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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Pete was a perfectly predictable pig..."
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Pickles is a rather saturated blue.
* ArtShift: Like most of Berkeley Breathed's children's books, the illustrations frequently shift from ComicStrip/BloomCounty style sketches to fully rendered paintings.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: After Pete and Pickles are rescued by the firemen nearly unconscious, the story ends with them waking up the next morning engaging the photo above, as if nothing happened.]]
* BathtubScene: In one scene, Pete reads The New York Times in the tub while Pickles scrubs his back. [[spoiler: The bathtub also causes the flood that occurs in the story's climax.]]
* BrainyPig: Pete seems to be the more intellectual of the duo.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Ridiculous!"
* CrappyCarnival: The circus that Pickles resides in appears to be such.
* DisguisedInDrag: Pete's TotemPoleTrench involves him posing as a woman.
* DrowningPit: [[spoiler:The climax of the story involves Pete's house being flooded, with Pickles being trapped inside due to her size.]]
* GraveMarkingScene: Part of Pete's perfectly predictable routine involves him ''vacuuming'' his wife's grave.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Pete on occasions.
* TheHermit: It is implied that Pete does not leave beyond the perimeters of his home that often until Pickles enters his life.
* IndubitablyUninterestingIndividual: Pete, who desires for his life to be perfectly practical, predictable and uncomplicated. [[spoiler: He breaks out of this by the story's end.]]
* TheLostLenore: Although it's not directly mentioned in the text; it is very heavily implied that Pete is the way he is because he had lost his wife Paprika not too long ago.
* LoudSleeperGag: Occurs when Pickles starts to sleep on Pete's couch.
* MrImagination: Pickles likes to imagine herself doing things in far off places, and bringing Pete along for the ride.
* NeatFreak: Pete, who seems to spend a lot of his days needless cleaning his home, and has to wear ''a hazmat suit'' when an actual mess enters his home.
* NighthawksShot: When Pete and Pickles go to "Tahiti" for brunch.
* MythologyGag: The usage of dandelions as a symbol of hope brings to mind author Breathed's more [[ComicStrip/BloomCounty more popular creation.]]
* OddCouple: Pete and Pickles.
* ThePollyanna: Pickles always keeps a smile, even as she is taken back to the circus and later when [[spoiler: she nearly drowns.]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: The story is essentially about how a friendship may break up someone's perception of what normal might be, but also make it better.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Pete is the Savvy Guy to Pickles' Energetic Girl.
* SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: Pete is an anthropomorphic talking pig who lives in a house, while Pickles is, for the most part, a bipedal animal who is handled by humans prior to Pete's interference and never actually talks in the book.
* TotemPoleTrench: This is how Pete is able to get Pickles out of the circus.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Pickles is a rather saturated blue.
* ArtShift: Like most of Berkeley Breathed's children's books, the illustrations frequently shift from ComicStrip/BloomCounty style sketches to fully rendered paintings.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: After Pete and Pickles are rescued by the firemen nearly unconscious, the story ends with them waking up the next morning engaging the photo above, as if nothing happened.]]
* BathtubScene: In one scene, Pete reads The New York Times in the tub while Pickles scrubs his back. [[spoiler: The bathtub also causes the flood that occurs in the story's climax.]]
* BrainyPig: Pete seems to be the more intellectual of the duo.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Ridiculous!"
* CrappyCarnival: The circus that Pickles resides in appears to be such.
* DisguisedInDrag: Pete's TotemPoleTrench involves him posing as a woman.
* DrowningPit: [[spoiler:The climax of the story involves Pete's house being flooded, with Pickles being trapped inside due to her size.]]
* GraveMarkingScene: Part of Pete's perfectly predictable routine involves him ''vacuuming'' his wife's grave.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Pete on occasions.
* TheHermit: It is implied that Pete does not leave beyond the perimeters of his home that often until Pickles enters his life.
* IndubitablyUninterestingIndividual: Pete, who desires for his life to be perfectly practical, predictable and uncomplicated. [[spoiler: He breaks out of this by the story's end.]]
* TheLostLenore: Although it's not directly mentioned in the text; it is very heavily implied that Pete is the way he is because he had lost his wife Paprika not too long ago.
* LoudSleeperGag: Occurs when Pickles starts to sleep on Pete's couch.
* MrImagination: Pickles likes to imagine herself doing things in far off places, and bringing Pete along for the ride.
* NeatFreak: Pete, who seems to spend a lot of his days needless cleaning his home, and has to wear ''a hazmat suit'' when an actual mess enters his home.
* NighthawksShot: When Pete and Pickles go to "Tahiti" for brunch.
* MythologyGag: The usage of dandelions as a symbol of hope brings to mind author Breathed's more [[ComicStrip/BloomCounty more popular creation.]]
* OddCouple: Pete and Pickles.
* ThePollyanna: Pickles always keeps a smile, even as she is taken back to the circus and later when [[spoiler: she nearly drowns.]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: The story is essentially about how a friendship may break up someone's perception of what normal might be, but also make it better.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Pete is the Savvy Guy to Pickles' Energetic Girl.
* SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: Pete is an anthropomorphic talking pig who lives in a house, while Pickles is, for the most part, a bipedal animal who is handled by humans prior to Pete's interference and never actually talks in the book.
* TotemPoleTrench: This is how Pete is able to get Pickles out of the circus.
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*TheLostLenore: Although it's not directly mentioned in the text; it is very heavily implied that Pete is the way he is because he had lost his wife Paprika not too long ago.
*LoudSleeperGag: Occurs when Pickles starts to sleep on Pete's couch.
*MrImagination: Pickles likes to imagine herself doing things in far off places, and bringing Pete along for the ride.
*NeatFreak: Pete, who seems to spend a lot of his days needless cleaning his home, and has to wear ''a hazmat suit'' when an actual mess enters his home.
*NighthawksShot: When Pete and Pickles go to "Tahiti" for brunch.
*MythologyGag: The usage of dandelions as a symbol of hope brings to mind author Breathed's more [[ComicStrip/BloomCounty more popular creation.]]
* LoudSleeperGag: Occurs when Pickles starts to sleep on Pete's couch.
* MrImagination: Pickles likes to imagine herself doing things in far off places, and bringing Pete along for the ride.
* NeatFreak: Pete, who seems to spend a lot of his days needless cleaning his home, and has to wear ''a hazmat suit'' when an actual mess enters his home.
* NighthawksShot: When Pete and Pickles go to "Tahiti" for brunch.
* MythologyGag: The usage of dandelions as a symbol of hope brings to mind author Breathed's more [[ComicStrip/BloomCounty more popular creation.]]
* OddCouple:
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[[caption-width-right:340:Out picking blueberries on the dandelion moons of Pluto.]]
''Pete & Pickles'' is a children's book written by ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' creator Berkeley Breathed, first published in 2008.
Pete is a "perfectly predictable", "perfectly practical" pig. His "perfectly uncomplicated" life gets disrupted one night when a runaway circus elephant named Pickles takes hostage in his home. Though Pete initially decides to return her back, he soon has a sudden change of heart when the porcine realizes that Pickles may need a friend. But unbeknownst to the practical Pete, Pickles has some rather unpredictable plans, which may end up breaking Pete's uncomplicated world as he knows it.
Soon to have a ''very'' loose ActionizedAdaptation called ''Hitpig'', which is set for a 2023/24 release.
Compare and contrast ''Literature/ElephantAndPiggie'', another literary elephant and pig duo, except the genders and personalities of the characters are reversed.
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!!''Pete & Pickles'' contains examples of:
*AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Pete was a perfectly predictable pig..."
*AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Pickles is a rather saturated blue.
*ArtShift: Like most of Berkeley Breathed's children's books, the illustrations frequently shift from ComicStrip/BloomCounty style sketches to fully rendered paintings.
*AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: After Pete and Pickles are rescued by the firemen nearly unconscious, the story ends with them waking up the next morning engaging the photo above, as if nothing happened.]]
*BathtubScene: In one scene, Pete reads The New York Times in the tub while Pickles scrubs his back. [[spoiler: The bathtub also causes the flood that occurs in the story's climax.]]
*BrainyPig: Pete seems to be the more intellectual of the duo.
*{{Catchphrase}}: "Ridiculous!"
*CrappyCarnival: The circus that Pickles resides in appears to be such.
*DisguisedInDrag: Pete's TotemPoleTrench involves him posing as a woman.
*DrowningPit: [[spoiler:The climax of the story involves Pete's house being flooded, with Pickles being trapped inside due to her size.]]
*GraveMarkingScene: Part of Pete's perfectly predictable routine involves him ''vacuuming'' his wife's grave.
*HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Pete on occasions.
*TheHermit: It is implied that Pete does not leave beyond the perimeters of his home that often until Pickles enters his life.
*IndubitablyUninterestingIndividual: Pete, who desires for his life to be perfectly practical, predictable and uncomplicated. [[spoiler: He breaks out of this by the story's end.]]
*TheLostLenore: Although it's not directly mentioned in the text; it is very heavily implied that Pete is the way he is because he had lost his wife Paprika not too long ago.
*LoudSleeperGag: Occurs when Pickles starts to sleep on Pete's couch.
*MrImagination: Pickles likes to imagine herself doing things in far off places, and bringing Pete along for the ride.
*NeatFreak: Pete, who seems to spend a lot of his days needless cleaning his home, and has to wear ''a hazmat suit'' when an actual mess enters his home.
*NighthawksShot: When Pete and Pickles go to "Tahiti" for brunch.
*MythologyGag: The usage of dandelions as a symbol of hope brings to mind author Breathed's more [[ComicStrip/BloomCounty more popular creation.]]
*OddCouple: Pete and Pickles.
*ThePollyanna: Pickles always keeps a smile, even as she is taken back to the circus and later when [[spoiler: she nearly drowns.]]
*ThePowerOfFriendship: The story is essentially about how a friendship may break up someone's perception of what normal might be, but also make it better.
*SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Pete is the Savvy Guy to Pickles' Energetic Girl.
*SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: Pete is an anthropomorphic talking pig who lives in a house, while Pickles is, for the most part, a bipedal animal who is handled by humans prior to Pete's interference and never actually talks in the book.
*TotemPoleTrench: This is how Pete is able to get Pickles out of the circus.
[[caption-width-right:340:Out picking blueberries on the dandelion moons of Pluto.]]
''Pete & Pickles'' is a children's book written by ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' creator Berkeley Breathed, first published in 2008.
Pete is a "perfectly predictable", "perfectly practical" pig. His "perfectly uncomplicated" life gets disrupted one night when a runaway circus elephant named Pickles takes hostage in his home. Though Pete initially decides to return her back, he soon has a sudden change of heart when the porcine realizes that Pickles may need a friend. But unbeknownst to the practical Pete, Pickles has some rather unpredictable plans, which may end up breaking Pete's uncomplicated world as he knows it.
Soon to have a ''very'' loose ActionizedAdaptation called ''Hitpig'', which is set for a 2023/24 release.
Compare and contrast ''Literature/ElephantAndPiggie'', another literary elephant and pig duo, except the genders and personalities of the characters are reversed.
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!!''Pete & Pickles'' contains examples of:
*AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Pete was a perfectly predictable pig..."
*AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Pickles is a rather saturated blue.
*ArtShift: Like most of Berkeley Breathed's children's books, the illustrations frequently shift from ComicStrip/BloomCounty style sketches to fully rendered paintings.
*AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: After Pete and Pickles are rescued by the firemen nearly unconscious, the story ends with them waking up the next morning engaging the photo above, as if nothing happened.]]
*BathtubScene: In one scene, Pete reads The New York Times in the tub while Pickles scrubs his back. [[spoiler: The bathtub also causes the flood that occurs in the story's climax.]]
*BrainyPig: Pete seems to be the more intellectual of the duo.
*{{Catchphrase}}: "Ridiculous!"
*CrappyCarnival: The circus that Pickles resides in appears to be such.
*DisguisedInDrag: Pete's TotemPoleTrench involves him posing as a woman.
*DrowningPit: [[spoiler:The climax of the story involves Pete's house being flooded, with Pickles being trapped inside due to her size.]]
*GraveMarkingScene: Part of Pete's perfectly predictable routine involves him ''vacuuming'' his wife's grave.
*HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Pete on occasions.
*TheHermit: It is implied that Pete does not leave beyond the perimeters of his home that often until Pickles enters his life.
*IndubitablyUninterestingIndividual: Pete, who desires for his life to be perfectly practical, predictable and uncomplicated. [[spoiler: He breaks out of this by the story's end.]]
*TheLostLenore: Although it's not directly mentioned in the text; it is very heavily implied that Pete is the way he is because he had lost his wife Paprika not too long ago.
*LoudSleeperGag: Occurs when Pickles starts to sleep on Pete's couch.
*MrImagination: Pickles likes to imagine herself doing things in far off places, and bringing Pete along for the ride.
*NeatFreak: Pete, who seems to spend a lot of his days needless cleaning his home, and has to wear ''a hazmat suit'' when an actual mess enters his home.
*NighthawksShot: When Pete and Pickles go to "Tahiti" for brunch.
*MythologyGag: The usage of dandelions as a symbol of hope brings to mind author Breathed's more [[ComicStrip/BloomCounty more popular creation.]]
*OddCouple: Pete and Pickles.
*ThePollyanna: Pickles always keeps a smile, even as she is taken back to the circus and later when [[spoiler: she nearly drowns.]]
*ThePowerOfFriendship: The story is essentially about how a friendship may break up someone's perception of what normal might be, but also make it better.
*SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Pete is the Savvy Guy to Pickles' Energetic Girl.
*SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: Pete is an anthropomorphic talking pig who lives in a house, while Pickles is, for the most part, a bipedal animal who is handled by humans prior to Pete's interference and never actually talks in the book.
*TotemPoleTrench: This is how Pete is able to get Pickles out of the circus.
