A Series of Unfortunate Events

Wikipedia also has an article about A Series of Unfortunate Events, although I doubt the fact that it is any less depressing than this one.

Hello, reader. It seems you have found this article whilst browsing half-heartedly through the Uncyclopedia bookshelf. However, this article is incredibly depressing; I myself sometimes cry like a baby at night, my erect penis slowly vanishing from existence, because of the horrors of this article. My name is Lemony Snicket, and I am the socially insecure author of an extremely melancholy series of books. I have also written this artice, which happens to be about said books. I have promised to inform the public of this terrible tale, no matter how sad I may get, but if you are interested in articles with happy endings, you would certainly be better off reading some other article, for example one about innocent little kittens, or perhaps something about a 19th century poet whose works are no doubt more uplifting than mine. That way, you would never have to know about A Series of Unfortunate Events, all of which are documented below.

The Perilous Plot Summary

Warning: The following text might contain spoilers. This makes the article more tragic, as you will know what happens if you read the books. Still, at least it means that you won't want to read the books. But maybe you do, and that is the most tragic thing of all.

This particular plot is one of sadness and woe (although some people think it is over-the-top and dramatic, however those people don't understand what it is like to lose a loved one, or become an outlaw, or win the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award - you just want more and more, you smarmy bastards! Shame on you! Shame on you all for ever clicking on the link that took you to this depressing article in the first place!). Um, anyway, its main characters are three sad children who must face burden after burden in order to finally settle down happily. They are constantly stalked by a greedy, evil, despicable person and are surrounded by adults who do not understand their problems.

The three aformentioned children are named Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire. You can read more about them in the characters section, although it will fill your heart with depressing-ness and suicidal feelings. The children live a happy life, period. Unfortunately, that period does not belong there, although I wish it did, and I have no choice but to continue, and do it without procrastinating like this. ...until one terrible day, they are informed by Mr Poe, a banker, that their parents have been burned to death in a fire that has destroyed their home and all of their belongings, therefore making them orphans. The now-orphans are then placed into the custody of a so-called relative named Count Olaf. Unfortunately, Count Olaf is evil, and only cares about getting the ridiculously large Baudelaire fortune that Violet will inherit when she turns eighteen. He tries to marry Violet during a production of a graphically staged play. However, Klaus figures out Olaf's evil scheme relatively quickly and the Baudelaires foil Olaf somehow.

Due to the incompetence of Mr Poe, the orphans cannot live with kind next-door neighbour Judge Justice Strauss, who helped them foil Olaf's scheme, so Mr Poe sends them to live with a number of relatives, each of whom are killed by Olaf over the course of the next six books. For reasons I do not want to know, Olaf frames the orphans for murder in The Vile Village, and they become fugitives. During books eight to ten, the Baudelaires... no, I don't want to tell you. Some things just don't deserve to be told.

Then in the last three books, the three poor childeren become caught up in a secret Government conspiracy named VFD - the very same that has dominated my life. Although it is never revealed what VFD actually is, it is hinted that VFD is dedicated to putting out fires and deleting shitty articles. I do not want to disclose whether this fact is true for the sake of VFD's article-deleting, fire fighting tendancies, although I shall tell you that over the course of forever, VFD split into two sides: the good people and the bad people, who start fires and create bad articles. The Baudelaire's involvement in this becomes greater than you could imagine. Will anyone die? Yes.

The Barbaric Book List

Are you still reading? I was going to list the characters here but as you are still reading I shall list the thirteen books in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. Do not read them though.

Dear Beatrice, If you can read this, you must surely be alive. If so, I miss you. Please find me. Oh, Beatrice! Ever since you perished in the fire, I have felt oh-so-very suicidal. Right now I am in Cuba, in a smelly outhouse. I plan to travel to the Arctic soon, so, if you are indeed reading this, I shall wait for you there. Bring the sugar bowl. Your lover and friend, Lemony Snicket. P.S. I am NOT dead, although sometimes I wish I was.

The Bad Beginning The first of the books, The Bad Beginning is more than bad.
The Reptile Room The second book is even worse.
The Wide Window In order to highlight the dark themes of this book, I made someone commit suicide.
The Miserable Mill The Baudelaires discover the highs and lows of slave labour.
The Austere Academy The Baudelaires go to college.
The Ersatz Elevator This book includes the first appearance of Esmé Squarlor.
The Vile Village Thinking that they have finally found VFD, the Baudelaires go to a village of the same name, but their hearts are soon broken.
The Hostile Hospital The eighth book in this wretched series of unfortunate events.
The Carnivorous Carnival After a shocking encounter with some carnies, the Baudelaires are hired by a circus.
The Slippery Slope Klaus slips on a floor and has a close encounter with death.
The Grim Grotto The Baudelaires visit Santa's Grotto, only to find out that Count Olaf is Santa!
The Penultimate Peril This book marks the end of the series being just around the corner.
The End This sad story is merely the end of a larger sad story, which was continued throughout a series of twelve other sad stories, which are part of the aforementioned larger sad story.

The Carnivorous Characters

Protagonists

Violet Baudelaire is the eldest of the three Baudelaire orphans and is fourteen years old. She is an inventor and a priest. I respect Violet for being able to strive through the toughness of life without falling, unlike me. She can survive the barbaric wilderness of fate, battle the extreme incompetence of those around her... Oh yeah. Violet became famous on her fifth birthday for inventing the iPad, but Steve Jobs stole the concept and perfected it for worldwide sales in 2010.

Klaus Baudelaire is the book worm of the group. As Groucho Marx once said:

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”
~ Groucho Marx on Reading

Klaus reads lots and lots of books, mainly Playboy magazines. He would happily sit in his parents' library, absorbing hundreds of essential facts, and enjoy himself thoroughly, with not a thought about what barbaric things life has in store for him. Klaus comes across a library in every book, and will often sit down and have a relaxing read for a good two hours whilst his siblings are trapped in a life-threatening situation with virtually no means of escape. Klaus wears glasses and is twelve years old.

Sunny Baudelaire is the youngest Baudelaire, just a baby. Ah, infancy. I remember when I was a wee one, being kidnapped by VFD and dropped face first onto solid concrete road. Um, uh, anyway, Sunny bites many things, including cans of weedkiller, sticks of dynamite and male genitalia. In the later books, Sunny expresses an interest in cooking. Sunny often talks in a series of incomprehensible shrieks e.g. reebok, gahh and heil.

The Quagmire Triplets, namely Isadora, Duncan and Quigley are three triplets who suffered similar adventures to the Baudelaires, although I must say, the triplets were more aware of what was happening. The Quagmires parents died in a house that burned their house down, just like the Baudelaires. Quigley, was thought to have died in the fire, but instead he escaped to pursue a life of prostitution, but came crawling back in The Slippery Slope. All three Quagmires have commonplace books tucked into their pockets. They use these to write down useful information. In The Penultimate Peril, it turns out that the Quagmires are the product of a cloning operation held by VFD - so the Quagmires are clones of the Baudelaires.

Antagonists

Count Olaf is despicable. 'Nuff said. See also: arson, evil, murder

Count Olaf as drawn by Brett Helqueist, who illustrates my books. As you can see, he has improved.

Esmé Squarlor used to be the Baudelaire's foster mother. Then she slept with the despicable Count Olaf and adopted Carmetilia Spats. Esmé joined Count Olaf in his scheme for world domination, and she even killed a crow. The bitch!

Carmetilia Spats is a spoiled brat who is adopted by Count Olaf and Esmé Squarlor. Carmetilia is also evil and attempted to stab the orphans during their stay at boarding school in The Austere Academy. Count Olaf hates Carmetilia and manages to poison her in The Penultimate Peril.

Count Olaf's Theatre Troupe includes a hook-handed man, two white faced women, a bald man with a huge nose, a fat transvestite, a wart-faced man, and a few carnies, all of them determined to be evil.

Other

Beatrice is the orphans' mother, who was going to marry me but went for the orphans' dad instead. Oh Beatrice! How I miss your elegant face, the sweet texture of your graceful hand, your kind personality... there, I said it!

Mr Poe is an adult. In my books, there are three kinds of adult: the evil adult (e.g. Olaf), the rare, kind adult (e.g. Beatrice... oh, Beatrice...), and the stupid moronic retard adult, e.g. Mr Poe. This is all a reflection of real life, or at least life the way I see it. Mr Poe is an ignorant adult who does not listen to children and prioritises work over them. REPENT! Plus, he ignores the Cough-Ease man! Cough-Ease really does work! Mr Poe works at ~~Muchtury... Money... Thing~~ a bank, and is responsible for his sister being locked in a basement and beaten to death by a crazy bitch named Geraldine.

I am Lemony Snicket. You can read about me here.

The Baudelaires as seen in the film *shudder*

The Shocking Sales

After writing these books, I was shocked to find that they had sold over fifty-five million copies - even more books than hours I have spent crying. This means that fifty five million children around the world have had to endure my research, and the terrible tale of the Baudelaires.

The Awful Awards

It seems that my work on the Baudelaires has won multiple awards. What kind of world do we live in, where the tragic recount of the miserable lives of three sad orphans is celebrated? My work shouldn't be awarded, it should be taken seriously, and people must realise that we need to place rich, snobbish orphans over such unimportant problems as poverty, crime, politics and pollution. Sigh. In my inhuman condition, I do not feel for awards. But this article is not about me, this one is. So I must shut up, which just makes me more depressed, and ramble on.

The Miserable Movie

The Hollywood moguls have turned a gripping real life story into an arrogant farce. Damn their oily hides!

In 2004, Paramount Pictures decided to make a feature film based on the life of the Baudelaires. Unfortunately for everyone who wanted the Baudelaire case to be taken seriously, the film included comedy and a hinted happy ending, which takes out the serious element that real life happens to include. And even worse, Jim Carrey played Count Olaf. Do the Hollywood moguls have no respect at all for rich, lonely orphans?

The film, or "movie" as so-called 'hip' people refer to it, used mere actors to portray the siblings. Their performances were worse than that of the actors in an opera I very recently took an instant dislike to, and visual effects were incorporated for more complicated scenes. Well, the Baudelaires didn't use CGI and visual effects! Gahh!

You may want to note that I haven't actually seen the film yet, but assumptions are often right, unless you assume that assumptions are often right, in which case assumptions are not often right.

Supplementary Materials

There comes a time where everything, be it book, article or life, has to end. And, quite thankfully, this article's time has come. But before I do finish, and lift this overly dramatic burden from my chest, I must list some articles which may help you understand the complexity of this woeful tale. I would take caution in reading them, as they may well be as sad as this one.

Lemony Snicket: An article about myself.
Charlie Brown's A Series of Unfortunate Events: A similar series of books.
VFD: The organisation which I work for.
Lemony Snicket: Me again.
Tragedy, depression and suicide: A few words which definitaly relate to this article.
Fire: What the Baudelaire children, and I, have had to endure throughout our lives.

The End

Thank God for it.

Sincerely,

Featured Article (read another featured article)	Featured version: 2 June 2011
What the dickory? It seems that some idiot put this article on VFH and it actually succeeded. Of course the obvious thing to do would be to put it on VFD, where it belongs for more than one reason, but no! All that fancy formating and incoherent rambling got the better of you, didn't it!