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* TriviallyObvious: An illustration of Jamie looking "irresistible" struggles to describe her hair nicely, eventually settling for "some hair".


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* VerbalBackspace: An illustration of Jamie looking "irresistible" has an arrow pointing to her hair; on the other end is the words "gorgeous", "beautiful", and "okay" crossed out, followed by "[[TriviallyObvious some hair]]".

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* EvilAllAlong: Subverted with Angeline initially, as the person she gave a horrible nickname to was Mike Pinsetti.
** Played straight near the end of the book when she reveals that [[spoiler: her permanent record is so bad that, had she been found out as having thrown the slab of meatloaf at Miss Bruntford, she would have been expelled]] and [[spoiler: she wants Hudson Rivers just as much as Jamie does and equally views Jamie as competition for Hudson as Jamie does of her]].

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* EvilAllAlong: Subverted with Angeline initially, as the person she gave a horrible nickname to was Mike Pinsetti.
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Pinsetti. Played straight near the end of the book when she reveals that [[spoiler: her permanent record is so bad that, had she been found out as having thrown the slab of meatloaf at Miss Bruntford, she would have been expelled]] and [[spoiler: she wants Hudson Rivers just as much as Jamie does and equally views Jamie as competition for Hudson as Jamie does of her]].

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* AdultsAreUseless: [[PlayedWith Played with]]. The school nurse is utterly inept at handling student who go to the nurse's office, but does cut off Angeline hair.
* AlphaBitch: [[PlayedWith Played with]], Angeline has traits of this, but is shown to have some hidden depths.

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* AdultsAreUseless: [[PlayedWith Played with]]. The school nurse is utterly inept at handling student students who go to the nurse's office, but does cut off Angeline Angeline's hair.
* %%* AlphaBitch: [[PlayedWith Played with]], Angeline has traits of this, but is shown to have some hidden depths.



* ChekhovsGun: Cousin Eddy's strawberry allergies.
** The clomp of Angeline's hair
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Cousin Eddy (presumably due to being a far away relative) and the principal.
* DeanBitterman: Miss Bruntford hates it when you don't eat her meatloaf.

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* %%* ChekhovsGun: Cousin Eddy's strawberry allergies.
** %%** The clomp of Angeline's hair
* %%* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Cousin Eddy (presumably due to being a far away relative) and the principal.
* %%* DeanBitterman: Miss Bruntford hates it when you don't eat her meatloaf.



** Angeline has much stronger [[AlphaBitch alpha bitch]] traits here than in most of the other books.

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** Angeline has much stronger [[AlphaBitch alpha bitch]] AlphaBitch traits here than in most of the other books.



*** Eventually Mike Pinsetti [[LaserGuidedKarma gets his own horrible nickname]] when Angeline calls him "Pin-Heady".

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*** ** Eventually Mike Pinsetti [[LaserGuidedKarma gets his own horrible nickname]] when Angeline calls him "Pin-Heady".



* EvilIsBurningHot: Angeline on page 92.
* FlashInThePanFad: The beret.
* GlobalIgnorance: The first appearance of "Wheretheheckistan".
* GoodAllAlong: Angeline helps Jamie Kelly with her English project and sits with Jamie at lunch time the following day.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: The school nurse.

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* %%* EvilIsBurningHot: Angeline on page 92.
* %%* FlashInThePanFad: The beret.
* %%* GlobalIgnorance: The first appearance of "Wheretheheckistan".
* %%* GoodAllAlong: Angeline helps Jamie Kelly with her English project and sits with Jamie at lunch time the following day.
* %%* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: The school nurse.



* KubrickStare: Angeline gives one on page 92.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After Jamie spends much of the book [[KickTheDog picking on Stinker]], [[TheDogBitesBack Stinker eats her English assignment in an act of revenge.]]
** Mike Pinsetti. see [[EmbarrassingNickname embarrassing nickname]] above
* [[MyHairCameOutGreen My Hair Came Out The Colour Of Raw Chicken]]: Jamie Kelly, after she tries to dye her hair blonde.
* ThePigPen: Cousin Eddy.
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* %%* KubrickStare: Angeline gives one on page 92.
* LaserGuidedKarma: LaserGuidedKarma:
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After Jamie spends much of the book [[KickTheDog picking on Stinker]], [[TheDogBitesBack Stinker eats her English assignment in an act of revenge.]]
** Mike Pinsetti. see [[EmbarrassingNickname Pinsetti, who gives {{embarrassing nickname}}s to people, eventually gets his own embarrassing nickname]] above
nickname when Angeline calls him "Pin-Heady".
* [[MyHairCameOutGreen My Hair Came Out The Colour Of Raw Chicken]]: MyHairCameOutGreen: Jamie Kelly, after she Kelly tries to dye her hair blonde.
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blonde and it comes out the color of raw chicken.
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ThePigPen: Cousin Eddy.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Jamie Kelly, possibly.

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* %%* UnreliableNarrator: Jamie Kelly, possibly.possibly.
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* NiceHat: Angeline wears a beret to cover up her bald spot. The beret becomes a brief trend at school.
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* BaldWoman: Angeline ends up getting half of hair cut off by the nurse, resulting in the entire left side of her head being bald.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Cousin Eddy and the principal.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Cousin Eddy (presumably due to being a far away relative) and the principal.



** It's one of the least focused books in the series story-wise, possibly to imitate the feel of an actual diary.

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** It's one of the least focused books in the series story-wise, story-wise (just almost bordering on RandomEventsPlot), possibly to imitate the feel of an actual diary.
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* FatGirl: Miss Bruntford.
** YouAreFat: Jamie takes notice of her neck flubber.
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->[-''"Dear Dumb Diary, School was okay today. Actually, it was better than okay. Angeline got her long, beautiful hair tangled in one of the jillion things she has dangling from her backpack, and the school (who is now one of my main heroes) took a pair of scissors and snipped two feet of silky blond hair from the left side of her head, so now Angeline only looks like '''The Prettiest Girl In The World''' if you're standing on her right. (Although personally, I think she would look better if I was standing on her neck.)"''-]

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->[-''"Dear ->''Dear Dumb Diary, Diary,\\
School was okay today. Actually, it was better than okay. Angeline got her long, beautiful hair tangled in one of the jillion things she has dangling from her backpack, and the school (who is now one of my main heroes) took a pair of scissors and snipped two feet of silky blond hair from the left side of her head, so now Angeline only looks like '''The Prettiest Girl In The World''' if you're standing on her right. (Although personally, I think she would look better if I was standing on her neck.)"''-]
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[-''"Dear Dumb Diary, School was okay today. Actually, it was better than okay. Angeline got her long, beautiful hair tangled in one of the jillion things she has dangling from her backpack, and the school (who is now one of my main heroes) took a pair of scissors and snipped two feet of silky blond hair from the left side of her head, so now Angeline only looks like '''The Prettiest Girl In The World''' if you're standing on her right. (Although personally, I think she would look better if I was standing on her neck.)"''-]

'''Dear Dumb Diary: Let's Pretend This Never Happened''' is the first book in the [[Literature/DearDumbDiary Dear Dumb Diary book series]]. It stars Jamie Kelly as she tries to steal Angeline's permanent record from the Principal's office in order to destroy Angeline's reputation as the popular girl.

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[-''"Dear ->[-''"Dear Dumb Diary, School was okay today. Actually, it was better than okay. Angeline got her long, beautiful hair tangled in one of the jillion things she has dangling from her backpack, and the school (who is now one of my main heroes) took a pair of scissors and snipped two feet of silky blond hair from the left side of her head, so now Angeline only looks like '''The Prettiest Girl In The World''' if you're standing on her right. (Although personally, I think she would look better if I was standing on her neck.)"''-]

'''Dear ''Dear Dumb Diary: Let's Pretend This Never Happened''' Happened'' is the first book in the [[Literature/DearDumbDiary Dear Dumb Diary ''Literature/DearDumbDiary'' book series]].series. It stars Jamie Kelly as she tries to steal Angeline's permanent record from the Principal's office in order to destroy Angeline's reputation as the popular girl.
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* ChekovsGun: Cousin Eddy's strawberry allergies.

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* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: Cousin Eddy's strawberry allergies.

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* GlobalIgnorance: The first appearance of "Wheretheheckistan".



* GlobalIgnorance: The first appearance of "Wheretheheckistan".
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* ShaggyDogStory: Jamie Kelly returns Angeline's permanent record to the principal's office the day before learning that [[spoiler: Angeline has the very spotty permanent record Jamie hoped would be on Angeline's permanent record but figure would be unlikely given Angeline's good nature.

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* ShaggyDogStory: Jamie Kelly returns Angeline's permanent record to the principal's office the day before learning that [[spoiler: Angeline has the very spotty permanent record Jamie hoped would be on Angeline's permanent record but figure would be unlikely given Angeline's good nature.]]
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'''Dear Dumb Diary: Let's Pretend This Never Happened''' is the first book in the [[Literature/DearDumbDiary Dear Dumb Diary book series]]. It stars Jamie Kelly as she tries to steal Angeline's permanent record from the Principal's office in order to destroy Angeline's reputation as the popular girl.

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* AlphaBitch: [[PlayedWith Played with]], Angeline has traits of this, but is shown to have some hidden depths.
* BackAlleyDoctor: The School Nurse, who's solution to everything is "lie down on the cot and rest".
* BaldWoman: Angeline ends up getting half of hair cut off by the nurse, resulting in the entire left side of her head being bald.
* BlatantLies: Jamie claims she isn't trying to be Angeline when she dyes her hair blonde, it was just the first dye she grabbed in the fourth store she looked.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Cousin Eddy and the principal.
* DeanBitterman: Miss Bruntford hates it when you don't eat her meatloaf.
* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: Contains several:
** Isabella is less of the schemer she is in later books.
** Angeline has much stronger [[AlphaBitch alpha bitch]] traits here than in most of the other books.
** [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome an unnamed principal who doesn't appear in the later books]] appears as the school's authority figure instead of Assistant Principal Devon, whom is absent in this book.
** Stinker is not yet the gasshole he is in later books.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Mike Pinsetti is known to give these out.
** One particular example is "Butt Buttlington", who's been referred to as "Butt Buttlington" for so long that nobody even knows what his original name was. It got so bad that even his mother referred to him as "Butt Buttlington".
** Near the beginning of the book Jamie Kelly gets the nickname "Peach Girl". Jamie Kelly is worried about either Mike Pinsetti or Angeline revealing "Peach Girl" to the world.
***Eventually Mike Pinsetti [[LaserGuidedKarma gets his own horrible nickname]] when Angeline calls him "Pin-Heady".
* EvilAllAlong: Subverted with Angeline initially, as the person she gave a horrible nickname to was Mike Pinsetti.
** Played straight near the end of the book when she reveals that [[spoiler: her permanent record is so bad that, had she been found out as having thrown the slab of meatloaf at Miss Bruntford, she would have been expelled]] and [[spoiler: she wants Hudson Rivers just as much as Jamie does and equally views Jamie as competition for Hudson as Jamie does of her]].
* EvilIsBurningHot: Angeline on page 92.
* FatGirl: Miss Bruntford.
** YouAreFat: Jamie takes notice of her neck flubber.
* FlashInThePanFad: The beret.
* GoodAllAlong: Angeline helps Jamie Kelly with her English project and sits with Jamie at lunch time the following day.
* GlobalIgnorance: The first appearance of "Wheretheheckistan".
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: The school nurse.
* KarmaHoudini: Angeline gets away with [[spoiler: throwing a slab of meatloaf at Miss Bruntford]] when Jamie takes the blame in an attempt to steal Angeline's permanent record from the principal's office.
* KubrickStare: Angeline gives one on page 92.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After Jamie spends much of the book [[KickTheDog picking on Stinker]], [[TheDogBitesBack Stinker eats her English assignment in an act of revenge.]]
** Mike Pinsetti. see [[EmbarrassingNickname embarrassing nickname]] above
* [[MyHairCameOutGreen My Hair Came Out The Colour Of Raw Chicken]]: Jamie Kelly, after she tries to dye her hair blonde.
* NiceHat: Angeline wears a beret to cover up her bald spot. The beret becomes a brief trend at school.
* ThePigPen: Cousin Eddy.
* SchoolNurse
* ShaggyDogStory: Jamie Kelly returns Angeline's permanent record to the principal's office the day before learning that [[spoiler: Angeline has the very spotty permanent record Jamie hoped would be on Angeline's permanent record but figure would be unlikely given Angeline's good nature.
* TrendAesop: Jamie and the beret. When Jamie finally gets one, the beret fad went away due to the principal's secretaries joining in.
* UnreliableNarrator: Jamie Kelly, possibly.

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