History Literature / TheMadScientistsClub

* HiddenInPlainSight: In one story the club is looking around the cemetery for treasure, keeping an eye out for Harmon. It takes them a while to find out that Harmon has been there the whole time disguised as one of a pair of civil war statues (having hidden the real one one in the bushes nearby)

* TeamRocketWins: More than half of the stories involve the Mad Scientists' Club getting into some competition or BattleOfWits with Harmon Muldoon and completely outclassing him and his friends.
** However, in "[[spoiler:The Cool Caravan]]" he is two steps ahead of them the whole time, outsmarts them, and lets the whole town know how he tricked them. Charlie describes the conclusion of this experience as the first time club leader Henry ever lost his temper.

* WhamLine: "The Secret of the Old Cannon" ends on a seemingly supernatural note when Henry offers Elmer Pridgeon a photo that his camera relay took and he assumes is of Elmer, only for Elmer to deny that he was present when the photo was taken while commenting that the image is "a turned good likeness of my daddy" (who also spent a lot of time lurking near the cannon and has been dead for many years).

* EggMacGuffin: One story has the gang finding a dinosaur egg (which Harmon tries to steal) and basking in the limelight. [[spoiler:T
he ending is ambiguous as to whether the egg hatches or Harmon just fooled them into thinking it did as a prank]].

* ButtMonkey: Harmon and his gang in most of the stories they appear in (although in one they come out ahead and in another they have a truce with the gang).

* EggMacGuffin: One story has the gang finding a dinosaur egg (which Harmon tries to steal) and basking in the limelight. [[spoiler:The ending is ambiguous as to whether the egg hatches or Harmon just fooled them into thinking it did as a prank]].

The Mad Scientists Club is a series of two novels and two short story collections by Bertrand R. Brinley following a group of seven boys (Jeff, Henry, Charlie, Homer, Dinky, Freddy and Mortimer) in the sixties. The Mad Scientists Club are a group of amateur tinkerers who get involved in a variety of pranks, treasure hunts, KidDetective stories, attempts to better the town with inventions and the like, with their first adventure being trying to find an unexploded bomb the air force accidentally dropped in the lake

* TeamRocketWins
** More than half of the stories involve the Mad Scientists' Club getting into some competition or BattleOfWits with Harmon Muldoon and completely outclassing him and his friends. However, in "[[spoiler:The Cool Caravan]]" he is two steps ahead of them the whole time, outsmarts them, and lets the whole town know how he tricked them. Charlie describes the conclusion of this experience as the first time club leader Henry ever lost his temper.

* TeamRocketWins: More than half of the stories involve the Mad Scientists' Club getting into some competition or BattleOfWits with Harmon Muldoon and completely outclassing him and his friends. However, in "[[spoiler:The Cool Caravan]]" he is two steps ahead of them the whole time, outsmarts them, and lets the whole town know how he tricked them. Charlie describes the conclusion of this experience as the first time club leader Henry ever lost his temper.
** Harmon also comes out of "The Big Chief Rainmaker" with his dignity intact, but only because his gang and the Mad Scientists' Club decide to cooperate over a money-making venture that time.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the novel ''The Big Kerplop'' after an unexploded atom bomb is dropped in Strawberry Lake, Councilman Abner Sharples gathers his family and heads out of town for a “camping trip”.

* FatAndSkinny: Freddy and Dinky, who have the main ThoseTwoGuys dynamic of the club.

--> ''Councilman Brown:'' The townsfolk are bangin’ him on the head, the newspapers are bangin’ him on the head, and now half the big shots in Washington are bangin’ him on the head. He’s been banged on the head so much I bet it hurts to get a haircut.

* HiddenInPlainSight: In one story the club is looking around the cemetery for treasure, keeping an eye out for Harmon. It takes them a while to find out that Harmon has been there the whole time disguised as one of a pair of civil war statutes (having hidden the real one one in the bushes nearby)

The Mad Scientists Club is a series of two novels and two short story collections following a group of seven boys (Jeff, Henry, Charlie, Homer, Dinky, Freddy and Mortimer) in the sixties. The Mad Scientists Club are a group of amateur tinkerers who get involved in a variety of pranks, treasure hunts, KidDetective stories, attempts to better the town with inventions and the like, with their first adventure being trying to find an unexploded bomb the air force accidentally dropped in the lake

* AllForNothing: The bad guys in ‘’The Big Chunk of Ice’’ spend the whole novel trying to retrieve a stolen diamond that had been lost in a (now melting) glacier and fallen into a plaster cast the Mad Scientist Club were making. At the end, it turns out that it was not the diamond, but rather a glass doorknob that a drunk tourist had yanked out of the motel and discarded in the glacier. As one of the villains puts it:

* FlyingSaucer: The titular short story involves the club pranking the town by building a disc-shaped zeppelin, propelled by an air tank. They also replicated foo-fighters by gluing shopping bags to tins of camp stove fuel. It culminates in them dressing up as LittleGreenMen and running around on the roof of the fire hall.

* MayorPain: Alozno Scrag the town mayor tends to dislike the gang and their experiments. That being said, they like him a lot better than his opponent for Mayor, Abner Sharples.

* AffablyEvil: The villains of ''The Big Chunk of Ice'' are fairly decent company when their not trying to steal the diamond.
* AllForNothing: The bad guys in ‘’The Big Chunk of Ice’’ spend the whole novel trying to retrieve a stolen diamond that had been lost in the (now melting glacier) and fallen into a plaster cast the mad scientist club were making. At the end, it turns out that it was not the diamond, but rather a glass doorknob that a drunk tourist had yanked out of the motel and discarded in the glacier. As one of the villains puts it:

* ButtMonkey: Harmon and his gang in most of the stories they appear (although in one they come out ahead and in another they have a truce with the gang).

* ClashingCousins: Freddy and Harmon reels the chances to insult or bump heads with each other.

* CommunicationsOfficer: Mortimer runs the clubs ham radio.

* FriendOnTheForce: Colonel March of the local air base somewhat respects the gang and contortions they make to some stuff like a search and rescue operation.
* GadgeteerGenius: The time makes some decent (although generally low-tech) things like seismometers and a lake monster propped over a speedboat.

* HumbleHero: The kids at time, such as when Henry is thanked by some reporters for breaking the story in ''The Big Kerplop'' he points out that a lot of credit belongs to the reporter who got one of the air force divers to talk about it in a bar.

* IntrepidReporter: Mr. Jenkins and Earl [=MacComber=] are the first reporters to take the gang serials in ''The Big Kerplop'' and help them convince the Air Force to look for the bomb where they claim it is.

--> He had a no nonsense way about him that makes everybody listen.to him when he talks. He doesn’t ever throw his weight around, but whenever there’s a tight situation , people just naturally follow his directions.

* NotNowKiddo: Happens to the scientists sometimes particularly when they claim to have found the bomb in ''The Big Kerplop'' (with that experience being a lesson to Colonel March to take them more seriously in the future).

* ScienceHero: The Mad scientists Club in some stories, such as when they get a rainmaking device, are invited to visit a glacier and chart its melt, or make a seismometer which inadvertently detects people tunneling into a bank.
* ScoobyDooHoax: The first story has the gang making up a fake sea monster as a lark (and taking advantage of the tourists it attracts) while another has them fake some flying saucers and in a third they fake a house haunting (largely just to prank Harmon). In still a fourth using dummy and a radio transmitter they have a flying man hoax . For the most part, their plans start out just as them trying to [[ForScience see if they could make the required gadgets]] (or in one case to make an excuse for Dinky who said he was late getting home because he saw a sea monster). During the haunted house incident Chief Putney and Billy Dar try a hoax of their own by planning to scare Mayor Scragg out of the house to win a bet they made for a steak dinner.

* StoutStrength: Zeke Boniface, the junkyard owner and a friend of the gang is both lump and strong.
* ThemedAliases: The bad guys in the ''The Big Chunk of Ice'' introduce themselves with the aliases Smellow, Stunkard, Rank and Pugh (all of which reference body odor). Their jointly referred to as "Those Smellow fellows" by the Mad Scientists Club.

* WhammyBid: Freddy and Dinky use this to by the husk of an old two man submarine at an auction by each bidding “lower” numbers in order to confuse the crowd and make them doubt it.
* WhosOnFirst: In ''The Big Chunk of Ice'' the professors two students are named Angela Angelino and Angelina Angelo.

* FlyingSaucer: The titular short story involves the club pranking the town by building a disc-shaped zeppelin, propelled by an air tank. They also replicated fighters by gluing shopping bags to tins of camp stove fuel. It culminates in them dressing up as Little Green Men and running around the roof of the fire hall.

* HerrDoktor: Professor Stratavarius of Rumania, a local geology professor and friend of Henry's whose a bit of an InsufferableGenius.
* HiddenInPlainSight: In one story the club is looking around the coled cemetery for treasure, keeping an eye out for Harmon. It takes them a while to find out that Harmon has been there the whole time disguised as one of a pair of civil war statutes (having hidden the real one one in the bushes nearby)

* SitcomArchnemesis: Harmon Muldoon, Freddy's cousin and a former member of the club is always fighting the gang but often in childish and minor ways. Also Mayor Scragg and Abner Sharples poke at each other a lot.

* AbsentMindedProfessor: Ocassionally Henry gets too distracted with an experiment to eat much.

* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: Charlie serves as the narrator and sixth member of the eponymous group, but we know little about him. The other members have easily discernable characteristics (Jeff is the pragmatic leader, Henry is the brilliant thinker, etc.), but it takes a close read of the series to even tease out the narrator's name.

* NotNowKiddo: Happens to the scientists sometimes particularly when they claim to have found the bomb in ''The Big Kerplop'' (with that experince being a lesson to Colonel March to take them more seriously in the future).

* ScoobyDooHoax: The first story has the gang making up a fake sea monster as a lark (and taking advantage of the tourists it attracts) while another has them fake some flying saucers and in a third they fake a house haunting (largely just to prank Harmon). In still a fourth using dummy and a radio transmitter they have a flying man hoax . For the most part, their plans start out just as them trying to [[ForScience see if they could make the required gadgets]] (or in one fcae to make an excuse for Dinky who said he was late getting home because he saw a sea monster). During the haunted house incident Chief Putney and Billy Dar try a hoax of their own by planning to scare Mayor Scragg out of the house to win a bet they made for a steak dinner.

The Mad Scientists Club is a series of two novels and two short story collections following a group fo seven boys (Jeff, Henry, Charlie, Homer, Dinky, Freddy and Mortimer) in the sixties. The Mad Scientists Club are a group of amateur tinkerers who get involved in a variety of pranks, treasure hunts, KidDetective stories, attempts to better the town with inventions and the like, with their first adventure being trying to find an unexploded bomb the air force accidentally dropped in the lake

The Mad Scientists Club is a series of two novels and two short story collections following a group fo seven boys (Jeff, Henry, Charlie, Homer, Dinky, Freddy and Mortimer) in the sixties. The Mad Scientists Club are a group of amateur tinkerers who get involved in a variety of pranks, treasure hunts, KidDetective stories attempts to better the town with inventions and the like, with their first adventure being trying to find an unexploded bomb the air force accidentally dropped in the lake

* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Mayor Scragg, Chief Putney and Colonel Marsh all have their moments, particularly in ‘’The Big Kerplop’’ (with Marsh getting the worst of it).
--> ''Councilman Brown:'' The townsfolk are bangin’ him on the head, the newspapers are bangin’ him on the head, and now half the big shots in Washington are bangin’ him on the head. He’s been behaved on the head so much I bet it hurts to get a haircut.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne /NotMeThisTime: In ‘’The Big Chunk Of Ice’’ when the LongList of aliases the bad guys have used (all of said aliases connected to various crimes) are recited “Mr. Smellow” protests that he’s never used the name Jonathan Dimpfsnagel and [[AtrociousAlias doubts he ever will]].
* IntrepidReporter: Mr. Jenkins and Earl [=MacComber=] are the first reporters to take the gang serials in ‘’The Big Kerplop’’ and help them convince the Air Force to look for the bomb where they claim it is.

* RedRightHand: Just about any mention of Melissa Punkett (girlfriend of Harmon’s crony Stony Martin) mentions her stuck-out teeth.

* ScoobyDooHoax: The first story has the gang making up a fake sea monster as a lark (and taking advantage of the tourists it attracts) while another has them fake some flying saucers and in a third they fake a house haunting (largely just to prank Harmon). In still a fourth using dummy and a radio transmitter they have a flying man hoax . For the most part, their plans start out just as them trying to [[ForScience see if they could make the required gadgets]] (or in one fcae to make an excuse for Dinky who said he was late getting home because he saw a sea monster). During the haunted house incident Chief Putney and Billy Dar try a hoax of there own by planning to scare Mayor Scragg out of the house to win a bet they made for a steak dinner.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the novel ‘’The Big Kerplop’’ after an unexploded atom bomb is dropped in Strawberry Lake, Councilman Abner Sharples gathers his family and heads out of town for a “camping trip”.

* SpottingTheThread: Dinky is able to identify two of the disguised bad guys in ‘’The Big Chunk of Ice’’ by how one of them has a certain mole on his ear and the other always wears alligator shoes with the laces poorly tied.
* StealingTheCredit: Chief Putney and Scragg try to do this often when the kids do something newsworthy (like stumbling across a bank robbery in ‘’The Telltale Transmitter’’) and it often backfires on them.

* ThemedAliases: The bad guys in the ‘’The Big Chunk of Ice’’ introduce themselves with the aliases Smellow, Stunkard, Rank and Pugh (all of which reference body odor). Their jointly referred to as “Those Smellow fellows” by the Mad Scientists Club.

The Mad Scientists Club is a series of two novels and two short story collections following a group fo seven boys (Jeff, Henry, Charlie, Homer, Dinky, Freddy and Mortimer) in the sixties. The Mad Scientists Club are a group of amateur tinkerers who get involved in a variety of pranks, treasure hunts, KidDetective stories attempts to better ht ton with inventions and the like, with their first adventure being trying to find an unexploded bomb the air force accidentally dropped in the lake

''Councilman Brown:'' The townsfolk are bangin’ him on the head, the newspapers are bangin’ him on the head, and now half the big shots in Washington are bangin’ him on the head. He’s been behaved on the head so much I bet it hurts to get a haircut.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: In ''The Big Chunk of Ice'' the Professor has them set off on a blimp jooruen across the ocean before realizing that as this is longer than he's ever flown it before,e eventually he'll have to fall asleep. Fortunately, Jeff is abel to learn how to do it quickly.

* FlyingSaucer: The titular short story involves the club pranking the town by building a disc-shaped zeppelin, propelled by an air tank. They also replicated foo fighters by gluing shopping bags to tins of camp stove fuel. It culminates in them dressing up as Little Green Men and running around the roof of the fire hall.

* HeroesLoveDogs: The gang get along great with Kaiser Bill, the local junkyard guard dog, to the pint where he’s a TeamPet.
* HerrDoktor: Professor Stratavarius of Rumania, a local geology professor and friend of Henry's whose a bit of an insufferable genius.

* HumbleHero: The kids at time, such as when Henry is thanked by some reporters for breaking the story in ‘’The Big Kerplop’’ he points out that a lot of credit belongs to the reporter who got one of the air force divers to tap about it in a bar.

* TheLeader: Jeff Crocker -> He had a no nonsense way about him that makes everybody listen.to him when he talks. He doesn’t ever throw his weight around, but whenever there’s a tight situation , people just naturally follow his directions.

* MasterOfDisguise: Both the four criminals and the three detectives chasing them in the novel ‘’The Big Chunk of Ice’’.
* MayorPain: Alozno Scragglier the town mayor tends to dislike the gang and their experiments. That being said, they like him a lot better than his opponent for Mayor, Abner Sharples.
* NotNowKiddo: Happens to the scientists sometimes particularly when they claim to have fodun the bomb in ‘’The Big Kerplop’’ (with that experince being a lesson to Colonel March to take them more seriously in the future).

* OurFounder: The town has a big statute of Hannah Kimball, who some say founded the town but who is mofe famous for frightening off an Indian war party with just a scarecrow on a pole (which she kept waving around after it was shot with arrows) and a blunderbuss.

* SitcomArchnemesis: Harmon Muldoon, Freddy;s cousin and a former member of the club is always fighting the gang but often in childish and minor ways. Also Mayor Scragg and Abner Sharples poke at each other a lot.

* StealingTheCredit: Chief Putney and Scragglier try to do this often when the kids do something newsworthy (like stumbling across a bank robbery in ‘’The Telltale Transmitter’’) and it often backfires on them.

* AbsentMindedProfessor: Ocassionalyl Henry gets too distracted with an experiment to eat much.
* AcademicAthlete: Jeff, Mortimer, Harmon, Homer, Charlie and Dinky are all pretty athletic, could at running, climbign and such (although Homer, Charlie and Dinky are among the less scientific members of the club).

* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Mayor Scragg, Chief Putney and Colonel Marsh all have their moments, particularly in ‘’The Big Kerplop’’. ‘’Councilman Brown:’’ the townsfolk are bangin’ him on the head, the newspapers are bangin’ him on the head, and now half the big shots in Washington are bangin’ him on the head. He’s been behaved on the head so much I bet it hurts to get a haircut.

* CluelessDeputy: Billy Dahr i, the local constable is an unimaginative, easily started guy.

--> Ever since I first started telling these stories people have been wondering what my last name is,, and I never tell anyone -for a very good reason. It’s Finckledinck.

-> Three generations of research, six months of planning, and a free-wheeling trip across the bloody ocean to boot. And all that kid had was a bloomin’ doorknob?

* ChildProdigy: henry is the best OminidisciplinaryScientist of the group and the best student at the school.

* CluelessDeputy: Billy Dahr i, he local constable is an unimaginative, easily started guy.

* EmbarrassingLastName: Charlie’s. -> Ever since I first started telling these stories people have been wondering what my last name is,, and I never tell anyone -for a very good reason. It’s Finckledinck.

* WhammyBid: Freddy and Dinky use this to by the husk of an old two man submarine at an auction by each bidding “lower” numbers in order to confuse the crowd and make them doubt it.

* AcademicAthlete: Jeff, Mortimer, Harmon, Homer, Charlie and Dinky are all pretty athletic, could at running, climbign and such (although Homer, Charlie and Dinky are among the less scientific members of the club).AllForNothing: The bad guys in ‘’The Big Chunk of Ice’’ spend the whole novel trying to retrieve a stolen diamond that had been lost in the (now melting glacier) and fallen into a plaster cast the mad scientist club were making. At the end, it turns out that it was not the diamond, but rather a glass doorknob that a drunk tourist had yanked out of the motel and discarded in the glacier. As one of the villains puts it: -> Three generations of research, six months fp planning, and a free-wheeling trip across the bloody ocean to boot. And all that kid had was a bloomin’ doorknob?
* {{Balloonacy}}: One short story features an elaborate balloon race with a lot of competitors failing.

* ScoobyDooHoax: The first story has the gang making up a fake sea monster as a lark (and taking advantage of the tourists it attracts) while another has them fake some flying saucers and in a third they fake a house haunting (largely just to prank Harmon). In still a fourth using dummy and a radio transmitter they have a flying man hoax . For the most part, their plans start out just as them trying to [[ForScience see if they could make the required gadgets]]. During the haunted house incident Chief Putney and Billy Dar try a hoax of there own by planning to scare Mayor Scragg out of the house to win a bet they made for a steak dinner.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the novel ‘’The Big Kerplop’’ after an unexploded bomb is dropped in Strwberry Lake Abenr Sharples gathers his family and heads out of town for a “camping trip”.