Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

A funny fantasy novel written by Robert Rankin. It is about Jack, a young boy who runs away from home to a nearby city to seek his fortune. This city turns out to be Toy City, a dystopia with Living Toys. He befriends Eddie Bear, a teddy bear private detective, and investigates the serial murders of nursery rhyme characters.

Tropes used in Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse include:

• Awesome Moment of Crowning: Eddie becomes the mayor at the end. Jack becomes and "honorary prince"
• Backwards Name: Srenda Srenda.
• Big Eater: Humpty Dumpty, when he was alive.
• Big Damn Heroes: Jill.
• Bizarrchitecture: the houses are made of alphabet blocks.
• Da Chief: Chief Inspector Wellington Bellace
• Deadpan Snarker: Eddie
• The Ditz: Tinto. Jack might also be considered a ditz.
• Evil Twin: Srenda Srenda.
• Fake Defector: Jack, at one point.
• Genre Savvy: Jack has read aaallll the Bill Winkie Thrillers
• Giant Spider: Miss Muffet's spider.
• Greed: Jack seeks fortune.
• Ho Yay: Jack and Eddie, according to Jill.
• I Need a Freaking Drink
• Inexplicably Identical Individuals: All humans look the same to toys.
• Interspecies Romance: Subverted. Eddie is sickened by the idea of this. It is played straight with Garth and the dancing doll.
• I Surrender, Suckers: Done quite a bit near the climax.
• Jive Turkey: Randolph the delivery boy.
• King of All Cosmos: Big Box Fella Mr. Anders
• Lampshade Hanging: Quite a bit of it.
• Living Toys
• MacGuffin: The Key. Lampshaded.
• Nightmare Fuel: The Spider Women
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: Miss Muffet.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Officer Chortle looks, and probably is, extremely stupid, but at one point he cunningly tricks jack to admit falsely he is a murderer.
• Posthumous Character: Bill Winkie
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Eddie, Tinto, the nursery rhyme characters and probably many of the Toy City residents.
• Rhymes on a Dime: The Rhymey Frog.
• Running Gag: Jack is called a gompster by everyone.
• Rich Bitch: Miss Muffet.
• Shape Shifter: Srenda Srenda.
• Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: Eddie, although Jack may be the sidekick in this relationship.
• Stuffed in The Fridge: Bill Winkie, Humpty Dumpty, Boy Blue, Mother Goose, Wibbly, Jack Sprat, Tommy Tucker and Jack Horner. Although the protagonists only really care about a few of them.
• Talks Like a Simile: Subverted. Eddie tries to talk like a simile, but he can never finish. It's as unfair as-.
• Toy Time: Although it's not a videogame.
• Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him
• Younger Than They Look: Jack looks 16, but is really only 13. He's merely tall for his age.
• You Wanna Get Sued?: At least twice.