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''The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins'' is a 1938 children's book by Creator/DrSeuss. It's notable for being one of the few of Seuss' works to not be [[RhymesOnADime written in rhyme]], instead simply being written in prose.
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''The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Bartholomew Cubbins'' is a 1938 children's book by Creator/DrSeuss. It's notable for being one of the few of Seuss' works to not be [[RhymesOnADime written in rhyme]], instead simply being written in prose.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Downplayed in that the King turns to Bartholomew's execution as a last resort. However, it's worth mentioning that [[DisproportionateRetribution it was because Bartholomew's hat wouldn't come off!]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Downplayed in that the King turns to Bartholomew's execution as a last resort. However, it's worth mentioning that [[DisproportionateRetribution it was because Bartholomew's hat wouldn't come off!]]off!]]
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* MatryoshkaObject: Inverted; Cubbins' hat contains an identical hat. Removing the second hat reveals a third hat, which also looks exactly the same. At hat 451, the hats actually start to get bigger.
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* MatryoshkaObject: Inverted; Cubbins' hat contains an identical hat. Removing the second hat reveals a third hat, which also looks exactly the same. At hat 451, the hats actually start to get bigger.bigger... and fancier.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Bartholomew is interrogated, punished, and threatened to be executed all because he wears too many hats.
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** Bartholomew is interrogated, punished, and threatened to beexecuted executed... all because there's always another hat on his head, no matter how often he wears too many hats.takes it off.
** Bartholomew is interrogated, punished, and threatened to be
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''The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins'' is a 1938 children's book by Creator/DrSeuss. It's notable for being one of the few of Seuss' works to not be [[RhymesOnADime written in rhyme]], instead simply being written in prose.
''The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins'' is a 1938 children's book by Creator/DrSeuss. It's notable for being one of the few of Seuss' works to not be [[RhymesOnADime written in rhyme]], instead simply being written in prose.
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!!This book includes examples of the following tropes:
* AerithAndBob: There is Bartholomew Cubbins, King Derwin, Sir Snipps, Sir Alaric and the Grand Duke ''Wilfred''.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Bartholomew is interrogated, punished, and threatened to be executed all because he wears too many hats.
** Inverted with Grand Duke Wilfred, who gets a spanking on his behind for all his terrible behavior.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Unlike most Dr. Seuss books, this one is written in prose rather than rhyme.
* EnfantTerrible: Grand Duke Wilfred is the same age as Bartholomew and keeps suggesting to the King (his Uncle) to have him decapitated and pushed off the highest turret.
* EvilNephew: Wilfred to the King.
* FailedExecutionNoSentence: The main character is sentenced to death for not being able to take his hat off in the King Derwin's presence (a new hat appears on his head every time he takes his old one off). But because the executioner refuses to kill anyone that's still wearing a hat, he has to let Bartholomew go. Of course, given that the executioner didn't want to execute Bartholomew in the first place, it was a convenient excuse not to do so.
* TheHilarityOfHats: The book is about a boy who tries to take off his hat 500 times, but finds that there is always another hat underneath. The hats eventually start getting larger and fancier up until the eponymous 500th hat, which became so fanciful that the king had to have it for his very own...which, thankfully, ended the hat problem as there were no more hats after that.
* MatryoshkaObject: Inverted; Cubbins' hat contains an identical hat. Removing the second hat reveals a third hat, which also looks exactly the same. At hat 451, the hats actually start to get bigger.
* OffWithHisHead: The Grand Duke Wilfred suggests having Bartholomew's head cut off [[DisproportionateRetribution as punishment for him not taking off his hat in the presence of royalty.]]
* PunchClockVillain: The royal executioner seems pretty nice aside from his job. He objects to executing Bartholomew, who doesn't look worthy of it, and shakes hands with him when it turns out he can't execute him because of the hat problem. (Apparently he's forbidden to cut off a head while it's hatted.)
* UnluckilyLucky: Bartholomew can't take off his hat, which gets him in trouble with the king. (Bad luck.) He can't be executed because he can't take off his hat. (Good luck.) He keeps getting into further trouble because he still cannot take off his hat. (Bad luck.) The final hat turns out to be so impressive that the king pays him a large amount for it and forgoes punishing him for being unable to take off his hat before. (Good luck.)
* TheUnreveal: It's never explained how hats kept appearing on Bartholomew's head, and even the people in the story don't understand at all how it happened.
* WouldHurtAChild: Downplayed in that the King turns to Bartholomew's execution as a last resort. However, it's worth mentioning that [[DisproportionateRetribution it was because Bartholomew's hat wouldn't come off!]]
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