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22-549: The book starts with Greg explaining how bad his summer vacations were with his annoying brother Rodrick, who knows a secret that Greg is trying to keep. Greg is initially excited to return to school, but he still has the Cheese Touch from last year. He gets away with passing it on to a new kid. Later, it is clear that Greg and Rodrick are always broke, so their mother, Susan, starts a "Mom Bucks" to get Greg and Rodrick to get along with each other. Rodrick, at first, mismanages

44-423: A Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw was released on January 13, 2009. Brad Simpson stated he anticipated a sequel movie if the first film was a success. "Our writing staff are writing a sequel right now, "Rodrick Rules," which would be based on the second book" ... "And, you know, we hope that the people to see a second movie, so that we are in position of going again right away and making another film. I certainly know that

66-904: A lead voice role as Gil on the Nickelodeon series Bubble Guppies (2011–2013). His live-action recurring roles include Jason Cohen on the Freeform series Dead of Summer (2016), and Tate Wilson on the Freeform drama series Good Trouble (2019–2020). Gordon was born in Oak Park, California , to Linda and Kenneth Gordon. He has two older brothers and was raised in Southern California . Gordon graduated from Oak Park High School in his hometown. Gordon has made multiple television appearances on programs such as How I Met Your Mother and All of Us . He also appeared in

88-571: A period of weeks or months. A study published in the International Journal of Conflict Management found that one's response to an annoyance, at least when the perceived cause is another person, escalate to more extreme levels as they go unresolved. It also found that one was more likely to blame the party who was causing the annoyance in the study, rather than one's self, for the annoyance as it escalated. Psychological warfare can involve creating annoyances to distract and wear down

110-433: A scale. Any kind of stimuli can cause annoyance, such as getting poked in the side or listening to a song repeatedly. Many stimuli that one is at first neutral to, or even finds pleasant, can turn into annoyances from repeated continued exposure. One can often encounter annoyance factors in media, including popular music , memes , commercials , and advertising jingles , which by their nature are continually repeated over

132-476: A sequel to Diary of a Wimpy Kid ; Gordon returned as Greg Heffley and the film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules , was released on March 25, 2011. In 2011, Gordon provided voices for Charlie Brown , Linus , and Franklin on the comedy show Robot Chicken , and in 2012, he reprised the role of Greg Heffley in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days . In the fourth film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul , he

154-458: Is characterized by irritation and distraction from one's conscious thinking . It can lead to emotions such as frustration and anger . The property of being easily annoyed is called irritability . Various reasons exist for why one finds particular stimuli annoying. Measurement of annoyance is highly subjective. As an attempt at measurement, psychological studies on annoyance often rely on their subjects' own ratings of levels of annoyance on

176-690: The highways . Zachary Gordon Zachary Adam Gordon (born February 15, 1998) is an American actor. He is known for his lead role as Greg Heffley in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series (2010–2012), which earned him nominations for a Kids' Choice Award and seven Young Artist Awards . His other lead film roles include Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-cellent Adventure (2016) and Dreamcatcher (2021). He has had notable supporting roles in films such as Georgia Rule (2007), Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules (2020), and Violet (2021). In television, Gordon had

198-1202: The 2008 pilot of Desperate Housewives , plus two other episodes, and in two episodes of 24 that aired in January 2009. Gordon appeared in three episodes as a guest star on Last Man Standing , where he played Mike Baxter's daughter's boyfriend. Gordon's film credits include Sex and Death 101 , Lower Learning , the Garry Marshall film Georgia Rule (for which he won the Young Artist Award for his portrayal of Ethan), The Brothers Bloom , as young Bloom, and in National Treasure: Book of Secrets . Gordon has been credited with numerous voice over roles including Brad Spolyt in The Chubbchubbs Save Xmas , Ricky Garcia in Project Gilroy , San San in Nick Jr. 's Ni Hao, Kai-Lan and The Mighty B! He

220-421: The basement the whole time and had nothing to do with the party. Rodrick then starts preparing for the talent show despite his punishment. Frank ends his punishment 2 weeks early because listening to Rodrick's band daily drove him bananas. After Greg hurts Rowley by putting a dumbbell in a pillow that Rowley kicks during a sleepover, Greg must perform in the talent show with a 1st-grader, Scotty Douglas, who Rowley

242-562: The fans would like to see all the books made into movies." Fox 2000 greenlit the sequel and Zachary Gordon returned as Greg Heffley . Steve Zahn ( Frank Heffley ), Devon Bostick ( Rodrick Heffley ) and Rachael Harris ( Susan Heffley ) also returned. The film was directed by David Bowers and the screenplay was written by Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah. Principal photography began in Vancouver in August 2010. A few new characters appeared in

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264-420: The film, including Peyton List as Holly Hills . The film was released on March 25, 2011. On December 3, 2021, an animated film based on the first book was released on Disney+. On Disney+ Day 2021, Kinney revealed that the first sequel, based on Rodrick Rules , was released on December 2, 2022. Annoying This is an accepted version of this page Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that

286-477: The lot, Susan discovers the stolen Mom Bucks, confiscating all of Greg's, including his real ones. After Thanksgiving, Rodrick's party is uncovered by a photo, and despite denying that he had it, he is grounded from leaving the house for 1 month. Greg is accused of being an ' accomplice ' to Rodrick (because he didn't tell their parents about it and thought he was covering for Rodrick). He is banned from playing video games for 2 weeks, even though he had been locked in

308-748: The money on heavy metal magazines, while Greg carefully and sensibly manages the cash. Rodrick has an upcoming science project, and he would prefer to do it on 'Gravity,' but he clearly shows no effort and asks his family members to do it for him. Rodrick later gets the flu , and after Susan and their father Frank leave the house for the night, he calls every friend he knows and has a party. A month later, Greg notices Rowley has play money identical to that of "Mom Bucks" and takes it home to put under his mattress. When Greg fails to do his history homework, he must borrow an assignment from Rodrick and pay him $ 20,000 in Mom Bucks. Unfortunately, when Rodrick tries to cash in

330-711: The resistance of the target. For example, in 1993, the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) played music "specifically selected for its irritation ability" on loudspeakers outside the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas in an attempt to bring about the surrender of David Koresh and his followers. In the sense of "nuisance", the noun "annoyance" is found in the English "Jury of Annoyance" appointed by an act of 1754 to report upon obstructions in

352-410: The show, but Rodrick insists on doing it so that he can send it to record label companies and bail out of school so he and Löded Diper can get noticed. During the talent show, Rodrick has his band's performance taped so he can send it to the record companies. Still, the video is rendered useless after it is found that Susan (who was taping it) had talked the whole time, and everything she said was heard on

374-402: The talent show, a worldwide internet hit due to Susan dancing in it. Rodrick Rules received positive reviews. Positive attention was given to the book for its effective portrayal of Greg Heffley, and for its humor. The books' strategy of using illustrations as a means of exposition was also praised. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules is the second book in the series. The third, Diary of

396-410: The tape. Rodrick accuses Greg, and they fight, but their parents send both to their rooms. Later, Rodrick tells Greg that his "secret is out". Greg says that at Leisure Towers, the retirement house where their grandfather lives, Rodrick took Greg’s diary and ran for it but tripped on a board game. Greg grabbed the diary, ran to the toilet, and tried to destroy it. Unfortunately, he accidentally went into

418-489: The women's bathroom, where he was forced to hide until security removed him. However, Greg gets popular for what he did because the story has gotten extremely twisted, from going to the women's bathroom in the retirement home to infiltrating the girls' locker room in Crossland High School. The story ends with Greg helping Rodrick with his science project because he feels sorry for the video of Löded Diper at

440-870: Was a series regular as the original voice of Gil in the Nickelodeon series Bubble Guppies . Gordon had voice cameo roles as Baby Melman in the animated film Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa , Kotaro in Afro Samurai: Resurrection , and young Tony Stark in The Super Hero Squad Show . In 2010, he played Greg Heffley in the film Diary of a Wimpy Kid . In 2011, he voiced Papi Jr. in Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 and as Paws in Disney's The Search for Santa Paws . In June 2010, 20th Century Fox announced

462-438: Was partners with. They don't qualify, but Rodrick's band does. Rodrick, eager to continue to the talent show, hands in his Gravity science project earlier but then is forced to do it again since his project lacked several requirements. Rodrick tries to tell the teacher clearly about it, but then the teacher claims it was a reasonably straightforward experiment and did not make clear sense. Frank tries to persuade Rodrick to give up

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484-498: Was replaced by Jason Drucker . In October 2013, Gordon was chosen to host a miniseries for Nintendo, titled Skylander's Boomcast , on YouTube channel SkylandersGame, reviewing and talking about the video game series Skylanders . In April 2023, it was announced Gordon would be the new voice of Tighnari in Genshin Impact , replacing Elliot Gindi. Additional films for 2013 included The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and

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