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* SchmuckBait: Roy's family lived in Montana before his father was transferred to Florida; Roy remarks on the irony that every year, the authorities in Yellowstone National Park put up huge signs that warn tourists not to approach, feed, or (God help you) try to ride the buffaloes, and ''every year'' some schmuck tries to do all three.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Mullet Fingers. Roy notices this and it kicks off the whole plot.
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* BuriedAlive: What's going to happen to the burrowing owls if Mother Paula builds a pancake house on top of their habitat. Even if the adult owls are able to fly away and make new habitats somewhere else, the baby owls will be trapped.
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* BuriedAlive: What's going to happen to the burrowing owls if Mother Paula builds a pancake house on top of their habitat. Even if the adult owls are able to fly away and make new habitats somewhere else, the baby owls will be trapped.trapped underground and will suffocate.
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* BigBad: Chuck Muckle, the Vice-President for Corporate Relations of Mother Paula's who's pushing as hard as he can to make sure the pancake house in Coconut Cove opens on schedule, even if it means burying a bunch of endangered burrowing owls alive.
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* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: To explain how scary Beatrice is, Garrett mentions a past incident where a football player slapped her butt and she chased him down and shoved him into the water fountain, breaking three of his collarbones. Humans only have two collarbones.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Mullet Fingers is willing to vandalize the site of the pancake house to disrupt construction and protect the owls, but he doesn't actually want anyone to get hurt. Even when he unleashes water moccasins (a kind of venomous snake) to scare the guard dogs, he tapes their mouths shut first.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Mullet Fingers is willing to vandalize the site of the pancake house to disrupt construction and protect the owls, but he doesn't actually want anyone to get hurt. Even when he unleashes water moccasins (a kind of venomous snake) to scare the guard dogs, he tapes their mouths shut first.first and coats their tails in glitter so they'll be easy to spot.
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* FoulCafeteriaFood: One of the things on Roy's lunch tray is an overbaked chocolate chip cookie "the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty." It's so hard it makes a thud when it lands on his plate.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Mullet Fingers is willing to vandalize the site of the pancake house to disrupt construction and protect the owls, but he doesn't actually want anyone to get hurt. Even when he unleashes water moccasins (a kind of venomous snake) to scare the guard dogs, he tapes their mouths shut first.
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* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Garrett's mother is a middle school guidance counselor, but her son is a notorious troublemaker and class clown. Roy figures her job leaves her too tired to deal with Garrett when they get home.
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* DarkSkinnedBlond: Mullet Fingers is described as such. [[JustifiedTrope Justifed]] because he spends almost all of his time outside in the Florida sun.
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* AdultFear: Roy is not supposed to know that his mother miscarried her second child, but he does, and understands why she frets so much over his safety, and he does his best not to give her any reason to worry. When Roy is (mistakenly) reported as having been taken to the emergency room, his mother rushes to her car in a panic. Roy's mother is particularly shaken when Roy explains that Mullet Fingers lives on the street because his mother doesn't want him.
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* MinimalisticCoverArt: The cover features a pair of eyes and a beak on a blue background, and nothing else.
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* KidHasAPoint: A recurring theme in nearly all of Hiaasen's young adult novels. Several of the adult characters are not bad people, but they are too occupied with their own lives to worry about animal rights, environmental issues, or municipal corruption, while Roy, Mullet Fingers and Beatrice figure out for themselves what they need to do to save the owls at the construction site.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Garrett pretends to dictate Roy's apology letter to Dana:
-->'''Garrett''': "I'm sorry I smoked you. Please don't break every bone in my body. Please leave me at least one good arm so I can feed myself."''\\
'''Roy''': You're hilarious.
-->'''Garrett''': "I'm sorry I smoked you. Please don't break every bone in my body. Please leave me at least one good arm so I can feed myself."''\\
'''Roy''': You're hilarious.
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* AbusiveParents: Lonna Leep, Mullet Fingers's mother and Beatrice's stepmother. Beatrice is tough as nails, but even she needs to get out of the house when Lonna ''"[falls] off her broom."'' Lonna's husband Leon is not abusive, but too lazy to take an interest in much of anything, including his daughter and stepson.
* AdultFear: Roy is not supposed to know that his mother miscarried her second child, but he does, and understands why she frets so much over his safety, and he does his best not to give her any reason to worry. When Roy is (mistakenly) reported as having been taken to the emergency room, his mother rushes to her car in a panic. Roy's mother is particularly shaken when Roy explains that Mullet Fingers lives on the street because his mother doesn't want him.
* AdultFear: Roy is not supposed to know that his mother miscarried her second child, but he does, and understands why she frets so much over his safety, and he does his best not to give her any reason to worry. When Roy is (mistakenly) reported as having been taken to the emergency room, his mother rushes to her car in a panic. Roy's mother is particularly shaken when Roy explains that Mullet Fingers lives on the street because his mother doesn't want him.
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* AdultsAreUseless: With the possible exception of Roy's parents, who mostly act as moral support, and Officer Delinko.
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* NatureIsNotNice: Mullet Fingers plants cottonmouth snakes at the construction site, and both he and Roy know just how dangerous they are.
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* TookALevelInBadass: In both the book and the film, Officer Delinko spends most of the story as the ButtMonkey for Mullet Fingers's vandalism, but when he interrogates Dana Matherson, he calmly hoists a miniature (live) alligator out of a bag, and Dana's terrified reaction instantly proves he's not responsible for the vandalism.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Whenever someone in TheMovie says "Ling Ho" the real Ling Ho looks up.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Beatrice, a notorious bully who's also pretty nice when she figures out Roy genuinely wants to help her stepbrother.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Roy gets in trouble when he punches Dana Matherson, and as his punishment, he's banned from riding the bus, despite having evidence that Dana was choking him at the time. His mother, not realizing that her son wants to be alive, fights for him to get back on the bus.
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* AngryGuardDog: Curly tries using these to guard the construction site. Unfortunately, Mullet Fingers uses some water moccasins to cause their trainer to reclaim them and leave with them in a huff.
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* AngryGuardDog: Curly tries using these to guard the construction site. Unfortunately, Mullet Fingers uses some water moccasins to cause their trainer to reclaim them and leave with them in a huff.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: The AngryGuardDog[=s=] are referred as and implied to be named "Pookie" and "Kissy-face" by Kalo.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: The One of the AngryGuardDog[=s=] are referred as and implied to be is named "Pookie" and "Kissy-face" by Kalo."Pookie Face".
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* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Mullet Fingers, who ran away OddNameOut: Kalo's four Rottweilers are named Max, Klaus, Karl, and... Pookie Face. The last one gets a somewhat incredulous reaction from military school and lives in the woods.Curly.
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He sees a mysterious [[WildChild barefoot boy]], and attracts the ire of the school bully as well as the attention of the school's jockiest jock (who also happens to be a girl) just on his first day. Further investigation leads him to find out that the barefoot boy is protecting a family of burrowing owls and is also the one "sabotaging" the construction on a local pancake house.
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A YoungAdult novel by Creator/CarlHiaasen published in 2002. It won a Newbery Honor in the following year.
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A YoungAdult [[MiddleGradeLiterature middle grade]] novel by Creator/CarlHiaasen published in 2002. It won a Newbery Honor in the following year.
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** Mullet Fingers is [[Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn Huckleberry Finn.Finn]].
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* OminousOwl: Subverted. While burrowing owls are tiny and adorable, their existence on the construction site spelled doom for the pancake house.
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* EmbarrassingFirstName / EmbarrassingMiddleName: [[spoiler: Napoleon Bridger]] for Mullet Fingers.
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* EmbarrassingFirstName / EmbarrassingMiddleName: [[spoiler: Napoleon Bridger]] for Mullet Fingers. There's also the school bully, who's first name is ''Dana.''
