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''A difficult decision, a quandary,
''Ask yourself, "What would Edgar and Ellen do?"
''And do exactly the contrary.'' }}
The books and the animated series start with similar setups, but soon diverge. While the book series moves into an overarching plot, the animated series focuses on day-to-day hijinks.
# ''Rare Beasts'' (2003)
# ''Tourist Trap'' (2004)
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# ''Frost Bites'' (2008)
# ''Split Ends'' (2009)
The first six books comprise the first series, while the final three books form a sequel series.
Additional material includes: ''Mischief Manual'' (2007), ''Hair 'Em Scare 'Em
The animated series has 26 episodes, 24 of which were aired in 2007 and 2008.
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== Tropes shared by both ==▼
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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Explained in the books. First, they're the storm drain variety of sewer, not the sewage kind. Second, they were originally built so that people could take leisurely, well-lit strolls in them, but gradually fell into disrepair and had the lighting grates paved over.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Stephanie Knightleigh
* [[Anti
* [[Black Sheep]]: Miles is sometimes shown as one of these within his family, such as when he's the only one to take interest in Ellen's carnivorous plant.
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Blake Glide
* [[Brother
* [[Cheerful Child]]: Miles
* [[Complexity Addiction]]: Edgar falls into this sometimes.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Edgar and Ellen.
* [[Drunk
* [[Eerie Pale
* [[Fat Idiot]]: The Mayor, at least by our standards. By Nod's Limbs standards, he's perfectly average.
* [[Flash Back]]:
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* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Both of the twins to some extent, but especially Edgar. Exaggerated in the animated series, where they build much more elaborate contraptions.
* [[Girl Posse]]: Stephanie has one in Cassidy Kingfisher and Pepper Poshi, mostly in the TV series due to the books' lack of school scenes. The books mention a couple of others too, but these two seem to be at the top of the pecking order.
* [[Half
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: The twins wear the same striped footie pajamas all the time.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Edgar. Ellen could qualify as a mad botanist, given the way she dotes over her carnivorous plant.
* [[Man
* [[Non
* [[Our Founder]]: A statue of the town's founder, Augustus Nod, sits in the middle of the park.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: The twins' parents apparently left years ago on an around-the-world holiday, and haven't been heard from since. The twins never really questioned this, oddly enough.
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* [[Prehensile Hair]]: Pet
* [[Shadowland]]: Nod's Limbs has Smelterburg in the TV series, and Lach Lufless in the books.
* [[Shout
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Just...Heimertz.
* [[The Speechless]]: Pet
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* [[Trickster Twins]]
* [[The Voiceless]]: Heimertz
== Tropes from the books ==
* [[Anti
* [[Artifact of Attraction]]: The balm, to some.
* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Stephanie}} in the Nodyssey books.
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* [[The Determinator]]: {{spoiler|Stephanie}}, whose [[Determinator]] side shines full-force in the Nodyssey books.
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|''Under Town''}} and {{spoiler|''High Wire''.}} For the former, there is ''one'' ray of hope left, noted above under [[Bittersweet Ending]].
* [[Drunk
** Edgar in ''Split Ends''.
** Balm apparently has this effect on people; the condition is known as Mad Duke's Disease.
* [[Family
* [[Gold Fever]]: The town eventually succumbs to this in ''Nod's Limbs'', after many days of working on the treasure hunt together finally wear down their spirits.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: ''Rare Beasts''. Not only was the twins' scheme a complete failure, they get blasted with hoses and left lying in the mud, while all the kids they wronged get some payback as they walk past by insulting them, kicking mud at them, pulling their hair, etc. Oh, and a jar of fire ants from earlier broke, so they're swarming all over the twins and biting them. [[Laser
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Edgar in ''Split Ends''. He goes [[
* {{spoiler|[[Immortality]]: Regularly consuming balm will grant Type II. This is how Augustus Nod survived underground for 200 years.}}
* [[Kubrick Stare]]: {{spoiler|The Mayor}} in an illustration in ''Nod's Limbs''.
* [[Laser
** In "Rare Beasts" the twins cause untold misery when they steal all the pets in town. In "Nod's Limbs" they are desperately trying to save their own.
* [[Lawful Stupid]]: Everyone in Lach Lufless.
* [[Malaproper]]: {{spoiler|Augustus Nod}} frequently uses these.
* [[Plot Device]]: Balm. Eventually, everything comes back to balm.
* [[Rhymes
* [[Riding Into the Sunset]]: ''Hot Air'' ends with the twins leaving Nod's Limbs in a hot-air balloon as the sun rises.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: {{spoiler|The Mason.}}
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* [[Stand Alone Episode|Stand Alone Book]]: ''Rare Beasts'' is unique in that it has no direct ties to the rest of the series. It basically serves as an introduction to the life of the twins.
* [[Story Arc]]: The 'original' series has its own. The Nodyssey books are the start of another.
* [[
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|The man gave a smile so wide and eerie that both Pierre and Robbins recoiled. "My name," he said, "is Sigmund Heimertz."}}
== Tropes from the TV series ==
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: Not explicitly, but there are some important differences between books and show which clearly set each apart as its own thing.
* [[Drunk
* [[The European Carry All]]: Edgar's purse-- um, [[Insistent Terminology|"temporary satchel substitute"]].
* [[The Great Whodini]]: The Amazing Edgarini.
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