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1	''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3528313/1/Popular_Mechanics_For_Lovers Popular Mechanics for Lovers]]'' is a humorous 7-chapter ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' FanFic by Creator/{{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. 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''.
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4	!!''Popular Mechanics for Lovers'' provides examples of:
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6	%%* ACupAngst: {{Invoked}} by Wanda, who feels that Phoebe should suffer from it.
7	%%* TheAlcoholic: Wanda. Played for laughs.
8	%%* AlphaBitch: Janet.
9	%%* AscendedExtra: Mikey
10	* 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.
11	--> Tim laughed and went over to Carlos. "How is it he always breaks bones at your house, man?"\
12	Carlos shrugged. "Beats me, but as long as he doesn't sue me, I don't really care."
13	* BedMateReveal: The morning after her date with [[spoiler:Arnold]], Phoebe wakes up in bed with him.
14	%%* BetterAsFriends: [[spoiler: Keesha]] and Ralphie.
15	* 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!")
16	%%* CallBack: To the episodes "The Busasaurus", "Wet All Over" and "Holiday Special".
17	%%* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Mikey]]
18	* 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.
19	%%* ComingOfAgeStory
20	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Carlos.
21	* FauxYay: Wanda and Keesha insist that Phoebe is in love with D.A.
22	%%* GeniusCripple: {{Averted}} with Mikey, despite his portrayal as such in {{Canon}}.
23	%%* GenkiGirl: Wanda.
24	* GenreSavvy: Wanda in the climax, when she [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the dramatic 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.
25	%%* HighSchoolDance: The prom at the climax.
26	* IdiotBall:
27	** 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".
28	** 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]].
29	** Arnold boasting about [[spoiler: sleeping with Phoebe]].
30	%%* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Wanda.
31	* LampshadeHanging:
32	** 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 Dorothy Ann. Carlos' response?
33	--> "Well, it was only a matter of time. Everyone else is here."
34	** When a heartbroken [[spoiler:Phoebe]] locks herself in Carlos' bedroom and Carlos and Arnold run up after her, Wanda and Keesha begin discussing how the gang's lives are starting to resemble a teen soap.
35	** Carlos gets the last word in the fic, and goes with "Isn't everything just disgustingly perfect?"
36	%%* LeadBassist: Tim
37	* LighterAndSofter: Than the other long fics by the same author.
38	* NoodleIncident: The first time Wanda "[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments broke her ass]]..."
39	%%* RefugeInAudacity: Wanda's response to being caught spying on Janet and Ralphie.
40	* ScrapbookStory: {{Invoked}} with the scrapbook kept by the 'Fantasmic Four' (the name the four girls have for themselves).
41	%%* ShipTease: a very long, complex one involving Arnold, Tim, Phoebe, Mikey, Janet, Carlos, Keesha, Wanda ''and'' Ralphie.
42	* ShoutOut: Music/DeathCabForCutie, Brand New and ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' all get namechecked. Dorothy Ann's surname is given as Ewing.
43	%%* TallDarkAndSnarky: Carlos.
44	%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Wanda and Phoebe.
45	* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The morning after her date with [[spoiler:Arnold]], Phoebe wakes up in bed with him.
46	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Phoebe and Arnold were the shyest kids in their third-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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