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* DudeMagnet: Arlene is admired by all the boys in town because she's so pretty.
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* FailedAttemptAtScaring: Subverted. Emily tells her cousin June that her (Emily's) house is haunted during a sleepover, and initially June doesn't buy it, but eventually both girls become scared when they hear scary noises and are convinced the house really is haunted.
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That placement of Curly Hair Is Ugly tripped me up, and was alphabetized wrongly.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Emily makes the embarrassing faux pas of trying to correct Fong, whose heavy accent means he pronounces the name of her dog Prince as "Plince." This leads everyone in town, including Emily's parents, to start calling the dog Plince. Plince himself doesn't seem to mind, but Emily is mortified.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Emily makes the embarrassing faux pas of trying to correct Fong, whose heavy accent means he pronounces the name of her dog Prince as "Plince." This leads everyone in town, including Emily's parents, to start calling the dog Plince. Plince himself doesn't seem to mind, but Emily is mortified.
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* ClothesForChristmasCringe: During the [[BrokeEpisode arc about the town suffering from "hard times"]], Emily's parents can't afford much in terms of Christmas presents. As a result, they give her Wellington boots, which disappoint her, since she dislikes "practical" Christmas presents.
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* {{Arcadia}}: Pitchfork is a very peaceful small country town and the adults mostly see it this way and are hapy about it. Emily, not so much.
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* {{Arcadia}}: Pitchfork is a very peaceful small country town and the adults mostly see it this way and are hapy happy about it. Emily, not so much.
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* JapaneseRanguage: Fong Quock is actually Chinese, but he still pronounces his "R"s as "L"s.
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* JapaneseRanguage: Fong Quock is actually Chinese, but he still pronounces his "R"s as "L"s. Emily's mother sympathizes, saying that when she was learning German in school, she could never learn to pronounce "r" the right way.
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* NightmareFetishist: Emily enjoys spooky stories (one of her favorites from a book of poems is "Literature/TheRaven") and tries to convince June to pretend the house is haunted with her when she sleeps over.
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* {{Arcadia}}: Pitchfork is a very peaceful small country town and the adults mostly see it this way and are hapy about it. Emily, not so much.
* EverytownAmerica: Like most of Beverly Cleary's books it takes place in Oregon. Unlike most of the others though, Pitchfork is a fictional town, albeit the kind of small town that was very common back in the 60s.
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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: Pitchfork, Oregon is a very small country town where everybody knows each other and even the few 'exciting' things that happen wouldn't be exciting in a place where actual things happened. Part of the reason Emily developed her imagination is because Pitchfork can be so dull.
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* EasilyEmbarrassedYoungster: Emily finds the idea of wearing old ragged clothes to a hard-times party to be just awful.
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* CurlyHairIsUgly: Inverted -- all the straight-haired girls in town are jealous of Arlene Twitchell and her beautiful curly hair.
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* CurlyHairIsUgly: Inverted -- all the straight-haired girls in town are jealous of Arlene Twitchell and her beautiful beautiful, naturally curly hair.
