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* LeafBoat: Jeremy uses a lily leaf as a boat.

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* ButtMonkey: Poor Mr. Jeremy. At one point, a bunch of little fishes even poke their heads out of the water and laugh at him.



* ButtMonkey: Poor Mr. Jeremy. At one point, a bunch of little fishes even poke their heads out of the water and laugh at him.
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* PikePeril: Discussed when Jeremy, after nearly being killed by a trout, says that at least it wasn't a pike.

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* PikePeril: Discussed {{Lampshaded}} when Jeremy, after nearly being killed by a trout, says that at least it wasn't a pike.



* YouDirtyRat: Discussed when Jeremy hears an animal and worries that it's a rat.

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* YouDirtyRat: Discussed {{Lampshaded}} when Jeremy hears an animal and worries that it's a rat.
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* MayItNeverHappenAgain: Zigzagged. Jeremy decides he will never again go fishing lest encountering the trout again, but in ''Literature/TheTaleOfGingerAndPickles'', he's seen trying on galoshes... but then again, it's never stated that he wanted the galoshes to fish with.

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* MayItNeverHappenAgain: Zigzagged. Jeremy decides he will never again go fishing lest encountering he encounter the trout again, but in ''Literature/TheTaleOfGingerAndPickles'', he's seen trying on galoshes... but then again, it's never stated that he wanted the galoshes to fish with.
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* {{Fingore}}: The stickleback injures Jeremy's fingers and he sucks them in his mouth.

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* {{Fingore}}: The stickleback injures Jeremy's fingers fingers, and he sucks them in his mouth.on them.
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* CatchYourDeathOfCold: Zigzagged. While it's explicitly said that Jeremy ''didn't'' catch a cold because of the water, this is implied to be because he's a frog, rather than because water doesn't actually give people colds.


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* FiendishFish: Downplayed for the trout, who grabs Jeremy and it's implied he would've killed him, but spits him out due to hating the taste of the frog's raincoat.
* {{Fingore}}: The stickleback injures Jeremy's fingers and he sucks them in his mouth.
* FoodEnd: The book ends with Jeremy and his friends dining.
* FurryReminder: Jeremy is mostly anthropomorphic, but he does have a wet house and he also eats bugs like a real frog.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Jeremy wears coats and shirts, but no pants. This comes in useful when the trout spits him out due to not liking the taste of his clothes.


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* MayItNeverHappenAgain: Zigzagged. Jeremy decides he will never again go fishing lest encountering the trout again, but in ''Literature/TheTaleOfGingerAndPickles'', he's seen trying on galoshes... but then again, it's never stated that he wanted the galoshes to fish with.
* MeaningfulName: His last name is Fisher, and he goes fishing.
* PikePeril: Discussed when Jeremy, after nearly being killed by a trout, says that at least it wasn't a pike.


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* SpeciesSurname: One of Jeremy's friends is Sir Alderman Ptolemy ''Tortoise''.


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* YouDirtyRat: Discussed when Jeremy hears an animal and worries that it's a rat.
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* HappyRain: Jeremy likes getting his feet wet and is glad to see it raining. This is also because he plans to get some worms to go fishing with.

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* HappyRain: Jeremy likes getting his feet wet and is glad to see it raining. This is also because he plans to get some worms to go fishing with.use as fish bait.
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* HappyRain: Jeremy likes getting his feet wet and is glad to see it raining. This is also because he plans to dig up some worms to go fishing with.

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* HappyRain: Jeremy likes getting his feet wet and is glad to see it raining. This is also because he plans to dig up get some worms to go fishing with.
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* HappyRain: Jeremy likes getting his feet wet and is glad to see it raining. This is also because he plans to dig up some worms to go fishing with.
* ImNotDoingThatAgain: Jeremy, after nearly getting eaten by the trout, declares he'll never go fishing again.

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* AlienLunch: The narrator remarks that while roasted grasshopper with ladybug sauce is a delicacy to frogs, "I think it must have been nasty!"


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* WeirdWorldWeirdFood: The narrator remarks that while roasted grasshopper with ladybug sauce is a delicacy to frogs, "I think it must have been nasty!"

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* AnAesop: Sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.
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A story by BeatrixPotter in which a frog gentlemen goes fishing for minnows to serve to his friends for supper. His fishing expedition is plagued with mishaps, culminating when he nearly gets eaten by a huge trout. In the end, he gives up on the minnow idea and instead serves his friends some nice roasted grasshopper.

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A story ''The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher'' is a children's book by BeatrixPotter in which a Creator/BeatrixPotter. A frog gentlemen goes fishing for minnows to serve to his friends for supper. His fishing expedition is plagued with mishaps, culminating when he nearly gets eaten by a huge trout. In the end, he gives up on the minnow idea and instead serves his friends some nice roasted grasshopper.



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* ASimplePlan: All he wanted to do was catch a few fish.


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* ASimplePlan: All he wanted to do was catch a few fish.
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A story by BeatrixPotter in which the titular frog gentlemen goes fishing for minnows to serve to his friends for supper. His fishing expedition is plagued with mishaps, culminating when he nearly gets eaten by a huge trout. In the end, he gives up on the minnow idea and instead serves his friends some nice roasted grasshopper.

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A story by BeatrixPotter in which the titular a frog gentlemen goes fishing for minnows to serve to his friends for supper. His fishing expedition is plagued with mishaps, culminating when he nearly gets eaten by a huge trout. In the end, he gives up on the minnow idea and instead serves his friends some nice roasted grasshopper.
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A story by BeatrixPotter in which the titular frog gentlemen goes fishing for minnows to serve to his friends for supper. His fishing expedition is plagued with mishaps, culminating when he nearly gets eaten by a huge trout. In the end, he gives up on the minnow idea and instead serves his friends some nice roasted grasshopper.
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* ASimplePlan: All he wanted to do was catch a few fish.
* AlienLunch: The narrator remarks that while roasted grasshopper with ladybug sauce is a delicacy to frogs, "I think it must have been nasty!"
* ButtMonkey: Poor Mr. Jeremy. At one point, a bunch of little fishes even poke their heads out of the water and laugh at him.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After the trout incident, Jeremy decides that the minnows just aren't worth it.
* PunnyName: Sir Isaac Newton, who is a newt.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Inverted with the trout — once it gets a taste of Jeremy's mackintosh, it completely loses interest in eating him.
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