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''The Incredible Worlds Of Wally McDoogle'' is a series of books by Bill Myers, which follow the strange adventures of Wally, the world's most accident-prone kid, and his friends Wall Street and Opera, always ending with an [[Aesop]] derived from Christianity.

 

* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: The titles of the books consistently started doing this with book 5: ''My Life As Dinosaur Dental Floss''.

* {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]]}}: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler'' ''"My Life As a Splatted Flat Quarterback"'' "My Life As a Stupendously Stomped Soccer Star".

* [[Animal Wrongs Group]]: Save The Snails

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Carrie, Wally's little sister, who rather comes across as a [[Peanuts|Sally]] [[Expy]]

* [[A Day At the Bizarro]]: Wally's adventures are pretty strange, but the winner for the most [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|BLAM-arific]] installment of the series would be #13 ''My Life As A Blundering Ballerina''. Basically, Wally and Wall Street think each other have it easy, so they switch places to see who has it tougher. The book is chock full of [[Big Lipped Alligator Moments]] involving them (mostly Wally) doing each other's stuff (Wall Street plays football while Wally babysits a houseful of rowdy children). It starts to make more sense at the end, but it still qualifies for this trope.

* [[Bad Future]]: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler''.

** Wall Street, as revealed in book 3.

** {{spoiler|Gary}} in book 1.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Wally himself.

* [[Denser and Wackier]]: Book 5 was the first case of this. From that point, the books in the series would alternate; some plots being relatively plausible and some just being insane.

* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Wally

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Wally's little sister, Carrie. It's a running gag throughout the series that she is this, as, when it's her turn to cook, she dishes out stuff like candied Brussels sprouts, cauliflower cobbler, and boiled ice cream. Wally is also implied to be this in book #24. At one point he cooks breakfast for {{spoiler|Opera's parents}} and not only burns the toast, eggs, and bacon, but even their orange juice.

* [[No Sense of Humor]]: Pretty much everyone in Wally's superhero stories (usually the superhero) groans at "bad" jokes, even the ones that are [[Actually Pretty Funny]]. Everyone in the "Real World" is also this to a lesser extent. And they all think that the reader has no sense of humor too, expecting you to groan at every joke. (Something it shares with sister series [[Mcgee And Me]].)

* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: Averted for Opera, whose real name was revealed to be Oliver in book 7 "Human Hockey Puck", but played straight with Wall Street, whose real name is not revealed.

* [[Three Amigos]]: Wally, Opera, and Wall Street

* [[Two Guys and A Girl]]: The main trio fit both the gender roles and the trope, but while Wall Street is the girl, ''she's'' [[The Lancer]], while Opera is [[The Chick]].

* [[With Friends Like These]]: Wally's relationship with Wall Street is best described as this.