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* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: ''My Life As a Haunted Hamburger'' opens with Wally, Wall Street, and Opera managing to sneak into an R-rated horror/sci-fi movie called ''Body-Stealing Ghosts from Jupiter''. Wally winds up scared by it, to say the least; he spends most of the film "hiding under [his] theater seat, praying for [his] life, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking getting [his] face stuck to the floor on somebody's old gummy worms]]", and afterwards he claims to have had seventeen nightmares from it and has the movie adversely affect his initial attempts to write his obligatory superhero story. (Ironically, unlike most cases of this trope, we never find out if Wally's parents found out about this or if they punished Wally for it.)
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* HeelFaceTurn: Wally's superhero stories usually end with the villain becoming good. The only exceptions are [[{{Kaiju}} Lizard Lips]] in ''My Life As Alien Monster Bait'' and [[AIIsACrapshoot Toxoid Breath]] in ''My Life As A Broken Bungee Cord''.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Wally's superhero stories usually end with the villain becoming good. The only exceptions are [[{{Kaiju}} Lizard Lips]] in ''My Life As Alien Monster Bait'' and [[AIIsACrapshoot Toxoid Breath]] in ''My Life As A Broken Bungee Cord''. (These are the second and third books respectively in the series, making this a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.)
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* HeelFaceTurn: Wally's superhero stories invariably end with the villain becoming good. The only exceptions are [[{{Kaiju}} Lizard Lips]] in ''My Life As Alien Monster Bait'' and [[AIIsACrapshoot Toxoid Breath]] in ''My Life As A Broke Bungee Cord''.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Wally's superhero stories invariably usually end with the villain becoming good. The only exceptions are [[{{Kaiju}} Lizard Lips]] in ''My Life As Alien Monster Bait'' and [[AIIsACrapshoot Toxoid Breath]] in ''My Life As A Broke Broken Bungee Cord''.
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* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler'', ''"My Life As a Splatted Flat Quarterback"'', and ''My Life As a Stupendously Stomped Soccer Star''.
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* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler'', ''"My ''My Life As a Splatted Flat Quarterback"'', Quarterback'', and ''My Life As a Stupendously Stomped Soccer Star''.
* BrandX: Opera's favorite potato chips are always referred to as "Chippy Chipper Potato Chips".
* InAnotherMansShoes:
** ''My Life As a Blundering Ballerina'': Wall Street and Wally get into a fight over who has the easier life, so they switch lives for a day, doing their various chores, errands, and other such things. [[spoiler: In the end, neither can reach a definitive conclusion over who has it worse.]]
** In the more literal sense: ''My Life As a Splatted Flat Quarterback'', which involves Wally unwittingly flying into the lives and bodies of the people he makes fun of, including the crotchety old school janitor, the local snooty rich kid, Opera, one of his twin brothers, a rock star, and finally a quarterback on the school football team. [[spoiler: The whole ordeal turns out to be AllJustADream, however.]]
** ''My Life As a Blundering Ballerina'': Wall Street and Wally get into a fight over who has the easier life, so they switch lives for a day, doing their various chores, errands, and other such things. [[spoiler: In the end, neither can reach a definitive conclusion over who has it worse.]]
** In the more literal sense: ''My Life As a Splatted Flat Quarterback'', which involves Wally unwittingly flying into the lives and bodies of the people he makes fun of, including the crotchety old school janitor, the local snooty rich kid, Opera, one of his twin brothers, a rock star, and finally a quarterback on the school football team. [[spoiler: The whole ordeal turns out to be AllJustADream, however.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''My Life As A Computer Cockroach'': Long story short, Wally's antics with his computer, which [[ItMakesSenseInContext now has the ability to affect reality with what is typed into it]], ultimately lead up to [[spoiler: him inadvertently causing the Y2K bug]].
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Given how much of a clumsy guy Wally is, he's (either indirectly or directly) caused quite a few of the problems he has to solve. To whit:
** ''My Life As A Computer Cockroach'': Long story short, Wally's antics with his computer, which [[ItMakesSenseInContext now has the ability to affect reality with what is typed into it]], ultimately lead up to [[spoiler: him inadvertently causing the Y2Kbug]].bug]].
** ''My Life As A Stupendously Stomped Soccer Star'': After a bad soccer accident, Wally is given the opportunity to change how his life is at the end of every day, but the changes keep causing worse and worse problems until it results in global chaos. [[note]] Best player on the school soccer team: Wall Street and Opera no longer want to be friends with him. Best soccer player in the world, while keeping his friends: Opera [[TookALevelInJerkass becomes a bully]], Wall Street is a school drop-out, and the entire soccer team quit out of inferiority to Wally's skills. Becomes a pro player and leaves school: Wall Street makes so much money that she buys the entire country and subjects Wally to playing soccer players from penitentiaries, Opera begins beating up people for a living, and his family life falls apart. Wishes for no pain: People simply ignore the injuries they get, causing them to die from them and mass mayhem fills the streets. No gravity: Complete and utter chaos, Wall Street and Opera die, and the world begins floating away from the sun, causing everything and everyone to freeze over.[[/note]] [[spoiler: Fortunately, this is one of the books that has an AllJustADream ending.]]
** ''My Life As A Computer Cockroach'': Long story short, Wally's antics with his computer, which [[ItMakesSenseInContext now has the ability to affect reality with what is typed into it]], ultimately lead up to [[spoiler: him inadvertently causing the Y2K
** ''My Life As A Stupendously Stomped Soccer Star'': After a bad soccer accident, Wally is given the opportunity to change how his life is at the end of every day, but the changes keep causing worse and worse problems until it results in global chaos. [[note]] Best player on the school soccer team: Wall Street and Opera no longer want to be friends with him. Best soccer player in the world, while keeping his friends: Opera [[TookALevelInJerkass becomes a bully]], Wall Street is a school drop-out, and the entire soccer team quit out of inferiority to Wally's skills. Becomes a pro player and leaves school: Wall Street makes so much money that she buys the entire country and subjects Wally to playing soccer players from penitentiaries, Opera begins beating up people for a living, and his family life falls apart. Wishes for no pain: People simply ignore the injuries they get, causing them to die from them and mass mayhem fills the streets. No gravity: Complete and utter chaos, Wall Street and Opera die, and the world begins floating away from the sun, causing everything and everyone to freeze over.[[/note]] [[spoiler: Fortunately, this is one of the books that has an AllJustADream ending.]]
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* [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Everyone Calls Them Wall Street And Opera]]: Even school officials and the kids' parents. We do eventually find out that Opera's real name is Oliver in ''My Life As a Human Hockey Puck'', but Wall Street's real name is never revealed.
* FatBestFriend: Opera, who is rarely seen without a bag of potato chips in hand.
* FatBestFriend: Opera, who is rarely seen without a bag of potato chips in hand.
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* JerkJock: Wally's older brothers can be this on occasion, usually via annoying pranks more than anything else.
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* JerkJock: JerkJock:
** Wally's older brothers can be this on occasion, usually via annoying pranks more than anything else.
** Wally's older brothers can be this on occasion, usually via annoying pranks more than anything else.
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** Book 19, ''My Life as a Cowboy Cowpie'': [[spoiler: Wally, Opera, Wall Street's revenge scheme their complete and utter scumbag of a fellow camper [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Chad Diamond]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], and Chad is left in danger of being torn apart by an angry bull. Despite Chad having been a terrible person to them throughout the book, they still risk their own well-being to save him.]]
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** Book 19, ''My Life as a Cowboy Cowpie'': [[spoiler: Wally, Opera, Wall Street's revenge scheme on their complete and utter scumbag of a fellow camper [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Chad Diamond]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], and Chad is left in danger of being torn apart by an angry bull. Despite Chad having been a terrible person to them throughout the book, they still risk their own well-being to save him.]]
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** ''My Life as A Cowboy Cowpie'' features a wealthy, good-looking fellow camper at the cowboy camp setting of the book named Chad Diamond, whom Wall Street develops a crush on. It's gets cleared pretty fast that Chad has it in for Wally, pulling several pranks on him over the course of the story, but it's hinted that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he may be nicer than he seems]]...[[spoiler: [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk or not]]. It turns out that he likes to pretend to be the ideal boyfriend to girls, only to embarrass the girl he's with in front of their families by acting like he doesn't know them when the girl introduces them, then laugh when the girl gets distraught afterwards. Wall Street finds this out the hard way. He winds up learning his lesson when he goes through a big-time HumiliationConga that nearly gets him killed in the climax.]]
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* SaveTheVillain: Book 14: [[spoiler:My Life as a Screaming Skydiver]]
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* SaveTheVillain: Book 14: [[spoiler:My Life as a Screaming Skydiver]]Skydiver: The spy that Wally has been unknowingly helping accidentally ejects himself out of his own plane without a parachute. Wally dives out after him and hands him an extra parachute.]]
** Book 19, ''My Life as a Cowboy Cowpie'': [[spoiler: Wally, Opera, Wall Street's revenge scheme their complete and utter scumbag of a fellow camper [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Chad Diamond]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], and Chad is left in danger of being torn apart by an angry bull. Despite Chad having been a terrible person to them throughout the book, they still risk their own well-being to save him.]]
** Book 19, ''My Life as a Cowboy Cowpie'': [[spoiler: Wally, Opera, Wall Street's revenge scheme their complete and utter scumbag of a fellow camper [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Chad Diamond]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], and Chad is left in danger of being torn apart by an angry bull. Despite Chad having been a terrible person to them throughout the book, they still risk their own well-being to save him.]]
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Wally's dad wants Wally to 'be a man' and that writing seems lame. Come book #11, where Dad, after [[spoiler: Wally saves the town]], accepts that Wally wants to be a writer and thinks he's a man. Unfortunately, after that book, [[SnapBack Dad's back to wanting Wally to be a man and that writing seems lame.]]
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* StatusQuoIsGod: A recurring plot-line is that Wally's dad wants Wally to 'be a man' and that writing seems lame. Come book #11, where Dad, after [[spoiler: Wally saves the town]], accepts that Wally wants to be a writer and thinks he's a man. Unfortunately, after that book, [[SnapBack Dad's back to wanting Wally to be a man and that writing seems lame.]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: Subverted, Wally's dad wants Wally to 'be a man' and that writing seems lame. Come book #11, where Dad, after [[spoiler: Wally saves the town]], accepts that Wally wants to be a writer and thinks he's a man. Unfortunately, after that book, [[SnapBack Dad's back to wanting Wally to be a man and that writing seems lame.]] Though that may be because of how book #11 "Polluted Pond Scum", is the semi-GrandFinale of the series.
** Gary the Gorilla, the local bully, also gets some in the first book, and even seems to be becoming friends with Wally, but it's ''still'' subverted, in all proceeding books, he's back to bullying everyone.
** Gary the Gorilla, the local bully, also gets some in the first book, and even seems to be becoming friends with Wally, but it's ''still'' subverted, in all proceeding books, he's back to bullying everyone.
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* ChristmasEpisode: ''My Life As Reindeer Roadkill''. ''My Life as a Belching Baboon'' also takes place around Christmas, but is primarily focused on the [=McDoogle=] family going on a missions trip to Africa to bring Christmas to folks there.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Wally's dad wants Wally to 'be a man' and that writing seems lame. Come book #11, where Dad, after [[spoiler: Wally saves the town]], accepts that Wally wants to be a writer and thinks he's a man. Unfortunately, after that book, [[SnapBack Dad's back to wanting Wally to be a man and that writing seems lame.]]
** Gary the Gorilla, the local bully, also gets some CharacterDevelopment in the first book, and by the end even seems to be becoming friends with Wally, but for whatever reason, this is ignored as, in all proceeding books, he's back to bullying everyone.
** Gary the Gorilla, the local bully, also gets some CharacterDevelopment in the first book, and by the end even seems to be becoming friends with Wally, but for whatever reason, this is ignored as, in all proceeding books, he's back to bullying everyone.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: "My Life as...(something)"
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[[caption-width-right:228: So, a tweleve-year-old boy being chased by news media, an AnimalWrongsGroup, a SWAT team, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the schoolyard bully]] is hanging for his dear life from a T-Rex skeleton? Must be Monday again...]]
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[[caption-width-right:228: So, a tweleve-year-old twelve-year-old boy being chased by news media, an AnimalWrongsGroup, a SWAT team, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the schoolyard bully]] is now hanging for his dear life from a T-Rex skeleton? Must be Monday again...again for young Wally...]]
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''The Incredible Worlds Of Wally [=McDoogle=]'' is a series of books by Bill Myers, which follow the strange adventures of Wally, the world's most accident-prone kid, and his friends Wall Street and Opera, always ending with an {{Aesop}} derived from Christianity.
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''The Incredible Worlds Of Wally [=McDoogle=]'' is a Christian book seriesof books by Bill Myers, Myers (also known for his work on ''Series/McGeeAndMe''), which follow the strange adventures of Wally, the titular Wally [=McDoogle=], the world's most accident-prone kid, and his friends friends, the greedy Wall Street and BigEater Opera, always ending with an {{Aesop}} derived from Christianity.
as they go on wild adventures either at home or abroad.
The books also include B-plots involving the superhero stories Wally writes on his trusty computer Ol' Betsy, a Christianity-derived aesop the three learn, and a heaping helping of amusing injuries along the way.
The series ran for [[LongRunners 28 books]], during which Wally has gone to summer camp, saved his town, been a stuntman, turned invisible, wrangled a giant tarantula, became a cheeseburger...yeah, it's that type of series.
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''The Incredible Worlds Of Wally [=McDoogle=]'' is a Christian book series
The books also include B-plots involving the superhero stories Wally writes on his trusty computer Ol' Betsy, a Christianity-derived aesop the three learn, and a heaping helping of amusing injuries along the way.
The series ran for [[LongRunners 28 books]], during which Wally has gone to summer camp, saved his town, been a stuntman, turned invisible, wrangled a giant tarantula, became a cheeseburger...yeah, it's that type of series.
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* BadFuture: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler''. [[spoiler: It wound up just being a [[AllJustADream dreamed-up one, fortunately.]]
** FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler: The future Wally becomes a dictator who gets meaner and meaner before having everyone killed. Oh, and he's a EldritchAbomination, too]].
** FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler: The future Wally becomes a dictator who gets meaner and meaner before having everyone killed. Oh, and he's a EldritchAbomination, too]].
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* BadFuture: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler''. [[spoiler: It wound up just being a [[AllJustADream dreamed-up one, fortunately.]]
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** FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler: The future Wally becomes a dictator who gets meaner and meaner before having everyone killed. Oh, and he's a EldritchAbomination,too]].too. Again, this was thankfully just in a dream]].
** FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler: The future Wally becomes a dictator who gets meaner and meaner before having everyone killed. Oh, and he's a EldritchAbomination,
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* BadFuture: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler''.
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* AmusementParkOfDoom: While Fantasmo World in ''My Life as a Bigfoot Breath Mint'' is just your typical Disney World-{{Expy}}, it winds up becoming this when Wally forgets his slushie in the main ride control-room, resulting in it shorting out the system and causing all the rides to go haywire. [[HilarityEnsues Chaos Ensues]].
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* BrokenPedestal: Wally's Uncle Max, a famous stuntman, in ''My Life as a Bigfoot Breath Mint'' to Wally himself. At first, Max seems like the cool guy everyone (including Wally) thinks he is. As the book goes on, though, it becomes clear that Max is just a shallow, selfish scumbag who only lives and cares for himself (and is a target of loan sharks), to the point that he ''[[DirtyCoward leaves Wally to drown in a flooded stadium just to save his own skin]]'' then tells the media that ''he'' saved Wally, when it was actually Wally's dad who [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments risked his life to save Wally]]. Needless to say, Wally isn't happy when this happens.
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* NoFourthWall: [[FourthWallObserver Aside from Wally talking directly to the reader]], the events of previous books are sometimes referred to by their respective book titles.
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* PostscriptSeason: Book 12 onward; the closest thing the series had to an ongoing plot was Wally's dad trying to get his son to be more like a real man, and this was finally resolved in book 11.
* SharedUniverse: Another book series by Bill Myers, ''Secret Agent Dingledorf'', followed the misadventures of Wally's cousin, Bernie Dingledorf. ''Bloodhounds Inc.'', yet another book series by Bill Myers, also takes place in a town called Middleton, but it's not stated whether or not it's the same Middleton that Wally lives in.
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* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield WhereTheHeckIsMiddleton]]: It's never shown were Wally's town is, but there are several implications that it may be in Ohio or another state in the Midwest.
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* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield WhereTheHeckIsMiddleton]]: Where The Heck Is Middleton]]: It's never shown were Wally's town is, but there are several implications that it may be in Ohio or another state in the Midwest.
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* BalefulPolymorph: ''My Life As A Haunted Hamburger, Hold the Pickles''. Yes, Wally ''does'' get turned into a giant hamburger, though whether he actually became a hamburger [[AmbiguousSituation is left up in the air]].
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** ''[[SeriesFauxnale My Life As Polluted Pond Scum]]'', while not on the same level as ''Crocodile Junkfood'' was also considerably more serious than many of the other books, as it featured the fate of Wally's town being at stake, some rather shady goings on, and several characters nearly die in some rather violent ways.
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* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: The climax of ''My Life as Invisible Intestines''. Wally is accidentally turned invisible, and the process of turning him re-visible goes wrong, resulting in Wally morphing into an orange, an eraser, [[Series/BarneyAndFriends a Barney]] [[LawyerFriendlyCameo doll]], a glass of water, a pair of glasses, a candy bar, and a penny before finally returning to normal.
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* MadeOfIron: In reality, Wally would probably be dead ten times over from all the injuries he sustains over the course of the series. In ''My Life As A Tarantula Toe Tickler'', for example, he survives a ''ten thousand foot drop from the sky after flying up that high with [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant ears]].''
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* TheBully: Gary and Maddog.
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* NoSenseOfHumor: Pretty much everyone in Wally's superhero stories (usually the superhero) groans at "bad" jokes, even the ones that are ActuallyPrettyFunny. Everyone in the "Real World" is also this to a lesser extent. And they all think that the reader has no sense of humor too, expecting you to groan at every joke. (Something it shares with sister series Series/McgeeAndMe.)
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* NoSenseOfHumor: Pretty much everyone in Wally's superhero stories (usually the superhero) groans at "bad" jokes, even the ones that are ActuallyPrettyFunny. Everyone in the "Real World" is also this to a lesser extent. And they all think that the reader has no sense of humor too, expecting you to groan at every joke. (Something it shares with sister series Series/McgeeAndMe.Series/McGeeAndMe.)
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* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler'' ''"My Life As a Splatted Flat Quarterback"'' "My Life As a Stupendously Stomped Soccer Star".
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* HeelFaceTurn: Wally's superhero stories invariably end with the villain becoming good.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Wally's superhero stories invariably end with the villain becoming good. The only exceptions are [[{{Kaiju}} Lizard Lips]] in ''My Life As Alien Monster Bait'' and [[AIIsACrapshoot Toxoid Breath]] in ''My Life As A Broke Bungee Cord''.
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* NoSenseOfHumor: Pretty much everyone in Wally's superhero stories (usually the superhero) groans at "bad" jokes, even the ones that are ActuallyPrettyFunny. Everyone in the "Real World" is also this to a lesser extent. And they all think that the reader has no sense of humor too, expecting you to groan at every joke. (Something it shares with sister series WesternAnimation/McgeeAndMe.Series/McgeeAndMe.)
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Wall Street in book 21. "Skysurfing Skateboarder". Here Wall Street couldn't care less what plans Wally had with Opera and Little Buddy Leroy, she just keeps telling Wally that if you want to win, you gotta put yourself before everyone else. She does this more than once during the book.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Wall Street in book 21. "Skysurfing Skateboarder". Here Wall Street couldn't care less what plans Wally had with Opera and Little Buddy Leroy, she just keeps telling Wally that if you want to win, you gotta put yourself before everyone else.else, and continuously pushes him to prepare for the skateboarding race whether he wants to or not. She does this more than once during the book. Fortunately, she returns to being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in proceeding books.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Subverted, Wally's dad wants Wally to 'be a man' and that writing seems lame. Come book #11, where Dad, after [[spoiler: Wally saves the town]], accepts that Wally wants to be a writer and thinks he's a man. Unfortunately, after that book, [[NegativeContinuity Dad's back to wanting Wally to be a man and that writing seems lame.]] Though that may be because of how book #11 "Polluted Pond Scum", is the semi-GrandFinale of the series.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Subverted, Wally's dad wants Wally to 'be a man' and that writing seems lame. Come book #11, where Dad, after [[spoiler: Wally saves the town]], accepts that Wally wants to be a writer and thinks he's a man. Unfortunately, after that book, [[NegativeContinuity [[SnapBack Dad's back to wanting Wally to be a man and that writing seems lame.]] Though that may be because of how book #11 "Polluted Pond Scum", is the semi-GrandFinale of the series.
** During the events of the same book, Wally reminisces about his mis-adventures...thinking about how he saved the town from being flooded back in "Polluted Pond Scum"...except he actually saved the water from being contaminated by a disgruntled sewage employee who was in cahoots with a shady MegaCorp rather than merely preventing a flood.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The male "Save The Snails" terrorist. In ''My Life as Dinosaur Dental Floss'', he was an effeminate momma's boy. When he showed up later in the series, in book 16, he was basically a [[LooneyTunes Mugsy]] expy, complete with a SimpletonVoice. When the terrorists reappeared in book 23, however, he reverted back to the aforementioned momma's boy persona.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The male "Save The Snails" terrorist. In ''My Life as Dinosaur Dental Floss'', he was an effeminate momma's boy. When he showed up later in the series, in book 16, he was basically a [[LooneyTunes [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Mugsy]] expy, complete with a SimpletonVoice. When the terrorists reappeared in book 23, however, he reverted back to the aforementioned momma's boy persona.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Wall Street in book 21. "Skysurfing Skateboarder". Here Wall Street couldn't care less what plans Wally had with Opera and Little Buddy Leroy, she just keeps telling Wally that if you want to win, you gotta put yourself before everyone else. She does this more than once during the book.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''My Life As A Computer Cockroach": Long story short, Wally's antics with his computer, which [[ItMakesSenseInContext now has the ability to affect reality with what is typed into it]], ultimately lead up to [[spoiler: him inadvertently causing the Y2K bug]].
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* NeverMyFault: The main plot of Book 14: ''My Life As A Screaming Skydiver'' centers around Wally learning to avert this and take responsibility for his own actions.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''My Life As A ComputerCockroach": Cockroach'': Long story short, Wally's antics with his computer, which [[ItMakesSenseInContext now has the ability to affect reality with what is typed into it]], ultimately lead up to [[spoiler: him inadvertently causing the Y2K bug]].
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The male "Save The Snails" terrorist. In ''My Life as Dinosaur Dental Floss'', he was an effeminate momma's boy. When he showed up later in the series, he was basically a [[LooneyTunes Mugsy]] expy, complete with a SimpletonVoice.
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* TookALevelInDumbass: Opera started off being a fairly smart kid, but as the series went on, his intelligence grew lower and lower until he reached [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Patrick Star]] levels in the last couple of books.
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* BizarroEpisode: Wally's adventures are pretty strange, but the winner for the most [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM-arific]] installment of the series would be #13 ''My Life As A Blundering Ballerina''. Basically, Wally and Wall Street think each other have it easy, so they switch places to see who has it tougher. The book is chock full of BigLippedAlligatorMoments involving them (mostly Wally) doing each other's stuff (Wall Street plays football while Wally babysits a houseful of rowdy children). It starts to make more sense at the end, but it still qualifies for this trope.
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* NoSenseOfHumor: Pretty much everyone in Wally's superhero stories (usually the superhero) groans at "bad" jokes, even the ones that are ActuallyPrettyFunny. Everyone in the "Real World" is also this to a lesser extent. And they all think that the reader has no sense of humor too, expecting you to groan at every joke. (Something it shares with sister series McgeeAndMe.)
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* LethalKlutz: Wally is this to the extent that he's apparently been declared a "national [[WalkingDisasterArea disaster area]]." Whatever happens on his misadventures, you can bet that massive property damage and possible police intervention are sure to follow.
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''The Incredible Worlds Of Wally [=McDoogle=]'' is a series of books by Bill Myers, which follow the strange adventures of Wally, the world's most accident-prone kid, and his friends Wall Street and Opera, always ending with an {{Aesop}} derived from Christianity.
!!This series provides examples of:
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The titles of the books consistently started doing this with book 5: ''My Life As Dinosaur Dental Floss''.
* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler'' ''"My Life As a Splatted Flat Quarterback"'' "My Life As a Stupendously Stomped Soccer Star".
* AnimalWrongsGroup: Save The Snails
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Carrie, Wally's little sister, who rather comes across as a [[{{Peanuts}} Sally]] {{Expy}}
* AntiHero: Opera is a Type I. Wally is a Type II. Wall Street alternates between Type I and Type V.
* BadFuture: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler''.
** FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler: The future Wally becomes a dictator who gets meaner and meaner before having everyone killed. Oh, and he's a EldritchAbomination, too]].
* BizarroEpisode: Wally's adventures are pretty strange, but the winner for the most [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM-arific]] installment of the series would be #13 ''My Life As A Blundering Ballerina''. Basically, Wally and Wall Street think each other have it easy, so they switch places to see who has it tougher. The book is chock full of BigLippedAlligatorMoments involving them (mostly Wally) doing each other's stuff (Wall Street plays football while Wally babysits a houseful of rowdy children). It starts to make more sense at the end, but it still qualifies for this trope.
* BoundAndGagged: Happens in several of the books.
* TheBully: Gary and Maddog.
* ChewToy: Basically, the whole premise of the series is that Wally is an extreme one of these.
* CharacterDevelopment: Subverted, Wally's dad wants Wally to 'be a man' and that writing seems lame. Come book #11, where Dad, after [[spoiler: Wally saves the town]], accepts that Wally wants to be a writer and thinks he's a man. Unfortunately, after that book, [[NegativeContinuity Dad's back to wanting Wally to be a man and that writing seems lame.]] Though that may be because of how book #11 "Polluted Pond Scum", is the semi-GrandFinale of the series.
** Gary the Gorilla, the local bully, also gets some in the first book, and even seems to be becoming friends with Wally, but it's ''still'' subverted, in all proceeding books, he's back to bullying everyone.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The male "Save The Snails" terrorist. In ''My Life as Dinosaur Dental Floss'', he was an effeminate momma's boy. When he showed up later in the series, he was basically a [[LooneyTunes Mugsy]] expy, complete with a SimpletonVoice.
* ClarkKenting: Parodied along with a whole host of SuperheroTropes in Wally's stories.
* CloserToEarth: Wally's mom.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Wall Street, as revealed in book 3.
** [[spoiler:Gary]] in book 1.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''My Life As Crocodile Junkfood'' was considerably darker than any of the previous books as well as any of the subsequent books, presenting the reader with several cases of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence and at least one TearJerker moment.
* DeadpanSnarker: Wally himself.
* DenserAndWackier: Book 5 was the first case of this. From that point, the books in the series would alternate; some plots being relatively plausible and some just being insane.
* DisappearedDad: Gary
* TheDreaded: Gary, at first.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Gary the Gorilla, which is also his BerserkButton.
* FreudianTrio: Junk-food munching soft-hearted Opera is TheId, ruthless, intelligent CorruptCorporateExecutive [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold With A Heart Of Gold]] in the making Wall Street is TheSuperEgo, and Wally is TheEgo.
* GrandFinale: Book 11: ''My Life As Polluted Pond Scum''. [[PostscriptSeason Didn't stop the series from continuing, though;]] albeit under a new publisher.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:George]] in book 4. [[spoiler:Subverted in that he actually survived]].
* HeelFaceTurn: Wally's superhero stories invariably end with the villain becoming good.
* HollywoodNerd: Type 1.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Wall Street in book 21. "Skysurfing Skateboarder". Here Wall Street couldn't care less what plans Wally had with Opera and Little Buddy Leroy, she just keeps telling Wally that if you want to win, you gotta put yourself before everyone else. She does this more than once during the book.
* JerkJock: Wally's older brothers can be this on occasion, usually via annoying pranks more than anything else.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:James Blond in Book 14, although he and Wally parted on friendly terms]]
* TheKlutz: Wally, and ''how''
* LemonyNarrator: Wally
* LethalChef: Wally's little sister, Carrie. It's a running gag throughout the series that she is this, as, when it's her turn to cook, she dishes out stuff like candied Brussels sprouts, cauliflower cobbler, and boiled ice cream. Wally is also implied to be this in book #24. At one point he cooks breakfast for [[spoiler: Opera's parents]] and not only burns the toast, eggs, and bacon, but even their orange juice.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''My Life As A Computer Cockroach": Long story short, Wally's antics with his computer, which [[ItMakesSenseInContext now has the ability to affect reality with what is typed into it]], ultimately lead up to [[spoiler: him inadvertently causing the Y2K bug]].
* NoSenseOfHumor: Pretty much everyone in Wally's superhero stories (usually the superhero) groans at "bad" jokes, even the ones that are ActuallyPrettyFunny. Everyone in the "Real World" is also this to a lesser extent. And they all think that the reader has no sense of humor too, expecting you to groan at every joke. (Something it shares with sister series McgeeAndMe.)
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Averted for Opera, whose real name was revealed to be Oliver in book 7 "Human Hockey Puck", but played straight with Wall Street, whose real name is not revealed.
* PostscriptSeason: Book 12 onward; the closest thing the series had to an ongoing plot was Wally's dad trying to get his son to be more like a real man, and this was finally resolved in book 11.
* PursuedProtagonist: Wally in books 4 and 5.
* RunningGag: Gary trying to coax Wally into surrendering to the authorities throughout book 5.
* [[spoiler:SaveTheVillain: Book 14: My Life as a Screaming Skydiver]]
* SeriesContinuityError: In book #18 "Beat-Up Basketball Backboard", Wall Street mentions making money off of Wally since kindergarten, but Wally's only known her (and Opera) since the first book, where they were '''twelve'''.
* SkewedPriorities: ''My Life As Dinosaur Dental Floss'': Wall Street gives away her hiding place to the terrorists when she tries to catch a dollar bill that one of said terrorists dropped.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:Book 5. Wally has gone through absolute hell to keep terrorists from getting their hands on a vat of mysterious liquid which both he and they are convinced is a dangerous chemical weapon; it turns out that they're both wrong, it's just a jar of rhubarb sauce.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: In each book, Wally writes a superhero story, the complete text of which we are given.
* SpyFiction: Book 14 is basically one huge parody of the Martini variety.
* TakeThat: There's quite a few in book 18, such as this rather harsh one at WesternAnimation/BluesClues:
--> '''Wally''': Wall Street not making money off of me would be like water flowing uphill, or snow in July, or for them to make a show about a weird blue dog that gives clues.
* TeenSuperspy: In book 14. Naturally, this was PlayedForLaughs
* ThreeAmigos: Wally, Opera, and Wall Street
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: The main trio fit both the gender roles and the trope, but while Wall Street is the girl, ''she's'' TheLancer, while Opera is TheChick.
* WhosLaughingNow: The BigBad in ''My Life As Polluted Pond Scum''.
* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield WhereTheHeckIsMiddleton]]: It's never shown were Wally's town is, but there are several implications that it may be in Ohio or another state in the Midwest.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Wally's relationship with Wall Street is best described as this.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The titles of the books consistently started doing this with book 5: ''My Life As Dinosaur Dental Floss''.
* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler'' ''"My Life As a Splatted Flat Quarterback"'' "My Life As a Stupendously Stomped Soccer Star".
* AnimalWrongsGroup: Save The Snails
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Carrie, Wally's little sister, who rather comes across as a [[{{Peanuts}} Sally]] {{Expy}}
* AntiHero: Opera is a Type I. Wally is a Type II. Wall Street alternates between Type I and Type V.
* BadFuture: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler''.
** FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler: The future Wally becomes a dictator who gets meaner and meaner before having everyone killed. Oh, and he's a EldritchAbomination, too]].
* BizarroEpisode: Wally's adventures are pretty strange, but the winner for the most [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM-arific]] installment of the series would be #13 ''My Life As A Blundering Ballerina''. Basically, Wally and Wall Street think each other have it easy, so they switch places to see who has it tougher. The book is chock full of BigLippedAlligatorMoments involving them (mostly Wally) doing each other's stuff (Wall Street plays football while Wally babysits a houseful of rowdy children). It starts to make more sense at the end, but it still qualifies for this trope.
* BoundAndGagged: Happens in several of the books.
* TheBully: Gary and Maddog.
* ChewToy: Basically, the whole premise of the series is that Wally is an extreme one of these.
* CharacterDevelopment: Subverted, Wally's dad wants Wally to 'be a man' and that writing seems lame. Come book #11, where Dad, after [[spoiler: Wally saves the town]], accepts that Wally wants to be a writer and thinks he's a man. Unfortunately, after that book, [[NegativeContinuity Dad's back to wanting Wally to be a man and that writing seems lame.]] Though that may be because of how book #11 "Polluted Pond Scum", is the semi-GrandFinale of the series.
** Gary the Gorilla, the local bully, also gets some in the first book, and even seems to be becoming friends with Wally, but it's ''still'' subverted, in all proceeding books, he's back to bullying everyone.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The male "Save The Snails" terrorist. In ''My Life as Dinosaur Dental Floss'', he was an effeminate momma's boy. When he showed up later in the series, he was basically a [[LooneyTunes Mugsy]] expy, complete with a SimpletonVoice.
* ClarkKenting: Parodied along with a whole host of SuperheroTropes in Wally's stories.
* CloserToEarth: Wally's mom.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Wall Street, as revealed in book 3.
** [[spoiler:Gary]] in book 1.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''My Life As Crocodile Junkfood'' was considerably darker than any of the previous books as well as any of the subsequent books, presenting the reader with several cases of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence and at least one TearJerker moment.
* DeadpanSnarker: Wally himself.
* DenserAndWackier: Book 5 was the first case of this. From that point, the books in the series would alternate; some plots being relatively plausible and some just being insane.
* DisappearedDad: Gary
* TheDreaded: Gary, at first.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Gary the Gorilla, which is also his BerserkButton.
* FreudianTrio: Junk-food munching soft-hearted Opera is TheId, ruthless, intelligent CorruptCorporateExecutive [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold With A Heart Of Gold]] in the making Wall Street is TheSuperEgo, and Wally is TheEgo.
* GrandFinale: Book 11: ''My Life As Polluted Pond Scum''. [[PostscriptSeason Didn't stop the series from continuing, though;]] albeit under a new publisher.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:George]] in book 4. [[spoiler:Subverted in that he actually survived]].
* HeelFaceTurn: Wally's superhero stories invariably end with the villain becoming good.
* HollywoodNerd: Type 1.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Wall Street in book 21. "Skysurfing Skateboarder". Here Wall Street couldn't care less what plans Wally had with Opera and Little Buddy Leroy, she just keeps telling Wally that if you want to win, you gotta put yourself before everyone else. She does this more than once during the book.
* JerkJock: Wally's older brothers can be this on occasion, usually via annoying pranks more than anything else.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:James Blond in Book 14, although he and Wally parted on friendly terms]]
* TheKlutz: Wally, and ''how''
* LemonyNarrator: Wally
* LethalChef: Wally's little sister, Carrie. It's a running gag throughout the series that she is this, as, when it's her turn to cook, she dishes out stuff like candied Brussels sprouts, cauliflower cobbler, and boiled ice cream. Wally is also implied to be this in book #24. At one point he cooks breakfast for [[spoiler: Opera's parents]] and not only burns the toast, eggs, and bacon, but even their orange juice.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''My Life As A Computer Cockroach": Long story short, Wally's antics with his computer, which [[ItMakesSenseInContext now has the ability to affect reality with what is typed into it]], ultimately lead up to [[spoiler: him inadvertently causing the Y2K bug]].
* NoSenseOfHumor: Pretty much everyone in Wally's superhero stories (usually the superhero) groans at "bad" jokes, even the ones that are ActuallyPrettyFunny. Everyone in the "Real World" is also this to a lesser extent. And they all think that the reader has no sense of humor too, expecting you to groan at every joke. (Something it shares with sister series McgeeAndMe.)
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Averted for Opera, whose real name was revealed to be Oliver in book 7 "Human Hockey Puck", but played straight with Wall Street, whose real name is not revealed.
* PostscriptSeason: Book 12 onward; the closest thing the series had to an ongoing plot was Wally's dad trying to get his son to be more like a real man, and this was finally resolved in book 11.
* PursuedProtagonist: Wally in books 4 and 5.
* RunningGag: Gary trying to coax Wally into surrendering to the authorities throughout book 5.
* [[spoiler:SaveTheVillain: Book 14: My Life as a Screaming Skydiver]]
* SeriesContinuityError: In book #18 "Beat-Up Basketball Backboard", Wall Street mentions making money off of Wally since kindergarten, but Wally's only known her (and Opera) since the first book, where they were '''twelve'''.
* SkewedPriorities: ''My Life As Dinosaur Dental Floss'': Wall Street gives away her hiding place to the terrorists when she tries to catch a dollar bill that one of said terrorists dropped.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:Book 5. Wally has gone through absolute hell to keep terrorists from getting their hands on a vat of mysterious liquid which both he and they are convinced is a dangerous chemical weapon; it turns out that they're both wrong, it's just a jar of rhubarb sauce.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: In each book, Wally writes a superhero story, the complete text of which we are given.
* SpyFiction: Book 14 is basically one huge parody of the Martini variety.
* TakeThat: There's quite a few in book 18, such as this rather harsh one at WesternAnimation/BluesClues:
--> '''Wally''': Wall Street not making money off of me would be like water flowing uphill, or snow in July, or for them to make a show about a weird blue dog that gives clues.
* TeenSuperspy: In book 14. Naturally, this was PlayedForLaughs
* ThreeAmigos: Wally, Opera, and Wall Street
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: The main trio fit both the gender roles and the trope, but while Wall Street is the girl, ''she's'' TheLancer, while Opera is TheChick.
* WhosLaughingNow: The BigBad in ''My Life As Polluted Pond Scum''.
* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield WhereTheHeckIsMiddleton]]: It's never shown were Wally's town is, but there are several implications that it may be in Ohio or another state in the Midwest.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Wally's relationship with Wall Street is best described as this.
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