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Mr Gum

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Mr Gum	comment	The Mr Gum books are a series of children's books written by English author Andy Stanton, concerning suspicious goings-on in the (fictional) small town of Lamonic Bibber, with the chief antagonist being the eponymous Mr Gum, a sordid, red-bearded, middle-aged man with a fondness for doing evil, and the chief protagonist being an (almost) eternally cheerful nine-year-old girl named Polly. They contain large amounts of Surreal Humour, an almost manic degree of Lampshade Hanging and Leaning on the Fourth Wall, and a rich amount of verbal inventiveness, as well as an obvious debt to the work of Roald Dahl.As of 2015 there are nine Mr Gum books: You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum! (2006) Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire (2007) Mr Gum and the Goblins (2007) Mr Gum and the Power Crystals (2008) Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear (2008) What's for Dinner, Mr Gum? (2009) Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree (2010) Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout (2011) Mr Gum and the Hound of Lamonic Bibber (2011)
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Mr Gum / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Mr Gum / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Friday O'Leary.
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Mr Gum / int_1902e67d	type	I Am Very British
Mr Gum / int_1902e67d	comment	I Am Very British: Averted. Everybody can be presumed to be English, but none of them sound posh, and Polly's mode of speech lurches inexplicably from one accent to another for comic effect: one minute she'll say "Blimey, you men is well ignorant", which is pure Cockney, but then she'll say something (incidentally lampshading the Unexplained Accent of other characters) which sounds like she's from a Western film: "Why's everyone a-talkin' all funny like in weird old books?"
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Mr Gum / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Mr Gum / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Polly, although she also has Genki Girl tendencies.
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Mr Gum / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Mr Gum / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: It got one in the form of Matthew Buzzington, a book by the same author about a boy that can turn into a fly.
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Mr Gum / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Mr Gum / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: A large part of the books' humour comes from this. For example, when Polly tells a bunch of men to stop drinking in the pub and go home, they obey, saying 'OK, nine-year-old girl, you're the boss, for some reason.'
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Mr Gum / int_3adca595	type	Namesake Gag
Mr Gum / int_3adca595	comment	Namesake Gag: Once again, Martin Launderette owns the launderette. And the inventor of the saxophone is named Sir Henry Violin.
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Mr Gum / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Mr Gum / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: According to Science, your little sister is crying because you called her "Stinky" and broke all her toys with a hammer.
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Mr Gum / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
Mr Gum / int_44f6517d	comment	Beach Episode: "What's For Dinner, Mr Gum?" starts out as this.
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Mr Gum / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Mr Gum / int_571bfe2	comment	Super Serum: Sherry is this for Old Granny. As long as she has some, she has (limited) magical powers. As soon as she runs out of sherry, she reverts to being an 'old wrinkler'. Also, the Power Crystals for everyone in the fourth book.
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Mr Gum / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Mr Gum / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Oh, so many. Martin Launderette runs the launderette, Johnathan Ripples is very fat, and therefore probably has ripples on his body, Old Granny is old, the name of the bear enslaved by Mr. Gum and Billy William III is "Padlock", Beany McLeany's name rhymes, so of course, he speaks in rhymes, Miss Lovely has a sweet personality... etc.
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Mr Gum / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Mr Gum / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: Zigzagged in Secret Hideout: after the incinerator producing very rapid, localised climate change is switched off, all the nasty tropical insects and the like that had appeared die off, but the parrots remain, because everyone likes parrots.
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Mr Gum / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Mr Gum / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Old Granny, who is so fond of sherry that she has a bottle of sherry which has another, smaller bottle of sherry concealed within it.
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Mr Gum / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Mr Gum / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The website describes Mr. Gum and the Cherry Tree as "a tale of forests! Of legendary beasts! Of dreadful villains! Of caterpillars called Graham!"
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Mr Gum / int_870bbf64	type	Show, Don't Tell
Mr Gum / int_870bbf64	comment	Show, Don't Tell: At the start of "The Power Crystals", a bumblebee does "that thing where it goes near your ear and makes you jump in astonishment". Also, Mr. Gum's garden in summer is full of those little blue plants that kind of look like dinosaurs.
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Mr Gum / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Mr Gum / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Combined with Exact Words in "What's For Dinner, Mr Gum?". In chapter one, we are introduced to "a quick word from Friday O'Leary himself". Any Mr. Gum superfan would expect him to say his catchphrase: "The truth is a lemon Meringue!", but instead he just says "BREADBIN."
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Mr Gum / int_87c0c782	type	"Day of the Week" Name
Mr Gum / int_87c0c782	comment	"Day of the Week" Name: Friday O'Leary, again.
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Mr Gum / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
Mr Gum / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Polly's real name is not Polly, but Jammy Grammy Lammy F'Huppa F'Huppa Berlin Stereo Eo Eo Lebb C'Yepp Nermonica Le Straypek De Grespin De Crespin De Spespin De Vespin De Whoop De Loop De Brunkle Merry Christmas Lenoir. Her friends call her Polly, however.
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Mr Gum / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Mr Gum / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: In Mr Gum's garden in the first book, it is winter in winter.
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Mr Gum / int_9519d89a	type	Wealthy Philanthropist
Mr Gum / int_9519d89a	comment	Wealthy Philanthropist: Alan Taylor becomes this in the heartwarming ending to the second book, after he uses all his money, which, judging by his title as "The Biscuit Billionare", must be a LOT, to turn his mansion into a school for orphaned children, after Polly teaches him that friendship is more important than wealth.
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Mr Gum / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Mr Gum / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: There's a little boy named Rita, a little girl called Peter and her father, called Rachel.
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Mr Gum / int_aa5d87af	type	Secret Level
Mr Gum / int_aa5d87af	comment	Secret Level: Rather, a Secret STORY (or song in the fourth book's case), but there's still one at the end of every book. The first book takes this to the extreme, by encouraging the reader to put down the book once the story ends and lying that the rest of the book is just "blank empty space". Even on the "96% Official Website" it says "SHHHHH! Donâ€™t tell anyone." in regard to it.
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Mr Gum / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Mr Gum / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Friday O'Leary's cry of "The truth is a lemon meringue!"
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Mr Gum / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Mr Gum / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Polly. Combined with Only Sane Man.
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Mr Gum / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Mr Gum / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Among the oddly named characters in the books, including Friday O'Leary, Jonathan Ripples, Martin Launderette and Billy William the Third, there's a sentient billionaire gingerbread man called ... Alan Taylor.
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Mr Gum / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Mr Gum / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: "Bag of Sticks", "Funtime with Crispy", "Legmash", and "Oi, Put That Down!"
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Mr Gum / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Mr Gum / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Alan Taylor's name sounds a little like that of Hollywood star Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Also, one of the books features a Dancing Bear. (The Dancing Bear is a book by Michael Morpurgo.) And one to a song by Crowded House in "What's For Dinner, Mr. Gum?", where it says: "hey now, hey now, don't dream it's over."
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Mr Gum / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
Mr Gum / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: Johnathan Ripples offers some of this to Polly in "Mr Gum and The Dancing Bear."
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Mr Gum / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Mr Gum / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: â€˜Old Grannyâ€™s Cardigan Adventureâ€™, the special bonus story in â€˜â€™Mr Gum and the Goblinsâ€™â€™, evokes this trope in-universe: Old Granny wakes up, has breakfast, phones her brother Old Danny in Australia, loses her cardigan and finds it three minutes later lying on the kitchen floor. She is so struck by this that she resolves to phone her brother again. The End. In the course of their conversation, it is revealed that Old Granny used to be in a punk band called Rancid Vomit, but this is considered less exciting than the fact that she loses her cardigan.
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Mr Gum / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Mr Gum / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: All for the sake of humour, the franchise adores this trope. Characters have been "as happy as toast" or "happy as the Bank Of England", or "as rich as a mushroom", or "giggling like a packed lunch".
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Mr Gum / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
Mr Gum / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: Beany McLeany not speaks like this, but everything he does rhymes too. For example, in book 2, at the funfair, he does a showbiz quiz on a girl named Liz, and in book 1, the flowers in his garden grow like towers.
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Mr Gum / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Mr Gum / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Lampshaded in 'Old Granny's Cardigan Adventure':
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Mr Gum / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Mr Gum / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: In Chapter 2 of book 8, Polly and Friday O' Leary watch clouds fall out of the sky. One of them crushes a hen, causing it to lay an egg out of its mouth!
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Mr Gum / int_ff3f8c7c	type	Pretentious Pronunciation
Mr Gum / int_ff3f8c7c	comment	Pretentious Pronunciation: Billy Williams III believes that he is related to royalty, so it makes sense that he uses this trope. However, his use of it is not very posh, and is as simple as saying "funty" instead of "funny", "mittersy" instead of "mystery" and an unknown word instead of "fountain". (No-one knows that word because they've never heard him say the word "fountain".)
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