Well...

[nobleplatypus]

If I'm going to be home sick, I might as well accomplish SOMETHING. So here's another installment of the riveting Bobbsey Twins Liveblog! As always, previous chapters can be found by following the little tag at the bottom of the entry.

Comments

[philosophercat]

It is so sad that I cannot see the word 'giraffe' and not think of Matt Smith.

[nobleplatypus]

HA! Well, he's a trendsetter! Mark my words, the Drunk Giraffe is going to become a wedding staple.

[philosophercat]

Also, I want "the llama represents JUSTICE" on a mug or something. And I'm sort of inspired by these really bad cliffhangers. Whenever I write Whofic, I try to work appropriate cliffhangers in for authenticity's sake. It would be fun to do a few "wait... someone ate the last biscuit!!" *stinnnnnnnnnnnng!* ones just to liven things up from the usual, you know.

[nobleplatypus]

Just don't forget: whatever the cliffhanger may be, it must be resolved in the first three paragraphs of the following chapter, and have no lasting impact. Like...

"Never mind!" cried the Doctor. "I've found another packet of biscuits!"

"Thank goodness!" Amy exclaimed.

[goddessofchaos]

Yay, Bobbsey Twins! And illustrated too - you're spoiling us!

I'm fretting over what was in that metal drum now. I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight.

[nobleplatypus]

Don't lose hope!!!

[tabslock]

"I'd like to know what was in that metal drum," Bert mused. "It's probably at the bottom of the river, now."

"Don't give up hope," said Toony.

This is deeply unsettling, because I recall a time in my early childhood when I was able to read these books without gagging, and yet they are clearly aimed at an audience with moderate to severe mental disabilities.

Were the Boxcar Children this insipid? I think I liked those, but it was mostly because they lived in a boxcar, had no parental authorities and ate/wore/used whatever they could steal or scavenge. (Later I would greatly enjoy The Stand, partly for one of those same reasons.) I stopped reading when they stopped living in the boxcar. Talk about false advertising.

OH NO LLAMA

[nobleplatypus]

It's been so long since I read the Boxcar Children, but my guess is that the equally insipid dialogue and relationship dynamics were balanced out by a more intriguing premise and better illustrations.

It's okay, only horrible urchins have anything to fear from the LLAMA OF JUSTICE.

[artekka]

only the first of the Boxcar Children books was any good anyway. :P When I was a kid, my cousins (also my neighbors) had a camper, and when their folks opened it up to air it out every summer, my big brother and my cousins Laura and Kyle and I would play Boxcar Children in it. It was pretty awesome. Except that being the younger girl I was Violet, and was once forced to do the part of the book where Violet becomes sick and plays no part in the action for a couple chapters. That was annoying.

[nobleplatypus]

I have to wrack my brains just to come up with the names of the four children. Jessie was the older sister, right? And Benny was the youngest? I'm blanking on the oldest boy's name, though...

[artekka]

I. LOVE. THE LLAMA.

[nobleplatypus]

The llama is easy to love. ^_^ He takes the vegetation of evildoing and chews it into the cud of retribution!