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* ThreatenAllToFindOne: This is Headmaster Grimes' standard threat when "some boy" has broken the rules. Unless that boy confesses the whole school will be given detention/made to dig the vegetable garden.
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* LiteraryNecrophilia: In 1983, Simon Brett revived Molesworth to give his view of the perils of adulthood and life in the business world of TheEighties, in two books, ''Molesworth Rites Again'' and ''How to Stay Topp'', and a radio series, ''Molesworth''. Creator/WillieRushton provided the cartoons for the books and the voice of Molesworth in the radio series. The books were written in the familiar style, with a foreword in which Molesworth explained that of course he could write better now but he knew what his fans expected.
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* ToyBasedCharacterization: In a flashback, Nigel depicts himself as a young child, smashing a model train to pieces with a hammer. This is of a piece with his self-characterisation as a "huge lout with 0 branes."
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Other characters include the masters, or "[[GagNose beaks]]", including headmaster GRIMES (name always spelled in allcaps), sigismund the mad maths master, and of course the school dog. The books also divert into subjects such as UsefulNotes/TheGreatBritishSeaside, complete with UsefulNotes/BritishWeather.[[note]]The Molesworths can afford to go away for their holidays, but this is in the days before foreign holidays were really an option for most British folk. So they go the seaside and get rained on.[[/note]]

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Other characters include the masters, or "[[GagNose "[[SinisterSchnoz beaks]]", including headmaster GRIMES (name always spelled in allcaps), sigismund the mad maths master, and of course the school dog. The books also divert into subjects such as UsefulNotes/TheGreatBritishSeaside, complete with UsefulNotes/BritishWeather.[[note]]The Molesworths can afford to go away for their holidays, but this is in the days before foreign holidays were really an option for most British folk. So they go the seaside and get rained on.[[/note]]

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