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'''The title of each novel contains some sort of wordplay on "miss" or "mis-" or "mess" (in the first novel), The "first" series contains twelve novels:'''
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* [[From a Single Cell]]: In one of the comics, Isstvan gets blown up by a spell, and then rather squishily reconstitutes.
* [[Fur Against Fang]]: In one dimension Skeeve visits, vampires are urbanites who look down on werewolves as country bumpkins.
* [[Gambling Game]]: Dragon Poker from ''Little Myth Marker'', appears to be a cross between standard poker and [[Calvin Ball|the fictional "Fizzbin"]] from ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', and is always played for a [[w:table stakes|table stake]].
* [[Gayngster]]: Don Bruce, the Mob's "fairy Godfather". Skeeve suspects, of course, but it's not confirmed until the books from Guido's point of view.
* [[Genie in a Bottle]]: Skeeve meets one of these, a Djin from the dimension Djinger. They are only three inches tall, and hire themselves out for Bottle Duty because their entire dimension is in debt. They tend to be a bit short on Phenomenal Cosmic Powers, though, despite what the salesmen say.
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* [[Psmith Psyndrome]]: Go ahead. Call him "Oz the Pervert". We'll wait.
* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: In ''Little Myth Marker'', a crooked casino dealer disdains magical cheating methods (which the gamblers are watching for) in favor if the simple finesse of a marked deck (which they aren't).
* [[Shirley Template]]: "Markie" from ''Little Myth Marker'' is a classic Shirley Temple [[expy]], which is to be expected considering the title and half of the plot of the novel comes from the Shirley Temple movie ''[[Little Miss Marker]]''. The trope is played with when the book's plot diverges from the movie.
* [[Shout-Out]]: E.g. Guido & Nunzio (see their [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] prototype in the [[Unrelated Brothers]] article).
** Idnew and Drahcir, the Woof Writers - A shout out to Wendi and Richard Pini... in werewolf form.
*** Phil Foglio's illustration of Don Bruce for one book looks like a certain [[Barnaby|Mr. O'Malley.]]
**** For that matter, Nick the Vampire is Phil's avatar in-universe.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Asprin dealt with writer's block by doing research. On the negative side, this sometimes led to the [[Author Filibuster
* [[Smoke Out]]: Skeeve tries a variation of this to intimidate an army. Unfortunately, he quickly learns that his ninja smoke makes him sneeze.
* [[Springtime for Hitler]]: Guido and Nunzio's attempts to disrupt the Possiltum army in ''M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action'' only end up improving the army and/or getting them promoted. Even when they go as far as to have supplies delivered at random.
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