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''Cheaper By the Dozen'' (1948), written by Frank Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, is the hysterical tale of the Gilbreth family - Dad, a 'motion study' engineer who always believed in bringing his work ideas home; Mother, a calm psychologist; and their dozen children: Anne, Mary, Ernestine, Martha, Frank, Bill, Lill, Fred, Dan, Jack, Bob, and Jane. The book details the events which occurred during the childhood of the titular dozen, up until the point that their father passed away.
It was followed up by ''Belles on Their Toes'', which chronicled the adventures of the family as they are raised by widow Lillian Moller Gilbreth.
It was followed up by ''Belles on Their Toes'', which chronicled the adventures of the family as they are raised by widow Lillian Moller Gilbreth.
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''Cheaper By the Dozen'' (1948), written by Frank Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, is the hysterical tale of the Gilbreth family - Dad, a 'motion study' engineer who always believed in bringing his work ideas home; Mother, a calm psychologist; and their dozen children: Anne, Mary, Ernestine, Martha, Frank, Bill, Lill, Fred, Dan, Jack, Bob, and Jane. The book book, set in 1920s New Jersey, details the events which occurred during the childhood of the titular dozen, up until the point that their father passed away.
It was followed up by ''Belles on Their Toes'', which chronicled the adventures of the family as they are raised by widow Lillian MollerGilbreth.
Gilbreth. The two books were adapted to film in 1950 and 1952, respectively; an InNameOnly film was [[Film/CheaperByTheDozen released in 2003]].
It was followed up by ''Belles on Their Toes'', which chronicled the adventures of the family as they are raised by widow Lillian Moller
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* AnnoyingYoungerSiblingAnnoyingYoungerSibling: The younger Gilbreths, jealous of the way their older sisters' boyfriends were affecting family dynamics, took it upon themselves to make them uncomfortable.
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* FakeNationality: The book claims that "Dad could take one look at a man and know his nationality," and he uses this ability to pass off his kids as the same in order to get discounts.
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* FakeNationality: InUniverse. The book claims that "Dad could take one look at a man and know his nationality," and he uses this ability to pass off his kids as the same in order to get discounts.
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* DinnerAndAShowDinnerAndAShow: The Gilbreths' oddity continued at dinner with such things as the "of general interest" rule for conversation.
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* DisgustingPublicToilet: Dad and Mother think all public bathrooms are this, hence their habit of taking the kids to the woods.
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* EducationMama: Dad is obsessed with making everything educational, via methods like having the kids listen to language records in the bath, and there's a whole chapter called "Skipping through School" about his efforts to have them skip as many grades as possible.
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* EducationMama: Dad is obsessed with making everything educational, via methods like having the kids listen to language records in the bath, and there's a whole chapter called "Skipping through School" about his efforts to have them skip [[GradeSkipper skip]] as many grades as possible.
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->''[[HarmonyVersusDiscipline For Dad, who only reared twelve children, and Mother, who reared twelve only children.]]''
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''Cheaper By theDozen", Dozen'' (1948), written by Frank Gilbreth Jr. Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreath Gilbreth Carey, is the hysterical tale of the Gilbreth family - Dad, a 'motion study' engineer who always believed in bringing his work ideas home; Mother, a calm psychologist, psychologist; and their dozen children. children: Anne, Mary, Ernestine, Martha, Frank, Bill, Lill, Fred, Dan, Jack, Bob, and Jane. The book details the events which occurred during the childhood of the titular dozen, up until the point that their father passed away.
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* TheAllegedCar: The family Pierce-Arrow, which never starts for anyone but Dad.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: A few episodes address the kids' being embarrassed by having famous parents, especially when they themselves are dragged into Dad's doings, such as the newsreel about burying old-fashioned pencils to make way for mechanical ones, which the children [[NeverLiveItDown never hear the end of at school]]. Other times the whole family falls victim to an inaccurate portrayal in the press.
* AmbiguousSyntax:
-->"But if you're going to be a bricklayer's helper," she said, "for mercy sakes be a good bricklayer's helper."\\
"I'll do my best to find a good bricklayer to help," Dad grinned.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Aunt Anne. Mother herself ends up in this state after taking all the children to visit her family in California while Dad is in Washington helping with the war effort. Everyone gets whooping cough on the way home.
-->"I can't tell you how much I enjoyed seeing the dear folks. But next time you take the children out West, and I'll go to war."
* BigFun: Dad
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* TheAllegedCar: The family Pierce-Arrow, which never starts for anyone but Dad.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: A few episodes address the kids' being embarrassed by having famous parents, especially when they themselves are dragged into Dad's doings, such as the newsreel about burying old-fashioned pencils to make way for mechanical ones, which the children [[NeverLiveItDown never hear the end of at school]]. Other times the whole family falls victim to an inaccurate portrayal in the press.
* AmbiguousSyntax:
-->"But if you're going to be a bricklayer's helper," she said, "for mercy sakes be a good bricklayer's helper."\\
"I'll do my best to find a good bricklayer to help," Dad grinned.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Aunt Anne. Mother herself ends up in this state after taking all the children to visit her family in California while Dad is in Washington helping with the war effort. Everyone gets whooping cough on the way home.
-->"I can't tell you how much I enjoyed seeing the dear folks. But next time you take the children out West, and I'll go to war."
* BigFun: Dad
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* ClockKing[=/=]AwesomeByAnalysis: This is the gist of the field of motion study and is the major driving force of Dad's character. There's a fastest, best, right way to do everything, and when you've found it, the world will be a better place. The mistake would be in thinking that obsessing over efficiency would necessarily mean a [[MeasuringTheMarigolds joyless existence]]. See the last lines of the book:
-->Someone once asked Dad: "But what do you want to save time ''for''? What are you going to do with it?"\\
"For work, if you love that best," said Dad. "For education, for beauty, for art, for pleasure." He looked over the top of his [[HighClassGlass pince-nez]]. "For mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies."
* DeadpanSnarker: Mainly Dad, but it clearly runs in the family (leading to SnarkToSnarkCombat). Bill and Martha are probably the leading examples among the children. Even Tom the handyman is a ServileSnarker.
-->Someone once asked Dad: "But what do you want to save time ''for''? What are you going to do with it?"\\
"For work, if you love that best," said Dad. "For education, for beauty, for art, for pleasure." He looked over the top of his [[HighClassGlass pince-nez]]. "For mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies."
* DeadpanSnarker: Mainly Dad, but it clearly runs in the family (leading to SnarkToSnarkCombat). Bill and Martha are probably the leading examples among the children. Even Tom the handyman is a ServileSnarker.
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* EveryoneKnowsMorse: One of Dad's projects included teaching his children Morse code by painting it on the walls.
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* EveryoneKnowsMorse: One of Dad's projects included teaching EducationMama: Dad is obsessed with making everything educational, via methods like having the kids listen to language records in the bath, and there's a whole chapter called "Skipping through School" about his efforts to have them skip as many grades as possible.
* ElephantInTheRoom: Mary, the second Gilbreth child, sadly died at the age of five and thus is missing from most of the book; she's only mentioned in the chapter that covers all of the kids' births. (Her death also means that there were never actually twelve childrenMorse code by painting it on in the walls. household at once.)
* FakeNationality: The book claims that "Dad could take one look at a man and know his nationality," and he uses this ability to pass off his kids as the same in order to get discounts.
* GoodParents
* HappilyMarried: Frank, Sr., and Lillian clearly had an awesome and very egalitarian marriage.
* HypocriticalHumor: Dad, frequently. For instance, after filming the aforementioned newsreel, he makes the kids dig up the casket full of pencils, because surely they don't think he'd let them go to waste?
* LemonyNarrator
* ElephantInTheRoom: Mary, the second Gilbreth child, sadly died at the age of five and thus is missing from most of the book; she's only mentioned in the chapter that covers all of the kids' births. (Her death also means that there were never actually twelve children
* FakeNationality: The book claims that "Dad could take one look at a man and know his nationality," and he uses this ability to pass off his kids as the same in order to get discounts.
* GoodParents
* HappilyMarried: Frank, Sr., and Lillian clearly had an awesome and very egalitarian marriage.
* HypocriticalHumor: Dad, frequently. For instance, after filming the aforementioned newsreel, he makes the kids dig up the casket full of pencils, because surely they don't think he'd let them go to waste?
* LemonyNarrator
* MistakenForGay: When one of the boys is accidentally left behind in a restaurant:
-->A pretty young lady, looking for business, was drinking a highball in the second booth. Dad peered in, flustered.\\
"Hello, Pops," she said. "Don't be bashful. Are you looking for a naughty little girl?"\\
Dad was caught off guard.\\
"Goodness, no," he stammered, with all of his ordinary poise shattered. "I'm looking for a naughty little boy."\\
"Whoops, dearie," she said. "Pardon ''me''."
-->A pretty young lady, looking for business, was drinking a highball in the second booth. Dad peered in, flustered.\\
"Hello, Pops," she said. "Don't be bashful. Are you looking for a naughty little girl?"\\
Dad was caught off guard.\\
"Goodness, no," he stammered, with all of his ordinary poise shattered. "I'm looking for a naughty little boy."\\
"Whoops, dearie," she said. "Pardon ''me''."
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* OldTimeyBathingSuit: Mother. Justified, because this story takes place in the 1920s.
* OnlyICanMakeItGo: the car, Foolish Carriage, would not start for anyone outside the family.
* OnlyICanMakeItGo: the car, Foolish Carriage, would not start for anyone outside the family.
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* MotherNatureFatherScience: Mother the psychologist and father the efficiency expert. Both apply their respective fields in raising a huge family, and both know that their attitudes complement each other.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter
* OldTimeyBathingSuit:Mother. Justified, because this story takes place in Mother wears a bathing suit that's considered old-fashioned even for the 1920s.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Dad's struggles with swearing are a running theme. Officially, he stopped swearing when he got married, but there seem to have been many exceptions.
--> "Jesus Christ," he screamed, as if he had been saving this oath since his wedding day for just such an occasion.
* TheRoaringTwenties: Towards the end of the book.
* SelfMadeMan: When Dad is courting Mother and first meets her parents, they're having a fireplace put in, and Dad announces in the bricklayer's hearing that he thinks laying brick must be an easy job. The incensed bricklayer invites him to try it, and he gets to show off his skill. Later, when Mother explains to the children that this was Dad's way of demonstrating that he was a SelfMadeMan, he gets indignant:
-->"Trying to tell them nothing," Dad shouted. "Anybody who knows anything about New England knows that the Bunkers and the Gilbreths, or Galbraiths, descend through Governor Bradford right to the ''Mayflower''. I wasn't trying to tell them anything."\\
"What did you lay the brick for then?" we insisted.\\
"When some people walk into a parlor," Dad said, "they like to sit down at the piano and impress people by playing Bach. When I walk into a parlor, I like to lay brick, that's all."
* SharedFamilyQuirks
--> "Jesus Christ," he screamed, as if he had been saving this oath since his wedding day for just such an occasion.
* TheRoaringTwenties: Towards the end of the book.
* SelfMadeMan: When Dad is courting Mother and first meets her parents, they're having a fireplace put in, and Dad announces in the bricklayer's hearing that he thinks laying brick must be an easy job. The incensed bricklayer invites him to try it, and he gets to show off his skill. Later, when Mother explains to the children that this was Dad's way of demonstrating that he was a SelfMadeMan, he gets indignant:
-->"Trying to tell them nothing," Dad shouted. "Anybody who knows anything about New England knows that the Bunkers and the Gilbreths, or Galbraiths, descend through Governor Bradford right to the ''Mayflower''. I wasn't trying to tell them anything."\\
"What did you lay the brick for then?" we insisted.\\
"When some people walk into a parlor," Dad said, "they like to sit down at the piano and impress people by playing Bach. When I walk into a parlor, I like to lay brick, that's all."
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* TheTonsillitisEpisode: at one point, several of the older Gilbreths got their tonsils out, all at once.
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* TheTonsillitisEpisode: at one point, several of the older Gilbreths got their tonsils out, all at once.once.
* ToughLove
* TwerpSweating
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: The kids put on skits about the family for their parents, which use many of the tropes, character points and {{Running Gag}}s we-the-reader have become familiar with through the book.
-->"Do my Mongolians come cheaper by the dozen?"
* WordAssociationTest: The children are given one of these by a psychologist who is obviously looking to write about how messed up they are as a result of growing up in their unusual household. They cheat by reading the questions ahead of time and preparing unpleasant, even psychotic-sounding answers, until Lill gives them away by accidentally saying "droppings" before the psychologist says "bird."
* WorkHardPlayHard
* ToughLove
* TwerpSweating
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: The kids put on skits about the family for their parents, which use many of the tropes, character points and {{Running Gag}}s we-the-reader have become familiar with through the book.
-->"Do my Mongolians come cheaper by the dozen?"
* WordAssociationTest: The children are given one of these by a psychologist who is obviously looking to write about how messed up they are as a result of growing up in their unusual household. They cheat by reading the questions ahead of time and preparing unpleasant, even psychotic-sounding answers, until Lill gives them away by accidentally saying "droppings" before the psychologist says "bird."
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* SilkHidingSteel: Mother. She is almost-perpetually calm and polite, yet when she talks, everybody listens.
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* TitleDrop: In one of early chapters, Dad's habitual response to the question of how he feeds the children: "Well, they come cheaper by the dozen, you know."
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* SuperDrowningSkills: Whenever Dad tries to teach Mother how to swim, she sinks.
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* DisconnectedByDeath: Dad dies of a heart attack while he's on the phone with Mother.
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* BittersweetEnding: Dad is gone, but the family is determined to stick together, and they're confident that they'll be able to do it.
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* DeathGlare: Dad gives one of these to one of his children who asks if he "got his tonsils out the way the Spartans used to get theirs out."
* DirectionlessDriver: Dad. Not that he ever admitted it.
* DirectionlessDriver: Dad. Not that he ever admitted it.
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''Cheaper By the Dozen", written by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreath Carey, is the hysterical tale of the Gilbreth family - Dad, a 'motion study' engineer who always believed in bringing his work ideas ; home; Mother, a calm psychologist, and their dozen children. The book details the events which occurred during the childhood of the titular dozen, up until the point that their father passed away.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Dad, much to the dismay of Mother.
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* TheTalk: at one point, a very reluctant Mother attempts to have this with her children, but she succeeds in getting across more apiology than human biology.biology.
* TheTonsillitisEpisode: at one point, several of the older Gilbreths got their tonsils out, all at once.
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* MomentKiller: the Gilbreth girls had plenty of trouble with their younger siblings and their father being this once they started dating.
* ThePeepingTom: the Gilbreth children deal with one of these by threatening to set his tree on fire.
* MomentKiller: the Gilbreth girls had plenty of trouble with their younger siblings and their father being this once they started dating.
* ThePeepingTom: the Gilbreth children deal with one of these by threatening to set his tree on fire.
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