Goosebumps Say Cheese and Die Again
The Goosebumps book with the cursed photographic camera — again.
Afterwards the events of Say Cheese and Die!, Greg has to write an essay on what he did during the summertime holidays. Naturally, he writes nearly his experience with the evil camera; his teacher, Mr. Saur, gives him an F for obvious lying, only agrees to change his grade if he can go some sort of proof. Greg obtains the camera from the ruins of the abandoned house — once again. Pictures get taken which show people getting injured or dying, which inevitably come up truthful — again. Now, Greg and Shari must discover some way to undo the furnishings of the photos and save their friends and themselves — again.
It was adapted into episode xviii of the third season of the Television set serial.
The volume provides examples of:
- Adults Are Useless: Greg is cursed to continually gain weight, putting on more than three hundred pounds in 1 day, and his parents chalk information technology up to an allergy attack and get out him to just go to school equally normal the next day. Fifty-fifty though he can't fit in their automobile. Meanwhile, his friend Shari is cursed to continue to lose weight until she looks similar "a stick with a lemon on the summit", and again is just sent to school every bit normal.
- Blunt "Aye": When Greg goes up to the front of the classroom to tell his story well-nigh the photographic camera, fellow classmate and bully Donny Dark-green stuck his foot and well-nigh tripped Greg as he was going up, causing the class to all express joy. Mr. Saur frowned at Donny and asked him if he had to trip every person who walks past him. Donny replies "yeah" with a straight face. This causes the grade to flare-up out laughing over again.
- Bowdlerise: The 2018 ebook removes the bullies being called Sumo 1 and Sumo 2. It also tries to remove equally many of the more unflattering descriptions of Greg every bit possible, as well equally whatever references to weight specifically.
- Comically Missing the Betoken: When Greg first tries to show Mr. Saur the camera, the teacher thinks he'south trying to take his motion-picture show and replies that he already had his photo taken for the yearbook.
- Contagious Cassandra Truth: Discussed Trope. When Mr. Saur at first doesn't believe Greg's story, Greg offers to allow Mr. Saur ask his friends to let him know that he'south telling the truth. Mr. Saur replies that he's sure that his friends volition tell him whatever he wants them to tell him. And when Greg'south friends later allow him know that they'll have his back to inform Mr. Saur, he lets them know that they won't be of any aid.
- Damned by Faint Praise: A miserable Shari moans to Greg that she lost eight pounds that forenoon. Shocked, only trying to cheer her upwards, Greg lamely tells her that eight pounds isn't so much. This only makes her even more frantic. He tries again past suggesting that she should eat a actually big lunch, which causes her to snap that he's no aid.
- Demoted to Actress: Bird and Michael's role are macerated, not taking much part in the plot this fourth dimension around.
- Door Slam of Rage: After Mr. Saur once again refuses to believe Greg's story, even with him showing a photograph of the camera'southward effects every bit proof, Greg reacts by storming out of the classroom and slamming the door behind him.
- Dude, Non Funny!: Equally shortly as the now incredibly obese Greg gets to Mr. Saur's classroom, he starts making fun of his weight and embarrassing him in front of the whole class. The other students don't laugh at his jokes at all, knowing that something is seriously wrong with Greg.
- "Eureka!" Moment: As Greg and Shari are wondering what to do to get back to normal, she tells him to think positive. He suddenly tenses and asks her to repeat that again, which she does. This gives him the brilliant idea of taking the photos that cursed them and bring them to the photographic camera shop that Greg's brother works at, to ask him if he tin can contrary the photos in guild to turn them back to normal. Sure enough, it works perfectly.
- Everyone Has Standards: Every bit Greg starts to gain weight, other children around him start laughing at his misfortune. But by the next twenty-four hour period, he has gotten so fatty to the point that all the students in schoolhouse notice and don't brand fun of him at all. And when Mr. Saur mocks him and makes him go to the school nurse, all of the students in class are silent. Even Donny and Brian, ii bullies whom gave Greg a difficult fourth dimension for his magic camera merits, don't trip him and try not to look at him.
- Facepalm: Mr. Saur has both his hands bury his head upon hearing Greg'due south book written report on the evil camera for the first time. Greg fails to observe that this indicates that he doesn't believe his story at all.
- Later at lunch, when Greg tells his friends that Mr. Saur didn't believe his merits about the magic photographic camera, Bird responded past dropping his sandwich onto the table and doing this trope. Unfortunately for him, he had egg salad in his hand when he did this, then he got his brow and fingers smeared with it.
- Gum In Hair: Greg approaches Shari while they're walking afterwards school, and he sees her blowing a bubble-gum bubble almost as big every bit her head. He pops information technology, causing it to stick all over her face. She has to pull mucilage from her hair.
- Hot Teacher: The main of Pitts Landing Center School, Mr. Grand, who shows up in this book. Greg notes that not only does he look more similar a surfer than a principal, existence immature and having wavy blond pilus and a good tan, merely also that all the girls in school have crushes on him. The ebook removes this detail though.
- Magical Camera: The camera causes tragedy to befall any person photographed with it — again.
- Affair of Life and Death: Greg thinks of him failing his grade to be like this.
- Oblivious Guilt Slinging: While talking at the dinner table, Greg's family discuss about his brother'south new job at the photographic camera store, and even ask Greg himself to bring a camera to accept photos of the beautiful scenery at their trip to his cousins in Yosemite. Greg finds this to be torture, as he'due south wanting to steal a camera later that dark, all for to change a grade to get him on this very trip.
- Rapid-Burn "But!": Greg has this response when Mr. Saur tells him subsequently class that his story is too wild for him to believe.
- And near the end of the book, when Greg tells Shari that he wants to take Mr. Saur's picture with the camera and refuses her attempts to stop him, the shocked daughter responds with this trope.
- Sadist Teacher: Mr. Saur takes great pleasure in publicly humiliating his students. There's a reason they call him Sour Sourball.
- Series Continuity Error: Greg uses the events of the first volume as a story on what he did over summer. However, information technology was actually set during the Fall. Unlike a similar case in Return of the Mummy, this wasn't fixed in later on versions.
- Shout-Out: The camera cursing Greg and Shari with weight related problems and Greg after getting a scaly pare rash are probably allusions to Thinner.
- Smack on the Back: When greeting Greg after school to go bicycle riding, Bird smacks him on the back so hard that he stumbled off the curb.
- Spooky Photographs: The photos taken with the camera e'er show somebody suffering — again.
- Tears of Joy: Greg's mother sheds these upon seeing Greg finally skinny again.
- Teasing the Substitute Teacher: On the twenty-four hours that Greg start wants to show Mr. Saur the dreaded camera, he is dismayed to find that a substitute teacher, Ms. Rose, is teaching today instead. The students in the course were all shouting, laughing, and throwing paper while she'due south trying to teach. Greg notes that the class e'er requite substitutes a actually difficult fourth dimension.
- Likewise Unhappy to Exist Hungry: Before Greg goes to get the camera back, he has dinner with his family unit. Greg notes that he's too nervous to eat, and his stomach felt every bit if information technology were tied in a tight knot. When his parents notice that he didn't eat at all, Greg replied by lying that he isn't hungry because he ate besides much junk after school.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: While in school a day after their photos are taken, Greg sees Shari in the hallway, and she runs to meet him. Simply while doing then, the skirt she was wearing fell downward, causing the embarrassed girl to end and pull information technology back up.
- Greg himself goes through plenty of these, when his pajamas and his pants rip open from his new massive size.
- Weight Loss Horror: The volume has this trope both Played Direct and Inverted. Greg and his friend Shari both fall victim to the evil camera, with a motion-picture show showing him as morbidly obese, and Shari equally a skeleton. He starts to gain weight involuntarily, she starts to lose it.
- Weight Woe: The cursed photographic camera inflicts both ends of this trope on Greg and Shari. Shari is gradually losing weight until she is almost reduced to a flesh-covered skeleton, while Greg becomes morbidly obese. Some actress Body Horror is added when Greg has his picture taken once again and develops a horrible skin rash.
- Workplace-Acquired Abilities: Greg's brother Terry has a job at the local photo place. This becomes useful later when the kids demand to find a mode to turn the photos into a negative and positive to reverse the photographic camera'due south effects.
- Yellowish Eyes of Sneakiness: When Greg goes into the dumpster to retrieve the camera, he glances inside and finds a pair of cold, unblinking xanthous optics staring at him. These turn out to vest to a dead raccoon.
- "Yous!" Exclamation: Upon seeing Greg at morning finally skinny again, Mr. Banks does this trope while pointing at his son, struggling to speak properly. He finally works it up.
The episode provides examples of:
- Adaptational Karma: Unlike the book, Mr. Saur gets what's coming to him for mocking Greg — he loses all his hair thanks to the camera while everyone laughs at him.
- Flashback with the Other Darrin: Some other immature actress is used to portray Shari when she's had her motion picture taken in a flashback.
- Post–Wake-Up Realization: Greg wakes up and stretches his arms upward, only for his shirt to partially rip. Then he walks to the mirror and sees in horror that he's fat.
- Ring Ring CRUNCH: Because Greg has suddenly become fat due to the photographic camera, his bloated manus breaks the alarm clock that was ringing early in the morning.
- Say My Proper noun: Greg calls out Spidey's proper noun when he can't detect the camera.
Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/SayCheeseAndDieAgain
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