely normal) water from the Heffleys' garden hose as "fitness water", but it only really becomes useful when some women cleaning the park raid their supply to water their flowers. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: When Greg is cornered by a spider in the hotel room, he calls room service for help. The room service guy is scared of the spider, too. However, Greg does work with him to trap the spider. | |
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Misleading Package Size | |
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Misleading Package Size: Greg recalls opening a video-game sized gift-box only to find a memory card. When he opens his gift, he's sure it's a video game he wants... but it's actually a framed picture of his uncle. | |
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Totally Radical | |
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Totally Radical: Greg receives a book called Math is Rad for Christmas. | |
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Forged Message | |
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Forged Message: Rodrick once wrote a bunch of notes signed by Greg, supposedly saying that he "owes" a bunch of stuff to Rodrick. | |
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Brawn Hilda | |
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Brawn Hilda: Latricia Hooks, one of the residents of Surrey Street. She's 6'2", has a very broad physique, used to bully Rodrick when they were younger, and during the snowball fight between the Surrey Street residents, she's shown punching people in the face on two occasions. | |
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Underdogs Never Lose | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_ab031997 | comment |
Underdogs Never Lose: Zigzagged. Greg's basketball team is made up of students who flunked the tryouts for the good teams (and the coach's athletic son, who's quickly injured), and it shows. They try hard, but fail to win a single game during the main season and only score a handful of points. Then, Susan enlists them in a two-day "second chance" tournament where all of the worst basketball teams from each league play each other, and each team that wins a game exits the tournament. All of the teams there are underdogs, but the other underdogs keep beating Greg's team, who end up as one of the last two there. They play against the Funky Dunkers, five kids who have some athleticism and grit but are all pretty short and only have five players. This makes the Funky Dunkers the underdog for most of the final game and they end up beating Greg's team, although Greg is transferred to their team beforehand to even the odds after a Funky Dunker is injured. So Greg gets to be on a winning team, but none of his original teammates do. | |
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Don't Touch It, You Idiot! | |
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Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: In an incident from the original webcomic that becomes a flashback in Hard Luck, a younger Greg has to stay with his Aunt Cakey for the night while his parents are away. Right before Greg goes to bed, Aunt Cakey tells him not to touch the iron because it's still hot. Guess what Greg does after Aunt Cakey goes to sleep. | |
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Big Brother Mentor | |
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Big Brother Mentor: A company called "Cool Brian" invokes this trope, advertising itself as providing "wholesome mentors for growing boys." Rowley's parents hire a Cool Brian to hang out with him after his fallout with Greg. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: When Greg looks at the cover of Charlotte's Web he predicts neither the girl nor the pig will make it to the end of the book. They both do. It is the spider that dies. | |
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Think of the Children! | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_ac06a60c | comment |
At first she only showed concern if Greg did something she objected to, and was sometimes embarrassing and behind the times of what teenagers were into, such as trying to get Greg less interested in video gaming. Her stern attitude only showed if something severe had happened (such as Rowley's broken arm in the first book or the party that happened in Rodrick Rules). As of Hard Luck, however, Susan's character has essentially delved into a Think of the Children! type mother who shows extreme distaste to anything electronic to the point she gets the town as a whole to unplug (which she simply bribed her way through by getting elderly party-goers of Grandpa to sign the signatures she needed). | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Early on, Greg accidentally makes a basket shooting backward and claims that he shoots better that way, only for Coach Patel to refuse to let him do so again. During the final game, he scores while throwing the ball backward without really meaning to do so. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Pete Hosey and his goons forced Rowley to eat the cheese and attempted to force Greg to do the same. The aftermath ultimately led to Greg and Rowley becoming friends again. | |
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Foul Cafeteria Food | |
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Foul Cafeteria Food: When Greg arrives at Hardscrabble Farms, he learns that the food he's given is not only disgusting (one kid got a pancake as stiff as a board), but it's also recycled from past meals. So really, it's anyone's guess how far some of the food dates back to. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Greg, but his dad isn't really far behind him in levels of snarkiness. | |
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Viewers Are Morons | |
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Viewers Are Morons: In-universe, one of the prospective cartoonists for the school newspaper seems to believe his audience isn't particularly bright, despite (according to Greg) being a dim bulb himself. The text of his comic, "Dumb Teachers", helpfully clarifies that the stink lines he drew are in fact stink lines, and they are, in fact, emanating from the poop in a teacher's soiled pants. | |
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First-Person Smartass | |
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First-Person Smartass: Greg frequently makes snarky comments about the events that befall him. | |
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Web First | |
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Web First: This series started a webcomic. Then it adapted into a successful book series, which in turn was made into a series of films. | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
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What You Are in the Dark: Greg lies and says he threw away the Cheese (in the movie he says he ate it) to cover for Rowley being forced to eat it. Only he, Rowley, the teen bullies and, in the movie, Angie know the truth. | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: The comic Xtreme Sk8ters, which is made by some kid at Greg's school. | |
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Unsound Effect | |
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Unsound Effect: Nearly every time a character screams, their speech bubble simply reads "SCREAM!" or "SHRIEK!". Occasionally shows up in other ways, such as when Greg uses "type type" to describe his dad typing. | |
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Written Roar | |
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Written Roar: A character's screaming or shrieking is written as "SCREAM!!!" or "SHRIIIIIEK!" | |
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Cosmic Plaything | |
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Cosmic Plaything: Greg. In Old School, Grandpa chooses Greg's bed and Greg must sleep with Manny. In The Ugly Truth, the Jeffersons hire someone to be Rowley's replacement friend. The Heffleys as a whole seem to be this. For the crime of wanting to enjoy their vacation, renovate their house, and move to a nicer house, they get utterly screwed over because of pure bad luck. | |
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Tap on the Head | |
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When Greg owes his friend's dad money, he prays for him to be hit on the head so he forgets about the money, and also to be able to beat a video game. He then ends his prayer with "Amen, and thank you in advance." | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
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Loophole Abuse: Rodrick finds a way around mom's ban of the word "ploopy" as an insult in "The Last Straw". He calls Greg "ploopy" over the course of three days, beginning with "pl" on the first day, moving onto "oo" the second, and finishing with "py" on the third. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: Greg talks about doing jigsaw puzzles, when Cabin Fever claimed that Greg had a phobia of puzzles after finding a family of crickets living in a puzzle box. | |
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Retool | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b2283870 | comment |
Retool: The book focuses on just one summer trip, whereas all the other books unfold over longer timespans — one year for the original, six months for 2 and 3, and two-to-three months for later installments. Also, the book takes on a much more cartoony tone than the previous ones. It focuses less on satire and more on the ridiculously bad luck of the Heffleys, while also introducing a bizarrely intelligent pig that only gets more humanlike over time. | |
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One-Joke Fake Show | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b26a0772 | comment |
One-Joke Fake Show: Rowley creates a comic strip called "Zoo-Wee Mama!", where the punchline of every strip is a character shouting out the title phrase. Despite its repetitive premise, the strip becomes a major success at school and even gets published in the school paper. | |
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Holding in Laughter | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b2b16a23 | comment |
Holding in Laughter: Whenever the Heffley family is having a reunion, Greg always tries not to laugh when something silly happens. One time, when his great-grandfather blew out the candles on his birthday cake, his dentures went flying out of his mouth, and Greg tried not to laugh, especially since his mouth was full of chocolate milk. He tried to think of something sad, but all he could come up with was Sweetie the dog wearing a sweater. Then he thought about Sweetie farting in his dad's face and laughed so hard he spewed chocolate milk everywhere. | |
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Abandon the Disabled | |
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Abandon the Disabled: Greg is nearsighted and wears contacts. He mentions that he's glad that he isn't a caveman, because then his family might abandon him because he wouldn't be able to hunt. | |
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Military School | |
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Military School: A major plot point in this book is Frank deciding to sign Greg up to Spag Union Military School for it's summer program after seeing it changed local former troublemaker Lenwood Heath for the better and and Greg trying desperately to avoid this fate. | |
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Santa Ambiguity | |
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Santa Ambiguity: While the webcomic clearly states that Santa isn't real, the books leave it ambiguous. The first book strongly indicates that Greg no longer believes in Santa, but in Cabin Fever he does and seems to act like he always has. The book also has a doll named Santa's Scout who behaves as an Elf on the Shelf expy and supposedly reports to Santa at night. He changes his position every day but Greg never sees him move and wonders if it's really Rodrick who moves him, though he still avoids acting badly when within the doll's sight, just in case. | |
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Princess Phase | |
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Princess Phase: One of Surrey Street's many residents is a little girl named Emilia Greenwall, who always dresses like a fairy tale princess. Greg thinks she's been watching too many Disney movies. | |
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Toilet Humour | |
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In The Ugly Truth, the middle school boys are having a sleepover at the school. One of them farts loudly every once in a while, and Mr. Palmero gets tired of this, so he orders the students to cut loose behind the curtain. The guys then take this opportunity to make fake flatulent sounds such as Blowing a Raspberry or playing a low note on a tuba for quite a while. | |
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Moral Myopia | |
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Moral Myopia: The lower Surrey Street kids do not allow any of the upper kids to step on the flat ground they have and force them to stay on the hill. But during winter, the lower kids want to use the hill to sled, and the upper kids defend them just the same as the lower do with their part. And the lower kids don't seem to realize that this is just like how they defend their part during the other seasons and are always trying to take the hill. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Principal Bottoms is a Dirty Coward who engages in some pretty ludicrous promotions to raise money (like renting sticker space on the science textbooks to a flat-Earth-believing magazine called Science Scoffers). Still, when he puts the name of the school up for bidding, even he refuses to accept a bid from a school in a rival town who submit the name "Slacksville Rules! Middle School." | |
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Epic Fail | |
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Epic Fail: Greg's team plays against Slacksville midway through the book. They score 2 points, while Slacksville gets 103. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
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Take That!: Li'l Cutie, a saccharine newspaper cartoon about a ridiculously cute little boy, is a Take That parody of The Family Circus. Precious Poochie is a parody of Fred Basset and other pet-focused comic strips that have likable main characters but not particularly funny punchlines. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Uncle Gary cuts off a branch that he happens to be sitting on, thus falling and breaking his collarbone. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b58c51d8 | comment |
Susan: sanguine | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b5dded87 | type |
Gossipy Hens | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b5dded87 | comment |
Gossipy Hens: A variation. Albert Sandy has a lot of stories to share at lunch, such as how a guy practiced jumping out of a hole that he made slightly deeper everyday until he was able to jump several feet in the air. Whether or not they’re actually true, if he's gullible and believes they're true when they're not, or if he's spicing it up or not is never revealed. Of course, the other kids believe him straight, though Greg has come to realize by The Meltdown that most of what he has to say is just complete nonsense. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b6caa5b4 | type |
Operation: Jealousy | |
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Operation: Jealousy: It's implied that Abigail Brown only dates Rowley to make her ex jealous. It works. | |
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Dysfunctional Family | |
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Dysfunctional Family: We finally meet the rest of Susan’s side of the family and they’re just as dysfunctional as Frank’s. Especially Susan and her sisters, to the point where Greg is shocked that they all grew up together. Conflict brews as Greg's relatives desperately try to find Meemaw's ring. Greg is arguably the least dysfunctional here as he hides the ring to avoid conflict, even though he could pocket it for himself. | |
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Executive Meddling | |
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Executive Meddling: In-universe, Greg's school newspaper comic is edited by a teacher to replace the punchline with a bland advertisement for math tutoring. The title Creighton the Cretin is also changed to Creighton the Curious Student. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: The Heffleys wound up with a large sum of inheritance money and they host a meeting to decide what to do with it. Susan says that the money needs to be spent on something that everyone in the family agrees on, but gets upset when nobody likes her new kitchen idea and leaves. | |
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Hide-and-Seek Horror | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b73ef612 | comment |
Hide-and-Seek Horror: Played for Laughs. Greg and Rowley have a sleepover and watch a horror movie, and in the middle of the night, they hear a small voice coming from the closet that says, "I'm hiding...can you find me?" They run up the stairs and Greg tells Dad that the house is haunted and they have to move immediately. Dad roots through the closet and discovers that the noise is from a talking doll named Hide-and-Seek Harry. | |
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Emphasize EVERYTHING | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b7b1e990 | comment |
Emphasize EVERYTHING: Good luck finding a single page in any of the books that doesn't contain at least one word IN ALL CAPS. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Greg likes Abigail, but Abigail likes Rowley. Greg loses. | |
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Obvious Rule Patch | |
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Obvious Rule Patch: Principal Bottoms comes up with the rule to use hall passes to curb students spending more time in the hallways. When students promptly respond by making their own, Principal Bottoms changes the hall passes to every teacher having their own unique hall pass the students can't fake easily such as Madame Lefrere's hall pass being a big French-English dictionary. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: In the books, Fregley slowly becomes this, meriting only one mention in The Third Wheel. Though in Hard Luck Fregley does get a lot more attention. He becomes the most popular kid in school, because he can launch stuff from his belly button across the room. After disappearing completely for the next four books, he returns in The Meltdown for two jokes and has a cameo in Wrecking Ball. Collin was a major character in the webcomic as Greg's second best friend but he only makes a brief appearance in the first book and most of the stuff he did in the webcomic is given to Rowley. He has a different design in the books as well. | |
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Bumbling Dad | |
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Bumbling Dad: Frank spends most of his time trying to force his sons (mainly Greg) to do activities he considers “manly�, trying and failing to dismantle video games, and screaming about the “dagnab teenagers�. | |
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Market-Based Title | |
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Market-Based Title: The Spanish title for The Long Haul translates to "Road and Blanket," a Spanish expression meaning "to travel." | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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Greg imagines being the guy whose job is to collect wolf urine. | |
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Baffled by Own Biology | |
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Baffled by Own Biology: In the first book, Greg makes a comic about Creighton the Cretin. Creighton asks a doctor to get him a new butt because his old one has a crack in it. The exasperated doctor informs him that everyone's butt has a crack in it. In "The Third Wheel", Rowley sees a pimple when Greg has him look in the mirror, and freaks out, thinking it's chicken pox. Greg can't correct him, since he also thinks it's chicken pox, which is why he had him look in the mirror. | |
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Wedding Finale | |
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Wedding Finale: The climax of the book takes place during Uncle Gary’s fourth wedding. | |
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DIY Dentistry | |
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DIY Dentistry: Greg mentions that he was too nervous to let anyone pull his loose tooth out when he was younger, so Frank tricked him into tying his tooth to a door and slamming it. He then brings up his younger cousin Georgia, who refuses to let anyone help her pull out her own loose tooth. Greg goes to look for some string so he can do the same trick to her, but he never gets a chance to do this because the Easter egg hunt starts just then. | |
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Ambiguously Bi | |
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Ambiguously Bi: Sometimes, Rowley's actions are a bit suspect, especially with Greg. You'd think that a 13-year-old boy would realize that sharing a "Best Friends" locket (in the shape of a heart) with another 13-year-old boy isn't something that looks like platonic friendship or realize that being a fan of a rather effeminate pop singer isn't exactly manly. It could be argued that he's just completely unaware of these things considering that he is a Cloudcuckoolander and is completely sheltered, however. Also supporting this is that he's the one who gets a girlfriend in The Third Wheel. | |
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Fleeting Demographic Rule | |
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Fleeting Demographic Rule: One of Fregley's lines, "Betcha I can find your 'tickle spot'!", is taken word for word from the earlier tie-in do-it-yourself book. | |
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Bonding Over Dislikes | |
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Bonding Over Dislikes: Greg and his dad don't have the best relationship, but they always manage to reconnect over how much they hate the Li'l Cutie comic. | |
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Faint in Shock | |
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Faint in Shock: Greg passes out when he realizes he accidentally put his thumb on snot that Fregley left on a letter for him. | |
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Messy Pig | |
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Messy Pig: The pig that Manny and Susan accidentally win at the country fair and are stuck with, which they then leave at a petting zoo, then eventually come back for in The Long Haul. It becomes the family pet, though it's never named. By The Meltdown, it runs away over being excluded from the Heffleys' trip in the previous book The Getaway. | |
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Black Bead Eyes | |
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Black Bead Eyes: Most of the characters have these. Unless they're wearing glasses of course, but even with that Patty Farrell is an exception. | |
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Cutting the Knot | |
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Cutting the Knot: When Greg has to stay home from school because of snow, Susan realizes that he'll want to watch TV, so she takes out the batteries out of the remote and hides them in ways that Greg would only find them if he did chores around the house. It would take four batteries for the TV in the living room, but Greg instead goes to the TV in Susan and Frank's bedroom because it requires only one battery. | |
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Good Behavior Points | |
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Good Behavior Points: To prove his point that his mom’s plan to be nice at school to be popular does not work out today as did for when Mom was his age, Greg talks about how his school once implemented a system called "Hero Points" in an attempt to stop bullying. The idea was that if a student was seen being kind to someone else, they would earn a single Hero Point, and if a student got enough Hero Points, they could trade them in for prizes. The system quickly went horribly wrong, however, starting with people faking good deeds in front of teachers, followed by counterfeit Hero Points being produced and sold. The school tried making changes to the system to try to deter the illegitimate earning of Hero Points, but these attempts either failed or had negative consequences, such as how a student got detention for having too many Hero Points, despite having earned them all legitimately. After a janitor discovered a Hero Point-copying operation, the school decided to abandon the system. Regrettably, this meant that students wouldn't help others in need of help. | |
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Dreaded Kids' Table | |
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Dreaded Kids' Table: At Easter, Rodrick and Greg are forced to sit at the children’s table despite the former being almost an adult and the latter in middle school. To add insult to injury, their toddler aged adoptive uncle (who was adopted by a great aunt) is allowed to sit with the adults. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Greg's parents gave Greg a "Ladybug" phone instead of a regular cellphone in hope that it will cost them much lessnote Because Rodrick got his own cellphone and racked up a huge phone bill.. Later on, Rodrick's manipulations cause Greg to think Frank will sell him away, so he uses his phone to the cops... on his dad. Ultimately, the Ladybug phone cost a lot more than just money. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Several. Patty Farrell has not appeared in the books following The Last Straw and the movie adaption of Dog Days. Chirag, one of Greg's friends who was at times a plot central character, later disappeared following a brief scene in Cabin Fever. Trista, a girl from New Mexico was introduced and set up to be a major character at the end of The Last Straw. After a brief appearance in Dog Days, she's never heard from again. Justified since she ditched Rowley and Greg at the country club in the summer between the end of The Last Straw and the beginning of Dog Days. Double subverted with Aunt Cakey — she made an early appearance in the webcomic, disappeared from it and never appeared in any of the other media...and then had a minor role in 2013's Hard Luck. As of The Meltdown, she hasn't reappeared. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: When the school is being shut down, students are being transferred to one of two alternatives: the advanced and luxurious Fulson Tech, or the even worse Slacksville Middle School. Greg is glad to learn he's headed to Fulson Tech, until Alex Aruda, who was at the top of the list, is transferred to his own private school, offsetting the list by one and sending Greg to Slacksville. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_c4db6423 | comment |
Yank the Dog's Chain: The school is forced to shut down due to repeated bad test scores and all the remaining students are transferred to two nearby schools. While many students get to go to a much better, more luxurious, and better funded school, Greg is forced to go to an even worse school, but is able to make the best of it because he's turned into a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond, becoming popular, smart, and even gaining a girlfriend and the respect of her rich dad. Then, Larry Mack's son finds the bags of money his dad hid in the walls of the school which the students were looking for the money to have for themselves now Larry Mack's son found it and claimed it making the students disappointed, he uses the funds to reopen the school, and everyone is forced to come back. Consequently, the kids who liked their new schools are mad at Greg,note since his rapid popularity at his new school is a large part of what motivated Larry Mack Jr. to reopen the old school, Greg's girlfriend dumps him, and the cafeteria isn't even allowed to make fudgedogs anymore because Greg told his new school how to make them and they stole the credit and patented it. All of this happens in the last fifth of the book to boot. | |
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Horrible Judge of Character | |
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Horrible Judge of Character: Susan thinks that Maddox Selsam, a homeschooled boy with No Social Skills whatsoever who does nothing but practice his violin and build Lego sets, is a good role model for Greg. Probably because Maddox's mom doesn't let him play video games or watch TV. | |
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Insignificant Anniversary | |
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Insignificant Anniversary: In Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, Rowley gets Abigail a cupcake to celebrate their nine-and-a-half-day anniversary. Every time one of the Snellas' kids turns six months old, they throw a "half-birthday party", during which they record attempts to make the baby laugh in hopes of appearing on TV. | |
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Strong Family Resemblance | |
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Strong Family Resemblance: Greg finds out that one of his relatives was physically identical when they were his age. He then makes plans for plastic surgery for the future. | |
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Mirror Reveal | |
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Mirror Reveal: Rowley has two pimples on his face. Greg sees them and instantly thinks they're chicken pox, then shows him a mirror. Rowley assumes it's chicken pox too and screams. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The Revolving Runts trading card series is a reference to the Garbage Pail Kids trading card series with the grotesque characters. | |
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So My Kids Can Watch | |
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So My Kids Can Watch: Inverted in-universe. Mackie wants Löded Diper's first album to be free of swear words so that his mom could enjoy it. | |
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Vacation Episode | |
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Vacation Episode: The fourth in the series. This time, the family takes an RV trip on the open road. | |
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Gross Gum Gag | |
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Gross Gum Gag: In the original book, Ricky Fisher's establishing moment is Greg stating that he'll pick the old gum off of the bottom of desks and chew it if you give him fifty cents. Greg is not too thrilled to have this guy on his independent study group. In "The Ugly Truth", Rodrick spits out his chewed gum at a swarm of moths, but he misses and hits Frank in the face with it. Frank gets so frustrated that he chases Rodrick around the parking lot, only to trip and twist his ankle (though he lies that he tripped over a toy car). | |
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Chatty Hairdresser | |
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Chatty Hairdresser: Greg befriends some at his mom's beauty salon. | |
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Baby Language | |
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Manny invents "ploopy." The meaning of the word is never explained, but he seems to use it as an insult. | |
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Unexpected Kindness | |
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Unexpected Kindness: In "Hard Luck", the family has been bickering about who gets to keep Meemaw's ring once it's found. Greg fears that they're going to fight again when they have another gathering, but they're actually quite happy to see each other. A few family members are even shown going over to hug each other. In "Dog Days", Greg overhears Frank talking about giving someone away and wonders if he's talking about him. Later, he looks in Frank's schedule and finds that it has "Sell Greg" written in it (it's implied Rodrick wrote that). When Frank tells him to get in the car because he has a surprise for him, Greg panics and calls the cops on him. Then it's revealed that Frank was actually planning to take Greg to a baseball game and he even got front-row seats. However, Frank no longer has the energy to attend the game and gives their tickets to the cops. Also, Frank was going to give their dog Sweetie away. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Drew's brother has several important scenes, but Greg only ever calls him "Drew's brother." | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Fregley is this, asking Greg "Wanna see my secret freckle?" Furthermore, he's got his own weird slang, so when he needs to go to the bathroom he yells "Juice! Juice!" | |
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Damned by Faint Praise | |
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Damned by Faint Praise: After Greg's team has lost every game, Coach Patel gives them a speech that while they might not end up being professional athletes, there are other (lame) jobs they can take up in the future. Greg notes that it's not particularly encouraging. He leaves with an award that congratulates him for "attempting to learn a sport". | |
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It Won't Turn Off | |
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It Won't Turn Off: The witch Rodrick gets cackles at the slightest movement, even after Frank removes the batteries. | |
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Arranged Friendship | |
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Arranged Friendship: Greg mentions one of his birthday parties where, since he's not too popular at his school and doesn't have many friends besides Rowley, his mother Susan invited her friends' kids over. Greg doesn't know any of those guys, so it's quite awkward for him. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: Greg can't even bring himself to write that Rowley ate the Cheese. The only thing we see of the act is a speech bubble of Rowley gagging as Greg looks upon sickened. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: In-universe, Greg calls out the Noah's Ark picture book Manny loves as this given it only features a happy Noah and happy animals, disregarding how almost all of humanity perished in the Great Flood. | |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels | |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Anyone with even just the most basic knowledge of Spanish can tell that Susan Heffley doesn't understand it nearly as well as she thinks she does—she thinks "Tengo hambre" means "Tango hamburgers" (it actually means "I'm hungry") and she thinks that "Te amo" means "What is your name?" (it actually means "I love you"). It embarrasses a younger Greg when he once tried asking a Spanish-speaking waiter what his name was by repeatedly saying, "Te amo." | |
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Cool Teacher | |
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Cool Teacher: Ms. Masie, the librarian (who puts a graphic novel section in the library and works hard to compromise with parents who want to ban certain books), and Mr. Rask, the science teacher (who engages his apathetic students by teaching them to think of how scientific terms apply to gross stuff) are both O.K. at their jobs and well-liked by their students. Mr. Leyton, the Latin teacher, is also a nice enough guy but is a fraud who is teaching the kids gibberish, which eventually gets him fired. | |
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Nightmare Fuel | |
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Nightmare Fuel: In-universe. Greg watches an old B-Movie about a muddy hand who kills the person who sees it right after it kills someone else. The last shot of the movie implies that the hand will go after the viewer next, causing Greg throughout the rest of the book to try to prevent a muddy hand attack. | |
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Spoiled Brat | |
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Spoiled Brat: Manny. Though one could argue he's not to blame; his parents are the ones who spoil him rotten and never tell him the difference between right and wrong. | |
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Thermal Dissident | |
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Thermal Dissident: Greg is given swimming lessons, but he finds the water too cold despite his teammates not being bothered. His father Frank yells from the sidelines, "Stop shivering, Greg!", and later, Greg gives up, goes to the bathroom, and wraps himself in toilet paper to keep warm. | |
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"Oh, Crap!" Smile | |
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"Oh, Crap!" Smile: A student displays this in an illustration while a security guard is shaking digging tools out of the student's duffel bag after Principal Bottoms passes a rule forbidding digging tools after Christian McKay tries to see what his locker connects too to create a shortcut, finds out his locker shares a wall with the Principal's private bathroom. | |
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Stern Parent, Doting Parent | |
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Stern Parent, Doting Parent: Frank frequently forces his older sons Rodrick and Greg to do things they hate, and refuses to let Greg get a Barbie Dreamhouse because he Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child, while Susan's more open-minded and lets her kids follow their dreams. Subverted, however, as Susan has become noticeably more demanding as the series has gone on. | |
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Irritation Nightmare | |
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Irritation Nightmare: Greg is having trouble learning to wake himself up because the sound of his alarm clock keeps coming into his dreams instead of waking him up. He's illustrated dreaming about a rabbit making the alarm's noise and Greg shouting, "Cut it out!". | |
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What, Exactly, Is His Job? | |
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What, Exactly, Is His Job?: Because this is told in Greg's point of view, we never find out what Frank's job is. The Third Wheel reveals that he works in an office, though. | |
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Connected All Along | |
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Connected All Along: Two major plot points in this book are the legend of Silas Scratch and Greg's dad having to come to Hardscrabble Farms. The two plots are linked when it's revealed Greg's father created Silas Scratch. | |
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Character Catchphrase | |
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Character Catchphrase: Greg thinks that his life is a TV show and comes up with a catchphrase of "Well, bite my biscuits!" It just confuses people. | |
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Inappropriate Pride | |
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Inappropriate Pride: Rodrick enthusiastically admits to having TP'd an elderly neighbor's house. This doesn't go over well with Susan. | |
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Implausible Deniability | |
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Implausible Deniability: Greg mentions that a kid named Aric Holbert got suspended for breaking into the school and spray painting "Aric Holbert is cool" on the lockers. He tried to deny it was him, but as Greg points out, "it was pretty pointless." | |
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Sympathy for the Devil | |
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Sympathy for the Devil: Greg may not like his siblings very much, but he does feel sorry for them when they get the short end of the stick. He thinks Rodrick is grumpy because he's The Unfavorite in the family and he feels bad for Manny for being too afraid of other kids to make friends. | |
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ToiletHumor | |
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Toilet Humor: After coming second-to-last in the fifty meter dash suring Field Day, Greg defends himself by saying he can only properly run when motivated... like the time he fled from an incensed Rodrick for making fun of him when he stepped in dog poop, with the elder Heffley sibling chasing him down with it. | |
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You Must Be This Tall to Ride | |
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You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Manny is unable to take part in any activities in a family adventure theme park other than a water slide since they require a certain age and height, as shown in one drawing where he can't reach a bear's paw that functions as minimum height. | |
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Feuding Families | |
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Feuding Families: Greg mentions that one of the houses on Upper Surrey Street is a duplex but that the two families that live in it hate each other. | |
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Black Comedy Pet Death | |
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Black Comedy Pet Death: In "The Long Haul", the Heffleys try to lead some lost funeral people to the cemetery, only to find a pet cemetery instead. In "Dog Days", Greg gets a fish, only for it to get eaten by Rodrick's fish. Also, Frank tells Greg of how his childhood dog Nutty ran away to a butterfly farm, only for Greg's grandpa to admit that what really happened was that he accidentally ran over Nutty in their driveway. In "Hard Luck", Greg remembers keeping an inchworm named Squirm as a pet two years ago, only for him to be stepped on by a baby Manny. | |
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Technologically Blind Elders | |
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Technologically Blind Elders: Susan tries to convince the neighborhood to shut down electronics for a weekend, but flubs it when she uses a pet-tracking app on her phone to find Greg. | |
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Color-Coded Speech | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_d631cc5b | comment |
Color-Coded Speech: The Do-It-Yourself Book'': In the comics section, Fregley's comic "Trevor" has speech bubbles colored white when Doug is speaking, and yellow when Trevor is speaking. | |
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Soap Punishment | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_d6eefac3 | comment |
Soap Punishment: Greg gets his mouth washed out with soap as a result of a failed attempt to tell on Rodrick for saying a bad word. Rodrick gets off scot-free. | |
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Angst? What Angst? | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_d7117f01 | comment |
Angst? What Angst?: Enforced in-universe. While working on their No Budget indie horror film Night of the Night Crawlers, Rowley is so freaked out that Greg has to shoehorn in a joke to keep him from running away. This joke turns out to be an unnamed man reacting to his wife's horrifying death by saying "Well, I guess this means I'm single!" and winking at the camera. | |
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Moving Angst | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_d75b5f08 | comment |
Moving Angst: Discussed and inverted. When Greg is about to move (though it's later canceled), he reads Rowley a book called Preston Platypus Says Farewell to a Friend, which is about the titular Preston Platypus being distraught when his best friend Pelican Pete moves away. He overcomes this angst when he meets some new friends, which Greg notes isn't that happy of an ending since Preston Platypus forgets all about Pelican Pete. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: Manny invents "ploopy." The meaning of the word is never explained, but he seems to use it as an insult. Greg and Rodrick have their own special language that allows them to swear at each other without getting in trouble (e.g. "Spooky stork!" "Raspberry plastic tickle bear!"). | |
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Amateur Film-Making Plot | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_d84c356e | comment |
Amateur Film-Making Plot: The end of the book has Greg and Rowley storyboarding and filming a horror movie. They only get to the end of the introduction before things start going wrong. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Greg doesn't find anything strange about Rowley showing up to his door dressed as a member of the Queen's Guard. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: A combination of the band blowing up at Rodrick for his selfishness and the threat of a legal lawsuit looming over their heads drives Bill, Drew, and Mackie to hightail it out of the Heffleys' house in the ice-cream van, marking the (temporary) end of Löded Diper. | |
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Red Herring | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: "The Beardos" would appear to be villains, stealing the Heffleys' beach chair, locker key and in turn wallets and cellphones. But, aside from the beach chair (which could have easily been a misunderstanding) and being slight jerkasses they aren't. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
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Adaptation Name Change: Some of the names got changed in the transition from the webcomic to the book. Ann Heffley became Susan Heffley, Uncle Freddie became Uncle Charlie, the Smedley family became the Snella family, Piper and Lori Matthews became Holly and Heather Hills, Darnell Washington (the first kid who touched the Cheese) became Darren Walsh, and Sweetie Pie the dog became Sweetheart (though his nickname is "Sweetie" in both versions). | |
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Two Decades Behind | |
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Two Decades Behind: At one point in the book, the Heffleys accidentally lock their keys in the car. This isn't possible with electronic locking systems, which have been mainstream in American cars since the 1990s, and the car's curved body shape indicates that it was not made before then. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Lightning strikes the bridge leading in and out of Campers' Eden, destroying a section of it, trapping everyone inside and preventing the food truck from bringing supplies in. The gap that's destroyed is exactly as wide as the Heffleys' RV is long, and it gets perfectly wedged in the gap when it washes down the river in a flood. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Early on in The Last Straw, Greg talks about a teenage hellion named Lenwood Heath who was the bane of Frank Heffley's existence until his parents shipped him off to military school. Lenwood reappears later on as a ticket-taker at the movie theater, having done a complete 180 in terms of personality; it's this that convinces Frank to send Greg to military school, kicking off the major conflict of the book. At one point in The Third Wheel, Greg presents an incomplete relationship chart regarding the kids at his school. Not only are Abigail and her boyfriend Michael on it, but the girl Michael ended up cheating on Abigail with is marked down as having a crush on Michael. | |
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Acting for Two | |
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Rowley is the only actor, and has to act for many. Since Greg has no video editing skills, this means that no scene in the movie can feature more than one character. | |
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Artistic License | |
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Artistic License: Midway though the book, the school starts renting out rooms in Wing C to people or businesses who need additional space. That's not possible to do in real life. | |
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Toilet Teleportation | |
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Toilet Teleportation: Greg assumes the stewards are not afraid of having to leave because they have their own emergency exits. We then get an image of one leaving by flushing himself down the toilet. | |
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Awkward Poetry Reading | |
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Awkward Poetry Reading: Greg points out that several of the poems in the Poetry Anthology book are pretty dumb, such as one called "My Turtle Fred", which is just about a turtle that will probably smell bad when he dies. Greg comments that the latter looks like it was written by a five-year-old. | |
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Soup of Poverty | |
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Soup of Poverty: Invoked when Greg's class goes on a field trip to Hardscrabble Farms, a wilderness survival camp. The people running it don't believe in wasting food, so at the end of each meal, everyone's leftovers are dumped into a giant stew pot. Mr. Healey tells Greg that they did the same thing when he went to the camp 30 years ago as a kid, and they're still using the same pot. One girl eats three servings of the stew to make herself sick so she can get sent home early, which Greg finds a bit extreme. | |
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Avoid the Dreaded G Rating | |
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Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Discussed when Löded Diper argues over which songs to record at the studio. Rodrick insists on making sure their album has lyrics warranting a Parental Warning sticker on it, reasoning that teenagers won't buy it without one. Mackie disagrees, stating that he wants an album his mom can enjoy. | |
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Continuity Snarl | |
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Continuity Snarl: Greg does jigsaw puzzles in this book, despite an incident in Cabin Fever in which he finds a nest of crickets in a box of puzzles giving him a fear of them. However, it is possible that he had gotten over his fear since. | |
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Write Who You Know | |
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Write Who You Know: invoked In-Universe. When Greg was little, a kid named Bradley always bullied him. After Bradley moved away, Greg's mom wrote a book called "Bad Bradley" about a kid who was always misbehaving, though she made Bradley out to be way worse than he actually was. She never got to publish it because Bradley and his family moved back to their neighborhood. | |
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Plot Allergy | |
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Plot Allergy: Greg has told two lies about allergies: In the first book, he convinces bullies not to force him to eat an expired slice of cheese by lying that he's allergic to dairy. In "The Ugly Truth", he lies that Manny is allergic to peaches to try to convince the advertisers of peach ice cream to make him their mascot instead of Manny. Ironically, Manny was actually allergic to peaches in the webcomic. | |
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No Antagonist | |
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No Antagonist: There is not a clear antagonist in the story unless Juicebox (one of the kids that Greg befriends) counts when he betrays Greg. | |
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The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You | |
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The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In-universe, the movie, Hello, You're Dead!, is about the muddy hand that goes around killing people. The last person who sees the hand is always the next victim. At the end of the movie, the hand crawls straight towards the screen, implying that Greg and Rowley are the next victims. This kept them nervous and paranoid for the rest of the book. | |
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Manchild | |
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Gary and Frank are this to a T: Gary is a Manchild who can’t hold down a job or a marriage, but he’s also a Cool Uncle. Frank is more mature and has a steady job and a family, but he’s also stuffy and acts like he’s far older than he really is. As expected, Frank doesn’t really like Gary, although Gary is nicer to Frank. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Literal-Minded: Greg plays "The Floor is Lava" with Manny. Before he can explain the rules, Manny screams and refuses to touch the floor at all, thinking it really is lava. | |
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Dub Name Change | |
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In the Netherlands, it's called "Bram Boterman's logbook". | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Greg’s character, Creighton the Cretin, is this in spades. He’s tricked into thinking his name is “Stewart Pid� (and then says his name is “Stew Pid�), mistakes a brick for a box, and asks a doctor to give him a new butt because his old one has a crack in it. | |
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World of Jerkass | |
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World of Jerkass: The number of genuinely kind and altruistic characters could be counted on one hand, and they tend to be sent through the wringer through no fault of their own. Even the main character is a selfish, judgemental, lazy, and massively egotistical blowhard whose only heroic actions have self-serving motives behind them. Although it's implied that some of what's shown may be biased in Greg's favour to make himself look better. | |
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Unsuccessful Pet Adoption | |
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Unsuccessful Pet Adoption: Manny tries to keep multiple pets, including a sea turtle and a box jellyfish. Susan returns them to the ocean. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: The art used in the novels is less sketchy than the one in the webcomic, and as the series has gone on, the illustrations have gotten much cleaner and more detailed. | |
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Artistic License – Sports | |
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Artistic License – Sports: The lunch ladies win at tug-of-war because one of them sits down with the rope tied around her waist, making her team impossible to move. This is illegal in real life tug-of-war competitions. | |
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Technical Euphemism | |
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Technical Euphemism: The boys in Greg's group take a photo of Tyson's bent elbow and the teachers mistakenly believe they took a photo of someone's "posterior". The guys are confused until they look in a dictionary and find out that it means "butt", much to their amusement. | |
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Athletically Challenged | |
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Athletically Challenged: Greg is very bad at sports — he spent most of his swimming lessons hiding in the bathroom because the water was too cold, he gets distracted playing soccer, and he once mentioned doing badly at baseball. | |
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Disaster Dominoes | |
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Disaster Dominoes: Greg drops the toothpaste cap down the drain. His attempt to get it back starts a chain of events that ends with the family car rolling down a ditch. | |
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The Chew Toy | |
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The Chew Toy: Greg. Whenever he does something even mildly unethical karma goes into overdrive and screws him over, while whenever he does something good or productive he still gets screwed over anyway. | |
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Extremely Overdue Library Book | |
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Extremely Overdue Library Book: Greg has a book, titled How to Make Sock Puppets, that he checked out when he was eight. He is most likely 12-13, which means the book is 4-5 years overdue. He is afraid he will get arrested if he returns to the library. He even gets nervous around librarians. | |
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Duck! | |
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Duck!: Greg and his dad in this scene in Dog Days. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Greg accidentally forgets Rodrick's trusty drumsticks at home during the setup for the Headless Chicken gig, so the latter devises a plan to get a pair from Hipp 'O' Henry's, a restaurant nearby. Greg worries that it's stealing, but Rodrick insists that they are "borrowing" it for a while, and reassures him that they might even get them back before anyone notices. | |
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No Budget | |
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No Budget: In-universe, where Greg and Rowley try to make an indie horror film. Their low-end equipment is "borrowed" from their parents, the only actor is Rowley, and their "special effects" are gummy worms and ketchup. | |
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Plane Awful Flight | |
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Plane Awful Flight: It's Greg's first time going to the airport and taking an airplane. He can't find a seat in the waiting room due to people lying across the seats or placing their bags on them and his sock is launched into a urinal via a blow-dryer, forcing him to go without it... and that's just in the airport. On the plane, he is just about denied having a row of seats all to himself by a family with a baby, and he also gets anxious over something happening to the plane after he watches the safety demonstration video (and he also gets worried about the turbulence and the pilots being allowed to move about the cabin), the passenger behind him puts his bare feet up on Greg's armrests, the baby he's next to uses his screen to watch cartoons (and the brightly colored animation stops him from falling asleep) and he can't lean his seat back because he's sitting in the emergency exit row. Also, meals are only given to first class passengers. The Heffleys also have to alternate between who gets to sit in first class, but Greg never gets his turn due to the aisle getting blocked by the broken food cart after turbulence hits. | |
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Flanderization | |
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Flanderization: Rowley was simply gullible and slow on the uptake before becoming a kiddy kid. This Flanderization is countered by his Character Development, however; The Third Wheel even implies that he is maturing faster than Greg is. Susan Heffley, in many ways. At first she only showed concern if Greg did something she objected to, and was sometimes embarrassing and behind the times of what teenagers were into, such as trying to get Greg less interested in video gaming. Her stern attitude only showed if something severe had happened (such as Rowley's broken arm in the first book or the party that happened in Rodrick Rules). As of Hard Luck, however, Susan's character has essentially delved into a Think of the Children! type mother who shows extreme distaste to anything electronic to the point she gets the town as a whole to unplug (which she simply bribed her way through by getting elderly party-goers of Grandpa to sign the signatures she needed). Susan has gotten more selfish over time. While initially Susan only forced her family into embarrassing activities out of cluelessness to their feelings in the matter, by The Long Haul Susan forces the entire family into going on a surprise road trip, well aware of their complaints and not caring because she desires a perfect family. Greg has become more unsympathetic. In Cabin Fever, he and Rowley get in trouble and Rowley accidentally confesses with Greg's name. Greg is upset, but decides to accept his punishment without bringing Rowley into it. In Hard Luck, he's upset when people start abusing the school's system of rewarding people who are nice, and also fears that Meemaw's ring will break up the family and hides it where nobody will find it. In Double Down, he thinks about his deceased Nana and feels bad that he wasn't nice to her, saying that he hopes she's happy in Heaven and doesn't have to watch over "an ungrateful middle-schooler." But in Wrecking Ball, he tries to scam kids by selling them broken toys and celebrates his aunt's death! Greg also seems to have gotten dumber and more gullible over the years. Granted, he was never anything close to a straight-A student, but by Double Down he thinks that his parents using the phrase "recharge our batteries" might mean they’re robots. This seems more like something he’d make fun of Rowley for thinking in the earlier books. Manny has had all his character traits exaggerated up to eleven. He started off as a Jerkass Spoiled Brat who played up how cuteness to get away with being a jerk to a borderline sociopath who leaves his family to die in a blizzard For the Evulz and blames it on not knowing how to tie his shoes. His mild Cloudcuckoolander traits were initially things you would expect a child to do, but nowadays he comes off as totally insane and does things like hijack the family car and try to crawl down a toilet. His intelligence went from Susan claiming he’s smart for his age to justify his oddness to him building a house out of spare construction materials just for giggles. | |
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Garage Sale | |
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Garage Sale: The book opens with Greg holding a yard sale after doing spring cleaning. Among his objects for sale are one of his old diaries, broken toys, old birthday cards, and socks full of random objects. He is unable to sell anything, unconvincingly trying to use Very False Advertising. Greg's yard sale is eventually rained out and ends early. | |
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Brain Bleach | |
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Brain Bleach: Greg remembers scaring his father after his father just got out of the shower. He writes that he would pay money to get rid of that memory. | |
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Adaptation Species Change | |
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Adaptation Species Change: Frank's childhood pet Nutty is a cat in the webcomic, but a dog in this book. | |
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Too Unhappy to Be Hungry | |
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Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: In one of the movies, Greg feels guilty about not owning up when Rowley gets punished for something he (Greg) did because Greg was wearing Rowley's coat. His mother Susan observes that he hasn't "badgered [her] for any snacks" and asks if he's OK. In "Dog Days", Greg's fish dies, leaving him "bummed out", so he picks at his food over brunch. | |
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One-Letter Pun | |
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One-Letter Pun: A boy named Preston Mudd is named athlete of the month. However, his poster lists him as "P. Mudd", and it only took people about 5 seconds to figure out what that sounds like when you say it out loud. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Löded Diper plays a gig at the Headless Chicken rock music club, after the owner promises to pay them half of the admission revenue. After the gig is over, they find out that admission was free that day, so they don't actually make any money. | |
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Foul Waterfowl | |
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Foul Waterfowl: Some geese migrate to Greg's street. Greg notes them to be very aggressive, chasing him and Rowley when they go home from school, and even Greg's dad has to be cautious while going to get the mail. | |
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No Full Name Given | |
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No Full Name Given: The books generally avert this trope but this is unexpectedly played straight with the kid named Frankie who saw Silas Scratch. This is to hide the fact that Frankie's full name is Frank Heffley, who is also the one who created the rumor of Silas Scratch in the first place when he went to the camp in his youth. | |
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Acquaintance Denial | |
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Acquaintance Denial: The book has Mrs. Heffley make a petition to shut off electricity for a day. Her son Greg finds this embarrassing and pretends that they're not related. | |
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First Day of School Episode | |
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First Day of School Episode: Manny gets scared by his classmates' Halloween costumes on his first day of preschool. | |
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Sequel Episode | |
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Sequel Episode: This book picks up where Wrecking Ball left off: the family's house is destroyed, so they have to stay in Gramma's basement for now. | |
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Outclassed at the Gym | |
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Outclassed at the Gym: Greg goes to the gym with his father to get fit. When he can't figure out the normal exercise machines, he goes to the bodybuilding area and notices all the tough weightlifters. Believing this will speed up the process, Greg tries haplessly to lift some heavy weights. When trying to remove weights to make it easier, he takes everything off one side, resulting in a loud clang that disrupts everyone and gets him and his father kicked out of the gym. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Extremely cynical for a children's book series (however, this might just be Greg's view on the world, as he's displayed some sociopathic styled tendencies, and thus this leaks into his journals). The main character, Greg, is a lazy, selfish, self-absorbed Jerkass with almost no redeeming qualities. Almost all the other child characters are Jerkasses & bullies as well. All authority figures are incompetent, and the school itself is a Sucky School. The only truly nice character in the main cast, Rowley, is coddled by his parents and abused by Greg (who doesn't seem to like him despite calling him his best friend). Greg's family is quite dysfunctional, and his father and older brother seem to actively hate him. Almost everyone not named Greg who does something bad is a Karma Houdini. | |
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Deconstructed Character Archetype | |
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Deconstructed Character Archetype: Sebastian Sleeves is a deconstruction of the Reclusive Artist rock star living luxurious isolation and just waiting to serve as a potential source of wisdom and advice to younger musicians. He spent so much money on his Big Fancy House that, after the end of his music career, he had to sell all of his other luxury items to maintain the house. That money ran out too after a while, so his water and electricity got shut off years, if not decades, ago. His advice to Rodrick and the others boils down to getting out of the music business before they end up like him. He does make a comeback at the end of the book, though. | |
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Hot Drink Cure | |
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Hot Drink Cure: When Greg is sick and talks about how his parents usually fuss over him when he gets sick, he draws Susan offering him a steaming mug and saying, "Are you strong enough to hold this cup?" | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: A teacher mentions that a kid named Frankie once saw Silas Scratch. Greg's dad is named Frank. It's later revealed that they're the same person, and Frank had made it up in order to keep other campers from finding a maintenance shed that contained bearable toilets and showers. | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Zig-Zagged. Greg's mom doesn't appear to have a job, but he mentions that she runs an article in the newspaper, and it's implied she might have been a therapist (but one for younger kids if anything) but is implied to go to school. Otherwise... she's not really doing anything. Greg's dad escapes this because The Third Wheel shows a flashback of him bringing Greg to his office for Bring Your Kid to Work Day, boring Greg because he just works on his computer (although what he's doing on it is unknown). This is a justified example. The story's told from Greg's point of view. What would he know about what his parents do on a day-by-day basis? | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Rodrick's Christmas list is for new drums, a new van, and a shrunken head. | |
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A Minor Kidroduction | |
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A Minor Kidroduction: The book's beginning details Greg's entire life, from before he was born to where he is now in middle school. | |
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"Harmful to Pets" Reminder | |
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"Harmful to Pets" Reminder: In "Double Down", Greg has a bagful of candy corn in his room, but the family's pet piglet ends up finding it and eating the whole bag. He looks quite ill and nauseous, so Greg and Rodrick try to take him to a vet before Susan finds out, but this backfires when the pig throws up in front of her. | |
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No Infantile Amnesia | |
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No Infantile Amnesia: Greg claims this applies to him at the beginning of the book. He goes on to explain that he was born three weeks early because he couldn't take all the noise he heard from the outside world (especially because Mom was using prenatal speakers to talk to and play classical music for him) and that as a result he has been trying to catch up on all the sleep he missed out on ever since. His love of long baths also stems from memories of peacefully floating in the womb. | |
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A Dog Named "Cat" | |
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A Dog Named "Cat": Discussed when the family gets a new dog. Manny wants to name it after other animals, like "Zebra" ("Zeeb for short!"). Rodrick wants to name it "Turtle", though that's mostly because he wants to shorten it to "Turd". However, the dog's actual name ends up being "Sweetie". | |
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EmoTeen | |
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Rodrick: melancholic | |
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Comedic Underwear Exposure | |
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Comedic Underwear Exposure: In one of the books, Rodrick locks Greg out of his hotel room while the latter is in his underwear. In The Last Straw, Greg climbs up a tree to save a blanket his little brother Manny threw up into it, only for his pants to fall down, exposing his embarrassing Wonder Woman underpants. | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper: Rodrick wins the "I Must Confess" game by revealing that Löded Diper trashed Mrs. Tuttle's house for calling the police because they were playing too loud. Susan is clearly angry and confronts Rodrick about it, but the latter, instead of trying to find a way to bail himself out, cheerfully tells her "there were four of [them]!". Cue Susan making Frank pull over and forcing an apology to Mrs. Tuttle out of Rodrick. | |
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High-School Dance | |
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High-School Dance: The Valentine's Day dance, where The Climax takes place. | |
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Reluctant Gift | |
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Reluctant Gift: Greg is supposed to put a twenty-dollar bill into the church collection basket but is trying to hold on to it. His mom Susan does it for him. | |
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Seasonal Rot | |
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Seasonal Rot: An in-universe example in the form of a school comic called Wacky Dawg. Greg states that the strip was pretty funny until it became a vehicle for the author to handle his personal business. | |
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Homemade Sweater from Hell | |
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Homemade Sweater from Hell: Greg decides to put on a sweater his Grandma knit for Sweetie in her house. It fits, but it's super itchy, possibly because the dog had fleas. | |
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Too Much Information | |
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Too Much Information: Greg makes a comic strip telling people not to talk about that sort of stuff in public. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Greg changes his mind about attending the Hardscrabble Farms camp after being involved in accidentally messing up Frank's car bumper, reasoning that him being absent will give Frank time to cool down at least a little. However, at camp, his cabin loses its chaperone, and him and the rest of his roommates end up earning the ire of Mrs. Graziano, who insists on calling an emergency replacement chaperone... who turns out to be Frank. Despite the aformentioned bumper accident, the fact that Frank was already hacked off at Greg for an earlier incident and the fact that Greg caused Frank to have to drive all the way over to camp in the middle of the night due to his group misbehaving, Frank never acts coldly to Greg once, or it at least isn't described, which means Greg didn't think it was bad enough to write about it in his diary. He civilly explains how a spooky rumor came to be after Greg encounters him using an maintenance shed connected to said rumor, sneaks Greg and his roommates back into their cabin so they can sleep properly instead of in a shelter outside, and offers him a ride home with him as opposed to taking the bus at the end, with not one mention of the trouble he caused. | |
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Misapplied Phlebotinum | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_f3cbaf48 | comment |
Misapplied Phlebotinum: Discussed; Greg says that his mom often claims that her mother (Greg's maternal grandmother) has ESP. Greg remarks that if it's true, she's not using her powers to their full potential. | |
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Emergency Broadcast | |
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Emergency Broadcast: A flash flood warning is issued for the RV park right before the climax. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Greg is not above this, noting that if he ever became an Olympic champion, he'd advertise everything he was asked to as long as he gets paid. | |
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Suck E. Cheese's | |
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Suck E. Cheese's: The pizza place with arcade games and singing animatronic robots is a blatant parody of Chuck E. Cheese's. There's even a woman who claims the establishment is recycling pizza slices, which is a real and infamous rumor surrounding Chuck E. Cheese. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: The Heffleys have to endure living in Gramma's basement for months, a bear encounter, being sprayed by a skunk, teenage hooligans, the sewage tank in their RV backing up, inconsiderate campers, being trapped at a campsite with no food, and nearly getting swept away in a flash flood, among many other mishaps, but after that, with all the other rude campers gone from the campsite, they are able to have a pretty good vacation. | |
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RidiculouslyHumanRobot | |
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Ridiculously Human Robot: The school buys a used cleaning robot from the grocery store to serve as a janitor. Said robot eventually becomes more and more human-like and starts taking tests with the students, playing cards with the janitors, posting job applications when the school begins to go under, and by the end of the book, becomes the school's temporary principal. | |
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Youngest Child Wins | |
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Youngest Child Wins: Only in that Manny winds up getting treated much better than his siblings. | |
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Reverse Psychology | |
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Reverse Psychology: Greg recalls his parents using this technique on him and Rodrick as kids. He then wants a cell phone but tells his parents that he doesn't because it's too much responsibility: this works, and his mother buys him a new phone. | |
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Entertainment Above Their Age | |
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Entertainment Above Their Age: "Old School" sees Manny, who is only three years old, requesting The Hobbit as a bedtime story (though it's implied that he mainly just wanted to stall going to bed). In "The Ugly Truth", it's mentioned that Greg's younger cousin Benjy (who is either a toddler or a baby) is already reading chapter books. | |
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CoolBigBro | |
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Cool Big Bro: Rodrick can be this when he wants to in the films, serving as something of a mentor to Greg. The books, however, have him remain a Big Brother Bully. | |
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Pictorial Letter Substitution | |
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Pictorial Letter Substitution: On the cover of Hard Luck, the "u" in the title is replaced with a horseshoe. | |
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Fake Interactivity | |
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Fake Interactivity: Discussed. Greg recalls watching TV shows that pretended to be interactive. Due to a coincidence in which a character seemed to answer Greg, he believed that the characters actually listened to what he told them, so his mother had to tell him that they couldn't. | |
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Series Fauxnale | |
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Series Fauxnale: This book wraps up all the content from the webcomic, but since the series became more popular in book form, Greg’s misadventures continue to this day. | |
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Themed Stock Board Game | |
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Themed Stock Board Game: Scrabble of all things. There's also one for Hot Potato. | |
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Everytown, America | |
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Everytown, America: Greg's town is called Plainview in the movies. | |
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Asian and Nerdy | |
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Asian and Nerdy: The girl who was voted "Most Likely To Succeed" in Rodrick's middle school yearbook is named Kathy Nguyen, a common Vietnamese last name. | |
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Real After All | |
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Real After All: Tall-tale teller Albert Sandy actually gets something right for once when the construction crew renovating the school finds a bunch of money that Albert had previously claimed embezzling former Principal Larry Mack hid on school grounds. | |
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Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour | |
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Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour: In the first book, Rodrick wakes Greg up to tell him that he slept through the summer. Greg makes a beeline downstairs to get breakfast and he eats so loudly that it wakes up Frank, who yells at him for waking him up at 4 AM. Later, Greg plays very loud music late at night. He realizes too late that he forgot to plug the headphones into the speakers, which awakens a pissed-off Frank. Frank, in a state of Tranquil Fury, proclaims that he wants to have a talk with him before referring to him as "friend". Greg notes that he only calls him that when he's especially furious. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Greg's mother tells him that he'll end up being a garbage collector if he doesn't think of a job to get earlier. Greg thinks being a garbage collector would be pretty cool. When told that geese are scared of dogs, Rowley uses a toy that plays out the word "Dog" repeatedly. | |
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Follow the Leader | |
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Follow the Leader: In-universe. Greg says that the school book fair only has Spineticklers books and Spineticklers knockoffs: he doesn't think those are legal. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Greg introduces various kids in his neighborhood at the start of the book. They all reappear during the snowball fight climax. | |
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Cut and Paste Comic | |
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Cut and Paste Comic: The artwork in the illustrations is reused constantly. (Explains why there is a Christmas Tree in the background when Greg is opening his Wonder Woman Underoos birthday present in June.) | |
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Show-and-Tell Antics | |
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Show-and-Tell Antics: Manny comes across a heavy metal magazine that his big brother Rodrick owns and takes it to his school for show-and-tell, much to his teacher's horror, as the cover has a photo of a bikini-clad woman lying across the hood of a car. Rodrick gets in trouble with his mom for this, as she is a Moral Guardian who doesn't approve of such things. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Yes, there really are box jellyfish around the Caribbean. | |
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Situational Hand Switch | |
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Situational Hand Switch: Greg, who is right-handed, buys a French horn and learns the hard way that it's a left-handed instrument. | |
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