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* As the kid's are entering Mulgarath's lair, having fought their way through this far by sheer luck and determination, Mallory asks if they have anything remotely resembling a plan once they find their mother. Both Jared and Simon's respond with a BluntNo.
* At the beginning as Simon attempts to convince Byron the griffin not to eat Hogsqueal. Mallory protests this plan - loudly - drawing the Griffin's attention, causing her to then quietly apologise.
** Hogsqueal meanwhile continuously corrects everyone that he is a ''hob''goblin.
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--> '''Jared:''' Here, more honey! (''Tosses the cracker with honey to Thimbletack'')\\

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--> ---> '''Jared:''' Here, more honey! (''Tosses the cracker with honey to Thimbletack'')\\
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* Mallory and Jared trying to tend to Simon's bitten leg while freaking out.
--> '''Simon:''' It's gonna be bad! It's bad!
--> ''(pulls up his trouser leg. All scream when they see the blood.)''
--> '''Simon:''' Oh, God. No, that's bad.
--> '''Jared:''' ''(looking for their mother)'' Mom!
--> '''Mallory:''' Jared! What were those things?
--> '''Jared:''' I told you, goblins.
--> '''Mallory:''' ''(pours disinfectant on Simon's wound)'' It's okay, Simon. It's okay.
--> '''Simon:''' ''(in pain from the disinfectant)'' No, it's not okay! It's not! It's not!
--> '''Mallory:''' He's right. What am I saying? Of course it isn't!
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* Mallory rightly worries that the injured griffin will attack them. Simon tells her that sometimes animals will let humans care for them.
--> '''Simon:''' I found a rat like that once. It only bit me when it got better.
* What with everything that happens that day, the kids don't get home until one in the morning. Naturally their mother demands to know where they've been. Mallory and Simon look at Jared.
--> It suddenly occurred to Jared that they were waiting for him to come up with an excuse.
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* Jared gives his mother a pair of knives to prepare her for the incoming invasion.
--> '''Jared:''' Steel. It cuts and burns.
--> '''Helen:''' Good thing we're [[BrooklynRage New Yorkers]].

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!!Administrivia/SpoilersOff applies to all Funny pages, so all spoilers are unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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* In the movie, Hogsqueal yelling at Byron, "Fly while you can, gryphon! [[spoiler:I swallowed an ogre whole!]] You could be next!"

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* In the movie, Hogsqueal yelling at Byron, "Fly while you can, gryphon! [[spoiler:I I swallowed an ogre whole!]] whole! You could be next!"

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* Mallory calling out Jared for reading the field guide, when it explicitly states on the front that it should ''not'' be read.
--> '''Mallory:''' The book had a note that said "do not read", and you still read it?!



* Mallory calling out Jared for reading the field guide, when it explicitly states on the front that it should ''not'' be read.
--> '''Mallory:''' The book had a note that said "do not read", and you still read it?!



* Hogsqueal revealing to Mallory and Jared that he can give the gift of the "sight" through his [[SuperSpit spit]]. Neither of the siblings are enthused by the thought of the hobgoblin spitting in their eyes.
** The illustration shows Mallory standing in front of Hogsqueal, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck clearly bracing herself for the spit about to come]].

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* Hogsqueal revealing to Mallory and Jared and Simon that he can give the gift of the "sight" through his [[SuperSpit spit]]. Neither of the siblings are enthused by the thought of the hobgoblin spitting in their eyes. \n While he does spit in a handkerchief and gives it to them, it doesn't make the experience less disgusting.
** The illustration shows showing Mallory standing in front of Hogsqueal, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck clearly bracing herself for the spit about to come]].
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[[AC: Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide]]

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[[AC: !! Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide]]Guide
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* When the Grace siblings return the field guide to Arthur, the elves are mildly surprised that Jared kept his word on giving the book to them, and the queen lightly notes that if they tricked them again, Simon would be the one staying with them for a long, long time. Simon nervously gulps at the queen's joke.

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* When the Grace siblings return the field guide to Arthur, the elves are mildly surprised that Jared kept his word on giving the book to them, and the queen lightly notes that if they tricked them again, Simon would be the one staying with them for a long, long time. Simon nervously gulps at the queen's joke.joke.

[[AC: Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide]]
* In one description of a boggart, Arthur writes that it tried to steal his spectacles.
** A changeling named Fink that he studied also became interested in his glasses.

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* Mallory calling out Jason for reading the field guide, when it explicitly states on the front that it should ''not'' be read.

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* Mallory calling out Jason Jared for reading the field guide, when it explicitly states on the front that it should ''not'' be read.



* Hogsqueal revealing to Mallory and Jason that he can give the gift of the "sight" through his [[SuperSpit spit]]. Neither of the siblings are enthused by the thought of the hobgoblin spitting in their eyes.

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* Hogsqueal revealing to Mallory and Jason Jared that he can give the gift of the "sight" through his [[SuperSpit spit]]. Neither of the siblings are enthused by the thought of the hobgoblin spitting in their eyes.
** The illustration shows Mallory standing in front of Hogsqueal, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck clearly bracing herself for the spit about to come]].



* When Helen leaves a plate of cookies for Lucinda, she thanks her but has a face that Jared describes as "like she was offered a plate of cockroaches". However, this is due to the fact that she eats the food her Sprite friends provide her, causing human food to taste like dust in her mouth.

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* When Helen leaves a plate of cookies for Lucinda, she thanks her but has a face that Jared describes as "like she was offered a plate of cockroaches". However, this is due to the fact that she eats the food her Sprite friends provide her, causing human food to taste like dust dust, or cockroaches in her mouth.
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** What's funnier is how you can find a CreatorCameo in this chapter's illustration or Holly and Diterlizzi sitting in the stands.

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* Mulgarath berates his henchmen for not kidnapping the right Jared, and instead getting [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins Simon]]. Red Cap sheepishly notes this saying, "There was the Jared and the Not Jared. I guess we got the wrong one..."

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* Mulgarath berates his henchmen for not kidnapping the right Jared, and instead getting [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins Simon]]. Red Cap sheepishly notes this saying, "There was the Jared and the Not Jared. I guess we [[CaptainObvious We got the wrong one..."]]"



* When going to meet with Lucinda at the nursing home, Jared stoops down to the nearby garden to pluck up some of the flowers. The receptionist looks at his improvised bouquet and notes that they were very pretty flowers.

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* When going to meet with Lucinda at the nursing home, Jared stoops down to the nearby garden to pluck up some of the flowers. The receptionist looks at his improvised bouquet and notes bouquet, noting that they were very pretty flowers.flowers and that they had similar ones up in the front.



* Mallory's hair getting tied up to her bedposts can be kind of funny.

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* Mallory's hair getting tied up to her bedposts can be kind of funny.funny, and yells at her mom to just cut her hair and forgo attempting to untie it.



--> '''Mallory:''' The book said "do not read" and you still read it?!

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--> '''Mallory:''' The book had a note that said "do not read" read", and you still read it?!



-->'''Jared''': "Looks like you've got..."
-->'''Mallory''': "Shut up!"

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-->'''Jared''': "Looks Looks like you've got..."
-->'''Mallory''': "Shut up!"
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'''Mallory''': Shut up!
* During Mallory's match, Jared winces at a hit that Mallory delivers to her opponent and feels sorry for the guy since he knows how it feels because Mallory makes him her sparring partner.

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[[folder: Movie]]!Movie



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* To both of the twins' horror, they find Mallory encased inside a glass coffin, and once they get the lid off they realize that shaking her wasn't waking her up. Jared points out how there doesn't seem to be a way to wake her up, and the two ''really'' hope that they [[DudeShesLikeInAComa don't have to kiss her to wake her up]] like in the fairy tales.



* When the Grace siblings return the field guide to Arthur, the elves are mildly surprised that Jared kept his word on giving the book to them, and the queen lightly notes that if they tricked them again, Simon would be the one staying with them for a long, long time. Simon nervously gulps at the queen's joke.
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* When the Grace siblings return the field guide to Arthur, the elves are mildly surprised that Jared kept his word on giving the book to them, and the queen lightly notes that if they tricked them again, Simon would be the one staying with them for a long, long time. Simon nervously gulps at the queen's joke. \n[[/folder]]
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[[AC: The Wrath of Mulgarath]]
* When the Grace siblings return the field guide to Arthur, the elves are mildly surprised that Jared kept his word on giving the book to them, and the queen lightly notes that if they tricked them again, Simon would be the one staying with them for a long, long time. Simon nervously gulps at the queen's joke.
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* A car runs into the Mole troll that was chasing Mallory and Jared. The driving jumps out asking if they were okay and worries that he hit someone, Jared confirms this and thanks him.
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--> '''Jared:''' Here, more honey! (''Tosses the cracker with honey to Thimbletack'')\\
'''Thimbletack:''' (''In boggart form'') I'm not falling for that-! (''Happily munches away and turns back into a brownie'')\\
'''Jared:''' And they say ''I'' got anger issues.
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* Jared meeting Thimbletack for the first time. When the brownie slips into the drawers, Jared offers him more honey and crackers, causing him to mutter sporadically that he shouldn't take the food, but ends up slipping out and munching on it happily.
** After turning into his boggart form, Jared quickly squirts more honey onto a cracker and offers it to Thimbletack to placate him. The boggart almost immediately calms down and happily munches away on his treat.
** As he tells Simon the ingredients to create a deadly powder for goblins he can be seen sucking down on a container of honey.
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[[AC: Lucinda's Secret]]
* When Helen leaves a plate of cookies for Lucinda, she thanks her but has a face that Jared describes as "like she was offered a plate of cockroaches". However, this is due to the fact that she eats the food her Sprite friends provide her, causing human food to taste like dust in her mouth.
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* Mulgarath berates his henchmen for not kidnapping the right Jared, and instead getting [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins Simon]]. Red Cap sheepishly notes this saying, "There was the Jared and the Not Jared. I guess we got the wrong one..."
* When going to meet with Lucinda at the nursing home, Jared stoops down to the nearby garden to pluck up some of the flowers. The receptionist looks at his improvised bouquet and notes that they were very pretty flowers.


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* Mallory's hair getting tied up to her bedposts can be kind of funny.


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* There's this exchange where Jared notices that Mallory's fencing armor makes her chest look big:
-->'''Jared''': "Looks like you've got..."
-->'''Mallory''': "Shut up!"
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When not busy avoiding faeries, the Grace siblings usually find themselves in some pretty hilarious situations.
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* "Now that's teamwork!"

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* "Now that's teamwork!"teamwork!"
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[[folder: Books]]
[[AC: The Field Guide]]
* Mallory calling out Jason for reading the field guide, when it explicitly states on the front that it should ''not'' be read.
--> '''Mallory:''' The book said "do not read" and you still read it?!
[[AC: The Seeing Stone]]
* Hogsqueal revealing to Mallory and Jason that he can give the gift of the "sight" through his [[SuperSpit spit]]. Neither of the siblings are enthused by the thought of the hobgoblin spitting in their eyes.
[[AC: The Ironwood Tree]]
* Once Mallory and her brothers have managed to escape the mines, she looks down at her outfit and is horrified to see that she's been put in a dress.
--> '''Mallory:''' [[HatesWearingDresses I]] ''[[HatesWearingDresses hate]]'' [[HatesWearingDresses dresses]]!
** The illustration for that page shows the distress on her face which only makes the scene funnier.
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I doubt it, seeing as this movie came out in 2008 and Dragon came out in 2010


* In the movie, Hogsqueal yelling at Byron, "Fly while you can, gryphon! [[spoiler:I swallowed an ogre whole!]] You could be next!" while Byron happily does his best imitation of [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon Toothless]].

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* In the movie, Hogsqueal yelling at Byron, "Fly while you can, gryphon! [[spoiler:I swallowed an ogre whole!]] You could be next!" while Byron happily does his best imitation of [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon Toothless]].
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* In the movie, Hogsqueal yelling at Byron, "Fly while you can, gryphon! [[spoiler:I swallowed an ogre whole!]] You could be next!" while Byron happily does his best imitation of [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon Toothless]].
* "Now that's teamwork!"

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