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The Butter Battle Book

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The Butter Battle Book	label	The Butter Battle Book
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The Butter Battle Book	comment	The Butter Battle Book is a 1984 children's book by Dr. Seuss and undoubtedly his darkest.Written during (and intended to reflect directly on) the Cold War, it tells the story of an arms race between the Yooks and the Zooks, whose villages are divided by a wall all because they can't agree on which side of their bread to butter, leading up to what is all but stated to be a Mutually Assured Destruction.Ralph Bakshi gave the book an Animated Adaptation in 1989, the last to be produced during Dr. Seuss' lifetime. Seuss regarded it as the best adaptation of any of his works. Netflix's Green Eggs and Ham: The Second Serving also takes heavy inspiration from the book, being a spy thriller focused on the Yook and Zook War (fought over, as you may have guessed, which side of their bread to spread butter on)- though none of the cast of the book appear and, unlike the book the war ultimately ends peacefully and no one is harmed.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Butter Battle Book / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: As far as Dr. Seuss books go, this is his darkest children's book. Not only does it deal with (a parody of) the Cold War and the idea of the atom bomb, but it also doesn't have a happy ending. Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation makes the whole thing even darker, adding an unsettling sequence showing the scientists making the bomb during an eerie musical number.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Butter Battle Book / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: As mentioned above, the book is a very straightforward allegory for the Cold War, with the Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo being a stand-in for the atomic bomb.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_21af4dc3	type	Heroic Dog
The Butter Battle Book / int_21af4dc3	comment	Heroic Dog: Daniel, the nation's first gun-toting spaniel who is trained to carry and apparently also fire the Kickapoo Kid.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Butter Battle Book / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: It's as whimsical and silly as any standard Seuss cartoon, but has a more satirical message, and closes with the assumption that both sides will completely eradicate each other in what is all but stated to be a cartoon variant of nuclear warfare.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
The Butter Battle Book / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title: The Butter Battle Book.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
The Butter Battle Book / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: We never find out if anybody drops the bomb.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
The Butter Battle Book / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The animated adaptation keeps the word "book" in the title, despite obviously not being one.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_2c06d796	type	A Lizard Named "Liz"
The Butter Battle Book / int_2c06d796	comment	A Lizard Named "Liz": There's a spaniel named Daniel.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_2cd6b637	type	Fantastic Nuke
The Butter Battle Book / int_2cd6b637	comment	Fantastic Nuke: The "Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo" is described as a "globbing, throbbing gumdrop" that will "blow those blasted Zooks away to Never Neverland."
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The Butter Battle Book / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Butter Battle Book / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: The Yooks' Bright Boys dance ballet, measure Grandpa in a very eccentric way, and use a lot of technobabble in their song about the Bitsy Big Boy Boomeroo.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_366dfa01	type	Silly Reason for War
The Butter Battle Book / int_366dfa01	comment	Silly Reason for War: The trope's poster boy— a war over bread and butter.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_3b358c4d	type	Bird People
The Butter Battle Book / int_3b358c4d	comment	Bird People: Both the Yooks and Zooks have curved bird-like beaks.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
The Butter Battle Book / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: A story set in silly Dr. Seuss drawn world with Bird People going to war over how to serve breakfast, and it ends with them getting ready to blow each other up.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_433cee4c	type	Tricked to Death
The Butter Battle Book / int_433cee4c	comment	Tricked to Death: Grandpa and Van Itch are sent on an obvious suicide mission to drop bombs on the other town, with neither of them considering that the blast will kill them too.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
The Butter Battle Book / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: Van Itch talks like an Evil Brit.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Butter Battle Book / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: While it ends just before the ugly part happens, a happy ending is pretty much out of the question. Either side dropping the bean will almost certainly destroy both sides if they work as advertised, since the dividing wall goes right through the middle of the territory and they're threatening to drop it right off the wall itself (the animated version heavily implies that the leaders know this and are setting the protagonist up, which is why all but one member of each side are currently hiding in underground bunkers). Even if that wasn't the case, it still comes down to one side dropping theirs and eradicating the other or both sides dropping at the same time and eradicating everyone. However, nobody dropping the bomb is also an option, since that's what happened at the end of the real Cold War that the book is based on.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_534bc834	type	Escalating War
The Butter Battle Book / int_534bc834	comment	Escalating War: Throughout the story, the Zooks and the Yooks engage in what is essentially a pissing contest to see who can make the biggest weapon until both of them have what is all but stated to be a nuclear bomb. And tying in with the Cold War allegory, neither side ever takes a shot (save for Van Itch slingshotting the Yook protagonist's first weapon).
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The Butter Battle Book / int_53ecf83f	type	Lensman Arms Race
The Butter Battle Book / int_53ecf83f	comment	Lensman Arms Race: The plot, basically. Van Itch breaks the protagonist's initial weapon, leading the Yooks building new weapons while the Zooks build bigger weapons of their own. This culiminates in them each building their own Weapon of Mass Destruction to wipe each other out.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_55554032	type	Irrational Hatred
The Butter Battle Book / int_55554032	comment	Irrational Hatred: The Yooks hate the Zooks for eating their bread butter-side-down, while the Zooks hate the Yooks for eating their bread butter-side-up. In fact, they hate each other so much over this one silly little thing that they end up going to war over it.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_5a852047	type	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
The Butter Battle Book / int_5a852047	comment	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification: The Ralph Bakshi TV adaptation is a Near Identical Adaptation. It follows the art style, story and tone of the book to the letter, but also sandwiches in some new stuff.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Butter Battle Book / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The entire conflict is about whether bread should be eaten butter-side up or butter-side down, which is all rather silly.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Butter Battle Book / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Bitsy Big Boy" is clearly a nod to the code names of the two real-life nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki— "Fat Man" and "Little Boy".
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The Butter Battle Book / int_6fb7cf97	type	Bigger Stick
The Butter Battle Book / int_6fb7cf97	comment	Bigger Stick: Each side counters the other's weapons with bigger, more powerful weapons, until they both build an equally powerful weapon that could destroy them all at once.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Butter Battle Book / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: The reason for the No Ending. As an allegory for the Cold War, it wasn't clear to anyone at the time whether the "Yooks" or the "Zooks" were going to drop their "Bitsy" or not.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_7a17d1ca	type	Eagleland
The Butter Battle Book / int_7a17d1ca	comment	Eagle Land: Yook sounds very similar to Yank, Grandpa wears a blue and yellow uniform similar to the modern US Army's dress blues, and the Yooks believe in watching and containing the rival superpower.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_7ac5c1de	type	Unishment
The Butter Battle Book / int_7ac5c1de	comment	Unishment: Every time Grandpa fails to defeat the Zooks, he is rewarded with a promotion and a more powerful weapon.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
The Butter Battle Book / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: The last scene. Grandpa Yook and Van Itch are both ready to drop their bombs and destroy the opposing town, which is no doubt going to kill them as well. Then the story stops.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Butter Battle Book / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In the final act Grandpa is being Tricked to Death when he is given a nuclear weapon by his leader and ordered to carry out what is clearly a Suicide Attack.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Butter Battle Book / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Van Itch has a Slasher Smile while gleefully talking about blowing every last Yook into small smithereens.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_98ce3773	type	Cerebus Rollercoaster
The Butter Battle Book / int_98ce3773	comment	Cerebus Rollercoaster: The Silly Reason for War comes as pretty funny at first when all it consists of is building silly and increasingly silly weapons, until it's taken to its logical conclusion with both sides building the equalivent of nuclear bombs.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
The Butter Battle Book / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: The name Van Itch sounds very similar to the stereotypical Russian surname Ivanovitch. The Zooks also dress in orange, to contrast with the blue Yooks.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
The Butter Battle Book / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Grandpa seems to be the only combat soldier in the Yook army. The few other personnel are Mildly Military, and spend most of the time playing musical instruments and marching in parades.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_aa87556f	type	Orange/Blue Contrast
The Butter Battle Book / int_aa87556f	comment	Orange/Blue Contrast: The Yooks wear blue and the Zooks wear orange. The cover is also mostly orange except for the Yooks' flags which are blue.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
The Butter Battle Book / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: Both Grandpa and Van Itch have been promoted to general by the time the Yooks and the Zooks have the bomb.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
The Butter Battle Book / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: The nuclear bomb developed is called the "Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo".
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The Butter Battle Book / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Butter Battle Book / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The Yooks' national anthem is a savage parody of two American patriotic songs: Over There, and the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_b6e465a2	type	Universe Chronology
The Butter Battle Book / int_b6e465a2	comment	Universe Chronology: A confusing one, as at first it seemed like the events were being told by the Yook in flashback framing to his grandson, but then it somehow started happening in the present where the grandson is present. It sort of justifies itself as it contributes to the ambiguity of the ending whereas if it had been a flashback, it would've been a Foregone Conclusion that neither side dropped the bomb.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
The Butter Battle Book / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Grandpa is a Sociopathic Soldier who is eager to devastate his enemies with weapons of mass destruction because he has been taught that Utopia Justifies the Means. Van Itch arms himself with larger and more destructive weapons for the same reason.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_bb3e2c6a	type	Cute as a Bouncing Betty
The Butter Battle Book / int_bb3e2c6a	comment	Cute as a Bouncing Betty: The name "Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo" sounds humorous, but it's also a ridiculously potent explosive. The name was picked as a reference to real-life nukes with similar names.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
The Butter Battle Book / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: The animated special (which, like the book, uses a Berlin Wall expy) aired four days after the real Berlin Wall fell.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
The Butter Battle Book / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Van Itch's uniforms are similar to those of Napoleon's army.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_c18d469b	type	Mutually Assured Destruction
The Butter Battle Book / int_c18d469b	comment	Mutually Assured Destruction: The ending leaves open the possibility that, since both sides realize dropping their Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo will doom their own side as well as the other side, they just might choose to put off dropping it indefinitely. And that's about the most optimistic interpretation of the ending.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Butter Battle Book / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The war on buttered bread is borrowed from Gulliver's Travels, which revolved around a different battle over breakfast (though in that case, it was which end of the egg to crack, as an allegory for the Catholic-Protestant divide).
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The Butter Battle Book / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
The Butter Battle Book / int_e6f18344	comment	Humongous Mecha: The Utterly Sputter, which looks pretty much exactly how you would expect a mecha designed by Dr. Seuss to look. It sprays "blue goo" on the Zooks. Then it turns out the Zooks made one too...
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The Butter Battle Book / int_e7db27c7	type	Sympathetic P.O.V.
The Butter Battle Book / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: Though the message concerns both sides' equally Silly Reason for War, the focus is on the Grandpa Yook who is matched time and time again by his Zook rival and sent slinking back to base. He also comes off as visibly more shaken by their final plan than the Zook counterpart. The very last scene of the animation has the Grandpa Yook visibly hesitating and panicking over who would drop their bomb first, while Van Itch looks smugly and totally unfettered.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
The Butter Battle Book / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Yooks eat their bread butter side up, and are horrified that the Zooks eat theirs butter side down. The two peoples' clothes are even blue and orange.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
The Butter Battle Book / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Both the animated special and the book just stop during the most chilling moment when both the Yook and Zook are waiting to see who will drop the bomb first. It makes the whole thing much more powerful and allows children to think and make up their own minds about the whole conflict. In his official biography, Geisel stated that he was inspired by "The Lady, or the Tiger?", which also ends without telling the reader the resolution.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_ea314e84	type	Ode to Food
The Butter Battle Book / int_ea314e84	comment	Ode to Food: Several songs about bread and butter feature in the animated adaptation.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_f7ad74ce	type	Ridiculously Potent Explosive
The Butter Battle Book / int_f7ad74ce	comment	Ridiculously Potent Explosive: The Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo is the size of a bean and can be carried by an old man in his hand with no difficulty. It is also advertised by the people who developed it as the mightiest weapon of mass destruction ever made, guaranteed to vaporize the entirety of the enemy side no matter how thorough their defenses.
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The Butter Battle Book / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Butter Battle Book / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Guns that shoot cherry-stone pits and powerful poo-a-doo powder may sound whimsical, but Dr Seuss was in the army during the last war. He knew that bird excrement is used to make nitrates, and the kernels of cherry stones are an ingredient for the Deadly Gas hydrogen cyanide.
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