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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.
 
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* [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration]]: 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]]
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Opera is a Type I. Wally is a Type II. Wall Street alternates between Type I and Type V.
* [[A Day Atat the Bizarro]]: Wally's adventures are pretty strange, but the winner for the most [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene|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 LippedNon AlligatorSequitur MomentsScenes]] 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''.
** [[Future Me Scares Me]]: {{spoiler|The future Wally becomes a dictator who gets meaner and meaner before having everyone killed. Oh, and he's a [[Eldritch Abomination]], too}}.
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* [[Chew Toy]]: Basically, the whole premise of the series is that Wally is an extreme one of these.
* [[Character Development]]: Subverted, Wally's dad wants Wally to 'be a man' and that writing seems lame. Come book #11, where Dad, after {{spoiler|Wally saves the town}}, accepts that Wally wants to be a writer and thinks he's a man. Unfortunately, after that book, [[Negative Continuity|Dad's back to wanting Wally to be a man and that writing seems lame.]] Though that may be because of how book #11 "Polluted Pond Scum", is the semi-[[Grand Finale]] of the series.
** Gary the Gorilla, the local bully, also gets some in the first book, and even seems to be becoming friends with Wally, but it's ''still'' subverted, in all proceeding books, he's back to bullying everyone.
* [[Clark Kenting]]: Parodied along with a whole host of [[Superhero Tropes]] in Wally's stories
* [[Closer to Earth]]: Wally's mom.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]:
** Wall Street, as revealed in book 3.
** {{spoiler|Gary}} in book 1.
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* [[The Dreaded]]: Gary, at first.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Gary the Gorilla, which is also his [[Berserk Button]].
* [[Freudian Trio]]: Junk-food munching soft-hearted Opera is [[The Id]], ruthless, intelligent [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|With A Heart Of Gold]] in the making Wall Street is [[The Superego]], and Wally is [[The Ego]].
* [[Grand Finale]]: Book 11: ''My Life As Polluted Pond Scum''. [[Post Script Season|Didn't stop the series from continuing, though;]] albeit under a new publisher.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|George}} in book 4. {{spoiler|Subverted in that he actually survived}}.
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Type 1.
* [[Took a Level Inin Jerkass]]: Wall Street in book 21. "Skysurfing Skateboarder". Here Wall Street couldn't care less what plans Wally had with Opera and Little Buddy Leroy, she just keeps telling Wally that if you want to win, you gotta put yourself before everyone else. She does this more than once during the book.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Wally's older brothers can be this on occasion, usually via annoying pranks more than anything else.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|James Blond in Book 14, although he and Wally parted on friendly terms}}
* [[The Klutz]]: Wally, and ''how''
* [[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.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: ''My Life As A Computer Cockroach": Long story short, Wally's antics with his computer, which [[It Makes Sense in Context|now has the ability to affect reality with what is typed into it]], ultimately lead up to {{spoiler|him inadvertently causing the [[Y 2 K]] bug}}.
* [[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 Byby 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.
* [[Post Script Season]]: Book 12 onward; the closest thing the series had to an ongoing plot was Wally's dad trying to get his son to be more like a real man, and this was finally resolved in book 11.
* [[Pursued Protagonist]]: Wally in books 4 and 5.
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* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: {{spoiler|Book 5. Wally has gone through absolute hell to keep terrorists from getting their hands on a vat of mysterious liquid which both he and they are convinced is a dangerous chemical weapon; it turns out that they're both wrong, it's just a jar of rhubarb sauce.}}
* [[Spy Fiction]]: Book 14 is basically one huge parody of the Martini variety.
* [[Take That]]: There's quite a few in book 18, such as this rather harsh one at [[BluesBlue's Clues]]:
{{quote| '''Wally''': Wall Street not making money off of me would be like water flowing uphill, or snow in July, or for them to make a show about a weird blue dog that gives clues.}}
* [[Teen Superspy]]: In book 14. Naturally, this was [[Played for Laughs]]
* [[Three Amigos]]: Wally, Opera, and Wall Street
* [[Two Guys and Aa 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]].
* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]: The [[Big Bad]] in ''My Life As Polluted Pond Scum''.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|WhereTheHeckIsMiddleton]]: It's never shown were Wally's town is, but there are several implications that it may be in Ohio or another state in the Midwest.
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