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* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Starting in 1960, the Syndicate began introducing new editions of the old books to update the technology and remove some of the [[Values Dissonance]] inherent to starting at the turn of the century. In some cases, entire storylines were changed.
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Snoop the cat. One of the more curious parts of the [[Continuity Drift]]/[[Continuity Snarl]] mentioned below, possibly a case of [[Viewer Gender Confusion|Writer Gender Confusion]], is that Snoop tends to change genders between books. The cat is definitely a male in the first four books, but has suddenly and without explanation become female in the fifth book. In subsequent books the cat switches between being male and female; at one point even switching from male to female within the course of one book, without anyone except the readers noticing. Could be cracked up to the fact that the writers [[Did Not Do the Research]] on continuity issues like this; it's fairly likely that, being anonymous ghostwriters, [[They Just Didn't Care]].
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{{quote|"Deed an' dat's whut she am!" exclaimed a fat, good-natured looking colored woman, smiling at the little girl. Dinah was the Bobbsey family cook. She had been with them so long that she used to say, and almost do, just what she pleased. "Dis am de forty-sixteen time I'se done bin down to de end ob de car gittin' Miss Flossie a drink ob watah. An' de train rocks so, laik a cradle, dat I done most upsot ebery time. But I'll git you annuder cup ob watah, Flossie lamb!"}}
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Mr. Bobbsey refers to the younger pair of twins as "my fat little fireman" and "my fat little fairy."
* [[Sleepwalking]]: An early story involving Flossie seeing a ghost standing at the foot of her bed turns out to be Freddie sleepwalking.
* [[Snooping Little Kid]]: In some books, the Bobbsey twins will show slight traces of this trope, though surprisingly for a [[Stratemeyer Syndicate]] series, it's most often averted -- nine times out of ten, the kids dump into mysteries completely by chance and even then they seldom go out of their way to investigate. Unless they suspect the culprit is Danny Rugg.
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