SVT Super Edition #12: Goodbye, Middle School!

[isabelquinn]

Sorry that it’s a photo, not a scan, so it's kinda blurry. I haven’t put ink in my printer for over a year, and my scanner has gone on a sympathy strike.

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[piecesofalice]

The SURPRISE!Plucka made me choke on my coffee. Danke.

[appletini_85]

One arm draped over Elizabeth and the other ending in a closed fist. Has he ever been summarised so succinctly? I bet he punched everybody in the room seconds after this was taken.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Ah Todd "Rocky" Wilkins you might not have gotten Liz in the end but your violent ways will live on forever!

OMG PLUCK DUCK! A+

What a weak ending to their middle school years. Oh well, they should relish these normal (for a Wakefield twin) days. Soon they'll be dealing with stalkers, psychopaths, overly friendly teachers, vampires, werewolves and dead boyfriends (looking at you Jessica "Black Widow" Wakefield).

[appletini_85]

Whoops *PLUCKA DUCK

[isabelquinn]

That crossed my mind too, but so far every comment has responded with glee!

I'm not sure I ever actually sat down and watched it. But it was so entrenched in Australian 90s pop culture that it's impossible not to know all about it anyway ;)

[lozbabie]

I hated Hey Hey (its the reason I lost my beloved Young Talent Time) but PLUCKA DUCK! I don't think you could have lived in Australia in the 90s and not know who Plucka was. *hugs her plushy Plucka that I might still own*

[author_by_night]

They know that the schools-shuffle is coming, but they don’t know who’s going where.

And this girl whose middle school graduating class had two potential public schools and a bunch of potential private schools snorts.

I mean, I get it if they live in a small town, but apparently they don't. And anyway, why would they split the eighth grade?

5) “[Sending J & E to different schools] has got to be, you know, against the Declaration of Independence or something.”Nah, just epic logic fail

[isabelquinn]

Am pretty sur they ended up dividing them by district, but sending the twins to SVJH never really felt right. They had to get a bus ridiculously early, but SVMS was always in walking distance. And the other SVJH students who were already there live in walking distance from that school. And there's a whole other mall, called Red Bird Mall or something instead of Valley Mall, with Vito's Pizza instead of Guido's and I Scream instad of Casey's... it's practically a whole separate town. One the twins don't actually live in.

I guess the CD overcrowding was all within the same school. The eighth graders didn't change schools per se. They were still at Vista, they just relocated to the high school section of the campus. But yeah, close enough! I'd never actually noticed that similarity before!

[author_by_night]

And there's a whole other mall, called Red Bird Mall or something instead of Valley Mall, with Vito's Pizza instead of Guido's and I Scream instad of Casey's... it's practically a whole separate town. One the twins don't actually live in.

Yeah, that's pretty weird. Why not just have that the twins moved for a year or something?

I guess the CD overcrowding was all within the same school. The eighth graders didn't change schools per se. They were still at Vista, they just relocated to the high school section of the campus.

Ohhh. Yeah, I only read the first CD book, maybe a bit of the second, and that was over ten years ago. I barely remember the finer details. :P But it does seem YA writers became fans of the "let's jumble everyone's school" thing. Again, it just always made me laugh. Actually, none of my schools were ever in the town I actually lived in, although to be fair I lived in a town that was almost more of a zip code than anything else. (I always just told people I lived in Town Nine instead of Town Eight.)

[isabelquinn]

Oooh. Like, sent them to Big Mesa Middle School for a year! That would have awesomely messed with SVH continuity! :D

I didn't read CD much either, it was too TEEN!ANGST for me ;)

[hellobrisvegas]

Why is Bruce even there? Why, to brighten up my day, of course. And to give you a chance for another HEY BRUCE moment, because they always kill. Except now I've got the Plucka Duck theme music in my head, right before bedtime. Uncool.