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'''The series in general'''





* Also in the first book, it's mentioned that when the Fredriksson sisters' father celebrated 50 years as a builder, ''207'' of his ''closest'' friends raised money to afford his present, the gold trophy "Jubelkalle".

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\n\n* Also Virtually all conversations between Omar, whose politeness causes him to speak overtly lengthy about the most trivial things, and other characters (particularly impatient ones or those who are not used to his speaking).
* Another major source of comedy
in the first book, it's books is the usage of overtly detailed expositions of trivial things (see below).

'''Ture Sventon, Privatdetektiv'''

* It is
mentioned that when the Fredriksson sisters' father celebrated 50 years as a builder, ''207'' of his ''closest'' friends raised money to afford his present, the gold trophy "Jubelkalle".

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* The ComicallyMissingThePoint moments (the following are only examples, listing all would require an entire page);

** In the first book, when Miss Jansson ask the Oldest Fredriksson sister what her name is, she is so tired and sunstroke that she accidentally confuses her name with the Weasels. Miss Jansson, confused, tells Sventon that a "Miss Fredriksson-Weasel" wants him to help her.
** In the third book, while Lord Hubbard visits Sventon to explain why he needs help, he makes an extract where he laments that "The good old kind of Butlers" has vanished. Sventon subsequently writes in his notebook that "a good old butler has been lost".

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* The ComicallyMissingThePoint moments (the following are only examples, listing all would require an entire page);

** In the first book, when Miss Jansson ask the Oldest Fredriksson sister what her name is, she is so tired and sunstroke that she accidentally confuses her name with the Weasels. Miss Jansson, confused, tells Sventon that a "Miss Fredriksson-Weasel" wants him to help her.
** In the third book, while Lord Hubbard visits Sventon to explain why he needs help, he makes an extract where he laments that "The good old kind of Butlers"
has vanished. Sventon subsequently writes in his notebook that "a good old butler has been lost".
[[ComicallyMissingThePoint/TamSventon Its own page]].

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The Sventon books relies heavily on a very distinctive and, for a Children's book series, somewhat esoteric sense of humor (for instance, many of the puns are hard to translate outside Sweden). If you appreciate that kind of humor, however, you will have some ''hilarious reading'' to look forward to;

* The ComicallyMissingThePoint moments;

** In the first book, when Miss Jansson ask the Oldest Fredriksson sister what her name is, she is too tired and sunstroke that she accidentally confuses her name with the Weasels.

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The Sventon books relies heavily on a very distinctive and, for a Children's book series, somewhat esoteric sense of humor (for instance, many of the puns are hard to translate outside Sweden). If you appreciate that kind of humor, however, you will have some ''hilarious reading'' ''hilarious'' reading to look forward to;

* The ComicallyMissingThePoint moments;

moments (the following are only examples, listing all would require an entire page);

** In the first book, when Miss Jansson ask the Oldest Fredriksson sister what her name is, she is too so tired and sunstroke that she accidentally confuses her name with the Weasels.Weasels. Miss Jansson, confused, tells Sventon that a "Miss Fredriksson-Weasel" wants him to help her.
** In the third book, while Lord Hubbard visits Sventon to explain why he needs help, he makes an extract where he laments that "The good old kind of Butlers" has vanished. Sventon subsequently writes in his notebook that "a good old butler has been lost".

*Also in the first book, it's mentioned that when the Fredriksson sisters' father celebrated 50 years as a builder, ''207'' of his ''closest'' friends raised money to afford his present, the gold trophy "Jubelkalle".

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Hoo Boy, The Sventon books relies so heavily on the humor that it is hard to decide what to begin with!

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Hoo Boy, The Sventon books relies so heavily on the a very distinctive and, for a Children's book series, somewhat esoteric sense of humor that it is (for instance, many of the puns are hard to decide translate outside Sweden). If you appreciate that kind of humor, however, you will have some ''hilarious reading'' to look forward to;

*The ComicallyMissingThePoint moments;

**In the first book, when Miss Jansson ask the Oldest Fredriksson sister
what to begin with!her name is, she is too tired and sunstroke that she accidentally confuses her name with the Weasels.
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Hoo Boy, The Sventon books relies so heavily on the humor that it is hard to decide what to begin with!

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