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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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=== This series provides examples of: ===
* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: The titles of the books consistently started doing this with book 5: ''My Life As Dinosaur Dental Floss''.
* [[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".
* {{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
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Carrie, Wally's little sister, who rather comes across as a [[Peanuts|Sally]] [[Expy]]
* [[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.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Opera is a Type I. Wally is a Type II. Wall Street alternates between Type I and Type V.
* [[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.
* [[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''.
* [[Bad Future]]: ''My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler''.
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** Wall Street, as revealed in book 3.
** Wall Street, as revealed in book 3.
** {{spoiler|Gary}} in book 1.
** {{spoiler|Gary}} in book 1.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: ''My Life As Crocodile Junkfood'' was considerably darker than any of the previous books as well as any of the subsequent books, presenting the reader with several cases of [[Family Unfriendly Violence]] and at least one [[Tear Jerker]] moment.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: ''My Life As Crocodile Junkfood'' was considerably darker than any of the previous books as well as any of the subsequent books, presenting the reader with several cases of [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]] and at least one [[Tear Jerker]] moment.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Wally himself.
* [[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.
* [[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.
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* [[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]].)
* [[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.
* [[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.
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* [[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]].
* [[Whos 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.
* [[With Friends Like These]]: Wally's relationship with Wall Street is best described as this.
* [[With Friends Like These]]: Wally's relationship with Wall Street is best described as this.


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