History SelfDemonstrating / Molesworth

* ToyBasedCharacterization: In a flashback, molesworth depict himself as a young child, smashing a model trane into 1000 pieces with a hamer. all as you would expect for a "huge lout with 0 branes."

* MadMathematician - sigismund arbuthnot, “the mad maths master,” is one of the beaks. However, he appear simpli to be a, hem hem, EKSENTRIK teacher whose subjekt happen to be maths.

* FatBastard -
-->''Every skool hav a resident buly who is fat and roll about the place clouting everybode.''

* SadistTeacher - lots!

* SlasherSmile - in the illustrashuns, molesworth only ever hav three expressions: a realistic[[note]]some sa cynical or apathetic but wot do THEY kno?[[/note]] half-frown, a big smile when posing for photos - and a wide, truly happy grin when preparing for some act of violence such as setting a big spiked man-trap for SantaClaus.

* SlasherSmile - In the illustrashuns, molesworth only ever hav three expressions: a realistic[[note]]some sa cynical or apathetic but wot do THEY kno?[[/note]]half-frown, a big smile when posing for photos - and a wide, truly happy grin when preparing for some act of violence such as setting a big spiked man-trap for SantaClaus.

* DreadfulMusician - molesworth 2. When he pla fairy bells, the pore skool piano is never the same agane

* ItCameFromTheFridge - One of the finest examples of nigels deathless prose and command of narative is "The Prunes are Revolting!", in which the prunes served at the skool RISE UP and defy the boys and beaks in a campane styled on brittish tales of the Indian Mutiny. This was more of an all-too-apt coment on the taste of skool dinners in brittish skools at the time of writing than on their state of preservation, tho.

* TwoTeacherSchool - GRIMES and sigismund are the only named beaks, though teachers of lat, fr, geog, hist ect are mentioned in passing.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist - not that nigel is ENTIRELY unworthy of pity but he is a PRODUK of his TIME and so is driven to CYNICISM and VIOLENSS on okajun

[[caption-width-right:243:the gorila of 3b]]

nigel molesworth, gorila of 3b and curse of [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors st custards]], is a brittish skoolboy from the 1950s whose poor speling do not hold him back from rekording his GRATE THORTS about [[BoardingSchool skool]], life, [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball foopball]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}} crikit]], [[AdultsAreUseless grown-ups]], [[GirlsHaveCooties GURLS]], interplanetry travel ect ect chiz chiz. It could be described as ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' crossed with ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'', but set in [[TheFifties (slightly shabby, fading) Fifties]] Britain. (mouldy chizz thoze ones came aftur...)

His jaded and world-weary comentary hav been [[DirectLineToTheAuthor fathefully transcribed]] by Geoffrey Willans and georgously ilustrated by Ronald Searle of ''Film/StTrinians'' fame in four volumes (pub. grabber and grabber): ''Down with Skool!'', ''How to be Topp'', ''Whizz for Atomms'' and ''Back in the Jug Agane''.

* grabber m.a. head of skool captain of everything winner of the mrs joyful prize for rafia work and MilesGloriosus-in-traning

There are also the masters aka beaks viz. headmaster GRIMES, sigismund the mad maths master ect, and of coarse the skool dog. The books also divert into subjects such as UsefulNotes/TheGreatBritishSeaside, complete with UsefulNotes/BritishWeather.[[note]]the molesworths can aford to go awa for their hols, but this is in the days before forren holidays were really an option for most british folk. So they go the seaside and get rayned on.[[/note]]

The [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents golden prose hem-hem]] of our hero hav been enjoyed by generations of tiny pupils and often continue to hold its allure into adulthood. molesworth fans are a rare but rabid breed who rekognise each other by use of sekrit code phrases such as 'cheers cheers cheers', 'poo er gosh' and 'as any fule kno'. molesworth's influence on a generation or 2 of British humorists was surely immense if subtle but he would be too much the realist expect any credit.

Tales of molesworth's endevors hav okasionalli been told on the RADIO (poo gosh v. hi-tek), most recently in december 2014.

* AllLowercaseLetters - Employed in a very specific way. Despite what the examples on this page suggest, molesworth does in fact start his sentences with capital letters, but doesn't use them for proper names.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling - molesworth deskribe his bro molesworth 2 as "uterly wet and a weed" and sa "it panes me to think i am of the same blud." When we see both molesworth bros together, molesworth 2 do all he can to get on nigels nerves
* ArtisticLicenseEducation - st custard's is BASD on realiti (Willans was a reel beak), but utterly exajerrated for the sake of comic {{parody}} - or SO THEY WOULD HAV YOU THINK

* BlackComedy - o yes it all LOOK sweet and harmless but with all the bullies and blubbing and ice cold baths, well LIFE IS PAIN my dears and there is 0 to be dun about it
* BoardingSchool - in the obvious sense, st custards IS a boarding skool. More importantly, these books are a cruel {{parody}} of the traditional boarding skool story, replacing pranks and jolly fun with cynicism and dark observation. Nigel okasionally make reference to old-fashioned skool stories, but clearly know them for fantasies.

* CheatersNeverProsper - the molesworth stories parody or subvert all traditional moralistic [[SportsStoryTropes sports-related tropes]] at every opportuniti, but this one especially is taken to be a lie as a matter of course

* CorruptCorporateExecutive - grabber & grabber, purveyors of various [[MyLittlePanzer dangerous-sounding toys]] to the tinys, and one stop shop for any BlandNameProduct required by the 'plot'

* FunnyForeigner - molesworth seems to spend his langwidge lessons imagining himself as '[[{{Lzherusskie}} molesvitch]]' or '[[TorosYFlamenco Don Jereth Molethworth]]' in a ThemeParkVersion of the relevant country.

* {{Homage}} - various [[ImagineSpot day-dreams]] and piktorial interludes feature the adventures of 'interplanetary clot' Captain molesworth in the style of ComicStrip/DanDare and similar contemporary "Daring Space-Aces". The sheer number of such characters at the time is Lampshaded by the complaint that non of the various [[ParodyNames Parody Named]] {{Expy}}s of the villains, such as the PUKON and his TREENS, are ever free for thwarting, being booked up till next year, chiz chiz ect
* ItCameFromTheFridge - One of the finest examples of nigels deathless prose and command of narative is "The Prunes are Revolting!", in which the prunes served at the skool RISE UP and defy the boys and beaks in a campane styled on British tales of the Indian Mutiny. This was more of an all-too-apt coment on the taste of skool dinners in British skools at the time of writing than on their state of preservation, tho.
* JerkJock - grabber m.a. is head of skool captain of everything (tho he hav no aktual skil at any sport, but a big fat cheque paid to GRIMES wil get you anything) and will tuough you up if you so much as giv him a funy look

* ItCameFromTheFridge - One of the finest examples of nijels deathless prose and command of narative is "The Prunes are Revolting!", in which the prunes served at the skool RISE UP and defy the boys and beaks in a campane styled on British tales of the Indian Mutiny. This was more of an all-too-apt coment on the taste of skool dinners in British skools at the time of writing than on their state of preservation, tho.

* ThinSkinnedBully: dekonstructed.

* PrecociousCrush - hinted at, despite his [[GirlsHaveCooties general attitude]], whenever molesworth mention Prudence Entwhistle the glamorous under-matron

* ArtisticLicenseEducation - st custard's is BASD on realiti (Willans was a reel beak), but utterly exajerrated for the sake of comic {{parody}} - or SO THEY WOULD LIKE YOU TO THINK

His jaded and world-weary comentary hav been [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis fathefully transcribed]] by Geoffrey Willans and georgously ilustrated by Ronald Searle of ''Film/StTrinians'' fame in four volumes (pub. grabber and grabber): ''Down with Skool!'', ''How to be Topp'', ''Whizz for Atomms'' and ''Back in the Jug Agane''.

Everyone sa stand up to bulies they will run away but do not believe it. A lot of them stand still and then where are you eh? i will tell you you are in the duck pond and it is joly freezing

* ArtisticLicenseEducation - st custard's is BASD on realiti (Willans was a reel beak), but utterly exajerrated for the sake of comic {{parody}} - or SO THEY WOULD LIKE YOO TO THINK

* RightWayWrongWayPair: Parodied by one illustration: 'Are you an Eric or a Nigel?: A smug chart for sissies'. Eric (unlike Nigel) sits erect and chews his food at leisure becos the weed hav got up early.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: As you might've already guessed from this article.
* SadistTeacher - Lots!
* SantaClaus - referred to as "Father Christmas", these being [[UsefulNotes/AVeryBritishChristmas BRITISH]] stories, and thoroughly subverted, as molesworth is old and more to the point cynical enough to know the truth

* GirlsHaveCooties - yes and no. Molesworth beleeve GURLS and boys shud not be in lessons together as gurls are teechers pets who spoil boys pranks, but he sa he doesnt think they are disgusting as most boys his age think