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* GassyGastronomy: After eating too many baked beans (in addition to [[TheAlcoholic drinking too much beer]]), Granddad Gumboyle farts so hard, he blows the roof off the house.
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* RevoltingRescue: In ''A Dose of Doctor Dog'', the sequel, Kev Gumboyle [[BadassUnintentional accidentally saves his baby brother's life]] when the baby gets snatched up by a ManEatingPlant, only for Kev's boil to burst, spraying pus on the plant and making it drop his brother.
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* JumpRopeBlunders: In the sequel, titled ''A Dose of Doctor Dog'', Gerty Gumboyle tries to skip rope (using tendrils from a ManEatingPlant, no less) only to get motion sickness.
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* HotDrinkCure: The second book has Gerty Gumboyle get motion sickness, which Dr. Dog and Prof. Hound treat with ginger tea.
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* {{Gasshole}}: Graddad becomes this is the first book.
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* CheerfulChild: Gerty, Baby and Fiona seem peppy when there's nothing wrong with them.
* GenkiGirl: Fiona apparently turns cartwheels and Gerty is pretty energetic.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Granddad drinks too much beer and eats too much baked beans, so he develops a gas problem, and ''farts the roof off''.
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* BeachEpisode: "A Dose of Doctor Dog" takes place at the beach.
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* ALizardNamedLiz: The professor is a dog and his surname is Hound.
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* ScienceHero: In the second book, the scientist Professor Dash Hound helps out the family.
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-> ''This is the Gumboyle family and this is their dog. He is a doctor.''
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* TheAlcoholic: Subverted for Granddad Gumboyle. He drinks too much beer which gives him a wind problem but when he gives up the beer, he's completely OK.
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* MissingMom: Granddad Gumboyle must be Pa Gumbolye's father, due to having the same surname. Pa Gumboyle's mother is never seen, and doesn't live with the family, so she's either dead (after all, she'd be elderly) or divorced.
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Dr. Dog is a children's book by Babette Cole. It's actually two books.
In the first book, ''Dr. Dog'', the readers are introduced to a family called the Gumboyles (a mother, a father, a granddad and five kids: Kurt who's a teen, Fiona, Gerty and Kev who are grade schoolers, and Baby who is a toddler) and their dog, who is a doctor. When the dog goes away on a conference, Granddad and the kids each get various problems (Granddad has a gas problem, Kurt has Smoker's Cough, Fiona has earache, Gerty has tonsillitis, Kev has lice and Baby has intestinal worms) and they send Dr Dog to treat them, and he does, all the while giving a well-meaning, but somewhat naggy explanation of the causes and preventatives for each ailment, and treating them. It ends with Dog chewing the parents out for not bothering to prevent the family from getting sick, and then Granddad farts so hard he blows the roof off, leading to Dr Dog being sent to an island because he has too much "stress", but then he gets a letter saying the family is coming.
In the book's sequel, ''A Dose of Dr. Dog'', Dr. Dog has met another dog who's a professor and the Gumboyles arrive and have their usual bad luck again (Kurt gets mosquito bites, Gerty gets motion sickness and Kev gets a boil on his bottom), and both doctors do their usual diagnoses, descriptions and treatments. Then, a carnivorous plant called a Nosenip nearly eats Baby, but Kev's boil bursts on it, saving the day.
!! Dr. Dog provides examples of
* AnAesop:
** Don't be negligent.
** Don't suck your thumb after scratching your bum.
** Don't swap combs and brushes.
** Don't smoke.
* AlliterativeName: ''G''erty ''G''umboyle.
* AlliterativeTitle: ''D''octor ''D''og, and A ''D''ose of ''D''octor ''D''og.
* ArtisticLicenceMedicine: Amusingly, this book educates mostly about medical issues, but it enforces the idea that [[CatchYourDeathOfCold the rain can make you sick]], which is a myth.
* BuffySpeak: Mosquitoes are called "poo-flies" by the narrator.
* ButtMonkey:
** Granddad Gumboyle and the children always seem to be getting something wrong with them, especially Baby (he got intestinal worms, which seem to be the worst compared to things like gas and lice, and then he nearly got eaten).
** Dr Dog was this in the first book, having to deal with "stress".
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: The Gumboyles tend to follow this trope: Granddad eats baked beans and drinks beer, then develops a gas problem and farts the roof off, Gerty takes one walk in the rain without rain gear and gets tonsillitis (which isn't even how you get tonsillitis anyway), Kurt develops a cough from smoking, Kev swaps combs once and gets lice...
* CatchYourDeathOfCold: Gerty's tonsillitis is said to come from taking a walk in the rain without her raincoat on.
* ADogNamedDog: Dr Dog's full name is implied to be "Dog".
* DrugsAreBad: Kurt smokes, develops Smoker's Cough, and is taught that smoking is bad.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Dr Dog wears a labcoat but no pants.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Both of the dog doctors wear white labcoats all the time.
* LazyBum: Both the Gumboyle parents don't mind their family getting sick as they have Dr Dog to treat them.
* TheMedic: Dr Dog, and his own doctor, who's also a dog.
* ManEatingPlant: The second book deals with the Nosenip plants, which eat people.
* NearlyNormalAnimal: Dr Dog can talk and hold a medical degree, but he also walks on four legs, eats dog food and pees on trees. There are also several other dogs with his level of nearly-normality.
* SeriousBusiness: Farting is treated as an illness.
* SickEpisode: Lots of the characters are described as "ill" when not suffering from an actual disease, but there are a few actual illnesses.
** Gerty's tonsillitis.
** Fiona's earache.
** Baby's worms.
* ToiletHumour:
** Baby's worms got caught by him "scratching his bum and sucking his thumb".
** Kev's boil. It's on his bottom and it bursting saves the day.
** Granddad farting so hard he blows the roof off the house.
** Kurt gets mosquito bites after stepping in poo.
* TheTonsillitisEpisode: Gerty gets tonsillitis in the first book.
* VacationEpisode: The second book has everyone on a vacation.
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In the first book, ''Dr. Dog'', the readers are introduced to a family called the Gumboyles (a mother, a father, a granddad and five kids: Kurt who's a teen, Fiona, Gerty and Kev who are grade schoolers, and Baby who is a toddler) and their dog, who is a doctor. When the dog goes away on a conference, Granddad and the kids each get various problems (Granddad has a gas problem, Kurt has Smoker's Cough, Fiona has earache, Gerty has tonsillitis, Kev has lice and Baby has intestinal worms) and they send Dr Dog to treat them, and he does, all the while giving a well-meaning, but somewhat naggy explanation of the causes and preventatives for each ailment, and treating them. It ends with Dog chewing the parents out for not bothering to prevent the family from getting sick, and then Granddad farts so hard he blows the roof off, leading to Dr Dog being sent to an island because he has too much "stress", but then he gets a letter saying the family is coming.
In the book's sequel, ''A Dose of Dr. Dog'', Dr. Dog has met another dog who's a professor and the Gumboyles arrive and have their usual bad luck again (Kurt gets mosquito bites, Gerty gets motion sickness and Kev gets a boil on his bottom), and both doctors do their usual diagnoses, descriptions and treatments. Then, a carnivorous plant called a Nosenip nearly eats Baby, but Kev's boil bursts on it, saving the day.
!! Dr. Dog provides examples of
* AnAesop:
** Don't be negligent.
** Don't suck your thumb after scratching your bum.
** Don't swap combs and brushes.
** Don't smoke.
* AlliterativeName: ''G''erty ''G''umboyle.
* AlliterativeTitle: ''D''octor ''D''og, and A ''D''ose of ''D''octor ''D''og.
* ArtisticLicenceMedicine: Amusingly, this book educates mostly about medical issues, but it enforces the idea that [[CatchYourDeathOfCold the rain can make you sick]], which is a myth.
* BuffySpeak: Mosquitoes are called "poo-flies" by the narrator.
* ButtMonkey:
** Granddad Gumboyle and the children always seem to be getting something wrong with them, especially Baby (he got intestinal worms, which seem to be the worst compared to things like gas and lice, and then he nearly got eaten).
** Dr Dog was this in the first book, having to deal with "stress".
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: The Gumboyles tend to follow this trope: Granddad eats baked beans and drinks beer, then develops a gas problem and farts the roof off, Gerty takes one walk in the rain without rain gear and gets tonsillitis (which isn't even how you get tonsillitis anyway), Kurt develops a cough from smoking, Kev swaps combs once and gets lice...
* CatchYourDeathOfCold: Gerty's tonsillitis is said to come from taking a walk in the rain without her raincoat on.
* ADogNamedDog: Dr Dog's full name is implied to be "Dog".
* DrugsAreBad: Kurt smokes, develops Smoker's Cough, and is taught that smoking is bad.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Dr Dog wears a labcoat but no pants.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Both of the dog doctors wear white labcoats all the time.
* LazyBum: Both the Gumboyle parents don't mind their family getting sick as they have Dr Dog to treat them.
* TheMedic: Dr Dog, and his own doctor, who's also a dog.
* ManEatingPlant: The second book deals with the Nosenip plants, which eat people.
* NearlyNormalAnimal: Dr Dog can talk and hold a medical degree, but he also walks on four legs, eats dog food and pees on trees. There are also several other dogs with his level of nearly-normality.
* SeriousBusiness: Farting is treated as an illness.
* SickEpisode: Lots of the characters are described as "ill" when not suffering from an actual disease, but there are a few actual illnesses.
** Gerty's tonsillitis.
** Fiona's earache.
** Baby's worms.
* ToiletHumour:
** Baby's worms got caught by him "scratching his bum and sucking his thumb".
** Kev's boil. It's on his bottom and it bursting saves the day.
** Granddad farting so hard he blows the roof off the house.
** Kurt gets mosquito bites after stepping in poo.
* TheTonsillitisEpisode: Gerty gets tonsillitis in the first book.
* VacationEpisode: The second book has everyone on a vacation.
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