Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 97 (click to see context) from:
** In the same book, Cassie returns home late after a mission and gets grilled by her parents. When she mentions that Jake was one of the friends she was out with, the two get knowing looks and, to Cassie's supreme mortification, start talking about how she's not yet ready for dating and that maybe they need to [[TheTalk talk about the birds and the bees]]. After fleeing the confrontation, Cassie doubles back to listen in on her parents, and at first gets a warm inner glow as they talk about what a good kid she is... which quickly fades as they start snickering to each other about how, ''because'' she's such a good kid and already does so many chores for the clinic, [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents one of the few disciplinary tactics they have is to embarrass her]]. And then start brainstorming ideas for the next time, like saying they're inviting Jake's parents over to discuss their relationship.
to:
** In the same book, Cassie returns home late after a mission and gets grilled by her parents. When she mentions that Jake was one of the friends she was out with, the two get knowing looks and, to Cassie's supreme mortification, start talking about how she's not yet ready for dating and that maybe they need to [[TheTalk talk about the birds and the bees]]. After fleeing the confrontation, Cassie doubles back to listen in on her parents, and at first gets a warm inner glow as they talk about what a good kid she is... which quickly fades as they start snickering to each other about how, ''because'' she's such a good kid and already does so many chores for the clinic, [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents one of the few disciplinary tactics they have is to embarrass her]]. And then start brainstorming ideas for the next time, like saying they're inviting Jake's parents over to discuss their relationship.
** The team realizes a snag in their plan to stowaway on a plane as flies - namely, how they're going to locate the correct terminal with fly senses. As they're discussing [[ToiletHumor the sorts of things]] flies are good at detecting, [[ContrivedCoincidence a mother and father walk by with their baby, and realize that he badly needs a diaper change]]. Overhearing this, Jake turns to the others and declares that they need a volunteer for a harrowing mission. He, Marco and Tobias rock-paper-scissors for it, and Jake loses.
--->I swear somehow or other they cheated.
--->I swear somehow or other they cheated.
Deleted line(s) 124,125 (click to see context) :
** Just before that, the team realizes a snag in their plan to stowaway on a plane as flies - namely, how they're going to locate the correct terminal with fly senses. As they're discussing [[ToiletHumor the sorts of things]] flies are good at detecting, [[ContrivedCoincidence a mother and father walk by with their baby, and realize that he badly needs a diaper change]]. Overhearing this, Jake turns to the others and declares that they need a volunteer for a harrowing mission. He, Marco and Tobias rock-paper-scissors for it, and Jake loses.
--->I swear somehow or other they cheated.
--->I swear somehow or other they cheated.
Changed line(s) 137,138 (click to see context) from:
** The kids discover a potential weapon against the Yeerks, a chemical that could possibly be used as a bio-weapon. Only problem is: "IT'S OAT-FREAKING-MEAL!"
** And even Jake realizes [[LampshadeHanging just how stupid the plot of this book is.]]
** And even Jake realizes [[LampshadeHanging just how stupid the plot of this book is.]]
to:
** The kids discover a potential weapon against the Yeerks, a chemical that could possibly be used as a bio-weapon. Only The only problem is: "IT'S OAT-FREAKING-MEAL!"
** And evenis that the weapon in question is a specific flavor of instant oatmeal. Even Jake realizes [[LampshadeHanging just how stupid the plot of this book is.]]
** And even
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Added example(s)
Added DiffLines:
* #6, ''The Capture'':
** The book opens with Jake testing out a cockroach morph in his house, only to accidentally get stuck in a roach trap behind the refrigerator and forced to demorph and push the fridge away from the wall to free himself. His mother walks in on him mostly demorphed and asks Jake why he's behind the fridge with the top of a Roach Motel stuck to his head.
** The Animorphs decide to practice the cockroach morph together before heading in to spy on the Yeerks, as it takes a while to figure out how to perceive useful information with the roach's senses. Naturally, Marco lampshades how they haven't really planned ahead with any of their missions up until this point.
--->'''Marco:''' I can't believe we are actually going to practice a morph. We never practice. [[IndyPloy We just do it, and when it's a huge disaster we try and deal with it then.]]
** The rest of the team practices hearing in roach morph by having Tobias use thought-speech to tell them whatever Jake just said and match it up with the vibrations they felt. Marco uses it as an opportunity to try baiting Jake into saying stupid stuff.
--->'''Marco:''' <Jake? Say "I'm a huge dork." I'll see if I can understand it.>\\
'''Jake:''' [[NoYou You're a huge dork.]]\\
'''Marco:''' <Very funny. I couldn't actually hear what you said. But I know you.>
** After Ax gripes yet again about humans having a terrible sense of balance, Marco decides to gyrate wildly and claim he's falling. Ax responds by commenting "See? I knew it must happen sometimes."; Jake is left confused as to whether Ax understands Marco is joking and has a deadpan sense of humor or doesn't understand the joke and lacks a sense of humor entirely.
** Tobias airlifts a poisoned Jake to safety. He announces his presence by saying <Red-tailed Airlines welcomes you aboard, and I am hauling my feathered butt outta here!>, then later dubs himself to be Jake's own personal Air Force.
** Marco discovers the state governor's schedule for the next week, which includes a five-day vacation that he won't elaborate on the purpose of but includes a visit to the Yeerk-controlled hospital. Marco jokes the governor's actually going to the hospital to have hemorrhoids operated on and is being tight-lipped about it to avoid scores of jokes about the matter.
** Jake asks Cassie for help with shopping for a birthday present for his mom, as the last time he bought her a present, it was a near-mint condition ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' comic [[GiftGivingGaffe that she did not appreciate]]. He almost immediately realizes this was an equally stupid decision, as Cassie isn't that interested in "clothing and cute little stuff" and she asks Rachel to come along and help as well.
** The team travels to the hospital by morphing flies and clinging to Tobias' neck. Tobias comments that the sight is gross enough to "gag a maggot", only for Marco to complain about him insulting their children.
** Despite knowing they'd be morphing flies the next day, the kids all watched ''Film/TheFly1958'' the night before the mission. This results in a lot of sickened groaning whenever topics similar to the film's events are brought up and quoting the human-headed fly screaming for help, [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure much to Ax's confusion]].
** The book opens with Jake testing out a cockroach morph in his house, only to accidentally get stuck in a roach trap behind the refrigerator and forced to demorph and push the fridge away from the wall to free himself. His mother walks in on him mostly demorphed and asks Jake why he's behind the fridge with the top of a Roach Motel stuck to his head.
** The Animorphs decide to practice the cockroach morph together before heading in to spy on the Yeerks, as it takes a while to figure out how to perceive useful information with the roach's senses. Naturally, Marco lampshades how they haven't really planned ahead with any of their missions up until this point.
--->'''Marco:''' I can't believe we are actually going to practice a morph. We never practice. [[IndyPloy We just do it, and when it's a huge disaster we try and deal with it then.]]
** The rest of the team practices hearing in roach morph by having Tobias use thought-speech to tell them whatever Jake just said and match it up with the vibrations they felt. Marco uses it as an opportunity to try baiting Jake into saying stupid stuff.
--->'''Marco:''' <Jake? Say "I'm a huge dork." I'll see if I can understand it.>\\
'''Jake:''' [[NoYou You're a huge dork.]]\\
'''Marco:''' <Very funny. I couldn't actually hear what you said. But I know you.>
** After Ax gripes yet again about humans having a terrible sense of balance, Marco decides to gyrate wildly and claim he's falling. Ax responds by commenting "See? I knew it must happen sometimes."; Jake is left confused as to whether Ax understands Marco is joking and has a deadpan sense of humor or doesn't understand the joke and lacks a sense of humor entirely.
** Tobias airlifts a poisoned Jake to safety. He announces his presence by saying <Red-tailed Airlines welcomes you aboard, and I am hauling my feathered butt outta here!>, then later dubs himself to be Jake's own personal Air Force.
** Marco discovers the state governor's schedule for the next week, which includes a five-day vacation that he won't elaborate on the purpose of but includes a visit to the Yeerk-controlled hospital. Marco jokes the governor's actually going to the hospital to have hemorrhoids operated on and is being tight-lipped about it to avoid scores of jokes about the matter.
** Jake asks Cassie for help with shopping for a birthday present for his mom, as the last time he bought her a present, it was a near-mint condition ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' comic [[GiftGivingGaffe that she did not appreciate]]. He almost immediately realizes this was an equally stupid decision, as Cassie isn't that interested in "clothing and cute little stuff" and she asks Rachel to come along and help as well.
** The team travels to the hospital by morphing flies and clinging to Tobias' neck. Tobias comments that the sight is gross enough to "gag a maggot", only for Marco to complain about him insulting their children.
** Despite knowing they'd be morphing flies the next day, the kids all watched ''Film/TheFly1958'' the night before the mission. This results in a lot of sickened groaning whenever topics similar to the film's events are brought up and quoting the human-headed fly screaming for help, [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure much to Ax's confusion]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Added example(s)
Changed line(s) 143,148 (click to see context) from:
** "[[ItMakesSenseInContext GET! THAT! BUTTERFLY]]!"
** When Tobias alerts Jake (who is in class) via thought-speech that Cassie is coming out of her cocoon, he blurts his response out loud, earning him weird looks from the teacher and other students. Then he and the others excuse themselves from class so they can go check on Cassie:
--->"Sorry," I said. "I ... um ... I'm not feeling too well. Permission to go to the nurse?"\\
"Wait till the end of class."\\
"But I have to hurl!" I cried, and ran for the door. No one argues when you say you have to hurl. They just get out of your way.\\
Seconds later, Rachel got sick, too. She also had to hurl. Then Marco left the classroom he was in. Marco, being Marco, told his teacher he had to rush out to put on one of those Nicoderm patches. "I'm trying to break the smoking habit!" he yelled. "Don't stop me!"
** When Tobias alerts Jake (who is in class) via thought-speech that Cassie is coming out of her cocoon, he blurts his response out loud, earning him weird looks from the teacher and other students. Then he and the others excuse themselves from class so they can go check on Cassie:
--->"Sorry," I said. "I ... um ... I'm not feeling too well. Permission to go to the nurse?"\\
"Wait till the end of class."\\
"But I have to hurl!" I cried, and ran for the door. No one argues when you say you have to hurl. They just get out of your way.\\
Seconds later, Rachel got sick, too. She also had to hurl. Then Marco left the classroom he was in. Marco, being Marco, told his teacher he had to rush out to put on one of those Nicoderm patches. "I'm trying to break the smoking habit!" he yelled. "Don't stop me!"
to:
--->"Sorry," I said. "I ... um ... I'm not feeling too well. Permission to go to the nurse?"\\
"Wait till the end of class."\\
"But I have to hurl!" I cried,
Seconds later, Rachel got sick, too. She also had
--->"I'm trying to break the smoking habit!" he yelled. "Don't stop
** After observing Cassie fly away as a butterfly, Ax reveals that since the process of metamorphosis acts as natural morph, it resets the morphing clock and Cassie is no longer stuck in morph. This leads to Jake yelling [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "GET! THAT! BUTTERFLY!"]]
** Cassie's cover story for why she went missing for three days is that she got lost in the woods and lived off mushrooms. She notes that the resulting newspaper headline of "Girl Survives Ordeal Eating Mushrooms" makes it sound like [[AmbiguousSyntax the ordeal she experienced was eating mushrooms]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 38 (click to see context) from:
** Marco manages to write three pages of a term paper before coming up with a topic. "A topic will... emerge. I just have to keep writing until I come up with a topic." Jake's suggestion is "[[SelfDemonstratingArticle The use of rhetoric to obscure a lack of content]]." Made even better [[BrickJoke later]] on in the same book, when Marco mentions offhand that he got a B on his paper.
to:
** Marco manages to write three pages of a term an English paper before without coming up with a topic. "A topic will... emerge. I I'm going to just have to keep writing write until I come up with discover a topic." Jake's suggestion After initially commenting that Marco's topic is "the use of total bull in the writing of English papers", Jake suggests "[[SelfDemonstratingArticle The the use of rhetoric to obscure a lack of content]]." Made even better [[BrickJoke later]] on Later in the same book, when book]], Marco mentions offhand that he got a B on his paper.paper.
--->'''Marco:''' I am the master of bull. [[PaddingThePaper Three pages so far and I haven't actually said a single thing]].
** When brainstorming unusual types of animal vision that could see through Erek's hologram, Marco says he doesn't want any more insect morphs. The next chapter almost immediately reveals that the new morph is a spider; when Marco complains about having said "No insects", [[ExactWords Cassie tells him that spiders are arachnids]].
** Jake points out that the morphs they use at the lake have to blend in with the native wildlife because the Yeerks are on the lookout for anything that doesn't belong, saying that they can't show up there [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "as lions and tigers and bears."]] Cassie cuts in with an [[ObligatoryJoke "Oh, my."]]
** Cassie mentions that Ax showed up early to acquire the spider and was rather keen on it due to thinking that arachnids have a more sensible body structure than humans.
--->'''Cassie:''' His exact words were, "Ah, good. With eight legs it won't fall over like a human."
** Jake has the team draw straws (as in pieces of straw) to determine who else besides Ax has to morph the spider. Marco makes a big deal of how drawing a straw later makes it more likely to pick the shortest straw and goes first, only to immediately draw the short straw.
--->'''Marco:''' I am the master of bull. [[PaddingThePaper Three pages so far and I haven't actually said a single thing]].
** When brainstorming unusual types of animal vision that could see through Erek's hologram, Marco says he doesn't want any more insect morphs. The next chapter almost immediately reveals that the new morph is a spider; when Marco complains about having said "No insects", [[ExactWords Cassie tells him that spiders are arachnids]].
** Jake points out that the morphs they use at the lake have to blend in with the native wildlife because the Yeerks are on the lookout for anything that doesn't belong, saying that they can't show up there [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "as lions and tigers and bears."]] Cassie cuts in with an [[ObligatoryJoke "Oh, my."]]
** Cassie mentions that Ax showed up early to acquire the spider and was rather keen on it due to thinking that arachnids have a more sensible body structure than humans.
--->'''Cassie:''' His exact words were, "Ah, good. With eight legs it won't fall over like a human."
** Jake has the team draw straws (as in pieces of straw) to determine who else besides Ax has to morph the spider. Marco makes a big deal of how drawing a straw later makes it more likely to pick the shortest straw and goes first, only to immediately draw the short straw.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Added example(s)
* #2, ''The Visitor'':
** Rachel mentions that Marco once received detention from Chapman for secretly listening to his CD player in math class because he started singing along to the music. Marco grouses that the detention wouldn't have been a week long if Chapman was entirely human.
** Marco reacts to the news of Rachel acquiring a shrew by joking that they won't know when she's changed because she already acts like one.
--->"How do you ''become'' what you already are?"
** Chapter 16 begins with "ItWasADarkAndStormyNight". Rachel then apologizes, [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat saying that she always wanted to write that sentence]], but the weather and time really were like that.
** Rachel mentions that Marco once received detention from Chapman for secretly listening to his CD player in math class because he started singing along to the music. Marco grouses that the detention wouldn't have been a week long if Chapman was entirely human.
** Marco reacts to the news of Rachel acquiring a shrew by joking that they won't know when she's changed because she already acts like one.
--->"How do you ''become'' what you already are?"
** Chapter 16 begins with "ItWasADarkAndStormyNight". Rachel then apologizes, [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat saying that she always wanted to write that sentence]], but the weather and time really were like that.
Changed line(s) 25 (click to see context) from:
** Jakes tells Ax, who's just morphed human for the first time, that they have some spare clothes he can wear. After giving him some privacy, the team turns around to find that Ax is wearing a t-shirt like they're shorts and has a pair of boxers on his head.
to:
** Jakes Jake tells Ax, who's just morphed human for the first time, that they have some spare clothes he can wear. After giving him some privacy, the team turns around to find that Ax is wearing a t-shirt like they're shorts and has a pair of boxers on his head.
