#100 Kristy's Worst Idea Pt. 3
Okay so this book ends exactly how you think it does. Mostly because there's a book 101 after it, but you get it. I have nothing else to say as there is still a bit of Lerangis' Drunken Writing Time left.
Chapter 11 or Lerangis and Ms. Coleman Should Hook Up
So this lovely chapter starts with Kristy having lunch. She can overhear Erica Blumberg and Lily Karp talking behind her. Turns out that now that the BSC is impossible to get a hold of, people are just calling anyone. Mrs. Newton called Erica Blumberg to babysit and it turns out the girl is an idiot yet is making a dollar more per hour than the BSC. She's going on and on about how she had no idea why Lucy was crying and that she just had to guess that Lucy had a wet diaper. Kristy snaps and tells Erica there are ways to tell if the diaper needs to be changed.
Erica thanks her for the tip but tells her that she had never had a chance to learn any of what Kristy told her. Everyone does now that no one can reach the BSC so other people are able to babysit and experience it. I have to put this in because I can't even recap it:
"You did have kind of a monopoly, Kristy," Lily added.
"Oh, come on," I said. "You mean to tell me you never baby-sat while the BSC was together?"
Erica shook her head. "How could I? The Newtons live in my neighborhood, plus the Perkinses and Hobarts -- all Baby-sitters Club clients."
"I sat three times last year," Lily volunteered, "for my cousins."
Then Kristy thinks about how, "Our goal was to be good sitters, not to be the only sitters in town"
REALLY?! I DON'T THINK SO, THOMAS!
So she finishes lunch and all that, clearly in denial still. She then goes off to try to teach DM, Hannie, and Linny soccer again, doing some drills in the field near the mansion (is there one?). She sees the Hsu boys come by and they are with none other than Cokie Mason. Cokie's dragging the boys off to a pre-inventory sale because she wants to get there before everyone takes the good junk but the boys want to play soccer. Kristy tries to convince her to let the Hsus stay and play, but Cokie refuses and drags them off.
After everyone goes home Kristy goes to call up Mrs. Hsu. She reminds her again that the BSC is still taking jobs, just not as a club. Mrs. H says that she knows, but that everyone has been impossible to reach and that Cokie's mom has been begging her to let Cokie sit for the boys. She usually says no since the BSC was so convenient but now she can just let Cokie sit.
Kristy is saddened because the other girls are now getting all the jobs but she was saddened earlier that everyone thought she had a monopoly. Um. Look. Kristy? You can't be sad/mad when people think you have a monopoly and then also be sad that you don't have your monopoly anymore. It doesn't work like that. At all. Now shush and get to the end of this book.
Chapter 12 or Let's Go Shopping With No Money
This lovely chapter starts with a... journal entry... sort of. It's actually Stacey's diary entry that she allowed Kristy to read because it was like a BSC journal entry. You know, despite her telling Kristy she can't ever read it and it's super private and junk. But BSC!!
So Stacey and Claudia went to Washington Mall to go to a clearance sale at Steven E. Claudia starts complaining that her dad is going to flip when he gets his credit card statement with everything she bought. Stacey says she can just return some stuff if she's that worried. Though since it was a clearance sale, wouldn't all sales be final? It's clearance...
After they decide that, lolz no wai would we return this shit!, they go to Friendly's to eat. While waiting for a table they see the Newtons who, for all this ABSC stuff, are just everywhere. They get seated and Stacey decides she wants to go say hi to Jamie. She covers his eyes to make him guess who it is, but when she reveals herself he runs off to the bathroom. She tries to get him to come out, but only does when a man opens the door and he comes out, hanging onto the handle. Then he almost runs into a busboy so Stacey guides him to the register area to talk. He still won't have it and goes back to his table where his mom explains that Jamie thinks the BSC hates him because they wouldn't show up and Erica had to come over.
Stacey has to explain that they don't hate Jamie, they just broke up over their own stuff. They promise that they'll sit for Jamie so he doesn't have to see Erica again but Lucy gets fussy so they have to leave. Stacey and Claud finish their lunch and head home, Claudia promptly getting frustrated father noises as he sees how many bags she has.
When Stacey gets home her mom gives her a message from Mrs. Prezzioso who needs a sitter. She calls Mrs. P back but finds out that she's already gotten MA to sit after trying to find someone all day. Mrs. P snips that it was sooo much easier when the BSC was around. She didn't have to call everyone and their mother (literally in this case it seems) to find a sitter.
I smell an ending coming!
Chapter 13 or Again, Jackie?
Kristy is playing football with her brothers in her backyard. She hears some frantic honking from the front and Stacey runs out back to grab her. Apparently Jackie is in the hospital again after falling off of his bike while not wearing his helmet. Kristy drops everything and runs out to the car to see Abby's there too, all of them heading over to see Jackie. How do they know Jackie's there? Well! Charlotte's mom was working the ER when Jackie came in so Charlotte told Stacey who told her mom who picked up Abby and then Kristy. Did Charlotte call Stacey? Was Stacey sitting for her? I don't know! It's just a plot contrivance to get them to the hospital.
They get to the hospital and the rest of the girls are there with Jackie's family. They rush to Jackie's side and find out from him that he was riding his bike, without his helmet as stated, when a car came by and he swerved. He hit a tree, fell of his bike, and hit his head, knocking him unconscious for a bit. He was trying to hurry to Kristy's house to give her a letter which reads:
"deer Kristy,
I did'nt meen to fall out of the tree. I was only kiding. And I lernd my lessin so Il'l never do it agan. So dont be mad. Tell all the babby siters what I said OK? Maybe they won't be mad ether so they can be a club again.
From,
your frend
Whacky Jackie"
...I have to admit that's sort of adorable aside from the Whacky Jackie part. Also, heh, babby.
Kristy explains, just like Stacey did to Jamie, that it wasn't Jackie's fault. They just had their own issues, ie being bitchy, and they had to break up. Jackie is happy that it isn't his fault and everyone starts crying because they love Jackie. It's sort of sweet actually. For once Kristy isn't complaining about what a pest or mess he is and genuinely seems concerned. Unlike the rest of the book where she just bitches.
Chapter 14 or Everyone Calls the Doctor for Everything Always
Kristy is sitting for the Pikes with Mal. Mal had called her to see if she could help out and Kristy agreed so they're playing hide and seek. Kristy's still worried about Jackie but does seem to have fun with Mal and the kids. They find everyone easily except for Claire who was hiding in a closet. When they do, Claire says not to tell anyone because she wants everyone else to find her. Then, because Mal can't do anything right and they needed a last minute plot device, Mal closes the door on Claire's finger.
Claire screams and the rest of the Pikes come rushing to see which one was dying. This promptly causes Mal to freak out but Kristy takes over and gets some ice to put on Claire's finger and tell Mal to call the doctor. Okay, the doctor? Really? Yes, she's hurt, but she didn't fall out of a tree like Jackie did. Plus the finger doesn't swell and the ice is helping enough that Claire has calmed down so much she can't even cry when her parents come home.
True Fax: My sister jammed her finger in the car door once when we went out to dinner. It bruised, the nail almost fell off, and she was in pain. Yet all we had to do was ice it, bandage it, and watch it. She lived, the finger was fine, and now hates Popeye's chicken because that's where we were when she did it. When she actually broke a finger it was years later while bowling. THAT was when a doctor had to be called.
Mal starts feeling down before her parents get back and Kristy has to tell her she isn't a bad sitter. She accidentally shut the door on Claire's finger and there was no way she could have known that would happen. She just made a mistake and is a good sitter because she helped Claire and isn't selfish and all that. Then Kristy realizes she's basically telling herself that. She FINALLY realizes that there was nothing she could do stop Jackie from falling out of the damn tree. Of course she also blames her emotions and pissy attitude on feeling bad about Jackie that made her disband the BSC, but it's not. She said it wasn't in the meeting and not in that, "NO IT'S NOT THAT EVEN THOUGH IT IS" thing. She was just being a bitch when she got back from Hawai'i.
Either way she decides to call MA because she's been dumb and needs to tell everyone the BSC should be back together.
Chapter 15 or Say Hello to Your Grunts, Babysitters Cult
Everyone's convened in Claudia's room- including Stacey and Logan. Kristy has a prepared statement so she calls things to order and starts with a, "Hrrrmph." Right. Sure, that sounds like an ahem and not an old man with phlegm, Lerangis. After Kristy hocks a loogie, she starts in on her awkward statement about how should get back together. Everyone's confused because she used some big words, but then Kristy says they should just get back together, dammit.
Logan starts chiding her about how she wanted to go solo and they were all better off breaking up. Though Mal agrees that she wants to get back together and Jessi stumbles with her words for some reason. When she finally gets it together she says that Mme Noelle has decided to move class to Tuesdays because all the kids complained that their parents wanted to do things on Fridays but couldn't do to class. Kristy, of course, is excited because the world is bending to her will again. Mal's class is also ending in three weeks so she'll be totally free by then.
Then Lerangis decides to dump on Claudia by making her an utter bitch. Everyone's revealing that they might be okay with starting again and Claudia says, "I am not hearing this." Seriously. SERIOUSLY. Claudia is complaining that everyone is agreeing that they were bored/sad/annoyed that the BSC wasn't meeting. And it doesn't even end there! Stacey's a bit wary since they may run into problems again and Abby reveals that she wasn't getting ANY calls so she doesn't care if their problems are needing free time when she has too much. Claudia snots that she'll just get call forwarding so no one bothers her anymore.
Shut. Up. CLAUDIA.
Kristy says that the problems might come up again, but they might not. If they do, they'll try to work past it. You know, like before. Tell doctors they can't do anything on MWF from 5:30-6. Schedule their lives around the BSC, not the BSC around their lives. Kristy flat out says the BSC needs to be their number one commitment.
Stacey isn't ready to agree until Abby points out that Stacey told her she's been low on cash without being able to sit. She had to return some of those clearance items... cuz you know, they could be returned. Kristy says that the break has let them relax a bit and now they're ready to start again. Claudia says the BSC just wasn't fun anymore and Kristy actually agrees. Though, unlike Claudia, she points out that the break should have cured their boredom/angsty illness.
Everyone starts to agree that they're feeling better and can work to solve the problems. Plus the kids miss them and the parents haven't been able to figure out how to set up new sitters somehow. Kristy says that the clients aren't too happy with them and Stacey is surprised they haven't run them out of town yet. ...Yeah, they didn't run you out... Which they could have done when you stole a bunch of babies for a parade or try to make toddlers play baseball against older boys. Cuz that's nothing to worry about.
Ooookay, well. Kristy asks if there are any ideas on what they could do differently to make things easier. Logan suggests a fax machine... Oh lord, it's 1996. But Shannon's is priceless:
"Shannon cracked up. 'Use the Net.'"
I read that as, "Hoo boy that Internets thing! So funny. I mean, when's that gonna go away, amirite? Ahhh, it's good to be rich and able to pay for that America On the Line." New technology. y'all! This sort of ties in with Ann's letter in a way, but more on that in a sec.
Claudia is still acting like a bitch, saying that someone needs to tell her this is a joke. Kristy points out Claud was the one bitching about all the calls and that if they reform, then everything goes back to normal. Of course, just like how Kristy had a reason to say no to everything earlier, Claudia says none of this will help her grades. Kristy, knowing Claudia is being a bitch, asks her what her real problem is. It's MA. She and Claud are incompatible. MA always tries to take over, Claud barges in and doesn't ask MA about anything, MA thinks the kids like Claud more, Claud says the kids love MA. They agree they need to communicate better since they don't actually hate each other and that they could probably work together if they talked. Though, really, it is all Claud's fault. MA told her the kids didn't want to do art back in chapter whatever and Claud didn't listen. Then she, you know, left in a huff. Claudia's being Dawn and playing victim, but at least they make up.
Janine comes by and sees everyone in the room, asking if she'll now need to buy new earplugs. They all start to sort of agree that they should regroup, but Claudia STILL holds out. Janine, being as kickass as she is, calmly tells Claud that she'll always be there for help. Girl's a saint. Claud clearly doesn't listen or try when Janine tries to help so Claud is beyond help anyway.
They finally all decide to get together for a one month probation period before deciding if they'll do the rest of the year. MA cries, everyone's happy, and the BSC is FINALLY back together!
Post Content
Whew... Okay. Well the back of the book has a Letter from Ann. She's all, "Lol imagine if we got to #200! What about the BSC in 2005 huh?!" I bet Shannon wouldn't be laughing about "The Net" then. There's also a contest to win some bitchin' L.A. Gear stuff for answering questions about the BSC. We also have some lovely fill-in pages that no one filled out sadly. Plus some really detailed pictures for Kristy's Scrapbook. Watson doesn't look fug, but Karen looks like a 45-year-old woman who is almost as tall as Kristy for some reason. Why couldn't they get Hodges to do the Little Sister illustrations? These are actually good and wasted in the back of this book.
Whew. Okay. All done. That was a ride, let me tell you. I'm thinking of doing a Super Mystery next, which, hah, I don't know if I can make it.
Chapter 11 or Lerangis and Ms. Coleman Should Hook Up
So this lovely chapter starts with Kristy having lunch. She can overhear Erica Blumberg and Lily Karp talking behind her. Turns out that now that the BSC is impossible to get a hold of, people are just calling anyone. Mrs. Newton called Erica Blumberg to babysit and it turns out the girl is an idiot yet is making a dollar more per hour than the BSC. She's going on and on about how she had no idea why Lucy was crying and that she just had to guess that Lucy had a wet diaper. Kristy snaps and tells Erica there are ways to tell if the diaper needs to be changed.
Erica thanks her for the tip but tells her that she had never had a chance to learn any of what Kristy told her. Everyone does now that no one can reach the BSC so other people are able to babysit and experience it. I have to put this in because I can't even recap it:
"You did have kind of a monopoly, Kristy," Lily added.
"Oh, come on," I said. "You mean to tell me you never baby-sat while the BSC was together?"
Erica shook her head. "How could I? The Newtons live in my neighborhood, plus the Perkinses and Hobarts -- all Baby-sitters Club clients."
"I sat three times last year," Lily volunteered, "for my cousins."
Then Kristy thinks about how, "Our goal was to be good sitters, not to be the only sitters in town"
REALLY?! I DON'T THINK SO, THOMAS!
So she finishes lunch and all that, clearly in denial still. She then goes off to try to teach DM, Hannie, and Linny soccer again, doing some drills in the field near the mansion (is there one?). She sees the Hsu boys come by and they are with none other than Cokie Mason. Cokie's dragging the boys off to a pre-inventory sale because she wants to get there before everyone takes the good junk but the boys want to play soccer. Kristy tries to convince her to let the Hsus stay and play, but Cokie refuses and drags them off.
After everyone goes home Kristy goes to call up Mrs. Hsu. She reminds her again that the BSC is still taking jobs, just not as a club. Mrs. H says that she knows, but that everyone has been impossible to reach and that Cokie's mom has been begging her to let Cokie sit for the boys. She usually says no since the BSC was so convenient but now she can just let Cokie sit.
Kristy is saddened because the other girls are now getting all the jobs but she was saddened earlier that everyone thought she had a monopoly. Um. Look. Kristy? You can't be sad/mad when people think you have a monopoly and then also be sad that you don't have your monopoly anymore. It doesn't work like that. At all. Now shush and get to the end of this book.
Chapter 12 or Let's Go Shopping With No Money
This lovely chapter starts with a... journal entry... sort of. It's actually Stacey's diary entry that she allowed Kristy to read because it was like a BSC journal entry. You know, despite her telling Kristy she can't ever read it and it's super private and junk. But BSC!!
So Stacey and Claudia went to Washington Mall to go to a clearance sale at Steven E. Claudia starts complaining that her dad is going to flip when he gets his credit card statement with everything she bought. Stacey says she can just return some stuff if she's that worried. Though since it was a clearance sale, wouldn't all sales be final? It's clearance...
After they decide that, lolz no wai would we return this shit!, they go to Friendly's to eat. While waiting for a table they see the Newtons who, for all this ABSC stuff, are just everywhere. They get seated and Stacey decides she wants to go say hi to Jamie. She covers his eyes to make him guess who it is, but when she reveals herself he runs off to the bathroom. She tries to get him to come out, but only does when a man opens the door and he comes out, hanging onto the handle. Then he almost runs into a busboy so Stacey guides him to the register area to talk. He still won't have it and goes back to his table where his mom explains that Jamie thinks the BSC hates him because they wouldn't show up and Erica had to come over.
Stacey has to explain that they don't hate Jamie, they just broke up over their own stuff. They promise that they'll sit for Jamie so he doesn't have to see Erica again but Lucy gets fussy so they have to leave. Stacey and Claud finish their lunch and head home, Claudia promptly getting frustrated father noises as he sees how many bags she has.
When Stacey gets home her mom gives her a message from Mrs. Prezzioso who needs a sitter. She calls Mrs. P back but finds out that she's already gotten MA to sit after trying to find someone all day. Mrs. P snips that it was sooo much easier when the BSC was around. She didn't have to call everyone and their mother (literally in this case it seems) to find a sitter.
I smell an ending coming!
Chapter 13 or Again, Jackie?
Kristy is playing football with her brothers in her backyard. She hears some frantic honking from the front and Stacey runs out back to grab her. Apparently Jackie is in the hospital again after falling off of his bike while not wearing his helmet. Kristy drops everything and runs out to the car to see Abby's there too, all of them heading over to see Jackie. How do they know Jackie's there? Well! Charlotte's mom was working the ER when Jackie came in so Charlotte told Stacey who told her mom who picked up Abby and then Kristy. Did Charlotte call Stacey? Was Stacey sitting for her? I don't know! It's just a plot contrivance to get them to the hospital.
They get to the hospital and the rest of the girls are there with Jackie's family. They rush to Jackie's side and find out from him that he was riding his bike, without his helmet as stated, when a car came by and he swerved. He hit a tree, fell of his bike, and hit his head, knocking him unconscious for a bit. He was trying to hurry to Kristy's house to give her a letter which reads:
"deer Kristy,
I did'nt meen to fall out of the tree. I was only kiding. And I lernd my lessin so Il'l never do it agan. So dont be mad. Tell all the babby siters what I said OK? Maybe they won't be mad ether so they can be a club again.
From,
your frend
Whacky Jackie"
...I have to admit that's sort of adorable aside from the Whacky Jackie part. Also, heh, babby.
Kristy explains, just like Stacey did to Jamie, that it wasn't Jackie's fault. They just had their own issues, ie being bitchy, and they had to break up. Jackie is happy that it isn't his fault and everyone starts crying because they love Jackie. It's sort of sweet actually. For once Kristy isn't complaining about what a pest or mess he is and genuinely seems concerned. Unlike the rest of the book where she just bitches.
Chapter 14 or Everyone Calls the Doctor for Everything Always
Kristy is sitting for the Pikes with Mal. Mal had called her to see if she could help out and Kristy agreed so they're playing hide and seek. Kristy's still worried about Jackie but does seem to have fun with Mal and the kids. They find everyone easily except for Claire who was hiding in a closet. When they do, Claire says not to tell anyone because she wants everyone else to find her. Then, because Mal can't do anything right and they needed a last minute plot device, Mal closes the door on Claire's finger.
Claire screams and the rest of the Pikes come rushing to see which one was dying. This promptly causes Mal to freak out but Kristy takes over and gets some ice to put on Claire's finger and tell Mal to call the doctor. Okay, the doctor? Really? Yes, she's hurt, but she didn't fall out of a tree like Jackie did. Plus the finger doesn't swell and the ice is helping enough that Claire has calmed down so much she can't even cry when her parents come home.
True Fax: My sister jammed her finger in the car door once when we went out to dinner. It bruised, the nail almost fell off, and she was in pain. Yet all we had to do was ice it, bandage it, and watch it. She lived, the finger was fine, and now hates Popeye's chicken because that's where we were when she did it. When she actually broke a finger it was years later while bowling. THAT was when a doctor had to be called.
Mal starts feeling down before her parents get back and Kristy has to tell her she isn't a bad sitter. She accidentally shut the door on Claire's finger and there was no way she could have known that would happen. She just made a mistake and is a good sitter because she helped Claire and isn't selfish and all that. Then Kristy realizes she's basically telling herself that. She FINALLY realizes that there was nothing she could do stop Jackie from falling out of the damn tree. Of course she also blames her emotions and pissy attitude on feeling bad about Jackie that made her disband the BSC, but it's not. She said it wasn't in the meeting and not in that, "NO IT'S NOT THAT EVEN THOUGH IT IS" thing. She was just being a bitch when she got back from Hawai'i.
Either way she decides to call MA because she's been dumb and needs to tell everyone the BSC should be back together.
Chapter 15 or Say Hello to Your Grunts, Babysitters Cult
Everyone's convened in Claudia's room- including Stacey and Logan. Kristy has a prepared statement so she calls things to order and starts with a, "Hrrrmph." Right. Sure, that sounds like an ahem and not an old man with phlegm, Lerangis. After Kristy hocks a loogie, she starts in on her awkward statement about how should get back together. Everyone's confused because she used some big words, but then Kristy says they should just get back together, dammit.
Logan starts chiding her about how she wanted to go solo and they were all better off breaking up. Though Mal agrees that she wants to get back together and Jessi stumbles with her words for some reason. When she finally gets it together she says that Mme Noelle has decided to move class to Tuesdays because all the kids complained that their parents wanted to do things on Fridays but couldn't do to class. Kristy, of course, is excited because the world is bending to her will again. Mal's class is also ending in three weeks so she'll be totally free by then.
Then Lerangis decides to dump on Claudia by making her an utter bitch. Everyone's revealing that they might be okay with starting again and Claudia says, "I am not hearing this." Seriously. SERIOUSLY. Claudia is complaining that everyone is agreeing that they were bored/sad/annoyed that the BSC wasn't meeting. And it doesn't even end there! Stacey's a bit wary since they may run into problems again and Abby reveals that she wasn't getting ANY calls so she doesn't care if their problems are needing free time when she has too much. Claudia snots that she'll just get call forwarding so no one bothers her anymore.
Shut. Up. CLAUDIA.
Kristy says that the problems might come up again, but they might not. If they do, they'll try to work past it. You know, like before. Tell doctors they can't do anything on MWF from 5:30-6. Schedule their lives around the BSC, not the BSC around their lives. Kristy flat out says the BSC needs to be their number one commitment.
Stacey isn't ready to agree until Abby points out that Stacey told her she's been low on cash without being able to sit. She had to return some of those clearance items... cuz you know, they could be returned. Kristy says that the break has let them relax a bit and now they're ready to start again. Claudia says the BSC just wasn't fun anymore and Kristy actually agrees. Though, unlike Claudia, she points out that the break should have cured their boredom/angsty illness.
Everyone starts to agree that they're feeling better and can work to solve the problems. Plus the kids miss them and the parents haven't been able to figure out how to set up new sitters somehow. Kristy says that the clients aren't too happy with them and Stacey is surprised they haven't run them out of town yet. ...Yeah, they didn't run you out... Which they could have done when you stole a bunch of babies for a parade or try to make toddlers play baseball against older boys. Cuz that's nothing to worry about.
Ooookay, well. Kristy asks if there are any ideas on what they could do differently to make things easier. Logan suggests a fax machine... Oh lord, it's 1996. But Shannon's is priceless:
"Shannon cracked up. 'Use the Net.'"
I read that as, "Hoo boy that Internets thing! So funny. I mean, when's that gonna go away, amirite? Ahhh, it's good to be rich and able to pay for that America On the Line." New technology. y'all! This sort of ties in with Ann's letter in a way, but more on that in a sec.
Claudia is still acting like a bitch, saying that someone needs to tell her this is a joke. Kristy points out Claud was the one bitching about all the calls and that if they reform, then everything goes back to normal. Of course, just like how Kristy had a reason to say no to everything earlier, Claudia says none of this will help her grades. Kristy, knowing Claudia is being a bitch, asks her what her real problem is. It's MA. She and Claud are incompatible. MA always tries to take over, Claud barges in and doesn't ask MA about anything, MA thinks the kids like Claud more, Claud says the kids love MA. They agree they need to communicate better since they don't actually hate each other and that they could probably work together if they talked. Though, really, it is all Claud's fault. MA told her the kids didn't want to do art back in chapter whatever and Claud didn't listen. Then she, you know, left in a huff. Claudia's being Dawn and playing victim, but at least they make up.
Janine comes by and sees everyone in the room, asking if she'll now need to buy new earplugs. They all start to sort of agree that they should regroup, but Claudia STILL holds out. Janine, being as kickass as she is, calmly tells Claud that she'll always be there for help. Girl's a saint. Claud clearly doesn't listen or try when Janine tries to help so Claud is beyond help anyway.
They finally all decide to get together for a one month probation period before deciding if they'll do the rest of the year. MA cries, everyone's happy, and the BSC is FINALLY back together!
Post Content
Whew... Okay. Well the back of the book has a Letter from Ann. She's all, "Lol imagine if we got to #200! What about the BSC in 2005 huh?!" I bet Shannon wouldn't be laughing about "The Net" then. There's also a contest to win some bitchin' L.A. Gear stuff for answering questions about the BSC. We also have some lovely fill-in pages that no one filled out sadly. Plus some really detailed pictures for Kristy's Scrapbook. Watson doesn't look fug, but Karen looks like a 45-year-old woman who is almost as tall as Kristy for some reason. Why couldn't they get Hodges to do the Little Sister illustrations? These are actually good and wasted in the back of this book.
Whew. Okay. All done. That was a ride, let me tell you. I'm thinking of doing a Super Mystery next, which, hah, I don't know if I can make it.