Andy Griffiths (Just!)

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“	I confess! You win! I was just tricking!	„
	~ Andy trying to stop his parents from burying him alive, Playing Dead, Just Tricking!, his first spoken lines.

“	Yeah, well, nevermind, but I swear on my grandmother's freshly dug grave that I did not write that story.	„
	~ Andy trying to convince Lisa that he didn't write his terrible short story, Kittens, Puppies and Ponies, Just Crazy!.

Andy Griffiths, also known as Macbeth, is the titular antiheroic protagonist of the Australian series of children's short stories Just! by the author of the same name.

He is a mischievous young boy who is constantly foaming at the mouth for an opportunity to cause chaos or annoy somebody. He lives in Australia with his parents, his sister Jen, and his dog Sooty, and attends school with his best friend Danny Pickett and his love interest, Lisa Mackney.

He was based on the Australian children's author, Andy Griffiths, who wrote the books.

Villainous acts[]

Just Tricking![]

In Gorillagram, he dressed up as a gorilla and crashed his sister's birthday party at a spaghetti restaurant, but she ignored him. This resulted in him losing the zipper to the costume and getting chased by the police when he couldn't take it off.
In Knick-Knockers Anonymous, he was at home, trying to clean his house while waiting for his parents to get home from his parent-teacher interview because he knows his teacher will give him a bad review and his parents will be mad. While he's doing this, though, his friend Danny appears and starts knocking on his door and disappearing before Andy can reach the door. Andy spends the story preparing a disgusting concoction of leftovers and old food (making a horrible mess of the house in the process) and then waiting by the door for Danny to knock again. He hears a knock, opens the door and pours the crap all over who he presumes to be Danny, but is actually his mother. Andy gets in a lot of trouble.
In Beat the Bomb!, Andy and Danny call a boy named Marvin Bonwick, pretending to be a music station called Triple B, and tell him that he's one a chance to play "Beat The Bomb!", a tense game where the DJ says numbers that keep going up, and the listener has to tell the DJ to stop before the bomb explodes, which results in the listener winning the amount of money they stopped on. They trick Marvin into thinking he won $500, to which Marvin is ecstatic about, telling the boys that his mother and him are in a very bad situation financially as a result of his father's recent death, and that the $500 will help him a lot. Andy hangs up feeling incredibly guilty, until he's rung up by the real Triple B and given a chance to play Beat the Bomb!. They play and win $502, which they decide to give to Marvin and keep the remaining $2 for themselves.
In Invisipills, while the boys are in the library during class, Andy gives Danny some lollies that he got from his grandmother and tells him they're invisible pills. Danny, amazed, takes one, and Andy tells him he can't see him anymore. Danny, convinced he's invisible, runs around the library and starts knocking the bookshelves over, getting him in trouble with the strict librarian. This gets him and Andy kicked out of the library.
In A TerrIBLE Christmas and a CRappy New Year, Andy vandalises Jen's Christmas cards by drawing over Santa and drawing letters over the Christmas greetings so that they look rude (i.e., the title) and sends them to all her friends. Jen isn't angry, though, because her friends loved the cards.

Just Annoying![]

In Are We There Yet?, Andy constantly annoys his parents with the titular phrase while they're on a long car trip, which pushes them to their limits. After opting to stop annoying them, he sets his sights on a fly in the car with them. In his conquest to destroy the fly or get it out of the car, he ends up pushing his father to the limit, and he gets kicked out of the car. He gets picked up by a friendly bikie who he waved at while he was still in the car, and eventually they chase down his parents, who think the bikie is attempting to hurt them, and so they refuse to pull over. In the end, Andy is forced to jump from the bike onto the roof of the car, nearly killing himself and his parents in the process. His parents let him back in the car, telling him that they were planning to come back for him ten minutes later, and stop getting angry at him when he annoys them.
In Copycat from Ballarat, Andy spends several days copying his sister, eventually going as far as to steal her clothes, dress up like her and follow her to the school social, pretending to be a copy of her. This eventually backfires when Jen's crush, Craig Bennett, takes an interest in Andy, believing him to be a new girl at her school. Andy goes along with it, calling himself "Andrea", because he knows it's annoying the hell out of Jen. He and Craig dance for a while until Andy excuses himself to go to the bathroom, but he needs to use the women's room on account of being dressed like one or he'd blow his cover. In the bathroom, he sees his crush, Lisa, who also falls for the Andrea front and warns him about Craig. Andrea asks Lisa what she thinks about Andy, and Lisa tells him that he's a good guy despite his immaturity, and that she wishes Andy was at the social. Andy, determined to get home and get out of drag, tries to leave, but Craig stops him and starts getting handsy. Eventually Craig accidentally rips off his wig and dress, revealing to everyone that Andrea was Andy the whole time. Craig tries to beat up Andy, who is now standing in front of the school naked save for his sister's bra and his "action man" underpants, but Jen pulls Craig aside and tells him to have a drink, dissipating the problem. The short story ends with Lisa approaching Andy and telling him that he has a terrible taste in underwear.
In Wish You Weren't Here, Andy explains his yearly routine of stealing his neighbour Mrs. Scott's gnome, taking it on summer holiday, sending Mrs. Scott a postcard addressed from the gnome, and placing it back in her garden when he gets back, making her wonder how the gnome went on holiday on its own. One holiday, while Andy is visiting his grandparents, the gnome starts moving on its own, prompting Andy to get scared and smash it in two pieces. His grandpa finds the gnome and glues it back together, but Andy shoves it into his grandpa's new mulcher. Just when he thinks the nightmare is over, he finds the gnome back in his bed, unharmed. When Andy freaks out, his grandparents tell him that they found an identical gnome to his one at the market, just without the broken neck, so they bought it to cheer him up. The story ends with Andy threatening to put the new gnome in the mulcher if it tries anything funny.
In In The Shower With Andy, Andy seals his shower shut with his father's silicone gun and fills his shower cubical up with water. He eventually realises his mistake when he can't turn the shower off and nearly drowns himself. He ends up climbing into the fan vent above him and into the ceiling, and eventually falls through the ceiling, onto the dining table, where his mum, dad, and dad's boss are having dinner, completely naked.
In Murder, Bloody Murder!, Andy, his friend Danny and his dog Sooty stand on the latter's front lawn and scream the titular phrase in an attempt to make people think they're being murdered, which does nothing other than annoy Andy's next-door neighbour, Mr. Broadbent. He tells the boys to shut up or he'll murder them, which leads the boys to try and stop Mr. Broadbent from murdering them by helping him relax. The boys try and help him meditate by playing calming music, imitating the sound of rain on the roof and burning incense, but they instead end up playing crappy-sounding music on Andy's old DVD player, spraying water at Mr. Broadbent's window with the backyard hose and coating the neighbourhood with tons of smoke from the barbeque. The story ends with Mr. Broadbent emerging from his house and attempting to strangle Andy and Danny to death, giving them an actual excuse to scream "Murder, Bloody Murder!".
In The Last Jaffa, Andy is seeing the new James Bond movie in theatres with his Dad and Danny. Andy's eating his Jaffas and trying to enjoy the movie, but he can't see on account of the big-haired woman in front of him. He leans over to see the movie better, but Danny elbows him in the rib, causing him to drop his last Jaffa. Andy ends up crawling around the theatre under the chairs, which angers the entire theatre when one lady accuses him of looking up her dress, causing a riot. The story ends with Andy escaping the horde of angry theatre-goers by jumping through the theatre screen, discovering mountains of lost junk food behind it, including his last Jaffa.
In Swinging on the Clothesline, as the title suggests, Andy takes on the hobby of swinging on the clothesline in his backyard, much to the dismay of his father, who prevents Andy from this via selling Sooty and replacing him with a rabid guard dog named Spot, who threatens to tear Andy to shreds if he ever swings on the clothesline again. Andy learns to use Spot's speed and strength to pull the clothesline in circles, however, helping Andy to swing on the clothesline faster than ever before. This results in Andy getting flung off the clothesline as super-speed towards the kitchen window. Andy laments that if the impact doesn't kill him, his family will.

Just Stupid![]

Just Crazy![]

Just Disgusting![]

Cake of Doom is the first of three stories (the others being Balloons of Doom in Just Shocking! and Sleepover of Doom in Just Doomed!) in the Just! series to be a "Choose Your Own" adventure story. In it, Andy attempts to make a cake for Mother's Day, and should the reader make it to the end of the story without dying, Andy will successfully make the cake, but kills his entire family in the process because he accidentally put rat poison in the cake. Andy is hung for his crimes.
In Two Brown Blobs, Andy shits in the bath and gets scared.
In Shut Up!, while in the camping trailer on a miserable, rainy camping trip, Andy argues with Jen, causing their mother to get involved. Meanwhile, the people in the camper van next to theirs have a great time playing board games, whooping and cheering. During all this, Andy's father, tries to read the newspaper peacefully. Once the argument comes to a crescendo, Andy's dad snaps and screams at his family, causing the neighbours to tell him to shut up. Andy's dad gets into a screaming match with the neighbours and wins, and finally takes his newspaper out into the rain. The short story ends with Andy, Jen and Mum watching Dad read newspaper by himself in the rain as he gets drenched and the newspaper falls apart.
Fun With Andy And Danny is the only short story in the series to be told in the form of a young children's story, and is divided into chapters.
- In Chapter 1: FUN WITH A PUP, Andy and Danny watch Sooty spin around in a circle and decide to try it themselves, resulting in Andy falling on top of Sooty.
- In Chapter 2: FUN WITH A PUP AND A ROLL OF TOILET PAPER, the boys try to fix Sooty's freshly hurt foot by pretending to play doctor and wrap his foot in toilet paper, but Sooty doesn't like it and runs away, spreading toilet paper throughout the house.
- In Chapter 3: FUN WITH A ROLL OF TOILET PAPER AND A FAN, the boys play with the toilet paper and pretend to be Olympic gymnasts and mummies, then rip it up and throw it in the air to simulate snow. Then they get out a fan and blow it everywhere so it looks like a blizzard.
- In Chapter 4: FUN WITH A BOTTLE OF MILK, the boys take a break from all the fun and have some milk, but Danny accuses Andy of getting more milk than him and the two get into an argument. They pour milk on each other, and laugh when Sooty licks it up and gets a milk moustache.
- In Chapter 5: FUN WITH ANDY'S PARENTS, Andy's parents come home to the mess made by the boys, so they hide under the bed.
- In Chapter 6: FUN WITH A VACUMN CLEANER, Andy and Danny are forced to clean up their mess. They're not having fun, but they start to play with the vacuum cleaner and start having fun again.
In THE STORY OF THE VERY STUPID BOY AND THE VERY BIG SLUG, Andy writes a short story where his best friend Danny is a giant idiot who accidentally destroys the entire world via a giant slug, and Andy is a wonderful, intelligent young man who saves the world via the time machine he made in his garage.

Just Shocking![]

In Fun with a Fire Hose, Andy and Danny sit in the park and fantasize about blowing a random family having a picnic away with a fire hose.
In Balloons of Doom, Andy (in a similar style to Cake of Doom, both thematically and in format) tries to blow up a bunch of balloons for Jen's birthday. Should the reader get to the end of the story without dying, Andy will accidentally kill his entire family with the smell of his breath leaking from the balloons in a similar fashion to a gas leak. Despite it being his own breath, Andy dies too.
In Unfunniest Home Video, Andy tries to claim a $20,000 prize from the show Funniest Home Videos by making Danny do a dangerous stunt on the roof, but Danny gets distracted rescuing a cat from a tree, so Andy films that instead. This ends with Danny falling on top of Andy and breaking the camera, and Jen filming the whole thing, so she can get the prize money instead and also snitch on Andy.
In Fun with a Monster Truck, Andy and Danny sit in the park and fantasize about going to the zoo with a monster truck and running over the hippos. This story is fundamentally identical to Fun with a Fire Hose.

Just Macbeth![]

(Main article: Andy Griffiths (Just Macbeth!))

Just Doomed![]

In Andy's Handbag, Andy is running boring errands with his mother. The two are waiting in line at the post office when Mum realises she left her handbag at the dry cleaners and asks Andy to fetch it. On the way back from getting the handbag, he sees his crush, Lisa, and realises she might think he's lame if she sees him carrying a purple handbag, so he sits down on a bench and sets it down next to him so it appears like someone left it there. Lisa greets Andy and suggests they take the "lost" handbag to the police, and they do, but once Lisa leaves, Andy ends up stealing the handbag and running away, which gets the police on his tail. Lisa spots Andy stealing the handbag, trips him and sits on him, causing him to get caught by the police. In the end, Andy gets arrested and Lisa thinks he's less cool than she would have thought if she just saw him with his mother's handbag.
Sleepover of Doom is the only "Choose your own adventure" story in the series to not be about Andy killing his entire family by accident while preparing a surprise. Andy goes to a sleepover with Danny, who begins sleepwalking after they go to bed and driving his dad's car, with Andy being forced to tag along lest Danny kills someone. Should the reader get to the end of the story without dying, Danny (still sleepwalking) will park the car back in the drive way after all is said and done, and Danny's dad will kill the two anyway because of the damage done to his car.
In I Hate Jeremy Smart!, Andy attempts to sabotage a kind, handsome, generous, philanthropic boy at his school named Jeremy Smart, whom his parents often scold Andy (who is a troublesome ratbag) for not being enough like him. Andy concocts a plan to humiliate him and drag his name through the dirt: Jeremy is doing a charity event where he'll swim for ten hours in order to raise funds for charity, and when he gets out of a pool, he'll get a first-grader named Corey to pretend to get knocked into the pool by Jeremy, at which point Andy will save him. Andy enacts this plan, but when he does, he hits his head on the bottom of the pool. Jeremy saves both Corey and Andy, and gives the latter CPR, but Andy still hates Jeremy and gets to imagining his next ploy to destroy Jeremy's life.
In Just Nude!, Andy's father books the family a trip at "Sunnylands Naturist Resort", which he suspects is what the name implies, but when the family gets there, they find out it's a nudist resort that enforces a strict "No Clothes" rule. Mum, Dad and Jen, despite their initial shock, come around the idea almost immediately, but Andy is disgusted and runs away. The people who attend the resort are terrifying loyal to the resort's rules, which results in a horde of angry nudists chasing Andy throughout the resort. Andy eventually loses them by taking his clothes off and trying to blend in with a bunch of statues in a fountain. This works for a while, but then he's spotted by a member of the angry horde, who doesn't recognise him. They tell him to get out of the fountain and that if he wants to play in the water, he should just go to the water park. Andy is won over immediately at the prospect of a waterpark, deciding to enjoy his holiday to Sunnylands in spite of the lack of clothes.