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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.
''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 Appeal]]: The titles of the books consistently started doing this with book 5: ''My Life As Dinosaur Dental Floss''.
* [[Alliteration]]: 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".
* {{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
* [[Animal Wrongs Group]]: Save The Snails
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* [[Chew Toy]]: Basically, the whole premise of the series is that Wally is an extreme one of these.
* [[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.
* [[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.
** 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
* [[Clark Kenting]]: Parodied along with a whole host of [[Superhero Tropes]] in Wally's stories
* [[Closer to Earth]]: Wally's mom.
* [[Closer to Earth]]: Wally's mom.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]:
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]:
** Wall Street, as revealed in book 3.
** Wall Street, as revealed in book 3.
** {{spoiler|Gary}} in book 1.
** {{spoiler|Gary}} in book 1.
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* [[The Klutz]]: Wally, and ''how''
* [[The Klutz]]: Wally, and ''how''
* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Wally
* [[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.
* [[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}}.
* [[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]].)
* [[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]].)
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* [[Teen Superspy]]: In book 14. Naturally, this was [[Played for Laughs]]
* [[Teen Superspy]]: In book 14. Naturally, this was [[Played for Laughs]]
* [[Three Amigos]]: Wally, Opera, and Wall Street
* [[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]].
* [[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]].
* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]: The [[Big Bad]] in ''My Life As Polluted Pond Scum''.
* [[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.
* [[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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