Lawn Gnomes

The **Lawn Gnomes** appear in the Goosebumps book *Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes* and *Planet of the Lawn Gnomes*.

## History

### *Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes*

Joe's
 dad spies two darling little lawn gnomes and instantly purchases the
small plaster men from an old lady named Lilah. Mindy warns that the
lawn gnomes look evil. Joe's father however ignores such frightful talk
and cheerfully names the little guys Chip (because his tooth is chipped)
 and Hap (because he's so happy looking). Walking back home with the
gnomes in hand, Joe thinks he sees Hap change its expression from a
cheery grin to a grim scowl.Strange and horrible things start to happen
to Mr. McCall's lawn, and Buster the dog keeps getting blamed. The
suspicion quickly turns from the dog to Joe when Mr. McCall awakes one
morning to find someone has drawn smiley faces on his prized casaba
melons. Joe is immediately suspected of the deed. Joe pleads his
innocence and even brings in evidence of the real perpetrators: there's
black paint underneath one of the lawn gnome's hands and a melon seed
between his lips. It soon becomes apparent that the rivalry between the
neighboring gardening aficionados is escalating.

Joe becomes convinced that the lawn gnomes are responsible and
talks Moose into staking out the two houses to catch the lawn ornaments
in the act. The two hide across the street on a stakeout. Eventually,
the lawn gnomes do come to life and start their terrorizing. The
giggling men start splashing big buckets of paint against the exterior
of Joe's house. A confrontation between the lawn gnomes and the children
 breaks out and at some point Mindy shows up and one of the lawn gnomes
drags her into the street by her hair. The lawn gnomes suddenly get very
 serious and reveal that they are Mischief Gnomes who were kidnapped
from their native forest and sold into slavery. The lawn gnomes reveal
that they can't help causing trouble, it's in their nature. If the three
 kids will help rescue their friends being held at the garden supply
store, Chip and Hap promise to leave forever. The kids agree and make
their way to the old woman's house.

The other kidnapped ornaments are supposedly in Lilah's basement.
 Hap and Chip would have freed them alone but they weren't able to get
in the basement window. Now with the help of the children, they'll be
able to free their six Mischief Gnome friends. The kids lower the
Mischief Gnomes into the dark basement and follow behind. Once inside,
they see that they've been tricked. There's not six other Mischief
Gnomes. There's six hundred.

The hordes of Mischief Gnomes come to life and start attacking
the children. Some want to tickle an unwilling Mindy. Other Mischief
Gnomes want to use the children as trampolines or play tug of war with
their bodies. The children are upset about being tricked. Luckily, Joe
remembers how Mischief nomes are scared of dogs and so he calls for
Buster to come into the basement using his whistle. But it turns out
Gnomes aren't scared of dogs, they're scared of dog whistles. All of the
 Gnomes freeze into place as soon as Joe blows the trinket.

## Film

The Lawn Gnomes appear in the 2015 Goosebumps film as the quaternary antagonists. They look similar to real lawn gnomes in
the movie. also, in the film, all six hundred of them are together until the
end. They don't speak much in the movie. The only things they said
were:

* "Heave, Ho"

* "Ready, Set, Go"

* "No!"

In their concept art, they look more angrier than "cute". Their
leaders Chip and Hap are also included in the concept art, but it is
still unaware whether or not they actually appear in the movie, mainly
due to their appearances.