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3 | ''The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher'' is a children's book by Creator/BeatrixPotter. A frog gentlemen goes fishing for minnows to serve to his friends for supper. His fishing expedition is plagued with mishaps, culminating when he nearly gets eaten by a huge trout. In the end, he gives up on the minnow idea and instead serves his friends some nice roasted grasshopper. |
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6 | !!This work provides examples of: |
7 | * AnAesop: Sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble. |
8 | * ButtMonkey: Poor Mr. Jeremy. At one point, a bunch of little fishes even poke their heads out of the water and laugh at him. |
9 | * CatchYourDeathOfCold: Zigzagged. While it's explicitly said that Jeremy ''didn't'' catch a cold because of the water, this is implied to be because he's a frog, rather than because water doesn't actually give people colds. |
10 | * FiendishFish: Downplayed for the trout, who grabs Jeremy and it's implied he would've killed him, but spits him out due to hating the taste of the frog's raincoat. |
11 | * {{Fingore}}: The stickleback injures Jeremy's fingers, and he sucks on them. |
12 | * FoodEnd: The book ends with Jeremy and his friends dining. |
13 | * FurryReminder: Jeremy is mostly anthropomorphic, but he does have a wet house and he also eats bugs like a real frog. |
14 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Jeremy wears coats and shirts, but no pants. This comes in useful when the trout spits him out due to not liking the taste of his clothes. |
15 | * HappyRain: Jeremy likes getting his feet wet and is glad to see it raining. This is also because he plans to get some worms to use as fish bait. |
16 | * ImNotDoingThatAgain: Jeremy, after nearly getting eaten by the trout, declares he'll never go fishing again. |
17 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: After the trout incident, Jeremy decides that the minnows just aren't worth it. |
18 | * LeafBoat: Jeremy uses a lily leaf as a boat. |
19 | * MayItNeverHappenAgain: Zigzagged. Jeremy decides he will never again go fishing lest he encounter the trout again, but in ''Literature/TheTaleOfGingerAndPickles'', he's seen trying on galoshes... but then again, it's never stated that he wanted the galoshes to fish with. |
20 | * MeaningfulName: His last name is Fisher, and he goes fishing. |
21 | * PikePeril: {{Lampshaded}} when Jeremy, after nearly being killed by a trout, says that at least it wasn't a pike. |
22 | * PunnyName: Sir Isaac Newton, who is a newt. |
23 | * ASimplePlan: All he wanted to do was catch a few fish. |
24 | * SpeciesSurname: One of Jeremy's friends is Sir Alderman Ptolemy ''Tortoise''. |
25 | * SuperPersistentPredator: Inverted with the trout — once it gets a taste of Jeremy's mackintosh, it completely loses interest in eating him. |
26 | * WeirdWorldWeirdFood: The narrator remarks that while roasted grasshopper with ladybug sauce is a delicacy to frogs, "I think it must have been nasty!" |
27 | * YouDirtyRat: {{Lampshaded}} when Jeremy hears an animal and worries that it's a rat. |
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