History YMMV / NurseryCrime

** The revelation that the Gingerbread Man is a [[spoiler:"Ginja" Assassin created by Quang Tech]] brings to mind ''VideoGame/NinjabreadMan''..

** The revelation that the Gingerbread Man is a [[spoiler:"Ginja" Assassin created by Quang Tech]] brings to mind ''VideoGame/NinjabreadMan'', one of the worst games ever made.

** The revelation that the Gingerbread Man is a [[spoiler:"Ginja" Assassin created by Quang Tech]] brings to mind ''VideoGame/NinjabreadMan'', one of the worst games ever made.
* ValuesResonance: ''The Big Over Easy'' has no end of jokes at the expense of TrueCrime as a genre, with journalists being completely uninterested in solid police work if it isn't literary enough, and detectives writing manuscripts to submit to True Crime magazines based off of their own cases. Throughout the next two decades, true crime would infect the social consciousness of the western world, with shows like ''Series/CriminalMinds'' and ''Series/{{Bones}}'' having several of their cases RippedFromTheHeadlines, while most of the highest-rated podcasts on any given platform likely have at least one deep dive into a serial murderer of some form. True crime conventions are now a thing, as well, like comic-con but for amateur sleuths or fans of the Zodiac Killer.

* GeniusBonus: It's easy to guess the culprit in ''The Fourth Bear'' if you're familiar with [[spoiler:the poetry of Edward Lear, from where the majority of the characters involved with Quang-Tech originate. The Small Olympian Bear is omitted.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: As it turns out, Jack Spratt is a nursery character himself, from the rhyme "Jack Spratt ate no fat/ his wife ate no lean", and his first wife is mentioned to have died as a result of her diet; in the 2010s, the ketogenic diet rose to prominence, which promoted foods high in healthy fats and low in carbohydrates as a way to lose weight.

** The Theatre/PunchAndJudy subplot in "The Fourth Bear." Although they [[SlapSlapKiss fight like cats and dogs nearly all the time]] (aside from ten minute breaks out of every hour, they clearly love each other very much. They also happen to be rather successful marriage counselors and have a [[TheImmodestOrgasm very active sex life]]. As Punch points out, they've been married for 328 years and, although they fight every day, they still love each other deeply, "and it is our love that binds our relationship together, regardless of the violence and the quarreling."

* ExecutiveMeddling: The first book itself was originally going to be called ''Nursery Crime'' (as noted in ''The Well of Lost Plots'' at the end) but was changed due to marketing concerns.

* CanonSue: The Jellyman (probably a bit of social commentary aimed at the fact that nowadays there is the assumption that all politicians are the scum of the earth)
** Not likely. On his website, Fforde expresses some disdain for the Bush / Blair escapades and a distaste for politics in general (hence the "Avoid the Question Time" gag in ''[[Literature/ThursdayNext Something Rotten]]'').
*** So what you're saying is that Fforde considers honest politicians to be [[FridgeBrilliance fairy tales?]]
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming:
** In The Fourth Bear, Jack is required to meet with a therapist called Virginia Kreeper. Jack [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude ridiculousness of her name]] and calls her out as being a one-dimensional ThresholdGuardian. (Word for word, even.) Hegives her a backstory to ease the existential crisis he has put her in.

** The Theatre/PunchAndJudy subplot in "The Fourth Bear." Although they [[SlapSlapKiss fight like cats and dogs nearly all the time]] (aside from ten minute breaks out of every hour, they clearly love each other very much. They also happen to be rather successful marriage counselors and have a [[TheImmodestOrgasm very active sex life]]. As Punch points out, they've been married for 328 years and, although they fight every day, they still love each other deeply, "and it is our love that binds our relationship together, regardless of the violence and the quarreling."
* ExecutiveMeddling: The first book itself was originally going to be called ''Nursery Crime'' (as noted in ''The Well of Lost Plots'' at the end) but was changed due to marketing concerns.

*** Then he proceeds to get her out of her existential crisis by giving her a larger backstory by giving her niece, brother, and sister-in-law names and personalities.

*** So what you're saying is that Fforde considers honest politicians to be [[FridgeBrilliance fairy tales?]]

** Not likely. On his website, Fforde expresses some disdain for the Bush / Blair escapades and a distaste for politics in general (hence the "Avoid the Question Time" gag in ''[[ThursdayNext Something Rotten]]'').