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Ramona Quimby

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Ramona Quimby	comment	A well-known children's book series by Beverly Cleary about a girl named Ramona Quimby, whose age ranges from 4 to 10 as we see different years of her life.The first two books in the series were illustrated, as were most of Cleary's books in the 1950s and 1960s, by Louis Darling. After Darling's death in 1970, Alan Tiegreen took over as illustrator through 1984's Ramona Forever and also drew the cover art for Ramona's World. Later editions of the first two books also featured new cover art by Tiegreen. In 2006, new editions of all eight books were published with illustrations by Tracy Dockray, followed in 2013 by new editions with pictures by Jacqueline Rogers.The series has been made into a short-lived TV show in Canada, simply called Ramona and starring a young Sarah Polley in the title role. This show emphasizes the light drama found in the books over the light humor, and is most heavily based on Ramona Quimby, Age 8, but with a few episodes drawing on Ramona and Her Mother and Ramona Forever too. The series, comprising ten episodes and aired over four months in 1988-89, first aired on CHCH, an independent TV station in Hamilton, Ontario, and then nationwide on CBC and in the U.S. on PBS.A movie, titled Ramona and Beezus, starring Selena Gomez as Beezus and Joey King as Ramona, was made in 2010.The list of books includes: Beezus and Ramona (1955) — Ramona is in preschool, and the story is mostly about Beezus, who is turning nine. This is more of a bridge between the earlier Henry Huggins series and Ramona's own, as Beezus never actually had her own series but was a character in Henry's. Ramona the Pest (1968) — Ramona is in kindergarten. Too-perfect Susan, and poor struggling Davy, are introduced. This is the first book to be told from Ramona's point of view. Ramona the Brave (1975) — Ramona is in first grade. Ramona and her Father (1977) — Ramona is in second grade. Ramona and her Mother (1979) — Ramona is still in second grade. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) — Ramona is in third grade. Yard Ape, a male friend/rival, is introduced. Ramona Forever (1984) — Ramona is in between third and fourth grade, during the summer. A new baby sister, Roberta, is born. Ramona's World (1999) — Ramona is in fourth grade. A new female friend, Daisy, is introduced.Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Ramona and her Father are the two Newbery Honor books of the series.
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Ramona Quimby / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Ramona Quimby / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Ramona and Beezus might be at odds a lot of the time, but they have affectionate moments throughout the series too. One example is in Ramona and Her Mother, when both girls are upset after their parents have a fight, and Beezus lets Ramona sleep in her bed with her and promises to take care of her if their parents divorce (which of course they don't). But probably the most memorable moment like this comes after the family cat Picky Picky dies in Ramona Forever. The incident causes them to bond and grow closer than ever before.
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Ramona Quimby / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
Ramona Quimby / int_130436b9	comment	Even after outgrowing her Annoying Younger Sibling tendencies, Ramona is still the wilder, more impulsive, and more imaginative sister than Beezus ever was.
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Ramona Quimby / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Ramona Quimby / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Ramona and Her Father is slightly darker than the other books in the series, as it deals with Mr. Quimby losing his job and the resulting months of stress the family goes through until he finds new work. The rest of the books are more focused on Ramona's everyday childhood problems such as mishaps at school.
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Ramona Quimby / int_14db7384	comment	Express Lane Limit: Mr. Quimby works as a supermarket cashier for a while. The express lane has a nine-item limit, but customers frequently try to sneak through with ten or eleven items. The customers often count the items in each other's baskets and argue among themselves. Naturally, Mr. Quimby dislikes working the express lane.
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Ramona Quimby / int_166258c3	type	Character Overlap
Ramona Quimby / int_166258c3	comment	Character Overlap: Occasionally features Henry Huggins and several other characters from his own books. Justified, as both series take place in the same neighbourhood.
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Ramona Quimby / int_17556439	type	Baby See, Baby Do
Ramona Quimby / int_17556439	comment	Baby See, Baby Do: In a chapter of Ramona's World, Ramona sticks her tongue out at her baby sister Roberta, and Roberta copies her.
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Ramona Quimby / int_18f2b2b	type	Hypocritical Heartwarming
Ramona Quimby / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: Especially in the earlier books, Beezus often finds Ramona irritating and teases her sometimes, but she won't let anyone from outside the family pick on her.
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Ramona Quimby / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
Ramona Quimby / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: A recurring theme with Ramona and Beezus, especially because of their opposite personalities. They generally get along better as they get older than they do in the earlier books, though.
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Ramona Quimby / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
Ramona Quimby / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: All books take place when they were written. This means that Ramona ages from a preschooler to a fourth-grader while experiencing more than four decades. This results in some slight Anachronism Stew when it comes to social and speaking norms. For example, Ramona's World, written in 1999, when the author was in her late 70s, adds more modern speech elements such as the overuse of "stuff" in kids' dialog (e.g. "We brought snacks and stuff.") while still using the old-fashioned word "cross" to mean "angry"/"annoyed".
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Ramona Quimby / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Ramona Quimby / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Miss Binney sends Ramona home from kindergarten until she can behave after she catches Ramona pulling Susan's hair and without giving Ramona back the girl's baby tooth. This ends up sending Ramona into Heroic BSoD because she believes that Miss Binney doesn't like her and doesn't want to see her, and she refuses to return until Miss Binney "forgets about her". No one knows how to persuade Ramona to go back to school until Miss Binney sends a letter with the tooth and asks her to return.
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Ramona Quimby / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Ramona Quimby / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: Susan is pretty, sweet, and good at looking good in front of adults. Ramona envies and is jealous of her and it colors their relation for the entire run of the series.
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Ramona Quimby / int_1af4728b	type	Floorboard Failure
Ramona Quimby / int_1af4728b	comment	Floorboard Failure: In Ramona's World, Ramona falls halfway through the unfinished floor of her new friend Daisy's attic. She's very annoyed when she tries to tell the story at the dinner table with what she feels is an appropriate amount of drama, and her older sister interrupts, saying how easy it is to step onto the plaster and that she knows someone who fell all the way through.
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Ramona Quimby / int_1c9a6e2d	type	Lack of Imagination
Ramona Quimby / int_1c9a6e2d	comment	Lack of Imagination: Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby has trouble thinking up an imaginary creature (although she is eventually able to) and then later hates creative writing class due to finding it too hard.
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Ramona Quimby / int_1df0cf05	type	Mutual Envy
Ramona Quimby / int_1df0cf05	comment	Mutual Envy: Ramona and her sister Beezus have reasons to be jealous of each other. Ramona wishes that adults would respect and admire her like Beezus and say she is "her mother's girl," but Beezus also feels that Ramona can get away with everything since she is the baby of the family.
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Ramona Quimby / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Ramona Quimby / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: In one book, the Quimby sisters are made to cook dinner as punishment for being Picky Eaters. They make a dish that they themselves dislike, but which the parents claim to like. The narration and the actual sisters speculate on whether the parents actually liked the dinner, or if they were pretending to like it to spare their daughters' feelings, without ever coming to a conclusion.
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Ramona Quimby / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Ramona Quimby / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: The adults are fleshed out too; Ramona's parents deal with on-and-off unemployment and dislike of their jobs, along with other adult problems. The strongest example of this takes place in Ramona and Her Mother, when the parents fight because each expected the other to turn on the Crock-Pot, so neither turned it on, and dinner is ruined. Beezus and Ramona are angry and worried afterward and tell them to never bicker again. As the story is told from Ramona's perspective, we only know what she knows about their lives, but she knows enough to be aware of these things. Ramona eventually realizes that Mrs. Kemp, Howie and Willa Jean's grandmother who's supposed to watch her and Beezus after school, resents having to babysit kids who aren't her grandchildren and that's why she's always blaming Ramona for Willa Jean's misbehavior. When Ramona tells her parents that Mrs. Kemp doesn't like her and is unpleasant, Beezus surprisingly backs her up, because she's been making a point of going to her friends' houses after school specifically to avoid Mrs. Kemp, but is willing to stay home and look after Ramona herself so they can both avoid Mrs. Kemp and her friends; Mary Jane has guitar lessons, and Pamela has been rude to her about her father's job.
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Ramona Quimby / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
Ramona Quimby / int_213dc284	comment	Closest Thing We Got: Ramona and Beezus end up substituting banana yogurt for buttermilk, cream of wheat for cornmeal, and apricot jam for jelly while cooking dinner for their parents in Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
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Ramona Quimby / int_22804f3	type	Unreliable Illustrator
Ramona Quimby / int_22804f3	comment	Unreliable Illustrator: In the reissues with the new artist, the picture doesn't completely match what the text says in a few instances when characters are specifically described wearing a certain outfit, and the illustration contradicts it. This includes modernization — for example, Ramona is said to use rollerskates, but the illustration depicts rollerblades, which are more modern.
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Ramona Quimby / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Ramona Quimby / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Although she's only mentioned, Beezus's classmate Pamela appears to be one of these. She's rich and popular so all the girls want to be like her. She's also always asking Beezus when her father is going to get a real job, causing Beezus to no longer want anything to do with her.
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Ramona Quimby / int_233da103	type	Cordon Bleugh Chef
Ramona Quimby / int_233da103	comment	Cordon Bleugh Chef: Mr. Quimby's idea of cooking is to throw everything in a pan and stir until done, although he is good at making pancakes.
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Ramona Quimby / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Ramona Quimby / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: An amusing one from Ramona in Beezus and Ramona. Mrs. Quimby sends her to her room for disrupting Beezus's and Henry's checker game. A few minutes later, Ramona opens the door and asks if she can come out now. Mrs. Quimby asks if she can stop bothering Henry and Beezus. One might expect Ramona to say yes and end her punishment, but instead, she just says, "No," and closes the door. In Ramona the Pest, Ramona gets in trouble for constantly yanking her nemesis Susan's curly hair. When Miss Binney asks Ramona if she can control herself and stop pulling Susan's hair, Ramona knows she won't be able to resist the temptation and truthfully answers that she can't. As a result, Miss Binney sends Ramona home and tells her not to come back until she can behave, and Ramona, thinking Miss Binney doesn't like her anymore, is devastated.
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Ramona Quimby / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Ramona Quimby / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Ramona the Brave opens with Beezus being humiliated by a group of boys who shout, "Jesus, Beezus!" when they overhear Ramona calling her Beezus. Ramona scolds the boys for taking the Lord's name in vain, which makes Beezus angrier at Ramona than at the boys.
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Ramona Quimby / int_2479b6c0	type	Your Television Hates You
Ramona Quimby / int_2479b6c0	comment	Your Television Hates You: When their parents have gone to the hospital because the new baby is about to arrive, Ramona and Beezus are naturally stressed out and worried. They turn on the TV as a distraction and the first thing they see is a hospital drama, which they quickly turn off.
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Ramona Quimby / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Ramona Quimby / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Mrs. Quimby and her sister Beatrice were just like Beezus and Ramona when they were young girls, with Dorothy being the responsible older sister and Beatrice being the annoying younger sister.
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Ramona Quimby / int_25f33d8	type	Sick Episode
Ramona Quimby / int_25f33d8	comment	Sick Episode: Ramona catches a stomach bug in Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and, much to her horror, throws up in front of her entire class. She feels guilty about it afterward even though she really couldn't help it.
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Ramona Quimby / int_27af99f1	type	Raised by Grandparents
Ramona Quimby / int_27af99f1	comment	Raised by Grandparents: Word of God says that Mr. Quimby's grandmother raised him. He says this outright in the TV show.
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Ramona Quimby / int_29fb3af0	type	Unspoken Retort
Ramona Quimby / int_29fb3af0	comment	Unspoken Retort: Once, Ramona is feeling frustrated with the adults in her life. When her mother says, "What's gotten into you!?", she wants to reply, "Grown-ups!" but she decides not to.
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Ramona Quimby / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Ramona Quimby / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Ramona's first-grade teacher Mrs. Griggs. It's not entirely clear whether she dislikes Ramona personally or is just an unfriendly person, but she does deliberately embarrass Ramona in front of the class a few times. Then again, Mrs. Griggs was also Beezus's first-grade teacher, and Beezus got along with her just fine; she says that Mrs. Griggs wasn't a very exciting teacher, but she wasn't mean either. Beezus also says, "I was the kind of child she liked. You know... neat and dependable." This seems to suggest that Ramona's problems with Mrs. Griggs are the result of a personality clash. That said, Mrs. Griggs has some 'nice' moments at the end when she sympathizes with Ramona losing her shoe after an encounter with a mean dog, and compliments the paper slipper she made as a substitute.
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Ramona Quimby / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Ramona Quimby / int_2b5ea43c	comment	The corresponding episode of the 1988 TV series changed the Alka-Seltzer reference to one more familiar to '80s kids: "Mikey Likes It!" for Life cereal. It also averts the Bland-Name Product trope with regard to the cat food, as the Purina Cat Chow bag is clearly visible while Ramona watches the commercial.
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Ramona Quimby / int_2c576b5	type	Debating Names
Ramona Quimby / int_2c576b5	comment	Debating Names: In "Ramona Forever", Mrs. Quimby gets pregnant and they discuss possible names. Ramona likes Gwendolyn for a girl because it means "fair", and at one point "Abelard" is suggested for a boy, but turned down because it may lead to the Embarrassing Nickname "Lard". Mr. Quimby suggests various joke names like Quentin Quincy Quimby for a boy, and Bonnie and Connie, Gerald and Geraldine, Paul and Pauline, or Peter and Mosquiter for twins. Eventually, the baby (a girl) ends up being named Roberta instead.
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Ramona Quimby / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Ramona Quimby / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Beezus is the tomboy to her best friend Mary Jane's girly girl. In Ramona's World, Ramona is the tomboy to Daisy's girly girl.
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Ramona Quimby / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Ramona Quimby / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Some characters introduced in early books reveal additional depth in later books, giving insight into why they are the way they are. Davy, the shy boy who Ramona wants to kiss in kindergarten. It's mentioned in passing that his parents' divorce when he's in second grade, implying that maybe his school troubles were related to home troubles (and one passage in Ramona the Brave suggests he's dyslexic). Susan, the spoiled too-perfect girl whose curls grab Ramona's attention to her own detriment. She has a breakdown in fourth grade about having "to be perfect all the time". The Ramona series itself was a spin-off from the Henry Huggins books, which focused around Beezus' implied boyfriend Henry and his adventures with his dog Ribsy. Ramona, in contrast, was rarely the focus of any scene and was more of a nuisance than anything. In Yard Ape's first scene, he is introduced as little more than a bully when he steals Ramona's new eraser but Ramona grows to secretly like him after he starts behaving more nicely towards her and reveals himself to be much less of a jerk than he first seems (he also eventually gives her the eraser back.) He is noted to be very smart and always makes good grades even though he is also shown to be very rowdy and still likes to pick on Ramona, albeit more good-naturedly, with Ramona usually reciprocating. He also goes out of his way to be kind to Ramona when she has a bad day in third grade, writes her a genuine get-well card when she gets sick, and in fourth grade he writes her a small poem. By the end of "Ramona Forever" it's also all but outright stated that he and Ramona have a crush on each other, although both try to hide it from the other.
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Ramona Quimby / int_2e0c6c38	type	Eskimos Aren't Real
Ramona Quimby / int_2e0c6c38	comment	Eskimos Aren't Real: Played with but ultimately averted in Ramona Forever. Ramona tells her family about Howie's rich uncle, who has been traveling in what sounds like a made-up country — Saudi Arabia.
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Ramona Quimby / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Ramona Quimby / int_31083edb	comment	Logic Bomb: Ramona is baffled when her second-grade teacher tells her that "there's no such word as 'can't'".
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Ramona Quimby / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Beezus's nickname is somewhat of a source of embarrassment for her. In Beezus and Ramona, it's mentioned that Beezus is tired of having to explain how she got that nickname whenever Ramona introduces her as "Beezus" instead of her birth name and that she wishes she had a more common nickname, like Betty or Patsy. In Ramona the Brave, the nickname temporarily becomes a Berserk Button for Beezus after some boys at the park taunt her with, "Jesus, Beezus!" when they overhear Ramona calling her that. Eventually, she agrees to let Ramona call her Beezus at home as long as she does not do it in public.
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Ramona Quimby / int_31f0842c	type	Age-Appropriate Angst
Ramona Quimby / int_31f0842c	comment	Age-Appropriate Angst: Ramona's problems are treated as Serious Business, but they're all things kids her current age can relate to. These include being late for school, having to deal with a substitute in place of her favorite teacher, and worrying about getting the wrong kind of sandwich in her lunch.
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Ramona Quimby / int_33175dd1	type	Fashion Hurts
Ramona Quimby / int_33175dd1	comment	Fashion Hurts: Ramona's and Beezus's shoes pinch their feet in Ramona Forever. They find a better use for them. Subverted when it turns out that this was by accident; their mother hadn't realized the girls outgrew their shoes.
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Ramona Quimby / int_3324d1c8	type	Gift-Giving Gaffe
Ramona Quimby / int_3324d1c8	comment	Gift-Giving Gaffe: Uncle Hobart, apparently not knowing a lot about kids, gives Willa Jean an accordion that she couldn't possibly learn how to play until she's much older. Not surprisingly, she breaks it within less than an hour.
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Ramona Quimby / int_33db913f	type	Open Mouth, Insert Foot
Ramona Quimby / int_33db913f	comment	Open Mouth, Insert Foot: At Ramona's birthday party in Ramona's World, Susan comes with an apple and says she's not allowed to eat cake because it has Ramona's germs from when Ramona blew out the candles. This immediately makes most of the guests scrape off the frosting, and Ramona is understandably furious. Finally, her new friend Daisy eats the cake and says there's nothing wrong with it, leading to the Surprisingly Realistic Outcome moment where the other kids call out Susan for being impolite, and she starts to cry because she thinks no one likes her.
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Ramona Quimby / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
Ramona Quimby / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Averted in Ramona Quimby, Age 8 when Ramona and Beezus are drafted into cooking dinner by their parents. Despite all the substitutions they make due to either lack of or ignorance of the proper ingredients (banana yogurt instead of buttermilk, cream of wheat instead of cornmeal, chili powder instead of paprika, etc.), the meal they make turns out surprisingly edible if not perfect. The girls had contemplated purposely making something that tasted nasty to punish their parents for sticking them with the dinner chores but decided not to once Beezus pointed out they'd have to eat it too.
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Ramona Quimby / int_36ae9f5d	type	Traumatic Haircut
Ramona Quimby / int_36ae9f5d	comment	Traumatic Haircut: Subverted when Beezus, after getting a beauty school haircut, comes out with her hair looking like a "cheap wig". However, the problem is how her stylist styled it, not how he cut it; once Beezus washes the hairspray out, the cut itself turns out to be fine.
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Ramona Quimby / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Ramona Quimby / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Definitely on the idealistic side. The idealism and upbeat tone of the books are part of their multi-decade lasting popularity and charm.
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Ramona Quimby / int_393da8a1	type	Secret Message Wink
Ramona Quimby / int_393da8a1	comment	Secret Message Wink: In Ramona Forever, Ramona asks her mother if she's keeping a secret from her, and Mrs. Quimby responds in the negative but winks at Mr. Quimby.
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Ramona Quimby / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Ramona Quimby / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Ramona in the Henry Huggins books was a Bratty Half-Pint that is used to having her way. Even Beezus called her out for that in Beezus and Ramona about the library book fiasco. Ramona and Her Mother features that she has grown up a lot at the beauty salon school where Beezus wants her hair cut; when Robert the owner asks if Ramona would like a cut as well, she politely declines at first because "we are scrimping and pinching to make ends meet", to her mother's amused exasperation. When Robert offers a discount of half-price and says there's no wait, Mrs. Quimby says Ramona's hair does need cutting, and she gets a nice pixie style with heart-shaped bangs. Ramona feels bad for Beezus on seeing how her cut turned out, saying she wishes they could both look good. It shows how much more considerate Ramona has become. In Beezus and Ramona, Beezus feels guilty about sometimes disliking Ramona and tries to get along with her all the time, until her mother and aunt reassure her that it's perfectly normal to lose patience with her sister. From then on she more freely expresses her annoyance toward Ramona and calls her a "pest" without guilt. This makes Ramona angry in the earlier books ("I am not a pest!"), but by age seven she learns to take it in stride and tease Beezus back ("If I am a pest, you are a rotten dinosaur egg"). Around that same time, she and Beezus start to get along better in general, and by the last few books, instead of the Annoying Younger Sibling and beleaguered big sister they were at the start of the series, they're a mostly friendly and cooperative pair of sisters who only sometimes argue. Howie is introduced in Beezus and Ramona as a boy who frequently quarrels with Ramona, and from Ramona's perspective in Ramona the Pest, they're not really friends by choice, but have to tolerate each other because their mothers are friends. But in first grade they bond over Howie's game of "brick factory," and they become genuine best friends from that point on. In third and fourth grade they grow apart slightly, as Ramona stops going to Howie's house after school and as they both start spending more time with friends of their own genders, but they still stay friends, particularly since Howieâ€™s uncle and Ramonaâ€™s aunt get married, making the two children cousins-in-law.
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Ramona Quimby / int_3db32baa	type	New Baby Episode
Ramona Quimby / int_3db32baa	comment	New Baby Episode: Downplayed for the book "Ramona Forever". A subplot is that Mrs. Quimby is pregnant, and the baby, whose name ends up being Roberta, is born in the final chapter.
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Ramona Quimby / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Ramona Quimby / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In Ramona and Her Mother, Beezus wants to get her hair cut at a beauty shop like her friends do, thinking she'll look prettier and more glamorous that way. Unfortunately, when she finally gets her wish, it's at a beauty school (the only affordable choice), the amateur hairstylist who does the job uses too much hairspray and makes her hair look like "a cheap wig," and when she washes the spray out to reveal what the actual haircut looks like, it's barely different than what her mother always gave her before. Ramona dislikes Susan for always being perfect and yet doing stuff like copying her schoolwork. Her anger doesn't lie in jealousy about Susan, but about how Susan isn't perfect and yet everyone claims that she is. The thing is that Ramona keeps growing up and maturing through the books, while Susan remains the same. Thus, when Ramona turns ten and Susan at Ramona's birthday party is unintentionally rude, the other kids call her out for it.
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Ramona Quimby / int_3f1a4583	type	Single Sex Offspring
Ramona Quimby / int_3f1a4583	comment	Single Sex Offspring: The Quimbys have three daughters — Beezus, Ramona, and Roberta.
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Ramona Quimby / int_4280d1fd	type	Spock Speak
Ramona Quimby / int_4280d1fd	comment	Spock Speak: In Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Ramona manages to get out of playing with/watching Willa Jean by claiming she has to do her "Sustained Silent Reading". This takes her off the hook — for a while, anyway, until Willa Jean and Howie's grandmother realize that all Ramona is doing is reading a book, and Ramona gets in trouble for "not playing nicely enough" with Willa Jean.
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Ramona Quimby / int_431dca9b	type	Compressed Vice
Ramona Quimby / int_431dca9b	comment	Compressed Vice: Mr. Quimby has a smoking problem in Ramona and her Father. He never seemed to have that problem before, but Ramona hadn't really thought about it before. It got brought up when Beezus angrily asked why he could afford to smoke when the family couldn't afford decent food for the cat. He might also have taken it up due to the stress of losing his job.
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Ramona Quimby / int_460afd98	type	Scary Science Words
Ramona Quimby / int_460afd98	comment	Scary Science Words: In the book "Ramona Forever", the final chapter has a series of misunderstandings that eventually lead to this trope. First of all, the doctors don't allow Ramona to go into Mrs. Quimby's room to see her newborn sister Roberta since "children under twelve might have contagious diseases". This turns Ramona into a temporary hypochondriac and she explains the situation to a doctor, who gives her a checkup and finds nothing wrong with her but, because she mentioned Roberta, he mistakes her unhappiness for Infant Sibling Jealousy. Thus, he jokingly diagnoses her with "sibling-itis", which only makes Ramona even more nervous because she thought "itis" sounded clinical.
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Ramona Quimby / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Ramona Quimby / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Subverted. Beezus wants this to happen with a salon cut, that it will make her look like a cool ice-skater and give her confidence. The Surprisingly Realistic Outcome is that at a beauty school where the prices are discounted, the student working on her is an amateur and overdoes it on the hairspray. Even when Beezus washes out the spray, her hair looks the same.
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Ramona Quimby / int_4712bc4f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
Ramona Quimby / int_4712bc4f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Ramona goes into Heroic BSoD when she hears Ms. Whaley calling her a "little showoff" and says "what a nuisance!" Later on, when she talks to Ms. Whaley about it, Ms. Whaley clarifies that she meant the raw egg was a nuisance. As for Ramona being a showoff, Ramona explains that she was only doing what everyone else was doing and Ms. Whaley apologizes.
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Ramona Quimby / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Ramona Quimby / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Yard Ape. He hassles Ramona a lot and in his first scene stole her new eraser. He also sticks up for her when she's nearly in tears over her teacher having been mean, and when she's sick with the flu sends her a unique get-well-soon card instead of copying from the blackboard like most of the kids did.
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Ramona Quimby / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Ramona Quimby / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: In Beezus and Ramona, Beezus and Henry were evenly matched at checkers, whereas in the earlier Henry Huggins series, Beezus trouncing Henry at checkers was a running gag. Maybe Henry got better.
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Ramona Quimby / int_4ae9b099	type	Nobody Likes a Tattletale
Ramona Quimby / int_4ae9b099	comment	Nobody Likes a Tattletale: An incident in Ramona the Brave is the Trope Namer. When Mrs. Griggs' first-grade class is making paper bag owls, Susan copies Ramona's owl and the teacher praises it in front of the whole class. Ramona is upset, but she feels she can't tell Mrs. Griggs what Susan did, because earlier, the teacher had said to the class, "Nobody likes a tattletale." So, out of frustration, she crumples up Susan's owl and gets in trouble. In Ramona's World, Ramona talks to her mom about why she doesn't like Susan, one of the reasons being that Susan gets really mad when boys call her "Snoozin' Susan." Ramona comments, "When boys call you a name, you're just supposed to get a little bit mad and not go telling the teacher."
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Ramona Quimby / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Ramona Quimby / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Ramona has an instance of at least one of these in every book except Ramona's World, but the most obvious instances are in Ramona The Brave and Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
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Ramona Quimby / int_4dbc9366	type	Fright-Induced Bunkmate
Ramona Quimby / int_4dbc9366	comment	Fright-Induced Bunkmate: On more than one occasion, Beezus lets Ramona sleep in her bed when they're both scared or worried about something, like the aftermath of their parents arguing or the birth of their new baby sister.
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Ramona Quimby / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Ramona Quimby / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Beezus and Ramona is written from Beezus's point of view instead of Ramona's, and the narrator refers to the Quimby parents as "Father" and "Mother," when all the later books use "Mr. and Mrs. Quimby."
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Ramona Quimby / int_507a98ba	type	"Near and Dear" Baby Naming
Ramona Quimby / int_507a98ba	comment	"Near and Dear" Baby Naming: Beezus is named after her and Ramona's maternal aunt, Beatrice, who she also admires and wants to be like when she is older.
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Ramona Quimby / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
Ramona Quimby / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": A reverse of this trope applies with Beezus in Ramona the Brave, when she demands to be called by her birth name of Beatrice after some boys overhear Ramona calling her Beezus and tease Beezus for it. She gets over it after a little while and lets her family say Beezus again, but from then on Ramona is only allowed to call her Beatrice in public.
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Ramona Quimby / int_527b0932	type	Annoyingly Repetitive Child
Ramona Quimby / int_527b0932	comment	Annoyingly Repetitive Child: Two examples in "Beezus and Ramona" — Beezus is annoyed by her little sister Ramona first wanting to be read the same stories again and again, then later singing, "Copycat, cappycot" repeatedly.
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Ramona Quimby / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Ramona Quimby / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Beezus and Ramona ends with Beezus's tenth birthday. Ramona's World ends with Ramona's tenth birthday.
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Ramona Quimby / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
Ramona Quimby / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: In Ramona The Brave, Mrs. Quimby comments that Ramona seems cranky this morning. Ramona insists she's not cranky, but the fierce scowl on her face tells a different story. In Beezus and Ramona, Ramona is acting sulky at the dinner table and Mrs. Quimby says, "Where's my Merry Sunshine?" Ramona scowls and then yells, "I am too a Merry Sunshine!" After a few moments, she repeats this sentence, then runs out of the room when told Go to Your Room!. Also in Ramona Quimby Age 8 Ramona gets grumpy after her second day in bed with the stomach flu. Mrs. Quimby smiles and says she knows Ramona is getting better because she's "acting like a wounded tiger." Ramona in a grumpy tone informs her, "I'm not acting like a wounded tiger."
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Ramona Quimby / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Ramona Quimby / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: A slight example regarding Mr. Quimby's ongoing job hunts. At the end of Ramona and Her Father, after four months of Jobless Parent Drama, the family is ecstatic because Mr. Quimby has a new job as a cashier in a supermarket. But the next book, Ramona and Her Mother, reveals that he hates the job, and in the end he quits it so he can go back to college to achieve his real dream of becoming a children's art teacher. But that "Ray of Hope" Ending is also overridden in Ramona Forever: the only teaching job offer he gets is in a rural one-room schoolhouse far away, and with a new baby coming he can't afford to wait for others. So he resigns himself to working as a supermarket manager, which at least is a better job than a cashier, and which at least lets him practice art by painting advertisments on the market windows.
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Ramona Quimby / int_553c27bb	type	Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness
Ramona Quimby / int_553c27bb	comment	Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: Largely in the middle. There's a lot of humor that comes from the situations Ramona gets into as well as her thoughts and views on things, but also a lot of drama coming from Ramona's dealing with the world and problems in her life from a child's eye perspective (e.g. her frustration at people not taking her seriously and laughing at her unintentional malapropisms in the younger stories, getting in trouble for things she didn't mean to do — this stuff is devastating to a little kid!). The stories are neither very silly nor very serious and do a good job of balancing humor with drama. As Ramona gets older, the focus does swing closer to drama, but still remains in the center.
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Ramona Quimby / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
Ramona Quimby / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Even after outgrowing her Annoying Younger Sibling tendencies, Ramona is still the wilder, more impulsive, and more imaginative sister than Beezus ever was. Not shown on-screen, but this is how Mrs. Quimby describes her childhood relationship with her younger sister, Bea. Dorothy was the homely, sensible sibling who diligently saves up her allowance, while Beatrice was the active, outdoorsy type who spends all her pocket money on junk the moment she gets them.
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Ramona Quimby / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Ramona Quimby / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Ramona resents how Susan appears perfect but isn't, especially when the latter copied her owl in first grade. Susan's immaturity is revealed at Ramona's birthday party in fourth-grade when she says her mother made her bring an apple because the cake has germs on it from Ramona blowing out the candles. This leads to Daisy and the other kids calling her out for being rude, and even Mrs. Quimby doesn't contest that. Mrs. Kemp suffers this in Ramona Forever when the Quimbys decide that they don't need her to watch Ramona anymore and that Beezus can mind her little sister after hearing about the accordion incident. She doesn't like other kids besides her grandkids, but when Ramona was there she had a scapegoat for Willa Jean's behavior. After Ramona starts heading straight home and Howie spends his days practicing with Uncle Hobart's unicycle, Mrs. Kemp has no one to blame but herself when Willa Jean gets into mischief. We don't hear the details, but it gets to the point where Willa Jean calls Ramona and begs her to come back and hang out with her because she's lonely without Ramona or Howie, and Mrs. Kemp is no fun.
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Ramona Quimby / int_5c0902e7	type	Boyish Short Hair
Ramona Quimby / int_5c0902e7	comment	Boyish Short Hair: All four series illustrators, Louis Darling, Alan Tiegreen, Tracy Dockray, and Jacqueline Rogers, depict Ramona with short brown hair that fits her tomboyish nature.
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Ramona Quimby / int_6611496a	type	Grossout Fakeout
Ramona Quimby / int_6611496a	comment	Grossout Fakeout: In "Beezus and Ramona", Ramona puts her friends off their food by claiming there are worms in the cookies.
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Ramona Quimby / int_66cef86d	type	School Play
Ramona Quimby / int_66cef86d	comment	School Play: In "Ramona and Her Father", Ramona is cast as a sheep in the Christmas play, but due to money issues from Mr. Quimby's layoff, she has to wear white pyjamas with sheep ears sewn on instead of a proper sheep costume.
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Ramona Quimby / int_675569dd	type	Prone to Vomiting
Ramona Quimby / int_675569dd	comment	Prone to Vomiting: When Roberta was two months old, she often spat up (not exactly unusual for an infant that age).
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Ramona Quimby / int_686424b6	type	Go to Your Room!
Ramona Quimby / int_686424b6	comment	In Beezus and Ramona, Ramona is acting sulky at the dinner table and Mrs. Quimby says, "Where's my Merry Sunshine?" Ramona scowls and then yells, "I am too a Merry Sunshine!" After a few moments, she repeats this sentence, then runs out of the room when told Go to Your Room!.
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Ramona Quimby / int_687b55f5	type	Most Writers Are Adults
Ramona Quimby / int_687b55f5	comment	Most Writers Are Adults: Averted. When reading the books, it's easy to identify with Ramona in whatever year of life and grade she's currently in.
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Ramona Quimby / int_6a669b5b	type	Lost Wedding Ring
Ramona Quimby / int_6a669b5b	comment	Lost Wedding Ring: In Ramona Forever, the wedding ring gets lost because it was stitched to the pillow it was carried on too tightly, and when the bride pulls it loose, it flies into the air and gets lost. Ramona eventually finds it on the heel of the bride's shoe.
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Ramona Quimby / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Ramona Quimby / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: In the last chapter of Ramona's World, Ramona doesn't want to invite Susan to her fourth-grade birthday party, and cites that her too-perfect snobby attitude will ruin the party. Mrs. Quimby tells her not to be rude and invites Susan anyway. Sure enough, Ramona is proven right; Susan says her mother told her to not have cake because the frosting would have Ramona's germs on it, which briefly grosses out the guests. Daisy bluntly says there's nothing wrong with the cake and everyone calls out Susan for her rudeness.
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Ramona Quimby / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Ramona Quimby / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Much of the drama in the books may be seen this way from an adult perspective, but as noted above, it's justified in-universe because a lot of minor-in-the-big-scheme-of-things stuff is Serious Business when you're a kid.
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Ramona Quimby / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
Ramona Quimby / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Ramona and Beezus learn that their mother is pregnant shortly after they have to bury the family cat.
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Ramona Quimby / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Ramona Quimby / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Kindergarten-age Ramona, who has just learned about Show and Tell, asks what Beezus is taking for her Show and Tell. Beezus informs her that older kids don't have Show and Tell. Two years later, Ramona gets in trouble for taking her pajamas to school, and Beezus suggests she might have taken them for Show and Tell. Ramona mentally grumbles that Beezus is just trying to make her look silly, as she knows perfectly well that second-graders don't have Show and Tell.
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Ramona Quimby / int_6da90c4d	type	Full-Name Ultimatum
Ramona Quimby / int_6da90c4d	comment	Full-Name Ultimatum: Ramona knows she's in big trouble when she's called either "Ramona Geraldine Quimby" or "Young Lady".
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Ramona Quimby / int_6ddd5165	type	More Insulting than Intended
Ramona Quimby / int_6ddd5165	comment	More Insulting than Intended: Ramona angrily calls her sister Beezus "pizza-face". She merely thinks of it as a variation on "pieface," an insult that she's heard bandied around the playground. But she realizes when she sees Beezus' face crumple that she must have crossed a line. She later explains why she used that term, and Beezus admits to her in turn that she got upset because of how sensitive she's been about an acne problem of late. The two sisters thus apologize to each other for their argument.
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Ramona Quimby / int_6e429667	type	Fantastic Slurs
Ramona Quimby / int_6e429667	comment	Fantastic Slurs: Downplayed. The first-graders will often refer to the kindergarteners insultingly as "kindergarten babies" despite only being about a year older than them.
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Ramona Quimby / int_6fb5637d	type	Devastating Remark
Ramona Quimby / int_6fb5637d	comment	Devastating Remark: Ramona calls her sister Beezus "pizza face", an insult she'd heard around the playground, but was unaware of the meaning. But she knew she'd messed up when Beezus's face crumpled in eminent tears, as Beezus believed Ramona was deliberately attacking her with her acne problem, which she was sensitive about.
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Ramona Quimby / int_7043a964	type	Grammar Nazi
Ramona Quimby / int_7043a964	comment	Grammar Nazi: Ramona's fourth-grade teacher Mrs. Meacham is obsessive about correct spelling and even dislikes the use of words like "gonna" or "shoulda" in everyday vernacular. One of her favorite sayings is "If you don't pronounce correctly, you can't spell."
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Ramona Quimby / int_713856	type	Feeling the Baby Kick
Ramona Quimby / int_713856	comment	Feeling the Baby Kick: Ramona Forever has Mrs. Quimby pregnant with Roberta. When Ramona asks Mrs. Quimby if the baby hurts, she replies that it doesn't hurt, but it does kick and invites Ramona to feel the baby kicking.
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Ramona Quimby / int_72b0dfd2	type	Being Good Sucks
Ramona Quimby / int_72b0dfd2	comment	Being Good Sucks: Invoked by Beezus in Ramona and Her Mother when her mother refuses to let her get a beauty-salon haircut instead of a home haircut, and Beezus grouses that she's tired of being "the sensible one". She further adds that while no one cares if Ramona acts out, she is supposed to keep on being "good old sensible Beezus."
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Ramona Quimby / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Ramona Quimby / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Some reprintings of Ramona and Her Mother showcase Ramona trying to hide the famous "toothpaste cake" from her mom — it's actually Beezus who finds it. One cover of Ramona and Her Father shows Ramona wearing her sheep costume while her father sits with the Halloween jack o'lantern in his lap — Ramona doesn't wear her sheep costume until the Christmas pageant in the last chapter, long after Halloween. A lesser example: The famous moment from Ramona Quimby, Age 8 when Ramona cracks a raw egg on her head. In the book, Ramona is pretty embarrassed and devastated over the incident. However, this reprint cover depicts her with a more passive "Well, that's life" expression.
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Ramona Quimby / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Ramona Quimby / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Beezus is actually named Beatrice, but almost nobody calls her that.
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Ramona Quimby / int_777bc79b	type	Last Resort Takeout
Ramona Quimby / int_777bc79b	comment	Last Resort Takeout: During Beezus's birthday in Beezus and Ramona, she gets upset when Ramona ruins two of her birthday cakes. The first time, Ramona as an experiment shoves a dozen eggs, shells and all, into the batter, and starts the electric mixer. To distract her while Mother bakes the second cake, Beezus reads Hansel and Gretel to Ramona; when Ramona pretends to be Hansel, spilling cracker crumbs on the rug, Beezus suggests that she pretends to be Gretel instead. Ramona then shoves her doll into the oven while the cake is baking, pretending to push the witch in to get baked. The rubber and plastic ruin the cake so that Mother has to ask Aunt Beatrice to buy one from the store.
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Ramona Quimby / int_7833feeb	type	Sudden Name Change
Ramona Quimby / int_7833feeb	comment	Sudden Name Change: In Beezus and Ramona, Mrs. Quimby's maiden name is "Haswell", but later in the series, it's "Day".
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Ramona Quimby / int_7a0056e7	type	Last-Second Photo Failure
Ramona Quimby / int_7a0056e7	comment	Last-Second Photo Failure: When Ramona's fourth-grade class is getting their pictures taken, Howie asks the photographer if he's bored of making everyone say "cheese." He agrees, so when it's Ramona's turn, he tells her to say "peas." Unfortunately, this backfires because it makes Ramona think of the time she was feeding her baby sister Roberta and got strained peas spewed all over her, and she makes a disgusted face before the camera goes off.
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Ramona Quimby / int_7b228c31	type	"L" Is for "Dyslexia"
Ramona Quimby / int_7b228c31	comment	"L" Is for "Dyslexia": Although it's never mentioned by name or even diagnosed, Ramona's classmate Davy clearly has this. He writes his "D"s backwards in kindergarten, and in first grade he mistakes the word "was" for "saw" and "God" for "dog."
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Ramona Quimby / int_7d75077c	type	Age-Stereotypical Food
Ramona Quimby / int_7d75077c	comment	Age-Stereotypical Food: In one book, Ramona looks at a kids' menu but doesn't like the sound of any of the dishes, so she orders a hamburger and fries from the adult menu instead.
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Ramona Quimby / int_7e081ea0	type	Slice of Life
Ramona Quimby / int_7e081ea0	comment	Slice of Life: A big part of why the books are so much fun is that they take ordinary, everyday problems of a young American child in suburbia and make them seem like the most important crisis in all of history.
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Ramona Quimby / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Ramona Quimby / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: In Beezus and Ramona, Aunt Beatrice and Dorothy laugh hysterically when they talk about their bickering as a kid. Even Beezus admits the autograph album fiasco — when Aunt Beatrice wrote her name in every page of an autograph album that Dorothy had scrimped and saved to buy — is hilarious, and it reassures her that one day she'll find Ramona's mischief funny when they both get older. Aunt Beatrice overhears Howie singing a snarky version of "Here Comes the Bride" under his breath while they're waiting for the ceremony to start. Though Ramona shushes him, Aunt Beatrice laughs.
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Ramona Quimby / int_80de023f	type	Non-Standard Prescription
Ramona Quimby / int_80de023f	comment	Non-Standard Prescription: In the book Ramona Forever, a doctor diagnoses Ramona with "siblingitis" (that is, jealousy over the attention her parents are giving her newborn sister) and hands her father a prescription for more attention.
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Ramona Quimby / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
Ramona Quimby / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: Howie doesn't have anything for the kindergarten's first Show and Tell, and at her mother's urging, Ramona returns to her house and grabs a stuffed rabbit Picky Picky has been using for a hunting target so he'll have something to share. When Miss Binney can't coax Howie to tell them about the toy, she ventures something on her own — obviously, the bunny has been very loved because of how worn it looks.
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Ramona Quimby / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
Ramona Quimby / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Ramona can't stand Bratty Half-Pint Willa Jean's antics for most of the series but won't admit that she used to be a lot like her. In fact, her original role was annoying Henry Huggins in a similar way. A sign that Ramona is growing up in Ramona Forever is the fact that she acknowledges this and starts to sympathize with Willa Jean while setting boundaries about spending time with her.
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Ramona Quimby / int_83e2ad3d	type	Trojan Veggies
Ramona Quimby / int_83e2ad3d	comment	Trojan Veggies: In Ramona and Her Father, after Picky-picky the cat eats the family's Halloween jack-o-lantern, Mrs. Quimby saves the remains of the pumpkin for next week's dinners. The family soon gets sick of pumpkin pie and pumpkin custard; Beezus confesses to Ramona that she thinks their mother tried to hide pumpkin in the meatloaf, but she wasn't sure because everything was all mixed together.
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Ramona Quimby / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Ramona Quimby / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Averted in these and the Henry Huggins series; they all explicitly take place in Portland, Oregon (Cleary's former hometown). Local streets, including Klickitat, and landmarks (as well as Mount Hood) are mentioned, and the city of Portland responded by placing statues of the characters in a park. The two Ellen Tebbits books take place on the other side of Portland.
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Ramona Quimby / int_85b20dee	type	Sequel Non-Entity
Ramona Quimby / int_85b20dee	comment	Sequel Non-Entity: Willa Jean is mentioned exactly twice in Ramona's World (including once noting that she's now in kindergarten), but otherwise absent, despite being a recurring character in the previous few books. Somewhat justified, because Ramona has made a new friend in Daisy and isn't really spending any time with Willa Jean's brother Howie either.
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Ramona Quimby / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Ramona Quimby / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Ramona of all people provides one when Uncle Hobart forgets to order flowers for the church for the wedding, and it's June so the florist won't be able to do a rush job. As Aunt Beatrice is crying from the wedding stress, Ramona innocently asks why they can't just get flowers from the yard or pick them. Beezus vetoes their yard because the pansies have bugs, but Grandpa Day says that's Actually a Good Idea. He says he knows some people who live nearby, and the neighbors will pitch in to help since they like the Quimbys. Sure enough, the neighbors happily donate bumper crops of roses, peonies, and laurel.
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Ramona Quimby / int_87bf0789	type	Teacher's Pet
Ramona Quimby / int_87bf0789	comment	Ramona's mother wants her to be friends with Susan, the snooty Teacher's Pet, because the Quimby parents and the Kushner parents are friends, and doesn't seem to understand that Ramona and Susan dislike each other. In Ramona's World, Ramona's mother makes her invite Susan to her birthday party despite her protests that Susan will ruin it. She gets proven right when Susan makes a big show of eating an apple instead of cake and says that birthday cake is covered in germs, which starts a small argument among the guests. However, after Daisy calls her out for being rude, Susan cries and reveals that she knows nobody likes her because she always has to be perfect all the time, which helps Ramona understand her better and is implied to set them on the path to becoming real friends.
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Ramona Quimby / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Ramona Quimby / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Beezus starts showing signs of this later in the series as she grows into a teenager, in particular clashing with her mother a lot. The '80s TV series takes this up a notch, starting in episode one, when she throws a tantrum over having to wear red socks to school instead of blue as is the current fad.
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Ramona Quimby / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
Ramona Quimby / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Lively, excitable, and energetic Ramona's constant clashes with her level-headed, obedient, and polite older sister are a major source of strife.
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Ramona Quimby / int_8c678d33	type	Death by Newbery Medal
Ramona Quimby / int_8c678d33	comment	Death by Newbery Medal: Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Ramona and Her Father avert this trope. Despite each novel winning a Newbery Honor, neither book has anyone die. In Ramona Forever the family cat Picky Picky dies of old age, but this trope is downplayed: the loss itself adds less to Ramona's character development than her sisterly bonding with Beezus does as they bury him together and resolve an earlier misunderstanding.
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Ramona Quimby / int_8e92e125	type	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
Ramona Quimby / int_8e92e125	comment	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: No names are named, but when Ramona quotes a funny man she saw on TV saying "The devil made me do it!" she's probably thinking about Flip Wilson. When Beezus wants her hair done like an ice skater on TV, she probably means Dorothy Hamil, who often had her hairdo copied at the time. Again, no name named.
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Ramona Quimby / int_8fe7f493	type	Ancestral Name
Ramona Quimby / int_8fe7f493	comment	Ancestral Name: When Mrs. Quimby is pregnant with her third child, the very first name that the family thought of was Robert Quimby, Jr., after Mr. Quimby. Several other names were suggested, and they eventually settled for Algie (short for "Algernon"). The baby turns out to be a girl, and Mr. Quimby goes back to their original plan and names her Roberta.
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Ramona Quimby / int_9139687c	type	Hates Baths
Ramona Quimby / int_9139687c	comment	Hates Baths: Ramona hates having her hair washed as a toddler. Whenever Mrs. Quimby washes her hair, Ramona squirms around and screams the whole time. She gets better about it when she gets older.
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Ramona Quimby / int_954c2537	type	"Getting My Own Room" Plot
Ramona Quimby / int_954c2537	comment	"Getting My Own Room" Plot: Ramona and Beezus share a bedroom until Ramona the Brave, when a new bedroom is added to the house and the sisters take turns sleeping in it every six months. Ramona gets the room first, and has to adjust to the scary new experience of sleeping alone. In Ramona's World, however, she and Beezus go back to sharing their old room, while baby Roberta gets the second room.
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Ramona Quimby / int_95be648c	type	Creepy Basement
Ramona Quimby / int_95be648c	comment	Creepy Basement: Ramona and Howie sometimes use this to their advantage. Willa Jean won't go into the Kemp's basement because she's afraid of the furnace, so Ramona and Howie will retreat to the basement to stop her from bothering them.
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Ramona Quimby / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Ramona Quimby / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: In Ramona And Her Mother Beezus gets one bratty moment by wanting a salon haircut, and has her mother spend an entire day driving to a beauty school where she can get the closest thing. She gets another one in the final chapter of Ramona Quimby, Age 8 when her mother refuses to let her go to Mary Jane's slumber party because the girls stay up too late and Beezus is tired and crabby all the next day, and Beezus slams into her bedroom and throws a tantrum. It's worth remembering that Beezus is 13 or 14 by that point in the series (she begins junior high school in Ramona Quimby, Age 8) and thus has reached the age where girls typically have clashes with their mothers, so although she's no longer the "sweet, sensible" Beezus of the early books in the series, her behavior is still true to life for girls her age.
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Ramona Quimby / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Ramona Quimby / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: In the climax of Ramona's World, instead of accepting that she was rude by parroting her mother's words about the birthday cake frosting having Ramona's germs on it, Susan starts crying at Ramona's birthday party that no one likes her but everyone likes Ramona. Ramona, of course, is annoyed by this if sympathetic that Susan's mother is that overbearing. Susan finally compromises by saying she'll have a slice, brush her teeth and not tell her mother.
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Ramona Quimby / int_974e6dcc	type	Jobless Parent Drama
Ramona Quimby / int_974e6dcc	comment	Jobless Parent Drama: In Ramona and her Father, Ramona's father loses his job. While Ramona is initially excited to spend more time with her father, the stress of cutting costs and trying to make ends meet leaves her entire family cranky. Ramona tries various ways to earn money on her own, but they all backfire and she laments the loss of her "happy family". This culminates in a scene where her father reassures her that they still are a happy family — but even happy families sometimes argue or go through stressful times.
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Ramona Quimby / int_982037d0	type	Tickle Torture
Ramona Quimby / int_982037d0	comment	Tickle Torture: Beezus threatens Ramona with this in the first book to make her stop interrupting art class and behave. Ramona instantly backs down and runs away and Beezus is proud of herself for being so creative.
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Ramona Quimby / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Ramona Quimby / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Ramona can't stand Bratty Half-Pint Willa Jean's antics for most of the series but won't admit that she used to be a lot like her. In fact, her original role was annoying Henry Huggins in a similar way. A sign that Ramona is growing up in Ramona Forever is the fact that she acknowledges this and starts to sympathize with Willa Jean while setting boundaries about spending time with her. In Beezus and Ramona, when Beezus confesses that there are times when she doesn't love Ramona, she is comforted by her mother and Aunt Beatrice telling her that it's only natural for siblings to feel that way and recounting some of the clashes they had as children.
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Ramona Quimby / int_98e358c	type	Learning to Ride a Bike
Ramona Quimby / int_98e358c	comment	Learning to Ride a Bike: In "Ramona Forever", when Howie's uncle Hobart gives him a unicycle, Howie gives his bicycle away to Ramona. However, when she tries to ride it, she falls and cuts her knee.
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Ramona Quimby / int_991af300	type	Poke the Poodle
Ramona Quimby / int_991af300	comment	Poke the Poodle: In Ramona the Brave, where she's 6, Ramona is so angry she threatens to say a bad word. So she shouts "GUTS!" at the top of her lungs again and again, and rather than get in trouble, she gets laughed at.
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Ramona Quimby / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
Ramona Quimby / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: Beezus laments the fact that she has trouble being creative in art class, while her little sister has more imagination than she knows what to do with. To her surprise, when she thinks of Ramona's imaginary pet lizard, then notices a lollipop her classmate is eating, she is inspired to paint a dragon that breathes clouds of cotton candy and has lollipops for spines.
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Ramona Quimby / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Ramona Quimby / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Beezus and Ramona is the first to focus on those characters after they'd played a supporting role in the Henry Huggins books, and the only book written from Beezus' point of view.
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Ramona Quimby / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Ramona Quimby / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In Ramona and her Father Ramona remembers her mother making her a devil costume when she was younger. In Henry and the Clubhouse Ramona is dressed as a devil for Halloween, which Henry finds appropriate. In the same book, Mr. Quimby also mentions that Ramona once cut her hair because she wanted to be bald like her uncle, an incident from Henry and Beezus.
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Ramona Quimby / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Ramona Quimby / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: In Beezus and Ramona, Beezus feels guilty whenever she loses her temper with Ramona because she feels she ought to always love her sister, no matter what. Near the end, she confesses this to her mother and Aunt Beatrice, who assure her that Sibling Rivalry is perfectly normal.
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Ramona Quimby / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
Ramona Quimby / int_a55ab01e	comment	Jerkass Realization: Offscreen, Miss Binney has this when she sends Ramona home and the girl refuses to return for days on end, and Miss Binney didn't even give Ramona her baby tooth. It's unknown if Mrs. Quimby told Miss Binney about Ramona wanting her teacher to "forget about her" but the lady is no fool. She sends the tooth with a letter for Ramona asking her to come back. It's not exactly an apology, but it convinces Ramona to attend school.
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Ramona Quimby / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Ramona Quimby / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Beezus and Ramona, ascended from extras in the Henry Huggins series, and Ramona herself within her own book series starting with Ramona the Pest.
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Ramona Quimby / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Ramona Quimby / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Yard Ape's name is Daniel, but Ramona never uses it.
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Ramona Quimby / int_a922f8de	type	To Be Lawful or Good
Ramona Quimby / int_a922f8de	comment	To Be Lawful or Good: There are several instances where Ramona comes to realize that doing the right thing might mean getting in trouble. Should she help Davy, who's struggling with his writing, or "keep [her] eyes on [her] own paper" like the teacher said? When instructed to be quiet and stay in place during a wedding, should she point out where the missing wedding ring is that everyone's looking for, or just keep quiet like she was told to and therefore prolong the search?
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Ramona Quimby / int_ac9af088	type	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
Ramona Quimby / int_ac9af088	comment	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: A platonic example in Ramona Forever. After Beezus and Ramona have a fight that ends with Ramona calling Beezus "pizzaface" (which Beezus misunderstands as insulting her acne) and Beezus calling her a "hateful little creep", it takes the death of Picky Picky to bring them back together again.
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Ramona Quimby / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Ramona Quimby / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: How the eldest child in the Quimby family, Beatrice, came to be called Beezus: when Ramona was learning to talk, she couldn't pronounce "Beatrice" correctly, and the name stuck. In one of the books, an elderly neighbor lady always calls Ramona "Juanita", and Ramona is afraid to correct her for fear of being thought disrespectful.
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Ramona Quimby / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
Ramona Quimby / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: Beezus and Ramona are horrified to discover that the meat they were enjoying is actually tongue.
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Ramona Quimby / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Ramona Quimby / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Unsaid, but some of Ramona's first-grade classmates go out of their way to be nicer to her after the teacher forces her to apologize to Susan in front of the entire class for scrunching her owl.
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Ramona Quimby / int_b4c12a30	type	Teacher's Unfavorite Student
Ramona Quimby / int_b4c12a30	comment	Teacher's Unfavorite Student: In Ramona the Brave, Ramona is the unfavourite student to stern Mrs. Griggs, who is quick to punish her for perceived misbehavior. When Ramona helps her classmate Davy (who is dyslexic) with his work, Mrs. Griggs sees it as an inability to "keep her hands to herself". When Susan copies Ramona's paper-bag owl and Mrs. Griggs praises it, Ramona feels she can't tell Mrs. Griggs because the teacher's favorite refrain is "Nobody Likes a Tattletale," so she crumples her own owl and then Susan's out of frustration. Mrs. Griggs punishes Ramona for this by making her apologize to Susan in front of the whole class.
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Ramona Quimby / int_b4e143c7	type	Modesty Shorts
Ramona Quimby / int_b4e143c7	comment	Modesty Shorts: For fourth-grade picture day, Ramona puts on a pair of play shorts under her skirt.
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Ramona Quimby / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Ramona Quimby / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Ramona accidentally locks Ribsy into the bathroom while trying to punish him for stealing her cookie. Then she has to use the bathroom. Mrs. Quimby then takes her next door and learns from a neighbor how to unlock the door. Due to hardboiled eggs being a fad, Ramona asks her mother to put them in her lunch. One day, Ms. Quimby accidentally puts a raw egg in Ramona's lunch, and Ramona cracks it against her head because that's also the trend. As a result, she has to get her hair washed by the school secretary. According to Ramona, the letter Q written in cursive. It just looks like a sloppily written number 2.
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Ramona Quimby / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Ramona Quimby / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Henry Huggins, the protagonist of the previous series, barely gets any mention in the Ramona series.
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Ramona Quimby / int_ba253095	type	Baffled by Own Biology
Ramona Quimby / int_ba253095	comment	Baffled by Own Biology: In "Ramona Quimby, Age 8", Ramona gets stomach flu for the first time and is at first confused as to why things feel so "heavy" to her.
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Ramona Quimby / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Ramona Quimby / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Ramona's is when people find her amusing when she is trying to be serious. She also hates being called a "pest," and being told to grow up; for example, Beezus says this to her in Ramona The Brave, and Ramona screams, "CAN'T YOU SEE I'M TRYING!?" at the top of her lungs. Beezus's is her acne. Ramona triggered it inadvertently by calling her 'pizzaface'. Ramona just meant it as a variation on 'pieface', but Beezus took it as an insult at her acne and got extremely offended by it.
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Ramona Quimby / int_bd406737	type	Anxiety Dreams
Ramona Quimby / int_bd406737	comment	Anxiety Dreams: In Ramona The Brave, Ramona is having trouble adjusting to the first grade. She's also sleeping in her own room for the first time, which makes her afraid of the dark. She tells her mother about a nightmare where something horrible is chasing her and she can't run. Beezus comments that she's had the same dream and that it's awful.
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Ramona Quimby / int_bfed099b	type	Inconsistent Coloring
Ramona Quimby / int_bfed099b	comment	Inconsistent Coloring: Mr. and Mrs. Quimby have dark hair in the Alan Tiegreen illustrations, but light-colored hair in the Tracy Dockray illustrations. Which is rather odd, because all illustrations depict Ramona and Beezus with dark hair. The books never actually mention the parents' hair colors, though; just that Beezus and Ramona both have brown hair.
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Ramona Quimby / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Ramona Quimby / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: After refusing to eat the tongue that their mother made for one Saturday evening, on a day where Ramona was already angry at her mother for putting a raw egg in her lunch, the parents decide that the girls can try to cook dinner on Sunday to give Mrs. Quimby the night off. This is lampshaded by Beezus, and the girls resent that, so they try to get out of it by being on their best behavior. When that fails, they have to improvise with what's in the kitchen. They learn exactly what their mother deals with while trying to make a full meal while leaving a mess behind in the kitchen.
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Ramona Quimby / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Ramona Quimby / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: In Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Ramona's class's silent reading time is designated as DEAR, "Drop Everything and Read." Ramona prefers her teacher's original term for it, "Sustained Silent Reading," however, because it sounds more grown-up.
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Ramona Quimby / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Ramona Quimby / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Ramona's World is prone to this; Henry Huggins isn't so much as mentioned, even though he'd appeared in all the Ramona books previously and hadn't moved away or stopped being friends with Beezus or anything. Beezus's friend Mary Jane isn't mentioned at all either.
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Ramona Quimby / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Ramona Quimby / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: In Beezus and Ramona, the first chapter details that Beezus hopes to find another book to read to Ramona that doesn't have steam shovels in it at the library. Ramona ends up getting another book about steam shovels, though it is better than what they have at home, and she scribbles in it on the due date so that Beezus has to pay for the damage and they end up owning the book anyway. Subverted in Beezus and Ramona's last chapter. Ramona ruins Beezus's first birthday cake by tossing all the eggs into the batter and turning on the mixer "to see what would happen". To distract Ramona, Beezus reads Hansel and Gretel to her until the cake is in the oven, but makes the mistake of telling Ramona to pretend to be Gretel rather than Hansel when Ramona spills cracker crumbs all over the carpet. This leads to Ramona opening the oven and tossing her doll into the cake pan, which ruins the second cake. Fortunately, Mrs. Quimby thinks to call Aunt Beatrice to buy a cake, which averts the disaster. After getting laid off, Mr. Quimby spends a whole book trying to find a job, finally getting one as a cashier. Finally, the family can relax, right? Wrong. It turns out he hates his job and decides to go back to college while working part-time at an ice house. Then just as he gets a teaching degree for art, there are no teaching jobs in the city. He does manage to get a manager job, which is better than being a cashier.
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Ramona Quimby / int_c6c73b3b	type	Undesirable Prize
Ramona Quimby / int_c6c73b3b	comment	Undesirable Prize: In Mrs. Meacham's fourth grade class, students who spell all their words correctly are given "Reward Words" to work on, hard words that have up to three syllables. The narration comments that "Ramona did not feel rewarded."
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Ramona Quimby / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Ramona Quimby / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In Ramona and Her Mother, Beezus wants to get her hair cut "like that girl who ice skates on TV." Since the book was published in 1979, this is probably a reference to Dorothy Hamill, whose "wedge" haircut became a popular fashion trend in the late '70s. In Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Ramona is assigned to give a book report in which she pretends to be "selling" the book. She takes inspiration from two well-known TV commercials of the era (circa 1980) — for Purina Cat Chow (featuring dancing cats) and Alka-Seltzer ("I can't believe I ate the whole thing!"), although the products are not mentioned by name. She makes cat masks for herself and two friends who agree to dance and make cat noises while she gives the report. While giving the report, she goes blank and, unable to think of anything but the Alka-Seltzer spot, blurts out, "I can't believe I read the whole thing!" The corresponding episode of the 1988 TV series changed the Alka-Seltzer reference to one more familiar to '80s kids: "Mikey Likes It!" for Life cereal. It also averts the Bland-Name Product trope with regard to the cat food, as the Purina Cat Chow bag is clearly visible while Ramona watches the commercial.
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Ramona Quimby / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Ramona Quimby / int_c819533b	comment	Mrs. Kemp, Howie's grandmother. She has very little redeeming moments and keeps blaming Ramona for things that Willa Jean does, even though Willa Jean is her grandchild and thus her responsibility. The Rage Breaking Point is when Ramona cries at dinner when recounting getting blamed for Willa Jean breaking an accordion gift, and the Quimbys decide that Ramona can come straight home if Beezus watches her.
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Ramona Quimby / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Ramona Quimby / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: In Ramona the Pest, Susan's hair color is described as "reddish-brown" while in Ramona's World, it's described as blonde. This one could actually be justified, though, as it's possible her hair lightened in color as she grew older. In Ramona the Pest, Howie's mother mentions taking his older sister's temperature (and Howie later wears a Halloween costume that is stated to have originally belonged to said older sister), while in later books, Howie clearly doesn't have an older sister. Also in Ramona the Pest, one-year-old Willa Jean's hair is described as straight in contrast to her brother Howie's curly hair. But in Ramona and Her Mother, three-year-old Willa Jean's hair is said to be curly. Of course her hair might have still just been coming in when she was one. In Henry and the Clubhouse, Ramona is mentioned to be in kindergarten at the time and is shown to be friends with a classmate named Lisa. In Ramona the Pest (the Ramona-centric book about her kindergarten experiences) however, there is never any mention of a Lisa in Ramona's class. In Beezus and Ramona, Dorothy Quimby's maiden name is Haswell. By Ramona Forever, Dorothy and Bea's family name has been changed to Day. Beezus and Ramona also describes Bea as Dorothy's "favorite sister," implying that they have at least one other sister too, and in Henry and Beezus, Ramona tries to cut off all her hair so she can be bald like their Uncle Jack, which gets a Call-Back in Ramona and Her Father. But in Ramona Forever, the Quimby girls have no uncles or other aunts, "just Aunt Beatrice." Picky-picky the cat is said to be ten years old in Ramona the Brave. But when he dies in Ramona Forever, which takes place three years later, Ramona still writes his age as ten on the grave marker she makes for him. In Ramona Quimby, Age 8, it is stated that Ramona and her fellow third graders are the oldest kids at her new school. However, in Ramona's World she enters fourth grade at the same school. It's also explicitly stated that Ramona's teacher, Mrs. Meachem, has been teaching fourth grade there long enough to have had some of her current students' parents in her class (ruling out the possibility that the school just added a grade over the summer).
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Ramona Quimby / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
Ramona Quimby / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: In Beezus and Ramona, Beezus works hard to paint a picture of a pegasus against a blue sky. Her art teacher says, "You have a good sky even if it is a little wet." Beezus is disappointed, because anyone can paint a good sky.
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Ramona Quimby / int_ccde30d7	type	Arranged Friendship
Ramona Quimby / int_ccde30d7	comment	Arranged Friendship: Ramona's mother wants her to be friends with Susan, the snooty Teacher's Pet, because the Quimby parents and the Kushner parents are friends, and doesn't seem to understand that Ramona and Susan dislike each other. In Ramona's World, Ramona's mother makes her invite Susan to her birthday party despite her protests that Susan will ruin it. She gets proven right when Susan makes a big show of eating an apple instead of cake and says that birthday cake is covered in germs, which starts a small argument among the guests. However, after Daisy calls her out for being rude, Susan cries and reveals that she knows nobody likes her because she always has to be perfect all the time, which helps Ramona understand her better and is implied to set them on the path to becoming real friends. Ramona's friendship with Howie also starts out this way in the early books. In preschool and kindergarten, their opposite personalities make them prone to butting heads, but they have to spend time together because their mothers are friends. But in first grade, Howie introduces Ramona to the game of "brick factory", which they both enjoy. As a result, they bond and become genuine best friends, still slightly vitriolic at first, but less so as time goes on.
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Ramona Quimby / int_d07900bc	type	"Not Wearing Pants" Dream
Ramona Quimby / int_d07900bc	comment	"Not Wearing Pants" Dream: In Ramona The Brave, Beezus mentions a recurring dream where she's at school in her underwear and everyone is staring at her.
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Ramona Quimby / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Ramona Quimby / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Ramona yells "GUTS!" in Ramona the Brave when trying to curse. Not only is no one shocked, they actually think it's funny.
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Ramona Quimby / int_d3beb0de	type	Precocious Crush
Ramona Quimby / int_d3beb0de	comment	Precocious Crush: Beezus gets one on her sixth-grade teacher. Ramona ends up meeting him when she has to borrow a stapler, immediately takes a liking to him because he treats her like a real person, and decides she'd probably have one on him too if she were in his class. Ramona also briefly comes down with one on Henry Huggins in Ramona the Pest after she gets stuck in a mud puddle and Henry wades into it to rescue her new red boots. She even announces her intention to marry him. Luckily for him she doesn't remember about it long.
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Ramona Quimby / int_d3da7dd6	type	Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Ramona Quimby / int_d3da7dd6	comment	Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: Recited by Ramona after burying Picky-Picky. Beezus replies, "That's not right. You're not the one who's being buried." Ramona simply starts over with, "Now we lay Picky-Picky down to sleep..." Upon finishing the prayer, after Beezus points out that Picky-Picky won't "wake with the morning light" because he's dead, Ramona replies that since cats have nine lives, Picky-Picky will be reincarnated tomorrow as someone else's cat.
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Ramona Quimby / int_d6d26e96	type	Just a Kid
Ramona Quimby / int_d6d26e96	comment	Ramona's is when people find her amusing when she is trying to be serious. She also hates being called a "pest," and being told to grow up; for example, Beezus says this to her in Ramona The Brave, and Ramona screams, "CAN'T YOU SEE I'M TRYING!?" at the top of her lungs.
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Ramona Quimby / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Ramona Quimby / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Ramona's friendship with Howie also starts out this way in the early books. In preschool and kindergarten, their opposite personalities make them prone to butting heads, but they have to spend time together because their mothers are friends. But in first grade, Howie introduces Ramona to the game of "brick factory", which they both enjoy. As a result, they bond and become genuine best friends, still slightly vitriolic at first, but less so as time goes on.
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Ramona Quimby / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Ramona Quimby / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: The series is one, from Cleary's earlier Henry Huggins books.
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Ramona Quimby / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
Ramona Quimby / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Ramona and Beezus first appeared as side characters in Henry Huggins. It's surprising when you read Henry Huggins to see just how little Beezus and Ramona were in it. Beezus is just one of Henry's neighbourhood friends and she and Mary Jane are Those Two Guys (with Beezus as the tomboy and Mary Jane as the girly girl). Ramona is only mentioned a few times as Beezus's younger sister. Their roles were greatly expanded in Henry and Beezus and, of course, they eventually got their own series.
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Ramona Quimby / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Ramona Quimby / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: In Ramona the Brave Picky-Picky is stated to be ten years old, but in Ramona Forever, which takes place three years later, Ramona writes on his gravestone as though he were still ten years old despite the two intervening years.
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Ramona Quimby / int_db99b292	type	Mondegreen Gag
Ramona Quimby / int_db99b292	comment	Mondegreen Gag: In Ramona the Pest, which takes place when Ramona's in kindergarten, Ramona mistakes the lyrics "the dawn's early light" (in the Star-Spangled Banner) for "the dawnzer's lee light" and comes to the conclusion that "dawnzer" means "lamp". This leads to her trying to show off her knowledge ("why don't you turn on the dawnzer?"), to the befuddled reactions of her parents and sister. Ramona herself is also misunderstood by others in her kindergarten incarnation. "I'd like to make Q's." "Make use of what?" She then wonders what kind of grown-up doesn't know what the letter "Q" is. (The substitute, obviously, because substitutes are stupid — so Ramona thinks at that age.) Ramona Forever has a minor example, with Ramona referring to Saudi Arabia as "Gaudy Arabia."
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Ramona Quimby / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Ramona Quimby / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: A big part of Ramona's dislike for Willa Jean comes from the fact that no matter what kind of bratty things Willa Jean does, Mrs. Kemp always blames Ramona for them because she's older and "should have stopped her".
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Ramona Quimby / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Ramona Quimby / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Beezus and Henry being appointed to play as Mary and Joseph for a church play in Ramona and her Father may count. Especially with Beezus acting all shy to be playing Henry's partner, and Henry himself actually agreeing to the role, as Ramona expected him to be too busy to bother with such things. It never goes anywhere, though, since Henry has all but disappeared from the plot since.
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Ramona Quimby / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Ramona Quimby / int_e195807e	comment	Ramona also briefly comes down with one on Henry Huggins in Ramona the Pest after she gets stuck in a mud puddle and Henry wades into it to rescue her new red boots. She even announces her intention to marry him. Luckily for him she doesn't remember about it long.
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Ramona Quimby / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Ramona Quimby / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Ramona is once told to wait until "a quarter after seven" to walk to school. She thinks this means to leave at 7:25 (since a quarter is worth 25 cents) instead of 7:15, and ends up being late. In kindergarten Ramona's told to sit at a particular seat "for the present" which she thinks means a real wrapped gift. She struggles to remain sitting the entire day in anticipation for the supposed present and is justifiably upset when the teacher finally explains what she meant ("sit here for right now"), leaving Ramona feeling cheated. As noted under Lost Wedding Ring, Ramona finds the ring, but because she was told to sit still and be quiet, she has a moment of To Be Lawful or Good, wondering if she'd get in trouble for speaking up. In Beezus and Ramona, a neighbor lady spots the Quimby sisters out on a walk and, as a way of making conversation with Ramona, askes her what color her eyes are. Ramona promptly responds that they are "brown and white". Beezus notes that Ramona always answers that question that way and muses that in a way she can't really fault her- after all, Ramona is technically correct.
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Ramona Quimby / int_e3bd3475	type	Stock "Yuck!"
Ramona Quimby / int_e3bd3475	comment	Stock "Yuck!": Tongue. There's a scene where Ramona and Beezus are eating it and thinking it's pot roast (Mrs. Quimby had covered it in gravy), and once they realize what it is are horrified. Back in the days the Ramona series was written, tongue was widely available, a very cheap cut of beef, and kids of that era were actually subjected to it. (Today you're more likely to find it in ethnic markets and Mexican tacos del lingua than western grocery stores.)
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Ramona Quimby / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Ramona Quimby / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: When Mr. Quimby loses his job, the Quimby parents insist that he was not "fired" — since he did not lose his job for something he did wrong. They're justified in saying this, since it's the truth — he was laid off because the company he worked for was bought by a bigger one that let most of the old workers go.
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Ramona Quimby / int_e91a4fc9	type	Offscreen Romance
Ramona Quimby / int_e91a4fc9	comment	Offscreen Romance: One of the most significant plot threads in Ramona Forever was Aunt Bea's wedding to Uncle Hobart. Despite this, the couple had no visible interactions with each other until they announced their upcoming marriage, and the only hints the audience get that the two were together prior to this reveal was Bea's off-hand remark that she used to go to the same school as Hobart, and Howie telling Ramona that his uncle is dating a teacher.
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Ramona Quimby / int_eb37290b	type	Obvious Pregnancy
Ramona Quimby / int_eb37290b	comment	Obvious Pregnancy: In Ramona Forever, Beezus figures out that Mrs. Quimby is pregnant well before Mrs. Quimby announces this to the girls. Beezus notices that Mrs. Quimby has experienced Morning Sickness, that Aunt Beatrice is constantly asking how she's feeling, that she seems more tired than usual, and that her work uniform is starting to get tight at the waist.
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Ramona Quimby / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Ramona Quimby / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Mrs. Kemp, Howie's grandmother. She has very little redeeming moments and keeps blaming Ramona for things that Willa Jean does, even though Willa Jean is her grandchild and thus her responsibility. The Rage Breaking Point is when Ramona cries at dinner when recounting getting blamed for Willa Jean breaking an accordion gift, and the Quimbys decide that Ramona can come straight home if Beezus watches her. Ramona's first grade teacher, Mrs. Griggs, is easily the least likable of Ramona's teachers in the series. She constantly scolds the children. She is thoroughly unfair in her handling of the owl situation, not only failing to notice that Susan copied her owl from Ramona's owl, but humiliating Ramona by forcing her to apologize to Susan in front of the class. It doesn't help that Mrs. Griggs helped lay the groundwork for the situation by telling the class that "nobody likes a tattletale," which made Ramona feel discouraged from speaking up because she knew Mrs. Griggs would give her no help. When Ramona tries to discuss her problems with Mrs. Griggs with her family, Beezus admits that she didn't like Mrs. Griggs either when she was Beezus's first grade teacher, hinting that Mrs. Griggs displayed a degree of favoritism towards students that didn't rock the boat.
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Ramona Quimby / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Ramona Quimby / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Appears to have been averted. In Beezus and Ramona, there is a girl named Susan at Ramona's party. In Ramona the Pest, Susan Kushner is introduced, and given that the book and Ramona act like this is the first time they've met, she might not be the same Susan. Both Ramona's father and the man who runs the hair salon Beezus goes to in Ramona and her Mother are named Robert. Ramona's kindergarten and first grade classes host an Eric J. and Eric R. They disappear by the time Ramona is in second grade, so maybe they were placed in different classes to prevent confusion.
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Ramona Quimby / int_f03aae7f	type	Your Other Left
Ramona Quimby / int_f03aae7f	comment	Your Other Left: "Do I turn left?"/"Right" happens in Ramona and Her Mother, when Beezus is giving her mother directions to get to the hairstylist's.
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Ramona Quimby / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Ramona Quimby / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: Ramona feels upset that no one told her about Aunt Bea marrying Howie's uncle, and Beezus admits she feels the same way.
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Ramona Quimby / int_f4a0408f	type	Wake-Up Call Boss
Ramona Quimby / int_f4a0408f	comment	Wake-Up Call Boss: While Ramona, like any other child, feels that grown-ups are often unfair in their rules because she doesn't understand why those rules are in place, her first-grade teacher Mrs. Griggs represents Ramona's first realization that some authority figures are genuinely unfair and that life in itself isn't always fair. Mrs. Griggs is also the first time in her life that Ramona has had to deal with a stern and coldly indifferent authority figure, in contrast to the warm understanding of her parents and her kindergarten teacher Miss Binney. Her parents are sympathetic enough to her complaints about Mrs. Griggs to question Beezus about her experiences with the teacher, but point out to Ramona that many of Mrs. Griggs's observations are fair ones (with regards to Ramona's problems with self-control). They also point out that part of growing up is learning how to deal constructively with people you do not get along with. This proves to be a turning point for Ramona, as she takes her parents' advice to heart and develops much better self-control in school.
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Ramona Quimby / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
Ramona Quimby / int_f627b434	comment	Howie is introduced in Beezus and Ramona as a boy who frequently quarrels with Ramona, and from Ramona's perspective in Ramona the Pest, they're not really friends by choice, but have to tolerate each other because their mothers are friends. But in first grade they bond over Howie's game of "brick factory," and they become genuine best friends from that point on. In third and fourth grade they grow apart slightly, as Ramona stops going to Howie's house after school and as they both start spending more time with friends of their own genders, but they still stay friends, particularly since Howieâ€™s uncle and Ramonaâ€™s aunt get married, making the two children cousins-in-law.
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Ramona Quimby / int_f897011d	type	You Were Trying Too Hard
Ramona Quimby / int_f897011d	comment	You Were Trying Too Hard: Beezus struggles with being creative in art class and doesn't like how her paintings come out. Her teacher guesses that her problem is that she tries to be too neat, and encourages her to not worry too much and just have fun with her paintings.
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Ramona Quimby / int_f8ffd45	type	Pictorial Letter Substitution
Ramona Quimby / int_f8ffd45	comment	Pictorial Letter Substitution: Whenever Ramona signs her name, she draws cat ears and whiskers on the "Q" to stick out. Also, when she writes "book" for spelling class, she draws frowny faces in the "O"s out of boredom.
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Ramona Quimby / int_f9c3ecc6	type	Series Fauxnale
Ramona Quimby / int_f9c3ecc6	comment	Series Fauxnale: Ramona Forever ends with the birth of a new Quimby sister and with Ramona reflecting on all the types of misadventures she's had throughout the series, concluding that "She was winning at growing up." For fifteen years it was the last book of the series and it works well as such, but it was eventually followed up by Ramona's World.
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Ramona Quimby / int_fa0b1b7f	type	Food and Body Comparison
Ramona Quimby / int_fa0b1b7f	comment	Food and Body Comparison: Ramona hurls out an insult she'd heard on the playground without knowing what it meant at her sister Beezus: Pizza Face. Unfortunately, Beezus does know what it means, and feels horribly betrayed by her little sister for believing she was poking at her insecurities regarding her acne. The two reconcile later, as Ramona recognized that Beezus was highly upset, and explained that she didn't know what it meant when she said it, which Beezus accepts.
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Ramona Quimby / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Ramona Quimby / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Beezus and Ramona contains the sentence "With grey thread, Beezus carefully outlined the steam coming from the teakettle's spout and thought about her pretty young aunt, who was always so gay and understanding." Although this was published in the mid-50s, gay as in "homosexual" and not "happy" started to catch on during that time.
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Ramona Quimby / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Ramona Quimby / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: Naturally, since most of the main characters aren't even in their teens. Ramona herself is a proud offender:
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Ramona Quimby / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Ramona Quimby / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Yard Ape has two moments in Ramona Quimby Age 8. After the fiasco where Ramona accidentally cracks a raw egg over her head, and Mrs. Whaley calls her a showoff and says, "What a nuisance!" Ramona is in Heroic BSoD drying her hair in the principal's office. Yard Ape then comes to get her, doesn't make fun of her, and says not to worry about "Old Whaley". He also starts calling her "Egg Head," which is slang for a smart person, and then makes up his own get well card when she gets sick that says, "Dear Superfoot, get well or I'll eat your eraser."
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Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Offscreen Romance / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	One-Note Cook / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Ordered Apology / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Parental Title Characterization / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Passing Notes in Class / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Pictorial Letter Substitution / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Playing a Tree / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Poke the Poodle / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Poverty Food / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Prone to Vomiting / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Realistic Fiction / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Redundant Parody / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Relationship Compression / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Reverse Psychology / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	School Play / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Secret Message Wink / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Series Fauxnale / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Shaking the Rump / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Show-and-Tell Antics / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Sick Episode / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Somethingitis / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Stock "Yuck!" / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Sudden Name Change / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Sunday is Boring / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Teacher's Unfavorite Student / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	The Problem with Pen Island / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	The Runaway / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Theme Twin Naming / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Three-Month-Old Newborn / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Tin-Can Telephone / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Trojan Veggies / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Unreliable Illustrator / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Unspoken Retort / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Express Lane Limit / int_cf7739d0
Ramona Quimby	hasFeature	Floorboard Failure / int_cf7739d0

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