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* MyNewGiftIsLame: Imogene thinks that gold, frankincense and myrrh were crappy presents for the Wise Men to give to baby Jesus. Her brothers seem to agree when they play the Wise Men, because they end up bringing a ham as a present instead of the bath-salts jars they're supposed to be using. The narrator thinks to herself that it actually makes sense, because Mary and Joseph were poor refugees, and food would have been worth more to them than valuable items.
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* MyNewGiftIsLame: Imogene thinks that gold, frankincense and myrrh were crappy presents for the Wise Men to give to baby Jesus. Her brothers seem to agree when they play the Wise Men, because they end up bringing a ham as a present instead of the bath-salts jars they're supposed to be using. The narrator thinks to herself that it actually makes sense, because since Mary and Joseph were poor refugees, and food would have been worth more to them than valuable items.
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* ShowAndTellAntics: In first grade, Claude Herdman brings his wild pet cat in a box for show-and-tell after not feeding it for two days. When he opens the box, it jumps out and starts hissing and running around, clawing everything in sight. The teacher yells for her students to run out into the hall, grabs a broom, and puts a coat over her head, trying to corner the cat. She completely destroys the classroom in the process, knocking over a dollhouse, a globe, and an aquarium full of goldfish. The cat ends up eating most of the goldfish and two pet mice that another girl brought to show-and-tell.
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* MyNewGiftIsLame: Imogene thinks that gold, frankincense and myrrh were crappy presents for the Wise Men to give to baby Jesus. Her brothers seem to agree when they play the Wise Men, because they end up bringing a ham as a present instead of the bath-salts jars they're supposed to be using. The narrator thinks to herself that it actually makes sense, because since Mary and Joseph were poor refugees, food would have been worth more to them than valuable items.
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* MyNewGiftIsLame: Imogene thinks that gold, frankincense and myrrh were crappy presents for the Wise Men to give to baby Jesus. Her brothers seem to agree when they play the Wise Men, because they end up bringing a ham as a present instead of the bath-salts jars they're supposed to be using. The narrator thinks to herself that it actually makes sense, because since Mary and Joseph were poor refugees, and food would have been worth more to them than valuable items.
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: There are six Herdman siblings, and all of them are mean as sin.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: In-universe, thanks to Gladys Herdman being cast as The Angel of the Lord. "And the shepherds trembled, sore afraid -- of Gladys, mainly, but it looked good anyway."
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* EnforcedMethodActing: In-universe, thanks In-universe. The shepherds in the nativity pageant are supposed to look awed or frightened when they see the Angel of the Lord, and react ''exactly'' that way when the terrifying Gladys Herdman being is cast as The Angel of the Lord. "And in that role.
-->''And the shepherds trembled, sore afraid -- of Gladys, mainly, but it looked good anyway."''
-->''And the shepherds trembled, sore afraid -- of Gladys, mainly, but it looked good anyway.
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* CryCute: [[spoiler:Imogene is seen crying softly while hugging the fake baby near the end of ''The Best Christmas Pageant Ever'']].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Herdmans may be the worst kids in town, but even they're disgusted when they learn that a pregnant woman was forced to sleep in a barn, that the infant Jesus was bedded in a feed trough, and they're downright appalled to hear that Herod wanted to kill baby Jesus. When they find out the Christmas pageant doesn't have Herod in it, they want to rewrite the whole thing and finish it by hanging him.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Herdmans may be the worst kids in town, but even they're disgusted when they learn that a pregnant woman was forced to sleep in a barn, that the infant Jesus was bedded had to be born in a feed trough, and they're downright appalled to hear that Herod wanted to kill baby Jesus. When they find out the Christmas pageant doesn't have Herod in it, they want to rewrite the whole thing and finish it by hanging him.
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* SeenItAll: The town librarian thought so, until the Herdmans came in and asked for library cards and help in finding a book about Jesus.
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* YouWatchTooMuchX: since the Herdmans never read anything except ''Amazing Comics'', Gladys is thrilled to compare her role as Angel of the Lord to some kind of superhero.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Herdmans may be the worst kids in town, but even they're disgusted when they learn that Herod wanted to kill baby Jesus. When they find out the Christmas pageant doesn't have Herod in it, they want to rewrite the whole thing and finish it by hanging him.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Herdmans may be the worst kids in town, but even they're disgusted when they learn that a pregnant woman was forced to sleep in a barn, that the infant Jesus was bedded in a feed trough, and they're downright appalled to hear that Herod wanted to kill baby Jesus. When they find out the Christmas pageant doesn't have Herod in it, they want to rewrite the whole thing and finish it by hanging him.
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* NoNameGiven: We don't actually find out until the sequel that the narrator's name is Beth Bradley.
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* NoNameGiven: We don't actually NamedInTheSequel: In the first book, the narrator had NoNameGiven. In the sequel, we find out until the sequel that the narrator's her name is Beth Bradley.
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* CatsAreMean: The Herdmans' cat certainly is. It's been theorized that they actually caught themselves a bobcat, then made it wilder.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Any time that the Herdmans take Alice Wendleken and her mother down a peg. Sadly it never seems to stick because they'll find a new reason to be snobbish and stuck up.
* CatsAreMean: The Herdmans' catcertainly is.is a feral, one-eyed beast of a cat that is occasionally seen being walked down the block on a chain (either because it's so big or so mean or even both). It's been theorized that they actually caught themselves a bobcat, then made it wilder.
* CatsAreMean: The Herdmans' cat
* EnfantTerrible: All of the Herdmans are this but the youngest, Gladys, is notably the one who supposedly drove away Mr. Herdman at only two years old.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Surprisingly, the Herdmans.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Surprisingly, the Herdmans. As mean and obnoxious as they can be, they have a very NobleDemon quality to them in that they seem to have a cruelty threshold. For example, there was a baby named Howard who was once kidnapped by the Herdmans and had his head drawn on in marker (which ended up causing his hair to start growing). Later on, Howard loses his favorite blanket (a ratty and very used blanket that might as well be used to polish furniture or clean the car) and Imogene shows up with what seems to be a blanket so she can supposedly claim a reward for finding it. Looking at the blanket later, however, reveals that the blanket in question was actually Imogene's old blanket but of course no one would dare ask why she did so.
* ManBitesMan: Gladys, the youngest Herdman, is known for being a biter. It's easy to tell when she's been around Alice Wendleken because her skin would be blotchy due to her mother treating the bites with iodine.
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* NoNameGiven: We don't actually find out until the sequel that the narrator's name is Beth.Beth Bradley.
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* MyNewGiftIsLame: Imogene thinks that gold, frankincense and myrrh were crappy presents for the Wise Men to give to baby Jesus.
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* MyNewGiftIsLame: Imogene thinks that gold, frankincense and myrrh were crappy presents for the Wise Men to give to baby Jesus. Her brothers seem to agree when they play the Wise Men, because they end up bringing a ham as a present instead of the bath-salts jars they're supposed to be using. The narrator thinks to herself that it actually makes sense, because since Mary and Joseph were poor refugees, food would have been worth more to them than valuable items.
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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: The local social worker just refuses to deal with the Herdmans anymore except to drive by their house and make sure they haven't burned it down or blown it up.
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* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Subverted. It does exist; the local social worker just refuses to deal with the Herdmans anymore except to drive by their house and make sure they haven't burned it down or blown it up. Lampshaded by Gladys, who demands to know where Child Welfare was when Mary and Joseph were consigned to a barn to have their baby.
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* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Subverted. It does exist; the local social worker just refuses to deal with the Herdmans anymore except to drive by their house and make sure they haven't burned it down or blown it up. Lampshaded by Gladys, who demands to know where Child Welfare was when Mary and Joseph were consigned to a barn to have their baby.
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* SchoolPlay: Technically it's Sunday School, but the staging of the play drives the entire plot.
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* KarmaHoudini: Discussed as the Herdmans are learning the story of the Nativity. They all end up disgusted upon finding out that after his attempt to kill Christ, the only thing that happens to Herod is that he eventually dies of old age.
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* KarmaHoudini: KarmaHoudini:
** Discussed as the Herdmans are learning the story of the Nativity. They all end up disgusted upon finding out that after his attempt to kill Christ, the only thing that happens to Herod is that he eventually dies of old age.
** Discussed as the Herdmans are learning the story of the Nativity. They all end up disgusted upon finding out that after his attempt to kill Christ, the only thing that happens to Herod is that he eventually dies of old age.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Surprisingly, the Herdmans.
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* CryCute: [[spoiler:Imogene is seen crying softly while hugging the fake baby near the end of ''The Best Christmas Pageant Ever'']].
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* BabyBeMine: When everyone is trying to figure out how to get a baby to use to play Jesus in the titular pageant, Imogene Herdman suggests kidnapping a baby. [[RealityEnsues It does not take long for this idea to get shot down.]]
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* BabyBeMine: When everyone is trying to figure out how to get a baby to use to play Jesus in the titular pageant, Imogene Herdman suggests kidnapping a baby. [[RealityEnsues [[DidntThinkThisThrough It does not take long for this idea to get shot down.]]
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* MyNewGiftIsLame: Imogene thinks that gold, frankincense and myrrh were crappy presents for the Wise Men to give to baby Jesus.
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* ChickenpoxEpisode: ''The Best School Year Ever'' has a chapter in which chickenpox breaks out across the school.
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* ThrowItIn: In-universe, the Herdmans improvise multiple parts of the Nativity play. Gladys terrifies the shepherds by shouting at them (which works as EnforcedMethodActing). Imogene burps the baby Jesus doll. Leroy and his brothers bring a ham instead of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Everyone ends up agreeing that it made the performance a lot better, since they've heard the story so many times they never stopped to think about what it really would have been like for Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and the three Wise Men. Maybe Jesus really was like any other baby and could have been fussy or colicky; maybe Mary was nervous about having a baby and worried about having to give birth in a manger.
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* ThrowItIn: In-universe, the Herdmans improvise multiple parts of the Nativity play. Gladys terrifies the shepherds by shouting at them (which works as EnforcedMethodActing). Imogene burps the baby Jesus doll. Leroy and his brothers bring a ham instead of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Everyone ends up agreeing that it made the performance a lot better, since they've heard the story so many times they never stopped to think about what it really would have been like for Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and the three Wise Men. Maybe Jesus really was like any other baby and could have been fussy or colicky; maybe Mary was nervous about having a baby and worried about having to give birth in a manger. manger; maybe she and Joseph, as poor refugees fleeing an evil king, would have appreciated food more than precious oils or fragrant resins.
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* ThrowItIn: In-universe, the Herdmans improvise multiple parts of the Nativity play. Gladys terrifies the shepherds by shouting at them (which works as EnforcedMethodActing); Imogene burps the baby Jesus doll; Leroy and his brothers bring a ham instead of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Everyone ends up agreeing that it improved things a lot, since they've heard the story so many times they never stopped to think about what it really would have been like for Mary, Joseph, Jesus and the three Wise Men.
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* ThrowItIn: In-universe, the Herdmans improvise multiple parts of the Nativity play. Gladys terrifies the shepherds by shouting at them (which works as EnforcedMethodActing); EnforcedMethodActing). Imogene burps the baby Jesus doll; doll. Leroy and his brothers bring a ham instead of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Everyone ends up agreeing that it improved things made the performance a lot, lot better, since they've heard the story so many times they never stopped to think about what it really would have been like for Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and the three Wise Men.Men. Maybe Jesus really was like any other baby and could have been fussy or colicky; maybe Mary was nervous about having a baby and worried about having to give birth in a manger.
