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Children's Book[edit]

How are the flanimals series for children? There's strong suicide, homocide, molestation, and nudity issues throughout the books. I think they;re more of a teenage thing basically 82.18.180.58

Actually Ricky Gervais tries to put the world of evolution in a very nice way to children. I am not a teenager, I am more than 25 years old and I find it very very amusing. If you don't find "Psquirm - p is not silent" or "this creature is so slow that it is slower than a still creature " etc funny, I don't think you should be reading these 'devastating' books anyway! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.17.111.39 (talk) 07:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Exactly, 24.17.111.39. Not an anon anymore!!!! Yeah!!!! 18:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List[edit]

I think we should make a complete list of the flanimals introduced in this book. Not an anon anymore!!!! Yeah!!!! 18:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I second that; would be better still if we had some images of the flanimals too

Heavynash 07:06, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did it, I should have done it earlier, after all I was the one who wanted it done and I had A copy... (In case it confuses you, I changed my Sig) Not an anon anymore !!!! Yeah!!!! 00:07, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have a copy. I think, I will get it scanned sometime and then start the good work. Will let you know then.

Heavynash 10:07, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:FlaminalsBookCover.jpg[edit]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:28, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of flanimals have separate articles[edit]

Should they be merged in to a "List of flanimals" article? YOWUZA TALK 2 ME! 16:03, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Purpose[edit]

It's patently obvious to anyone who is familiar with Gervais and who sees these books that the humour arises solely from the fact that something so ridiculously bad could get published simply because of the name behind it. In that respect it is quite a funny joke, but has he ever actually admitted this anywhere so it could be included in the article? Or would the backlash from the people who paid money for these and were consequently the butt of the joke be too much? Aredbeardeddwarf (talk) 12:13, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]