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Story

"Strained Peas" is the third short story in the book Tales to Give You Goosebumps.

Plot

Nicholas Morgan is reading a comic book called Iron Man: The Mark of Dr. Destro. Then his mother arrives home from the hospital with the baby, Hannah. Strange things start to happen around her. Her eyes change color, her heart-shaped birthmark grows, and she even trys to kill him! He comes to believe that Hannah is a monster, despite his parents' assurances that there is a perfectly normal explanation for everything.

Eventually, it is discovered that while in the hospital, Hannah was accidentally switched at birth with the boy's real sister, and she is not related to him at all. She is returned to the hospital. The boy seems pleased with the real baby, Grace. When Nick's parents put Grace to bed, Nick gets up to go tickle her. A short while after, Grace says to Nick, "If you tickle me again kid, I'll rip your arm off!" As Nick flees, he hears her say, "I'll get rid of you creep. Just wait until I can walk!'"

Television adaptation

"Strained Peas" was adapted into an episode of the Goosebumps TV series. It is the seventeenth episode of season three, and the sixty-first episode overall.

Tales to Give You Goosebumps series
Tales to Give You Goosebumps	The House of No Return • Teacher's Pet • Strained Peas • Strangers in the Woods • Good Friends • How I Won My Bat • Mr. Teddy • Click • Broken Dolls • A Vampire in the Neighborhood
More Tales to Give You Goosebumps	The Werewolf's First Night • P.S. Don't Write Back • Something Fishy • You Gotta Believe Me! • Suckers! • Dr. Horror's House of Video • The Cat's Tale • Shell Shocker • Poison Ivy • The Spirit of the Harvest Moon
Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps	The Chalk Closet • Home Sweet Home • Don't Wake Mummy • I'm Telling! • The Haunted House Game • Change for the Strange • The Perfect School • For The Birds • Aliens in the Garden • The Thumbprint of Doom
Still More Tales to Give You Goosebumps	Pumpkin Juice • Attack of the Tattoo • The Wish • An Old Story • The Scarecrow • Awesome Ants • Please Don't Feed The Bears • The Goblin's Glare • Bats About Bats • The Space Suit Snatcher
More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps	The Haunted Guitar • Tune in Tomorrow • Live Bait • Something Strange About Marci • The Ghost Sitter • Fun With Spelling • Matt's Lunch Box • Stuck in 1957 • Mirror Mirror on the Wall • What's Cooking?
More & More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps	Don't Sit on the Gronk • Nutcracker Nightmare • The Ice Vampire • A Holly Jolly Holiday • Why I Hate Jack Frost • Marshmallow Surprise • Monster on the Ice • The Double-Dip Horror • Santa's Helpers • Attack of the Christmas Present

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 ==Plot==
-[[Nicholas Morgan]] is reading a comic book called ''Iron Man: The Mark of Dr. Destro''. Then his mother arrives home from the hospital with the baby, Hannah. Strange things start to happen around her. Her eyes change color, her heart-shaped birthmark grows, and she even wants to kill him! He comes to believe that Hannah is a monster, despite his parents' assurances that there is a perfectly normal explanation for everything.
+[[Nicholas Morgan]] is reading a comic book called ''Iron Man: The Mark of Dr. Destro''. Then his mother arrives home from the hospital with the baby, Hannah. Strange things start to happen around her. Her eyes change color, her heart-shaped birthmark grows, and she even trys to kill him! He comes to believe that Hannah is a monster, despite his parents' assurances that there is a perfectly normal explanation for everything.
 Eventually, it is discovered that while in the hospital, Hannah was accidentally switched at birth with the boy's real sister, and she is not related to him at all. She is returned to the hospital. The boy seems pleased with the real baby, Grace. When Nick's parents put Grace to bed, Nick gets up to go tickle her. A short while after, Grace says to Nick, "If you tickle me again kid, I'll'' rip'' your arm off!" As Nick flees, he hears her say, "I'll get rid of you creep. Just wait until I can walk!'"