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* StupidEvil: Droon, despite apparently working closely with the King in his business, seems to can't get it through his head that he disheartened the King so badly by stealing his stilts that he neglected his work with protecting the dike trees and almost allowed the kingdom to be flooded.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: King Birtram oversees the protection duty, as well as the regular approval of new laws, himself. See TheMainCharactersDoEverything.
* StupidEvil: Droon, despite apparently working closely with the King in his business,seems to can't seem to get it through his head that he disheartened the King so badly by stealing his stilts that he neglected his work with protecting the dike trees and almost allowed the kingdom to be flooded.
* StupidEvil: Droon, despite apparently working closely with the King in his business,
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''The King's Stilts'' is a children's book by Creator/DrSeuss.
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''The King's Stilts'' is a 1939 children's book by Creator/DrSeuss.
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* HeWentThatWay: While hiding from Lord Droon and the guards, a disguised Eric asks if they are seeking "a small boy with no belt" and directs them toward the sea.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The dike trees apparently have pleasantly spicy roots, and the Nizzards like to peck at them very much. Unfortunately, the kingdom can't tolerate this as their safety depends on the roots remaining intact. Binn and the Nizzards wage a constant battle over the root system.
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* TotemPoleTrench: Eric pulls off a one-person version by standing on the stilts and wearing a robe over them to make himself look like a tall man.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The dike trees apparently have pleasantly spicy roots, and the Nizzards like to peck at them very much. Unfortunately, the kingdom can't tolerate this as their safety depends on the roots remaining intact. Binn and the Nizzards wage a constant battle over the root system.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The dike trees apparently have pleasantly spicy roots, and the Nizzards like to peck at them very much. Unfortunately, the kingdom can't tolerate this as their safety depends on the roots remaining intact. Binn and the Nizzards wage a constant battle over the root system.
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* YouDontWantToCatchThis: A variation where it's not the hero doing it; Lord Droon locks Eric up in a house and puts a sign on the door saying he's in quarantine for measles. After King Birtram discovers that Droon stole the stilts and nearly caused the kingdom to be flooded, he has to stay in the same place under house arrest.
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* YouDontWantToCatchThis: A variation where it's not the hero doing it; Lord Droon locks Eric up in a house and puts a sign on the door saying he's in quarantine for measles. After King Birtram discovers that Droon stole the stilts and nearly caused the kingdom to be flooded, he has to stay in the same place under house arrest.arrest.
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* FunHatingVillain: Lord Droon disdains the king's habit of stilt-walking during his spare time, sneering at him for laughing and letting himself look silly. He steals the stilts to put a stop to it.
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* CatsAreLazy: Downplayed. The patrol cats are naturally inclined to laze around all day and neglect their duties, but when the king is diligent they work 12 hour shifts defending the dike trees from Nizzards.
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* EvilChancellor: Lord Droon.
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* EvilChancellor: Lord Droon. He steals the king's stilts simply because he thinks it's undignified for him to run around gleefully on them every afternoon and forces Eric to bury them. He refuses to let Eric return the stilts even as the king [[HeroicBSOD BSODs]] for lack of any downtime and the patrol cats become lazy. When Eric sees evidence that one of the dike trees has been almost pecked through, he has to fight Droon to get the stilts back to the king.
* AHandfulForAnEye: While digging up the stilts, Eric hits some of the Nizzards with the dirt.
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* StupidEvil: Droon, despite apparently working closely with the King in his business, seems to can't get it through his head that he disheartens the King so badly after stealing his stilts that he neglects his work with protecting the dike trees and almost allows the kingdom to be flooded.
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* StupidEvil: Droon, despite apparently working closely with the King in his business, seems to can't get it through his head that he disheartens disheartened the King so badly after by stealing his stilts that he neglects neglected his work with protecting the dike trees and almost allows allowed the kingdom to be flooded.flooded.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The dike trees apparently have pleasantly spicy roots, and the Nizzards like to peck at them very much. Unfortunately, the kingdom can't tolerate this as their safety depends on the roots remaining intact. Binn and the Nizzards wage a constant battle over the root system.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The dike trees apparently have pleasantly spicy roots, and the Nizzards like to peck at them very much. Unfortunately, the kingdom can't tolerate this as their safety depends on the roots remaining intact. Binn and the Nizzards wage a constant battle over the root system.
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* YouDontWantToCatchThis: A variation where it's not the hero doing it; Lord Droon locks Eric up in a house and puts a sign on the door saying he's in quarantine for measles.
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* YouDontWantToCatchThis: A variation where it's not the hero doing it; Lord Droon locks Eric up in a house and puts a sign on the door saying he's in quarantine for measles. After King Birtram discovers that Droon stole the stilts and nearly caused the kingdom to be flooded, he has to stay in the same place under house arrest.
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: After putting him in quarantine under guard with a false accusation of having measles, Eric is able to outwit the guards so easily that both the narrator and Droon calls them idiots.
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* ForTheEvulz: The only reason Droon steals the King's stilts that is that his specific philosophy is to be a killjoy.
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* ForTheEvulz: The only reason Droon steals the King's stilts that is that his specific philosophy is to be a killjoy.TheKilljoy.
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* MainCharactersDoEverything: You'd think the King could delegate much of his dike tree protection duties so he wouldn't have to do a daily work itinerary that tops most of other kings' work in a month. It is justified in that the stakes for the Kingdom's very survival are so high that King Birtram cannot live with himself if he didn't make sure things are done right by himself.
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* MainCharactersDoEverything: TheMainCharactersDoEverything: You'd think the King could delegate much of his dike tree protection duties so he wouldn't have to do a daily work itinerary that tops most of other kings' work in a month. It is justified in that the stakes for the Kingdom's very survival are so high that King Birtram cannot live with himself if he didn't make sure things are done right by himself.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Droon is forced to eat nothing but Nizzards after his plot is discovered.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Droon is forced to eat nothing but Nizzards in custody after his plot is discovered.
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* ModestRoyalty: King Birtram of Binn is a workaholic most of the day whose one pleasure is cavorting on his stilts on late afternoons. The book notes that the citizenry notes while this is an unusual thing to have, the King is perfectly entitled to his dirt cheap hobby. The one person who hates it is chancellor Lord Droon.
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* WorkHardPlayHard: King Birtram works and plays with equal intensity. The whole theme of the book is why only working is not emotionally healthy and causes problems in the long run.
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* WorkHardPlayHard: King Birtram works and plays with equal intensity. The whole theme of the book is why only working is not emotionally healthy and causes problems in the long run.run.
* YouDontWantToCatchThis: A variation where it's not the hero doing it; Lord Droon locks Eric up in a house and puts a sign on the door saying he's in quarantine for measles.
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King Birtram, the benevolent ruler of the kingdom of Binn, spends what time he has off from the business of ruling atop his fine pair of red stilts. But his chancellor, Lord Droon, takes a dim view of such undignified things and steals the stilts. Can royal page Eric get the stilts back to the distracted king before disaster strikes the kingdom?
!!This book contains examples of the following tropes:
* CatsAreMean: {{Inverted|Trope}}; the patrol cats are the kingdom's best line of defense against the Nizzards.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Droon is forced to eat nothing but Nizzards after his plot is discovered.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The book is in prose rather than the rhymes Seuss used often in his later books.
* HesBack: After Eric manages to bring the stilts back, King Birtram leaps up onto them, takes a deep breath, and leads the patrol cats in a great charge against the Nizzards.
* WorkHardPlayHard: King Birtram works and plays with equal intensity. The whole theme of the book is why only working is not emotionally healthy and causes problems in the long run.
!!This book contains examples of the following tropes:
* CatsAreMean: {{Inverted|Trope}}; the patrol cats are the kingdom's best line of defense against the Nizzards.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Droon is forced to eat nothing but Nizzards after his plot is discovered.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The book is in prose rather than the rhymes Seuss used often in his later books.
* HesBack: After Eric manages to bring the stilts back, King Birtram leaps up onto them, takes a deep breath, and leads the patrol cats in a great charge against the Nizzards.
* WorkHardPlayHard: King Birtram works and plays with equal intensity. The whole theme of the book is why only working is not emotionally healthy and causes problems in the long run.
