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It was adapted into [[Recap/GoosebumpsS4E7E8DeepTrouble the seventh and eighth episodes of the fourth season]] of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]], albeit under the title ''Deep Trouble''.

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It was adapted into [[Recap/GoosebumpsS4E7E8DeepTrouble [[Recap/Goosebumps1995S4E7E8DeepTrouble the seventh and eighth episodes of the fourth season]] of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} [[Series/Goosebumps1995 the 1995 TV series]], albeit under the title ''Deep Trouble''.

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It was adapted into the seventh and eighth episodes of the fourth season of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]], albeit under the title ''Deep Trouble''.

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It was adapted into [[Recap/GoosebumpsS4E7E8DeepTrouble the seventh and eighth episodes of the fourth season season]] of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]], albeit under the title ''Deep Trouble''.



!!The episode provides examples of:

* AdaptationNameChange: Dr. D's name goes from George to Harold.
* AssholeVictim: Dr. Ritter, again. [[spoiler: He ''stole'' the plankton formula and used it to experiment on people with, gets an even worse fate -- he's turned into a half-human, half-fish mutant, just like the people he experimented on.]]
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Out of Dr. Ritter’s mutant victims, only Luis still looks and talks somewhat like his former human self. He’s also ''much'' friendlier than the others; Luis says that the [[WouldHurtAChild other mutants would hurt Billy and Sheena]] because they’re related to Dr. Deep. Luis is also the only mutant who understands their predicament wasn’t Deep’s fault. The other mutants are blatantly inhuman with voices to match, and while they aren’t technically ''evil'', they’re far less sympathetic than Luis is.
** Subverted with Ritter himself at the end: his mutated form is, if anything, even ''more'' humanoid than Luis’s. This was probably done so that the show’s viewers could still recognize it was him.
* CompositeCharacter: Dr. Ritter is Dr. D's assistant, much like Alexander in the first book.

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!!The episode provides examples of:

* AdaptationNameChange: Dr. D's name goes from George to Harold.
* AssholeVictim: Dr. Ritter, again. [[spoiler: He ''stole'' the plankton formula and used it to experiment on people with, gets an even worse fate -- he's turned into a half-human, half-fish mutant, just like the people he experimented on.]]
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Out of Dr. Ritter’s mutant victims, only Luis still looks and talks somewhat like his former human self. He’s also ''much'' friendlier than the others; Luis says that the [[WouldHurtAChild other mutants would hurt Billy and Sheena]] because they’re related to Dr. Deep. Luis is also the only mutant who understands their predicament wasn’t Deep’s fault. The other mutants are blatantly inhuman with voices to match, and while they aren’t technically ''evil'', they’re far less sympathetic than Luis is.
** Subverted with Ritter himself at the end: his mutated form is, if anything, even ''more'' humanoid than Luis’s. This was probably done so that the show’s viewers could still recognize it was him.
* CompositeCharacter: Dr. Ritter is Dr. D's assistant, much like Alexander in the first book.
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* CompositeCharacter: Dr. Ritter is Dr. D's assistant, much like Alexander in the first book.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Out of Dr. Ritter’s mutant victims, only one still looks and talks somewhat like his former human self: Luis. He’s also ''much'' friendlier than the others; Luis says that the [[WouldHurtAChild other mutants would hurt Billy and Sheena]] because they’re related to Dr. Deep. Luis is also the only mutant who understands their predicament wasn’t Deep’s fault. The other mutants are blatantly inhuman with voices to match, and while they aren’t technically ''evil'', they’re far less sympathetic than Luis is.
** Subverted with Ritter himself at the end: his mutated form is, if anything, even ''more'' humanoid than Luis’s. This was probably done so that the show’s viewers could still recognize it was him.

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* CompositeCharacter: Dr. Ritter is Dr. D's assistant, much like Alexander in the first book.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Out of Dr. Ritter’s mutant victims, only one Luis still looks and talks somewhat like his former human self: Luis.self. He’s also ''much'' friendlier than the others; Luis says that the [[WouldHurtAChild other mutants would hurt Billy and Sheena]] because they’re related to Dr. Deep. Luis is also the only mutant who understands their predicament wasn’t Deep’s fault. The other mutants are blatantly inhuman with voices to match, and while they aren’t technically ''evil'', they’re far less sympathetic than Luis is.
** Subverted with Ritter himself at the end: his mutated form is, if anything, even ''more'' humanoid than Luis’s. This was probably done so that the show’s viewers could still recognize it was him.him.
* CompositeCharacter: Dr. Ritter is Dr. D's assistant, much like Alexander in the first book.
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* CompositeCharacter: Dr. Ritter is Dr. D's assistant, much like Alexander in the first book.

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* CompositeCharacter: Dr. Ritter is Dr. D's assistant, much like Alexander in the first book.book.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Out of Dr. Ritter’s mutant victims, only one still looks and talks somewhat like his former human self: Luis. He’s also ''much'' friendlier than the others; Luis says that the [[WouldHurtAChild other mutants would hurt Billy and Sheena]] because they’re related to Dr. Deep. Luis is also the only mutant who understands their predicament wasn’t Deep’s fault. The other mutants are blatantly inhuman with voices to match, and while they aren’t technically ''evil'', they’re far less sympathetic than Luis is.
** Subverted with Ritter himself at the end: his mutated form is, if anything, even ''more'' humanoid than Luis’s. This was probably done so that the show’s viewers could still recognize it was him.
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* BalefulPolymorph: The size-changing plankton turns humans into fish for some reason. Was it made with Monster Blood or something?


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* ForcedTransformation: The size-changing plankton turns humans into fish for some reason. Was it made with Monster Blood or something?
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: One of the covers depicts the giant seagulls from the book with eagle-like talons, instead of the duck-like feet real seagulls have. This may be part of their mutation, but the book never says so.
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* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: In the end, when Dr. Ritter orders Billy to drink some of the plankton, Billy opts for a glass containing iced tea which he has prepared earlier in order to prank Sheena. Sheena had actually done the same thing, and quaffs hers at the end of the book, hoping she chose the right one]].

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* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: In the end, when Dr. Ritter orders Billy to drink some of the plankton, Billy opts for a glass containing iced tea which he has prepared earlier in order to prank Sheena. Sheena had actually done the same thing, and quaffs hers at the end of the book, hoping then worries she chose might have chosen the right one]].wrong bottle]].
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When again promising to Dr. Ritter that she and her family wouldn't tell anyone about his plankton, she does the whole "cross my heart and hope to die" routine like a Girl Scout. Dr. Ritter laughs and tells her she's very amusing.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When again promising to Dr. Ritter that she and her family wouldn't tell anyone about his plankton, she Sheena does the whole "cross my heart and hope to die" routine like a Girl Scout. Dr. Ritter laughs and tells her she's very amusing.



* BeQuiteNudge: Dr. D does this twice to Billy when he keeps talking about the giant animals to Dr. Ritter. Both times, [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint he fails to understand why he's doing this to him]]. Unfortunately, he realizes too late, that this gives Dr. Ritter enough information to understand that HeKnowsTooMuch.

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* BeQuiteNudge: BeQuietNudge: Dr. D does this twice to Billy when he keeps talking about the giant animals to Dr. Ritter. Both times, [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint he fails to understand why he's doing this to him]]. Unfortunately, he realizes too late, that this gives Dr. Ritter enough information to understand that HeKnowsTooMuch.



* HarpoonGun: Mel grabs one of these to use on the Deep's as they are escaping, and he almost hits Dr. D, but it very nearly misses him. As they board the lifeboat. Dr. Ritter grabs the gun himself and tries to shoot them, but a gull's large wing bumped his arm, knocking the gun into the water.

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* HarpoonGun: Mel grabs one of these to use on the Deep's as they are escaping, and he almost hits Dr. D, but it very nearly misses him. As they board the lifeboat. lifeboat, Dr. Ritter grabs the gun himself and tries to shoot them, but a gull's large wing bumped his arm, knocking the gun into the water.



* TemptingFate: The Deep's end up on a lifeboat at sea with no food and waves pounding them. Billy says aloud that it can't get any worse than this, right? But then lightning appeared, [[DramaticThunder thunder boomed]], and then heavy rained poured down on them.

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* TemptingFate: The Deep's end up on a lifeboat at sea with no food and waves pounding them. Billy says aloud that it can't get any worse than this, right? But then lightning appeared, [[DramaticThunder thunder boomed]], [[ThunderEqualsDownpour and then then]] [[WhenItRainsItPours heavy rained rain poured down on them.them]].
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When again promising to Dr. Ritter that she and her family wouldn' tell anyone about his plankton, she does the whole "cross my heart and hope to die" routine like a Girl Scout. Dr. Ritter laughs and tells her she's very amusing.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When again promising to Dr. Ritter that she and her family wouldn' wouldn't tell anyone about his plankton, she does the whole "cross my heart and hope to die" routine like a Girl Scout. Dr. Ritter laughs and tells her she's very amusing.

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If nobody else is going to reread the books to look for tropes in them, I might as well do them myself!


* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When again promising to Dr. Ritter that she and her family wouldn' tell anyone about his plankton, she does the whole "cross my heart and hope to die" routine like a Girl Scout. Dr. Ritter laughs and tells her she's very amusing.
* AlliterativeName: One of Dr. Ritter's henchman is named '''M'''el '''M'''ason.
* AndAnotherThing: Dr. Ritter and his henchmen are on a dinghy and see Dr. D's boat tilting dangerously in the water, and came by to investigate. After boarding their boat, they meet Dr. D, and he assures him that everything is fine. Dr. Ritter and his men begin to go down the ladder to their tied up boat, but Dr. Ritter stops to ask the Deep family if they've seen anything strange in the waters lately. Unfortunately, Billy takes that chance to tell him the truth, which was a big mistake.
* AngryFistShake: Dr. Ritter does this gesture as the Deep family are escaping.



* DesertedIsland: The heroes end up stranded on one towards the end.
* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: A pair of dolphins get beached on the desert island. When the heroes rescue them, they return the favor by taking them back to the boat.
* GiantFlyer: Some seagulls eat the size-changing plankton and grow to giant size.

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* BeQuiteNudge: Dr. D does this twice to Billy when he keeps talking about the giant animals to Dr. Ritter. Both times, [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint he fails to understand why he's doing this to him]]. Unfortunately, he realizes too late, that this gives Dr. Ritter enough information to understand that HeKnowsTooMuch.
* BigNo: Billy lets out two in a row when an ''enormous'' shark slams into the boat he and Sheena are on.
* BigShutUp: Dr. Ritter snaps and yells "Quiet!" at Sheena when she complains.
* CoveredInGunge: Dr. D gets trapped under an enlarged snail that ate the special plankton, and he almost gets suffocated under there. Billy and Sheena manage to slide the big snail off of him, to which they find Dr. D covered from head to toe with sticky white goop from the snail's underbelly.
* DesertedIsland: The heroes end up stranded on one towards the end.
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* {{Facepalm}}: Billy buries his face in his hands when the giant snail burst out of the boat cabin in front of Dr. Ritter, proving that they indeed know about his experiments. Which leads to...
* FascinatingEyebrow: Dr. Ritter's response upon seeing the giant snail.
* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: A pair of dolphins get beached on the desert deserted island. When the heroes rescue them, they return the favor by taking them back to the boat.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Billy and Sheena come across a crab as big as a table while on the desrted island. They and Dr. D are chased by it and barely climb up a palm tree to escape its' clamping claws, and stay up there for hours.
* GiantFlyer: Some seagulls eat the size-changing plankton and grow to giant size. They attack Dr. Ritter's boat, which gives the Deep's a chance to escape on the lifeboat.
* HarpoonGun: Mel grabs one of these to use on the Deep's as they are escaping, and he almost hits Dr. D, but it very nearly misses him. As they board the lifeboat. Dr. Ritter grabs the gun himself and tries to shoot them, but a gull's large wing bumped his arm, knocking the gun into the water.
* LameComeback: When Sheena gets annoyed at Billy with his imagination, she calls him a moron. He replies "I'll show you."



* ManBitesMan: Adam and Mel are tying the Deep family with ropes. In resistance, Billy bites Adam's arm. This causes him to complain about it, to which Mel replies to bite him back.
* MirthlessLaughter: The Deep family have this after complaining how awful they feel while in the lifeboat alone at sea.



* SinisterSchnoz: The other henchman of Dr. Ritter, Adam Brown, has a "beaky" nose.
* StopOrIWillShoot: Dr. Ritter says this to the Deep family as they escape from him with his lifeboat.
* TearsOfFear: Sheena has this when Dr. Ritter confronts her and the Deep's yet again.
* TemptingFate: The Deep's end up on a lifeboat at sea with no food and waves pounding them. Billy says aloud that it can't get any worse than this, right? But then lightning appeared, [[DramaticThunder thunder boomed]], and then heavy rained poured down on them.




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\n* TickleTorture: At the beginning of the book, Billy pretends that Sheena is a giant octopus that is attacking him, and he proceeds to tickle her. She finds this very annoying.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: When the Deep family get back on their boat, they find Dr. Ritter there, but neither Mel nor Adam are with him. When they ask him what happened to them, he replies that's none of their business. Later, he admits that he tested his plankton on Mel last night, which turned him into a fish. He never reveals what happened to Mel]].
* WhenItRainsItPours: Heavy sheets of cold rain instantly pour on the Deep family as they're in a lifeboat, filling it with water. They spend the rest of the night scooping water out, even using their sneakers to get it out.

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* CompositeCharacter: Dr. Ritter is Dr. D's assistant, much like Alexandr in the first book.

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* CompositeCharacter: Dr. Ritter is Dr. D's assistant, much like Alexandr Alexander in the first book.

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* DesertedIsland: The heroes end up stranded on one towards the end.



* DesertedIsland: The heroes end up stranded on one towards the end.
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* BalefulPolymorph: The size-changing plankton turns humans into fish fo
* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: A pair of dolphins get beached on the desert island. When the heroes rescue them, they return the favor by taking them back to the boat.r some reason. Was it made with Monster Blood or something?

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* BalefulPolymorph: The size-changing plankton turns humans into fish fo
for some reason. Was it made with Monster Blood or something?
* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: A pair of dolphins get beached on the desert island. When the heroes rescue them, they return the favor by taking them back to the boat.r some reason. Was it made with Monster Blood or something?



* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: [[spoiler:In the end, when Dr. Ritter orders Billy to drink some of the plankton, Billy opts for a glass containing iced tea which he has prepared earlier in order to prank Sheena. Sheena had actually done the same thing, and quaffs hers at the end of the book, hoping she chose the right one]].

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* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: [[spoiler:In [[spoiler: In the end, when Dr. Ritter orders Billy to drink some of the plankton, Billy opts for a glass containing iced tea which he has prepared earlier in order to prank Sheena. Sheena had actually done the same thing, and quaffs hers at the end of the book, hoping she chose the right one]].

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* AssholeVictim: Dr. Ritter. [[spoiler: After trying to force it and its effects on Billy, he ends up drinking his own plankton, and turns into a fish. The TV version, who ''stole'' the plankton formula and used it to experiment on people with, gets an even worse fate -- he's turned into a half-human, half-fish mutant, just like the people he experimented on.]]

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* AssholeVictim: Dr. Ritter. [[spoiler: After trying to force it and its effects on Billy, he ends up drinking his own plankton, and turns into a fish. The TV version, who ''stole'' the plankton formula and used it to experiment on people with, gets an even worse fate -- he's turned into a half-human, half-fish mutant, just like the people he experimented on.]]



* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: A pair of dolphins get beached on the desert island. When the heroes rescue them, they return the favour by taking them back to the boat.r some reason. Was it made with Monster Blood or something?

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* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: A pair of dolphins get beached on the desert island. When the heroes rescue them, they return the favour favor by taking them back to the boat.r some reason. Was it made with Monster Blood or something?



* TitleDrop: "Shut it. Get up. Move along. Move it on the double. 'Cause if you don't you're in deep, deep trouble."
* ThreateningShark: Like in the last book, Billy gets attacked by a shark, but it's not especially relevant to the plot.

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* TitleDrop: "Shut it. Get up. Move along. Move it on the double. 'Cause if you don't you're in deep, deep trouble."
* ThreateningShark: Like in the last book, Billy gets attacked by a shark, but it's not especially relevant to the plot.plot.

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* AdaptationNameChange: Dr. D's name goes from George to Harold.
* AssholeVictim: Dr. Ritter, again. [[spoiler: He ''stole'' the plankton formula and used it to experiment on people with, gets an even worse fate -- he's turned into a half-human, half-fish mutant, just like the people he experimented on.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Dr. Ritter is Dr. D's assistant, much like Alexandr in the first book.
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The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book where ocean life grows gigantic, and direct sequel for ''Literature/DeepTrouble''.

After last year's frightening adventure, Billy and Sheena Deep are spending another summer with their uncle in the Caribbean. This time, Dr. D is studying the fish in the area, which have strangely begun to grow to much larger sizes. The trio soon meet the scientist behind this, who will do anything to keep his work a secret...

It was adapted into the seventh and eighth episodes of the fourth season of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]], albeit under the title ''Deep Trouble''.

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!!The book provides examples of:

* ActionizedSequel: While the first ''Deep Trouble'' was an adventure story, the action was mostly in the last act. This features more action and peril throughout the whole story.
* AssholeVictim: Dr. Ritter. [[spoiler: After trying to force it and its effects on Billy, he ends up drinking his own plankton, and turns into a fish. The TV version, who ''stole'' the plankton formula and used it to experiment on people with, gets an even worse fate -- he's turned into a half-human, half-fish mutant, just like the people he experimented on.]]
* BalefulPolymorph: The size-changing plankton turns humans into fish fo
* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: A pair of dolphins get beached on the desert island. When the heroes rescue them, they return the favour by taking them back to the boat.r some reason. Was it made with Monster Blood or something?
* DesertedIsland: The heroes end up stranded on one towards the end.
* GiantFlyer: Some seagulls eat the size-changing plankton and grow to giant size.
* MadScientist: Dr. Ritter, who's been injecting growth hormones into the plankton beds, which cause anything that eats the plankton to grow huge. [[spoiler: Or makes humans turn into fish.]]
* NegativeContinuity: In the ending of ''Deep Trouble'', Billy is attacked by a sea monster. In ''Deep Trouble II'' he's alive and well with no mention of what happened in the previous book.
* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: [[spoiler:In the end, when Dr. Ritter orders Billy to drink some of the plankton, Billy opts for a glass containing iced tea which he has prepared earlier in order to prank Sheena. Sheena had actually done the same thing, and quaffs hers at the end of the book, hoping she chose the right one]].
* SharkFinOfDoom: Billy tries to prank Sheena like this, but then a real shark comes along.
* TitleDrop: "Shut it. Get up. Move along. Move it on the double. 'Cause if you don't you're in deep, deep trouble."
* ThreateningShark: Like in the last book, Billy gets attacked by a shark, but it's not especially relevant to the plot.

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