YMMV / Weenies

• Designated Hero: The kid from "Feed the Cat" can certainly come across as this since he gladly let another kid (who was admittedly kind of a bully) get eaten by a giant cat and was seemingly more angered at the fact that he wasn't getting the money to take care of the pets.
• Designated Villain: Quite a few characters are treated as villains that get their due comeuppance (like say, getting turned into a slug only minutes after eating salty products, getting sucked by real vampires while hosting a vampire party, and getting fried to death during what they thought was a science experiment in class) even though sometimes their biggest crime is that they're assholes. Of course this could very be intentional as to provide more scares for the reader.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: "All The Rage" is about a couple of classmates who try and upset a fellow kid who never seems to ever get angry or even remotely upset. They all keep pulling escalatingly cruel and humiliatingly stuff on the kid to the point where they finally do manage to get him upset. However, it turns out the kid harbored inside him what could only be described as a hate-and-anger-fueled demon spirit that lashes out at and attacks the kids, even killing the protagonist. Yeah...
• Older Than They Think: The stories in the first book, In the Land of the Lawn Weenies, are actually from two short collections David Lubar did previously called The Psycho Zone. Lawn Weenies was simply one of the stories in the second one, and the rest is history.
• Values Dissonance: As satisfying as the ending to The Substitute is, the concept of a kid letting their classmates die out of frustration with them would be a much harder sell these days.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Gruesome monsters, horrifying predicaments, characters that aren't even that villainous getting cruel punishments, people getting away with murder, and yet it's commonly found in the children's section of libraries!

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