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* CanadaEh: Aunt Sally both pokes fun at and provides true facts about Vancouver.
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** PlayedForLaughs with the story of John, Great-Uncle Louis, and the fiddleheads. The doctor who patches the two up at the end concludes that the moral of the story is [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that it's best not to do things for your health]].

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** PlayedForLaughs with the story of John, Great-Uncle Louis, and the fiddleheads. The doctor who patches the two up at the end concludes that the moral of the story is [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that it's best not to do things for your health]].health.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: The story of John refusing to eat fiddle-heads and being chased by Great-Uncle Louis, which goes on and on and leads to the two sustaining increasingly-bizarre injuries in the process, until the doctor called in has no clue where to even ''start''.

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** PlayedForLaughs with the story of John, Great-Uncle Louis, and the fiddleheads. The doctor who patches the two up at the end concludes that the moral of the story is [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that it's best not to do things for your health]].



* BlackComedy: The story about Sally, John, and Edward accompanying Mad Maud hunting. Maud begins to act increasingly creepy and strange, telling terrifying stories about people getting killed by cougars. She then starts shooting small woodland creatures, apparently thinking they're cougars, and finally shoots ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice the postman]]''. [[RefudgeInAudacity And seems genuinely unaware that she's the reason he's bleeding]]. Fortunately he's more shaken than injured.

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* BlackComedy: The story about Sally, John, and Edward accompanying Mad Maud hunting. Maud begins to act increasingly creepy and strange, telling terrifying stories about people getting killed by cougars. She then starts shooting small woodland creatures, apparently thinking they're cougars, and finally shoots ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice the postman]]''. [[RefudgeInAudacity [[RefugeInAudacity And seems genuinely unaware that she's the reason he's bleeding]]. Fortunately he's more shaken than injured.


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* CrossesTheLineTwice: The story of John refusing to eat fiddle-heads and being chased by Great-Uncle Louis, which goes on and on and leads to the two sustaining increasingly-bizarre injuries in the process, until the doctor called in has no clue where to even ''start''.

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* BlackComedy: The story about Sally, John, and Edward accompanying Mad Maud hunting. Maud begins to act increasingly creepy and strange, telling terrifying stories about people getting killed by cougars. She then starts shooting small woodland creatures, apparently thinking they're cougars, and finally shoots ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice the postman]]''. [[RefudgeInAudacity And seems genuinely unaware that she's the reason he's bleeding]]. Fortunately he's more shaken than injured.



** Hattie is viewed as something like this by Sally and her siblings, after she starts recovering from her past traumas and tells Great-Uncle Louis just what she thinks of him (namely that he's an old windbag and "less of a man and more of an excuse to hold up a mustache").
* CoolOldLady: Aunt Sally, John, and Edward think Mad Maud is this at first, impressed by her record of cougar hunting. They quickly change their minds when they realize just how crazy she is.



* DysfunctionalFamily: Aunt Sally's generation has become very dysfunctional after [[spoiler: she and her siblings ditch Robbie on the beach with 'the trolls']]

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* DysfunctionalFamily: Aunt Sally's generation has become very dysfunctional after [[spoiler: she and her siblings ditch Robbie on the beach with 'the trolls']]trolls'.]]


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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sally and her siblings are shocked when their frugal, sensible mother spends all their money on pinball.
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!![[TheTrolls The Trolls]] Contains examples of:

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!![[TheTrolls The Trolls]] !!The Trolls Contains examples of:
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* ExcitedEpisodeTitle: All the chapters of the book end with an exclaimation point!

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: InUniverse, Great-Uncle Louis and his State of the Union speeches.
** Similarly, the wonderful properties of eating fiddleheads. John disagrees.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: InUniverse, Great-Uncle Louis and his State of the Union speeches.
** Similarly, the wonderful properties of eating fiddleheads. John disagrees.
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* MamaBear: In one of the stories Mad Maud told, a mother is killed saving her child from a cougar.



** Subverted at the end, when [[spoiler:the kids learn that she married their uncle John, and reveal that she was their "Aunt Mariah".]]



* PapaWolf: Aunt Sally tells the kids how their grandfather was one of the quietest, nicest guys you could ever meet. When he learns that a clam bit the end of one of his kid's fingers off though, he goes after it with a shot gun.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: InUniverse, Great-Uncle Louis and his State of the Union speeches.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: InUniverse, Great-Uncle Louis and his State of the Union speeches.speeches.
** Similarly, the wonderful properties of eating fiddleheads. John disagrees.
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**And the new Mrs. Gunderson.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Fat-Little-Mean-Girl is fact a fat, little, mean girl.

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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Fat-Little-Mean-Girl is in fact a fat, little, mean girl.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Fat-little-Mean-Girl is fact a fat little mean girl.

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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Fat-little-Mean-Girl Fat-Little-Mean-Girl is fact a fat little fat, little, mean girl.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Fat-little-Mean-Girl.

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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Fat-little-Mean-Girl.Fat-little-Mean-Girl is fact a fat little mean girl.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Fat-little-Mean-Girl.

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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Fat-little-Mean-Girl.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Fat-little-Mean-Girl.


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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Fat-little-Mean-Girl.]]
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* BlackMagic: SubVerted. The Wiccan's only preform 'friendly' spells.

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* BlackMagic: SubVerted.SubvertedTrope. The Wiccan's only preform 'friendly' spells.

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** [[spoiler: [[FantasticAesop Don't feed your siblings to trolls]]]]



* BlackMagic: [[Subverted]]. The Wiccan's only preform 'friendly' spells.
** [[spoiler: [[FantasticAesop Don't feed your siblings to trolls]]]]

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* BlackMagic: [[Subverted]]. SubVerted. The Wiccan's only preform 'friendly' spells.
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* BlackMagic: [[Subverted]]. The Wiccan's only preform 'friendly' spells.
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* FormallyNamedPet: Mrs. Gunderson.
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* AuthorAppeal: Polly Horvath lives in Vancouver and milks it for all it's worth.
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** [[spoiler: [[FantasticAesop don't feed your siblings to trolls]]]]

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** [[spoiler: [[FantasticAesop don't Don't feed your siblings to trolls]]]]

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