Line #19 Recap/CraigOfTheCreekS1E04TheFinalBook


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3	->Written & storyboarded by Carmen Liang & Charmaine Verhagen
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5	Kelsey reaches the last book in a long-running series, and decides to hunt down the library's one overdue copy.
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7	!!Tropes:
8	* AllGirlsLikePonies: Exaggerated with a group of girls Craig encounters in the field, who actually pretend that they’re horses.
9	* BoyMeetsGirl: Maney and J.P. meet each other for the first time, and the former falls in love with him.
10	* CrushBlush: Maney gets this when she sees J.P.
11	* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Stacks hid the book Kelsey was looking for because she was afraid that Kelsey wouldn't want to hang out with her after finishing the ''Ythrith of Scriggth'' series.
12	* EurekaMoment: When Bernard sees Craig reading ''The Smarty Boys'', he points out that the culprits in the series are always the first person they meet. This makes Craig figure out that Stacks was the one who took the last book after remembering some of the comments from the suspects that matches the description of Stacks, who was the first person they met.
13	* {{Foreshadowing}}: J.P. comments that he thinks Kelsey and Stacks are the only two kids who read the same book series and Stacks tugs her hair nervously when Kelsey tells her the final book she needs to read is missing. It was Stacks who hid the last book from Kelsey.
14	* GilliganCut: Bernard tells Craig that the culprit in the ''Smarty Boys'' books are always the first person they meet. Craig protests that it's not true, but then we cut to him finishing the book and realizing that it was the first person they met.
15	* LoveAtFirstSight: When Maney spots J.P., she immediately falls in love with him.
16	* MeetCute:
17	** Maney and J.P. meet for the first time, after Craig breaks the Horse Girls' jump.
18	** As a meta example, since Kelsey and Stacks know each other already, their relationship is introduced to the viewer as a close friendship prone to tension on Stacks's part, where she takes excessive actions out of fear that Kelsey might not hang out with her in the future.
19	* OccidentalOtaku: The Ninja Kids, who reject all Western pop culture and only read manga. They become distraught when their leader is caught with a Western comic book in her backpack.
20	* RedHerring: Stacks tells Kelsey that a kid with a red turtle-shell backpack may have taken the book, but she turns out to be a distraction. Stacks turns out to be the real culprit, hiding the last book because she was afraid that once Kelsey read it, she would stop coming to see her.
21	* ShoutOut:
22	** ''The Smarty Boys'' book series that Craig gets into is based on ''Literature/TheHardyBoys''.
23	** The red turtle-shell backpack resembles a red Koopa from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''
24	** Also, the red turtle-shell that one of the kids of the ninja garden is wearing (the one that is said to be a replica of the shell of a {{Kaiju}} named Bekkomon) is similar to a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros spike top]] shell.
25	** The book report in the backpack is for a book about [[Literature/TheBoxcarChildren kids who live on a train]].
26	** The manga that the ninja kids are showing to Craig and his friends during a flashback is called [[Manga/OnePiece Two Piece]].
27	** Bekkomon seems to be a combination of Film/{{Gamera}} (implied to be a turtle kaiju) and Franchise/{{Godzilla}} (having the title "King of the Kaiju").
28	* StrictlyFormula: InUniverse, according to Bernard, ''The Smarty Boys'' books ''always'' end with the first person the characters meet being the culprit.
29	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: While trying to flee from Kelsey, Yustice attempts to do a WallRun up a tree... and promptly falls down.

Context Recap / CraigOfTheCreekS1E04TheFinalBook