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Sorry for the delay in getting this recap finished. I had my birthday, a visit from my parents, and the Olympics distracting me!
Before the recap, I just have to let you all in on a funny story. Last week, my boyfriend said that I was talking in my sleep about Sweet Valley. He told me that maybe I need to take a break from this group. I told him that maybe I needed to find a new boyfriend. Just kidding, Boyfriend!
Okay, so recap time! Todd looks kind of cute (for a twelve year old) on the cover, all moody and sad. Elizabeth is doing her patented should pat. But she looks pretty so I cut her some slack.
We open in the locker room. Dirrrty! SVMS just won their 5th straight basketball game and the guys are congratulating Todd. Tim reminds Todd about his knee braces. I made a note to myself to remember this, thinking it would be important later, but it’s not. It’s just to let the reader know that Todd’s Dad (referred to as ToddDad for the rest of the recap) used to be a star basketball player, but then blew his knees out so ToddDad thinks that knee protection is important.
Todd leaves the locker room and is swarmed by fans. Winston tells him, “You were hot!” Um, Winston, have you hanging out with Tom McKay a lot lately? The Unicorns want to make him an honorary member, but Janet doesn’t think that purple is his color. Ellen goes on about how the team’s uniforms should be purple. Ellen should go to LSU. Todd and Liz talk and make a date for the next night at Casey’s. Todd thinks that Liz doesn’t get mushy over guys the way most girls do. She just cheats on them and I think most guys would take mushy over cheater any day!
Todd and ToddDad go to dinner and Todd wants three pizzas and a cheeseburger. Now I’ve been known to eat a whole pizza, but three? And a cheeseburger? Damn! ToddDad, don’t you feed your kid? They decide to work on Todd’s foul shots. God, he’s one of those dads, isn’t he? I had one too, Todd! I feel you.
Amy and Liz are at the Dairi Burger, deciding who will write the article. Um, ladies, shouldn’t the sports writer do it? Liz wants to write about the creative writing class instead. She frets over if she’s going to get picked. Amy tells her that of course she will since she’s the best writer. I give Amy props for saying that with a straight face. Doesn’t Liz seem like the type of girl who fishes for complements? Like when the skinny girl is all, “I’m so fat!” just so her friends can be like, “You’re not fat at all. You’re skinny and gorgeous and none of us can hold a candle to you!” I think Jess pulls shit like that in the first Sweet Valley High book. I think the twins are more alike then the ghostwriter will admit. But, I’m getting off topic. Elizabeth watches Jess tell the Unicorns a story. She’s all animated and motioning with her arms and then gets embarrassed and brings her arms down. Liz is like, “I’ve been doing that too. I think it’s time we need bras.” HAHAHAHAHA! I don’t remember ever thinking that when I was younger. It was more like my mom telling me, “You need a bra. We’ll go shopping this weekend.”
Both of the twins have to wear baggy shirts to disguise their boobies. Thank you to whoever asked me to recap this book. I am so excited that I get to type ‘boobies’ and have it mean something to the story! Steven makes some boob jokes to Jessica (incest!) and she throws apples at him. She sits in her room and thinks about her boobs. Rather than ask Liz, “Do you think we need to start wearing bras?” she rips out a bra ad from a magazine and hides it in Liz’s closet to break the ice. Why doesn’t she talk to her mom? Oh right, I forgot that her mom is Alice “I Have Children?” Wakefield.
Liz also has bras on the brain as she’s getting dressed for her ice cream date with Todd. She puts on a sweater and compares her boobs to mosquito bites. HAHAHAHA! God, I LOVE this book. She finds the bra ad in her closet and thinks that putting it in Jess’s room would be the perfect way to break the ice and talk to her sister about their boobs.
ToddDate! We get the backstory about ToddDad’s knees, which I already recapped. Tim, Jim, and Belinda enter Casey’s and kind of butt in on the ToddDate. Liz gets annoyed, but then Belinda suggests they get their own booth so they leave Liz and Todd alone. Todd worries that the writing class will take up too much time. Todd is not very interested in the class and doesn’t think he’s a good writer anyway. Liz tells him that the whole point of the class is to learn how to write. I guess that explains why she’s so pumped to get into the class. Deep down, she knows she’s a crap writer.
The next morning, Jess comes into Liz’s room and freaks about her missing purple high top sneakers. She’s lying of course. She just needs to find a way to get into Liz’s closet and “find” the bra ad. Liz catches on and suggests they look for the sneakers in Jess’s room. They find the bra ad and crack up and say, “We need bras!” Dorks. They decide to get them on their own since they don’t want to bother Alice. Good thinking, girls! They plan to go to Kendalls, a department store, on Wednesday since everyone will be at the pep rally and they won’t have to worry about running into people they know and getting embarrassed. When my friends and I got bras, we were damn proud! We felt so grown up.
The list for the creative writing class is posted and the class consists of Maria Slater, Nora Mercandy, Sophia Rizzo, Patrick Morris, Randy Mason, Mandy Miller, Julie Porter, Cammi Adams, Amy Sutton, Pamela Jacobson, Todd Wilkins, and Elizabeth Wakefield (big surprise there!) Maria’s skin is described as mocha. Is she black? Latina? I didn’t read much of the Twin series so I don’t know who most of these kids are. Todd is upset and decides that he’s going to drop the class. Patrick tells him he’s not sure Todd can do that, but Todd says that basketball is his priority. I guess punching becomes his priority when he gets to high school.
Todd meets with Mr. Bowman about dropping the class. Mr. Bowman tells him to try it out for a week. That seems like good advice.
The creative writing teacher’s name is Mark Ramirez. Mark is young and unconventional. He’s like the Robin Williams character in Dead Poets Society. Love. That. Movie! He gets them in a circle and says O Captain My Captain! that they’re going to create a story together about making choices. They make up a story about Angela and David. Angela plays the guitar and has to choose between playing for a record executive and being with David in the hospital when he gets injured. God, I’ve been reduced to recapping a story within a story! I need the twins to talk about their boobs again. Class is over and their homework is to write their own short story, involving a hard choice. Liz decides to write about writing and Todd is going to write about basketball.
Todd’s late for practice, but he thinks about how much he likes the creative writing class.
Back to the bras! The twins are at Kendalls and Jessica puts a 38DD bra on her head. They laugh and then go to try on some bras. They see Rick Hunter’s mom and freak out and leave the store. There’s lots of freaking and running out of Kendalls in this book.
Dinner with the Wilkins. ToddDad wants to shoot hoops, but Todd has too much homework. ToddMom wants him to load the dishwasher, but Todd has too much homework. What? Loading the dishwasher is easy peasy. He tells his parents about the creative writing class. ToddDad wants to talk to Mr. Bowman about the class. Todd tells his dad to relax and suggests shooting hoops. I thought he had too much homework? Later, Todd works on his short story and ToddDad tells him to go to bed. It’s 11 pm and he has a game tomorrow. Todd pretends to go to sleep, but then continues to work on his short story until 3 am. He’s like a zombie in the morning and ToddMom wants him to stay home, but he rushes off to school.
In writing class, Mark goes over everyone’s paper, critiquing it in front of everyone else. That’s kind of rude. Most of the stories didn’t have hard enough choices. What does he expect? They’re twelve! When I was twelve, a hard choice would’ve been whether to watch Aladdin or The Little Mermaid. Class is over and Mark wants to speak with Todd. Todd freaks, thinking he’s in trouble. Actually, it was the best short story. Todd’s happy and runs off to practice foul shots before the game.
Bra o’clock. The twins are back, trying on bras. Caroline Pearce is in the store. They freak and run out of the store. Again.
Locker-room, after the basketball game. SVMS won, but barely. Todd gets called out for not being his usual awesome self. Tim is praised as the hero. Todd thinks everyone expects too much of him. Dude, wait until you’re 27! He wonders “Wasn’t being good at writing just as impressive as being good at basketball?” Not according to our dads, Todd. Later, he tells his parents about Mark’s class and a play that he’s taking them all to see. ToddDad doesn’t like Mark’s unconventional teaching methods. He thinks that the purpose of school is to learn things from books. Seriously, did they model ToddDad’s character on my own father? Todd would have to skip basketball practice to see the play. They tell Todd that he can go if he wants to, but ToddDad is not happy about it.
After the play, the class talks about how they all want to write when they get older. Maria wants to be a screenwriter. Liz wants to write mystery stories. Lizzie, Carolyn Keene you are not. Todd says that he’d like to write short stories. Liz and Amy are like, “What about basketball?” He gets annoyed and says you can do both.
SVMS basketball game. The team is down by one point and there are ten seconds left. Tim passes the ball to Todd and he shoots the ball with two seconds left. The ball bounces around the rim. He misses. In the locker room, Peter blames Todd for the loss. The coach blames their lack of defense against Big Mesa. ToddDad blames the creative writing class. I blame Liz because I think every crappy thing that happens is her fault. ToddDad wants Todd to give up the writing class. Just like when Neil’s dad wanted Neil to give up acting in Dead Poet’s Society! I hope Todd doesn’t end up like Neil!
Liz wakes up on Saturday morning to rain. What? Rain in Eden Sweet Valley? Liz thinks that it will be the perfect time for her and Jess to go bra shopping since no one will be at the mall on a rainy day. That’s when I think the mall is the most crowded since people can’t do stuff outside, but I’m a non-Wakefield so, therefore, I’m an ignoramus.
The mall is empty as the twins shop. They get ready to buy their bras and then a crowd of people gather around the twins and the owner announces that they’re the stores one millionth and one customers. How ironic! And they get 10% any purchase for the next year and their picture will be on all of their ads. They freak and - say it with me - run out of the store. Jess wonders why it’s so hard to buy a bra.
Todd talks to Mark about dropping the class. Mark asks him if he would rather be playing basketball when he’s writing. Todd doesn’t know. Mark talks him out of dropping the class. Liz gets in his business and tells him to be what he wants to be. Thanks, Polonius.
Todd works on his short story and tells ToddDad at dinner that he’s not dropping the class. ToddDad shoots fire out of his mouth and ToddMom tries to calm him down and hear what Todd has to say. ToddDad is still angry. It’s nice to see that Todd’s a chip off the old block.
Todd works on his short story some more, but can’t seem to find an ending to the story. Much like he can’t make a decision about writing verses basketball.
ToddDad thinks that Mark is a bad influence and talks to the principal about him. ToddMom pulls the “He’s just doing it because he loves you” card and Todd says, “Then I wish he’d love me a little less.”
Todd’s friends saw ToddDad talking to the principal and ask Todd what’s going on. Liz butts in some more and Todd gets angry and yells at them.
At dinner, Todd asks what happened with the principal and ToddDad is like, “Nothing.” The principal loves Mark. Todd shoots hoops and hears his dad on the phone, talking to Mrs. Wakefield about Mark. Todd freaks, thinking that ToddDad is going to get Mark fired.
The kids are mad at Todd because they think that he’s blaming his shitty basketball skillz on Mark and whining to ToddDad, hoping that Mark will get fired. Even Liz jumps on the bandwagon. He skips school and hangs out at Secca Lake.
The next day, he’s getting the silent treatment from his friends. He gets called into the principal’s office and he’s afraid it’s because of Mark and he defends him, but the principal is like, “What? No, Mark’s not getting fired. You’re getting suspended for skipping school!” He’s off the basketball team until further notice. That’s a little harsh.
Liz gets preachy to the writing class about how they treated Todd. Tim tells them about his suspension and that he saw Todd leaving school.
Todd skipped school again and goes home. I guess he didn’t learn anything the first time. He decides to run away and writes a letter to his parents. He takes $50 from his closet to travel with.
Jess and Liz decide that it’s not or never with the bras. They go to get them while everyone is getting ready for a basketball game. As they leave the house, Steven makes a comment about how they’re wearing baggy tshirts and I’ve got to quote it because it’s too too creepy and inappropriate. He says, “I know you two are growing up and out, but I think you’re kidding yourselves if you think you’ll ever be able to fill out those tshirts.” ICK!
The twins get their bras and as they walk home, they meet Ken, Aaron, and Patrick. The guys ask them if they’ve seen Todd. Mr. Clark reduced his sentence. Instead of suspension, he just has to serve detention. It begins to rain and as the twins walk home, their bras fall out of a hole in the bag, right in front of the boys.
Todd starts to run away. He runs into Liz and lies about what he’s doing because he knows Liz would tell on him. He’s so right. She tells him about the suspension being lifted, but it’s too little, too late. She knows something is up with Todd and follows him and figures out that he’s going to the bus station. Todd feels someone following him. He buys a ticket to San Diego and waits. He ends up falling asleep and being woken up by his dad. Liz had followed him and then ran to tell his parents what happened. Just like Todd thought she would do! Todd thinks, “I should’ve known it was Elizabeth.” He’s got that girl all figured out! ToddDad tells Todd that he talked to Mark and was all wrong about him. They make up. Todd is allowed to come to practice ten minutes late so he can still attend the writing class and Mark is going to give Todd less homework. Everything works out in the end!
Todd tells his friends about running away. They look at the Unicorns, who are trying to be southern belles. This is all a lead up to #78, Steven The Zombie.
Kind of a let down because Todd doesn’t run away until the end and he doesn’t even do it right, but the bra storyline made it worthwhile, especially to hear Liz compare her boobs to mosquito bites. God, that’s hilarious.
Before the recap, I just have to let you all in on a funny story. Last week, my boyfriend said that I was talking in my sleep about Sweet Valley. He told me that maybe I need to take a break from this group. I told him that maybe I needed to find a new boyfriend. Just kidding, Boyfriend!
Okay, so recap time! Todd looks kind of cute (for a twelve year old) on the cover, all moody and sad. Elizabeth is doing her patented should pat. But she looks pretty so I cut her some slack.
We open in the locker room. Dirrrty! SVMS just won their 5th straight basketball game and the guys are congratulating Todd. Tim reminds Todd about his knee braces. I made a note to myself to remember this, thinking it would be important later, but it’s not. It’s just to let the reader know that Todd’s Dad (referred to as ToddDad for the rest of the recap) used to be a star basketball player, but then blew his knees out so ToddDad thinks that knee protection is important.
Todd leaves the locker room and is swarmed by fans. Winston tells him, “You were hot!” Um, Winston, have you hanging out with Tom McKay a lot lately? The Unicorns want to make him an honorary member, but Janet doesn’t think that purple is his color. Ellen goes on about how the team’s uniforms should be purple. Ellen should go to LSU. Todd and Liz talk and make a date for the next night at Casey’s. Todd thinks that Liz doesn’t get mushy over guys the way most girls do. She just cheats on them and I think most guys would take mushy over cheater any day!
Todd and ToddDad go to dinner and Todd wants three pizzas and a cheeseburger. Now I’ve been known to eat a whole pizza, but three? And a cheeseburger? Damn! ToddDad, don’t you feed your kid? They decide to work on Todd’s foul shots. God, he’s one of those dads, isn’t he? I had one too, Todd! I feel you.
Amy and Liz are at the Dairi Burger, deciding who will write the article. Um, ladies, shouldn’t the sports writer do it? Liz wants to write about the creative writing class instead. She frets over if she’s going to get picked. Amy tells her that of course she will since she’s the best writer. I give Amy props for saying that with a straight face. Doesn’t Liz seem like the type of girl who fishes for complements? Like when the skinny girl is all, “I’m so fat!” just so her friends can be like, “You’re not fat at all. You’re skinny and gorgeous and none of us can hold a candle to you!” I think Jess pulls shit like that in the first Sweet Valley High book. I think the twins are more alike then the ghostwriter will admit. But, I’m getting off topic. Elizabeth watches Jess tell the Unicorns a story. She’s all animated and motioning with her arms and then gets embarrassed and brings her arms down. Liz is like, “I’ve been doing that too. I think it’s time we need bras.” HAHAHAHAHA! I don’t remember ever thinking that when I was younger. It was more like my mom telling me, “You need a bra. We’ll go shopping this weekend.”
Both of the twins have to wear baggy shirts to disguise their boobies. Thank you to whoever asked me to recap this book. I am so excited that I get to type ‘boobies’ and have it mean something to the story! Steven makes some boob jokes to Jessica (incest!) and she throws apples at him. She sits in her room and thinks about her boobs. Rather than ask Liz, “Do you think we need to start wearing bras?” she rips out a bra ad from a magazine and hides it in Liz’s closet to break the ice. Why doesn’t she talk to her mom? Oh right, I forgot that her mom is Alice “I Have Children?” Wakefield.
Liz also has bras on the brain as she’s getting dressed for her ice cream date with Todd. She puts on a sweater and compares her boobs to mosquito bites. HAHAHAHA! God, I LOVE this book. She finds the bra ad in her closet and thinks that putting it in Jess’s room would be the perfect way to break the ice and talk to her sister about their boobs.
ToddDate! We get the backstory about ToddDad’s knees, which I already recapped. Tim, Jim, and Belinda enter Casey’s and kind of butt in on the ToddDate. Liz gets annoyed, but then Belinda suggests they get their own booth so they leave Liz and Todd alone. Todd worries that the writing class will take up too much time. Todd is not very interested in the class and doesn’t think he’s a good writer anyway. Liz tells him that the whole point of the class is to learn how to write. I guess that explains why she’s so pumped to get into the class. Deep down, she knows she’s a crap writer.
The next morning, Jess comes into Liz’s room and freaks about her missing purple high top sneakers. She’s lying of course. She just needs to find a way to get into Liz’s closet and “find” the bra ad. Liz catches on and suggests they look for the sneakers in Jess’s room. They find the bra ad and crack up and say, “We need bras!” Dorks. They decide to get them on their own since they don’t want to bother Alice. Good thinking, girls! They plan to go to Kendalls, a department store, on Wednesday since everyone will be at the pep rally and they won’t have to worry about running into people they know and getting embarrassed. When my friends and I got bras, we were damn proud! We felt so grown up.
The list for the creative writing class is posted and the class consists of Maria Slater, Nora Mercandy, Sophia Rizzo, Patrick Morris, Randy Mason, Mandy Miller, Julie Porter, Cammi Adams, Amy Sutton, Pamela Jacobson, Todd Wilkins, and Elizabeth Wakefield (big surprise there!) Maria’s skin is described as mocha. Is she black? Latina? I didn’t read much of the Twin series so I don’t know who most of these kids are. Todd is upset and decides that he’s going to drop the class. Patrick tells him he’s not sure Todd can do that, but Todd says that basketball is his priority. I guess punching becomes his priority when he gets to high school.
Todd meets with Mr. Bowman about dropping the class. Mr. Bowman tells him to try it out for a week. That seems like good advice.
The creative writing teacher’s name is Mark Ramirez. Mark is young and unconventional. He’s like the Robin Williams character in Dead Poets Society. Love. That. Movie! He gets them in a circle and says O Captain My Captain! that they’re going to create a story together about making choices. They make up a story about Angela and David. Angela plays the guitar and has to choose between playing for a record executive and being with David in the hospital when he gets injured. God, I’ve been reduced to recapping a story within a story! I need the twins to talk about their boobs again. Class is over and their homework is to write their own short story, involving a hard choice. Liz decides to write about writing and Todd is going to write about basketball.
Todd’s late for practice, but he thinks about how much he likes the creative writing class.
Back to the bras! The twins are at Kendalls and Jessica puts a 38DD bra on her head. They laugh and then go to try on some bras. They see Rick Hunter’s mom and freak out and leave the store. There’s lots of freaking and running out of Kendalls in this book.
Dinner with the Wilkins. ToddDad wants to shoot hoops, but Todd has too much homework. ToddMom wants him to load the dishwasher, but Todd has too much homework. What? Loading the dishwasher is easy peasy. He tells his parents about the creative writing class. ToddDad wants to talk to Mr. Bowman about the class. Todd tells his dad to relax and suggests shooting hoops. I thought he had too much homework? Later, Todd works on his short story and ToddDad tells him to go to bed. It’s 11 pm and he has a game tomorrow. Todd pretends to go to sleep, but then continues to work on his short story until 3 am. He’s like a zombie in the morning and ToddMom wants him to stay home, but he rushes off to school.
In writing class, Mark goes over everyone’s paper, critiquing it in front of everyone else. That’s kind of rude. Most of the stories didn’t have hard enough choices. What does he expect? They’re twelve! When I was twelve, a hard choice would’ve been whether to watch Aladdin or The Little Mermaid. Class is over and Mark wants to speak with Todd. Todd freaks, thinking he’s in trouble. Actually, it was the best short story. Todd’s happy and runs off to practice foul shots before the game.
Bra o’clock. The twins are back, trying on bras. Caroline Pearce is in the store. They freak and run out of the store. Again.
Locker-room, after the basketball game. SVMS won, but barely. Todd gets called out for not being his usual awesome self. Tim is praised as the hero. Todd thinks everyone expects too much of him. Dude, wait until you’re 27! He wonders “Wasn’t being good at writing just as impressive as being good at basketball?” Not according to our dads, Todd. Later, he tells his parents about Mark’s class and a play that he’s taking them all to see. ToddDad doesn’t like Mark’s unconventional teaching methods. He thinks that the purpose of school is to learn things from books. Seriously, did they model ToddDad’s character on my own father? Todd would have to skip basketball practice to see the play. They tell Todd that he can go if he wants to, but ToddDad is not happy about it.
After the play, the class talks about how they all want to write when they get older. Maria wants to be a screenwriter. Liz wants to write mystery stories. Lizzie, Carolyn Keene you are not. Todd says that he’d like to write short stories. Liz and Amy are like, “What about basketball?” He gets annoyed and says you can do both.
SVMS basketball game. The team is down by one point and there are ten seconds left. Tim passes the ball to Todd and he shoots the ball with two seconds left. The ball bounces around the rim. He misses. In the locker room, Peter blames Todd for the loss. The coach blames their lack of defense against Big Mesa. ToddDad blames the creative writing class. I blame Liz because I think every crappy thing that happens is her fault. ToddDad wants Todd to give up the writing class. Just like when Neil’s dad wanted Neil to give up acting in Dead Poet’s Society! I hope Todd doesn’t end up like Neil!
Liz wakes up on Saturday morning to rain. What? Rain in Eden Sweet Valley? Liz thinks that it will be the perfect time for her and Jess to go bra shopping since no one will be at the mall on a rainy day. That’s when I think the mall is the most crowded since people can’t do stuff outside, but I’m a non-Wakefield so, therefore, I’m an ignoramus.
The mall is empty as the twins shop. They get ready to buy their bras and then a crowd of people gather around the twins and the owner announces that they’re the stores one millionth and one customers. How ironic! And they get 10% any purchase for the next year and their picture will be on all of their ads. They freak and - say it with me - run out of the store. Jess wonders why it’s so hard to buy a bra.
Todd talks to Mark about dropping the class. Mark asks him if he would rather be playing basketball when he’s writing. Todd doesn’t know. Mark talks him out of dropping the class. Liz gets in his business and tells him to be what he wants to be. Thanks, Polonius.
Todd works on his short story and tells ToddDad at dinner that he’s not dropping the class. ToddDad shoots fire out of his mouth and ToddMom tries to calm him down and hear what Todd has to say. ToddDad is still angry. It’s nice to see that Todd’s a chip off the old block.
Todd works on his short story some more, but can’t seem to find an ending to the story. Much like he can’t make a decision about writing verses basketball.
ToddDad thinks that Mark is a bad influence and talks to the principal about him. ToddMom pulls the “He’s just doing it because he loves you” card and Todd says, “Then I wish he’d love me a little less.”
Todd’s friends saw ToddDad talking to the principal and ask Todd what’s going on. Liz butts in some more and Todd gets angry and yells at them.
At dinner, Todd asks what happened with the principal and ToddDad is like, “Nothing.” The principal loves Mark. Todd shoots hoops and hears his dad on the phone, talking to Mrs. Wakefield about Mark. Todd freaks, thinking that ToddDad is going to get Mark fired.
The kids are mad at Todd because they think that he’s blaming his shitty basketball skillz on Mark and whining to ToddDad, hoping that Mark will get fired. Even Liz jumps on the bandwagon. He skips school and hangs out at Secca Lake.
The next day, he’s getting the silent treatment from his friends. He gets called into the principal’s office and he’s afraid it’s because of Mark and he defends him, but the principal is like, “What? No, Mark’s not getting fired. You’re getting suspended for skipping school!” He’s off the basketball team until further notice. That’s a little harsh.
Liz gets preachy to the writing class about how they treated Todd. Tim tells them about his suspension and that he saw Todd leaving school.
Todd skipped school again and goes home. I guess he didn’t learn anything the first time. He decides to run away and writes a letter to his parents. He takes $50 from his closet to travel with.
Jess and Liz decide that it’s not or never with the bras. They go to get them while everyone is getting ready for a basketball game. As they leave the house, Steven makes a comment about how they’re wearing baggy tshirts and I’ve got to quote it because it’s too too creepy and inappropriate. He says, “I know you two are growing up and out, but I think you’re kidding yourselves if you think you’ll ever be able to fill out those tshirts.” ICK!
The twins get their bras and as they walk home, they meet Ken, Aaron, and Patrick. The guys ask them if they’ve seen Todd. Mr. Clark reduced his sentence. Instead of suspension, he just has to serve detention. It begins to rain and as the twins walk home, their bras fall out of a hole in the bag, right in front of the boys.
Todd starts to run away. He runs into Liz and lies about what he’s doing because he knows Liz would tell on him. He’s so right. She tells him about the suspension being lifted, but it’s too little, too late. She knows something is up with Todd and follows him and figures out that he’s going to the bus station. Todd feels someone following him. He buys a ticket to San Diego and waits. He ends up falling asleep and being woken up by his dad. Liz had followed him and then ran to tell his parents what happened. Just like Todd thought she would do! Todd thinks, “I should’ve known it was Elizabeth.” He’s got that girl all figured out! ToddDad tells Todd that he talked to Mark and was all wrong about him. They make up. Todd is allowed to come to practice ten minutes late so he can still attend the writing class and Mark is going to give Todd less homework. Everything works out in the end!
Todd tells his friends about running away. They look at the Unicorns, who are trying to be southern belles. This is all a lead up to #78, Steven The Zombie.
Kind of a let down because Todd doesn’t run away until the end and he doesn’t even do it right, but the bra storyline made it worthwhile, especially to hear Liz compare her boobs to mosquito bites. God, that’s hilarious.