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Encyclopedia Brown

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Encyclopedia Brown	comment	Encyclopedia Brown is the Kid Detective hero of a series of children's stories written by Donald Sobol. He uses his intelligence and formidable memory for trivial facts to solve a wide variety of mysteries. The Encyclopedia Brown stories are essentially a kids' version of Sobol's earlier series Two-Minute Mysteries featuring the police detective Dr. Haledjian. A number of Brown cases are directly taken from Two Minute Mysteries, albeit with the murders solved by Haledjian being (mostly) replaced with more humble crimes like bicycle theft. Like Two Minute Mysteries, most Encyclopedia Brown stories revolve around our detective spotting an inconsistency or impossibility in the guilty party's alibi, with the reader being challenged to figure out what it is themselves.Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown is the son of the Chief of Police in Idaville, who one day reveals an uncanny ability to crack cases using his deductive skills. Once a book, he helps his dad solve a serious case at the dinner table, and the rest of the time, he runs a neighborhood detective agency to help the local kids with their own troubles. His eternal rival is Bugs Meany, a local bully with his own posse of troublemakers, the Tigers. Encyclopedia's friend (and bodyguard) is Sally Kimball, a Cute Bruiser whom even Bugs fears. Another recurring enemy is Wilford Wiggins, a high school dropout who is constantly trying to con the neighborhood kids into buying bogus products or merchandise. Encyclopedia, Sally, and Bugs all agree that they hate him.It was adapted into a short-lived HBO series in 1989 (when an original HBO series was more likely to be a kids' show). There was also a newspaper comic syndicated from 1978-80.The last book of the series was posthumously published in October 2012, three months after Sobol's death.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_103e0141	type	Dying Clue
Encyclopedia Brown / int_103e0141	comment	Dying Clue: Both real and fake ones (as well as the related "person who wrote the clue was in danger and hid a code for help") pop up on occasion. Book 6, Chapter 7 ("The Case of the Missing Ring") has a variant where the victim just has amnesia rather than dying, but leaves a confusing note that only makes sense once Encyclopedia realizes that the victim had swapped all instances of the letter "c" with "v" and vice versa. Book 12, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Hidden Will") has a variant involving a clue in a dead man's will, because he knew in life that one of his sons had cheated him.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_1300dc5c	type	Inspector Lestrade
Encyclopedia Brown / int_1300dc5c	comment	Inspector Lestrade: Chief Brown tends to fall into this trope, despite being the chief of police. His son can usually solve the case, though. Mentioned in the books that he can usually solve the case on his own and that it's only about once a month or so he needs Encyclopedia's help. Still not the best record, though.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_13cd498e	type	Kangaroo Pouch Ride
Encyclopedia Brown / int_13cd498e	comment	Kangaroo Pouch Ride: In Book 9, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the World Traveler"), a kid tells a bunch of stories about his travels around the world in order to secure membership in some sort of club only for Encyclopedia to claim he's lying his ass off. The "male kangaroo with marsupial pouch" mistake is one of the many errors in the kid's stories.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Encyclopedia Brown / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Book 3, Chapter 3 ("The Case of Bugs's Kidnapping") revolves around another of Bugs' frame-up attempts. He claims to have been kidnapped (and that Encyclopedia orchestrated it), and brings his mother along for the accusation. She repeatedly interjects about how terrible this was and saying things like "My poor baby", much to Bugs' exasperation, until he finally exclaims "For Pete's sake, Ma!" out of embarrassment over her behavior.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Encyclopedia Brown / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Subverted in Book 2, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Two-Fisted Poet") — Sally's already interested in Percy to begin with, but he knows she's a Cute Bruiser and pre-arranges a mock battle with an older boy so he can show off when he takes her on a date. Sally's dizzy with delight until Encyclopedia whispers the give-away clue into her ear: Percy's glasses, which he'd put in his shirt pocket, are intact despite multiple body blows. The trope is subverted a second time in the same story: despite the fact that he's rescued her from having a misguided crush on a lying jerk, Encyclopedia and Sally never seem to be anything other than close friends.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_14db7384	type	Express Lane Limit
Encyclopedia Brown / int_14db7384	comment	Express Lane Limit: The solution to Book 15, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Supermarket Shopper") depended on the victim's strict adherence to this trope, and the fact that the non-express checkout lanes at the local supermarket took forever.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Encyclopedia Brown / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Book 14, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Thermos Bottle"): Bugs Meany holds a raffle drawing at a fair for a baseball glove and has one of his friends reach around for another associate's balls in the big container of ping-pong balls. Encyclopedia discovers he was cheating by noticing that Bugs drank a canned soda when he was carrying around a thermos, thus meaning he put the ball in the freezer, then took it to the fairgrounds in the thermos so the associate would just have to feel around for a frozen ball. It's entirely possible that Bugs simply didn't want whatever was in his thermos at that particular moment or was saving it for later. Or that he'd already emptied his thermos, and found himself wanting another drink.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Encyclopedia Brown / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Inverted in Book 1, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Happy Nephew"). When an armed robbery suspect seems to have an alibi, Chief Brown tells Encyclopedia they would need proof to accuse him. Encyclopedia smugly reveals the robber already gave himself away; a Straying Baby was playing on the suspect's car hood, when it should have been scalding hot from the driving he supposedly did.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Encyclopedia Brown / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Sally can handle kids her own age fine in a physical fight, but even she isn't strong enough to fend off the grown man who stole Ida's treasure, who then locks her up when he catches her snooping around his yard.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_1871c897	type	Kirk Summation
Encyclopedia Brown / int_1871c897	comment	Kirk Summation: The answers in the back of each book. In the show Encyclopedia gives them more succinctly.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Encyclopedia Brown / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Inverted; after Encyclopedia solves a challenge mystery that Sally presents to him in Book 1, Chapter 4 ("The Case of Merko's Grandson"), he hires her as his bodyguard. She also provides good common sense like not keeping his earnings in a shoe-box, as seen in Book 1, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Bank Robber").
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
Encyclopedia Brown / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: Despite the series running from the 1960s until Sobol's death in 2012, Encyclopedia is always ten years old. Later books include more modern cultural and technological references, such as to laser printers.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Encyclopedia Brown / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Bugs' arranging a competition between Encyclopedia and Sally in Book 1, Chapter 4 ("The Case of Merko's Grandson"). The plan: to have Encyclopedia win and thus show up the girl who beat up Bugs. This plan succeeds, so far as it goes, but then Encyclopedia and Sally join forces, much to Bugs' chagrin.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_1a68cbdc	type	Character Name and the Noun Phrase
Encyclopedia Brown / int_1a68cbdc	comment	Character Name and the Noun Phrase: Some of the books follow this format strictly (e.g., Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles), while others deviate slightly (Encyclopedia Brown Strikes Again). The ones that name a specific element always use one of the cases in the book as the noun phrase.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_1ad42ecd	type	The Glasses Come Off
Encyclopedia Brown / int_1ad42ecd	comment	The Glasses Come Off: Book 2, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Two-Fisted Poet") has a subversion when a snooty newcomer to the neighborhood tries to romance the detective's Action Girl sidekick Sally. To impress her, the newcomer fights with a bully who is rude to them on a date, putting his glasses away in his chest pocket before getting into a long, drawn out fight where the bully lands many punches on his chest. When he pulls out his glasses after the fight and they are fine, Encyclopedia points out to Sally that if the fight were real the glasses should have been broken considering all the punches the bully was landing in the chest area. She promptly lays out the would-be boyfriend herself.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Encyclopedia Brown / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Bugs Meany, a recurring troublemaker who's always out to cause trouble with his gang, the Tigers and regularly threatens kids if they don't do what he wants.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_1f529b21	type	Shorttank
Encyclopedia Brown / int_1f529b21	comment	Shorttank: The tomboyish Sally Kimball, right down to the ambiguously romantic relationship with the protagonist.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_2099daa3	type	Wight in a Wedding Dress
Encyclopedia Brown / int_2099daa3	comment	Wight in a Wedding Dress: Book 9, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Lady Ghost") features a man who was camping on the beach and bursts into the Brown home late at night, convinced he's just seen the ghost of Jennifer MacIntosh, a beach-walking figure from local legend, who walks the beaches in her bridal gown in search of her lost lover (who drowned at sea before they could get married). Turns out the wife of a man who'd held up a jewelry store not too long before used this to help cover for him.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
Encyclopedia Brown / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: Book 23, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Rhyming Robber") describes the titular "Rhyming Robber" as one, who steals from people, then hides the loot and sends them a poem hinting at where he hid it. If they haven't found it themselves in a week, he recovers it himself and then starts all over again. Encyclopedia figures out one of his clues, allowing the police to nab him when he goes to his latest hiding place.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Encyclopedia Brown / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Book 11, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Salami Sandwich") introduces Ziggy Ketchum, who's notorious for this. The narration mentions that he once hired the title character to find his wristwatch when it was on his other wrist the whole time.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Encyclopedia Brown / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Encyclopedia probably hates being called Leroy, because he's not "the baddest man in the whole damned town" or "meaner than a junkyard dog", and especially doesn't want to "look like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone".
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_24224f64	type	GunsAreUseless
Encyclopedia Brown / int_24224f64	comment	Guns Are Useless: Averted. It doesn't come up much because the kinds of "crimes" Encyclopedia gets personally involved with usually top out at school bully hijinks, but whenever he hears somebody firing off a gun, he's realistically reluctant to be the main party involved with confronting the gunman, such as in Book 12, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Dead Eagles"). After all, he's a ten-year-old kid; what's he going to do?
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Encyclopedia Brown / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Encyclopedia, Sally, and (amazingly) Bugs are usually the only non-adult people who doubt Wilford Wiggins whenever he does one of his cons.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_269c2c35	type	TechMarchesOn
Encyclopedia Brown / int_269c2c35	comment	Tech Marches On: Book 6, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Kidnapped Pigs") was "solved" based on Q and Z being omitted from the letters assigned to numbers on a telephone. We'll wait a second while you get your phone out and check...
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_27f10418	type	Impersonating an Officer
Encyclopedia Brown / int_27f10418	comment	Impersonating an Officer: In Book 11, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Counterfeit Bill"), Encyclopedia fingers a man impersonating a policeman as the culprit. Encyclopedia realized he was a fake due to him putting on his badge on the right side of his chest. Policemen are supposed to wear it over their hearts, on the left side.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_292dac7e	type	Sesquipedalian Smith
Encyclopedia Brown / int_292dac7e	comment	Sesquipedalian Smith: "Encyclopedia" Brown. Somewhat subverted in that it's a nickname; his real name is Leroy, but only his parents and teachers call him that.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_2c437b06	type	Violently Protective Girlfriend
Encyclopedia Brown / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Sally Kimball. Not quite played straight, however; Encyclopedia pays Sally to be his bodyguard. To what extent her affections eventually become engaged is less clear, and there is at least one mystery — Book 2, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Two-Fisted Poet") — in which she defends another guy against Encyclopedia's (correct) accusations, although not physically.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
Encyclopedia Brown / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Bugs tries to frame Encyclopedia for stealing Ida's treasure box by leaving the boy's business card by her statue. Unfortunately, he forgot that Encyclopedia's dad is the chief of police and knows that his son isn't a thief.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Encyclopedia Brown / int_2d3d3e0c	comment	Disqualification-Induced Victory: Inverted in the ending of Book 16, Chapter 7 ("The Case of the Hard-luck Boy"), where Encyclopedia believes that the runner-up in a language contest deliberately threw the last round (the question asked about a word with three pairs of letters in a row, and the girl in question referred to herself as a bookkeeper) because she accidentally broke the prize for first place, so she decided to deliberately try for second or third in order to get a working prize rather than the one she broke. When she's confronted with this, she admits the truth and cedes her own prize to the winner in place of the broken one.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Encyclopedia Brown / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: While best known for being a Big Eater, Book 18, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Brain Game") notes that Chester Jenkins is smart enough to have won the Brain Game at Tyrone Taylor's birthday party one year, and only came in second during the events of the story because Tyrone sneaked the last answer to the girl he was currently romancing. Even Sally can't see past his food focus before Encyclopedia reminds her about his previous victory.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_314afdb	type	In-Universe Factoid Failure
Encyclopedia Brown / int_314afdb	comment	In-Universe Factoid Failure: Used constantly to provide Encyclopedia with the clues to solve a case. Most books have a chapter where Wilford Wiggins tries to scam a crowd with some sort of big project or such. Every time, Encyclopedia is there to point out the huge error that makes the whole thing useless — for instance, Book 6, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Cave Drawings") has him trying to sell a dinosaur dig with a drawing of a dinosaur attacking a caveman. Justified in that Wilford is a high school dropout. Bugs Meany falls into this with a few of his scams. In Book 1, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Civil War Sword"), he tries to sell an "authentic" Confederate Civil War sword, proudly showing the engraving of it being presented after "The First Battle of Bull Run." Encyclopedia dryly points out it would have been odd to engrave that at a time when no one knew there would be a second battle.note Also, Southern soldiers would be unlikely to commemorate "the Battle of Bull Run", as the Confederate Army's official name for that engagement was "the Battle of Manassas".
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_31e2ad94	type	Kid Detective
Encyclopedia Brown / int_31e2ad94	comment	Kid Detective: Encyclopedia himself. Notable here is the fact that his father is a police officer who knows of his son's activities, and is somewhat embarrassed that the smartest detective in town is a fifth-grader.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_327a197a	type	Publicity Stunt
Encyclopedia Brown / int_327a197a	comment	Publicity Stunt: In Book 3, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Missing Statue"), a statue is stolen just before the premiere of Linda Wentworth's film about a statue that is stolen. Turns out the whole thing is a setup to promote said film.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_330ef176	type	Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious
Encyclopedia Brown / int_330ef176	comment	Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious: Book 11, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Skunk Ape") involved Encyclopedia investigating a "Skunk Ape", the Idaville version of an abominable snowman. Of course, it's only Bugs Meany again.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Encyclopedia Brown / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Book 1, Chapter 4 ("The Case of Merko's Grandson"), the story that introduces Sally and has her present a mystery to test Encyclopedia's skill, has one glaring flaw that falsifies the solution: when the grandniece states that Merko is not Fred Gibson's grandfather, the court takes her claim seriously, because Merko is revealed in the solution to be a woman — and thus the man's grandmother. However, in real life, the probate judge is well aware of the decedent's gender (it's on the death certificate, after all, and this hearing took place decades after Merko's death), and such a statement would have been dismissed out of hand as frivolous. Even if the judge didn't know (Merko had posed as a man her entire life, and there was either no medical examination or the coroner had been suborned to falsify the record), the question of Merko's gender was legally irrelevant in any case. The only way the grandniece could have been taken seriously would have been if Merko had been a man, and the allegation was that Fred Gibson had simply been lying. It's obvious, in-universe, that Sally is trying to test not only Encyclopedia's intelligence, but whether or not he is sexist; however, she could have devised a better story. This is fixed in the HBO version, where Sally doesn't explicitly state that the judge didn't take the claim validly but rather "both the man and the woman were right," that is both are telling the truth. Bugs Meany repeatedly tries to frame Encyclopedia for something, only for the other boy to prove that the accusations are bogus. Knowingly filing a fraudulent criminal complaint is a crime in and of itself in 99% of police jurisdictions, so Bugs' attempts to get Encyclopedia arrested for crimes that never happened should have gotten him arrested and thrown into a juvenile detention facility by the end of the third book.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_33c2a4f9	type	Second Prize
Encyclopedia Brown / int_33c2a4f9	comment	Second Prize: Book 16, Chapter 7 ("The Case of the Hard-luck Boy") has Encyclopedia prove that a contest participant deliberately lost on the last question to get second place because they'd accidentally broken the grand prize.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_34a9299c	type	It Was with You All Along
Encyclopedia Brown / int_34a9299c	comment	It Was with You All Along: In Book 11, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Salami Sandwich"), the absent-minded Ziggy Ketchum is mentioned as having once hired Encyclopedia to find his wristwatch. Encyclopedia found it on his other wrist.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Encyclopedia Brown / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Wilford Wiggins is imaginative enough to come with all sorts of tall tales that're believable enough to nearly con the children of Idaville. In a few stories, Encyclopedia and Sally comment that Wilford is actually a rather talented artist. In Book 15 1/2, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Fourth of July Artist"), Wilford creates a fake painting of the Liberty Bell that took weeks to perfect. Unlike most examples of this trope, however, it is portrayed unambiguously negatively. Instead of using his talents legitimately as an artist or a fiction writer, Wilford squanders them on get-rich-quick schemes. He passes his works off as moneymaking schemes or historical relics rather than let them stand on their own merits.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Encyclopedia Brown / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: It's almost routine how the books contain key things in every volume: The opening chapters talk of how crime-free Idaville is and that no one would suspect it's because of Encyclopedia. The first chapter then has Chief Brown bringing home a case which Encyclopedia solves. The second chapter has Encyclopedia helping a kid out with Bugs Meany. The next opens with Bugs remembering how Sally punched him out long ago. It then has him attempting to frame Encyclopedia and/or Sally for a crime. Midway through several books, Wilford Wiggins calls up a meeting for his latest get-rich-quick scam.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_37ad8d62	type	Heavy Sleeper
Encyclopedia Brown / int_37ad8d62	comment	Heavy Sleeper: One of Encyclopedia's camping buddies, Benny Breslin, has this trait (and to top it off, he snores incredibly loud). It's become a plot point to a case more than once.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Encyclopedia Brown / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: Out of 74 confirmed teenagers featured or mentioned in the series, 44 are bullies, cheaters, con artists, or petty crooks, including recurring antagonist Wilford Wiggins.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_396d046e	type	Fun with Homophones
Encyclopedia Brown / int_396d046e	comment	Fun with Homophones: Book 5, Chapter 7 ("The Case of Cupid's Arrow") has a diamond theft solved by the detective announcing the diamond is "an arrow flight away" (it was taken out of its case, attached to an arrow, and shot out the window). The guilty person was the only one who thought to look outside because he knew a bow and arrow were involved, everyone else assumed the diamond was upstairs, i.e. "a narrow flight" of stairs away. In Book 8, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Flower Can"), a thief accidentally drops a valuable Confederate coin into a can filled with flowers. Encyclopedia knows he'll try to get it back, so he sets a trap. When a man comes to the door claiming to be selling magazines, a woman hands him a can of flour and says she put the coin in "the flour can". Instead of dumping out the flour to look for the coin, he searches until he finds the can filled with flowers, thus proving that he's the thief. Only the thief would think that she was talking about a "flower" can.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_3a5b6da	type	All Balloons Have Helium
Encyclopedia Brown / int_3a5b6da	comment	All Balloons Have Helium: Subverted in Book 2, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Balloon Man"). A witness claimed he saw a man known for handing out balloons abducting a child when one of his trademark balloons flew into a tree and got stuck. The witness said he'd climbed the tree to retrieve it when he saw the balloon man put the kid in his truck and drive off. Encyclopedia deduced the witness was lying because the aforementioned balloon man always inflated his balloons by mouth, and therefore none would have flown.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_3aadff4	type	Left Your Lifesaver Behind
Encyclopedia Brown / int_3aadff4	comment	Left Your Lifesaver Behind: In Book 2, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Forgetful Sheriff"), a story is told of how the titular character (who lived eighty years before) forgot his gun when he went out to confront a band of thieves. When this was discovered, a posse of citizens went after him and found him standing over the dead bodies of the thieves, having wrestled a gun away from one and killed all five with it. Subverted when it turns out he hadn't forgotten his weapon at all — he was a member of the gang and didn't think he'd need his gun for the meeting. He grabbed one from one of the other robbers and killed them all due to a disagreement over how to split up the loot.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Encyclopedia Brown / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Sally versus any boy she has to fight. About the only time when Encyclopedia doesn't think she can win against a particular bully, in Book 2, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Stomach Puncher"), he decides not to tell her about the case and instead handles the bully himself (via wearing a piece of sheet metal and tricking Biff into punching him there).
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Encyclopedia Brown / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: Each book arranges its stories in a similar loose arc. The first couple of pages of every book except for the first are almost word-for-word identical, describing Idaville, the businesses in it, and the police force, leading up to Chief Brown bringing a case home for his son to solve. The second usually introduces the detective agency he runs out his garage, and a neighborhood kid will come by and hire him to do something about something Bugs Meany's done. The third or fourth chapter is Bugs' attempt at revenge, usually by getting the police involved. And the introduction of Sally Kimball for the book, and the explanation of why Bugs doesn't just punch Encyclopedia's lights out. While Bugs and his gang are introduced, the author will also usually suggest that they should have called them something else besides "The Tigers" ("They should have called themselves the Steel Clocks. They were always giving some kid a hard time.") and have Bugs envision some sort of comically gruesome fate for Encyclopedia ("Pounding his head so low that he'd be able to use his socks as earmuffs.") Typically, if Sally's involved, there's mention of the only time Bugs tried to mess with her and his resulting Non Sequitur, Thud ("mumbling something about the price of tea in China"). The eighth or ninth chapter in most books has Encyclopedia thwarting one of Wilford Wiggins's get-rich-quick schemes.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_4008c5b6	type	Randomly Reversed Letters
Encyclopedia Brown / int_4008c5b6	comment	Randomly Reversed Letters: Encyclopedia sets up his detective agency in his father's garage, with a hand-lettered sign. Since he's a child genius, the sign presumably looks perfect. However, on some editions of the book, the publishers apparently took the "child" part of "child genius" and ran with it, reproducing his sign on the back cover of the books with random letters reversed.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_41feb209	type	Non Sequitur, Thud
Encyclopedia Brown / int_41feb209	comment	While Bugs and his gang are introduced, the author will also usually suggest that they should have called them something else besides "The Tigers" ("They should have called themselves the Steel Clocks. They were always giving some kid a hard time.") and have Bugs envision some sort of comically gruesome fate for Encyclopedia ("Pounding his head so low that he'd be able to use his socks as earmuffs.") Typically, if Sally's involved, there's mention of the only time Bugs tried to mess with her and his resulting Non Sequitur, Thud ("mumbling something about the price of tea in China").
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Encyclopedia Brown / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Book 7, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Junk Sculptor") has Encyclopedia investigate when a friend's bicycle gets a wheel stolen. The culprit was a young artist who was collecting junk to use in his works. When he's caught, he returns the bicycle wheel. He also tries to return the rest of the junk to the other people he stole from only to find they didn't want it back because it was junk. They even tell him they would have let him have it if he'd just asked, something he admits he never thought to do.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
Encyclopedia Brown / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: In almost every story involving Bugs Meany, this sort of thing gave Bugs away; he usually had to defend a lie with another lie that made what he said earlier contradictory. In Book 7, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Foot Warmer"), the perp might have gotten away with his alibi of using the titular object in a certain store where it's cold if he hadn't mentioned that with the titular object he can't bend over. This contradicts the shopkeeper's account that he bent down to pick up a baby while there, which reveals that he actually did shoplift two air rifles.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_495904cc	type	Forgetful Jones
Encyclopedia Brown / int_495904cc	comment	Forgetful Jones: Ziggy Ketchum, the most absent-minded boy in Idaville. In Book 11, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Salami Sandwich"), it's mentioned that he once hired Encyclopedia to find the wristwatch he'd supposedly lost... which he was wearing on the wrong wrist. In the same chapter, he comes to Encyclopedia and explains that the day before, he'd hidden a sandwich somewhere in the department store where he works (so his coworker wouldn't steal it) and now he can't find it, or the list he kept of where he was hiding his food each day that week. Fortunately, Encyclopedia helps him find the list and, after studying it and realizing just what item of clothing Ziggy had hidden his food with (which he was remembering wrong), recover the missing sandwich. Later, as described in Book 26, Chapter 5 ("The Case of Grandma's Cookies"), he wants to hire Encyclopedia, but first has to be reminded of why he's standing outside Encyclopedia's garage with a quarter in hand.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Encyclopedia Brown / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: This happens quite a bit, and is how most of Encyclopedia's suspects incriminate themselves. Not generally for murders, but it happens. Examples include: Book 1, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Knife in the Watermelon") had Encyclopedia figuring out which member of a gang robbed a grocery store, his only piece of evidence being a knife left stuck into a watermelon. When confronting the gang, one of the members says the blade of his knife is a half-inch longer... despite the knife never having been taken out of the melon, and the watermelon specifically having been described as "huge" so that even the longer knife blade would still be completely hidden. True to form, the member in question turns out to have been the robber. Book 1, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Missing Roller Skates") has a pair of roller-skates stolen from Encyclopedia while the latter was at the dentist. He asks his main suspect (a kid who had a doctor's appointment in the same building) if he was in Dr. Vivian Wilson's office. The kid claims "I never heard of him until you mentioned his name" and that he didn't go near Wilson's office because he "had a sprained wrist, not a toothache". In other words, despite supposedly never having heard of him, the kid not only knew that Dr. Wilson was a dentist but that he was a man despite his first name being "Vivian". Book 2, Chapter 7 ("The Case of the Wounded Toe") has someone getting shot in the foot by a BB gun. One of Bugs' friends shows up, and Encyclopedia tells him to run to the kid's house and get his shoe. The kid grabs the correct shoe, and Encyclopedia points out that unless he was the one who shot him, he couldn't have known which shoe to get. An innocent person would have had a 50 percent chance of guessing right, but would probably have asked 'Which shoe?' or, upon realizing they hadn't asked which one, brought both back.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_4b4274e3	type	Second Place Is for Winners
Encyclopedia Brown / int_4b4274e3	comment	Second Place Is for Winners: Book 15, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Marathon Runner") has one of Encyclopedia's friends trying to finish last place in a race, figuring that the last-place finisher will get the most time with the media. Another girl had the same idea, so Encyclopedia has to prove she cheated by shooting a hole in her story about stopping near a theater to hear the music being played within — apparently, to know the actual name of the song they were playing (rather than a more common song with the same tune), she'd have had to have gone inside, and therefore off the race course.Side noteFor the record, the "clue" that solved the case for Brown wasn't even correct. He was right — she'd left the race course after two miles and only returned to the course for the last mile. Book 16, Chapter 7 ("The Case of the Hard-luck Boy") has a girl who deliberately wins second prize in a trivia contest, because she knows the watch that goes to the first-prize winner is broken (she herself had snooped and accidentally broken it).
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
Encyclopedia Brown / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Book 9, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Lady Ghost") features a criminal who eludes the police by posing as a legendary Idaville ghost named Jennifer MacIntosh, who supposedly wanders the town's beach in her wedding dress, looking for her true love who was lost at sea. Encyclopedia is (naturally) skeptical of the people who claim that the beach is haunted—until he actually sees someone walking along the beach in a wedding dress, and notices that the mysterious figure never leaves footprints. It turns out that the perp actually hid a wooden board in the hem of his dress to sweep away his footprints; Encyclopedia sees through the illusion after noticing that the ghost's veil moves in the wind, but its dress doesn't. Book 11, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Skunk Ape") involves Bugs Meany arranging one involving a fake Skunk Ape, a Bigfoot-like creature, which steals another kid's cello.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_4c3f14e0	type	You Are Too Late
Encyclopedia Brown / int_4c3f14e0	comment	You Are Too Late: In Book 15 1/2, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Missing Watchgoose"), Encyclopedia finds a girl's goose, after realizing he accepted a slice of "dark meat" from two men. The aftermath story shows said girl is crushed that her goose is dead, though her dad received money from the men as compensation and Encyclopedia has the sense to not mention the word "goose" in front of her.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_4c4bebf4	type	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology
Encyclopedia Brown / int_4c4bebf4	comment	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology: In Book 6, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Cave Drawings"), the con artist Wilford Wiggins claims to have discovered caveman drawings in an old cave. He almost becomes rich and famous for the "discovery", but Encyclopedia notices a drawing of a caveman fighting a dinosaur. He points out the dinosaurs went extinct long before the age of man, and Wilford's con is exposed.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_4cf9fe88	type	Clueless Mystery
Encyclopedia Brown / int_4cf9fe88	comment	Clueless Mystery: Book 5, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Missing Clues") revolves around something of a subversion. The client in the mystery is a boy who has been selling fresh fruit from a stand on the side of the road; Bugs comes by every day and demands a generous helping of fruit for free, claiming that he is offering "protection" for the boy. On the day that Encyclopedia takes the case, Bugs makes off with a bag of cherries. When Encyclopedia and his client enter Bugs's clubhouse, they find him with an empty bag, but Bugs claims that he bought the cherries elsewhere, and has been eating them since he got back to his hideout. Encyclopedia investigates, and immediately determines that Bugs is lying. The mystery is how he knew, and the solution reveals that if Bugs had been eating the cherries in the clubhouse, there would be stems and pits lying on the floor, and as there aren't any, he must have made up the story and eaten the fruit on his way there. So yes, the mystery is literally clueless — but in this case, the absence of clues is the clue!
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_4efe80e1	type	Lazy Bum
Encyclopedia Brown / int_4efe80e1	comment	Lazy Bum: Wilford Wiggins is described in Book 26, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Shipwreck") as being "peppy as a pillow". He dropped out of high school and doesn't even think of getting a job. He tries to make money through cons, and he's such a lazy slug that he only tries to con little kids who probably don't have all that much money to begin with.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5158ccb3	type	The Case of...
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5158ccb3	comment	The Case of...: The series has used this many times, with titles like Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles and Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers. Almost every chapter title in the main books starts with this. The only exceptions are in Book 15 Â½, which has seven mysteries and nine other chapters. The former seven use the phrase, while the nine non-mystery chapters leave it off.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5312637f	type	Tomboy with a Girly Streak
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5312637f	comment	Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Sally. She's the toughest and most athletic girl in town and can punch out anybody. But she's also got a passion for the arts as evidenced by her crush on Pablo and isn't against wearing skirts. Certain mysteries also give her a chance to solve the case because she has knowledge of feminine things Encyclopedia wouldn't have.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_538cd85a	type	Strong Girl, Smart Guy
Encyclopedia Brown / int_538cd85a	comment	Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Sally and Encyclopedia, respectively. Encyclopedia got his nickname because of his Encyclopedic Knowledge. His best friend, Sally Kimball, is a Cute Bruiser who acts as his bodyguard and frequently beats up male bullies (one of whom called them "Mr. Brains and Miss Muscles").
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_54956f54	type	Flat World
Encyclopedia Brown / int_54956f54	comment	Flat World: Discussed in Book 23, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Black Horse"), where one of the kids in the neighborhood is Waldo Emerson, president and only member of the Idaville Junior Flat Earth Society. He is so firmly convinced that the world is actually flat that he flips out whenever he hears the word "round" in any context. One can only imagine his reaction to receiving a round globe as a prize in a contest, which happens to him in the book.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Encyclopedia Brown / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: While Encyclopedia is generally shown as having more book smarts and can process available information faster, Sally has generally has him beat when it comes to emotion. She usually punctuates this by pointing out the reason he didn't get it was "because you're a boy."
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_567e2f0	type	No True Scotsman
Encyclopedia Brown / int_567e2f0	comment	No True Scotsman: In one mystery, Brown knows Bugs is hiding something in his hot dog (A rare coin) because he put mustard on top of relish - and "Nobody who likes hot dogs would do that!". To Brown's credit, this was in a time before squeeze jars so condiments were put on the bun directly. Thus, spreading mustard on top of on top of Relish would be somewhat unintuitive (like spreading peanut butter on top of jelly).
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Encyclopedia Brown / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: In Book 1, Chapter 7 ("The Case of the Diamond Necklace"), a woman borrowing jewels from a friend pulls this quite cleverly; this woman goes to a room after a party to lie down, and people hear her scream, followed by two gunshots. They rush to the room, only to find that she's fainted and the borrowed necklace is gone from her neck. Encyclopedia foils her story because she says that she didn't see the man that "burgled" her, which then doesn't explain why she screamed before the shots were fired. The police find the necklace hidden in her room, in a hatbox.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_56b8b4f1	type	Lean and Mean
Encyclopedia Brown / int_56b8b4f1	comment	Illustrations of Bugs Meany in both the original books and in the aforementioned reprints showed him as being tall and lanky. This is contrast to the live-action TV show where Bugs was much fatter.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The one time that Bugs is even remotely on Encyclopedia's side, it's in Book 1, Chapter 4 ("The Case of Merko's Grandson"), when Encyclopedia and Sally are facing off in a mystery-solving contest. They're also technically on the same side whenever Wilford Wiggins is involved, since Bugs hates Wilford as much as Encyclopedia and Sally do.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Encyclopedia Brown / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: After almost 25 cases in which Bugs is proven wrong, the cops still don't immediately haul Bugs off to jail. Making a false criminal complaint is illegal in and of itself, not to mention some of the underlying crimes Bugs commits in trying to frame Encyclopedia and Sally. These are the only times they consistently mess up though. Book 25, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Hollow Tree") opens with a case where one cop really is in need of better training, being something of a newbie (he's introduced when he mistakes Chief Brown, arriving to join him in staking out the location where a robber is due to arrive soon, as the crook). After the case is closed, the newbie is sent back to the police academy for a remedial class on stakeouts.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5a7b4065	type	Bedsheet Ladder
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5a7b4065	comment	Bedsheet Ladder: Book 3, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Missing Statue") revolved around this trope — a starlet said that a big, masked intruder broke into the room, knocked out her bodyguard, grabbed a diamond-encrusted statue, and climbed out the window from a bedsheet ladder tied to one of the bedposts. However, Chief Brown and his son proved them to be lying by asking Bugs Meany (who happened to be around at the time) to climb up the bedsheets so he could meet the starlet — when he did so, his (significantly less than the alleged intruder) weight pulled the bed from the wall and released a fountain pen trapped in between. If the supposed gigantic thief had climbed out the window, the bed should've been wrenched away from the wall already. Because it wasn't, Chief Brown correctly accuses them of making it all up as a publicity stunt for the actress's new movie.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: In Book 16, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Angry Girl"), this gets Tyrone in trouble when trying to give a love letter to a girl. It turns out he'd dictated the letter over the phone, but the person taking it down didn't get the punctuation right.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5b5623ab	type	Condensation Clue
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5b5623ab	comment	Condensation Clue: Used in Book 19, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Two Spies") by a couple of spies to leave messages for one another in a hotel room they took turns checking into.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5c04772f	type	Conviction by Counterfactual Clue
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5c04772f	comment	Book 2, Chapter 7 ("The Case of the Wounded Toe") has someone getting shot in the foot by a BB gun. One of Bugs' friends shows up, and Encyclopedia tells him to run to the kid's house and get his shoe. The kid grabs the correct shoe, and Encyclopedia points out that unless he was the one who shot him, he couldn't have known which shoe to get. An innocent person would have had a 50 percent chance of guessing right, but would probably have asked 'Which shoe?' or, upon realizing they hadn't asked which one, brought both back.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5c98d100	type	One of the Boys
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5c98d100	comment	One of the Boys: Encyclopedia's sidekick Sally Kimball. Sally suffered from inconsistent characterization and ranged from this trope to "regular girl who just happens to be able to punch like a truck" and just about everywhere in between.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5f505b82	type	I Was Beaten by a Girl
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5f505b82	comment	I Was Beaten by a Girl: This is how Bugs reacted to his first meeting with Sally, and he can never live it down, it seems.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5f9fbd83	type	Not Allowed to Grow Up
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5f9fbd83	comment	Not Allowed to Grow Up: Since the first book was published almost fifty years ago, Encyclopedia's age has always been listed as ten years old (or a fifth-grader, for those books that don't mention an age).
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5fbb8d8e	type	Hollywood Density
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5fbb8d8e	comment	Hollywood Density: In Book 3, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Divining Rod"), the density of gold was used to prove that the supposed gold ingots were really just bricks spray-painted gold, as there is no way a kid could lift a brick-sized bar of gold with one hand. Although if you're dumb enough to confuse a spray-painted brick for real gold...
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Encyclopedia Brown / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Chester Jenkins and his sister, Candice. Chester in particular is notorious for this — in Book 4, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Blueberry Pies"), it's said that the only one who can out-eat him is Belly Slave, the hippopotamus at the local zoo.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Encyclopedia Brown / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: School bully Bugs Meany.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_6112a91d	type	Unit Confusion
Encyclopedia Brown / int_6112a91d	comment	Unit Confusion: Book 17, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Painting Contest") referenced this trope in its solution, when a man claiming to be a sailor is revealed as a fraud because (among other mistakes) he refers to speed in terms of "knots per hour", when a knot is already a measure of time over distance, i.e. one nautical mile per hour.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_65e9d9df	type	Fooled by the Sound
Encyclopedia Brown / int_65e9d9df	comment	Fooled by the Sound: Played for laughs in book 7, chapter 4 ("The Case of the Bound Camper"). When Encyclopedia and his friends (including Benny Breslin, whose loud snoring is notorious among the group) go camping, Encyclopedia briefly remembers a time when they went camping before and a male moose stuck its head into one of their tents, having mistaken Benny's snoring for another moose's mating call.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_65efc6dc	type	Appeal to Force
Encyclopedia Brown / int_65efc6dc	comment	Appeal to Force: The canonical reason why none of the bullies and petty criminals whom Encyclopedia defeats retaliate against him is because his friend Sally beats up anyone who tries.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Encyclopedia Brown / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The author has the taste not to sexualize Sally, but the type she fits into is portrayed semi-sexually in many of his other works.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_69c864de	type	Deliberate Under-Performance
Encyclopedia Brown / int_69c864de	comment	Deliberate Under-Performance: Encyclopedia himself does this; he doesn't want to seem too different from the other boys his age, so he deliberately takes his time answering questions on school tests.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_69df137	type	Fake Danger Gambit
Encyclopedia Brown / int_69df137	comment	Fake Danger Gambit: Book 2, chapter 6 ("The Case of the Two-Fisted Poet") has a snooty newcomer to the neighborhood try to romance the detective's Action Girl sidekick Sally. To impress her, the newcomer fights with a bully who is rude to them on a date, putting his glasses away in his chest pocket before getting into a long, drawn-out fight where the bully lands many punches on his chest. When he pulls out his glasses after the fight and they are fine, Encyclopedia points out to Sally that if the fight were real the glasses should have been broken considering all the punches the bully was landing in the chest area. She promptly lays out the would-be boyfriend herself.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Encyclopedia Brown / int_6b35bdff	comment	Similarly, some of the kids' hobbies fit this trope, too. Justified, as, at that age, one's hobby is indeed Serious Business — at least to oneself.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Encyclopedia Brown / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: Mrs. Brown is supposed to be one. In Book 15 1/2 (Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake!), it's revealed that she can whip up Fourth of July snacks as well as Chinese food if her son asks.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Encyclopedia Brown / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Bugs (as in "criminally or otherwise unstable") Meany (he's mean).
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_6c10754e	type	Secret Art
Encyclopedia Brown / int_6c10754e	comment	Secret Art: In Book 2, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Secret Pitch"), the case involves Bugs Meany claiming to have invented one of these — a cross-eyed pitch — and sold the secret to a famous baseball player. Having previously made a bet with another boy that he could do so, he wants the other boy to pay up. Encyclopedia proves he faked the letter and check from the player. In Book 5, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Super-Secret Hold"), Bugs claims to have learned a secret martial arts death grip from an oriental master and demonstrates it on two of his Tigers, supposedly knocking them out. He then challenges Sally to a fight, thinking she'd be too intimidated to accept. However, Encyclopedia proves it's a fake — the two boys fell backwards when it was used. In reality, people who pass out fall forward after their knees buckle. Sally promptly beats Bugs up.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_6d6b8aa	type	Human Ladder
Encyclopedia Brown / int_6d6b8aa	comment	Human Ladder: In Book 21, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Fig Thieves"), the mystery is who was picking figs from someone's tree. The suspects prove that, even one standing on the other's shoulders, they can't reach the figs. But if they switched places and the boy with longer arms was on top, then of course they could. And did.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
Encyclopedia Brown / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: An important plot point in the very first Encyclopedia Brown mystery, "The Case of Natty Nat", where a local Idaville shopkeeper claims to have been robbed by the titular criminal—an infamous thief known for wearing a distinctive grey coat with a belt in the back. As Encyclopedia points out: since there are no known photographs of Natty Nat, and nobody knows his real name ("Natty Nat" is just a nickname given to him by the newspapers), his signature grey coat is also the only way that anyone can identify him. But since the shopkeeper's testimony indicates that he only ever saw the robber from the front (meaning that he couldn't have known whether his coat had that distinctive belt in the back), he couldn't possibly have known that it was Natty Nat. This tips Encyclopedia off that the shopkeeper is embezzling from his store, and lied about being robbed to cover it up.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_6fb0f080	type	Loud Sleeper Gag
Encyclopedia Brown / int_6fb0f080	comment	Loud Sleeper Gag: Encyclopedia's friend Benny Breslin is notorious for his loud snoring, and it's been a plot point a few times. In Book 4, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Underwater Car"), it's said that the last time Benny went camping at the state park, his snoring frightened some other campers so badly that they mistook it for a wild animal. Consequently, the park was closed for two days while state troopers tried to track down what they thought was a bear. Despite this, Encyclopedia and some other friends let Benny come along...but despite Benny's taking precautions (wearing a special strap under his nose, while the other boys stuff cotton in their ears), he snores as loud as ever, and as a result, Encyclopedia is awake to witness the chapter's crime (a man faking a car crash to get the insurance money). In Book 17, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Leaking Tent"), Benny's father buys him a soundproof pup tent that's "as thick as leather" to keep his snoring from disturbing other campers. It doesn't work because two other campers, in revenge for Benny catching more fish than they did, poke the tent full of holes and ruin it; once again, Encyclopedia finds that cotton does nothing to keep the noise out. (Fortunately, he also catches the one responsible the next day, and the father of one of the culprits replaces the tent.)
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_710f3133	type	Just One Little Mistake
Encyclopedia Brown / int_710f3133	comment	Just One Little Mistake: Most cases in the series revolve around the culprit having made a single mistake when reporting their alibi, which reveals they're lying.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_726230a2	type	"Jar of Jellybeans" Contest
Encyclopedia Brown / int_726230a2	comment	"Jar of Jellybeans" Contest: Book 6, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Dwarf's Beard") has one of these in its backstory. The case itself focuses on how the kid who won the contest had his prize stolen by Bugs Meany.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Encyclopedia Brown / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: In Book 1, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Missing Roller Skates"), someone steals Sally's rollerblades from Encyclopedia while he's getting a tooth removed. He grumbles about a detective getting robbed and quickly finds the thief, undoing the latter's claims that he doesn't know anything about "Dr. Wilson" while revealing he knows Vivian Wilson is a guy and a dentist, when most people would assume Vivian is a woman. It's a good thing the thief gives up the blades before Sally beats the tar out of him.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Encyclopedia Brown / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Encyclopedia, as shown when he manages to fend off a grown man attacking him at Ida's statue and Bugs Meany soon after.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_77948aaa	type	Tattered Flag
Encyclopedia Brown / int_77948aaa	comment	Tattered Flag: In Book 5, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Wagon Master"), Encyclopedia has a moment of In-Universe Fridge Logic and realizes that a man lauded as a hero shouldn't have gotten a medal because according to the story being told, the man saw the flag over a fort (that had been taken over by hostile Native Americans) flying in the rain; this should have at least given him cause for concern (as army regulations hold that flags should be put away in inclement weather), but he led the wagon train down the pass into the fort anyway.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_78fe94f8	type	Outdated Name
Encyclopedia Brown / int_78fe94f8	comment	Outdated Name: "Bugs" (as in "Bugs Meany", who made his debut in the mid-twentieth century) or "Bugsy" was a reasonably common nickname in the '30s for someone known to be a little crazy, especially if their given name started with B. The slang and nickname (not the literal word usage referring to insects note Technically referring to insects in the order Hemiptera, however), fell out of usage.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_7ab84d9a	type	Punctuation Changes the Meaning
Encyclopedia Brown / int_7ab84d9a	comment	Punctuation Changes the Meaning: In Book 16, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Angry Girl"), Tyrone was writing a love letter via dictation over the phone one word at a time, but the punctuation wasn't dictated and turned the message into an insulting letter.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
Encyclopedia Brown / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: In Book 4, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Murder Man"), Encyclopedia recommends that a friend use a silenced gun in a school play because it'd be less embarrassing than yelling "bang bang!" Strangely, the illustration shows him using a revolver, even though silencers are ineffective on revolvers in real life because the gap between the cylinder and the barrel emits gasses that create noise even if the barrel is silenced.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_7e4b4b8a	type	Faking and Entering
Encyclopedia Brown / int_7e4b4b8a	comment	Faking and Entering: Used in Book 1, Chapter 1 ("The Case of Natty Nat"), the very first case in the series, in which a man accuses known burglar Natty Nat of robbing his store when he'd really spent the money and didn't want his partner to know. Also in Book 6, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Silver Fruit Bowl"), where a silver-shop owner fakes the robbery of some silver dishes he was selling on consignment, and Book 22, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Roman-Numeral Robber"), where a jewelry-store owner pretends a family heirloom (a diamond wristwatch) has been burgled so he can cash in on the insurance.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Encyclopedia Brown / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Bugs Meany doesn't know when to quit framing Encyclopedia for various crimes, or telling him to scram when bullying another kid. He often gets knocked silly by Sally for it. Percy Arbuthnot's Establishing Character Moment in Book 2, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Two-Fisted Poet") is reading Encyclopedia's detective notice, making up a mocking poem about it, and then hitting on Sally. He also encourages her to give up being a bodyguard since it "isn't ladylike". Encyclopedia quickly reveals him as a "phony" in Sally's words when he stages a fight to impress her.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_7f0f2e2	type	Recycled Title
Encyclopedia Brown / int_7f0f2e2	comment	Recycled Title: The Case of Wilford's Big Deal is used as a chapter title in both Book 21 (Chapter 8) and 28 (Chapter 7).
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Encyclopedia Brown / int_7febc23b	comment	Percy Arbuthnot's Establishing Character Moment in Book 2, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Two-Fisted Poet") is reading Encyclopedia's detective notice, making up a mocking poem about it, and then hitting on Sally. He also encourages her to give up being a bodyguard since it "isn't ladylike". Encyclopedia quickly reveals him as a "phony" in Sally's words when he stages a fight to impress her.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_8010bd0c	type	The War on Straw
Encyclopedia Brown / int_8010bd0c	comment	The War on Straw: In Book 12, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Dead Eagles"), Encyclopedia promotes gun control and ridicules the "Guns don't kill people, people do" argument. In so doing, he makes an analogy, stating that that logic, applied to cars, would lead to abolition of all traffic laws and regulations and fines. Except it doesn't. The aforementioned argument is that people, not guns, are responsible for gun-related offenses, and that the best remedy society has is to punish said people, using the existing regulations Encyclopedia claims his opponents want to abolish, rather than outlawing guns altogether. In fact, although groups like the NRA want to see a rollback of many gun restrictions, no one wants to see an abolition of regulations against, or punishment for, irresponsible gun use, or the prevention of gun ownership by people proven to be unwilling or unable to act responsibly.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Encyclopedia Brown / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Encyclopedia is using his computer to list the suspects who could have taken the box. He jokingly lists Bugs Meany's motive as being a "bonehead". Despite herself, Sally laughs when she reads this.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_80a7d3e2	type	Convicted by Public Opinion
Encyclopedia Brown / int_80a7d3e2	comment	Convicted by Public Opinion: Book 5, Chapter 4 ("The Case of Sir Biscuit-Shooter") involves a friend's uncle who had spent time in prison, but had gone straight and was now working in a circus. His role was a clown named Sir Godfrey Biscuit-Shooter, who wore a VERY noisy "armor" made of pots and pans. Later, Sir Biscuit-Shooter is accused of knocking out the star of the circus and stealing her money—all because he had been in prison. Many of the circus performers think Sir Biscuit-Shooter is the guilty one. Encyclopedia proves the thief was the bareback rider who wore soft slippers and was able to move stealthily. Sir Biscuit-Shooter couldn't have pulled off the crime undetected as the clanking of his pots and pans would have given him away.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_81faa798	type	Polar Bears and Penguins
Encyclopedia Brown / int_81faa798	comment	Polar Bears and Penguins: Provides the solution to Book 4, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Explorer's Money") — the stuffed penguins are out of place in a display of items from the North Pole, and had been brought as gifts by a thief who stole from his host and hid the money inside the penguins, intending to buy them at auction after the host died.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Encyclopedia Brown / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: Whenever an alternate name for the Tigers is mentioned, such as suggesting they should be called the Steel Clocks because "they were always giving some kid a hard time".
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Encyclopedia Brown / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Book 14, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Left-Handers Club") had Encyclopedia and Sally Kimball deduce that one of three men had an opportunity to call in a bomb scare at the left-handers convention. The culprit is, naturally, determined to be right-handed. The girl who hired them says that any of the suspects could have done it because they're "strange". She suggests the second one who comes under suspicion is strange because his left ear is higher than his right. Sally looks at the guy and tells her that it's actually an optical illusion because his left sideburn is longer than his right. He turns out to be the culprit, but Encyclopedia determines this because right-handed men have longer left sideburns due to not being able to reach it as well. The girl was right to suspect him because of his longer sideburn, but wrong in that he was the culprit because he was "strange".
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
Encyclopedia Brown / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: The children of Idaville are regularly shown doing everything from going camping to treasure hunting to visiting historic parks without any kind of adult supervision.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Encyclopedia Brown / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Partially averted. While the location of the series' setting, Idaville, is never explicitly given, enough clues exist in the books to identify it as somewhere on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Some hints suggest that it's in the Southeast, and an Onion story spoofing the books put it in Florida. Book 11, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Skunk Ape") mentions that the Skunk Ape is "Idaville's version of Bigfoot", further suggesting Florida and the Southeast. In another case — Book 18, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Rented Canoes") — thieves hid stolen fishing rods among the mangrove trees. Nearly all mangroves in the USA grow in Florida.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_8591611a	type	Shameful Strip
Encyclopedia Brown / int_8591611a	comment	Shameful Strip: In Book 11, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Silver Dollar"), Chauncy van Throckmorton, the best-dressed boy in Idaville, is forced to take off his clothes by a tough seventh-grade girl before eventually running off in just his shoes, socks and underwear. Worse yet for him, they clashed.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_8679c2a6	type	A Spy at the Spa
Encyclopedia Brown / int_8679c2a6	comment	A Spy at the Spa: Inverted in Book 5, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Hair Driers"), where a salon customer nabs an important secret from the owners because they think she can't hear them under the hairdryer. Turned out she can read lips because she was deaf to begin with.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_8a8f37f9	type	Artistic License â€“ Law Enforcement
Encyclopedia Brown / int_8a8f37f9	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law Enforcement: In virtually every book, Bugs Meany tries to frame Encyclopedia for something, only for the other boy to prove that the accusations are bogus. Knowingly filing a fraudulent criminal complaint is a crime in and of itself in 99% of police jurisdictions,note Although, to be fair, Idaville could be in the 1% of police jurisdictions where it's not a crime so Bugs' attempts to get Encyclopedia arrested for crimes that never happened should have gotten him arrested and thrown into a juvenile detention facility by the end of the third. A couple of solutions do indicate how Bugs gets punished. When he tries to frame Encyclopedia for egging a bunch of windows, Bugs is forced to wash them all by hand.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_8bc4a55d	type	Went to the Great X in the Sky
Encyclopedia Brown / int_8bc4a55d	comment	Went to the Great X in the Sky: In Book 12, Chapter 7 ("The Case of Lightfoot Louie"), Thad Dixon sadly tells Encyclopedia and Sally that due to an accident on his part, his pet worm, Sis-Boom-Bah, "went to that big mud hole in the sky".
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_8be2ef8d	type	Grammar Correction Gag
Encyclopedia Brown / int_8be2ef8d	comment	Grammar Correction Gag: Book 16, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Angry Girl") has this as the cause of a mystery. Tyrone Taylor, the neighborhood Lothario, dictated a love note to his latest crush's little sister. Unfortunately, because he didn't tell her the punctuation, she added it in herself, turning the romantic line "I can't stop thinking you're the prettiest girl in the world" into "I can't. Stop thinking you're the prettiest girl in the world." He gets a fist to the gut due to this.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_8d4b88e6	type	Too Qualified to Apply
Encyclopedia Brown / int_8d4b88e6	comment	Too Qualified to Apply: Book 17, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Painting Contest") has a man who claims to be a sea captain enter an amateur painting contest. However, he gets numerous sailing terms wrong, calling into question his true identity. He turns out to be a professional painter and is disqualified. In the same chapter, it's mentioned that local child artist Pablo Pizarro also has to compete in the speed painting competition because the child's division was dropped that year — no other kid was willing to go against him in it. In Book 18, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Brain Game"), Encyclopedia attends Tyrone Taylor's birthday party. Every year, they hold several games, including the "brain game", a test of knowledge. Encyclopedia, it's said, has been banned from participating in that particular game since Tyrone's fifth birthday. He's not bitter about it though.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_8e2aefd5	type	Red Live Lobster
Encyclopedia Brown / int_8e2aefd5	comment	Red Live Lobster: Subverted in Book 12, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Hypnotism Lesson"), Bugs Meany offers a kid lessons on how to hypnotize a lobster, and takes an instant color photo of himself performing the stunt in order to prove he's legitimate. But when Encyclopedia sees the photo of Bugs "hypnotizing" a bright red lobster, he knows it was already boiled and dead at the time, and Bugs returns the kid's money.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_8fb244bd	type	Replaced with Replica
Encyclopedia Brown / int_8fb244bd	comment	Replaced with Replica: Book 3, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Stolen Diamonds"), features a fake case (made up to test a group of police chiefs from around the state, who are in Idaville for their yearly meeting) in which a group of crooks rob a jewelry store of a diamond necklace and aren't fooled by the glass replica that the store owner also had for exactly this purpose, as a decoy to throw off any would-be thieves. Except they "were", because they threw the first necklace to the stone floor, where it was undamaged, and ran off with the second. Had they thrown the replica, it would have broken, whereas the diamond one wouldn't. The owner made up the theft to get the insurance money on the necklace.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_901bb4c3	type	Suspiciously Prescient Planning
Encyclopedia Brown / int_901bb4c3	comment	Suspiciously Prescient Planning: Book 16, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Blond Wig") has Encyclopedia's father ask for help with a case of vandalism. The rudder of a boat was smashed just before a boat race was to take place. Suspicion falls on the rivals of the boat's owner, but Encyclopedia realizes that the boat's owner smashed the rudder himself. How? The owner's wife was to join him in the race, but she got her hair done before the race was postponed. She wouldn't have done that if the race were going ahead because the wind would have ruined her hairdo.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Encyclopedia Brown / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: In Book 11, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Silver Dollar"), when Chauncy van Throckmorton is stripped and left in the woods, his biggest concern is that his socks clash with his underwear.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_94b3e515	type	Cock-a-Doodle Dawn
Encyclopedia Brown / int_94b3e515	comment	Cock-a-Doodle Dawn: In Book 15, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Crowing Rooster"), high school dropout/con artist Wilford Wiggins tries to get kids to invest in a device that can control birds. He demonstrates its abilities by making a rooster crow at sunset. Encyclopedia ruins the scam by pointing out that since the rooster had been kept under a blanket beforehand, it probably thought the sun was rising instead of setting.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_959a9947	type	Phone-In Detective
Encyclopedia Brown / int_959a9947	comment	Phone-In Detective: Encyclopedia sometimes, especially when solving cases for his father over dinner.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
Encyclopedia Brown / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: In Book 20, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Racing Reptiles"), Spike Larson, one of Bugs Meany's lackeys, is accused of letting his snake eat another kid's lizards before a lizard race. It turns out that the Tiger member is actually innocent, and that Barry stole Spike's snake.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_95cb808c	type	Young Entrepreneur
Encyclopedia Brown / int_95cb808c	comment	Young Entrepreneur: The bulk of the title character's pocket money (aside from one instance where he was able to claim a sizable reward from a contest) comes from the detective agency he runs out of his garage. Did we mention Encyclopedia Brown is only eleven?
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_96553833	type	Eagle-Eye Detection
Encyclopedia Brown / int_96553833	comment	Eagle-Eye Detection: Several Encyclopedia Brown mysteries are solved this way.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_969c0ac2	type	Fresh Clue
Encyclopedia Brown / int_969c0ac2	comment	Fresh Clue: Inverted in Book 1, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Scattered Cards"), the first Bugs Meany story, where he claims that he just put up a tent on a rainy morning, while Encyclopedia's first client claims that it's his tent that has been up for weeks. Encyclopedia "accidentally" knocks down a pack of cards and notes that they're dry, thus disproving Bugs's story. In the TV show it's played straight in that the boy just put up the tent and Bugs claims he and his gang were there for a week, and instead the cards are damp from the rain. Inverted in Book 1, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Happy Nephew"). Encyclopedia deduces that the perp had not just just pulled up after a hours-long drive (as he claims) because a baby sits on the car hood and doesn't get burned; therefore the car must have been sitting there long enough to cool down. Played straight in Book 8, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Apple Cider") when a perp offers Encyclopedia apple cider that has supposedly been sitting in an unused shed for months — the cider is still unfermented, which tells him the shed has been used recently.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_96c49e7	type	Reading Lips
Encyclopedia Brown / int_96c49e7	comment	Reading Lips: The key to the solution of Book 5, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Hair Driers"). When the owner of a hair salon is accosted while setting off for the bank, Encyclopedia suggests this was how one of the day's customers who'd been sitting under the (very loud) hair driers knew he was headed there. As in, she had to have been deaf. In Book 9, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Reward Money"), Wilford Wiggins speaks of a deaf friend who did this to spot two conspirators to an armored car holdup while on a bus. Except, the news of these men was over its loudspeaker, which he couldn't have heard to even know it was them.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Encyclopedia Brown / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Bugs Meany and Wilford Wiggins are the only two recurring antagonists Encyclopedia faces. They're not enough to be a proper Rogues Gallery, but they arguably fit this trope.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Encyclopedia Brown / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: In Book 15, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Supermarket Shopper"), a robber plans to strike as the victim does his grocery shopping, but calculates he won't have enough time. No problem, just ask him to pick up four tubes of toothpaste, extending his grocery list from 7 to 11 items and thus forcing him to take a non-express lane. So the plan is: Our victim won't question why the man wants four tubes of toothpaste and will proceed to buy them all. Our victim will be honorable and take a non-express lane for being one item over (since that fourth tube of toothpaste was so important). This will slow our victim down significantly enough to finish robbing his house. (This one, at least, was given a Hand Wave — apparently the supermarket in question is notorious for all of its non-express lanes being glacially slow, and the item limit enforcement for the speed counter being unusually strict.)
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_98ce21fe	type	Long-Running Book Series
Encyclopedia Brown / int_98ce21fe	comment	Long-Running Book Series: The series ran for 49 years (from 1963 to 2012) and 29 books.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_99bc721a	type	Hold My Glasses
Encyclopedia Brown / int_99bc721a	comment	Hold My Glasses: Key to the case in Book 2, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Two-Fisted Poet"). Percy Arbuthnot goes on a date with Sally and gets into a fight to defend her honor, taking his glasses off first. Unfortunately, Encyclopedia busts him as a fraud when he puts the glasses in his shirt/coat pocket, where they would have been broken in a real fight. Sally turns on her suitor when Encyclopedia tips her off, beating him up until he fakes unconsciousness to get her to back off.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Encyclopedia Brown / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In Book 16, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Angry Girl"), a girl who took down a love message from an admirer to give to her sister ended up doing this by accident. She got the words down but not the punctuation, making it sound like a mocking note instead.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_99f7cf50	type	High-School Hustler
Encyclopedia Brown / int_99f7cf50	comment	High-School Hustler: Multiple ones throughout the series, who cheat to con someone out of money or other valuables. Bugs Meany, introduced in Book 1, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Scattered Cards") is a recurring one (though not in the aforementioned case). Book 1, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Champion Egg-Spinner") has Eddie Phelan hustle some of Encyclopedia's friends via challenging them to egg-spinning contests (the egg that spins the longest wins) and somehow winning every time. It turns out he cheated by hard-boiling his egg. Encyclopedia, to guarantee fairness in the next match, makes the competitors switch eggs; Eddie loses and agrees to return all the prizes he won for his cheating, while getting back the one prize he'd just lost. Book 3, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Divining Rod") features seventeen-year-old Ace Kurash, who tries to scam kids with a fake Dowsing Device. Book 5, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Muscle Maker") introduces Wilford Wiggins, a teenage dropout and con artist who spends all his time hatching schemes to cheat little kids out of their money, and becomes a recurring antagonist throughout the series.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
Encyclopedia Brown / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: Book 10, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Skin Diver") introduces Bruce Ford, nicknamed Trisk (short for Triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number thirteen), who's is terribly superstitious, particularly about the source of his nickname.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_9b629c86	type	Pressure Point
Encyclopedia Brown / int_9b629c86	comment	Pressure Point: Book 5, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Super-Secret Hold") has Bugs Meany demonstrate his "judo" skills, including a pressure point knockout. Encyclopedia Brown points out that it's faked because the targets went stiff and fell backward, but human physiology causes someone rendered unconscious while standing on flat ground to naturally go limp and fall forwards.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_9c23f3a0	type	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
Encyclopedia Brown / int_9c23f3a0	comment	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Book 11, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Skunk Ape") involves Encyclopedia investigating a "Skunk Ape", the Idaville version of an abominable snowman. Of course, it's only Bugs Meany again.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_9d2231a6	type	Hustler
Encyclopedia Brown / int_9d2231a6	comment	Hustler: While not as common as the high-school variant, some of the adults in the series are also out to con someone out of money or other valuables. For example, Book 2, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Glass of Ginger Ale") has one who tricks a friend into betting their violins against one another, challenging the friend to figure out how the hustler replaced a glass of ice cubes in a safe with a glass of ginger ale without being detected. As with the aforementioned Eddie Phelan, he cheated — he brought ice cubes made from ginger ale, and just waited for it to melt.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_9da5ce24	type	Deceptively Simple Demonstration
Encyclopedia Brown / int_9da5ce24	comment	Deceptively Simple Demonstration: In Book 15, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Crowing Rooster"), High-School Hustler Wilford Wiggins tries to sell a device he claims can controls birds, and demonstrates this by having a rooster crow at sunset, as opposed to sunrise. Encyclopedia ruins the scam by pointing out that since the rooster was kept in a bag before hand, the bird probably thought it was sunrise and Wilford's so-called invention did nothing. (Of course, this isn't how roosters work.)
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Encyclopedia Brown / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Repeatedly subverted in Book 1, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Knife in the Watermelon"), where Encyclopedia thinks he has a big problem, only for the next problem to solve the first one. Grocery store owner Mr. Patch hires Encyclopedia to try and find out who was trying to rob his cashbox and stuck a knife in his prize watermelon when he fled. Encyclopedia's afraid he's going to have to charge Mr. Patch for the expense of buying a fingerprinting kit. Mr. Patch then reveals that he wiped the knife, which removes any prints the thief would've left. Encyclopedia has no idea how he'll trace the thief, but then Mr. Patch says he saw that the thief was wearing a jacket that showed he was a member of a teenage gang called the Lions. Encyclopedia's nervous about confronting the Lions, given that they're all much bigger than him. Fortunately, Mr. Patch goes with him. The text describes Mr. Patch as a very large man with thickly muscled arms, which "persuades" the Lions not to try anything funny.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_9eac471e	type	False Teeth Tomfoolery
Encyclopedia Brown / int_9eac471e	comment	False Teeth Tomfoolery: In Book 10, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the False Teeth"), the plot involves Duke Kelly of the Tigers stealing Freddy Zacharias's collection of false teeth and using them as castanets.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_9eac6c0a	type	Housepet Pig
Encyclopedia Brown / int_9eac6c0a	comment	Housepet Pig: In one mystery, Encyclopedia has to solve the mystery of two pet pigs being kidnapped right before a contest in which they were entered.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_9f1b0b39	type	Counting Bullets
Encyclopedia Brown / int_9f1b0b39	comment	Counting Bullets: Book 2, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Forgetful Sheriff") has Encyclopedia on vacation in Texas, listening to a story about a 19th century sheriff being hanged because the bank president figured out he'd lied about killing a gang of bandits. Encyclopedia echoes the banker by realizing the sheriff would've had to fire seven bullets from a six-gun for that story to be true.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
Encyclopedia Brown / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: In Book 15 1/2, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Fourth of July Artist"), Wilford Wiggins' scheme involves making a painting and trying to pass it off as a famous historical painting. Encyclopedia and Sally note that he seems to be a legitimately talented artist, and wonder why he doesn't just sell his paintings as they are.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_a164f37d	type	Fair-Play Whodunnit
Encyclopedia Brown / int_a164f37d	comment	Fairplay Whodunnit: All the mysteries are deliberately like this, within limits. It was once the trope namer for both Conviction by Contradiction and Conviction by Counterfactual Clue after all (as "Bugs Meany Is Gonna Walk" and "Encyclopedia Browned"), and even has its own section in Conviction by Contradiction.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Encyclopedia Brown / int_a536f3a3	comment	Book 1, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Missing Roller Skates") has a pair of roller-skates stolen from Encyclopedia while the latter was at the dentist. He asks his main suspect (a kid who had a doctor's appointment in the same building) if he was in Dr. Vivian Wilson's office. The kid claims "I never heard of him until you mentioned his name" and that he didn't go near Wilson's office because he "had a sprained wrist, not a toothache". In other words, despite supposedly never having heard of him, the kid not only knew that Dr. Wilson was a dentist but that he was a man despite his first name being "Vivian".
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_a6a6de9a	type	Humble Hero
Encyclopedia Brown / int_a6a6de9a	comment	Humble Hero: Encyclopedia takes no credit for helping his dad solve cases, though his dad wants to hang a medal on him every time he does. (The narration mentions that Encyclopedia wouldn't be able to stand up under all those medals). Book 3, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Mysterious Tramp") also has Encyclopedia do this in a non-mystery setting when he chooses to fib to his mother and claim that he went fishing in a very dirty body of water, rather than tell her the truth — he got dirt and oil on him while helping out one of his old teachers when she had a problem with her car's engine.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Encyclopedia Brown / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Downplayed with Bugs Meany. On one hand, he is frequently called out on his trickery and sometimes even publicly humiliated. On the other hand, he frequently files false police reports against Encyclopedia with no consequences. A couple of cases do show him getting punished for his antics, such as when he tried to frame Encyclopedia for egging a bunch of windows. Bugs was forced to wash all the windows by hand to clean up his mess. In Book 2, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Glass of Ginger Ale"), a blind violinist's friend cheated him out of an expensive violin during a bet, that he could replace a glass with ice locked in a safe with a glass of ginger ale without the violinist hearing him. The friend used Loophole Abuse by bringing frozen ginger ale ice cubes in an insulated bag and simply waiting for them to melt in the safe. Encyclopedia doesn't have his usual summation at the end about what happened after he told the violinist.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Encyclopedia Brown / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Only his parents and the occasional extra adult in a case calls Encyclopedia by his real name (Leroy). Everyone else calls him Encyclopedia.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Encyclopedia Brown / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Book 9, Chapter 7 ("The Case of the Girl Shortstop") has a girl who posed as a boy to play on a Little League team and got snitched on by one of her teammates (she seeks Encyclopedia's help to find out who). When he fingers the teammate, she gives him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Encyclopedia Brown / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Played straight in the HBO series, where Encyclopedia's father is a good-natured buffoon who often points out that no one could imagine they're related.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_a95961ec	type	KidAnova
Encyclopedia Brown / int_a95961ec	comment	Kidanova: Tyrone Taylor appears in a few cases and apparently has a history of trying to woo a lot of different girls. Oh, he's also 9.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Encyclopedia Brown / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Deliberately invoked by the perp in Book 1, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Bank Robber"), where the titular robber is in league with the beggar Blind Tom, whom Encyclopedia realizes is faking his blindness moments after meeting him.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Encyclopedia Brown / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Encyclopedia has an excellent example of this expression when he comments on Sally stuffing a kid into a garbage bin for the terrible crime of calling her cute... which prompts her to outright ask him, "Do ''you'' think I'm cute?" in a teasing tone. He suddenly notices something that requires his full attention, evading the question. Sally's wry smile makes it clear she's fully aware of what he's doing.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_af60024c	type	Dowsing Device
Encyclopedia Brown / int_af60024c	comment	Book 3, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Divining Rod") features seventeen-year-old Ace Kurash, who tries to scam kids with a fake Dowsing Device.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
Encyclopedia Brown / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: In Book 15 1/2, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Missing Watchgoose"), Encyclopedia is squicked out, mad at himself, and horrified when figuring out the "chicken" he accepted from two men was actually the remains of the goose he was hired to find and a friend's pet guard bird. He goes My God, What Have I Done? when remembering that geese are all "dark" meat.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Encyclopedia Brown / int_b1dde8fd	comment	In Book 2, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Glass of Ginger Ale"), a blind violinist's friend cheated him out of an expensive violin during a bet, that he could replace a glass with ice locked in a safe with a glass of ginger ale without the violinist hearing him. The friend used Loophole Abuse by bringing frozen ginger ale ice cubes in an insulated bag and simply waiting for them to melt in the safe. Encyclopedia doesn't have his usual summation at the end about what happened after he told the violinist.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Encyclopedia Brown / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: An allegedly bottomless magazine is the key clue in Book 2, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Forgetful Sheriff"). A (crooked) lawman claimed that he received two minor gunshot wounds before taking the gun away from the man who shot him and then killed the gun's owner and his four cohorts with one bullet each. The town hailed the sheriff as a hero until somebody pointed out that you can't shoot seven bullets from a six-shooter without reloading at some point.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_b36ae36a	type	Collector of the Strange
Encyclopedia Brown / int_b36ae36a	comment	Collector of the Strange: Charlie Stewart, the boy who collects animal teeth in a cookie jar. In an even odder case, Book 1, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Champion Egg Spinner") has an "egg spinning champion" covet it as the prize in a bet.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Encyclopedia Brown / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Bugs Meany attempting to frame Encyclopedia, when Encyclopedia easily undoes the Frame-Up each time and his father is the chief of police.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_b5f5824e	type	Linked List Clue Methodology
Encyclopedia Brown / int_b5f5824e	comment	Linked List Clue Methodology: Book 17, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Treasure Hunt") relies on this. The participants each receive a card with a clue leading them to a location with another clue, which leads to the third clue, and so on. The mystery of the chapter is how to alter the last clue to trip up a person who spied on the man hiding the clues, and so already knows the final location.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Encyclopedia Brown / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Sally, who serves as The Watson to Encyclopedia; in a number of episodes Encyclopedia takes her lines and place in the tale.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_ba6db525	type	Fake Mystery
Encyclopedia Brown / int_ba6db525	comment	Fake Mystery: Book 3, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Stolen Diamonds") has Encyclopedia and his father, Police Chief Brown, cook up a pretend jewelry heist as a game for a convention of police officers from across the country. It also works as an In-Universe example, as the solution to the heist is that there wasn't one — the owner of the jewels staged the crime to collect on a valuable insurance policy.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Encyclopedia Brown / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Sally normally serves as Encyclopedia's bodyguard, but she gets her fair share of cases throughout the series to solve. Encyclopedia points out more than once that she is just as smart as him; it just takes her longer to put the clues together.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Encyclopedia Brown / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: As discussed in Book 23, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Black Horse"), Waldo Emerson, one of the neighborhood kids, flips out when he hears the word "round" in any context. It's because he believes the world is actually flat, and is extremely offended by any reminder that other people don't believe the same thing.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_bcd082db	type	DIY Dentistry
Encyclopedia Brown / int_bcd082db	comment	DIY Dentistry: Book 9, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Tooth Puller") has this as part of a carnival game, which involves pulling loose teeth tied to a pool cue by using it to sink a ball.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Encyclopedia Brown / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Several of the local kids have these, such as Wilford Wiggins, Benny Breslin, Pablo Pizarro, Tyrone Taylor, Pinky Plummer and Mugsy Moonsooner.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c05d7fcc	type	Break the Fake
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c05d7fcc	comment	Break the Fake: An aversion of this is a major clue in Book 3, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Stolen Diamonds"), when a "fake" diamond necklace is thrown aside by the suspect but doesn't break as a glass one should have.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: Glaringly so, especially with the rock star that Sally admires and the computer that she and Encyclopedia use to organize suspects and motives.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c19c82d4	type	Hostile Hitchhiker
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c19c82d4	comment	Hostile Hitchhiker: Book 2, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Hungry Hitchhiker") has Encyclopedia riding along with his father when they pick up a hitchhiker, who claims that he saw a car full of thieves pass. Midway through the drive, Encyclopedia realizes that the "hitchhiker" is a member of the gang and has to figure out a way to tell his father without alerting the crook.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c2393191	comment	Book 4, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Murder Man"): In the Show Within a Show (a two-man stage show) portrayed in the Chapter, the solution to the crime lay in the fact that the murderer didn't leave prints, and "it was too hot for gloves," so they arrested the guy in gloves. Plenty of people wear gloves for all kind of reasons and in all kinds of weather.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: In a sense. Book 13, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Midnight Visitor") involved a kidnapped man who left behind a clue written on a desk calendar — the numbers 7 8 9 10 11. Since they were written on a calendar and not the notepad beside it, Encyclopedia surmised that the numbers stood for months of the year: July, August, September, October and November. The first letters of those months identified a man named Arthur Jason as the kidnapper.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c2612ea8	type	Lost Pet Grievance
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c2612ea8	comment	Lost Pet Grievance: Book 15 1/2, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Missing Watchgoose") has one of Encyclopedia's friends hires him to find a missing goose. She explains they are guard animals but she's attached to Columbus Day, the bird that has vanished. While Encyclopedia finds it ridiculous to go on a literal Wild Goose Chase, he sympathizes and agrees to help. He finds out too late that two men slaughtered the goose Columbus Day and cooked it for their morning meal. Needless to say, the epilogue features the girl crushed that her pet is dead.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The Lions gang, a gang similar to Bugs' "The Tigers", appear in Book 1, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Knife in the Watermelon"), where Encyclopedia solves a case in which one of their knives ended up in a watermelon. After this, aside from a brief mention in Book 3, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the House of Cards"), they never show up again.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c36cba70	comment	Book 3, Chapter 3 ("The Case of Bugs's Kidnapping"): At least one time the series used this trope absolutely correctly. Bugs claims to have been kidnapped at Encyclopedia's behest (how a 5th-grader was able to hire and control adult Mooks is never discussed). He describes being imprisoned in a small room, and attempts to escape by removing the pins from the door hinges, but they are on the other side of the door. Then he tries to wait to the side of the door and jump his kidnappers when they come in, but the door opens into his face, foiling the attack. Standard house doors cannot open away from their hinges, only toward them.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c36d8929	type	Why Didn't I Think of That?
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c36d8929	comment	Why Didn't I Think of That?: In Book 7, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Junk Sculptor"), Pablo Pizarro is introduced having swiped a bunch of junk from people's yards and garages and used them to make his sculptures. When Encyclopedia uncovers his thefts after he stole a wheel off a boy's bicycle, he tries to return the junk but finds that not only does nobody (except the boy with the bicycle) want their junk back, they'd be glad to let him look through their property for more old and worn-out stuff he could use for his creations. At the end of the solution, he admits that "It never occurred to me to ask." (For permission to poke around, that is.) In Book 17, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Treasure Hunt"), during the annual Founder's Day treasure hunt for the children, the man running the event asks Encyclopedia and Sally for help in identifying the person who spied on him when he was placing the clues. Encyclopedia figures out how to just slightly modify the last clue so as to trip up the cheater, and while Mr. McPherson replaces the existing clue with the modified one, Encyclopedia and Sally go to the location where the original "You Won" card has been left and await the cheater's arrival. En route, Sally demands to know what Encyclopedia came up with, and says the trope name when Encyclopedia explains how the last clue will be modified to trip up the cheater. On his advice, Mr. McPherson changed the word "dairy" in the clue to "diary", switching just two letters. Consequently, the cheater doesn't look closely at it and goes to the original ending spot rather than the new one.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c3adb1e8	type	Schemer
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c3adb1e8	comment	Schemer: Wilford Wiggins is a high school dropout who spends much of his time on get-rich-quick schemes designed to trick the town's kids out of their money. Whenever Encyclopedia hears about another one, he immediately sets out to stop him, and in many cases, he does so pro bono.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: "The Case of the Amazing Race Car" had a plot mainly revolving around a missing derby boxcar. Other cases are picked up by Brown and Sally, including one where one of their friends accidentally took a bully's bike, mistaking it for his own. Encyclopedia then imagines being in a court, acting as a lawyer for the friend and eventually asserting that among a bunch of other bikes (though each were different), the bike in question could be mistaken for another. This became his "Eureka!" Moment as to how the boxcar could have been stolen. He later invokes it when talking with Sally:
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: In a lot of the books Encyclopedia attends a gathering of local kids called by Wilford Wiggins to invite them to buy into something big that doesn't exist. You'd think people would stop listening to him after the first few times Encyclopedia explained how Wilford was trying to con them, but not only do people keep attending Wilford's gatherings, it happens often enough for Encyclopedia to create a special policy for it: in one instance, Encyclopedia tells his client he takes cases involving Wilford pro bono. Possibly justified, since not all the kids in town would have heard prior pitches, and newcomers to Idaville are always possible. Encyclopedia consistently gets calls asking him to come to a certain location (sometimes deserted) because the anonymous caller wants to hire him for something. Inevitably, it turns out to be one of Bugs's revenge schemes. But Encyclopedia and Sally fall for it every time. Though to be fair, the police have a policy of always sending someone out even if it sounds like a prank call just in case it isn't, so Brown might have a similar policy.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c547cd6d	type	Bulletproof Vest
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c547cd6d	comment	Bulletproof Vest: Variant in Book 2, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Stomach Puncher"). Encyclopedia and his client Herb Stein go up against a bully, sixteen-year-old Biff Logan, who stole Herb's bicycle and threatens to punch anyone in the stomach if he doesn't like them (and has carried it out a few times); Encyclopedia prepares for this encounter by donning a piece of sheet metal and covering it with his clothes. It nearly doesn't work because Biff's switched to punching in the eye after the last kid he hit couldn't eat for a week and almost starved, but Encyclopedia dupes him into aiming for the stomach instead, since that way it won't leave evidence. Biff falls for it and badly hurts his hand as a result. Encyclopedia isn't hurt, but he's still hit so hard he flies back a foot and a half.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c6dd9571	type	Lost Will and Testament
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c6dd9571	comment	Lost Will and Testament: In Book 12, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Hidden Will"), Brandon King has hidden his will and shared the location with his lawyer, but forbade him from revealing the location until ninety days after his death. Per the conditions he set up, three of his sons will inherit if it's found before the due date. If not, everything goes to the magician's union instead. Three of the sons want to find the will, and the fourth pretends he wants to as well; in fact, he's been disinherited and knows it, but after Mr. King dies, the disinherited brother joins the others in asking Chief Brown for help so as not to incriminate himself.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c87737d9	type	Vacation Episode
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c87737d9	comment	Vacation Episode: In Book 2, Chapters 3 ("The Case of the Ambushed Cowboy") and 4 ("The Case of the Forgetful Sheriff") see Encyclopedia and his parents on a trip to Texas, their first vacation in three years.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c919de1d	type	"London, England" Syndrome
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c919de1d	comment	"London, England" Syndrome: Book 6, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Wanted Man") has this as its solution. The culprit included a list of locations that are seemingly overseas — Moscow, Odessa, London, Paris, Palestine and Athens — but doesn't specify the countries. Encyclopedia, however, identifies the culprit as having flown to Texas, where cities by all those names also exist, in part because Palestine didn't exist as a country at the time.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_c9263989	type	Retronym
Encyclopedia Brown / int_c9263989	comment	Retronym: In-universe example in Book 1, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Civil War Sword"), where it's a plot point that the First Battle of Bull Run would not have been called such until after the second.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Encyclopedia Brown / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Sally is supposedly on roughly the same level as Encyclopedia, intellectually. It's only ever applied a few times. One occasion is in Book 1, Chapter 4 ("The Case of Merko's Grandson"), when she arranges a mystery face-off against him, and on a few other rare occasions when she solves the mystery instead of Encyclopedia. Her most common case-solving portrayal, used almost once per book, is to point out something that Brown failed to notice due to her greater awareness of gender issues. Justified in Book 2, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Two-Fisted Poet") when Encyclopedia drops the hint about Percy's glasses. Despite the fact that until then she's almost swooning in adoration, she realizes at once what he's trying to tell her and acts appropriately to the point where feigning unconsciousness is the only way for Percy to make her stop hitting him. Her being just below Encyclopedia intellectually is typically portrayed by her knowing who the guilty party is, just not being able to prove it; or at least not as fast as Encyclopedia.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_ca803bc0	type	Anachronistic Clue
Encyclopedia Brown / int_ca803bc0	comment	Anachronistic Clue: In Book 1, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Civil War Sword"), the Conviction by Counterfactual Clue that a sword purporting to be from The American Civil War is a fake is the inscription, which states that it was awarded to Stonewall Jackson by his men "after the first Battle of Bull Run" (specifically, in August 1861, exactly one month after the battle). The solution points out two things: first, the South called that particular battle the Battle of Manassas — Bull Run was the Union name for it, and a Southern general would never call it that, let alone inscribe a sword thus. Second, neither side would have called it the first battle because of the aforementioned dates on the sword; neither side could have known there would be another battle in that exact same place in August 1862, thirteen months after the first battle. In Book 6, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Cave Drawings"), Wilford Wiggins claims he's discovered caveman drawings and tries to get everyone to invest in what will surely become a new tourist attraction. Encyclopedia foils the scam by noticing a drawing of a caveman fighting a dinosaur. Of course, dinosaurs went extinct long before man emerged. In Book 15 1/2, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Fourth of July Artist"), Wilford also tried to pass off a painting of the Liberty Bell, dated July 4, 1776 but showing the bell with a crack. The bell didn't crack until some time in the first half of the 1800s (the book claims 1835, but the earliest confirmed mention of a crack is in 1846). In Book 26, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Roman Pots"), among several ceramic pots offered for sale as Roman was one pot dated "XXIII B.C." Encyclopedia Brown points out to a prospective buyer that the "B.C." dating system was created hundreds of years laternote by the Venerable Bede in the late seventh or early eight century C.E., according to some sources. What's more, B.C. dates are by definition retroactive, since the event that they're based on hadn't happened yet.note The proper dating for a Roman item would have been "A.U.C." ("Ab urbe condita", or "from the founding of the city" (i.e. Rome in 753 BC). So for the date in question, the pot should have been marked as "DCCXXX AUC".
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_cb54721a	type	Fun with Palindromes
Encyclopedia Brown / int_cb54721a	comment	Fun with Palindromes: Used in the solution to Book 10, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Broken Globe"). One student wanted to let the teacher know who had broken a globe but without being seen as a snitch. He therefore completed a captioning assignment using only palindromes. The guilty parties were the two students whose names were palindromes (it turns out they'd been goofing around while the teacher was out and broke the globe by accident).
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_cbf04bf6	type	Funny Phone Misunderstanding
Encyclopedia Brown / int_cbf04bf6	comment	Funny Phone Misunderstanding: Book 16, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Angry Girl") uses this trope as its solution. The neighborhood Romeo, Tyrone Taylor, leaves a romantic message for his latest sweetheart, only for her to furiously tell him off and beat the stuffing out of him. Encyclopedia investigates and realizes that her little sister, who took the message, inadvertently punctuated it wrong, making the compliments seem like insults: "I want to say you're amazing. I can't stop thinking that you're the most beautiful girl in town" becomes "I want to say you're amazing—I can't. Stop thinking that you're the most beautiful girl in town," for example.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Encyclopedia Brown / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: Encyclopedia, who constantly anticipates any confrontations with bullies bigger than him. This is why he has Sally, though the first time he encountered Bugs, in Book 1, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Scattered Cards") he merely threatened to call the cops on him. Courageously averted in Book 2, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Stomach Puncher") though, where he specifically states (when asked why he isn't bringing her) that the boy they're dealing with is more than her match. (On this occasion, however, he's aware of the older boy's signature method of brutality and has taken appropriate precautions.)
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_ce6b54d9	type	Enemy Eats Your Lunch
Encyclopedia Brown / int_ce6b54d9	comment	Enemy Eats Your Lunch: In Book 11, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Salami Sandwich"), Ziggy Ketchum (who works in a department store) tells Encyclopedia that he has to hide his lunch every day so his coworker Al Noshman, who's a very fast eater, won't steal it from him. He also explains that Noshman has gone out of his way to make sure Ziggy has to bring his own lunch, since Ziggy can't afford to go to a restaurant every day and, the one time they went to a restaurant together, Noshman treated the staff extremely rudely, embarrassing Ziggy and ensuring he wouldn't ever want to do that again. Bugs Meany has repeatedly made trouble for kids so he can steal food from them, as in Book 5, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Missing Clues"), where he scares off would-be customers from a fruit stand and helps himself to the merchandise; Book 15 1/2, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Missing Garlic Bread"), where he and his gang steal garlic bread and a chocolate cake from another boy; Book 17, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Round Pizza"), where he steals a boy's pizza, and Book 21, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Invisible Writing"), where he trades a phony method of making writing disappear and reappear for a key lime pie. Encyclopedia usually has to step in and make him pay up for (or return, if he hasn't eaten it yet) what he swiped.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_ce993654	type	Hollywood Genetics
Encyclopedia Brown / int_ce993654	comment	Hollywood Genetics: Book 10, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Seven-Foot Driver") features a pair of siblings who are only one year apart. One is seven feet tall, and the other is described as being barely taller than ten-year-old Sally.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_ceb79d4	type	Stock Lateral Thinking Puzzle
Encyclopedia Brown / int_ceb79d4	comment	Stock Lateral Thinking Puzzle: Book 1, Chapter 4 ("The Case of Merko's Grandson") revolves around a variant of "The Doctor's Son", in which the solution reveals that a long-deceased trapeze artist is not the grandfather of the man trying to claim her money, but his grandmother.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d04b5665	type	Eating Contest
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d04b5665	comment	Eating Contest: Book 4, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Blueberry Pies") involves a variant — with the new rules this year, the competitors have to finish two blueberry pies, with fork and knife (the woman in charge disapproves of eating with your hands, calling it "a disgrace"), and then run half a mile to the finish line. Encyclopedia winds up proving that the winners cheated via Twin Switch — one ate the pies, and then sneakily switched places with their twin during the race; they're disqualified as a result, and Encyclopedia's friend Chester wins. Encyclopedia's friend Chester is noted as competing in other eating contests in other books.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d1673f5c	type	Bad Humor Truck
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d1673f5c	comment	Bad Humor Truck: Subverted in Book 2, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Balloon Man"), where a clown who drove an ice cream truck disappeared along with a young boy and was accused of kidnapping him. Turned out they'd both been kidnapped.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d1a69ab2	type	We Need to Get Proof
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d1a69ab2	comment	We Need to Get Proof: In Book 1, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Happy Nephew"), Encyclopedia's father tells him this after investigating a potential suspect of a robbery. Encyclopedia then reveals the proof was a Straying Baby playing on a car hood that should have been burning hot.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d2579e9c	type	Career-Revealing Trait
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d2579e9c	comment	Career-Revealing Trait: In Book 17, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Masked Robber"), Encyclopedia figures out that an alleged victim of theft was just lying so he could get insurance money, because the crook, who could have been one of two identical twins, a tennis player or a cashier, was wearing a T-shirt â€” if the tennis player had been the culprit, one arm would be more developed, while equal arms would incriminate the cashier. Tennis players don't actually have unequal arm muscles, although this might have been more understandable in the days when one-handed backhands were more common.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d28eb9e1	type	Serial Romeo
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d28eb9e1	comment	Serial Romeo: KidAnova Tyrone Taylor, who's always falling for one girl after another.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d389d581	type	Calculator Spelling
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d389d581	comment	Calculator Spelling: Played for Drama in a case. A boy who was always playing around with his calculator has been kidnapped and his calculator has the number 577345 on the display. Encyclopedia realizes that this spells "shells" when looked at upside down, which leads them to the kidnapper, who had a booth selling shells.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d4db580f	type	And Your Reward Is Edible
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d4db580f	comment	And Your Reward Is Edible: Book 26, Chapter 5 ("The Case of Grandma's Cookies") revolves around Ziggy Ketchum hiring Encyclopedia to retrieve a batch of chocolate chip cookies his grandmother gave him, which were stolen by a thief. When Encyclopedia retrieves them, Ziggy is so grateful that on top of the quarter he already paid, he shares the cookies with Encyclopedia.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d525f857	comment	Con Artists Have No Sense of Scale: In Book 8, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Model Universe"), Wilford claims to be designing a scale model of the universe that would fit in the Grand Canyon, with a ball, half an inch in diameter, to represent Earth. Fortunately for the kids, Encyclopedia does have a sense of scale and realizes exactly how big such a "scale" model would be.note For the curious, Alpha Centauri, one of the nearest stars to our solar system, would be over 20000 miles away at that scale. If he had said "solar system" instead of "universe", he would have been somewhat more plausible — Pluto's orbit at aphelion would be 4 and a half miles away from the sun at that scale.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d6f052b4	type	Treasure Hunt Episode
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d6f052b4	comment	Treasure Hunt Episode: Book 7, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Treasure Map") revolves around a search for treasure on a small island. Winslow Brant found a treasure map which he and his friend Pete Alders used to look for a buried treasure, but Pete ruined the map when he used it to cover the porthole on their boat to keep the rising tide from spilling in. As Encyclopedia points out, the tide wouldn't have spilled in through the porthole because the boat and the porthole would have risen with it. It's ultimately revealed that the map is a souvenir from the World's Fair, but they decide not to tell Pete until he's worn himself out.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Some newer covers depict Encyclopedia Brown as Hispanic.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d83f3588	type	Depending on the Artist
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d83f3588	comment	Depending on the Artist: Illustrations of the characters do vary. A few cover illustrations showed Encyclopedia wearing glasses, presumably to invoke the Smart People Wear Glasses trope. Encyclopedia himself is usually depicted as an ordinary looking boy in the original book illustrations. When the individual stories got reprinted in textbooks or magazines, Encyclopedia was illustrated wearing glasses and/or a Conspicuous Trenchcoat. Illustrations of Bugs Meany in both the original books and in the aforementioned reprints showed him as being tall and lanky. This is contrast to the live-action TV show where Bugs was much fatter.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Averted. Despite Encyclopedia being the police chief's son, he never abuses that authority, even when someone like Bugs is constantly trying to frame him.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_d91f1429	type	Rockers Smash Guitars
Encyclopedia Brown / int_d91f1429	comment	Rockers Smash Guitars: When Encyclopedia thinks about who stole the time capsule, he imagines Casey breaking the plaque's seal by hitting it with his guitar.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Encyclopedia Brown / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: In-universe, a numerical mistake provides the answer to a solution in Book 2, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Forgetful Sheriff"). Nearly a hundred years before, a "forgetful sheriff" had claimed that after a bank robber shot him twice in the arm, the sheriff wrestled the gun away and killed the robber with one bullet. The other four robbers immediately showed up, and he shot them all with a single bullet each — seven bullets total. But he was also using a gun that could only hold six bullets, and neither the sheriff nor the original owner had had a chance to reload it. This mistake in counting led to the sheriff being exposed as a member of the gang himself, who'd turned on and shot his own allies in order to claim all the stolen money himself. He was promptly hanged the next day.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_daa59ba1	type	Puppy Love
Encyclopedia Brown / int_daa59ba1	comment	Puppy Love: Several cases that Encyclopedia solves involve friends of his or other kids around the same age as him and their love interests.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_dbc2a0cd	type	Hand Wave
Encyclopedia Brown / int_dbc2a0cd	comment	Book 14, Chapter 7 ("The Case of the Marvelous Egg"): Wilford Wiggins claims to have bred chickens that can lay square eggs. He comes up with a lame handwave as to why he simply can't show them, and claims instead that he'll stage a publicity stunt by having the skydiver standing with him jump holding one in a box only to have it still intact afterwards but needs money for promotion. Encyclopedia calls him out because the skydiver is wearing only one parachute, and all jump with two in case one fails...because there's no chance that someone might wear something different to a publicity event than during actual skydiving. Granted the con man does describe his accomplice as dressed "ready to jump", but considering the whole absurdity of the situation (the convenient excuse as to why he can't just show the eggs, the fact that a square probably would be crushed if held by a skydiver anyway, why such a stunt would even be necessary to promote square eggs, and of course, what the hell besides novelty value is the benefit of square eggs anyway?) it seems kind of silly that Encyclopedia quibbles over such a minor technicality. The "Solution" page at the end of the book even admits that had Wiggins not embellished his con by bringing his friend along, Encyclopedia would have had nothing to use against him and he could've successfully screwed the kids out of their money.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_dc59fb35	type	What's a Henway?
Encyclopedia Brown / int_dc59fb35	comment	What's a Henway?: In Book 2, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Secret Pitch"), Speedy Flanagan asks Encyclopedia, "What do you know about Browning?" and Encyclopedia responded, "Not much, I've never browned."
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Encyclopedia Brown / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: An unusual example in Book 8, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Flying Submarine"). A new submarine slips out of its airlift, and Encyclopedia, Sally and the Tigers are the first people on the scene. The police arrive soon after to make sure nothing happens to the submarine before the military can show up and reclaim it. Bugs claims Encyclopedia was going to steal equipment from inside, and even though Bugs must be notorious as a crank and Encyclopedia helps his father crack important cases over the dinner table all the time, Chief Brown does his job and says he has to take the claim seriously. Of course it's proven to be a lie, but it shows what a good cop Chief Brown really is because he knows he can't pick sides no matter what.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Encyclopedia Brown / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: For Encyclopedia/Sally. The TV series, in its pilot episode alone, includes a Security Cling between the two, an Imagine Spot where Sally confesses her love to Encyclopedia, and the ending, where she kisses him on the cheek. Compare that to the books, which, in the series' entire run, contain a couple of arguable instances of Encyclopedia acting jealous around Sally's crushes.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Encyclopedia Brown / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Sally calls Encyclopedia "E.B."
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_dd95a27b	type	I Never Told You My Name
Encyclopedia Brown / int_dd95a27b	comment	I Never Told You My Name: Book 4, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Marble Shooter") has a variation. Encyclopedia's client asks him to investigate Bugs Meaney for some infraction. He also insists on being addressed as "Al" which is short for his full first name (which he finds embarrassing). Sure enough, Encyclopedia takes him to Bugs Meany and introduces him as Al, but Meany claims to have never met him before. Then, two of Meany's Tigers enter and he introduces the client as "Algernon" and not one of many other names that "Al" could be short for. This is what breaks the case.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
Encyclopedia Brown / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: Very, very common.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Encyclopedia Brown / int_df968cf	comment	In Book 4, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Underwater Car"), it's said that the last time Benny went camping at the state park, his snoring frightened some other campers so badly that they mistook it for a wild animal. Consequently, the park was closed for two days while state troopers tried to track down what they thought was a bear. Despite this, Encyclopedia and some other friends let Benny come along...but despite Benny's taking precautions (wearing a special strap under his nose, while the other boys stuff cotton in their ears), he snores as loud as ever, and as a result, Encyclopedia is awake to witness the chapter's crime (a man faking a car crash to get the insurance money).
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_e165392	type	Encyclopaedic Knowledge
Encyclopedia Brown / int_e165392	comment	Encyclopaedic Knowledge: Encyclopedia Brown got his nickname by knowing so much about so many subjects that he was like a walking encyclopedia.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_e23fac54	type	Invisible Writing
Encyclopedia Brown / int_e23fac54	comment	Invisible Writing: Book 21, Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Invisible Writing") has Bugs Meany claim to have developed a way to make writing disappear (using a lightbulb rubbed with a ruby from Baghdad) and reappear (via a bulb rubbed white with a sacred altar stone from ancient Egypt). It's a fraud, of course. Book 24, Chapter 1 ("The Case of the Forgetful Jewel Thief") features this, using onion juice as the ink of choice.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
Encyclopedia Brown / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: The titular character, a schoolboy who runs his own agency solving schoolyard mysteries, and sometimes assists his father who is the local police chief.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_e38b0f45	type	Snake Oil Salesman
Encyclopedia Brown / int_e38b0f45	comment	Snake Oil Salesman: Several, with Ace Kurash as one of (if not the) first in Book 3, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Divining Rod"). Wilford Wiggins is a recurring one, and Bugs Meany periodically gets into it too. Other one-shot examples appear in the later books, but regardless of who's doing so, Encyclopedia is always there to foil their "get rich quick" schemes.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_e4385ff4	type	Straying Baby
Encyclopedia Brown / int_e4385ff4	comment	Straying Baby: In Book 1, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Happy Nephew"), one ends up undoing a perp's alibi by nearly falling off his car hood. The baby was walking on it and gurgling happily. Encyclopedia points out to his father that if the man had been driving for the amount of miles as he claimed, the hood would have been scorching hot, burning the child and causing him to scream. Book 7, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Foot Warmer") has the culprit bending over to pick up a straying baby, exposing his claim (that he was wearing something under his clothes that kept him from bending over at the time) as a lie.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Encyclopedia Brown / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Book 2, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Two-Fisted Poet"), Sally considers giving up her bodyguard duty to Encyclopedia when she falls for Percy Arbuthnot, who believes that fighting isn't "ladylike". This annoys Encyclopedia enough to reveal that Percy is a phony.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Encyclopedia Brown / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: Sobol was not a fan of modern art, as is made clear from "The Case of the Junk Sculptor", "The Case of the Painting Gerbils", "The Case of the Painting Contest", and "The Case of the Stolen Watch".
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Encyclopedia Brown / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Book 1, Chapter 4 ("The Case of Merko's Grandson"), the story that introduces Sally and has her present a mystery to test Encyclopedia's skill, has one glaring flaw that falsifies the solution: when the grandniece states that Merko is not Fred Gibson's grandfather, the court takes her claim seriously, because Merko is revealed in the solution to be a woman — and thus the man's grandmother. However, in real life, the probate judge is well aware of the decedent's gender (it's on the death certificate, after all, and this hearing took place decades after Merko's death), and such a statement would have been dismissed out of hand as frivolous. Even if the judge didn't know (Merko had posed as a man her entire life, and there was either no medical examination or the coroner had been suborned to falsify the record), the question of Merko's gender was legally irrelevant in any case. The only way the grandniece could have been taken seriously would have been if Merko had been a man, and the allegation was that Fred Gibson had simply been lying. It's obvious, in-universe, that Sally is trying to test not only Encyclopedia's intelligence, but whether or not he is sexist; however, she could have devised a better story. This is fixed in the HBO version, where Sally doesn't explicitly state that the judge didn't take the claim validly but rather "both the man and the woman were right," that is both are telling the truth.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_eafe9e0e	type	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen
Encyclopedia Brown / int_eafe9e0e	comment	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: Book 11, Chapter 6 ("The Case of the Silver Dollar") involves Encyclopedia solving the case of who stole Chauncy van Throckmorton's clothes, leaving him naked in the woods.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_eb0bb6a6	type	Solid Gold Poop
Encyclopedia Brown / int_eb0bb6a6	comment	Solid Gold Poop: Literal Metaphor, much? In Book 8, Chapter 2 ("The Case of Smelly Nellie"), Smelly Nellie finds $4,000 in ambergris(whale fecal stones!) while searching for clams. However, she couldn't carry the fifty-pound lump of concentrated air pollution on her own, and asks for some help from some skin divers — who turn out to be Bugs Meany and his gang, who promptly chase her off. Luckily, they're knocked senseless by the stench when it dries out in the sun, and are still there when Encyclopedia shows up with some adults. They then try to claim ownership of it, only for Encyclopedia to ask where they found it exactly. When the adults press the issue, Bugs says they found it on the ocean floor and rolled it to shore — and Encyclopedia points out that ambergris floats.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_ecedfef7	type	Conspicuous Trenchcoat
Encyclopedia Brown / int_ecedfef7	comment	Encyclopedia himself is usually depicted as an ordinary looking boy in the original book illustrations. When the individual stories got reprinted in textbooks or magazines, Encyclopedia was illustrated wearing glasses and/or a Conspicuous Trenchcoat.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_edf841f6	type	Worthless Treasure Twist
Encyclopedia Brown / int_edf841f6	comment	Worthless Treasure Twist: Subverted. It turns out that Ida's box contained the rose she planted to stop a war. While the rose is withered due to being over a century old, Encyclopedia fondly says that he considers it a treasure, as the thief laments that the theft wasn't worth the crimes. Then he realizes that Ida's statue has a cavity space, holding another box. When the cops open it, they find a jeweled recreation of the flower, which is much more valuable in the monetary sense.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_ee2a3bfc	type	Prefers Going Barefoot
Encyclopedia Brown / int_ee2a3bfc	comment	Prefers Going Barefoot: One recurring character is Charlie Stewart, a boy who collects animal teeth, who usually walks around barefoot in the hopes of finding new specimens under his feet.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_efe7b003	type	Platonic Boy/Girl Heroes
Encyclopedia Brown / int_efe7b003	comment	Platonic Boy/Girl Heroes: Encyclopedia and Sally.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_f08f8f89	type	Comedic Underwear Exposure
Encyclopedia Brown / int_f08f8f89	comment	Comedic Underwear Exposure: Encyclopedia "deduces" the color of Sally's underwear ... because she got dressed in a hurry that day, and they're sticking out of the back of her pants.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_f3d38c6d	type	Team Rocket Wins
Encyclopedia Brown / int_f3d38c6d	comment	Team Rocket Wins: A few of Wilford Wiggins' con schemes actually succeed in netting him a few dollars, namely from Bugs Meany and the Tigers. They push their way to the front of the line to pay Wilford, and Encyclopedia lets them bike away before he ruins Wilford's con.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_f44ad3e1	type	Twin Switch
Encyclopedia Brown / int_f44ad3e1	comment	Twin Switch: In Book 4, Chapter 8 ("The Case of the Blueberry Pies"), Encyclopedia proves that two twins had done this to beat Chester Jenkins in a blueberry pie eating contest and sprint. He knew because the twin running the race had clean white teeth, when they should have been stained blue from the pie.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_f54f1401	type	Passed-Over Inheritance
Encyclopedia Brown / int_f54f1401	comment	Passed-Over Inheritance: In Book 12, Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Hidden Will"), Brandon King disinherited one of his four sons in his will, since the son had stolen from his father's business. He also set up a Game Between Heirs so that unless his will (which he'd hidden, telling only his lawyer where it was) was found within ninety days of his passing, all the brothers would be disinherited.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_f6254414	type	Cute Bruiser
Encyclopedia Brown / int_f6254414	comment	Cute Bruiser: Sally. She's described as being "the prettiest girl in the fifth-grade", and the most athletic. She frequently beats up the bullies. It's indicated that Encyclopedia made her his partner both because he recognized how smart she was, and to be his bodyguard.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
Encyclopedia Brown / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: Encyclopedia and Sally, reader comments about them making "a cute couple" (and their being ten-year-olds) aside. Lampshaded in Book 6, Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Falling Woman") by a kid photographer who saw them sitting on a couch together and tried to take a picture. At which point she almost attacked him with a lamp (justifiably, since she thought he was The Peeping Tom until Encyclopedia recognized him). Even the Onion's satirical obituary of Encyclopedia has Sally described as his ex-wife, though the fact she's named as "Sally Kimball-Brown" in the article suggests the divorce was at least amicable.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_f7887c47	type	Born Detective
Encyclopedia Brown / int_f7887c47	comment	Born Detective: Encyclopedia himself; his father is the chief of police, and amazingly enough all the cases that stumped his entire police force are almost always solved by his son over dinner, to the point where his mother's disappointed in Book 1, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Bank Robber") when he can't solve it right then and there.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_f8b893e5	comment	Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Encyclopedia is always foiling the scams of a local high school dropout named Wilford Wiggins who keeps trying to get the local kids to give him their money via some new and exciting scheme. Examples include Book 15 1/2, Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Fourth of July Artist"), involving a genuine painting of the Liberty Bell (which cracked 13 years or so after the artist died); Book 8, Chapter 5 ("The Case of the Model Universe"), which involves building a museum containing an accurate scale replica of the universe (even with a half-inch model of the Earth, the universe is still too big), or Book 5, Chapter 10 ("The Case of the Muscle Maker") where he tries to sell a muscle building tonic (if the test subject had really put on that much muscle in so short a time, the jacket he bought before bulking up wouldn't still fit). Bugs Meany and other kids have tried it too.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: One of the cases is titled, "The Case of the Frightened Playboy", with the title character being the old meaning of the term: an independently wealthy man who doesnâ€™t work for a living. Nowadays, the term "playboy" calls to mind a certain magazine as well as one who lives the libertine lifestyle promoted by said magazine and its creator.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_fc45bac0	comment	Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Bugs claims this is the only reason Sally can stand up to him.
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Encyclopedia Brown / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: Bugs Meany ranges from "made a simple mistake" to "complete idiot" depending on the story. One of his dumbest moments was in Book 17, Chapter 3 ("The Case of Bug's Zebra"), when he drew a zebra with horizontal stripes.
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