For Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing
- In this book, Fudge is so young that he doesn't speak in complete sentences most of the time. His favorite thing to say is "No [X]." usually in response to being told not to do something or when he's forced into doing something he hates.
- The entirety of the "The Family Dog" chapter: To summarize, Fudge, for no apparent reason, refuses to eat anything. Later on, as the title states, he starts acting like a dog, only eating food when it's on the floor. The family decides to play along with it, but it eventually escalates.
- Anne naturally starts freaking out when Fudge refuses to eat. Peter tells her to leave it be and Fudge will eat when he's hungry. Anne ignores him and takes Fudge to a doctor... who tells her the same thing. Peter points this out and adds that he did it for free. His mother continues to ignore him and takes Fudge to two more doctors until one tells her what she wants to hear (i.e., that she should make Fudge his favorite foods and give him whatever he wants in order to get him to eat).
- And it all finally comes to a head that night when Anne makes him lamb chops. Fudge refuses them and demands cereal instead. Fudge then refuses to eat the cereal. His father comes to the end of his rope, telling Fudge that "You will eat that cereal or you will wear it!". Fudge still refuses, chanting "NO EAT! NO EAT! NO EAT!" So Warren marches him to the bathtub and upends the entire bowl of cereal over his head. Although this may border on child abuse due to Values Dissonance, it's still pretty funny. Also counts as a Moment of Awesome. It also spawned Fudge's newest Catchphrase: "Eat it or wear it!"
- After Fudge loses his two front teeth, Peter decides to call him "Fang" because the gap in his mouth makes him look like he has fangs.
- Fudge's third birthday party. The three guests include Big Eater Ralph, Cowardly Lion Sam, and Jennie, who's an even worse Bratty Half-Pint than Fudge! Such mishaps include...
- Fudge refusing to wear his new suit, screaming "No suit! No suit! NO ... NO ... NO!" while his grandmother tries to put it on. He puts up so much of a fight that his mother and grandmother decide to make him wear his old bedroom slippers instead of some nice shoes.
- Fudge immediately snatching a frosting rose off his birthday cake when blowing out the candles, prompting Ralph to do the same. Then later when Ralph is served a second piece of cake, he pukes right after finishing it.
- Ralph and Sam fighting over a wind-up toy car Ralph was giving Fudge as a birthday present.
- Fudge's reaction to seeing that Sam got him a picture dictionary he already has... he shouts "NO! NO MORE BOOK!" and throws it across the room.
- A game of dancing with balloons soon turns to the kids just running around the apartment and jumping on furniture, including Fudge's new bed he got as his parents' birthday present.
- When Peter shows the kids his turtle Dribble, Jennie asks if Dribble can "make a tinkle." Then she says she can do so as well, and proceeds to intentionally pee on the living room floor.
- Both funny and heartwarming has the scared Sam going from not wanting to be at the party to not wanting to leave.
- Later on, at a hamburger restaurant, Fudge sings "Eat it or wear it!" and dumps a bowl of peas over his head.
- After that, when Anne asks Fudge if he can eat nicely like Peter, Fudge just pops the balloon he got from the shoe store with his fork and is startled by the loud bang, shouting "All gone! Want more balloon! MORE!" To which Peter yells "Shut up! Can't you ever act human?!"
- When Anne goes away for the weekend to visit her sister in Boston, Warren attempts to run things normally with Peter and Fudge, and he decides to cook a "super-duper" mushroom omelet. Fudge likes it ("Oh... good!") but Peter finds it tastes horrible but doesn't want to hurt his father's feelings, and then when Warren has a bite he chokes and spits it out. Among throwing the omelet away, Fudge cries that he wants more, ignoring Warren explaining it wasn't good by shouting "EAT IT OR WEAR IT! EAT IT OR WEAR IT!" and throws his spoon, knocking over a potted plant. Warren reprimands Fudge for his actions..."Now you stop that! I'm going to make us nice peanut butter sandwiches. Then you're going to have a bath! Your mommy's coming home tomorrow and we're going to show her how well Daddy managed all by himself!"
For Superfudge
- Fudge finds out that his parents are expecting another child. He then recites the months, counts by tens and tries to say the alphabet: "A, B, C, D, E, F, G, R, B, Y, Z..."Peter: Will somebody turn him off?
- As Peter rides Fudge to their first day of school on his bike, Fudge sings on how he is starting kindergarten. Then when Peter arrives at his sixth-grade class, he finds his classmates singing about starting sixth grade (as they are at a K-6 elementary school.)
- When Fudge is showing off Uncle Feather, his pet mynah bird, to his former kindergarten class, he informs the uptight Mrs. Hildebrandt that Uncle Feather can speak French. Considering how she acted earlier to the point where Peter had enough of her, it's incredibly amusing and somewhat deserved.Mrs. Hildebrandt, to the bird: Oh, parlez vous Francias?Uncle Feather: (cocks head) Bonjour, stupid!
- Jimmy Fargo's first encounter with Uncle Feather when he comes to visit the Hatchers in Princeton...Jimmy: Hey, turkey brain... my name's Jimmy. Can you say that? Jimmy.Uncle Feather: Say that... say that...Jimmy: No, dumbo! It's Jimmy!Uncle Feather: Dumbo Jimmy... dumbo Jimmy...Jimmy: No... it's just plain Jimmy!Uncle Feather: Plain Jimmy... plain Jimmy...Jimmy: I give up, you turkey brain!Uncle Feather: Turkey... turkey... Jimmy turkey...Jimmy: Stop it!Uncle Feather: Stop it... stop it...Jimmy: I quit!Uncle Feather: Quit... quit... quit...Jimmy: (laughs, to Peter) Some bird!
For Fudge-a-Mania
- At the Tico-Taco restaurant, Peter, not amused by Fudge now calling him "Pete," intentionally pushes Fudge's Berserk Button by calling him "Farley," to which Fudge screams, "Don't call me Farley! I'M FUDGE!!!" The waiter overhears this and tells them they do not have fudge available for dessert that evening.
- When Peter and Fudge learn of Sheila's friend from Tarrytown Mouse Ellis, Fudge comes up with this rhyme...Fudge: Mouse, mice, creepy crawly lice!Sheila: Fudgie! That's not exactly nice!
- When Uncle Feather goes missing, Fudge describes him to a woman. However, he never mentions that Uncle Feather is a bird, assuming everybody knows, so the woman believes the Hatcher brothers have an uncle who wears a snorkel (explaining the "yellow nose") and is "a bit weird upstairs".
Double Fudge
- Tootsie pronounces "shoe" as "Sue". For reasons, Fudge lost his sneaker on a train. The kids are with their dad as they explain what happened to a security guard. When she says that it was a very dumb thing to do and that you may as well say "bye bye shoe", Tootsie imitates her by saying "Bye bye, Sue!" She's surprised and asked how Tootsie knows her name. Fudge goes Comically Missing the Point and asks if her first name is Shoe. Peter says they're not telling her Tootsie can't pronounce "Sh".
- Fudge's response to being told that money is finite and you can't just get it out of the ATM whenever you want.
- "Yes, you can, it works every time!"
