Funny / Teen Power Inc.

• In The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Tom delights in how everyone else ends up learning the meaning of Badly Battered Babysitter while they are watching a bratty kid who he warned them was trouble. He is especially amused when his rival Nick babysits the kid and ends up with the words "Nick stinks" painted on the side of his house.
• In Beware the Gingerbread House, when Sunny initially vetoes accepting jobs at a candy store, Big Eater Tom gets on his hands and knees and begs her not to let someone else be the one who gets to take advantage of the free food the storekeeper is offering the gang. His antics give Sunny a Not So Stoic smile.
• In Nowhere to Run, Sadist Teacher Mr. Jago spends the entire camping trip being a Butt-Monkey who soaks up every available bit of humiliation and physical discomfort due to his own carelessness and arrogance. At one point he ignores instructions on how to properly zigzag down a stretch of hill and tries to march straight down. He gains too much momentum too fast, has to run straight down the hill to keep from falling on his face, and ends up splashing into a creek at the bottom of the hill.
• In The Bad Dog Mystery:
  • Richelle and her mother are hiding their family's valuables during a burgulary spree and Richelle suggests hiding them in the freezer, which a magazine article praised as a good hiding place. Mrs. Brinkley says that article was so popular that "any self-respecting burgular" probably knows to check the freezer. She also says not to think of a place that's too unusual, or they might forget where it is, just like Mr. Brinkley did with their house key one time.
  • Every time Tom gets chased by Jock, the eponymous bad dog, with him ending up hiding on top of a statue in one scene.
  • The scene where the gang try to sneak Jock into the hospital to see his owner while pretending the hairy sheepdog is Richelle's grandmother.
  • Richelle compares Tom's singing to Jock's howling, and one passerby whacks at Tom with a cane to get him to stop.
• In The Missing Millionaire, there's a bit of Black Comedy when the gang discuss their suspicions about how a lottery winner has been kidnapped and Richelle yawns as she points out that the kidnapper will certainly kill the lottery winner after getting the ticket to avoid leaving a witness.
• Crime in the Picture involves a fortune teller who seems like a conwoman but (possibly coincidentally) makes some predictions that do come true for the gang. They muse about this in the climax, but then note that the prophecy that Nick would pass a disease to a close loved one hasn't came true. Nick, the biggest critic of the fortune teller, acts like this is true while deciding not to say anything about how he accidentally downloaded a virus onto "my beautiful new computer."
• In Poison Pen, five of the main characters form a consensus that a letter that seems to accuse a cleaning lady of theft is clearly a piece of Malicious Slander, only to come close to doing a collective Face Palm when Richelle obliviously talks about how she never would have expected the cleaning lady to be a thief.
• In The Case of Crazy Claude:
  • After the kids fill out a questionnaire about their personal lives for rumored Mad Scientist Claude Craze, he says that based on the answers Big Eater Tom gave about his diet, they have to check him for worms.
  • The kids initially think Claude and his lawyer/twin brother are one person with multiple personalities who keeps changing clothes. When they admit this misconception, Claude is insulted that they thought he would try such a ridiculous disguise and says he would have to be crazy to think it would work, before trailing off awkwardly when he realizes they did think he was crazy.
  • After Claude reveals how his experiments involve harnessing energy from people as they walk and work, he gets in a jab about how the notoriously lazy Richelle barely gathered enough energy to power a household appliance for a minute or two.
• In Dirty Tricks:
  • The ex-clown library handyman's Establishing Character Moment is making noises like an ambulance as he hurries over to help someone with his first aid kit.
  • Tom is reading a book of phobias and keeps interjecting the names of obscure phobias he knows into conversations. Eventually, his friends agree that they have "Tomophobia" as a result of this.
  • Richelle spends most of the book (which takes place across a week) trying to find the library book she needs for her homework ''The A-Zs of Deserts". She eventually learns that the reason it is missing is because it is also the library book that Tom (who checked it out to stare at a picture of chocolate pastries) lost and has been paranoid about getting into trouble over throughout the book. Then Tom finds out that the book was in his tangled up blankets at home all along, with Richelle snarking that the fact it took so long to find says volumes about how rarely Tom makes his bed.
• The Bumbling Henchman Duo in Dead End not only steal a car with a tracking device inside of it but also leave their previous stolen car (which has already been spotted in suspicious areas) in the same parking space where their new stolen car was parked.