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* UnionsSuck: In ''Wilderness Years'', Adrian asks a potential employer if she objects to him belonging to a union. She says she does, saying that the greatest achievement of UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher was to tame the unions.
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* TheEighties: First few books take place in the 80's, and Adrian captured the zeitgeist very well.
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* TheEighties: First few books take place in the 80's, 80s, and Adrian captured the zeitgeist very well.
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-->'''Pop-Eye Scruton:''' "Nigel, the word 'gay' has changed it's meaning over the past year. It now means something quite different."
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-->'''Pop-Eye Scruton:''' "Nigel, the word 'gay' has changed it's its meaning over the past year. It now means something quite different."
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#''Diary of a Provincial Man'' (serialised in ''TheGuardian'' 1999-2001; covers events '''1999-2001'''; Adrian is aged 32 to 33) (published in book form as ''The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001'')
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#''Diary of a Provincial Man'' (serialised in ''TheGuardian'' ''The Guardian'' 1999-2001; covers events '''1999-2001'''; Adrian is aged 32 to 33) (published in book form as ''The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001'')
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* CrosswordPuzzle: In ''Cappuccino Years'', Adrian sees Ivan Braithwaite doing the difficult crossword - he does the quick one while he waits for the kettle to boil.
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* CrosswordPuzzle: In ''Secret Diary'', Adrian sees Pandora's parents doing the Sunday Times crossword together, and takes this to mean that they get on well together, unlike his own parents. In ''Cappuccino Years'', Adrian sees Ivan Braithwaite doing the difficult crossword - he does the quick one while he waits for the kettle to boil.
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* HighHeelHurt: In ''Cappuccino Years'', Adrian's mother tries to sue Shoe Mania!, after a stiletto heel breaks off when she is meeting [[Creator/AnthonyHopkins Sir Anthony Hopkins]] on a mountain. When asked in court why she was wearing heels, she says that she only wore them in the final stages, as she did not want Sir Anthony to see her in hired climbing boots. [[spoiler: She is successful in suing Shoe Mania!, as she shoes did not bear a health warning, and it is ruled that the name Shoe Mania! encouraged women to make unsuitable purchases.]]
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** Adrian writes in ''The Weapons Of Mass Destruction'' that he can count the women he has slept with on the fingers of one hand. Pamela in ''The Lost Diaries'' takes the total of his lovers to six.
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** Adrian receives a letter from John Tydeman at the BBC, carefully and politely explaining why it would not be appropriate to call him "Aidy", and for Adrian to call him "Johnny". Adrian has no recollection of having written a letter to this effect, and suspects he may have written it when he was very seriously depressed.
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** Adrian receives a letter from John Tydeman at the BBC, carefully and politely explaining why it would not be appropriate to call him "Aidy", and "Aidy" or for Adrian to call him "Johnny". Adrian has no recollection of having written a letter to this effect, and suspects he may have written it when he was very seriously depressed.
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* AirVoyance: When Pandora flies to Tunisia, Adrian goes with her to London Heathrow Airport, and knows which plane is hers at it disappears into the clouds.
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* DebatingNames: In ''Growing Pains'', Adrian's mother gives birth to a girl. A few days afterwards, she and Adrian choose her name by each making a list. The only names he likes on his mother's list are "Rosie" and "Ruth". His mother does not like any of Adrian's chosen names, which are all names of people he knows, including Toyah, and Pandora. His mother sneers "Pandora is a pretentious name!". They settle on "Rosie Germaine Mole".
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* RidiculouslyHighInflation: Downplayed in ''Growing Pains''. When Queenie Baxter dies, nobody can afford the cheapest possible funeral for her, costing £350; and her funeral insurance is only worth £30, because she had taken it out fifty years previously, when £30 would buy a far more extravagant funeral.
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* RidiculouslyHighInflation: RidiculousFutureInflation: Downplayed in ''Growing Pains''. When Queenie Baxter dies, nobody can afford the cheapest possible funeral for her, costing £350; and her funeral insurance is only worth £30, because she had taken it out fifty years previously, when £30 would buy a far more extravagant funeral.
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* RidiculouslyHighInflation: Downplayed in ''Growing Pains''. When Queenie Baxter dies, nobody can afford the cheapest possible funeral for her, costing £350; and her funeral insurance is only worth £30, because she had taken it out fifty years previously, when £30 would buy a far more extravagant funeral.
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* WokenUpAtAnUngodlyHour:
** ''Growing Pains'':
*** Adrian has toothache in the early hours of the morning, and his pain-racked sobs wake his parents, who crash into the room demanding quiet, showing no sympathy.
*** While make his final preparations to run away from home in the early hours of the morning, he gets into a rage and kicks his suitcase across his bedroom floor, waking his parents, who shout from the bedroom.
** In ''True Confessions'', Adrian tries to sleep at his girlfriend Sharon Bott's house, but the Bott family spend most of the night quarrelling and watching violent videos, before finally going to bed at 4am. At 6am, Adrian is woken by Mr Bott switching on breakfast television.
** ''Wilderness Years'':
*** Adrian writes Pandora a pompous note, asking her not to disturb him with wild lovemaking. In the early hours of the morning, she bursts into his room, and screams abuse at him. Later in the book, he puts another note through her door: in her reply, she tells him that he woke her at 4am with his clumsy manipulation of her letter box.
*** Adrian's mother calls him at 1am, to tell him that Martin Muffett (whom Adrian dislikes) has been found after going missing for a day, having been trapped in an underground train for several hours.
*** Adrian returns to his parental home, to find that his family have become chaotic, with a noisy nocturnal lifestyle, and that sleeping there is impossible.
** In ''Cappuccino Years'':
*** Adrian's sister Rosie is pregnant, and has a CreepyDoll electronic baby to prepare her for motherhood, which cries several times a night, and has to be fed with an electronic bottle. When Rosie throws the doll out of the window in the middle of the night, an ear-splitting alarm sounds, which wakes everyone in the house.
*** Adrian is woken by his mother typing at 5am. He confronts her, but she sends him back to bed, telling him she is writing her round-robin Christmas letter. She is actually writing ''his'' book, which he found extremely difficult to write himself.
** ''Growing Pains'':
*** Adrian has toothache in the early hours of the morning, and his pain-racked sobs wake his parents, who crash into the room demanding quiet, showing no sympathy.
*** While make his final preparations to run away from home in the early hours of the morning, he gets into a rage and kicks his suitcase across his bedroom floor, waking his parents, who shout from the bedroom.
** In ''True Confessions'', Adrian tries to sleep at his girlfriend Sharon Bott's house, but the Bott family spend most of the night quarrelling and watching violent videos, before finally going to bed at 4am. At 6am, Adrian is woken by Mr Bott switching on breakfast television.
** ''Wilderness Years'':
*** Adrian writes Pandora a pompous note, asking her not to disturb him with wild lovemaking. In the early hours of the morning, she bursts into his room, and screams abuse at him. Later in the book, he puts another note through her door: in her reply, she tells him that he woke her at 4am with his clumsy manipulation of her letter box.
*** Adrian's mother calls him at 1am, to tell him that Martin Muffett (whom Adrian dislikes) has been found after going missing for a day, having been trapped in an underground train for several hours.
*** Adrian returns to his parental home, to find that his family have become chaotic, with a noisy nocturnal lifestyle, and that sleeping there is impossible.
** In ''Cappuccino Years'':
*** Adrian's sister Rosie is pregnant, and has a CreepyDoll electronic baby to prepare her for motherhood, which cries several times a night, and has to be fed with an electronic bottle. When Rosie throws the doll out of the window in the middle of the night, an ear-splitting alarm sounds, which wakes everyone in the house.
*** Adrian is woken by his mother typing at 5am. He confronts her, but she sends him back to bed, telling him she is writing her round-robin Christmas letter. She is actually writing ''his'' book, which he found extremely difficult to write himself.
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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: When Pandora wants to deflect allegations of racism, she invites herself and a news crew over to the home of her and Adrian's Asian Muslim friend Mohammed. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that she stays for only one evening, but she still repeatedly fails to take hints that they don't want her there, and Mohammed's wife is annoyed at being expected to cook.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The Moles' Asian neighbours have the Sikh surname Singh, but are stated to be Hindus, and they speak Hindi, not Punjabi.
** In ''Secret Diary'', he says he will have to fall back on self-indulgence.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: Throughout the series, adrian fancies himself as a writer, as well as a diarist. In his StylisticSuck novel ''Lo! The Flat Hills of my Homeland'', his protagonist Jake writes a novel ''Sparg from Krong'', in which Sparg writes a novel ''A Book with no Language''.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: Throughout the series, adrian Adrian fancies himself as a writer, as well as a diarist. In his StylisticSuck novel ''Lo! The Flat Hills of my Homeland'', his protagonist Jake writes a novel ''Sparg from Krong'', in which Sparg writes a novel ''A Book with no Language''.
** A ''Boy’s Book of Sport'' published in the 1950s from his Grandma Sugden.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: After Adrian's grandma learns he's being tormented by local bully Barry Kent, she goes out, returning a little while later with the money Barry took from Adrian, and assurances that he won't be bothering Adrian again. Next day, Adrian writes, "It is all over school that a seventy-six-years-old woman frightened Barry Kent and his dad into giving back my menaces money," although [[NoodleIncident precise details of what happened are never given.]]
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* NeverMessWithGranny: After Adrian's grandma learns he's being tormented by local bully Barry Kent, she goes out, returning a little while later with the money Barry took from Adrian, and assurances that he won't be bothering Adrian again. Next day, Adrian writes, "It is all over school that a seventy-six-years-old seventy-six-year-old woman frightened Barry Kent and his dad into giving back my menaces money," although [[NoodleIncident precise details of what happened are never given.]]
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* NocturnalEmission: In the first book, Adrian's mother is reading ''The Female Eunuch'' (a famous feminist book) and says that "it is the sort of book that changes your life". Adrian glances through it and has his first wet dream the next night. He notes that his mother was right, the book did change his life.
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* NocturnalEmission: In the first book, Adrian's mother is reading ''The Female Eunuch'' (a famous feminist book) and says that "it is the sort of book that changes your life". Adrian glances through it and has his first wet dream the next night. He notes that his mother was right, the book did change his life. He has a second, about Pandora, soon after.
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* HatingOnMonday: Adrian moans about Sundays more than other days, because of shops being closed, occasionally being made to go to church by his grandmother, his parents doing nothing but read the Sunday papers, or there being no postal delivery.
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* HatingOnMonday: Adrian moans about Sundays more than other days, because of shops being closed, occasionally being made to go to church by his grandmother, his parents doing nothing but read the Sunday papers, him being burned by a stray Catherine wheel at a bonfire party held on Saturday November 4 because his religious flatmate won’t allow fireworks on a Sunday, or there being no postal delivery.
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* FirstNameBasis: Two examples in The Growing Pains'':
** When Adrian joins the gang of his old enemy Barry Kent, Barry gives Adrian permission to call him "Baz", and the gang start calling Adrian "Brains".
** Adrian receives a letter from John Tydeman at the BBC, carefully and politely explaining why it would not be appropriate to call him "Aidy", and for Adrian to call him "Johnny". Adrian has no recollection of having written a letter to this effect, and suspects he may have written it when he was very seriously depressed.
** When Adrian joins the gang of his old enemy Barry Kent, Barry gives Adrian permission to call him "Baz", and the gang start calling Adrian "Brains".
** Adrian receives a letter from John Tydeman at the BBC, carefully and politely explaining why it would not be appropriate to call him "Aidy", and for Adrian to call him "Johnny". Adrian has no recollection of having written a letter to this effect, and suspects he may have written it when he was very seriously depressed.
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* HelloAgainOfficer: In ''Weapons of Mass Destruction'', PC Aaron Drinkwater turns up to berate Adrian for being "abusive" to an emergency call operator, and for throwing rubbish into the canal. Later, when Pandora is signing copies of her autobiography, Adrian requests police protection for the crowds which are certain to ensue. For this, PC Drinkwater turns up again, and is not amused when hardly any people appear at all.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky:
** Adrian sometimes notes that Friday 13th is unlucky. On one occasion, Pandora no longer sits next to him at school, and on another, she tells him that she is not going to marry him aged sixteen; she intends to have a career instead.
** Although luck is not mentioned, when a specific room or house number is mentioned, it is sometimes 13. Rosie is born in hospital room 13, and the bully Barry Kent lives at number 13.
** Adrian sometimes notes that Friday 13th is unlucky. On one occasion, Pandora no longer sits next to him at school, and on another, she tells him that she is not going to marry him aged sixteen; she intends to have a career instead.
** Although luck is not mentioned, when a specific room or house number is mentioned, it is sometimes 13. Rosie is born in hospital room 13, and the bully Barry Kent lives at number 13.
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* YetAnotherBabyPanda: In ''The Growing Pains of'' ''Literature/AdrianMole'', Adrian falls into a severe depression when he returns home from having run away. To try to bring him back to the real world, his parents suggest he watches the news. It is full of terrible stories such as bombing and murder, and he notes that the only cheerful item is about a man with no legs who walked from John O' Groats to Lands End [[note]]from the northernmost end of the United Kingdom to the southernmost[[/note]]; this magnificence of the human spirit versus the cruelty of fate reduces him to silent sobs.
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* TheRunaway: Adrian runs away from home in ''Growing Pains'', at a time when he is going off the rails, and believes that his parents do not care about him. He sleeps rough for a few days, and tries to get himself "rescued" by the police by reporting himself missing. When he returns home, he is massively depressed for a long time, and stays in bed for a week.
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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Adrian suffers sexual frustration in the earlier books, as Pandora absolutely refuses to partake in any "lovemaking". Adrian never explicitly states that he masturbates, but it is very subtly implied:
** In ''Growing Pains'', he writes to an agony aunt that he has fallen to self-manipulation, but it soon wears off.
** In ''Wilderness Years'', he says that he has no sex life; at least, not with another person.
** In ''Growing Pains'', he writes to an agony aunt that he has fallen to self-manipulation, but it soon wears off.
** In ''Wilderness Years'', he says that he has no sex life; at least, not with another person.
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* OffendedByAnInferiorsSuccess: Throughout the series, Adrian Mole aspires to be a great writer, with little or no success. When his old enemy and school bully Barry Kent learns to read and write while in prison, Adrian encourages him to write poetry. In ''The Wilderness Years,'' Barry becomes a hugely successful writer, to Adrian's great resentment, especially as Barry's expletive-laden first book ''Dork's Diary'' contains a character "Aiden Vole" which is an outrageous caricature of Adrian.
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* {{Conlang}}: In ''Wilderness Years'', the precocious children of Adrian's landlord have their own language, Oombagooma. Adrian recalls how he used to have his own made-up language (Ikbak), until his father beat it out of him during a long car journey.
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* StrictlyProfessionalRelationship: In ''Wilderness Years'', Adrian is sexually obsessed with his therapist Leonora, and often tells her so. She emphasises that theirs is a strictly professional relationship, tries to encourage him to find another therapist, and eventually dismisses him as a client when he declares his love for her.
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* PhotoOpWithTheDog: Adrian wants to do this in ''Weapons of Mass Destruction'', with a dog. When he has attracted bad publicity by disturbing a shrine to the dead, he asks his blind friend Nigel if he can be photographed with Nigel's "blind dog" Graham. Nigel replies bad-temperedly:
--> '''Nigel:''' Graham is not a blind dog. A blind dog would be no use to me, would it? Graham is a guide dog, and no, you're not using him to improve your poxy self-image.
--> '''Nigel:''' Graham is not a blind dog. A blind dog would be no use to me, would it? Graham is a guide dog, and no, you're not using him to improve your poxy self-image.
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* TakeCareOfTheKids: Played with in ''Cappuccino Years'', in that a highly reclusive man Archie Tait dies, and leaves his house to Adrian, on condition that Adrian lives in the house, and takes care of Archie's cat Andrew, until Andrew dies.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Pandora and Cavendish have an affair in ''The Wilderness Years''. He's a college professor in his sixties, whereas she's around 24.
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** Pandora and Cavendish have anaffair in ''The Wilderness Years''. affair. He's a college professor in his sixties, whereas she's around 24.24.
** Adrian's mother is twenty-three years older than her second husband, Martin Muffett.
** Pandora and Cavendish have an
** Adrian's mother is twenty-three years older than her second husband, Martin Muffett.
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* LitteringIsNoBigDeal: In ''Wilderness Years'', Adrian throws his shoes and socks out of the window, as a mark of his love for Bianca. He notes that many hours later, they are still in the gutter.
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** When Adrian loiters with Barry Kent's gang in ''Growing Pains'', Barry tips a rubbish bin over for a laugh, adding that without him, his uncle Pedro would lose his job as a street cleaner. Adrian returns later, and picks up the broken glass, to protect little kids.
** In ''Wilderness Years'', Adrian throws his shoes and socks out of the window, as a mark of his love for Bianca. He notes that many hours later, they are still in thegutter.gutter.
** In ''Weapons of Mass Destruction'', Adrian tears up a letter from the bank, and throws the pieces from his window into the canal. His neighbour calls him out, and later a police officer brings the scraps to him in a bag, one of them bearing his name, as evidence.
** When Adrian loiters with Barry Kent's gang in ''Growing Pains'', Barry tips a rubbish bin over for a laugh, adding that without him, his uncle Pedro would lose his job as a street cleaner. Adrian returns later, and picks up the broken glass, to protect little kids.
** In ''Wilderness Years'', Adrian throws his shoes and socks out of the window, as a mark of his love for Bianca. He notes that many hours later, they are still in the
** In ''Weapons of Mass Destruction'', Adrian tears up a letter from the bank, and throws the pieces from his window into the canal. His neighbour calls him out, and later a police officer brings the scraps to him in a bag, one of them bearing his name, as evidence.
