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* HoYay: The way that Boots will stick by his best friend Bruno through thick and thin and the determination of both boys to avoid being separated causes them to be shipped with each other just as often as they are with their {{Distaff Counterpart}}s and {{Implied Love Interest}}s Cathy and Diane.
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If they don't have any canon romance then they can't have a Fan Preferred Couple as that requires canon comptetition.


* FanPreferredCouple: Bruno and Boots don't actually do any dating onscreen in the series, and are often shipped with either each other or their {{Distaff Counterpart}}s Cathy and Diane.
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* FanPreferredCouple: Bruno and Boots don't actually do any dating onscreen in the series, and are often shipped with either each other or their {{Distaff Counterpart}}s Cathy and Diane.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Bruno and Boots' {{Distaff Counterpart}}s Cathy and Diane and LovableNerd Elmer seem like a SatelliteCharacter duo and a rival guest character in the first book, but were quite popular and quickly end up being constantly involved in the remaining books' hijinks while often getting their own subplots.

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* DesignatedVillain: The developer from ''Beware the Fish'' having his car get wrecked twice in a row is played as being humorously karmic l, given how he wants to buy the school and tear it down to make apartments, but the school is going bankrupt through factors outside of his influence, and Elmer points out that if the developer doesn't buy the school then it's likely that a sewage treatment plant will be constructed on the land instead (which would be even worse for the girls at Miss Scrimmage’s next door).



* ValuesDissonance: ''Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood'' features both StalkerWithACrush behavior being PlayedForLaughs and a {{Brownface}} disguise by a young movie star attending a dance incognito.

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** In ''Go Jump in a Pool'', the final leg of the fundraising effort involves playing the stock market with methods that would now likely be classified as insider trading (the book was written in 1979, and current insider trading laws were only codified in the 1980s).
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''Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood'' features both StalkerWithACrush behavior being PlayedForLaughs and a {{Brownface}} disguise by a young movie star attending a dance incognito.
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* GrowingTheBeard: ''Go Jump in a Pool'' is often viewed as a step up from the first book for introducing a larger supporting cast having less blatant ProtagonistCenteredMorality, and slightly increasing the whacky humor.

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* GrowingTheBeard: ''Go Jump in a Pool'' is often viewed as a step up from the first book for introducing a larger supporting cast having less blatant ProtagonistCenteredMorality, and slightly increasing the whacky humor.humor.
* ValuesDissonance: ''Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood'' features both StalkerWithACrush behavior being PlayedForLaughs and a {{Brownface}} disguise by a young movie star attending a dance incognito.
* ValuesResonance: In ''Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood'', Mr. Sturgeon refusing to let a vital member of the hockey team keep playing after he gets a concussion resonates far more than it did in 1991 after the increase in information about [=TBI=] that athletes can suffer when they are concussed multiple times in a row.
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* GrowingTheBeard: ''Go Jump in a Pool'' is often viewed as a step up from the first book for introducing a larger supporting cast having less blatant ProtagonistCenteredMorality, and slightly increasing the whacky humor.

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