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A movie adaptation was released on August 16, 2019.

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A movie adaptation was released on August 16, 2019.2019, directed by Creator/RichardLinklater and starring Creator/CateBlanchett (in the title role), Creator/BillyCrudup, Creator/KristenWiig, and Creator/JudyGreer.
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%%* DoesNotLikeShoes: Elgin
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* [[MeddlingParents Helicopter Parents]]: In spades. Averted only by the mother of Bee's friend Kennedy.

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* [[MeddlingParents Helicopter Parents]]: HelicopterParents: In spades. Averted only by the mother of Bee's friend Kennedy.
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Ill Girl has been cut per TRS decision. Examples are moved to Delicate And Sickly when appropriate.


* IllGirl: Subverted; everyone thinks of Bee as a sickly child because of her premature birth and heart condition as a baby, and its mild lingering effects, but she and her cardiologist think she's perfectly healthy.
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* DramaQueen: Audrey Griffin takes it UpToEleven. Bernadette would probably be considered one in another story, but she seems positively laid back compared to Audrey.

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* DramaQueen: Audrey Griffin takes it UpToEleven.Griffin. Bernadette would probably be considered one in another story, but she seems positively laid back compared to Audrey.
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* {{Meganekko}}: Bee.

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* Meganekko: Bee.

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* Meganekko: {{Meganekko}}: Bee.



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* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: What has happened to Bernadette (same in the film)

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* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: What has happened to Bernadette (same in the film)Bernadette
* Meganekko: Bee.
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* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: What has happened to Bernadette

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* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: What has happened to BernadetteBernadette (same in the film)
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* TakeThat: Bernadette's emails absolutely skewer {{UsefulNotes/Seattle}}

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* TakeThat: Bernadette's emails absolutely skewer {{UsefulNotes/Seattle}}{{UsefulNotes/Seattle}}.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Bernadette's neighbor Audrey wants Bernadette to [[spoiler:clear all the blackberry bushes from the hillside that rises above Audrey's house]]. Bernadette does, during the rainiest winter in a very rainy city....

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Bernadette's neighbor Audrey wants Bernadette to [[spoiler:clear all the blackberry bushes from the hillside that rises above Audrey's house]]. Bernadette does, during the rainiest winter in a very rainy city....city...

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A novel (as made clear by the subtitle) by Maria Semple about a woman living in UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} who disappears two days before Christmas as her family is preparing to travel to Antarctica. It is mostly an EpistolaryNovel, compiled from emails, letters, and invoices sent among the main characters, with a few scenes conventionally narrated in first person by Bernadette's teenage daughter Bee.

A [[Film/WheredYouGoBernadette movie adaptation]] was released on August 16, 2019.
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A novel (as made clear by the subtitle) by Maria Semple about a woman living in UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} who disappears two days before Christmas as her family is preparing to travel to Antarctica. Antarctica.

It is mostly an EpistolaryNovel, compiled from emails, letters, and invoices sent among the main characters, with a few scenes conventionally narrated in first person by Bernadette's teenage daughter Bee.

A [[Film/WheredYouGoBernadette movie adaptation]] adaptation was released on August 16, 2019.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Bee

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* %%* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Bee



* DoesNotLikeShoes: Elgin

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* %%* DoesNotLikeShoes: Elgin



* EpistolaryNovel



* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: Soo-Lin

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* %%* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: Soo-Lin



* LargeHam: Ollie-O

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* %%* LargeHam: Ollie-O
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Audrey Griffin and Soo-Lin don't believe that anyone would want to opt out of getting Galen Street School email announcements, and that Elgin must have been ObfuscatingStupidity when he claimed he didn't know about [[spoiler: the hillside collapsing on Audrey Griffin's house while a school even was being held there]], which was announced by email.

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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Audrey Griffin and Soo-Lin don't believe that anyone would want to opt out of getting Galen Street School email announcements, and that Elgin must have been ObfuscatingStupidity when he claimed he didn't know about [[spoiler: the hillside collapsing on Audrey Griffin's house while a school even event was being held there]], which was announced by email.
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Updated mention of the movie version


A [[Film/WheredYouGoBernadette movie adaptation]] is currently (as of 2017) in production.

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A [[Film/WheredYouGoBernadette movie adaptation]] is currently (as of 2017) in production.was released on August 16, 2019.
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* KubrickStare: Invoked by Bee's parents, who call a face she makes at them her Kubrick face.

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* KubrickStare: Invoked Discussed by Bee's parents, who call a face she makes at them her Kubrick face.



* MoodWhiplash: Bernadette writes a very, ''very'' snarky email to Paul Jellinek, describing her dissatisfaction with her life in Seattle in hilarious detail, when she starts writing about her miscarraiges. After that she goes right back to snarking.
* OldDarkHouse: Bernadette and family live in one. It was formerly a school for delinquent girls, who were forced to have abortions.
* PluckyComicRelief: Detective Driscoll provides some hilarious oblivious lines when [[spoiler:Bernadette is about to be committed]].

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* MoodWhiplash: Bernadette writes a very, ''very'' snarky email to Paul Jellinek, describing in which she describes her dissatisfaction with her life in Seattle in hilarious detail, when she suddenly starts writing about her miscarraiges. After that that, she goes right back to the snarking.
* OldDarkHouse: Bernadette and family live in one. It was formerly a school for delinquent girls, who where it was rumored they were forced to have abortions.
* PluckyComicRelief: Detective Driscoll provides some hilarious oblivious tone-deaf lines when [[spoiler:Bernadette is about to be committed]].



* TropaholicsAnonymous: Soo-Lin is in a member of a support group called Victims Against Victimhood, which she details hilariously in her letters to Audrey.

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* TropaholicsAnonymous: Soo-Lin is in a member of a support group called Victims Against Victimhood, which she details hilariously in her letters to Audrey.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Bernadette and Paul Jellinek, from two different cities, over something that happened 20 years ago.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: Bernadette and Paul Jellinek, from two different cities, over about something that happened 20 years ago.ago, over email.



* PluckyComicRelief: Detective Driscoll provides some hilarious oblivious line when [[spoiler:Bernadette is about to be committed]].

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* PluckyComicRelief: Detective Driscoll provides some hilarious oblivious line lines when [[spoiler:Bernadette is about to be committed]].
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A [[Film/WheredYouGoBernadette movie adaptation]] is currently (as of 2017) in production.
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* MoodWhiplash: Bernadette writes a very, ''very'' snarky email to Paul Jellinek, describing her dissatisfaction with her life in Seattle in hilarious detail, when she starts writing about her miscarraiges. After that she goes right back to snarking.
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* HollywoodHacking: Averted. Although the ease in which [[spoiler:Kyle Griffin]] was able to remotely hack into [[spoiler:Soo-Lin]]'s account at Microsoft may have been exaggerated ([[TakeThat or was it?]]), [[spoiler:he]] used mostly realistic hacking methods.

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* HollywoodHacking: Averted. Although the ease in which [[spoiler:Kyle Griffin]] was able to remotely hack into [[spoiler:Soo-Lin]]'s account at Microsoft may have been exaggerated ([[TakeThat or was it?]]), may not have been]]), [[spoiler:he]] used mostly realistic hacking methods.
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* HollywoodHacking: Averted. Although the ease in which [[spoiler:Kyle Griffin]] was able to remotely hack into [[spoiler:Soo-Lin]]'s account at Microsoft may have been exaggerated ([[TakeThat or was it?]]), [[spoiler:he]] used mostly realistic hacking methods.

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* TheCameo:
** One of the "epistles" in the book was a blog entry by Cliff Mass, a weatherman that Bee and Bernadette like. Cliff Mass is, in fact, an actual weatherman in Seattle with a blog.
** Buzz Aldrin makes an appearance as well.



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted.
** One of the "epistles" in the book was a blog entry by Cliff Mass, a weatherman that Bee and Bernadette like. Cliff Mass is, in fact, an actual weatherman in Seattle with a blog.
** Buzz Aldrin makes an appearance as well.
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* ChekhovsGun: Audrey Griffin's emergency room bill from when [[spoiler: she pretended that Bernadette ran over her feet]] had a line item for Vicodin tablets, and a note explaining that she was in hysterics and demanded the drug among other things. A few weeks later [[her son Kyle was caught selling the Vicodin in school]].

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* ChekhovsGun: Audrey Griffin's emergency room bill from when [[spoiler: she pretended that Bernadette ran over her feet]] had a line item for Vicodin tablets, and a note explaining that she was in hysterics and demanded the drug among other things. A few weeks later [[her [[spoiler: her son Kyle was caught selling with the empty bottle of Vicodin in school]].school, implied to have taken or sold the tablets]].
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* ToughLive: After years of [[DotingParent doting]] on Kyle, Audrey Griffin has an epiphany and sends him to a immersion rehab camp that dumped him and several other boys in the middle of the desert and left them to their own survive for a week.

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* ToughLive: ToughLove: After years of [[DotingParent doting]] on Kyle, Audrey Griffin has an epiphany finally comes to terms with the fact that he's a [[spoiler: drug-dealing, drug-abusing, computer hacker]], and sends him to a immersion rehab camp that dumped him and several other boys in the middle of the desert and left them to their own survive for a week.

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