starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Aug 22, 2006 11:02:24 GMT -5
Also in The Secret Life of Mary Anne Spier, MA says that the house she lives in was built in 1774, when, as we all know, it was built in 1795. And in Mary Anne and the Playground Fight, she says that when she was a baby, her father sent her to live with her grandparents in Nebraska for a while. Abby also said Mary Anne went to live in Nebraska in one of her earlier books. Plus, the date that house was built changes many times. It's been 1774, 1795, 1799, and maybe even 1777. I'm not sure on the last one, but on the others, I am.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2006 16:40:19 GMT -5
In 'Dawn and Whitney Friends Forever' there is one part where they are on a family date with Dawn's dad and a woman (Barbara) at a fish restauarnt and she says "what an interesting place RICHARD" Poor Jack
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Post by baseballchica03 on Aug 25, 2006 17:25:13 GMT -5
I stopped reading the books before Abby showed up when I was a kid, and I just got back into the books earlier this summer. I'm reading Welcome To the BSC, Abby now, and I wonder why Abby and Anna go to SMS with the BSC members. In Kristy's Big Day (or whichever it was when Kristy and her family first moved over to Watson's house), one of her older brothers mentioned that their mom and Watson have to pay tuition/a fee so that Kristy can stay at her old school because they are in a different school district (although there's only one high school). Shannon goes to private school, but wouldn't Abby and Anna go to whichever middle school is on that side of town, if they were in public school?
It just seemed like a huge inconsistency to miss.
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Post by ktag on Aug 25, 2006 17:56:37 GMT -5
Abby and Anna are actually introduced in the book before that (yeah, weird). Anyway, it's explained that they go to SMS because none of the other schools has an orchestra, and Anna plays the violin. So, conveniently, they go to the same school as the BSC.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2006 21:21:43 GMT -5
Found another odd thing. In Mary Anne Saves the Day, near the end when Mary Anne has the party at her house with the girls they make Stacey a hamburger since she "can't eat the processed cheese in pizza because of her diabetes" How many times did we see Stacey eat pizza after that? One example, in Stacey Vs. the BSC when she went out with Robert and friends.
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Post by macca on Aug 27, 2006 1:19:21 GMT -5
^ hey, you're totally right. They never ever mentioned that Stacey was unable to eat pizza again. There definitely were other instances when she ate it, will definitely be taking notice now!
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Aug 29, 2006 11:08:26 GMT -5
I just sent a friend of mine some of my EBay-purchased doubles of the BSC books for her birthday, and she picked out two mistakes in #31 that I never noticed before: first, the part where Dawn says "Hi, Sam" when it's actually supposed to be Charlie (this was mentioned earlier in the thread). Then, in another place, it says something about "Dawn and I." It's supposed to be Dawn doing the narration!!! This, plus the "now we're sisters" present situation makes me wonder if this book was originally supposed to be narrated by Mary Anne, and the #30 by Dawn, but it was switched for whatever reason.
One more thing that's not really an inconsistency, but it IS a plot point that was used twice. In (I think) Super Special #10, Ben describes how his brother found what he thought was a cocoon in a tree, but it turned out to be a sleeping bat. The same thing happened to Robert in "Stacey and the Bad Girls."
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Post by supernatural babe on Sept 1, 2006 15:24:50 GMT -5
Does Claudia's spelling count? lol! Seriously though, why do they insist that Claudia is such a bad student with terrible grades. Wouldn't she be described as an average student. From book #2 (I think)her parents had a condition that Claudia can stay in the club if she can keep a 'C-average. *shrug* Grace's crush on Logan was never mentioned again. Instead, Cokie went after him despite being meh to him in the beginning....Slapper In abby's un-valentine, the twins switch places and Ross brown is totally fooled. Wtf? Abby has long hair and Anna has short- this is general knowledge. Not only that, Abby is in Ross's class. Surely he'd be able to tell the difference.
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Post by baseballchica03 on Sept 2, 2006 1:59:05 GMT -5
I just finished Welcome Back Stacey, and at the end, Dawn returns to being an alternate officer. She says she likes the variety better anyway, and she jokes that the other members need to miss meetings more often so that she can have a job, Kristy in particuarly so that she could be president for a change. They joke that Kristy has never missed a meeting before, but back in #11 (Kristy and the Snobs), she misses a meeting when they have to put Louie down. Oops.
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Post by lilafowler on Sept 3, 2006 14:02:13 GMT -5
When I was little, I thought AMM wrote all the books herself, so I was very forgiving ("Oh, well, she has a lot of work to do!") when I noticed a continuity error.
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Post by inge on Sept 3, 2006 17:45:29 GMT -5
I know this must be mentioned like 20 times before but it's just so annoying - in California Girls in the plane all the girls order spaghetti, besides Stacey and Dawn, who have... chicken! Aargh!
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Post by macca on Sept 3, 2006 23:03:23 GMT -5
^ Dawn went from "doesn't like to eat much red meat for health reasons" to militant vegetarian. Strange.
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Post by baseballchica03 on Sept 3, 2006 23:26:34 GMT -5
^ That's true. In The Ghost at Dawn's House, she says when preparing dinner, "We're semi-vegitarians."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2006 20:59:27 GMT -5
Maybe not an inconsistency and just an instance of Claudia's stupidity, but in # 71, "Claudia and The Perfect Boy", Claudia is wearing (pg. 7):
"Pink socks with gold stretch pants and...a gold turtleneck under a pink sweater"
On page 119, she reads a personal ad that states:
"I need a girl who doesn't giggle and act like a little kid and preferably one who doesn't wear pink"
To which Claudia thinks:
"I fit his qualifications and I don't look good in pink."
So, did she wear the aforementioned outfit realizing she didn't look good in it? I though "exotic, gorgeous" Claudia looked good in everything!
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 11, 2006 23:06:40 GMT -5
^ Picked up on that too and it bugged me. Plus, that pink and gold outfit sounds so old lady and just plain weird, definitely not Claudia's "usual" style.
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