History Literature / ThreeMenInABoat

* NoCanOpener: Which leads to a NoodleIncident.

* HypocriticalHumour: Quite a bit. In one passage the author breaks into an indignant speech against motor boats, and how they are unsportsmanlike and polluting, and make waves that flood your boat, and how those "boatsmen", who have them being towed by motorboats, are the shame of the honest boat-folk, and gives advise on how you should take every chance to annoy them by getting in their way. Later a friend with a motor boat offers to take ''them'' on a tow, and, naturally, before long he breaks into another indignant speech about those clumsy assholes on their stupid rowboats, who cannot see where they are going and get in the way of respectable people and how he'd like to murder them all.

* EpicFail: Uncle Podger again. There are a few more examples of his approach to doing things in the sequel.

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''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/308 Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)]]'' is a comic novel written by Jerome K. Jerome. Published in 1889, it is a humorous account of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. Despite being nearly 130 years old, its humor still holds up quite well to anyone with a preference for dry, British wit.

* HorribleCampingTrip: well, occasionally. Most of the time, they are enjoying themselves just fine, but some days are quite bad.

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* NoCanOpener: which leads to a NoodleIncident.

--->''"I read the prescription. It ran:''
---->''1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours.''
---->''1 ten-mile walk every morning.''
---->''1 bed at 11 sharp every night.''
---->''And don’t stuff up your head with things you don’t understand.”''

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: J comments that when he first got Montmorency, he would think: "Oh, that dog will never live. He will be snatched up to the bright skies in a chariot, that is what will happen to him." It's immediately subverted:

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Montmorency is a very explicit subversion.
-->When first he came to live at my expense, I never thought I should be able to get him to stop long. I used to sit down and look at him, as he sat on the rug and looked up at me, and think: “Oh, that dog will never live. He will be snatched up to the bright skies in a chariot, that is what will happen to him.”\\
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But, when I had paid for about a dozen chickens that he had killed; and had dragged him, growling and kicking, by the scruff of his neck, out of a hundred and fourteen street fights; and had had a dead cat brought round for my inspection by an irate female, who called me a murderer; and had been summoned by the man next door but one for having a ferocious dog at large, that had kept him pinned up in his own tool-shed, afraid to venture his nose outside the door for over two hours on a cold night; and had learned that the gardener, unknown to myself, had won thirty shillings by backing him to kill rats against time, then I began to think that maybe they’d let him remain on earth for a bit longer, after all.

Provides examples of:

* NoCanOpener: which leads to...
* NoodleIncident: we never know what ''exactly'' happened when J hit the can with the tree for the first time. We know only that Harris got a superficial wound, while the straw hat saved George's life.

* NostalgiaFilter: [[InvokedTrope Invoked, sort of]]. There is a sequence in which J muses on how his contemporary Victorians love pottery and sculpture from the past that would have been very ordinary in its day. He wonders if in the 20th and 21st centuries people will similarly adore very ordinary things from his own period, with Japanese tourists coming to take pictures of them in museums--a surprisingly accurate prediction.

And of course, it's the comic songs that bother Jerome the most. Then again, Harris is one of the world's most [[DreadfulMusician Dreadful Musicians]].

-> The sight of those [private property] notice-boards rouses every evil instinct in my nature. I feel I want to tear each one down, and hammer it over the head of the man who put it up, until I have killed him, and then I would bury him, and put the board up over the grave as a tombstone.

-> I mentioned these feelings of mine to Harris, and he said he had them worse than that. He said he not only felt he wanted to kill the man who caused the board to be put up, but that he should like to slaughter the whole of his family and all his friends and relations, and then burn down his house. This seemed to me to be going too far, and I said so to Harris; but he answered:

-> “Not a bit of it. Serve ’em all jolly well right, and I’d go and sing comic songs on the ruins.”

* CanineCompanion - The chaps have the canine delinquent Montmorency.
* DoomItYourself - Uncle Podger seems prone to this, as illustrated by the story of his hanging a painting.
* DreadfulMusician - When people laugh at Harris's comic songs, he takes it as a compliment. But it's not the lyrics that hey are laughing at.
* EpicFail - Uncle Podger again. There are a few more examples of his approach to doing things in the sequel.

* {{Gaslighting}} - Done by Jerome and Harris to George in Prague in the sequel ''Three Men on the Bummel''. In an attempt to stop him drinking so much, they exploit the fact that the Czechs have been putting up temporary statues of King Wenceslas all around the city to work out where the real one would look best, convincing George he's having drunken hallucinations.

* GiftedlyBad - Harris singing comic songs. He appears to be capable of single-handedly giving the pianist a nervous breakdown.
* HaveAGayOldTime - Use of the word ''queer'' to describe seasickness. However, in many ways, the book seems undated to the modern reader, with the jokes seeming fresh and witty even today.
* HorribleCampingTrip - well, occasionally. Most of the time, they are enjoying themselves just fine, but some days are quite bad.

* InducedHypochondria - Jerome does this to himself after accidentally reading an entire medical dictionary, and becoming convinced that he has ''every'' disease described in it (except housemaid's knee).

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody - There's a passage several pages long detailing how a person's mood depends entirely on what he is eating, and what this food is doing to the body.
* MoodWhiplash - Because of the above, the serious and somewhat sentimental passages sometimes seem a distraction to the comic novel. Many others are a leftover from the book's original concept, where it was a straight travel guide.
* NoCanOpener - which leads to...
* NoodleIncident - we never know what ''exactly'' happened when J hit the can with the tree for the first time. We know only that Harris got a superficial wound, while the straw hat saved George's life.

* StopDrowningAndStandUp - J describes this happening in a story about getting up early to swim on vacation.

* MoodWhiplash - Because of the above the serious and somewhat sentimental passages sometimes seem a distraction to the comic novel. Many others are a leftover from the book's original concept, where it was a straight travel guide.

* NoodleIncident - we never know what ''exactly'' happened when J hitted the can with the tree for the first time. We know only that Harris got a superficial wound, while the straw hat saved George's life.

And of course, it's the comic songs that bother Jerome the most. Then again, Harris is one of the worlds most [[DreadfulMusician Dreadful Musicians]].

* HypocriticalHumour: Quite a bit. In one passage the author breaks into an indignant speech against motor boats, and how they are unsportsmanlike and polluting, and make waves that flood your boat, and how those "boatsmen", who have them being towed by motorboats, are the shame of the honest boat-folk, and gives advise on how you should take every chance to annoy them by getting in their way. Later a friend with a motor boat offers to take ''them'' on a tow, and, naturally, before long he breaks into another indignant speech about those clumsy assholes on their stupid oarboats, who cannot see where they are going and get in the way of respectable people and how he'd like to murder them all.

''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/308 Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)]]'' is a comic novel written by Jerome K. Jerome. Published in 1889, it is a humorous account of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.

* HypocriticalHumour: Quite a bit. In one passage the author breaks into an indignant speech against motor boats, and how they are unsportsmanlike and polluting, and make waves that flood your boat, and how those "boatsmen", who have them being towed by motorboats, are the shame of the honest boat-folk, and gives advise on how you should take every chance to annoy them by getting in their way. Later a friend with a motor boat offers to take ''them'' on a tow, and, naturally, before long he breaks into another indidnant speach about those clumsy assholes on their stupid oarboats, who cannot see where they are going and get in the way of respectable people and how he'd like to murder them all.