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*Aunt Bea, who looks like a normal-size Mariska Hargitay, climbs up a tree to gift Ramona a locket with her own picture and feel her.

*Uncle Hobart takes pictures of animals in their extraordinary habitat. His nephew Howie asks the class if anyone wants to sit on his.. saddle.

*Susan for show-and-tell spreads her legs before the class.

*Hobart slides by Ramona so he can look under her skirt.

*Beezus spits lemonade on Henry, her crush.

*Bea tries to avoid her crusher Hobart and steals a kiss with Ramona.

*Hobart asks Ramona to hose her off; his Jeep, that is.

*Hobart pays $100 for a car wash and QT with Bea in the Jeep.

*Bea says that she and Hobart are as disposable as the plastic ring he got her.

*Ex-number cruncher wannabe-fireman dad Bob gets the job listings with Dog Trainer, X-ray Tech, and Carpenter circled but Meaningful Career not.

*Ramona tugs Susan's hair and calls her mesmerizing.

*Beezus asks Ramona to sleep with her. Ramona says she'd spend 15 years with her. Beezus says that her being different isn't bad.

*Hobart digs up his and Bea's trinkets up, outdoors in a flooded yard, which makes her accept his marriage proposal.

*Ramona gets jealose that Bea should leave her.

*Ramona flashs her underwear at boys at the open house.

*Bea and Hobart don't kiss and hug at their wedding, but Bea does hug and kiss Ramona when they leave.
**Edit: There was a kiss at the wedding but either it didn't make this airing or I had dozed off or blinked and missed it.

*The couple are to move to Alaska for his job. Dolores and Dick moved to Grey Star, Alaska where she died of a stillbirth.

*Bob gets a job as Ramona's school's art teacher so he can be close.

The name Hobart alludes to Humbert Humbert and Hubert H. Hubert. Whereas Bob and Dorothy's Quimby name alludes to Clare Quilty who took pictures of somewhat the same. However, Henry Huggins was first published in 1950, Quimby in 1952, Howie Kemp in 1955 Sep 7, Humbert Humbert and Quilty in 1955 Sep 15 but ended in 1953, Hobart Kemp in 1984, Hubert H. Hubert in 2009, and "Ramona and Beezus" in 2010. Beverly grew up in Portland, Oregon between 1922 and 1934 where her 1950s novels are set. Vladimir moved to Ashland, Oregon in 1953 for two months, for the bugs, where he ended his novel, but it's not set there. Beverly married Clarence Cleary in 1940 who got her to write. If there is no cross-pollination between these two these are amazingly coincidental.

The movie is mainly sprung from the Hobart arc of 1984. His personality doesn't flatter: http://ramona4evr.wikia.com/wiki/Uncle_Hobart. He sounds familiar: "Down you go, Doll." Uncle Hobart was carrying a small accordion. "Ramona, I hear the mission bells above. Ramona, they’re ringing out our song of love. I press you, caress you, And bless the day you taught me to care": This "Ramona" song was written for the "Ramona" film where Ramona was played by a Dolores del Rio. Ramona included Howie and Willa Jean in her pity as she wished that someday, just once, she too could sit on an accordion. "I would like to have a couple of ready-made nieces." http://www.e-reading.me/bookreader.php/1010726/Cleary_-_Ramona_Forever.html. In the movie his painted Jeep looks like a van and in the book he owns a van. Bea is short for Beatrice and Beezus also means Beatrice; that the girl's uncle-in-law should marry a kin with the same name? Bea teaches third grade, the same grade as Ramona in the first books. Lots of convenient arrangements, other than the move to Alaska. The movie's events above are new to the series and were not in the book. And there's Bob Quimby, the to-be art teacher, "I like little girls."

Terrificial and funnlier should be Ramona's words.

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You are either a troll and a very very sick person. Maybe both.

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I'm a honest, diligent, well-learned observer, not a troll.
I'm way healthier than the average person and plan to never die, not sick.

Don't use words inappropriately: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_language; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel.

I'll leave you with these: http://google.com/images?q=Gomez+King. I don't think Joey would agree with you. Why do you impose your squeamishness on the world?

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There is no sexual innuendo in any of the things you mentioned. You are really reaching dude.

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