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* HollywoodDateless: Tim and Arnold. {{Justified}} by their feelings for Phoebe.

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* HollywoodDateless: Tim and Arnold. {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} by their feelings for Phoebe.
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Removing wick to Did Not Do The Research per rename at TRS.


* DidNotDoTheResearch: In-universe. Tim takes Phoebe on a date, and a Brand New cd is playing on his car's stereo. He asks her if she likes them, and she says that she doesn't because they "sound like everyone else". No, Phoebe, [[{{TropeCodifier}} everyone else sounds like Brand New]].
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* GenreSavvy: Wanda in the climax, when she [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshades]] the dramatic relatioship revelations by remarking that they appear to be living in a mixture of a tragic play and a teen soap. Also Carlos, [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshading]] D.A.'s arrival.

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* GenreSavvy: Wanda in the climax, when she [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshades]] the dramatic relatioship relationship revelations by remarking that they appear to be living in a mixture of a tragic play and a teen soap. Also Carlos, [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshading]] D.A.'s arrival.
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* GenreSavvy: Wanda in the climax, when she {[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshades]] the dramatic relatioship revelations by remarking that they appear to be living in a mixture of a tragic play and a teen soap. Also Carlos, [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshading]] D.A.'s arrival.

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* GenreSavvy: Wanda in the climax, when she {[{{LampshadeHanging}} [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshades]] the dramatic relatioship revelations by remarking that they appear to be living in a mixture of a tragic play and a teen soap. Also Carlos, [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshading]] D.A.'s arrival.
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* BedMateReveal / WhatDidIDoLastNight: The morning after her date with [[spoiler: Arnold]], Phoebe wakes up in be with him.

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* BedMateReveal / WhatDidIDoLastNight: The morning after her date with [[spoiler: Arnold]], Phoebe wakes up in be bed with him.

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* GenreSavvy: Wanda in the climax, when she lampshades the drama by remarking that they appear to be living in a mixture of a tragic play and a teen soap. Also Carlos, [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshading]] D.A.'s arrival.

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* GenreSavvy: Wanda in the climax, when she lampshades {[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshades]] the drama dramatic relatioship revelations by remarking that they appear to be living in a mixture of a tragic play and a teen soap. Also Carlos, [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshading]] D.A.'s arrival.


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* LeadBassist: Tim
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* CallBack: To the episodes "The Busasaurus", "Gets All Wet" and "Holiday Special".

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* CallBack: To the episodes "The Busasaurus", "Gets "Wet All Wet" Over" and "Holiday Special".

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** Just before this, Wanda and Keesha arrive at Carlos' house to talk to Ralphie (who is hiding from Janet there). Tim and Arnold arrive at the same time to see Phoebe (who is helping Mikey with his homework). Just as Carlos closes the door behind them, the doorbell rings. It's D.A. Carlos' response?

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** Just before this, Wanda and Keesha arrive at Carlos' house to talk to Ralphie (who is hiding from Janet there). Tim and Arnold arrive at the same time to see Phoebe (who is helping Mikey with his homework). Just as Carlos closes the door behind them, the doorbell rings. It's D.A.Dorothy Ann. Carlos' response?

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* CallBack: To the episodes "The Busasaurus" and "Holiday Special".

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* CallBack: To the episodes "The Busasaurus" Busasaurus", "Gets All Wet" and "Holiday Special".



* GenreSavvy: Wanda in the climax, when she lampshades the drama by remarking that they appear to be living in a mixture of a tragic play and a teen soap.

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* GenreSavvy: Wanda in the climax, when she lampshades the drama by remarking that they appear to be living in a mixture of a tragic play and a teen soap. Also Carlos, [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshading]] D.A.'s arrival.


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* IdiotBall: Tim writes a song about his and Arnold's rivalry over Phoebe, and then brings her on a date to one of his band's gigs. He plays an album by Brand New, whose first two albums - all that they had released at the time this story is set - were entirely about breakups, in his car on the way there. At the gig, he not only plays the song but dedicates it to "a girl in the audience tonight".
** Ralphie and Janet are instant messaging each other, and he says he wants to talk to her. She insists that anything he wants to say can be said on the computer, and is then offended when he takes her at her word and [[spoiler: breaks up with her]].
** Arnold boasting about [[spoiler: sleeping with Phoebe]].
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* RefugeInAudacity: Wanda's response to being caught spying on Janet and Ralphie.
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** Just before this, Wanda and Keesha arrive at Carlos' house to talk to Ralphie (who is hiding from Janet there). Tim and Arnold arrive at the same time to see Phoebe (who is helping Mikey with his homework). Just as Carlos closes the door behind them, the doorbell rings. It's D.A. Carlos' response?
--> "Well, it was only a matter of time. Everyone else is here."
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* ComingOfAgeStory
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* PromNight: At the climax.

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* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Wanda.



* LighterAndSofter: Than the other long fics by the same author.



* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Wanda

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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers Popular Mechanics For Lovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{Creator/TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The gang are in high school. Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them, but she is tutoring Mikey. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her, but she suspects that the anonymous notes inviting her to the end-of-year dance are from Carlos. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.

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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers Popular Mechanics For Lovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{Creator/TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The gang are in high school. Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them, but she is tutoring Mikey. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her, but she suspects that the anonymous notes inviting her to the end-of-year dance are from Carlos. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.
HilarityEnsues. Despite the fact that the four girls call themselves 'The Fantasmic Four' and keep a joint scrapbook documenting their lives, it does not take place in the same continuity as ''FanFic/TheLifeAndTimesOfTheFantasmicFour''.



* CallBack: To the episode "The Busasaurus".

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* CallBack: To the episode episodes "The Busasaurus".Busasaurus" and "Holiday Special".


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* GenreSavvy: Wanda in the climax, when she lampshades the drama by remarking that they appear to be living in a mixture of a tragic play and a teen soap.


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* ScrapbookStory: {{Invoked}} with the scrapbook kept by the 'Fantasmic Four' (the name the four girls have for themselves).
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* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Wanda

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* BlatantLies: When Wanda and Keesha decide to break up Janet and Ralphie, Wanda takes to spying on them from a tree in the garden. Unfortunately, she falls out, and has to explain what she's doing up a tree dressed in black. Her answer? She was chasing a rare kind of weasel, also a CallBack to her CatchPhrase in {{Canon}} ("Come on, you weaselly wimps!)

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* BlatantLies: When Wanda and Keesha decide to break up Janet and Ralphie, Wanda takes to spying on them from a tree in the garden. Unfortunately, she falls out, and has to explain what she's doing up a tree dressed in black. Her answer? She was chasing a rare kind of weasel, also a CallBack to her CatchPhrase in {{Canon}} ("Come on, you weaselly wimps!)wimps!")
* CallBack: To the episode "The Busasaurus".



* GeniusCripple: {{Averted}} with Mikey, despite his portrayal as such in {{Canon}}.



* LampshadeHanging: When a heartbroken [[spoiler: Phoebe]] locks herself in Carlos' bedroom and Carlos

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* LampshadeHanging: When a heartbroken [[spoiler: Phoebe]] locks herself in Carlos' bedroom and CarlosCarlos and Arnold run up after her, Wanda and Keesha begin discussing how the gang's lives are starting to resemble a teen soap.
** Carlos gets the last word in the fic, and goes with "Isn't everything just disgustingly perfect?"


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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Phoebe and Arnold were the shyest kids in their fourth-grade class (as well as the only redheads and the only left-handed kids). Together [[{{CallBack}} they managed to outrun a T-Rex]].
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* AscendedExtra: Mikey


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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Mikey]]


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* HeroesWantRedheads: Arnold and Phoebe.


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* LampshadeHanging: When a heartbroken [[spoiler: Phoebe]] locks herself in Carlos' bedroom and Carlos

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* AlphaBitch: Janet.



* BetterAsFriends: [[spoiler: Keesha]] and Ralphie.



* ChewbaccaDefense: Wanda's BlatantLies don't work, and Janet keeps questioning her about what she was doing. Wanda replies that as she's injured (she "broke her ass" falling out of the tree") it's unfair to keep hassling her. She then adds that if she wasn't injured she'd beat Janet up for being so inquisitive.

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* ChewbaccaDefense: Wanda's BlatantLies don't work, and Janet keeps questioning her about what she was doing. Wanda replies that as she's injured (she "broke her ass" falling out of the tree") tree) it's unfair to keep hassling her. She then adds that if she wasn't injured she'd beat Janet up for being so inquisitive.inquisitive.
* DeadpanSnarker: Carlos.
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* BarrierBurstingBlow: At the climax of the action, [[spoiler: Mikey reveals that he wrote the notes to D.A., and a heartbroken Phoebe locks herself in Carlos' bedroom]]. Arnold tries to break it down and fails.
--> Tim laughed and went over to Carlos. "How is it he always breaks bones at your house, man?"

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* BarrierBurstingBlow: BarrierBustingBlow: At the climax of the action, [[spoiler: Mikey reveals that he wrote the notes to D.A., and a heartbroken Phoebe locks herself in Carlos' bedroom]]. Arnold tries to break it down and fails.
--> Tim laughed and went over to Carlos. "How is it he always breaks bones at your house, man?"man?"\\

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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers Popular Mechanics For Lovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{Creator/TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The basic premise is that Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.

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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers Popular Mechanics For Lovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{Creator/TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The basic premise is that gang are in high school. Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them.them, but she is tutoring Mikey. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her.her, but she suspects that the anonymous notes inviting her to the end-of-year dance are from Carlos. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.


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* BarrierBurstingBlow: At the climax of the action, [[spoiler: Mikey reveals that he wrote the notes to D.A., and a heartbroken Phoebe locks herself in Carlos' bedroom]]. Arnold tries to break it down and fails.
--> Tim laughed and went over to Carlos. "How is it he always breaks bones at your house, man?"
Carlos shrugged. "Beats me, but as long as he doesn't sue me, I don't really care."
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers PopularMechanicsForLovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{Creator/TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The basic premise is that Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.

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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers PopularMechanicsForLovers]]'' Popular Mechanics For Lovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{Creator/TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The basic premise is that Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.

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* BlatentLies: When Wanda and Keesha decide to break up Janet and Ralphie, Wanda takes to spying on them from a tree in the garden. Unfortunately, she falls out, and has to explain what she's doing up a tree dressed in black. Her answer? She was chasing a rare kind of weasel, also a CallBack to her CatchPhrase in {{Canon}} ("Come on, you weaselly wimps!)
* ChewbaccaDefense: Wanda's BlatentLies don't work, and Janet keeps questioning her about what she was doing. Wanda replies that as she's injured (she "broke her ass" falling out of the tree") it's unfair to keep hassling her. She then adds that if she wasn't injured she'd beat Janet up for being so inquisitive.

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* BlatentLies: BlatantLies: When Wanda and Keesha decide to break up Janet and Ralphie, Wanda takes to spying on them from a tree in the garden. Unfortunately, she falls out, and has to explain what she's doing up a tree dressed in black. Her answer? She was chasing a rare kind of weasel, also a CallBack to her CatchPhrase in {{Canon}} ("Come on, you weaselly wimps!)
* ChewbaccaDefense: Wanda's BlatentLies BlatantLies don't work, and Janet keeps questioning her about what she was doing. Wanda replies that as she's injured (she "broke her ass" falling out of the tree") it's unfair to keep hassling her. She then adds that if she wasn't injured she'd beat Janet up for being so inquisitive.



* FoeYay: Ralphie and Janet.

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* FoeYay: {{Invoked}} in-universe with Ralphie and Janet.
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* BlatentLies: When Wanda and Keesha decide to break up Janet and Ralphie, Wanda takes to spying on them from a tree in the garden. Unfortunately, she falls out, and has to explain what she's doing up a tree dressed in black. Her answer? She was chasing a rare kind of weasel, also a CallBack to her CatchPhrase in {{Canon}} ("Come on, you weaselly wimps!)
* ChewbaccaDefense: Wanda's BlatentLies don't work, and Janet keeps questioning her about what she was doing. Wanda replies that as she's injured (she "broke her ass" falling out of the tree") it's unfair to keep hassling her. She then adds that if she wasn't injured she'd beat Janet up for being so inquisitive.


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* FauxYay: Wanda and Keesha insist that Phoebe is in love with D.A.
* FoeYay: Ralphie and Janet.
* GenkiGirl: Wanda.


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* ShoutOut: DeathCabForCutie, Brand New and ''{{Dallas}}'' all get namechecked. Dorothy Ann's surname is given as Ewing.


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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Wanda and Phoebe.
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* BedMateReveal/WhatDidIDoLastNight: The morning after her date with [[spoiler: Arnold]], Phoebe wakes up in be with him.

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* BedMateReveal/WhatDidIDoLastNight: BedMateReveal / WhatDidIDoLastNight: The morning after her date with [[spoiler: Arnold]], Phoebe wakes up in be with him.
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* BedMateReveal/WhatDidIDoLastNight: The morning after her date with [[spoiler: Arnold]], Phoebe wakes up in be with him.
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers PopularMechanicsForLovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{Creator/TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The basic premise is that Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.

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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers PopularMechanicsForLovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{Creator/TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The basic premise is that Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.HilarityEnsues.

!!Tropes that appear in ''Popular Mechanics For Lovers'' include:
* ACupAngst: {{Invoked}} by Wanda, who feels that Phoebe should suffer from it.
* TheAlcoholic: Wanda. Played for laughs.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: In-universe. Tim takes Phoebe on a date, and a Brand New cd is playing on his car's stereo. He asks her if she likes them, and she says that she doesn't because they "sound like everyone else". No, Phoebe, [[{{TropeCodifier}} everyone else sounds like Brand New]].
* HollywoodDateless: Tim and Arnold. {{Justified}} by their feelings for Phoebe.
* NoodleIncident: The first time Wanda "[[{{CrowningMomentOfFunny}} broke her ass]]..."
* ShipTease: a very long, complex one involving Arnold, Tim, Phoebe, Mikey, Janet, Carlos, Keesha, Wanda ''and'' Ralphie.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Carlos.
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers PopularMechanicsForLovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{Creators/TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The basic premise is that Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.

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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers PopularMechanicsForLovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{Creators/TheUltimateSora}} [[{{Creator/TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The basic premise is that Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers PopularMechanicsForLovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The basic premise is that Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.

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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers PopularMechanicsForLovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{TheUltimateSora}} [[{{Creators/TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The basic premise is that Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers PopularMechanicsForLovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by [[{{TheUltimateSora}} the ultimateSora]]. The basic premise is that Tim and Arnold love Phoebe. She doesn't love them. Wanda and Keesha love Ralphie. He has a girlfriend. Dorothy Ann doesn't know who loves her. Carlos ''seems'' oblivious to everything. HilarityEnsues.

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