History Literature / TheMonsterAtTheEndOfThisBook

* YouBastard: Without the profanity, obviously, but Grover gets very upset with the reader for continuing to turn pages despite his best efforts.
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'''Grover''':[[TheStinger WHATEVER YOU DO,]] [[https://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/img/dHAfPPICAwe6IUGVMtcR5As7My4=/1092x0/2012/01/11/432bb57c-f0ef-11e2-8c7c-d4ae52e62bcc/groveratqualcomm.jpg DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK, IT LEADS TO THE MONSTER!]]

In 2020, an animated special based on the book, ''The Monster at the End of This Story'', aired on Creator/HBOMax on October 29.

* AdaptationAmalgamation: The HBO adaptation is based on the first and second books. At the start Grover is alone trying to stop the story like in the first book until Elmo comes in the help him out like in Another Monster at the End of This Book.

* MediumAwareness: Grover is completely aware that he is in a book, and with every page turn they are getting closer to the monster that is at the end.

'''Grover:''' [[SelfDemonstratingArticle AHHH! Don't read this page, there's a scary monster at the end!]]

* CanonForeigner: Abby Cadabby, Cookie Monster, Elmo, and Rosita are added in the animated special, even though they weren't in the original book.

* AdaptationExpansion: The animated special includes Rosita, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster and Abby Cadabby, none of whom were in the original book or the sequel. New plot elements include an in-universe progress bar which Grover employs to delay the story's end, eventually going back to the dinosaur era.

In 2020, an animated version of the special aired on Creator/HBOMax, on October 29.

* BoldInflation: To help with demonstrating Grover's typical LargeHam style, his lettering regularly shifts. Not just bolded, but multicolored balloonish script is used for some of his more histrionic moments.

In 2020, an animated version of the special will air on Creator/HBOMax.

* BerserkBoardBarricade: Grover tries to stop the reader by making barricades. His first barricade is a bunch of ropes tying the pages together. His next barricade is a bunch of boards nailed to the pages. His third barricade is a brick wall.

* BoldInflation: To help with demonstrating Grover's typical LargeHam style, his lettering regularly shifts. Not just bolded, but multicolored ballonish script is used for some of his more histrionic moments.

* FacePalm: Grover does this when the reader doesn't listen to him and turns the page.

* SequelInAnotherMedium: The [[https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Electronic_Talk_%27n_Play Playskool Talk 'n Play]] toy had a bunch of ''Sesame Street'' interactive books, and one of them was called ''Lovable, Furry Old Grover in Please Don't Push the Red Button''. Pushing the blue, yellow or green buttons would have Grover leading you through various stories or games, but he'd constantly warn you not to push the red button, and when you did, he'd get more and more frustrated.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The [[https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Electronic_Talk_%27n_Play Playskool Talk 'n Play]] toy had a bunch of ''Sesame Street'' interactive books, and one of them was called ''Lovable, Furry Old Grover in Please Don't Push the Red Button''. Pushing the blue, yellow or green buttons would have Grover leading you through various stories or games, but he'd constantly warn you not to push the red button, and when you did, he'd get more and more frustrated.

* AintTooProudToBeg: On the penultimate page, Grover, at this point completely out of options to prevent further page turning, begs the reader to not turn to the last page.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Grover warns the reader not to finish the book, as they will surely be devoured by the monster. [[spoiler:He's wrong.]] This book is also a rare example where this trope is ''inverted.'' Grover keeps trying to stop the reader from turning pages, but the fourth wall does not protect ''him.''

-->'''Grover:''' "Oh, I am so embarrassed..."

* MinimalistCast: Nobody but Grover appears in the book. At the very end [[spoiler: we find out that Grover is the monster]].

* SnicketWarningLabel: The entire book is Grover asking you, trying to force you, and finally outright begging you to ''stop reading'' because it ends with a monster.

* YouBastard: Without the profanity, obviously, but Grover gets very upset with the reader.

There is a Monster at the bottom of this TvTropes page.

* SchmuckBait: Grover tells you not to turn the pages, so that you'll ''want'' to turn the pages.

'''Grover:''': [[SelfDemonstratingArticle AHHH! Don't read this page, there's a scary monster at the end!]]

[[SelfDemonstratingArticle '''Grover:''' AHHH! Don't read this page, there's a scary monster at the end!]]

[[TheStinger Grover: WHATEVER YOU DO,]] [[https://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/img/dHAfPPICAwe6IUGVMtcR5As7My4=/1092x0/2012/01/11/432bb57c-f0ef-11e2-8c7c-d4ae52e62bcc/groveratqualcomm.jpg DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK, IT LEADS TO THE MONSTER!]]

'''Grover:'''AHHH! Don't read this page, there's a scary monster at the end!

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* PostModernism: For 3-year-olds!