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** In the film these lines are spoken exactly as written, with the result sounding more like [[Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember Goldmember]] than any real German accent.
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* EndangeredPest: The burrowing owls aren't pests, but they happen to live in a lot scheduled to become a pancake house. Those in charge of the project don't care and have every intention of bulldozing the area, owls included. The only thing stopping them is a kid constantly vandalizing their equipment. [[ExploitedTrope The hero eventually realizes that burrowing owls are endangered, allowing the kids to save them through legal means.]]
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Roy gets in trouble when he punches Dana Matherson, and as his punishment, he's banned from riding the bus, despite having evidence that Dana was choking him at the time. His mother, not realizing that her son wants to be alive, fights for him to get back on the bus.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Roy gets in trouble when he punches Dana Matherson, and as his punishment, he's banned from riding the bus, despite having evidence that Dana was choking him at the time. His mother, not realizing that her son wants to be alive, fights for him to get back on the bus. (Though Roy also suspects that she's just eager to resume her morning yoga lessons, which she can't attend as long as she's driving him to school every day.)
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* FunetikAksent: Kalo, who is German.
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* FunetikAksent: Kalo, who is German.described as speaking with the same stock accent as the German soldiers in World War II movies.
* HeroStoleMyBike: Beatrice swipes an unknown Trace Middle student's bike off the rack so that she and Roy can pedal out to see Mullet Fingers [[spoiler: after he's been bitten by Kalo's guard dogs]]. The bike is later abandoned and recovered by the police.
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* ItsPersonal: Initially, Officer Delinko's involvement in the Mother Paula's case is him simply doing his job as a patrolman. But after the humiliation, temporary demotion and negative press Mullet Fingers' antics causes him, he becomes much more determined to be the one who brings the Mother Paula's vandal to justice.
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* ItsPersonal: Initially, Officer Delinko's involvement in the Mother Paula's case is him simply doing his job as a patrolman. But after the humiliation, temporary demotion and negative press Mullet Fingers' antics causes cause him, he becomes much more determined to be the one who brings the Mother Paula's vandal to justice.
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* OddNameOut: Kalo's four Rottweilers are named Max, Klaus, Karl, and... Pookie Face. The last one gets a somewhat incredulous reaction from Curly.
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* OddNameOut: Kalo's four Rottweilers are named Max, Klaus, Karl, and... [[FluffyTheTerrible Pookie Face.Face]]. The last one gets a somewhat incredulous reaction from Curly.
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* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Mullet Fingers, who ran away from military school and lives in the woods.
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* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Mullet Fingers, who ran away from military school and lives in the woods. There are a few times throughout the book where Roy worries about him getting in trouble with the law for truancy.
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The plot follows a boy in middle-school named Roy and the construction of a pancake house in Coconut Cove, Florida. Roy's father has a military career which forces his family to relocate within the [[{{Eagleland}} United States]] constantly. At the start of the novel, Roy is just settling into his new town.
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The plot follows a boy in middle-school named Roy Eberhardt and the construction of a pancake house in Coconut Cove, Florida. Roy's father has a military government career which forces his family to relocate within the [[{{Eagleland}} United States]] constantly. At the start of the novel, Roy is just settling into his new town.
* ItsPersonal: Initially, Officer Delinko's involvement in the Mother Paula's case is him simply doing his job as a patrolman. But after the humiliation, temporary demotion and negative press Mullet Fingers' antics causes him, he becomes much more determined to be the one who brings the Mother Paula's vandal to justice.
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%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Officer Delinko.
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The book's text actually reads that Beatrice "broke his collarbone in three places", rather than broke "three of his collarbones".
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* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: To explain how scary Beatrice is, Garrett mentions a past incident where a football player slapped her butt and she chased him down and shoved him into the water fountain, breaking three of his collarbones. Humans only have two collarbones.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: According to Garrett, Beatrice's reaction to a football player slapping her butt was to shove him into the water fountain and break three of his collarbones. ''Ouch.''
** ''Double'' "ouch", given that humans only ''have'' two collarbones.
** ''Double'' "ouch", given that humans only ''have'' two collarbones.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: According to Garrett, Beatrice's reaction to a football player slapping her butt was to shove him into the water fountain and hard enough to break his collarbone in three of his collarbones.places. ''Ouch.''
** ''Double'' "ouch", given that humans only ''have'' two collarbones.''
** ''Double'' "ouch", given that humans only ''have'' two collarbones.
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-->'''Garrett''': "I'm sorry I smoked you. Please don't break every bone in my body. Please leave me at least one good arm so I can feed myself."''\\
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-->'''Garrett''': "I'm sorry I smoked you. Please don't break every bone in my body. Please leave me at least one good arm so I can feed myself."''\\"\\
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* SceneryPorn: The film features some truly gorgeous visuals of Florida's coastline. According to director Will Shriner's DVD commentary, Creator/CarlHiaasen actually complained a little about it, since the overarching goal of his novels is to '''discourage''' people from visiting or settling in Florida.
