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** The [=McBride=] family (with the odd twin daughters) apparently move out from next door in mid-2006. But in mid-2007, Tess casually says to Jeri, when she has to sit through Teena's illness, that if anything she can't handle turns up, she can call on Mrs [=McBride=] next door for assistance.
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* RidiculouslyHighRelationshipStandards: Jeri Keene has such elevated ideas of her own worth that when the perfect potential boyfriend shows up (he's smart, good-looking and adores her), she still doesn't think he's good enough and scorns him.
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** Teena's homeroom teacher, Mrs Jane Freeman, is drawn to look like Literature/{{Matilda}}'s kindly and loving Miss Honey. [[note]]That is, as Miss Honey is portrayed in the line-drawings accompanying the original children's book by Creator/RoaldDahl, not the Miss Honey of the film version. Which came two years after the end of this comic.[[/note]]. Although Mrs Freeman has a more hard-bitten ToughLove aspect to her teaching style, it's clear she has genuine regard for Teena and Stick that approaches a kind of love.
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** Teena's homeroom teacher, Mrs Jane Freeman, is drawn to look like Literature/{{Matilda}}'s kindly and loving Miss Honey. [[note]]That is, as Miss Honey is portrayed in the line-drawings accompanying the original children's book by Creator/RoaldDahl, not the Miss Honey of the 1996 film version. Which came two years after the end of this comic.version.[[/note]]. Although Mrs Freeman has a more hard-bitten ToughLove aspect to her teaching style, it's clear she has genuine regard for Teena and Stick that approaches a kind of love.
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** Teena's homeroom teacher, Mrs Jane Freeman, is drawn to look like Literature/{{Matilda}}'s kindly and loving Miss Honey. [[note]]That is, as Miss Honey is portrayed in the line-drawings accompanying the original children's book by Creator/RoaldDahl, not the Miss Honey of the film version[[/note]]. Although Mrs Freeman has a more hard-bitten ToughLove aspect to her teaching style, it's clear she has genuine regard for Teena and Stick that approaches a kind of love.
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** Teena's homeroom teacher, Mrs Jane Freeman, is drawn to look like Literature/{{Matilda}}'s kindly and loving Miss Honey. [[note]]That is, as Miss Honey is portrayed in the line-drawings accompanying the original children's book by Creator/RoaldDahl, not the Miss Honey of the film version[[/note]].version. Which came two years after the end of this comic.[[/note]]. Although Mrs Freeman has a more hard-bitten ToughLove aspect to her teaching style, it's clear she has genuine regard for Teena and Stick that approaches a kind of love.
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Another interesting Expy
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** Teena's homeroom teacher, Mrs Jane Freeman, is drawn to look like Literature/{{Matilda}}'s kindly and loving Miss Honey. [[note]]That is, as Miss Honey is portrayed in the line-drawings accompanying the original children's book by Creator/RoaldDahl, not the Miss Honey of the film version[[/note]]. Although Mrs Freeman has a more hard-bitten ToughLove aspect to her teaching style, it's clear she has genuine regard for Teena and Stick that approaches a kind of love.
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* AuthorAvatar: Compare the way Tess Keene is drawn to pictures of [[http://archives.starbulletin.com/2005/06/19/features/story2.html Allison Barrows]]. There is a definite similarity. Allison is also a mother of daughters based in New England. Tess is a professional artist... and Allison's town of residence is ''Keene'', New Hampshire.
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* AuthorAvatar: Compare the way Tess Keene is drawn to pictures of [[http://archives.starbulletin.com/2005/06/19/features/story2.html Allison Barrows]]. There is a definite similarity. Allison is also a mother of daughters two children based in New England. Tess is a professional artist... and Allison's town of residence is ''Keene'', New Hampshire.
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** Teena herself shares a lot, in terms of looks and outlook on life, with Peppermint Patty in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''.
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** Teena herself shares a lot, in terms of looks and outlook on life, with Peppermint Patty in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. To LampShade this, both the [=McBride=] twins from next door, whose RunningGag is to mistake Teena for a boy, have the same look and hairstyle as Marcie. [[note]]Patty's best friend in ''Peanuts'', who always calls her "sir"[[/note]]
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** The [=McBride=] family (with the odd twin daughters) apparently move out from next door in mid-2006. But in mid-2007, Tess casually says to Jeri, when she has to sit through Teena's illness, that if anything she can't handle turns up, she can call on Mrs McBride next door for assistance.
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** The [=McBride=] family (with the odd twin daughters) apparently move out from next door in mid-2006. But in mid-2007, Tess casually says to Jeri, when she has to sit through Teena's illness, that if anything she can't handle turns up, she can call on Mrs McBride [=McBride=] next door for assistance.
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* {{Expy}}: Johnson Pinecone looks and acts quite a bit like [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Guybrush Threepwood]].[[note]]Specifically his appearance in https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland 91997)[[/note]]
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* {{Expy}}: Johnson Pinecone looks and acts quite a bit like [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Guybrush Threepwood]].[[note]]Specifically his appearance in https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland 91997)[[/note]]VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland (1997)[[/note]]
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Clarification from the troper who added this Expy - thanks!
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* {{Expy}}: Johnson Pinecone looks and acts quite a bit like [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Guybrush Threepwood]].
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* {{Expy}}: Johnson Pinecone looks and acts quite a bit like [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Guybrush Threepwood]].[[note]]Specifically his appearance in https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland 91997)[[/note]]
