Fashion Dissonance: The human characters (especially workers) are often seen in clothes reflecting the 1970s. Teachers of young children wear mortar boards; a bank manager (drenched in ink by Mr Clumsy) wears old-fashioned clothes; park-keepers, postmen and shop staff wear smart uniforms. The Ditz: Mr. Dizzy starts out living up to his name, coming up with bizarre answers to simple questions asked by a pig and an elephant purely to rub in how clueless he is (such as naming a mouse as a big animal with big ears). However, after drinking from a magic well, he becomes intelligent and turns the tables on them with style.

Hates Baths: Mr. Messy, as befits his name, hates taking baths, and has to be forced into the bathtub in the final act of the book bearing his name. He jokes afterward that, now that he is no longer messy, he'll need to change his name. The Reverend: (abbreviation "The Rev" or "The Revd") used generally for members of the Christian clergy regardless of affiliation, but especially in Catholic and Protestant denominations. Unlike 'Father' (see below) may be applied to both priests and deacons. Mr. Men is a British series of children's books written and illustrated by English author Roger Hargreaves which began publication in August 1971. [1] From 1981, an accompanying series of Little Miss books by the same author (but with female characters) was published. A similar series of animal characters known as Timbuctoo started in 1978. After Hargreaves's death in 1988, his son Adam Hargreaves began writing and illustrating new Mr. Men and Little Miss stories. The Most Reverend (abbreviation The Most Rev or The Most Revd) Eastern Orthodox metropolitans and archbishops who are not the First Hierarch of an autocephalous church, Roman Catholic archbishops [34] [30]and bishops in Ireland [34] and the United States, [30] the Church of Ireland Bishop of Meath, [34] the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America, and Marthoma Metropolitans Little Miss Splendid does not like to talk to or do anything with commoners and is very bratty and egotistical. It's downplayed after her first appearance.Mr. Mean is renamed Mr. Stingy in North American editions to clarify that he is mean with his money rather than mean to other people (though he has moments of the latter as well). Eye Glasses: Mr. Clever and Little Miss Neat are among the few characters who avert Skintone Sclerae by wearing glasses, the lenses of which are completely filled by the whites of their eyes. Sinister Scraping Sound: In the Mr. Men Annual No. 3, Mr. Jelly is terrified by a scraping sound in the park, and thinks it is a giant centipede sharpening its claws to tear him to pieces. But it is only Mr. Slow, the gardener, slowly raking the soil.

Ayatollah: a high-ranking religious leader among Shia Muslims, especially in Iran. The most learned Ayatollahs may be referred to as 'Grand Ayatollah'. Mr. Good lives in Badland. He goes for a walk and ends up in Goodland, where he moves to at the end of the book.This hairy beast is not as cute as it might appear! In actual fact, however, in Doctor Who the Yeti were robots created by The Great Intelligence in the Second Doctor era (The Great Intelligence would go on to return and face the Eleventh Doctor and Clara in Series Seven). Appearing in 1930s Tibet and then in the Underground in Sixties London, the Yeti are a fearsome foe whose war cry sounds not unlike a very slow toilet flush. A Yeti also made a brief cameo in 20th Anniversary Special, The Five Doctors, but it’s unclear if this was real or robot… Read more here. Must Watch Stories: Ignorant About Fire: In "Mr Men and Little Miss: Fire Station", Mr. Lazy dozes off while he's ironing, which sets his house on fire. Men Are Generic, Women Are Special: Despite the substantial amount of Little Miss characters, the series is named solely after the men. Dr Thirteenth sits very comfortably alongside each of the previous Doctor Who/Mr Men books. It combines familiar elements of the television series (such as some Sontarans, and Graham affectionately referring to her as ‘Doc’) with the whimsical wit of the original Mr Men stories. As this story was written before the Thirteenth Doctor’s first series hit our screens, it sadly isn’t able to make reference to this Doctor’s adventures in the same way as the previous Doctor Who /Mr Menbooks have. Nevertheless, I’d love to see Hargreaves‘ take on some of the characters and creatures the Thirteenth Doctor has encountered so far – perhaps a Mr Men T’zim Sha or a Mr Men Pting?

A competition was held in the British Sunday Times newspaper for children to submit their own Mr. Men character for inclusion in a limited edition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the series. Mr. Cheeky was selected as the winning entry, submitted by then-eight-year-old Gemma Almond. Her creation led to a book featuring her character being published; it was sold only in W H Smith branches, with a portion of the proceeds going to a charity, supporting children with leukemia.I Shall Taunt You: Missy constantly taunts Dr. Twelfth for being "old and slow" during The Chase. This figures into her Evil Plan in that goading him into trying to catch her is a way of distracting him from noticing she's leaving Cybermats in her wake. While dozing in a chair in the garden, Mr Lazy is wakened by two humans, Mr Busy note not the title character of a later Mr. Men book and Mr Bustle, who subject him to a gruelling routine of housework and a very long walk, and then a run. When one of the men blows a whistle to make him start running, the whistle turns out to be the whistling kettle boiling in the kitchen (which takes two hours in Sleepyland). It had all been a terrible dream! When Mr Lazy then falls asleep (yet again) when he sits down for his breakfast, we are left with an ambiguous ending. An unidentified voice says "Wake up, Mr Lazy! WAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUP!" Is this another instance of Or Was It a Dream?, or is Mr Lazy simply repeating the dream he had before? Dr. Men was a series of Mr. Men books focusing on incarnations of the Doctor, from the Dr. Who franchise, published by Puffin Books and written by Adam Hargreaves.

Miss". Oxford Living Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 25 September 2016 . Retrieved 25 December 2016.Everything Trying to Kill You: A downplayed G-rated version with Little Miss Tiny. When she explores the farmhouse she lives in, she encounters creatures scary to her because of her tiny size such as a worm and a cat. Mr. Strong though rescues her from any possible harm. Little Miss Calamity · Little Miss Daredevil · Mr. Scatterbrain · Mr. Stubborn · Mr. Metal · Little Miss Strong · Ghost · Caveman · Mummy · Cave-Nosey · Cave-Small · Mr. Rude's family · Mr. Fussy's unnamed relative · Loretto the Venus Flytrap Even Evil Has Standards: Mr. Brawler/Mr. Crosspatch may be violent, but he knows that it's wrong to hit a woman. Insane Troll Logic: Mr. Nonsense does this a lot, naturally. When asked why he likes oatmeal on toast, he replies, "Because I tried oatmeal sandwiches and I didn't like them!" When asked why he sleeps in a rowboat, he replies, "Because I tried sleeping in a motorboat but it was too uncomfortable!" Downplayed for Dr. Twelfth; he doesn't appreciate being called "old and slow" by Missy both because it's stating the obvious to call him old (at that point he'd been around for 2,000+ years) and because she's one to talk about that. But his grumpiness is also attributable to the trouble he's having catching her and missing lunch in the process.