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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Jan 5, 2018 0:22:47 GMT -5
A note about Karen. She's just started kindergarten in book #1, so presumably she's five years old and is going to skip into first grade soon. However, she is seven later on. What gives? Either she started kindergarten when she was six, or she skipped being six entirely.
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Post by LadyDru on Jan 5, 2018 12:44:12 GMT -5
A note about Karen. She's just started kindergarten in book #1, so presumably she's five years old and is going to skip into first grade soon. However, she is seven later on. What gives? Either she started kindergarten when she was six, or she skipped being six entirely. They had noted how intelligent she was so let her skip kindergarten and she had turned six that spring, in book #5.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Sept 14, 2020 11:11:14 GMT -5
I'm putting this here because I feel it falls under the "inconsistency" category.
In Kristy's Big Day, Sam tells Kristy that Watson and Elizabeth had to pay extra money to let her remain at Stoneybrook Middle School instead of transferring to Kelsey Middle School. So we assume Stoneybrook has two middle schools. Later in Kristy and the Dirty Diapers, she and Abby are talking to some Kelsey students as they wait for their bus to arrive.
But here's where I was always confused. I THINK it's in Kristy and the Snobs when Kristy says she and her brothers are the only kids in her neighborhood who attend public school. So is Kelsey public or private? I'd assume it was public, since it wouldn't make any sense for Kristy to have to transfer to a private school when she moves to a new neighborhood. But then there's the kids she and Abby are talking to later on in the series. Maybe they all moved there post-Kristy and the Snobs? XD
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Sept 14, 2020 14:31:40 GMT -5
I'm putting this here because I feel it falls under the "inconsistency" category. In Kristy's Big Day, Sam tells Kristy that Watson and Elizabeth had to pay extra money to let her remain at Stoneybrook Middle School instead of transferring to Kelsey Middle School. So we assume Stoneybrook has two middle schools. Later in Kristy and the Dirty Diapers, she and Abby are talking to some Kelsey students as they wait for their bus to arrive. But here's where I was always confused. I THINK it's in Kristy and the Snobs when Kristy says she and her brothers are the only kids in her neighborhood who attend public school. So is Kelsey public or private? I'd assume it was public, since it wouldn't make any sense for Kristy to have to transfer to a private school when she moves to a new neighborhood. But then there's the kids she and Abby are talking to later on in the series. Maybe they all moved there post-Kristy and the Snobs? XD I dunno why but I always assumed that Kelsey was a semi-private school (I found an article here about them) and that the kids from Stoneybrook Academy, whose grades are k-6 (or 5 depending on the book) went there.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Sept 14, 2020 23:32:41 GMT -5
I'm putting this here because I feel it falls under the "inconsistency" category. In Kristy's Big Day, Sam tells Kristy that Watson and Elizabeth had to pay extra money to let her remain at Stoneybrook Middle School instead of transferring to Kelsey Middle School. So we assume Stoneybrook has two middle schools. Later in Kristy and the Dirty Diapers, she and Abby are talking to some Kelsey students as they wait for their bus to arrive. But here's where I was always confused. I THINK it's in Kristy and the Snobs when Kristy says she and her brothers are the only kids in her neighborhood who attend public school. So is Kelsey public or private? I'd assume it was public, since it wouldn't make any sense for Kristy to have to transfer to a private school when she moves to a new neighborhood. But then there's the kids she and Abby are talking to later on in the series. Maybe they all moved there post-Kristy and the Snobs? XD I dunno why but I always assumed that Kelsey was a semi-private school (I found an article here about them) and that the kids from Stoneybrook Academy, whose grades are k-6 (or 5 depending on the book) went there. So like a charter school then? I guess that makes sense. It just seems strange to me that children in a certain neighborhood wouldn't have access to any public school. I know I'm thinking far too into this XD
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Sept 14, 2020 23:59:34 GMT -5
Something like that, beats me why none would go to a public school. Maybe the parents don't want to pay the fee that Watson and Elizabeth do to go to SMS lol.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Sept 28, 2020 12:20:21 GMT -5
What about an inconsistency from the (original) tv show? To be fair, I doubt the tv show was trying to be super accurate to the books but this still stuck out to me.
In the Babysitters Remember episode, they're discussing their worst babysitting job, which leads up to Stacey recounting how she tamed the snobby Delaneys (and that scene is actually very accurate to that part from Kristy and the Snobs). Claudia mentions breaking her leg on the old swing and then Dawn says, "What about the time Buddy Barrett disappeared? I totally freaked!"
Mallory then asks, a little frantic, "Did you find him?!?" When Buddy goes missing in Dawn and the Impossible Three, Mallory is one of the people who helps Dawn look for him! In fact, and it's been awhile since I read it, but isn't Mallory the first person Dawn calls?
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Post by sparklymouse on Sept 28, 2020 19:40:11 GMT -5
What about an inconsistency from the (original) tv show? To be fair, I doubt the tv show was trying to be super accurate to the books but this still stuck out to me. In the Babysitters Remember episode, they're discussing their worst babysitting job, which leads up to Stacey recounting how she tamed the snobby Delaneys (and that scene is actually very accurate to that part from Kristy and the Snobs). Claudia mentions breaking her leg on the old swing and then Dawn says, "What about the time Buddy Barrett disappeared? I totally freaked!" Mallory then asks, a little frantic, "Did you find him?!?" When Buddy goes missing in Dawn and the Impossible Three, Mallory is one of the people who helps Dawn look for him! In fact, and it's been awhile since I read it, but isn't Mallory the first person Dawn calls? Mallory was too busy stealing brownies from babies to remember. Was Babysitters Remember the only episode that followed the book series? I remember the episodes being very random.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Sept 29, 2020 11:30:10 GMT -5
I remember in BSLS Karen's Newspaper Karen referring to her father as "Watson." I think she was talking to Hannie and they were wanting hats to look like reporters and she said something like "We could ask Watson or your dad for them." This confused me SO much when I first read it! Because I had only read Little Sister books up until that point and Karen always referred to him as Daddy. So I was like "Who's Watson?" Another one - in Mary Anne and Camp BSC, during the camp cookout, all the kids are demanding ghost stories. So Mary Anne says she tells one about a ghost cat and mentions a similar thing happened to Dawn once. Except that was MALLORY and the ghost cat! When I did that book for the BSC snark community on LJ, I kept a running list of all the inconsistencies and going by my posts, I think I came up with four in the same book. Were you paying any attention, Nola Thacker?
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jan 16, 2021 21:59:59 GMT -5
I think that this is an inconsistency? But in Karen's Tattletale Stoneybrook Academy celebrates it's 25th anniversary. Yet in Karen's Treasure it's mentioned that the school has been around since 1935.
So unless the series is set in 1960, this seems like a very confusing timeline.
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Post by oldhickory on Jan 19, 2021 10:05:57 GMT -5
I don't read the Little Sister series, but that seems to be a pretty big error. It is weird though how the series has been around so long that the decades kind of seem to blur. Back when the first books came out, 20 years ago was the 60s and the film and TV references reflected that, and their parents would have been teenagers in the 60s. But now 20 years ago was the already the 2000s and their relatives from the 60s would be the grandparents now, but the cultural references still act like the 60s were not that long ago. 1935 seems soooo long ago and most people I know weren't around then, but when the series was young, the 30s were only like 50 years ago.
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Post by livvy on Feb 5, 2021 10:35:52 GMT -5
Sorry if these have been mentioned but I'm NOT reading 93 pages !
Mary Anne wanted to wear a pink dress for her dads wedding in book 30-I just read this and in no for she stated that she can't stand pink .
The ghosties forget Charlotte has a dog named Carrot
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Post by livvy on Feb 5, 2021 10:36:32 GMT -5
A note about Karen. She's just started kindergarten in book #1, so presumably she's five years old and is going to skip into first grade soon. However, she is seven later on. What gives? Either she started kindergarten when she was six, or she skipped being six entirely. They had noted how intelligent she was so let her skip kindergarten and she had turned six that spring, in book #5. She skipped a grade it was mentioned in the earlier BSC books .
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 6, 2021 12:05:33 GMT -5
Sorry if these have been mentioned but I'm NOT reading 93 pages ! Mary Anne wanted to wear a pink dress for her dads wedding in book 30-I just read this and in no for she stated that she can't stand pink . The ghosties forget Charlotte has a dog named Carrot You should We are great conversationalists.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Feb 11, 2021 21:01:23 GMT -5
What about an inconsistency from the (original) tv show? To be fair, I doubt the tv show was trying to be super accurate to the books but this still stuck out to me. In the Babysitters Remember episode, they're discussing their worst babysitting job, which leads up to Stacey recounting how she tamed the snobby Delaneys (and that scene is actually very accurate to that part from Kristy and the Snobs). Claudia mentions breaking her leg on the old swing and then Dawn says, "What about the time Buddy Barrett disappeared? I totally freaked!" Mallory then asks, a little frantic, "Did you find him?!?" When Buddy goes missing in Dawn and the Impossible Three, Mallory is one of the people who helps Dawn look for him! In fact, and it's been awhile since I read it, but isn't Mallory the first person Dawn calls? Mallory was too busy stealing brownies from babies to remember. Was Babysitters Remember the only episode that followed the book series? I remember the episodes being very random. I'm pretty sure I've seen all the original tv show episodes, there wasn't that many. And I don't think any are 100% based on a certain book. There's certain plots that crop up in the books - a Cokie replacement named Marci tries to steal Logan from Mary Anne, Stacey neglects her diabetes and ends up in the hospital, Claudia and Janine have a reckoning about their relationship. The Babysitters Remember one is the same plot as the book but it's more on them looking back on BSC memories (they do flashback to the wedding performance in Kristy's Big Day and the egg babies from....is that Mary Anne + 2 Many Babies?) rather than their most important memories. As for inconsistencies, I guess this could count as one. Mary Anne and Stacey meet Alex the boy babysitter in Sea City in Boy-Crazy Stacey but it's still a huge deal two books later when we're introduced to Logan. I guess it was still a big deal because it was everyone in the BSC meeting him? UPDATE because I thought of another! In Kristy and the Missing Fortune, Charlotte doesn't know what an arboretum is and then asks what sabotage is. Like, we always hear about Charlotte is their smartest client (and Karen) and how she skipped a grade and she's a genius. But all of a sudden she doesn't know what an arboretum and sabotage are?
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