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* ToyDisguise: When the Tibbles come to the Read house to take James to their sleepover, D.W. hides him in her bedroom closet. When Timmy opens the closet, James pretends to be one of the stuffed toys in the closet, which Timmy falls for because his vision is distorted by [[ItMakesSenseInContext wearing James' glasses]] since he does not need glasses. Doubles as a FurryReminder as James is an anthropomorphic rabbit blending in as a stuffed one.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Are you ready for the Tibbles?]]]]


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* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: PlayedForDrama. D.W. asks James if she can have his fingerpaints if he doesn't survive the Tibbles' sleepover. It is obvious based on her expression and body language that she is ''not'' saying this in jest and is genuinely worried that James may die.


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* ThousandYardStare: The afternoon before he goes to the Tibbles' sleepover, James just sits in the sandbox staring straight ahead, showing how scared he is of going to it.


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[[caption-width-right:350:Should we call this a [[Podcast/ElwoodCityLimits rabbit court]]?]]


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* ShowWithinAShow: ''Habeas Canine, Legal Beagle'' is an in-universe comic book series starring an anthropomorphic dog lawyer. Ladonna shows the first book, "Habeas Versus Fat Cat", to D.W. and Bud when they inquire her about what a lawyer does.
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* ImagineSpot: D.W. imagines using that regular box for many things like a submarine, or a mobile home for birds.
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* ActingUnnatural: D.W. is caught off guard when Bud tells the Tibbles that D.W. is his lawyer.
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* GoodAngelBadAngel: James' consciences arguing over whether he should attend the Tibbles' sleepover is presented like this, with them as the angels.

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* GoodAngelBadAngel: James' consciences [[TheConscience consciences]] arguing over whether James telling the Tibbles that he should doesn't want to attend the Tibbles' their sleepover because he's not in the mood counts as lying is presented like this, with them his own conscience, who suggests the aforementioned course of action to him, as the angels.Bad Angel, and his conscience's ''own'' conscience, who calls out James' conscience because he thinks that's lying, as the Good Angel.


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* PersonAsVerb: Emily, believing James to be dead, mourns him saying he was "so Jamesy."
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: When D.W. and Emily believe that James died during his sleepover with the Tibbles due to his absence from school, they go to give his mother flowers as condolences... only for the door of his house to be opened by James himself, who explains he was only absent because he had a stomachache from all the sweets he ate at the sleepover.
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* GoodAngelBadAngel: James' consciences arguing over whether he should attend the Tibbles' sleepover is presented like this, with them as the angels.
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* ImagineSpot: James has one where the Tibbles sit him down on a machine called the "Flatter-fling" and use it to spin him around and send him flying into a wall.

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* ImagineSpot: James has one where the Tibbles sit him down on a machine called the "Flatter-fling" and use it to spin him around and send around, which presumably would have sent him flying into the wall if the Imagine Spot had continued a wall.bit longer, like what happened to the teddy bear that was on it before him.
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* NameAndName: "''Read'' and ''Flumberghast''." An unusual example in that they're surnames.
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* ThisExplainsSoMuch: D.W. and Emily think that James did not survive the sleepover because he is not at school. Then they find out that he just missed school because he had a stomachache from all the sweets he ate at the Tibbles sleepover, and suddenly, everything makes more sense to them.

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* ThisExplainsSoMuch: D.W. and Emily think that James did not survive the sleepover because he is not at school. Then they find out that he just missed school because he had a stomachache from all the sweets he ate at the Tibbles Tibbles' sleepover, and suddenly, everything makes more sense to them.

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James is invited to the first ever sleepover hosted by the Tibbles.
!!Night Of The Tibble contains examples of:

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James is invited to the first ever first-ever sleepover hosted by the Tibbles.
!!Night Of The Tibble !!"Night of the Tibble" contains examples of:



* CallBack: Timmy pretending to be Arthur saying “D.W., I didn’t take your snowball” is a reference to the episode “D.W’s Snow Mystery”.
* TheConscience: In this episode, James has two consciences, who tell him what to say to get out of the Tibbles’s sleepover.

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* CallBack: Timmy pretending to be Arthur saying “D.W., I didn’t take your snowball” is a reference to the episode “D.“[[Recap/ArthurS1E22DWsSnowMysteryTeamTrouble D.W’s Snow Mystery”.
Mystery]]”.
* TheConscience: In this episode, James has two consciences, who tell him what to say to get out of the Tibbles’s sleepover.Tibbles' sleepover.
* DramaticThunder: Present in TheTeaser when the Tibbles come looking for a new "victim" (sleepover guest), and in James' ImagineSpot of arriving at the Tibbles' sleepover, to emphasize how scary the Tibbles are from the other preschoolers' perspectives.
* FauxHorrific: The Tibbles' search for a guest for their sleepover is treated as if they were horror movie monsters looking for a new victim, complete with DramaticThunder and all the other preschoolers taking shelter inside the school when the wind changes direction, which they consider an omen of their arrival.
* FurryReminder: When Timmy is wearing James' glasses (distorting his vision since they are not prescribed for him), he mistakes James for a stuffed rabbit, something which would be unlikely to happen with a human. He even pulls on James' rabbit ear.
* ImagineSpot: James has one where the Tibbles sit him down on a machine called the "Flatter-fling" and use it to spin him around and send him flying into a wall.
* ShoutOut: The episode title is one to various horror works titled ''Night of the [Something]'', such as ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.



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* WingedHumanoid: James' consciences are personified as tiny versions of him with wings.

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!!Read And Flunberghast contains examples of:

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!!Read And Flunberghast !!"Read and Flumberghast" contains examples of:



* CrocodileTears: D.W. does this in many episodes.

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* CrocodileTears: D.W. does this in many episodes. In this particular episode, it's to guilt-trip Arthur into participating in her pretend courtroom session.
* GivenNameReveal: This episode reveals Nadine's surname to be Flumberghast. Somehow, not even D.W. knew her last name before, despite Nadine being her ImaginaryFriend.
* TitleDrop: When D.W. welcomes Bud to her pretend legal office, she calls it "Read and... Flumberghast."
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* ThisExplainsSoMuch: D.W. and Emily think that James did not survive the sleepover because he is not at school. Then they find out that he just missed school because he had a stomachache from all the sweets he ate at the Tibbles sleepover, and suddenly, everything makes more sense to them.

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* ThisExplainsSoMuch: D.W. and Emily think that James did not survive the sleepover because he is not at school. Then they find out that he just missed school because he had a stomachache from all the sweets he ate at the Tibbles sleepover, and suddenly, everything makes more sense to them.them.
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D.W. sets up a pretend legal firm at home. When Tommy is accused of stealing a cupcake from Bud, the preschoolers decide to put him on trial.

!!Read And Flunberghast contains examples of:

* CourtroomEpisode: D.W. and her friends play pretend court in this episode.
* CrocodileTears: D.W. does this in many episodes.
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James is invited to the first ever sleepover hosted by the Tibbles.
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* TheConscience: In this episode, James has two consciences, who tell him what to say to get out of the Tibbles’s sleepover.
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* CallBack: Timmy pretending to be Arthur saying “D.W., I didn’t take your snowball” is a reference to the episode “D.W’s Snow Mystery”.
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* BookEnds: The same exact dark sky appears at the beginning of the episode and at the end, only with different scenarios.

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* BookEnds: The same exact dark sky appears at the beginning of the episode and at the end, only with different scenarios.scenarios.
* ThisExplainsSoMuch: D.W. and Emily think that James did not survive the sleepover because he is not at school. Then they find out that he just missed school because he had a stomachache from all the sweets he ate at the Tibbles sleepover, and suddenly, everything makes more sense to them.
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* AnAesop: Not everything is as bad as it seems.

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* AnAesop: Not everything is as bad as it seems.seems.
* BookEnds: The same exact dark sky appears at the beginning of the episode and at the end, only with different scenarios.
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* An Aesop: Not everything is as bad as it seems.

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* An Aesop: AnAesop: Not everything is as bad as it seems.
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!!Night Of The Tibble contains examples of:

* An Aesop: Not everything is as bad as it seems.

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