Trivia: CONTINUED!

[essbeejay]

Continuing on from yesterday's post!

"Dude." He gaped. "Buttercup, your arms are so cut I'm not even staring at your tits."

Okay so I like this line too.

• "Of course you have a choice," Brick scoffed. "You choose to be a dirty hippie and not eat meat." Bubbles pouted. "I'm not dirty." - Okay so I am pretty sure NOBODY got this but in the episode "Down n' Dirty" (the one where Buttercup refuses to take a bath) she calls Blossom and Bubbles big, fat, something-or-others, she exits scene, and we cut back to Bubbles who pouts and says, "I'm not fat 8C" and it's so funny to me because she's focusing on the LEAST IMPORTANT PART of the insult so I kiiiiinda maybe sorta wanted to give it a little shoutout here. Um. I know. I'm weird.
• "Floyd, Lloyd, Harry! Mitch, you too. You guys mind waiting for burgers?" "No," they said in unison, all eyes riveted to Buttercup. Any minute now... - Somebody brought up the (fair!) question of if all the girls are triplets, why do so many people lust after Blossom disproportionately more than her sisters (Buttercup especially)? I have my own thoughts on why people ask specifically about Buttercup not being "as hot" as Blossom, but those aside, I wanted to point out this section, where Buttercup's friends (who we've established by now have all crushed on her/are still possibly crushing on her) are not-so-surreptitiously ogling her, while the rest of the group is just focused on eating. Like, for Buttercup, the attraction her friends have to her isn't rooted in her physical appearance, it's rooted in what they know about her as a person that they find attractive, which is why they have a stronger reaction when she's out there sweating up a storm and playing volleyball. They've seen and known who she is, and that's how their feelings developed. The opportunity to see her in, you know, less clothing than they're used to (why can't I word this any way that doesn't sound creepy, YOU GUYS KNOW I'M NOT TRYING TO BE CREEPY RIGHT) therefore means a lot more to them. Does that make sense? I'm not articulating this idea very well. BAH
• "Dude." He gaped. "Buttercup, your arms are so cut I'm not even staring at your tits." - I'm sorry to say I did not write this line. This line is from a conversation I had years ago with my Pilates instructor, who was relaying a story (the BEST STORY) of the weirdest (best?) pickup line she'd ever gotten. But it is a great line, and more people needed to know it, so into TEF it went.
• "Oh no, she did everything back in middle school," Bubbles said. "Sports, music-they didn't have a dance troop in school then. She did just about everything except Home Ec, and that was because they banned her." - Why is Blossom so great at everything? Why is she such an overachiever? That's so Mary Sue-ish. I mean, It's not like I've ever known anybody in high school who pushed themselves to do everything or was good at multiple things or who practically worked themselves to death trying to be the best. (Spoiler alert: I did. But none of them had superpowers, which might explain why Blossom manages better than most.)
• Was that a faint? Did I just faint? Fuck me, I think I just fainted, he thought torpidly. - Yssa this made me so happy when I saw it was the title of the Askbox on the tumblr. ♥
• "This isn't fair," Robin complained in an undertone to Bubbles and Kim. "The boys are getting all the good stuff. Where's the eye candy for the ladies?" She pointed at the volleyball net. "I need some sweaty boys huffing and puffing up there, stat." - Oh, Robin. Ask, and ye shall...
• "Please pinch me," Robin hissed determinedly, "because I'm pretty sure Brick taking his shirt off would only happen in a dream." - Real trivia! The original shirtless!Brick scene (because yes, I had known early on that an ENTIRE SCENE would revolve around Brick's shirt coming off) took place IN SCHOOL and involved Boomer spilling some chemically stuff on Brick that required him to get under the chemical shower, and in the process of the teacher freaking out he lost his shirt, then goes on a high-speed, shirtless chase after Boomer throughout the entire school, basically resulting in an almost-schoolful of girls ditching class to follow in hot pursuit. Uh. I scaled it back some (that is, axed it entirely) but this one line from Robin managed to stay in.
  
  OKAY I'M SORRY BUT I'LL HAVE TO CONTINUE THIS AGAIN LATER. Wear a PpG shirt today! We can be twinsies! Or tripletsies! (I'm rocking Blossom today. Don't leave me hanging.)
  
  Originally posted at http://essbeejay.dreamwidth.org/102553.html.