History: Funny / TheHardyBoys

* In the earliest books, Chet Morton was often portrayed as an irrepressible prankster, and often the books would have a chapter concerning one of his pranks as filler material or to help the plot (IE: in "Tower Treasure", to prevent the bumbling police detective Oscar Smuff from ruining Fenton Hardy's interrogation of a dying criminal, [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Chet comes up with an idea to make a fake "bomb" by putting an alarm clock in a box and hiding it under a fruit stand, and has another boy find it under there. The proprietor alerts Chief Collig and Detective Smuff, causing a major fuss and thusly making the policemen miss their train]]). Sometimes it could come off as being a bit douchey.
* After being set up with fake credit cards planted in their van and interrogated by Chief Collig, he dismisses them easily, but in a gruff manner. And then Joe asks:
-->''Are we still friends?''
* The always-stoic Gray Man once treated the boys to a meal, and he complains that they almost ran his paycheck dry with the bill.

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