History Sandbox / AnoneMouseJr2

* KarmaHoudini: Subverted in chapter 3 ("The Case of the Scrambled Eggs"), where Bugs tried to frame Encyclopedia for egging a couple of windows. When his lies are exposed, he's forced to wash the windows by hand to clean up his mess.

Editor's note: This page is for the purpose of adding tropes so that there's at least one for every single chapter of each book in the [[Literature/EncyclopediaBrown parent series]], and then splitting them into individual book pages when there's enough eventually. I own all 29 books; as of 02/13/24, 1-11, 15 and 17 have at least 1 trope for every chapter, and 15 1/2 has one for all eight non-recipe chapters. 28 more chapters from books 12-18 still need at least one trope per chapter.

* #3: The Case of the Red Sweater%%Needs at least one trope.
* #4: The Case of the Painting Gerbils%%Needs at least one trope.
* #5: The Case of the Time Capsule%%Needs at least one trope.
* #6: The Case of Freddy the Great%%Needs at least one trope.

Editor's note: This page is for the purpose of adding tropes so that there's at least one for every single chapter of each book in the [[Literature/EncyclopediaBrown parent series]], and then splitting them into individual book pages when there's enough eventually. I own all 29 books; as of 11/30/23, 1-9, 11, 15 and 17 have at least 1 trope for every chapter, and 15 1/2 has one for all eight non-recipe chapters.

* HollywoodLaw: Bugs Meany repeatedly tries to frame Encyclopedia for something, only for the other boy to prove that the accusations are bogus. Knowingly filing a fraudulent criminal complaint is a crime in and of itself in 99% of police jurisdictions, so Bugs' attempts to get ''the police chief's son'' arrested for crimes that never happened should have gotten ''him'' arrested and thrown into a juvenile detention facility by the end of the third book. And even if he was released, the police would likely ignore any later accusations from Bugs on that grounds that he was a known perjurer.

* {{Kidanova}}: Tyrone Taylor appears in a few cases and apparently has a history of trying to woo a lot of different girls. Oh, he's also ''9''.

* MysteryFiction

* ConvictionByContradiction: In chapter 8 ("The Case of The Blueberry Pies"), Encyclopedia is watching a pie eating contest combined with a foot race. When one of the Thompsons twins is declared the winner, he instantly knew they cheated and swapped places when the twin showed off a beautiful clean smile. Anyone who had scarfed down two blueberry pies would've had their teeth stained.

* #1: The Case of the Stolen Money%%Needs at least one trope.
* #2: The Case of the Talking House%%Needs at least one trope.

* #6: The Case of the Barefoot Thieves%%Needs at least one trope.
* #7: The Case of the Dog-Paddle Derby%%Needs at least one trope.

* #9: The Case of the Pet Skunk%%Needs at least one trope.

* ConvictionByContradiction: In chapter 4 ("The Case of the Roman-Numeral Robber"), the perp claims to have been out of town during the crime, but knows details about some contemporaneous local event ([[SarcasmMode because, clearly, he never talks to anyone about local events or reads newspapers]]).

* #3: The Case of the Parking Meters%%Needs at least one trope.

* CalculatorSpelling: Played for drama in (). A boy who was always playing around with his calculator has been kidnapped and his calculator has the number 577345 on the display. Encyclopedia realizes that this spells "shells" when looked at upside down, which leads them to the kidnapper, who had a booth selling shells.

* KarmaHoudini: Subverted in () -- Bugs has tried to frame Encyclopedia for egging a bunch of windows. When his lies are exposed, he's forced to wash all the windows by hand to clean up his mess.

Editor's note: This page is for the purpose of adding tropes so that there's at least one for every single chapter of each book in the [[Literature/EncyclopediaBrown parent series]], and then splitting them into individual book pages when there's enough eventually. I own all 29 books; as of 11/13/23, 1-9, 11 and 15 have at least 1 trope for every chapter, and 15 1/2 has one for all eight non-recipe chapters.

* SuspiciouslyPrescientPlanning: () has Chief Brown ask for help with a case of vandalism. The rudder of a boat was smashed just before a boat race was to take place. Suspicion falls on the rivals of the boat's owner, but Encyclopedia realizes that the boat's owner smashed the rudder himself. How? The owner's wife was to join him in the race, but she got her hair done before the race was postponed. She wouldn't have done that if the race were going ahead because the wind would have ruined her hairdo.

* #1: The Case of the Blond Wig%%Needs at least one trope.
* #2: The Case of the Battle Cries%%Needs at least one trope.
* #3: The Case of the Stolen Tools%%Needs at least one trope.

The seventeenth book in the ''Encyclopedia Brown'' series. Its original release also featured a special chapter at the end, "The Case of the Missing Birthday Gift", which lacked a published solution; instead, readers had to send in their own solutions, with the winner receiving a BMX bicycle and an autographed copy of the book. To date, no solution has ever been publicly released.\\\

* #5: The Case of the Stolen Jewels%%Needs at least one trope.

* #7: The Case of Orson's Tree%%Needs at least one trope.
* #8: The Case of Lathrop's Hobby%%Needs at least one trope.

* #10: The Case of the Worm Pills%%Needs at least one trope.

* BlatantLies: In chapter 3, Bugs claims to have been sitting outside the zebra exhibit, drawing a zebra from sight. The portrait shows a zebra with ''horizontal'' (sideways) stripes, as opposed to ''vertical'' (up and down), exposing his lies.

* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Round Pizza") has ? hire Encyclopedia to retrieve a stolen pizza from Bugs Meany and his gang.

* EnemyEatsYourLunch: In chapter 2 ("The Case of the Invisible Writing"), Encyclopedia gets hired by ? after Bugs Meany trades them a phony method of making writing disappear and reappear for a key lime pie.

Editor's note: This page is for the purpose of adding tropes so that there's at least one for every single chapter of each book in the series, and then splitting them into individual book pages when there's enough eventually. I own all 29 books; as of 11/13/23, 1-9, 11 and 15 have at least 1 trope for every chapter, and 15 1/2 has one for all eight non-recipe chapters.

Editor's note: This page is for the purpose of adding tropes so that there's at least one for every single chapter of each book in the series, and then splitting them into individual book pages when there's enough eventually. I own all 29 books; as of 07/03/23, 1-8, 11 and 15 have at least 1 trope for every chapter, and 15 1/2 has one for all eight non-recipe chapters.

* #1: The Case of the Growling Dog%%Needs at least one trope.
* #2: The Case of the Red Harmonica%%Needs at least one trope.
* #3: The Case of the Knockout Artist%%Needs at least one trope.

* #8: The Case of the Rattlesnake's Rattle%%Needs at least one trope.

!!YMMV:

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Blatantly and glaringly set in UnintentionalPeriodPiece/TheEighties, especially with the [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes rock star]] that Sally admires and the computer that she and Encyclopedia use to organize suspects and motives.

%%* BrokenGlassPenalty: Book ?, chapter ? ("The Case of the ") has some kids breaking a window from the inside and accidentally throwing the ball out the window. To avoid getting in trouble they put a rock on the floor in the room and told their mother that someone had thrown the rock in, that's how the window got broken. The mother figures out that if the rock had been thrown in there would be glass in the room -- but there wasn't, only glass on the ground outside.

* ConvictionByContradiction: Used constantly, to the extent that the trope page has its own folder just for Encyclopedia Brown! The series contains classic examples of the trope. It's even the former trope namer -- BugsMeanyIsGonnaWalk. For specific examples, see individual folders. Currently unidentified examples include:
** A boy blows his fake alibi by tracing a shirt pocket on the wrong side of his chest. This is perfectly understandable, since everyone is accustomed to seeing images of themselves in the mirror, where left and right are flipped.
** A man tries to claim insurance money on a painting he's reported stolen. His story goes that while shaving after a shower, he saw reflected in the mirror a man stalking away with the painting. Encyclopedia explains that the claim is a fraud because a mirror would be foggy after a shower and so the man wouldn't have been able to see anything. (Never mind that it only takes a second to wipe away condensation, something people often do when they ''need to shave''. Or cold showers, or how movement and shapes are still discernible through a foggy mirror. Or how some people use a fan or leave the bathroom door open specifically so that the mirror doesn't fog up in the first place. And finally, as ScienceMarchesOn, fog-free mirrors now exist.)
** Still another case hinged on the detective's belief that a real resident of San Francisco would never ever refer to the city as "Frisco." While it's true that residents of the city traditionally hate that nickname, it's not exactly an enforced law, at least not since [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton Emperor Norton]] died. (Note: This is from "More Two-Minute Mysteries", in "The Case of the Railroad Robbery". May also be in an EB story; need to look.)
** In one story, a man claimed an item of his had been stolen during a thunderstorm. The house was dark because the power was out. He was awoken by a thunderclap, then saw the burglar ''in the lightning flash that followed''. E Brown knew that the man was lying (he had actually stolen his own property for the insurance money, then made up the story), since in real life, thunder follows lightning, not the other way around. Of course, it's inconceivable that there would be ''more than one lightning flash'' during the course of a thunderstorm.
** One case was solved because the culprit claimed their wobbly table was knocked and various possessions spilled on the floor. EB points out that the table was three-legged, and that such tables can't tilt. Three-legged tables won't be wobbly even if the legs are different lengths. However, if the table was on a slant to begin with, jostling it might very well knock it over, or at least knock the items off.

* FakingAndEntering: Used in [[spoiler: chapter 1 ("The Case of Natty Nat"), the very first case in the series, in which a man accuses known burglar Natty Nat of robbing his store when he'd really spent the money and didn't want his partner to know]].

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Missing Roller Skates") has a pair of roller-skates stolen from Encyclopedia while the latter was at the dentist. He asks his main suspect (a kid who had a doctor's appointment in the same building) if he was in Dr. Vivian Wilson's office. The kid claims "I never heard of him until you mentioned his name" and that he didn't go near Wilson's office because he "had a sprained wrist, not a toothache". In other words, despite supposedly never having heard of him, the kid not only knew that Dr. Wilson was a dentist but that he was a man despite his [[GenderBlenderName first name being "Vivian"]].

* ObfuscatingDisability: Deliberately invoked by the perp in [[spoiler: chapter 5 ("The Case of the Bank Robber"), where the titular robber is in league with the beggar Blind Tom, whom Encyclopedia realizes is faking his blindness moments after meeting him.]]

* BreakTheFake: [[spoiler:An aversion of this is a major clue in chapter 8 ("The Case of the Stolen Diamonds"), when a "fake" diamond necklace is thrown aside by the suspect but ''doesn't'' break as a glass one should have.]]

* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Chapter 4 ("The Case of Sir Biscuit-Shooter") involves a friend's uncle who had spent time in prison, but had gone straight and was now working in a circus. His role was a clown named Sir Godfrey Biscuit Shooter, who wore a VERY noisy "armor" made of pots and pans. Later, Sir Biscuit Shooter is accused of knocking out the star of the circus and stealing her money--all because [[ReformedButRejected he had been in prison]]. Many of the circus performers think Sir Biscuit Shooter is the guilty one. [[spoiler: Encyclopedia proves the thief was the bareback rider who wore soft slippers and was able to move stealthily. Sir Biscuit Shooter couldn't have pulled off the crime undetected as the clanking of his pots and pans would have given him away.]]

* PressurePoint: Chapter 2 ("The Case of the Super-Secret Hold") has Bugs Meany demonstrate his "judo" skills, including a pressure point knockout. [[spoiler:Encyclopedia Brown points out that it's faked because the targets went stiff and fell backward, but human physiology causes someone rendered unconscious while standing on flat ground to naturally go limp and fall forwards]].

* InUniverseFactoidFailure: Chapter 4 ("The Case of the Cave Drawings") has him trying to sell a dinosaur dig with a drawing of a dinosaur attacking a caveman. Justified in that Wilford is a high school dropout.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: An unusual example in chapter 3 ("The Case of the Flying Submarine"). A new submarine slips out of its airlift, and Encyclopedia, Sally and the Tigers are the first people on the scene. The police arrive soon after to make sure nothing happens to the submarine before the military can show up and reclaim it. Bugs claims Encyclopedia was going to steal equipment from inside, and even though Bugs must be notorious as a crank and Encyclopedia helps his father crack important cases over the dinner table all the time, Chief Brown does his job and says he has to take the claim seriously. Of course it's proven to be a lie, but it shows what a good cop Chief Brown really is because he knows he can't pick sides no matter what.

* #4: The Case of the Headless Runner%%Needs at least one trope.

* ConvictionByContradiction: In chapter 6 ("The Case of the Tooth Puller"), a carnival tent gets upended, and the take is stolen in the confusion. When Encyclopedia studies the injuries of the performers, he suspects the magician; the reason? He's wearing a short-sleeved outfit, and "all magicians wear long sleeves to hide things in." This example is also listed under ConvictionByCounterfactualClue.

* #10: The Case of the Seven-Foot Driver%%Needs at least one trope.

* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue: Chapter 3 ("The Case of the Two-Timers"): A perp who's trying to frame Encyclopedia for claiming ownership of the town clock and charging people to use it to set their watches is "proved" as a liar because he used his left hand to set his own watch, because of the "fact" that when you set your watch with your left hand, you're holding it upside down. In reality, a person could simply be more comfortable using their left hand, and compensate for it when setting their watch, or that one could buy left-handed watches specifically to avoid this problem, and ignoring that watch faces are quite easy to read upside down.

* RedLiveLobster: Subverted in chapter 2 ("The Case of the Hypnotism Lesson"), Bugs Meany offers a kid lessons on how to hypnotize a lobster, and takes an instant color photo of himself performing the stunt in order to prove he's legitimate. But when Encyclopedia sees the photo of Bugs "hypnotizing" a bright red lobster, he knows it was already boiled and dead at the time, and Bugs returns the kid's money.

* DownerEnding: Chapter 9 ("The Case of the Missing Watchgoose") has one of Encyclopedia's friends hires him to find a missing goose. She explains they are guard animals but she's attached to Columbus Day, the bird that has vanished. While Encyclopedia finds it ridiculous to go on a literal WildGooseChase, he sympathizes and agrees to help. [[spoiler: He finds out too late that two men slaughtered the goose Columbus Day and cooked it for their morning meal. Needless to say, the epilogue features the girl crushed that her pet is dead]].

* #3: The Case of Bugs's Zebra%%Needs at least one trope.

* ConvictionByContradiction: In chapter 4 ("The Case of the Roman-Numeral Robber"), the perp claims to have been out of town during the crime, but knows details about some contemporaneous local event (because, clearly, he never talks to anyone about local events or reads newspapers).

* BerserkButton: As discussed in chapter 3 ("The Case of the Black Horse"), Waldo Emerson, one of the neighborhood kids, flips out when he hears the word "round" in any context. It's because he believes the world is actually flat, and is extremely offended by any reminder that other people don't believe the same thing.

* TheEighties: Glaringly so, especially with the [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes rock star]] that Sally admires and the computer that she and Encyclopedia use to organize suspects and motives.

* WhatsAHenway: In chapter 1 ("The Case of the Secret Pitch"), Speedy Flanagan asks Encyclopedia, "What do you know about Browning?" and Encyclopedia responded, "Not much, I've never browned."

* DoesNotLikeShoes: One recurring character is Charlie Stewart, a boy who collects animal teeth, who usually walks around barefoot in the hopes of finding new specimens under his feet.