History Literature / TheBumTrilogy

* BizarroFiction: Essentially a kid-friendly take on this genre.

* ApologizesALot: Maurice

* CoolCar: The Buttmobile.

* TheDragon: Often The Prince to the Great White Bum.

* TakeOverTheWorld: Zack's bum's plan, sort of.
* ToiletHumor: Naturally.

* MarketBasedTitle: "Bum" is not a widely used slang term in North America, so for the series' release over there, they were edited so that all instances of "bum" (including the title) were replaced with "butt". This unfortunately meant that a lot of puns didn't work as well in that version.

A loose AnimatedAdaptation of the books called ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'' was released in 2013, produced by Canada's Creator/{{Nelvana}} and Studio Moshi in Australia. Interestingly, this makes it the second adaptation of Griffiths' work to be made into a cartoon, the first being ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' in 2001.

A loose AnimatedAdaptation of the books called ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'' was released in 2014, produced by Canada's Creator/{{Nelvana}} and Studio Moshi in Australia. Interestingly, this makes it the second adaptation of Griffiths' work to be made into a cartoon, the first being ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' in 2001.

And while that basically summarizes the plot of the first book, Zack becomes a cadet in the B-Team in the following books. From there, the plot ''really'' gets crazy (well even moreso than the first book ever was) as Zack discovers that his parents and his grandmother are in fact bum hunters secretly working for the B-Team, Earth faces an invasion of evil undead bums from outer space, time-travelling shenanigans with ferocious prehistoric dinosaur bums ensue, the end of the world arrives in the form of giant bums crapping on everything, and Zack discovers he is TheChosenOne with a central role in the strange yet epic battle between humanity and their bums.

And while that basically summarizes the plot of the first book, Zack becomes a cadet in the B-Team in the following books. From there, the plot ''really'' gets crazy (well even moreso than the first book ever was) as Zack discovers that his parents and his grandmother are in fact bum hunters secretly working for the B-Team, Earth faces an invasion of evil undead bums from outer space, time-travelling shenanigans with ferocious prehistoric dinosaur bums ensue, the end of the world arrives, and Zack discovers he is TheChosenOne with a central role in the strange yet epic battle between humanity and their bums.

[[caption-width-right:323:Cover of the original Australian release]]
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A grossout/ToiletHumor-themed series of children's novels, called the ''Butt Trilogy'' in America, written by Australian author Creator/AndyGriffiths. There are three books in the series, with the first one being released in 2001 and the last coming out in 2005.

''The Day My Bum Went Psycho''[[note]]''The Day My '''Butt''' Went Psycho'' in the US[[/note]] introduces the protagonist, Zack Freeman, a 12-year-old boy whose bum constantly detaches itself from his body and runs off, requiring him to find it. One night, he follows his bum to see what it's up too and discovers something alarming -- the world’s bums (who are all sentient, autonomous beings) are hatching a nefarious scheme to overthrow humanity under the leadership of his own bum, as well as that of a gigantic, evil bum known only as the Great White Bum and his henchbums, The Prince and Maurice. To foil this plot, Zack must find and work with Silas Sterne and his daughter Eleanor, the legendary leaders of a team of "bum hunters" known as the B-Team who wear prosthetic bums and constantly battle the machinations of bumkind.

In the second book, ''Zombie Bums from Uranus''[[note]]''Zombie '''Butts''' from Uranus'' in the US[[/note]], an uneasy peace between bums and humans has been achieved. Meanwhile, Zack and his bum have become close friends and bum hunters-in-training against evil bums, only to quit after an argument with one of their fellow bum hunters. However, things are complicated when Zack's parents come back from an expedition to Uranus with one of the bums that make up the planet's rings, while Zack discovers his hometown (minus his gran's house) has been destroyed by an invasion by evil bums and meets a blind bum feeler who tells him he his destined to be humanity's savior -- all of which collides into a truly strange yet epic climax.

The final book, ''Bumageddon: The Final Pongflict'' [[note]]''Butt Wars: The Final Conflict'' in the US[[/note]] sees Zack and his bum finally become certified bum hunters, only for an entire army of giant prehistoric bums to attack and kill all the bum hunters (including Zack’s family) except Zack, his bum, and Eleanor. The three soon find out that "Bumageddon" is upon them, and the only way they can stop it is by travelling back in time to the prehistoric era when bums ruled the Earth and destroying the Great White Bum when it was born. What follows is an insane series of time travel shenanigans, where Zack learns how the whole conflict between humans and bums began, Eleanor discovers her original bum, and the battle betweens bums and humanity arrives at its thrilling conclusion.

A loose Creator/{{Nelvana}}-produced AnimatedAdaptation of the books called ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'' (sharing its name with the first book's American title) was released in 2014 (nearly a decade after the books were completed). It's essentially a semi-sequel to the original book that completely ignores the second and third books, with most of the major characters from the book being present in the show (albeit altered in some ways; notably, Zack’s bum is named Deuce in the series). Interestingly, this makes it the second work by Andy Griffiths to be made into a cartoon in Canada, the first being his ''[[Literature/AndyGriffithsJustSeries Just!]]'' series as ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' in 2001.

A loose Canadian AnimatedAdaptation of the books called ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'' (sharing its name with the first book's American title) was released in 2014 (nearly a decade after the books were completed). It's essentially a semi-sequel to the original book that completely ignores the second and third books, with most of the major characters from the book being present in the show (albeit altered in some ways; notably, Zack’s bum is named Deuce in the series). Interestingly, this makes it the second work by Andy Griffiths to be made into a cartoon in Canada, the first being his ''[[Literature/AndyGriffithsJustSeries Just!]]'' series as ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' in 2001.

[[caption-width-right:323:[[labelnote:Cover of 2014 re-release]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buttbookcartoon.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]

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[[folder:General]]

* ActionGirl: Eleanor

* BigBad: The Great White Bum.
* CoolCar: The Buttmobile

* GrossOutShow: Starting from the premise which is about butts organizing a revolution and constantly pushing the envelope with toilet humor, booty mutilation, moving into vomit and mutant maggot monsters.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:The Prince and Maurice appear in all three books, surviving the encounter with the protagonists in book one, assisting them in Book 2, and turning to the Great White Bum's side in the finale, presumably because they were out of options.]]

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[[folder:The Day My Bum Went Psycho]]

* BadassCrew: The B-Team
* TheMole: [[spoiler:The Kisser]]
* OddOrganUpTop: People's butts are planning to invoke this by {{taking over the world}} with a huge, worldwide fart by building up a massive quantity of methane gas in the "Bumcano." When the Bumcano blows, all humans will be rendered unconscious, then the bums will seize their chance and switch places with their heads.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Zack's bum's plan, sort of.
* WhenSheSmiles: The first time Zack sees Eleanor laugh, he has to admit to himself that she looks pretty.

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[[folder: Zombie Bums from Uranus]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The Mutant Maggot Lord asks to stay behind and hold off the maggots, he's eaten.]] He get's better, sort of.
* HeelFaceTurn: Zack's bum
* NeverMessWithGranny: Zack's Grandma

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[[folder:Bumageddon: The Final Pongflict]]

* CosmicRetcon: [[spoiler:How the series ends, everyone is living a now relatively normal life, Ned Smelly is now Ed Kelly, and the only Butts alive are Zack's and Eleanor's.]]
* CycleOfRevenge: [[spoiler:After the Great White Bum kills all of his friends and family, a mix up in a time machine sends Zack back to the beginning of life. He finds the infant Great White Bum and tries to kill him, succeeding in killing his family, but the butt escapes. The Great White Bum reveals that that is why he started his quest for vengeance.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:All the cast bar Eleanor, Zack, their bums, and Ned, are killed by a brown glob.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero and NiceJobFixingItVillain: The War and all of it's victims? It's all the Great White Bum's and Zack's fault, with Zack being the catalyst. See CycleOfRevenge
* VillainousCrush: The Great White Bum has a crush on Robobum.

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The final book, ''Bumageddon: The Final Pongflict'' [[note]]''Butt Wars: The Final Conflict'' in the US[[/note]] sees Zack and Deuce finally become certified bum hunters, only for an entire army of giant prehistoric bums to attack and kill all the bum hunters (including Zack’s family) except Zack, his bum, and Eleanor. The three soon find out that "Bumageddon" is upon them, and the only way they can stop it is by travelling back in time to the prehistoric era when bums ruled the Earth and destroying the Great White Bum when it was born. What follows is an insane series of time travel shenanigans, where Zack learns how the whole conflict between humans and bums began, Eleanor discovers her original bum, and the battle betweens bums and humanity arrives at its thrilling conclusion.

''The Day My Bum Went Psycho''[[note]]''The Day My '''Butt''' Went Psycho'' in the US[[/note]] introduces the protagonist, Zack Freeman, a 12-year-old boy whose bum constantly detaches itself from his body and runs off, requiring him to find it. One night, he follows his butt to see what it's up too and discovers something alarming -- the world’s bums (who are all sentient, autonomous beings) are hatching a nefarious scheme to overthrow humanity under the leadership of his own bum, as well as that of a gigantic, evil bum known only as the Great White Bum and his henchbums, The Prince and Maurice. To foil this plot, Zack must find and work with Silas Sterne and his daughter Eleanor, the legendary leaders of a team of "bum hunters" known as the B-Team who wear prosthetic bums and constantly battle the machinations of bumkind.

[[caption-width-right:323:Disclaimer: Not actually based on a true story]]

A loose Canadian AnimatedAdaptation of the books called ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'' (sharing its name with the first book's American title) was released in 2014 (nearly a decade after the books were completed). It's essentially a semi-sequel to the original book that completely ignores the second and third books, with most of the major characters from the book being present in the show (albeit altered in some ways; notably, Zack’s bum is named Deuce in the series).[[note]]Interestingly, this makes it the second work by Andy Griffiths to be made into a cartoon in Canada, the first being his ''[[Literature/AndyGriffithsJustSeries Just!]]'' series as ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' in 2001[[/note]]

''The Day My Bum Went Psycho''[[note]]''The Day My '''Butt''' Went Psycho'' in the US[[/note]] introduces the protagonist, Zack Freeman, a 12-year-old boy whose bum constantly detaches itself from his body and runs off, requiring him to find it. One night, he follows his butt to see what it's up too and discovers something alarming - the world’s bums (who are all sentient, autonomous beings) are hatching a nefarious scheme to overthrow humanity under the leadership of his own bum, as well as that of a gigantic, evil bum known only as the Great White Bum and his henchbums, The Prince and Maurice. To foil this plot, Zack must find and work with Silas Sterne and his daughter Eleanor, the legendary leaders of a team of "bum hunters" known as the B-Team who wear prosthetic bums and constantly battle the machinations of bumkind.

''The Day My Bum Went Psycho''[[note]]''The Day My '''Butt''' Went Psycho'' in the US[[/note]] introduces the protagonist, Zack Freeman, a 12-year-old boy whose bum (named Deuce) constantly detaches itself from his body and runs off, requiring him to find it. One night, he follows his butt to see what it's up too and discovers all the world's bums are intelligent autonomous beings like Deuce is. More alarmingly, Deuce and the rest of the bums are hatching a nefarious plot to overthrow humanity under the leadership of a gigantic, evil bum known only as the Great White Bum and his henchbums, The Prince and Maurice. Fortunately, Zack encounters Silas Sterne and his daughter Eleanor, the leaders of a team of "bum hunters" known as the B-Team who constantly battle the machinations of bumkind (and have prosthetic bums), and now must work with them to foil the plot.

In the second book, ''Zombie Bums from Uranus''[[note]]''Zombie '''Butts''' from Uranus'' in the US[[/note]], Zack and Deuce have become close friends and bum hunters-in-training against evil bums, only to quit after an argument with one of their fellow bum hunters. However, things are complicated when Zack's parents come back from an expedition to Uranus with one of the bums that make up the planet's rings, while Zack discovers his hometown (minus his granma's house) has been destroyed by an invasion by evil bums and meets a blind bum feeler who tells him he his destined to be humanity's savior -- all of which collides into a truly strange yet epic climax.

The final book, ''Bumageddon: The Final Pongflict'' [[note]]''Butt Wars: The Final Conflict'' in the US[[/note]] sees Zack and Deuce finally become certified bum hunters, only for an entire army of Great White Bums to attack and kill all the bum hunters except Zack, Deuce, and Eleanor. The three soon find out that "Bumageddon" is upon them, and the only way they can stop it is by travelling back in time and destroying the original Great White Bum (the one from the first book). What follows is an insane series of time travel shenanigans, where Zack learns how the whole conflict between humans and bums began while Eleanor discovers her original bum.

A loose Canadian AnimatedAdaptation of the books called ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'' (sharing its name with the first book's American title) was released in 2014 (nearly a decade after the books were completed). It's essentially a semi-sequel to the original book that completely ignores the second and third books, with most of the major characters from the book being present in the show (albeit altered in some ways).[[note]]Interestingly, this makes it the second work by Andy Griffiths to be made into a cartoon in Canada, the first being his ''[[Literature/AndyGriffithsJustSeries Just!]]'' series as ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' in 2001[[/note]]

A loose Canadian AnimatedAdaptation of the books called ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'' (sharing its name with the first book's American title) was released in 2014 (nearly a decade after the books were completed). It's essentially a semi-sequel to the original book that completely ignores the second and third books, with most of the major characters from the book being present in the show (albeit altered in some ways).[[note]]Interestingly, this makes it the second work by Andy Griffiths to be made into a cartoon in Canada, the first being his ''[[AndyGriffithsJustSeries Just!]]'' series as ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' in 2001[[/note]]