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My Family and Other Animals

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My Family and Other Animals	comment	My Family and Other Animals (1956) is a hilarious semi-autobiographical account by British naturalist Gerald Durrell of his childhood spent living with his family on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939, as well as various fauna of the island. Each of Gerry's family, as well as other characters, have their own idiosyncrasies, which help to make this one of the funniest books ever written. There's his long-suffering, widowed mother, who never seems to be surprised by anything; eldest brother Larry, who became another famous writer; middle brother Leslie, the gun nut; ditzy older sister Margo; over-protective family friend Spiro "Americano" Chalikiopoulos; and distinguished naturalist and king of Incredibly Lame Puns Dr Theodore Stephanides.It has two sequels, Birds, Beasts and Relatives (1969) and The Garden of the Gods (1978), though these are not nearly as famous as the original. It has been adapted at least three times for television: 1987 BBC miniseries (starring BRIAN BLESSED as Spiro) 2005 BBC Made-for-TV Movie (starring Eugene Simon as Gerry and Imelda Staunton as Louisa) 2016â€“19 ITV series The DurrellsIt was also adapted for the stage in 2006.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_2bcd8194	comment	Loyal Animal Companion: Roger.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: Larry's first attempt at hunting snipe.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_53034c21	comment	Great White Hunter: Leslie.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_672b0bfd	comment	Polly Wants a Microphone: The Magenpies, also to some extent Quasimodo who likes to dance to music.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
My Family and Other Animals / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Happens in the two last paragraphs. Also at the shift from Part 1 to Part 2:
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My Family and Other Animals / int_6b31f75	type	Scary Scorpions
My Family and Other Animals / int_6b31f75	comment	Scary Scorpions: Played straight when Gerry finds a mother scorpion with her babies, puts it in a matchbox that Larry brings to the breakfast table, hilarity ensues. Subverted by the fact that Gerry has a lot of respect for scorpions and wanted to raise a colony so he could study them more closely, but his family (unsurprisingly, all things considered) flatly refused.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
My Family and Other Animals / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Spiro, there's a reason why he was played by BRIAN BLESSED in one of the TV adaptations.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: Gerry.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
My Family and Other Animals / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: As far as Larry is concerned, all his personality flaws are actually his mother's fault for raising him that way.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_988a2796	type	Pet Baby Wild Animal
My Family and Other Animals / int_988a2796	comment	Pet Baby Wild Animal: Gerry has many of these, like Achilles the tortoise, Ulysses the scops owl, the Magenpies and Quasimodo the pigeon.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: The Rose Beetle Man who never speaks.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
My Family and Other Animals / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Not just shortened, but there are a few inaccuracies. Larry is depicted as living with the family, though at the time he was living in another part of Corfu with his wife Nancy (shown in the film briefly but not in the book). Also, the reason that the Durrells leave the island in the book is for continuing Gerry's education, rather than the real reason for needing to go back to England. Somewhat Retconned: Birds Beasts and Relatives talks about the onset of the war. Spiro's response is typically hilarious.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Larry.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_af98d5da	type	Thieving Magpie
My Family and Other Animals / int_af98d5da	comment	Thieving Magpie: Larry constantly accuses the Magenpies of being thieves and says they'll have to bury their belongings with an armed guard over them. They're given the run of the house until they are caged. Then during a party, they manage to undo the lock on their cage and get drunk.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: Alecko, the seagull.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_c0218941	comment	Hollywood Chameleons: Averted with the geckos and the lacewing beetles.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_c24fa49e	comment	Dogs Are Dumb: Dodo. Gerry says that her Victorian ignorance of the facts of life is rather touching. The other dogs in the house don't even acknowledge her existence...until they discover she comes into season very regularly. She has the attention span of a goldfish and obsessively follows Gerry's mother around, even when she is in the bath. This is taken to a new level when she had her puppy and insists on carrying it around everywhere.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_e24d2d5c	comment	Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Leslie finding snakes in the bath.
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My Family and Other Animals / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Gerry for Larry. He's the one person we see Larry occasionnally trying to be nice to.
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