History Funny / Speak

-->"My goal is to go home and take a nap."

** [[AcceptableTargets "Exchange students are ruining the country"]], though [[ItMakesSenseInContext context]] makes it a TearJerker since Rachel has friend-dumped Melinda for the exchange student posse.

* Hairwoman's obsessive dissection of every little word and detail of ''Literature/TheScarletLetter''.

* Becomes a BrickJoke when Melinda brings the bones to art class to make a sculpture, and her initial attempts to make them into expressive art.

* The RunningGag of the school mascots constantly changing, finally settling on the "Horny Hornets". On a televised game, a sportscaster "did a segment showing the 'Hornet Hustle,' with the cheerleaders shaking their stingers, and the crowd bumping and grinding their horny, Horney heinies."

** [[AcceptableTargets "Exchange students are ruining the country"]] though [[ItMakesSenseInContext context]] makes it a TearJerker since Rachel has friend-dumped Melinda for the exchange student posse.
** Not a snarky remark, but when Heather after friend-dumping Melinda comes to her to ask for a favor, while suggesting that she redoes her room in Seafoam Green or Eggplant. Though she doesn't say it in the book, you can feel Melinda's disdain dripping off her description of Heather.

* Melinda's Spanish teacher breaking her own no-English rule two months into the school year just to tell the class to stop pretending not to understand the homework assignments.

* Melinda's Spanish teacher breaking her own no-English rule two months into the school year just to tell the class to stop pretending to understand the homework assignments.

** When asked to conjugate Spanish verbs, Melinda settles on traducir (to translate) and fracasar (to fail). Her sentences respectively are "[[GratuitousSpanish I traducate]]." and "[[CrossesTheLineTwice Yo am almost fracasaring]]."

* The RunningGag of the school mascots constantly changing, finally settling on the "Horny Hornets"
* Melinda's [[DeadpanSnarker snarkish]] introspection on her life is greatly amusing.

** Not a snarky remark, but when Heather after friend-dumping Melinda comes to her to ask for a favor, while suggesting that she redoes her room in Seafoam Green or Eggplant. Though she doesn't say it in the book, you can feel Melinda's disdain dripping off her description of Heather.

* Becomes a BrickJoke when Melinda brings the bones to art class to make a sculpture, and her initial attempts

** [[AcceptableTargets "Exchange students are ruining the country"]] though [[ItMakesSenseInContext context]] makes it a Tearjerker since Rachel has friend-dumped Melinda for the exchange student posse.

** [[ AcceptableTargets "Exchange students are ruining the country"]] though [[ItMakesSenseInContext context]] makes it a Tearjerker since Rachel has friend-dumped Melinda for the exchange student posse.

** [[ Acceptable Targets "Exchange students are ruining the country"]] though [[ItMakesSenseInContext context]] makes it a Tearjerker.

* Melinda's parents each having a go at [[cooking a frozen turkey LethalChef]].

** "Exchange students are ruining the country" though [[context ItMakesSenseInContext]] makes it a Tearjerker.

** "[[Exchange students are ruining the country AcceptableTargets]]" though context makes it a Tearjerker.

** [["Exchange students are ruining the country" AcceptableTargets]] though context makes it a Tearjerker.

-->"My goal is to go home and take a nap."