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* InterspeciesFriendship: A pelican, a giraffe and a monkey start a ladderless window-cleaning business together, while also making friends with a young boy.
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* ContinuityNod: When Billy turns The Grubber into a sweet-shop, among the products on his shelves are products from [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory]], including Rainbow Drops to spit in seven colors, Stickjaw to keep talkative parents quiet, and Mint Jujubes to give the boy next door green teeth for a month.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Giraffe moves to England to start a business with the Monkey and the Pelican. Apparently she forgot that, while the Pelican eats fish and the Monkey eats nuts, she's a Geraneous Giraffe who can't eat anything except the pink and purple flowers of the tinkle-tinkle tree, which doesn't grow naturally in England. Luckily, she and her friends find permanent work on the plantation of a rich duke who owns the only grove of tinkle-tinkle trees in the entire country.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After helping catch a burglar in the act of stealing the Duchess' jewelry, the Giraffe, the Pelican and the Monkey are permanently hired to live at the Duke's palace and clean all his windows in exchange for food and lodging. They give their old place of work to Billy, who turns it into a fabulous sweet-shop like he always dreamed of.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Giraffe moves to England to start a business with the Monkey and the Pelican. Apparently she forgot that, while the Pelican eats fish and the Monkey eats nuts, she's a Geraneous Giraffe who can't eat anything except the pink and purple flowers of the tinkle-tinkle tree, which doesn't grow naturally in England. Luckily, she and her friends find permanent work on the plantation of a rich duke who owns the only grove of tinkle-tinkle trees in the entire country.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After helping catch a burglar in the act of stealing the Duchess' jewelry, the Giraffe, the Pelican and the Monkey are permanently hired to live at the Duke's palace and clean all his windows in exchange for food and lodging. They give their old place of work to Billy, who turns it into a fabulous sweet-shop like he always dreamed of.
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* IsItSomethingYouEat: When the Pelican asks if there's any fish around, Billy says there's a fishmonger (a fish seller, for non-British readers) in a nearby village.
-->'''Pelican''': Now what on earth would that be? I have heard of a fish-''pie'' and a fish-''cake'' and a fish-''finger'', but I have never heard of a fish-''monger''. Are these mongers good to eat?
* MundaneUtility: The Monkey, the Giraffe, and the Pelican move to Billy's hometown to set up a window-cleaning business. They don't need ladders or buckets, you see, because the Pelican's pouch can hold water and the Giraffe's neck is so long she can reach any window of any building, no matter how tall it is. It's also magically extendable!
-->'''Pelican''': Now what on earth would that be? I have heard of a fish-''pie'' and a fish-''cake'' and a fish-''finger'', but I have never heard of a fish-''monger''. Are these mongers good to eat?
* MundaneUtility: The Monkey, the Giraffe, and the Pelican move to Billy's hometown to set up a window-cleaning business. They don't need ladders or buckets, you see, because the Pelican's pouch can hold water and the Giraffe's neck is so long she can reach any window of any building, no matter how tall it is. It's also magically extendable!
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* PelicanPackagePouch: The Pelican's pouch is big enough to fit a small person in it. He uses it to give Billy a ride up to the top floor of their workplace.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: The Monkey looks pretty much exactly like Muggle-Wump from ''Literature/TheTwits''. Both books, as well as many others by Roald Dahl, were illustrated by Quentin Blake.
* SeenItAll: The chauffeur of the Duke of Hampshire doesn't even raise an eyebrow when he sees that the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company is run by three talking animals. Billy's narration goes, "the chauffeurs of very rich men are never surprised by anything they see."
* ReusedCharacterDesign: The Monkey looks pretty much exactly like Muggle-Wump from ''Literature/TheTwits''. Both books, as well as many others by Roald Dahl, were illustrated by Quentin Blake.
* SeenItAll: The chauffeur of the Duke of Hampshire doesn't even raise an eyebrow when he sees that the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company is run by three talking animals. Billy's narration goes, "the chauffeurs of very rich men are never surprised by anything they see."
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The Pelican loves salmon, the Monkey adores walnuts, and the Giraffe's favorite nosh is the pink and purple flowers of the tinkle-tinkle tree.
* TooDesperateToBePicky: What the Pelican laments when he and his coworkers have used all their money to buy a house they can operate their business out of.
-->Has anyone seen a stale sardine\\
or a bucket of rotten cod?\\
I'd eat the lot upon the spot,\\
I'm such a hungry bod!
* TooDesperateToBePicky: What the Pelican laments when he and his coworkers have used all their money to buy a house they can operate their business out of.
-->Has anyone seen a stale sardine\\
or a bucket of rotten cod?\\
I'd eat the lot upon the spot,\\
I'm such a hungry bod!
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* FireBreathingDiner: For a parting gift, the Monkey gets a bag of Devil's Drenchers, which allow the person who sucks them to breathe fire. For obvious reasons, they aren't sold to very young children.
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* SuperSpit: One of the sweets the sweet-shop sells are Willy Wonka Rainbow Drops — "suck them and you can spit in seven different colors".
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* SuperSpit: One of Among the sweets many delicacies available at the sweet-shop sells are Willy Wonka Rainbow Drops — "suck them and you can spit in seven different colors".
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The book follows a young boy named Billy, whose dreams of owning his own sweet-shop are fueled by a large abandoned building in town that used to be one. One day, he finds that the building is now occupied by a window-washing company run by a trio of animals: a Giraffe who possesses a highly extendable neck, a Pelican who carts water around in his beak, and a Monkey who scrubs the windows.
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The book follows a young boy named Billy, whose dreams of owning his own sweet-shop are fueled by a large abandoned building in town that used to be one. One day, he finds that the building is now occupied by a window-washing company run by a trio of animals: a Giraffe who possesses a highly extendable neck, a Pelican who carts water around in his beak, and a Monkey who scrubs the windows. The group gets their big break when the Duke of Hampshire hires them to clean the hundreds of windows on his estate, but the job proves to not be as simple as it initially seems.
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* GenialGiraffe: The titular Giraffe is one of the protagonists, and she uses her stretchy neck to help the animals in their window-cleaning business.
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* GenialGiraffe: The titular Giraffe is one of the protagonists, and she who uses her stretchy neck to help the animals in their window-cleaning business.Monkey reach higher windows to clean.
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''The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me'' is a short story by Creator/RoaldDahl.
The book follows a young boy named Billy, whose dreams of owning his own sweet-shop are fueled by a large abandoned building in town that used to be one. One day, he finds that the building is now occupied by a window-washing company run by a trio of animals: a Giraffe who possesses a highly extendable neck, a Pelican who carts water around in his beak, and a Monkey who scrubs the windows.
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!!Tropes present:
* FantasticDietRequirement: The Giraffe belongs to a fictional subspecies known as the Geraneous Giraffe, which feeds exclusively upon the flowers of the tinkle-tinkle tree. It is noted that while the Monkey and Pelican can go without their preferred foods of walnuts and salmon, the Giraffe is doing poorly because the trio hasn't found any tinkle-tinkle trees since they arrived in England.
* FoodEnd: The protagonists, now living on the Duke of Hampshire's estate, are allowed to fish for trout in his personal river, and their old headquarters is converted into a fantastic sweet shop which [[MythologyGag sells Wonka products]].
* GenialGiraffe: The titular Giraffe is one of the protagonists, and she uses her stretchy neck to help the animals in their window-cleaning business.
* MythologyGag:
** The Monkey is characterized similarly to Muggle-Wump the monkey, who is a central character in ''Literature/TheTwits''.
** Among the products Billy's sweet-shop sells are [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Wonka confectionaries]].
* SuperSpit: One of the sweets the sweet-shop sells are Willy Wonka Rainbow Drops — "suck them and you can spit in seven different colors".
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The book follows a young boy named Billy, whose dreams of owning his own sweet-shop are fueled by a large abandoned building in town that used to be one. One day, he finds that the building is now occupied by a window-washing company run by a trio of animals: a Giraffe who possesses a highly extendable neck, a Pelican who carts water around in his beak, and a Monkey who scrubs the windows.
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!!Tropes present:
* FantasticDietRequirement: The Giraffe belongs to a fictional subspecies known as the Geraneous Giraffe, which feeds exclusively upon the flowers of the tinkle-tinkle tree. It is noted that while the Monkey and Pelican can go without their preferred foods of walnuts and salmon, the Giraffe is doing poorly because the trio hasn't found any tinkle-tinkle trees since they arrived in England.
* FoodEnd: The protagonists, now living on the Duke of Hampshire's estate, are allowed to fish for trout in his personal river, and their old headquarters is converted into a fantastic sweet shop which [[MythologyGag sells Wonka products]].
* GenialGiraffe: The titular Giraffe is one of the protagonists, and she uses her stretchy neck to help the animals in their window-cleaning business.
* MythologyGag:
** The Monkey is characterized similarly to Muggle-Wump the monkey, who is a central character in ''Literature/TheTwits''.
** Among the products Billy's sweet-shop sells are [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Wonka confectionaries]].
* SuperSpit: One of the sweets the sweet-shop sells are Willy Wonka Rainbow Drops — "suck them and you can spit in seven different colors".
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