YMMV / Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes

• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the Fright Gallery section of the 2011 reprint, it jokes that hopefully that this is the last we see of the lawn gnomes. It wasn't.
• Strawman Has a Point: There's a part where the gnomes wreck the neighbor's melons and Mindy accuses Joe of doing so, getting him in trouble. We are supposed to think she's a bitch for getting him in trouble for something he didn't do even though (as she herself even points out) all the evidence points to him, there's no evidence of his claim that the gnomes are alive and evil, and he has a habit of telling tall tales and pulling pranks, meaning she's quite justified in thinking he did it.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The book goes into detail about how Mindy has some kind of OCD or something and is Obsessively Organized, but it never becomes important to the plot. You'd think it would be part of some plot point, such as her noticing the gnomes are "frozen" in a different position before, due to her attention to detail, but nothing of the sort happens.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: We are meant to see Mindy as stuffy and unfun, but she comes across as a lot more likable than Joe, as she's a lot more mature and doesn't play annoying pranks on people all the time. One also gets the feeling she just wants to left alone, but Joe keeps bugging her all the time.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Joe Burton. He's meant to be a cute prankster kid but mainly just comes across as annoying, and his sister Mindy, who we aren't supposed to side with, comes across as a lot more reasonable and sympathetic.