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** ''Diggers'' - the nomes drive a JCB backhoe.[[note: Actually a JCB digger. A backhoe is the scoop attached to the back of the vehicle]]

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** ''Diggers'' - the nomes drive a JCB backhoe.[[note: Actually a JCB digger. A backhoe is the scoop attached to the back of the vehicle]]digger.

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** ''Diggers'' - the nomes drive a JCB backhoe.

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** ''Diggers'' - the nomes drive a JCB backhoe.[[note: Actually a JCB digger. A backhoe is the scoop attached to the back of the vehicle]]
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The trilogy has been adapted for television by Creator/CosgroveHall. A movie version is in DevelopmentHell.

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The first book of the trilogy has been adapted for television by Creator/CosgroveHall. A movie version is was in DevelopmentHell.
DevelopmentHell for years, but firmly shut down by Pratchett in 2013.
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* LifeWillKillYou: Masklin is so used to his tribe being killed by animals or the elements, he's left somewhat baffled at the notion that the Abbot is (as described by Granny Morkie) "dyin' from being alive for such a long time".


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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Abbot of the Stationaire publicly rejects the existence of Masklin's tribe, but meets with him in private to confirm that he is willing to listen to Masklin's warnings, and his last words are to offer support to Masklin's efforts to save the Store Nomes and take them home.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The basic plot of ''Truckers'' (and some of the jokes) first appeared in a short story Pratchett wrote in 1972, later reprinted in the collection ''The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner''. The novel has many more characters (in the short story, only two gnomes get much characterisation), more detailed descriptions of the nomes' lives, and adds the Thing and the related plot thread about the nomes' origins.

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* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Basically none of the nomes on Earth knew of their true origins as beings from another world; Masklin's tribe and the nomes of the Store just got lucky as the ones who had the Thing.



** "Grandson Richard, 39" is always referred to as that, because that's what the newspaper called him.

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** "Grandson Richard, 39" is always referred to as that, because that's what the newspaper called him.him (Masklin does wonder at one point if that means there were thirty-eight ''other'' Grandson Richards or that's just a newspaper way of saying he's 39 years old, but never brings that up to anyone else).
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Grandson Richard is very clearly based on Richard Branson, right down to the name.
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* OurGnomesAreWeirder: They're tiny HumanAliens who exist on Earth because, untold centuries ago, their scouting vessel crash-landed, leaving them stranded and with no way to get back to their mothership.

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* OurGnomesAreWeirder: They're tiny (but very sturdy) HumanAliens who exist on Earth because, untold centuries ago, their scouting vessel crash-landed, leaving them stranded and with no way to get back to their mothership.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: The Nomes keep making humorously inaccurate deductions on how the world works, like thinking the wind is produced by the tree leaves moving. More importantly, it takes them a long time to finally understand that most built things in the world have been created by humans instead of the humans simply moving around them like cows in a field.
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* CargoCult: The Store nomes worship Arnold Bros (est. 1905), and the nomes of Florida worship NASA. Somehow, "Prices Slashed" becomes the devil/boogeyman, who wanders The Store, eating the unworthy (actually the Night Watchman). "Bargains Galore" is interpreted as a GenderFlipped St. George/Jesus figure; armed with a Roaring Soul-Sucker (actually the cleaning lady and her vacuum cleaner).

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* CargoCult: The Store nomes worship Arnold Bros (est. 1905), and the nomes of Florida worship NASA. Somehow, "Prices Slashed" becomes the devil/boogeyman, who wanders The Store, Store at night, eating the unworthy (actually the Night Watchman). "Bargains Galore" is interpreted as a GenderFlipped St. George/Jesus figure; George; who's armed with a Roaring Soul-Sucker (actually the cleaning lady and her vacuum cleaner).
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* CargoCult: The Store nomes worship Arnold Bros (est. 1905), and the nomes of Florida worship NASA. Somehow, "Prices Slashed" becomes the devil/boogeyman, who wanders The Store, eating the unworthy (actually the Night Watchman). "Bargains Galore" is interpreted as a GenderFlipped St. George/Jesus figure.

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* CargoCult: The Store nomes worship Arnold Bros (est. 1905), and the nomes of Florida worship NASA. Somehow, "Prices Slashed" becomes the devil/boogeyman, who wanders The Store, eating the unworthy (actually the Night Watchman). "Bargains Galore" is interpreted as a GenderFlipped St. George/Jesus figure.figure; armed with a Roaring Soul-Sucker (actually the cleaning lady and her vacuum cleaner).
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* CargoCult: The Store nomes worship Arnold Bros (est. 1905), and the nomes of Florida worship NASA. Somehow, "Prices Slashed!" becomes the devil/boogeyman, who wanders The Store, eating the unworthy.

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* CargoCult: The Store nomes worship Arnold Bros (est. 1905), and the nomes of Florida worship NASA. Somehow, "Prices Slashed!" Slashed" becomes the devil/boogeyman, who wanders The Store, eating the unworthy.unworthy (actually the Night Watchman). "Bargains Galore" is interpreted as a GenderFlipped St. George/Jesus figure.
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* CargoCult: The Store nomes worship Arnold Bros (est. 1905), and the nomes of Florida worship NASA.

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* CargoCult: The Store nomes worship Arnold Bros (est. 1905), and the nomes of Florida worship NASA. Somehow, "Prices Slashed!" becomes the devil/boogeyman, who wanders The Store, eating the unworthy.
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* InternalReveal: Masklin had been starting to wonder whether humans were NotSoDifferent from nomes for a while, but when he and Gurder are wondering what the humans in the cockpit of the Concord are saying while they're looking for Angelo, he's shocked when the Thing blandly offers to translate, explaining that human noises are only nome noises slowed down.

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* InternalReveal: Masklin had been starting to wonder whether humans were NotSoDifferent weren't that different from nomes for a while, but when he and Gurder are wondering what the humans in the cockpit of the Concord are saying while they're looking for Angelo, he's shocked when the Thing blandly offers to translate, explaining that human noises are only nome noises slowed down.

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* HappyEndingOverride: After the Nomes escape the store to go on living in the quarry at the end of the first book, the second and third book show that living outside is easier said than done for people used to the controlled environment and plentiful food of the store, and even the rations brought along run out -- and the new places aren't safe from being demolished by the humans either.



* RealityEnsues: After the Nomes escape the store to go on living in the quarry at the end of the first book, the second and third book show that living outside is easier said than done for people used to the controlled environment and plentiful food of the store, and even the rations brought along run out -- and the new places aren't safe from being demolished by the humans either.
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* InMemoriam: Episode 13 was dedicated to the memory of Paul Simpson, who was a model, set and prop maker for ''WesternAnimation/{{The Wind in the Willows|1983}}'', ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'', ''Literature/TheFoolOfTheWorldAndHisFlyingShip'' and the series itself.

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* InMemoriam: Episode 13 was dedicated to the memory of Paul Simpson, who was a model, set and prop maker for ''WesternAnimation/{{The Wind in the Willows|1983}}'', ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'', ''Literature/TheFoolOfTheWorldAndHisFlyingShip'' ''Literature/TheFoolOfTheWorldAndTheFlyingShip'' and the series itself.
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* HappinessRealizedTooLate: After finally managing to get hold of the ancient Nome ship, Masklin briefly finds himself wishing that he was living in a hole in the ground again: despite all the effort he spent at the start of the trilogy struggling to escape it, he admits that even if the burrow was cold, wet and surrounded by dangers, he at least had Grimma and he didn't have to spend his days chasing goals he barely understood. [[spoiler: In the end, he uses the ship to rescue Grimma and the rest of the quarry Nomes, allowing him to gain new happiness in a lifestyle among the stars.]]

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