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[[File:bigovereasy_uk.jpg|frame|''The Big Over Easy'', the first novel in the series.]]
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Think of it as ''[[Shrek]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Law and Order]]'', without the Court bits.
Not to be confused with the [[Genesis (
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* ''[[The Big Over Easy]]'' (2005)
* ''[[The
* ''The Last Great Tortoise Race'' (not yet released)
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* [[Actor Allusion]]
* [[All Myths Are True]]
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** In ''The Big Over Easy'', Mary pulls out in front of [http://www.jasperfforde.com/giveaway/tea027.html a convertible with the top down and a "distinctive color scheme"].
* [[Da Chief]]: Geoffrey Briggs, commissioner at the NCD. Duty bound to [[Turn in Your Badge|suspend]] Jack at least once an investigation.
* [[Didn't We Use This Joke Already?]]: Jack Spratt is given a piece of evidence, a manila envelope with "Important" written on the front, and quips, "[[Captain Obvious|This could be]] [[Shaped Like Itself|important.]]" When he shows it to Mary, she makes the same quip, but Jack informs her that he already made that joke, and she apologizes.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Anthropomorphic bears have a... ''problem'' with [[Goldilocks|porridge]] ("flake"). They get addicted to it rather quickly, and it is a controlled substance when they are involved in a transaction. They also have problems with [[Winnie the Pooh|honey]] ("buzz" or "sweet") and [[Paddington Bear (
** An openly gay politician with a partner and an adopted son has a shocking secret: {{spoiler|he's having an affair with a woman and his marriage is a sham for political reasons.}}
* [[Eccentric Millionaire]]: Lord Randolph Spongg.
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* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: See [[They Walk Among Us]].
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: "Ursism" is the discrimination against anthropomorphic talking bears.
* [[Fun
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Pretty much everyone. Members of the Guild of Detectives are not only selected based on stereotypical "detective traits" (drinking problems, vintage cars, unsteady love affairs) but are also accompanied by sidekicks who write their friends' adventures, [[Sherlock Holmes|Watson-style]], to appear in 1930s-style crime comics. The entire police department also seems to have learned their procedure entirely from 1970s American cop shows. In ''The Fourth Bear'', the NCD officers discuss which plot devices to use in their investigations.
* [[Hand Wave]]: Parks, a conspiracy theorist in ''The Fourth Bear'' "had latched onto Jack's outlandish explanation without too much difficulty, as should you."
* [[
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Elevated to epic art form in ''The Fourth Bear'', where inane gossip made throughout the book turns out much later to have been the set-up for an incredibly long punchline similar to the classic "Peter Piper picks a pepper" tongue-twister. The characters even [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|break the fourth wall]] to complain about the pun.
* [[Innocent Aliens]]: Ashley, and his parents.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Quatt
* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]
* [[Mayfly
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: An inspector threatens to write a report about Jack's inadequacy as an NCD officer. He convinces her otherwise by pointing her out as an incidental character with whose only purpose in life is [[Threshold Guardians|to be a problem for him to get around]]. She breaks down in existential despair until he promises to write a complete [[Backstory]] for her.
* [[Nursery Rhyme]]: Obviously.
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* [[The Plan]]: Guaranteed in anything Jasper Fforde writes.
* [[Relationship Reset Button]]: In ''The Fourth Bear'', {{spoiler|Mary and Ashley get one of these when he forgets to back up his memories of the last few weeks, and then makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. As far as he knows, he never got up the courage to ask her out.}}
* [[Shout
** The bears live at the [[Goldilocks|Bob Southey]].
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: [[Punch and Judy]] move in next to Jack in ''The Fourth Bear''. They're well known, in-universe, for domestically abusing each other, and arguing very, very loudly. Yet they do seem to actually love each other--[[The Immodest Orgasm|very, very loudly]]. They're also fairly successful marriage counselors.
** They beat each other into the hospital, but as they point out, this is their mutually aceptable way of working out issues (and foreplay), and after hundreds of years of marriage, they are still in love with one another.
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* [[They Walk Among Us]]: [[Fairy Tales|Fairy tale]] characters, Greek gods, anthropomorphic bears...
* [[Threshold Guardians]]: See [[No Fourth Wall]].
* [[Turn in Your Badge]] (and watch ''[[
* [[World War I]]: The theme park Sommeworld in ''The Fourth Bear''. Construction should be finished by Christmas. No, really.
* [[Writer
** ''The Fourth Bear'' also offers a scene where Jack and his wife attend a gala honoring the year's most prolific writers, and [[Jasper Fforde]], author of wacky fantasies, really seems to have some fun portraying authors of serious drama as a bunch of shallow, self-obsessed, slow-witted snobs with no imagination.
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