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Mr. Messy
Author(s) Roger Hargreaves
Illustrator Roger Hargreaves
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series Mr. Men
Genre(s) Children's literature
Publisher Fabbri
Publication date 15 August 1972
Pages 40 pp
ISBN ISBN 978-0-85396-017-1
Preceded by Mr. Snow
Followed by Mr. Topsy-Turvy

Mr. Messy is the 8th book in the Mr. Men series by Roger Hargreaves. Mr. Messy is pink and really messy, but has a really nice smile. Mr. Messy lives in a messy house until Mr. Neat and Mr. Tidy come to clean his house and give him a bath (his first ever, as the bathroom had previously been the messiest of the house). He becomes neat and thinks he has to change his name. Mr. Messy then becomes clean.

In the 2008 TV series The Mr. Men Show, Mr. Messy is not only messy but unclean and unhygienic also, notably more than he is messy. He was given blue and white sneakers (similar to Little Miss Chatterbox's, only with patches of dirt on the toes, and both on occasion in the show and in his character image, one of them with untied laces), and his limbs are also made solid, instead of scribbled like they were originally. Also, his house is no longer by itself in a messy field. He lives right next door to Mr. Persnickety (U.S.) / Mr. Pernickety (UK) (originally named Mr. Fussy in the book series and also in the second series) in a duplex-styled house. His catchphrases: "Shazam!" and "That's what I'm talkin' about!" and in the official site, "Messy, not dressy". In the US and UK Versions, he is voiced by series art director Peter Rida Michail and Rob Rackstraw.

Mr. Messy appears under the titles Monsieur Sale (French), Don Lioso (Spanish), Meneer Knoeipot/Meneertje Sloddervos (Dutch), Ο Κύριος Τσαπατσούλης (Greek), * 邋遢先生 (Taiwan), 너절씨 (Korean), Mr. Anniben (Welsh), Unser Herr Schlampig (German), Bay Daðýnýk (Turkish), Fætter Sjusk (Danish), מר שלומפר (Hebrew), Herra Subbi (Icelandic) and Senhor Desmazelado (Portuguese).

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