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Furious George: Tears Off Your Mothers Face
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults)
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 15 2020
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.07 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Monkeys are cute. This is a fact that everyone accepts and that has been reinforced by decades of illustrated books about a specific curious monkey who gets into mild adventures and learns things. The monkey your mom brought home is not that monkey. That monkey has a different energy entirely. That monkey has made decisions that cannot be undone. Furious George does not learn lessons. Furious George delivers consequences, starting with your mother's face, and working outward from there with the focused energy of an animal that was never domesticated and should not have been presented as an option.
This adult parody book is the corrective to decades of cheerful primate representation in children's literature. It takes the familiar format... curious monkey, well-meaning adult, urban setting... and follows the realistic trajectory of what would actually happen if you brought a primate into a domestic environment and gave it access to your household. The answer is in the title. The illustrations commit to the answer. The book does not suggest returning the monkey.
This Book IS For:- Adults who aged out of the original George series and needed to know how it really ends
- Anyone who has watched a nature documentary about primates and immediately understood why they do not make good pets
- Fans of parody that takes a beloved source material and follows its darkest logical implication without flinching
- Gift-givers who want to update a childhood classic with the information the original author declined to include
- People who consider the George IP sacred and are prepared to defend it in this specific context
- Anyone currently caring for a primate for any reason and finding the premise personally stressful
- Readers who need the monkey to be redeemable by the final page and the face situation to resolve positively
- Parents who use the original series as a bedtime book and cannot afford to have it recontextualized tonight
- Millennial gift exchanges where everyone grew up with the source material and can appreciate the departure
- White elephant events where the goal is to produce the most memorable unwrapping reaction of the evening
- Gag gifts for the friend who has always had questions about why the man in the yellow hat thought this was fine
- Anyone who believes children's classics deserve more realistic follow-ups than the genre typically provides
The original George books collectively cost more than this book and end the same way every time: George causes a problem, George accidentally solves a different problem, everyone is charmed, no one addresses the underlying issue that George is a wild primate living in an apartment. This book addresses the underlying issue. This book is the therapy the George universe has been avoiding for eighty years.
Buy it for someone who read the originals as a child and has a healthy adult relationship with the fact that those books were not realistic. Buy it for someone who has always found the man in the yellow hat's enthusiasm for George slightly alarming in retrospect. Buy it as the final chapter in a childhood reading experience that needed closure. Your mother's face needed to be in the title. It was always going to end this way.
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