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* AfraidOfDoctors: Bertie is afraid of the dentist Mr Filling because he thinks Mr Filling looks scary. Apparently, Suzy used to be afraid of him too.
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* AnxietyDreams: When Bertie loses a bet with Nick and has to go to school in his undies, he has a NotWearingPantsDream out of fear.
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* AnxietyDreams: AnxietyDreams:
** When Bertie loses a bet with Nick and has to go to school in his undies, he has a NotWearingPantsDream out offear.fear.
** When Bertie has to go to the dentist, he has a nightmare where the dentist has fangs.
** When Bertie loses a bet with Nick and has to go to school in his undies, he has a NotWearingPantsDream out of
** When Bertie has to go to the dentist, he has a nightmare where the dentist has fangs.
* TheDentistEpisode: In "Toothy!", Bertie and Suzy have to go to the dentist but Bertie is afraid.
* HeatWaveEpisode: The aptly-named story "Hot!" takes place on a very hot day.
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** Mr Grouch is the school janitor and he is grumpy.
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** Mr Grouch is the school janitor and he is grumpy.-
** Mr Filling the dentist.
* MistakenForMurderer: In "Toothy!", Bertie thinks Mr Filling is planning to murder him as he overhears him say something about "putting someone to sleep", but really he's talking about his dog.
** Mr Filling the dentist.
* MistakenForMurderer: In "Toothy!", Bertie thinks Mr Filling is planning to murder him as he overhears him say something about "putting someone to sleep", but really he's talking about his dog.
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* OutOfContextEavesdropping: In "Toothy!", Bertie mishears Mr Filling the dentist say, "He's only seven years old but it's kindest to put him to sleep." Bertie thinks he's talking about murdering him, but really he's talking about his dog Rex.
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* NatureLover: Both Bertie's and Eugene's fathers seem to really enjoy nature.
** Nick also has neat-freak tendencies, including wanting his superhero name to be "Tidyman".
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* NoIndoorVoice: Miss Boot shouts a lot.
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* NoIndoorVoice: Miss Boot shouts a lot.lot, as does Miss Bowser the dog trainer.
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* ShoutOut: "Fangs" has Darren dress as Literature/DennisTheMenace, Eugene as [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and Bertie and Mr Grouch as Literature/CountDracula. Also, in "Brainiac!", one of the questions for the big quiz is "Who wrote ''Literature/TheBFG''?" and "Outlaw!" is about Bertie emulating ''Literature/RobinHood''.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** "Fangs" has Darren dress as Literature/DennisTheMenace, Eugene as [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and Bertie and Mr Grouch asLiterature/CountDracula. Also, in Literature/CountDracula.
** In "Brainiac!", one of the questions for the big quiz is "Who wrote''Literature/TheBFG''?" and ''Literature/TheBFG''?"
** "Outlaw!" is about Bertie emulating''Literature/RobinHood''.''Literature/RobinHood''.
** In "Monster!", when Bertie, Darren, and Eugene paint Nick's face to look like a monster, Bertie says that he "makes Dracula look handsome" and "looks like [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frankenstein's monster.]]"
** In "Rocky!", Bertie mentions "swinging like Literature/{{Tarzan}}" at the theme park.
** "Fangs" has Darren dress as Literature/DennisTheMenace, Eugene as [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and Bertie and Mr Grouch as
** In "Brainiac!", one of the questions for the big quiz is "Who wrote
** "Outlaw!" is about Bertie emulating
** In "Monster!", when Bertie, Darren, and Eugene paint Nick's face to look like a monster, Bertie says that he "makes Dracula look handsome" and "looks like [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frankenstein's monster.]]"
** In "Rocky!", Bertie mentions "swinging like Literature/{{Tarzan}}" at the theme park.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Mrs Nicely is afraid of bats.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Mrs Nicely is afraid of bats.bats, Miss Boot is afraid of rats and Mr Burns is afraid of heights (but keeps forgetting).
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* CoolOldLady: Even though she does some things Bertie doesn't like, he still greatly appreciates his gran.
* GoToYourRoom: Mrs Nicely sends Angela to her room when she thinks Angela broke the window (actually it was Bertie).
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* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler: In "Pants!", Bertie gets out of the bet to go to school in his undies by stating that he's wearing them... under his trousers.]]
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* LoopholeAbuse: LoopholeAbuse:
** [[spoiler: In "Pants!", Bertie gets out of the bet to go to school in his undies by stating that he's wearing them... under his trousers.]]]]
** In "Smash!", Bertie tells Angela to get his football. She does, but doesn't give it back because she'd always wanted a ball, and Bertie only said to get it, not to give it back.
** [[spoiler: In "Pants!", Bertie gets out of the bet to go to school in his undies by stating that he's wearing them... under his trousers.
** In "Smash!", Bertie tells Angela to get his football. She does, but doesn't give it back because she'd always wanted a ball, and Bertie only said to get it, not to give it back.
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** In "Fame!", Miss Lavish calls Bertie "Billy".
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** In "Fame!", Miss Lavish calls Bertie "Billy". In another story with the same title, Paul calls him "Benny".
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* BigYes: When Bertie gets to look after Snuffles in "Hamster!", he says "Yessssss!". He says it again in "Zombie!" when he hears Eugene is coming for a sleepover.
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* BigYes: When Bertie gets to look after Snuffles in "Hamster!", he says "Yessssss!". He says it again in "Zombie!" when he hears Eugene is coming for a sleepover.sleepover, in "Fishy!" when his father allows him to go fishing and in "Fame!" when he hears he might be on TV.
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* CallBack:
** In "Battle!", Bertie's mother says that she's not taking him shopping because last time he was at Dibble's, he ended up on the fifth floor. This is what happened in "Fashion!".
** In "Record!", when Darren is told that a record is something nobody has done before, he wonders if the time Bertie locked Mr Grouch in the shed (which happened in "Fangs!") counts.
** In "Battle!", Bertie's mother says that she's not taking him shopping because last time he was at Dibble's, he ended up on the fifth floor. This is what happened in "Fashion!".
** In "Record!", when Darren is told that a record is something nobody has done before, he wonders if the time Bertie locked Mr Grouch in the shed (which happened in "Fangs!") counts.
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* CallBack:
**CallBack: In "Battle!", Bertie's mother says that she's not taking him shopping because last time he was at Dibble's, he ended up on the fifth floor. This is what happened in "Fashion!".
** In "Record!", when Darren is told that a record is something nobody has done before, he wonders if the time Bertie locked Mr Grouch in the shed (which happened in "Fangs!") counts."Fashion!".
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** In "Record!", when Darren is told that a record is something nobody has done before, he wonders if the time Bertie locked Mr Grouch in the shed (which happened in "Fangs!") counts.
* CensorSuds: In "Fame!", Bertie is embarrassed about having to be in the bath on TV for a bubble bath ad, but other people reassure him that there will be plenty of bubbles and nobody will "see anything".
* ContinuityNod:
** In "Ouch!", Bertie thinks that he never turns down dares, not even when Darren dared him to lock Mr Weakly in the closet. This happened in "Dare!".
** In "Fame!", Bertie mentions that he used to play a dog in ''Oliver''. This happened in another story, also called "Fame!".
** In "Record!", when Darren is told that a record is something nobody has done before, he wonders if the time Bertie locked Mr Grouch in the shed (which happened in "Fangs!") counts.
** In "Outlaw!", Bertie remembers when Angela tried to kiss him. This happened in "Kiss!".
** In "Ouch!", Bertie thinks that he never turns down dares, not even when Darren dared him to lock Mr Weakly in the closet. This happened in "Dare!".
** In "Fame!", Bertie mentions that he used to play a dog in ''Oliver''. This happened in another story, also called "Fame!".
** In "Record!", when Darren is told that a record is something nobody has done before, he wonders if the time Bertie locked Mr Grouch in the shed (which happened in "Fangs!") counts.
** In "Outlaw!", Bertie remembers when Angela tried to kiss him. This happened in "Kiss!".
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* {{Fainting}}: Never really happens, but Bertie supposes his mother would have fainted if he'd weed on a tree like Whiffer. Another time, he's glad that no one has fainted because it's a hot day. A third time, he says Miss Boot "looks like she might pass out".
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* {{Fainting}}: Never really happens, but Bertie supposes his mother would have fainted if he'd weed on a tree like Whiffer. Another time, he's glad that no one has fainted because it's a hot day. A third time, he says Miss Boot "looks like she might pass out".out", and a fourth time, he says his dad "looked like he might faint".
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* HappyDance: Bertie does a "wild dance of joy" upon hearing the school is closed in "Snow!" because that means he can play with Darren and Eugene.
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* HappyDance: Bertie does a "wild dance of joy" upon hearing the school is closed in "Snow!" because that means he can play with Darren and Eugene. Also, in "Fame!", Bertie does a happy dance upon learning he might be on TV.
* IAteWhat: In "Fishy!", Bertie puts maggots into a sandwich and tries to get Nick to eat it. [[spoiler: Bertie's dad ends up eating it.]]
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: When Bertie gets in a bath on TV for a bubble bath ad, Eugene laughs about Bertie being "in the nuddy".
* PottyFailure: Discussed in "Outlaw!", when Bertie pretends to be Robin Hood (with Darren and Eugene as his merry men) and tells Royston to "hand over [his] chocolate or else", to which Royston says, "Or else what? You're all going to wet your pants?"
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* ShoutOut: "Fangs" has Darren dress as Literature/DennisTheMenace, Eugene as [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and Bertie and Mr Grouch as Literature/CountDracula.
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* ShoutOut: "Fangs" has Darren dress as Literature/DennisTheMenace, Eugene as [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and Bertie and Mr Grouch as Literature/CountDracula. Also, in "Brainiac!", one of the questions for the big quiz is "Who wrote ''Literature/TheBFG''?" and "Outlaw!" is about Bertie emulating ''Literature/RobinHood''.
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* BedsheetGhost: In "Stinky!", Bertie wears a bedsheet to pretend to be a ghost to scare Suzy's mean friend Bella.
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* DoesNotLikeSpam: Bertie doesn't like carrots and hates cauliflower. Also, when the students were playing pirates, Darren suggests they punish Nick by "making him eat vegetables", implying that either Darren or Nick dislikes vegetables.
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* DoesNotLikeSpam: Bertie doesn't like carrots carrots, cabbage or broccoli and hates cauliflower. Also, when the students were playing pirates, Darren suggests they punish Nick by "making him eat vegetables", implying that either Darren or Nick dislikes vegetables. Darren and Eugene also don't like broccoli or cabbage. Miss Beansprout doesn't like chips and she calls custard "horrible". Donna doesn't like carrots and Bella likes neither salad, nor pizza.
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* EdibleThemeNaming: One of the lunch ladies is called Miss ''Beansprout''.
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* PickyEater: Bella doesn't like salad or pizza and will only eat her mother's chips. Bertie and Darren also dislike all vegetables.
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** Bertie's parents shout out his name when he is being rude at the table.
* TheScream: Bella screams when Bertie pranks her with a plastic spider.
* TheScream: Bella screams when Bertie pranks her with a plastic spider.
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* BigYes: When Bertie gets to look after Snuffles in "Hamster!", he says "Yessssss!".
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* BigYes: When Bertie gets to look after Snuffles in "Hamster!", he says "Yessssss!". He says it again in "Zombie!" when he hears Eugene is coming for a sleepover.
* CassandraTruth: In "Zombie!", Eugene eats some chocolate cake that the boys were not allowed to touch. When Bertie tells his mother, she thinks Bertie was the one who ate it, but he didn't.
* CharacterTitle: Bertie's name is in the name of the series.
** In "Zoo!", Bertie and his class go on a school trip to the zoo.
** In "Snore!", Bertie and his class go on a school trip and stay the night there.
** In "Snore!", Bertie and his class go on a school trip and stay the night there.
* EatenAlive: Mentioned when Darren says that Miss Boot will eat him alive if she catches him, but never played.
* ExcitedShowTitle: Lots of the story titles end in exclamation marks.
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* {{Fainting}}: Never really happens, but Bertie supposes his mother would have fainted if he'd weed on a tree like Whiffer. Another time, he's glad that no one has fainted because it's a hot day.
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* {{Fainting}}: Never really happens, but Bertie supposes his mother would have fainted if he'd weed on a tree like Whiffer. Another time, he's glad that no one has fainted because it's a hot day. A third time, he says Miss Boot "looks like she might pass out".
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* HatesBaths: Bertie and Whiffer both really hate baths. In fact, Bertie wishes bathtime was illegal.
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* HatesBaths: Bertie and Whiffer both really hate baths. In fact, Bertie wishes bathtime bath time was illegal.illegal.
* HelpImStuck: In "Zoo!", Bertie gets his head stuck in the door to the monkey enclosure after Nick throws his lunch into the other side.
* HelpImStuck: In "Zoo!", Bertie gets his head stuck in the door to the monkey enclosure after Nick throws his lunch into the other side.
* NeverMyFault: Both Bertie and Nick sometimes try to shift the blame on to other people, including each other.
* NeverWakeASleepwalker: When Eugene sleepwalks, Bertie's mother says that waking him up is "the last thing you should do."
* NeverWakeASleepwalker: When Eugene sleepwalks, Bertie's mother says that waking him up is "the last thing you should do."
** Miss Boot sometimes says one of her students' names when she wants their attention.
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* {{Sleepwalking}}: Discussed in "Snore!". Bertie says that the only way he and Nick will swap rooms is if they sleepwalked, and later Bertie tries to explain Nick being in Miss Boot's room (long story) with "Maybe he sleepwalks".
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* {{Sleepwalking}}: {{Sleepwalking}}:
** Discussed in "Snore!". Bertie says that the only way he and Nick will swap rooms is if they sleepwalked, and later Bertie tries to explain Nick being in Miss Boot's room (long story) with "Maybe hesleepwalks".sleepwalks".
** In "Zombie!", Eugene sleepwalks during a sleepover, leading Bertie and Darren to think he's a zombie.
** Discussed in "Snore!". Bertie says that the only way he and Nick will swap rooms is if they sleepwalked, and later Bertie tries to explain Nick being in Miss Boot's room (long story) with "Maybe he
** In "Zombie!", Eugene sleepwalks during a sleepover, leading Bertie and Darren to think he's a zombie.
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* TeachersPet: One of the reasons why Bertie dislikes Nick is because the latter is a stickler for the rules and always gets picked to do things for the teacher.
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* TrueCompanions: In "Zombie!", Bertie is against the idea of having a sleepover with just Eugene and not Darren as he thinks of them as a trio.
* TheUndead: Never actually appears, but mentioned several times.
** In "Fangs!", Bertie and his friends think Mr Grouch is half vampire (of course, he isn't).
** In "Zombie!", Bertie, Darren and Eugene play a video game called ''Zap the Zombie'' and later, Darren and Bertie play a prank on Eugene, telling him he'll turn into a zombie from eating a blood orange, leading them to worry that he'll turn into a zombie.
* TheUndead: Never actually appears, but mentioned several times.
** In "Fangs!", Bertie and his friends think Mr Grouch is half vampire (of course, he isn't).
** In "Zombie!", Bertie, Darren and Eugene play a video game called ''Zap the Zombie'' and later, Darren and Bertie play a prank on Eugene, telling him he'll turn into a zombie from eating a blood orange, leading them to worry that he'll turn into a zombie.
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* {{Sleepwalking}}: Discussed in "Snore!". Bertie says that the only way he and Nick will swap rooms is if they sleepwalked, and later Bertie tries to explain Nick being in Miss Boot's room (long story) with "Maybe he sleepwalks".
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* ABoyAndHisX: Bertie has several animal friends including Eric the frog, Arthur the worm and Whiffer the dog.
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* HatesBaths: Bertie and Whiffer both really hate baths. In fact, Bertie wishes bathtime was illegal.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Miss Boot freaks out when she sees Whiffer. It is unknown whether she's scared of dogs or just scared of Whiffer.
* ArtisticLicenceReligion: Discussed when Bertie wants to rewrite the nativity story so that pirates fight robbers, but his mother says no.
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* BigNo: Bertie shouts "NOOO!" upon learning he has to have a haircut, and so does Miss Boot when the penny pyramid crashes.
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* BigNo: Bertie shouts "NOOO!" upon learning he has to have a haircut, and so does Miss Boot when the penny pyramid crashes. Additionally, Bertie also said "NO!" with one "o" but still in caps upon hearing that Great-Aunt Morag is visiting.
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* ChristmasEpisode:
** In "Elf!", Bertie has to be an elf for Santa's Grotto.
** In "Crackers!", Bertie's grumpy great-aunt Morag visits for Christmas and he makes Christmas crackers.
** In "Baa!", Bertie brings Whiffer to church when he plays a shepherd in a play.
** In "Elf!", Bertie has to be an elf for Santa's Grotto.
** In "Crackers!", Bertie's grumpy great-aunt Morag visits for Christmas and he makes Christmas crackers.
** In "Baa!", Bertie brings Whiffer to church when he plays a shepherd in a play.
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* TheCynic: Mr Grouch and Great-Aunt Morag are both extremely gloomy and complain-y.
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* LostVoicePlot:
** In one story, Miss Boot is unavailable 'cause she lost her voice.
** In "Elf!", Mr Grouch cannot play Santa because he lost his voice, so Bertie's father does.
** In one story, Miss Boot is unavailable 'cause she lost her voice.
** In "Elf!", Mr Grouch cannot play Santa because he lost his voice, so Bertie's father does.
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* SantaClaus: Santa is mentioned a few times, but never seen.
* SayMyName:
** Bertie shouts out "ANGELA!" when he finds out that Angela's friend Laura doesn't have the toy he wants.
** Bertie's mother shouts his name when he says, "When are you going?" to Great-Aunt Morag.
* SayMyName:
** Bertie shouts out "ANGELA!" when he finds out that Angela's friend Laura doesn't have the toy he wants.
** Bertie's mother shouts his name when he says, "When are you going?" to Great-Aunt Morag.
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* TheAce: Flora, a little girl, is very talented and is good at maths, ballet and clarinet-playing.
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* TheAce: Flora, a little girl, is very talented and is good at maths, ballet and clarinet-playing.
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* DisqualificationInducedVictory: When Bertie and his father compete in a sandcastle-building competition, he wins despite his sand sculpture of Whiffer being poorly-made, due to everyone else's sculptures being soaked by the rain to the point of being unrecognizable.
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* FreakyIsCool: Bertie and Darren take pleasure in stories about scary/gross things such as zombies and vampires, however they're not NightmareFetishist's; they do get scared if they think they're in danger.
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* BrokenAesop: In the first book, Bertie learns not to [[NatureTinkling urinate in the flowerbed as it's dirty]]. However, in "Twitter!", he has a full bladder whilst birdwatching, and Eugene and his dad suggest he pee outside.
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* AnxietyDreams: When Bertie loses a bet with Nick and has to go to school in his undies, he has a NotWearingPantsDream out of fear.
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** Two of Bertie's excuses for not going to Angela's party are that a dinosaur bit his head off and that he has a rare PolkaDotDisease called "party-itis".
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** Two of Bertie's excuses for not going to Angela's party are that a dinosaur crocodile bit his head off and that he has a rare PolkaDotDisease called "party-itis".
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* FakingAmnesia: In "Worms!", Bertie tries unsuccessfully to fake a very selective type of amnesia to avoid going to Angela's party.
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* {{Fainting}}: Never really happens, but Bertie supposes his mother would have fainted if he'd weed on a tree like Whiffer.
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* {{Fainting}}: Never really happens, but Bertie supposes his mother would have fainted if he'd weed on a tree like Whiffer. Another time, he's glad that no one has fainted because it's a hot day.
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** Apparently, Mr Grouch's first name also begins with G.
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* DoesNotLikeSpam: Bertie doesn't like carrots and hates cauliflower.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: According to Bertie, a restaurant he likes (Burger Madness) serves chips with chips.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Bertie doesn't like carrots and hates cauliflower. Also, when the students were playing pirates, Darren suggests they punish Nick by "making him eat vegetables", implying that either Darren or Nick dislikes vegetables.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Bertie doesn't like carrots and hates cauliflower. Also, when the students were playing pirates, Darren suggests they punish Nick by "making him eat vegetables", implying that either Darren or Nick dislikes vegetables.
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* DressedToPlunder:
** In "Poop!", Bertie and Whiffer dress as pirates.
** In "Pirate!", everyone at Bertie's school, the teachers included, dress as pirates.
** In "Poop!", Bertie and Whiffer dress as pirates.
** In "Pirate!", everyone at Bertie's school, the teachers included, dress as pirates.
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* EverybodyHatesMathematics: Bertie and Darren view maths as boring, but it's not universal, as proven by characters such as Nick and Miss Boot, despite those being seen as antagonists.
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* IfIWantedXIWouldY: When Bertie goes to a dimly-lit restaurant he dislikes, he thinks that if he'd wanted to sit in the dark, he would have gone to the cinema.
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Bertie's imagined life as a pirate in "Pirate!" includes plundering, looting and not washing behind his ears (the first two words are synonyms for "stealing").
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* MrViceGuy: Bertie, Darren and Eugene are good characters, but they're slobbish, BookDumb and have some sexist stereotypes as beliefs (e.g. pink is for girls, girls can't be pirates).
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* NoIndoorVoice: Miss Boot shouts a lot.
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* SelfDeprecation: The restaurant Bertie hates actually describes their dishes as "sickly" and "gunk".
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* BabysittingEpisode:
** In "Zombie!", Bertie gets babysat by a laconic teenage boy.
** In "Scream!", Bertie gets babysat by his gran.
** In "Zombie!", Bertie gets babysat by a laconic teenage boy.
** In "Scream!", Bertie gets babysat by his gran.
* BlatantLies:
** When Bertie doesn't want to go to school in "Pants!", he claims to have "germy measles", and when his mum says she can't see spots, he claims they're invisible.
** Two of Bertie's excuses for not going to Angela's party are that a dinosaur bit his head off and that he has a rare PolkaDotDisease called "party-itis".
** When Bertie doesn't want to go to school in "Pants!", he claims to have "germy measles", and when his mum says she can't see spots, he claims they're invisible.
** Two of Bertie's excuses for not going to Angela's party are that a dinosaur bit his head off and that he has a rare PolkaDotDisease called "party-itis".
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Bertie doesn't like carrots and hates cauliflower.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: One of the rides at a theme park is called the Slide of Doom.
* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: One of the rides at a theme park is called the Slide of Doom.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Bertie isn't really one of these, but he wants to be. On his sixth birthday, he'd apparently wanted to have dog biscuits for breakfast but his mum said no.
* {{Fainting}}: Never really happens, but Bertie supposes his mother would have fainted if he'd weed on a tree like Whiffer.
* {{Fainting}}: Never really happens, but Bertie supposes his mother would have fainted if he'd weed on a tree like Whiffer.
* FilthyFun: Bertie really likes getting dirty, hence the title of the series.
* GreenAroundTheGills: When Bertie gets carsick, Suzy says he's gone green.
* HalloweenEpisode: In "Scream!", it's Halloween, but Bertie is not allowed to go trick-or-treating.
* HypocriticalHumour: In "Manners!", Bertie says to Suzy, "I'm more polite than you, fat-face.".
** In "Manners!", Bertie wonders why weeing on trees is not allowed if animals do it.
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* PinkGirlBlueBoy: When Bertie wears a pink anorak as a disguise, his friends pretend he's a girl. It doesn't occur to them to just pretend he's a boy in a pink anorak.
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* PinkGirlBlueBoy: When Bertie wears a pink anorak as a disguise, his friends pretend he's a girl. It doesn't occur to them to just pretend he's a boy in a pink anorak. In "Worms!", Darren thinks of a pink-themed party as a "girls' party". This seems to be a theme with them.
** In "Worms!", one of the excuses Bertie thinks for not going to Angela's party is that he has "party-itis", which brings him out in spots, but he eventually scraps that idea.
* PolkaDotDisease: When Bertie doesn't want to go to Angela's party, he thinks of claiming to have "party-itis", which gives him spots.
* PolkaDotDisease: When Bertie doesn't want to go to Angela's party, he thinks of claiming to have "party-itis", which gives him spots.
* SomethingItis: One of the excuses Bertie thinks up not to go to Angela's party in "Worms!" is that he has a rare disease called "party-itis" that gives him spots.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: The last page of "Yuck!" has an illustration of Bertie throwing up on Nick.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: VomitIndiscretionShot:
** The last page of "Yuck!" has an illustration of Bertie throwing up onNick.Nick.
** In "Weekend!", Bertie throws up in the car and it's illustrated.
** The last page of "Yuck!" has an illustration of Bertie throwing up on
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Mrs Nicely is afraid of bats.
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* BigNo: Bertie shouts "NOOO!" upon learning he has to have a haircut.haircut, and so does Miss Boot when the penny pyramid crashes.
* ButtMonkey: Zigzagged for both Bertie and Nick. Bertie often ends up having to do things he doesn't want to do, but quite often, things work out for him. Nick often has something inconvenient happen to him at the end of the story, but then again he gets lots of fancy things like his fast sledge.
* CallBack:
** In "Battle!", Bertie's mother says that she's not taking him shopping because last time he was at Dibble's, he ended up on the fifth floor. This is what happened in "Fashion!".
** In "Record!", when Darren is told that a record is something nobody has done before, he wonders if the time Bertie locked Mr Grouch in the shed (which happened in "Fangs!") counts.
* CallBack:
** In "Battle!", Bertie's mother says that she's not taking him shopping because last time he was at Dibble's, he ended up on the fifth floor. This is what happened in "Fashion!".
** In "Record!", when Darren is told that a record is something nobody has done before, he wonders if the time Bertie locked Mr Grouch in the shed (which happened in "Fangs!") counts.
* EatingContest: In "Record!", Bertie wonders if he can set a world record for fast eating of baked beans.
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* GreenEyedMonster: "Fetch!" focuses on Whiffer being jealous of the robot dog Tiny.
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* GreenEyedMonster: GreenEyedMonster:
** "Fetch!" focuses on Whiffer being jealous of the robot dogTiny.Tiny.
** In "Snow!", Bertie is jealous of Nick because the latter has a fancy sledge and the former has to borrow Gran's beat-up one.
** "Fetch!" focuses on Whiffer being jealous of the robot dog
** In "Snow!", Bertie is jealous of Nick because the latter has a fancy sledge and the former has to borrow Gran's beat-up one.
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* GuinnessEpisode: In "Record!", Bertie's school tries to set a world record.
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* HappyDance: Bertie does a "wild dance of joy" upon hearing the school is closed in "Snow!" because that means he can play with Darren and Eugene.
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* ImpliedDeathThreat: When Bertie messes up the staged battle in "Battle!", someone points out that it's "not history", and Bertie's dad says he knows who will be history when he finds him.
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* LiteralAssKicking: When Bertie sees a pike, he thinks it would be good for poking people in the bottom.
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* {{Pirate}}: No actual pirates appear, but Bertie and several other characters do occasionally pretend to be pirates.
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* TheAce: Flora, a little girl, is very talented and is good at maths, ballet and clarinet-playing.
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** Nigel is said to have a tummy bug in "Boast!".
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* SpitTake: In "Boast!", when Bertie's mother lies that he can play the trumpet and accepts him playing in a concert, he spits out his mash.
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* BigYes: When Bertie gets to look after Snuffles in "Hamster!", he says "Yessssss!".
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* HairDecorations: A lot of the girls wear hair decorations, including Angela's very large hair bow.
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* PinkGirlBlueBoy: When Bertie wears a pink anorak as a disguise, his friends pretend he's a girl. It doesn't occur to them to just pretend he's a boy in a pink anorak.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There's a shop assistant and a school friend of Angela's who are both called Laura.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In "Fangs!", a teacher named Miss Withers is rumored to have one day called in sick and never returned. What became of her and if that really happened is not revealed.
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* ActuallyNotAVampire: In "Fangs!", Bertie, Darren and Eugene wonder if Mr Grouch is a vampire/human hybrid because he dressed as Dracula, he's creepy and he drank a substance that looked like blood. It turns out it was actually tomato soup.
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* BigNo: Bertie shouts "NOOO!" upon learning he has to have a haircut.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Not actually, but when Eugene wonders if Mr Grouch is a vampire and Darren points out that daylight doesn't negatively affect him, Bertie wonders if he is half-vampire and half-human.
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** In "Fangs", Bertie, Darren and Eugene pretend they need the toilet to distract Mr Grouch. Bertie pretends that he at least is "bursting".
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* ShoutOut: "Fangs" has Darren dress as Literature/DennisTheMenace, Eugene as [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and Bertie and Mr Grouch as Literature/CountDracula.
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** Mr Grouch is the school janitor and he is grúmpy.
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** Mr Grouch is the school janitor and he is grúmpy.grumpy.
* NatureIsBoring: Bertie generally finds plants and wild animals boring, with the exception of hawks.
* NatureIsBoring: Bertie generally finds plants and wild animals boring, with the exception of hawks.
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* SternTeacher: Miss Boot is quite loud and grumpy, but she's not evil.
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* SternTeacher: SternTeacher:
** Miss Boot is quite loud and grumpy, but she's notevil.evil.
** Averted for Mr Weakly the substitute, although Bertie did act strict when he was pretending to be Mr Weakly.
** Miss Boot is quite loud and grumpy, but she's not
** Averted for Mr Weakly the substitute, although Bertie did act strict when he was pretending to be Mr Weakly.
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* SternTeacher: Miss Boot is quite loud and grumpy, but she's not evil.
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* CatUpATree: Played with in "Fire!". Bertie finds his friend Pamela trying to get a white kitten out of a tree, but when he climbs up, she climbs down but ''he'' forgets how to get down.
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* AfterSchoolCleaningDuty: In "Fire!", Bertie is made to clean up the leaves that Mr Grouch was burning after putting them out, believing the school to be on fire.
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* TheBore: Bertie finds Miss Boot to be a bit of a bore, but not all her students do.
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* ClassTrip:
** In "Potty", Bertie and his class go on a trip to an old historical building and are given a test on it.
** In "Loo!", Bertie and his class are taken to the museum. Most of the story focuses on the journey home, though.
** In "Splodge!", Bertie goes on a school trip to an art gallery and ends up getting a painting wet.
** In "Potty", Bertie and his class go on a trip to an old historical building and are given a test on it.
** In "Loo!", Bertie and his class are taken to the museum. Most of the story focuses on the journey home, though.
** In "Splodge!", Bertie goes on a school trip to an art gallery and ends up getting a painting wet.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: In "Fame!", Miss Lavish calls Bertie "Billy".
* AlliterativeName: '''R'''oyston '''R'''ich.
* ComedicUnderwearExposure: The whole setup with the story "Pants!" is that Bertie loses a bet to Nick and has to go to school in his underwear. [[spoiler: Eventually, he ends up using the loophole that he is wearing underwear under his trousers and tricks Nick into pulling ''his'' pants down.]]
* CuddleBug: Both baby Molly and Gran's neighbour Sherry like to cuddle Bertie, which he finds annoying.
* AlliterativeName: '''R'''oyston '''R'''ich.
* ComedicUnderwearExposure: The whole setup with the story "Pants!" is that Bertie loses a bet to Nick and has to go to school in his underwear. [[spoiler: Eventually, he ends up using the loophole that he is wearing underwear under his trousers and tricks Nick into pulling ''his'' pants down.]]
* CuddleBug: Both baby Molly and Gran's neighbour Sherry like to cuddle Bertie, which he finds annoying.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: AccidentalMisnaming:
** In "Fame!", Miss Lavish calls Bertie "Billy".
** In "Bum!", Nadia calls Molly "Monny", probably because Nadia is only fourteen months and three weeks old.
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** '''R'''oyston '''R'''ich.
* ComedicUnderwearExposure: The whole setup with the story "Pants!" ** Bertie's last name is that Bertie loses a bet to Nick and has to go to school in his underwear. [[spoiler: Eventually, he ends up using the loophole that he is wearing underwear under his trousers and tricks Nick into pulling ''his'' pants down.]]
* CuddleBug: Both baby Molly and Gran's neighbour Sherry like to cuddle Bertie, which he finds annoying.Burns.
** In "Fame!", Miss Lavish calls Bertie "Billy".
** In "Bum!", Nadia calls Molly "Monny", probably because Nadia is only fourteen months and three weeks old.
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* CuddleBug: Both baby Molly and Gran's neighbour Sherry like to cuddle Bertie, which he finds annoying.
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* CensorshipBySpelling: In "Fleas!", Bertie spells out the word "vets" so that Whiffer wouldn't understand because the latter hates the vets. Only trouble is, his grandmother doesn't understand either.
-->'''Bertie''': "Dad asked me to take him to the V-E-T-S."
-->'''Dotty''': "The what?"
-->'''Bertie''': ''(whispering)'' "The vets."
-->'''Dotty''': "Oh, the VETS! Why are you whispering?"
-->'''Bertie''': "So that Whiffer won't understand. He hates the vets."
* ChildHater: Apparently, Mr Grouch the janitor dislikes children.
* ComedicUnderwearExposure: The whole setup with the story "Pants!" is that Bertie loses a bet to Nick and has to go to school in his underwear. [[spoiler: Eventually, he ends up using the loophole that he is wearing underwear under his trousers and tricks Nick into pulling ''his'' pants down.]]
* CuddleBug: Both baby Molly and Gran's neighbour Sherry like to cuddle Bertie, which he finds annoying.
* DotingParent: Both Simon and Jenny, minor characters who featured in the story "Bum!", think their baby daughter Molly is amazing because she can walk. This annoys Bertie, Suzy and their father.
-->'''Bertie''': "Dad asked me to take him to the V-E-T-S."
-->'''Dotty''': "The what?"
-->'''Bertie''': ''(whispering)'' "The vets."
-->'''Dotty''': "Oh, the VETS! Why are you whispering?"
-->'''Bertie''': "So that Whiffer won't understand. He hates the vets."
* ChildHater: Apparently, Mr Grouch the janitor dislikes children.
* ComedicUnderwearExposure: The whole setup with the story "Pants!" is that Bertie loses a bet to Nick and has to go to school in his underwear. [[spoiler: Eventually, he ends up using the loophole that he is wearing underwear under his trousers and tricks Nick into pulling ''his'' pants down.]]
* CuddleBug: Both baby Molly and Gran's neighbour Sherry like to cuddle Bertie, which he finds annoying.
* DotingParent: Both Simon and Jenny, minor characters who featured in the story "Bum!", think their baby daughter Molly is amazing because she can walk. This annoys Bertie, Suzy and their father.
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* LargeHam: While not overly dramatic all the time, Bertie can be dramatic sometimes.
* LazyBum: Zigzagged for Bertie himself, Whiffer and the Nicelys' cat Pusskins. All can be very lazy if they're not interested in something and sometimes they like to lie around, but they can be very active when they want to be.
* ALizardNamedLiz: The Nicelys' cat is called Pusskins. The word "puss" can be used to describe cats.
* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler: In "Pants!", Bertie gets out of the bet to go to school in his undies by stating that he's wearing them... under his trousers.]]
* LazyBum: Zigzagged for Bertie himself, Whiffer and the Nicelys' cat Pusskins. All can be very lazy if they're not interested in something and sometimes they like to lie around, but they can be very active when they want to be.
* ALizardNamedLiz: The Nicelys' cat is called Pusskins. The word "puss" can be used to describe cats.
* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler: In "Pants!", Bertie gets out of the bet to go to school in his undies by stating that he's wearing them... under his trousers.]]
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* NeatFreak:
** Bertie's older sister Suzy likes to be clean, which puts tension between her and Bertie.
** Both Mr Grouch the janitor and Bertie's father seem to hate leaves and/or grass on the ground. Mr Grouch seems to hate messes more, possibly because he is a janitor.
** One woman at the vets seemed like a bit of a neat freak, as she called Whiffer a "filthy fleabag" upon hearing that he had fleas.
** Bertie's older sister Suzy likes to be clean, which puts tension between her and Bertie.
** Both Mr Grouch the janitor and Bertie's father seem to hate leaves and/or grass on the ground. Mr Grouch seems to hate messes more, possibly because he is a janitor.
** One woman at the vets seemed like a bit of a neat freak, as she called Whiffer a "filthy fleabag" upon hearing that he had fleas.
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* PhraseCatcher: Downplayed with Bertie. It doesn't happen in the other books as much as the first, but sometimes if Bertie does something disgusting, someone will say, "That's dirty, Bertie!".
* ThePigPen: Bertie often has dirt on his face and likes to get dirty, hence the title of the series.
* PlayingSick:
** In "Pants!", Bertie claims to have "Germy Measles". When his mother says she cannot see any spots, he says they are invisible.
** In "Beg!", Bertie paints red blotches on his face while dressing as a Victorian beggar, because apparently "beggars are always getting diseases and plagues". Later, when he's mistaken for a real beggar, he tells a woman that he has the plague.
* ThePigPen: Bertie often has dirt on his face and likes to get dirty, hence the title of the series.
* PlayingSick:
** In "Pants!", Bertie claims to have "Germy Measles". When his mother says she cannot see any spots, he says they are invisible.
** In "Beg!", Bertie paints red blotches on his face while dressing as a Victorian beggar, because apparently "beggars are always getting diseases and plagues". Later, when he's mistaken for a real beggar, he tells a woman that he has the plague.
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''Dirty Bertie'' is a series of children's books by David Roberts.
The books focus on a seven-year-old boy who lives in London with his parents, his older sister Suzy, and his dog Whiffer.
The boy's name is Bertie and he likes to do gross-out things like play with worms, pick his nose, and stuff like that, which disgusts other people.
His rivals include a snooty boy named Nicholas, also known as Know-All Nick, his teacher Miss Boot, a nosy girl next door who pretends to be his girlfriend named Angela Nicely, and a wealthy boy named Royston Rich.
His friends are three of his classmates: Darren, Eugene, and Donna, the former two of whom are his best friends.
The first story was simply called "Dirty Bertie", whereas the others usually have one-word titles that end in an exclamation mark.
!! ''Dirty Bertie'' provides examples of...
* AccidentalMisnaming: In "Fame!", Miss Lavish calls Bertie "Billy".
* AlliterativeName: '''R'''oyston '''R'''ich.
* ComedicUnderwearExposure: The whole setup with the story "Pants!" is that Bertie loses a bet to Nick and has to go to school in his underwear. [[spoiler: Eventually, he ends up using the loophole that he is wearing underwear under his trousers and tricks Nick into pulling ''his'' pants down.]]
* CuddleBug: Both baby Molly and Gran's neighbour Sherry like to cuddle Bertie, which he finds annoying.
* BookDumb: Bertie is not stupid, but he does have bad grades, because he doesn't like to study.
* TheBully: Nick is a bit of a bully, often teasing people.
* FatCat: The Nicelys' cat Pusskins is quite tubby.
* GenkiGirl: Despite being elderly, Bertie's grandmother and her neighbour Sherry are both very upbeat and energetic.
* GreenEyedMonster: "Fetch!" focuses on Whiffer being jealous of the robot dog Tiny.
* GrossOutShow: Some moments are grosser than others, but there's plenty of bathroom humour to go around.
* IDontThinkThatsSuchAGoodIdea: Eugene sometimes disapproves of Bertie's plans if they seem dangerous or are against the rules.
* InSeriesNickname: Nicholas gets called "Know-All Nick", "Nick", or "Nickerless".
* LovableCoward: Downplayed for Eugene, who's cautious, but not downright cowardly.
* MeaningfulName:
** The Riches are a wealthy family.
** Whiffer was named by Bertie because he "farts too much".
** The robot dog from "Fetch!" is small, and his name is Tiny.
* NatureTinkling:
** In the first book, Bertie used to pee on the flowers, but has since stopped doing it.
** In "Twitter", Bertie needs to urinate while birdwatching. Eugene tells him to go in the forest because apparently he always does that. Bertie does end up weeing in the forest.
* NaughtyIsGood: Zigzagged. While Bertie is a bit of a rule-breaker, this is sometimes good and sometimes not. And while Nick is more obedient than Bertie, he is also mischeivous in his own right.
* NoseNuggets: Bertie picks his nose a lot.
* NosyNeighbour: One of the reasons why Bertie finds Angela annoying is because she often wants to ask a lot of questions or join in with Bertie's stuff.
* NotWearingPantsDream: In "Pants!", Bertie has a nightmare in which he is called to the front during assembly in nothing but his underwear.
* PottyDance:
** In "Loo!", Bertie is a bit fidgety when he needs to use the bathroom on the bus.
** in "Spell!", Bertie is using Eugene to hint at the letters to help him cheat at a spelling bee (for example, pointing at his eye if the letter is "I"). For the "P"s in "dripping", Eugene pretends to do a potty dance.
** In "Yuck!", Bertie is described as "hopping up and down as if he needed the toilet".
* PottyEmergency:
** In "Loo!", Bertie has to pee while on the bus on the way back to school from the museum.
** In "Twitter", Bertie needs a wee while birdwatching.
* ThePrankster: Bertie, Darren, Eugene and Nick are all practical jokers.
* PuppyLove: Angela is "in love" with Bertie because he gave her candy, despite the fact that she's six and he's seven.
* RichJerk: While not too jerky, Royston Rich and his father can be a bit boastful about their wealth, making Bertie and his dad jealous.
* SickEpisode:
** In "Germs!", Suzy and later Bertie get the chickenpox.
** Downplayed in "Dare!", where Miss Boot is out sick but she doesn't feature until the end, where she's better.
* SweetTooth:
** Bertie loves candy and would do anything for some candy.
** Nick has shown to like candy as well.
** Exaggerated for Angela, who thinks she's in love with Bertie, just because he gave her some candy.
* ToiletHumour: There's lots of yucky humour in this book.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: The last page of "Yuck!" has an illustration of Bertie throwing up on Nick.
* ZanyScheme: Bertie thinks he's really good at thinking up plans. Gran thinks his plans are "harebrained". Examples of his plans include planning to weigh a chocolate egg to cheat at the Guess the Weight game and roller-skating while carrying sausages to get Whiffer to follow him to the vets.
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The books focus on a seven-year-old boy who lives in London with his parents, his older sister Suzy, and his dog Whiffer.
The boy's name is Bertie and he likes to do gross-out things like play with worms, pick his nose, and stuff like that, which disgusts other people.
His rivals include a snooty boy named Nicholas, also known as Know-All Nick, his teacher Miss Boot, a nosy girl next door who pretends to be his girlfriend named Angela Nicely, and a wealthy boy named Royston Rich.
His friends are three of his classmates: Darren, Eugene, and Donna, the former two of whom are his best friends.
The first story was simply called "Dirty Bertie", whereas the others usually have one-word titles that end in an exclamation mark.
!! ''Dirty Bertie'' provides examples of...
* AccidentalMisnaming: In "Fame!", Miss Lavish calls Bertie "Billy".
* AlliterativeName: '''R'''oyston '''R'''ich.
* ComedicUnderwearExposure: The whole setup with the story "Pants!" is that Bertie loses a bet to Nick and has to go to school in his underwear. [[spoiler: Eventually, he ends up using the loophole that he is wearing underwear under his trousers and tricks Nick into pulling ''his'' pants down.]]
* CuddleBug: Both baby Molly and Gran's neighbour Sherry like to cuddle Bertie, which he finds annoying.
* BookDumb: Bertie is not stupid, but he does have bad grades, because he doesn't like to study.
* TheBully: Nick is a bit of a bully, often teasing people.
* FatCat: The Nicelys' cat Pusskins is quite tubby.
* GenkiGirl: Despite being elderly, Bertie's grandmother and her neighbour Sherry are both very upbeat and energetic.
* GreenEyedMonster: "Fetch!" focuses on Whiffer being jealous of the robot dog Tiny.
* GrossOutShow: Some moments are grosser than others, but there's plenty of bathroom humour to go around.
* IDontThinkThatsSuchAGoodIdea: Eugene sometimes disapproves of Bertie's plans if they seem dangerous or are against the rules.
* InSeriesNickname: Nicholas gets called "Know-All Nick", "Nick", or "Nickerless".
* LovableCoward: Downplayed for Eugene, who's cautious, but not downright cowardly.
* MeaningfulName:
** The Riches are a wealthy family.
** Whiffer was named by Bertie because he "farts too much".
** The robot dog from "Fetch!" is small, and his name is Tiny.
* NatureTinkling:
** In the first book, Bertie used to pee on the flowers, but has since stopped doing it.
** In "Twitter", Bertie needs to urinate while birdwatching. Eugene tells him to go in the forest because apparently he always does that. Bertie does end up weeing in the forest.
* NaughtyIsGood: Zigzagged. While Bertie is a bit of a rule-breaker, this is sometimes good and sometimes not. And while Nick is more obedient than Bertie, he is also mischeivous in his own right.
* NoseNuggets: Bertie picks his nose a lot.
* NosyNeighbour: One of the reasons why Bertie finds Angela annoying is because she often wants to ask a lot of questions or join in with Bertie's stuff.
* NotWearingPantsDream: In "Pants!", Bertie has a nightmare in which he is called to the front during assembly in nothing but his underwear.
* PottyDance:
** In "Loo!", Bertie is a bit fidgety when he needs to use the bathroom on the bus.
** in "Spell!", Bertie is using Eugene to hint at the letters to help him cheat at a spelling bee (for example, pointing at his eye if the letter is "I"). For the "P"s in "dripping", Eugene pretends to do a potty dance.
** In "Yuck!", Bertie is described as "hopping up and down as if he needed the toilet".
* PottyEmergency:
** In "Loo!", Bertie has to pee while on the bus on the way back to school from the museum.
** In "Twitter", Bertie needs a wee while birdwatching.
* ThePrankster: Bertie, Darren, Eugene and Nick are all practical jokers.
* PuppyLove: Angela is "in love" with Bertie because he gave her candy, despite the fact that she's six and he's seven.
* RichJerk: While not too jerky, Royston Rich and his father can be a bit boastful about their wealth, making Bertie and his dad jealous.
* SickEpisode:
** In "Germs!", Suzy and later Bertie get the chickenpox.
** Downplayed in "Dare!", where Miss Boot is out sick but she doesn't feature until the end, where she's better.
* SweetTooth:
** Bertie loves candy and would do anything for some candy.
** Nick has shown to like candy as well.
** Exaggerated for Angela, who thinks she's in love with Bertie, just because he gave her some candy.
* ToiletHumour: There's lots of yucky humour in this book.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: The last page of "Yuck!" has an illustration of Bertie throwing up on Nick.
* ZanyScheme: Bertie thinks he's really good at thinking up plans. Gran thinks his plans are "harebrained". Examples of his plans include planning to weigh a chocolate egg to cheat at the Guess the Weight game and roller-skating while carrying sausages to get Whiffer to follow him to the vets.
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